Legacy of Past Hokage's
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Intro.
Shortly after his battle with Madra, Hirashama realized that his time left was limited as he exerted himself far beyond anything that any of the current medical personnel would be able to rectify. Upon his return to the village he looked to his brother Toberima his soon to be successor in the next year or so as he was sure his next battle would be his last as his body would be destroyed by the stress from using his more powerful jutsu. Thus began his training of what would be his successors and the last of his time with his wife formerly Tsunami Namikaze and fifteen year old son Kenshin Senju a master of the sword exciding both himself and brother the holder of a legendary sword in Kenjutsu. Rather then train his son as his replacement as he for saw the his son's brash attitude and attention span would never allow him to be an effective leader he chose one Saratobi Hiruzen to learn under himself and Tobirama.
Little did the Hirashama know not only had had he chose his successor but his successor's replacement as well. A year later War broke out and Hirashama was forced to send out his only son to stop and invading army from Iwa. Later that night after his son left new came that his daughter - law had finally given birth to his first born granddaughter Tsunade only for his daughter - law to pass away due to complications. What was once great news off being a grandfather later turned to grief as he would later discover do to sending his son out to battle he had caused his granddaughter to loose both her parents as her father having sensed the lose of his loved one and not knowing he was a father now charged into battle against three full battalions of Iwa Ninja as he planed to end as many of the enemies lives before he joined his wife in the after life.
The maddened Kenshin would only be surpassed by ninja latter in life by his ability to quickly decimate the Iwa armies as he destroyed two whole battalions before he completely exhausted himself ending his short life. Upon receiving word that his son had refused to think clearly charged into in order to end his life Hirashama was both proud and saddened by his son's actions as Iwa began to second guess the war if a single Konoha Ninja could cause such damage on his own. The retreating army made note of the crazed look in the man's eyes who seeming single handedly destroyed their forces before dying himself.
Iwa not believing any ordinary man could perform such a feet as Kenshin had believed that he was either using some jutsu or had physically been manipulated to go beyond what the body was capable of began to research and develop the berserker soldier for war time use as they could never fully control the effects of the manipulation done by their scientists. Realizing after several failed attempts and two wars later Iwa outlawed the creation and use of what was their strongest ninja as they caused nearly as much damage to their own forces on the battle field as the enemies forces before the would eventually run themselves into the ground and die. In hopes of ending the war that cost him his son's life Hirashama brought all the countries together in peace talks to end the what was being called the Great War.
In the end Hirashama succeeded in ending the war by offering each village one of the Biju that he had captured in his travels and sealed away ending their destruction. Hirashama believe that without the beasts the other countries would forget their fear of what would happen should he or Konoha have realized the beasts on them and destroy not only them but their countries and take control. Hirashama believed that the fears would no longer be focused on Konoha and that each country fearing retaliation from the other country using their beast on them Peace could finally flourish and it did for a few years but he wouldn't live to see it as Pneumonia claimed his life later that year. With the death of the only known living individual to control the tailed beasts all the countries set to work looking for ways to control the power of the beast they were given.
After a few years of experiments the first to succeed was Suna as they released Shukaku within their own walls so that the could reseal the beast within on of their own Ninja. With this success Suna looked to capitalize on this by using their new weapon to expand their territory by claiming better more fertile land from their neighboring nations thus starting the Second Great Ninja War and giving the rest of the nations an idea on how to use their own Beasts resulting in all eight beasts eventually being sealed inside humans most of which being small children as the countries believed that it would make it easier to mold them into the soldier the country wanted and thus control the power of the beast. The Second Great War was ended when Tobirama and Saratobi combined forces and together defeated Suna's ultimate weapon and again proving their superior strength in battle despite the cost of their on Hokage during he battle.
Taking a page from his predecessor's book Saratobi decided to take on students in hopes that one of them could take his place when he was ready. Of those available in the village was that of the last Senju and strongest Kiamichi in the village despite having just graduated from the Academy after pulverizing everyone in her class much like her father had done when he graduated in his own class. Realizing that Tsunade while the best choice based off of potential and strength but fearing her father's one track mind chose to take the brain of the class as well in hopes that either of the two would rub off on the other and one of the two could make a suitable replacement for himself. Feeling that the team would need someone to push them to improve themselves he thought he should add the dead last to the group as he figured this would push the other two to get stronger as well as develop their minds further so as to figure out how to survive longer.
Saratobi was however, most surprised in the reality of what was determined the dead last of his class ash the student actually proved he could be extremely intelligent when he wanted to be and his stealth and strength were beyond that of most of his jounin. How the child had gotten so good intrigued the man as he was curious why he never flaunted his skills and the student Jeriyia said it is because of deception that he has been able to develop his skills to were they are and if it was know how good he was at it people would question more about him and wonder how much he was hiding about himself. With this thinking this student quickly raised the elderly man's opinion of his squad as he know believed he may have created the strongest group in the village's history with the Strength of Tsunade, the brains of Orochimaru and cunning of Jeriyia they could be legends.
Years later Saratobi's suspicions were proven correct as his three students had proven themselves time and time again. Saratobi later found out how Jeriyia had gotten so good with stealth as he had finally been caught in the act of peeking in the women's bath house by his teammate Tsunade who thoroughly punished the young shin obi for is perverted act by sending him to the hospital and proving that she was now the strongest ninja in the village as his student spent two weeks in the ICU before he was released with order to take it easy for at least another week. After that it seemed that Tsunade had finally calmed down enough to apologies for injuring her teammate so badly but warned should he ever do it again she would kill him.
Later that year Tsunade disappeared for a year only to return with a baby boy she claimed to have found on her way back to the village. While Saratobi didn't fully believe this he was not going to argue with the woman as it was her choice as he suspected that the child was her own son as it would be near impossible to duplicate her family hair color and the trademark of the males in the family the untamable spikes that lashed out in all directions as well as her insisting that the child take her grandmother's maiden name of Namikaze, Minato. Seeing as he was the only one left in the village with the knowledge that the name Namikaze was related to the Senju he remained quite as he believed she may have been doing this to end what she believe to be the Senju curse of early death as none of he male in her family lived to thirty.