Mad Traffic Lights
How I would write the overdone fuinjutsu savvy Naruto. I know I dislike overdone ideas but Naruto excelling in sealing is a... I can't quite explain it. It's kinda tagged with a 'must' in my mind, despite it not being nailed very well in canon.
Summary : Human Sacrifices; they were well known across the nations. They were also kept isolated by said nations, be it intentional or otherwise. Lonely people however, can gravitate towards other lonely people.
His morning was free. Relatively. He had business with his head advisors but considering they were his teammates who had known the snot-nosed brat he had been, he didn't feel pressured to maintain an omniscient or invincible aura.
They had a pleasant morning tea meeting, which consisted of them arguing and him trying to sneak some shut eyes once in a while. He talked about the things that concerned him and they talked about the things that concerned them, going back-and-forth with his infinite wisdom, his female teammate's strategies and his male comrade's ever-present focus until they worked out some temporary solutions to be discussed and hopefully approved in this week's council meeting.
'Paperwork, sandaime-sama' his secretary reminded him for countless times, before wailing in resignation upon noticing he had sneaked off the window to avoid the fate for at least an hour. Backlog be damned. He was getting sick of seeing his own hand signature. It had been beautiful. Until his hand got tired of writing it properly and decided that people won't mind if it was a little bit atrocious.
He tried to see his son. They managed to chat for a full ten minutes and his son left before they start arguing, again; as usual, somehow.
His grandson tripped. Blushing in embarrassment before forgetting the whole ordeal when he offered Konohamaru a new flavor of his favorite ice cream.
It was a curious surprise for him when he opened his office to see his surrogate granddaughter reading a book in his office.
Needless to say, a Sacrifice meddling around with books about sealing can give ANBU heart attacks.
But she was so cute! He thought as he listened to her chatter on and on about how cool the book looks like and her indescribable babbling of 'gwaah' and 'whoosh' along with her arbitrary gestures of what she thinks the symbols would do (which are frighteningly correct). Sacrifices are not to dabble in fuinjutsu. They cannot be given power to mess up with their seals. They must be kept in check. They may only be trained in the knowledge when they have proved their loyalty bla bla bla.
He signaled his ANBU to pretend that they didn't see the little book she sneaked under her shirt.
Eh, dead. Finished in 10 minutes and lost interest very quickly due to lack of canon divergence foresight.
