Konoha Usurped

Chapter 2

In the Council Chambers all was silent as the reinstated Sandaime stared down his son and the rest of the Shugonin Junishi trying to understand what was going on. He was really getting too old for all of this. If only he did the sealing and not his young successor. He really did try to convince the Yondaime to let him to do the sealing, after all he lived his life serving and protecting the village.

Oh well no use in crying over spilt milk, so with a sigh he hardened his features as his mind raced trying to figure out a solution to the current problem. "Why would the Daimyo want a nameless orphan? I really think that little Naruto would be better off growing up here in his home village living in the orphanage surrounded with children his own age."

"We both know that Naruto is not just some nameless orphan as you would want to label him as. We the Shugonin Junishi were given specific instructions if this situation were to come about. The Fire Lord has made his decision and he wants Naruto to come with us instead of living the life of we will if he stays here. Do not think that he hasn't heard about what happened when you told the people of Konoha about Naruto. Daimyo-sama has told us to get Naruto if he is in any danger and we decided that he will be in danger with what you as the govern body of Konoha has decided to do to Naruto."

With that the Shugonin Junishi left with a sleeping Naruto, unaware what was to become of his life.


When the smoke cleared from the shunshi all could see the angry look that was portrayed on the famed Sandaime's face. They all cringed as they never seen their leader this upset over a child. Taking a few deep breaths Hiruzen calmed down enough to speak to the council, "because of your incompetence to think clearly and rationally we have lost possibly another good shinobi. I will try to convince the daimyo in to letting him stay here in Konoha and become a shinobi of this village. I will leave when the village has been rebuilt and our military strength is stable. And until then this council will be disbanded until I give further notice. Dismissed."

As he strolled out of the chambers he could here all the shouts of protest from the clan heads. As he walked down the hall towards the doors leading to outside, he signaled a team of ANBU with a wave of his hand. "I want everyone and I mean everyone to be in front of the tower in one hour and I want every jounin and chuunin to meet me on top of the Hokage Mountain in twenty."

As the team of ANBU went off carry out the order Sarutobi walked to towards the rocky-faced mountains. On the way there he met up with his Advisors, "that was a risky move you pulled back there upsetting the clans like that. What were you thinking?" Koharu asked curiously.

Sarutobi just gave her a side long glance before saying what he was thinking, "that we need to get Naruto back at all cost. I made a promise to the Yondaime to protect him and treat him as a hero and how can I do that when the people I thought that were on my side, the very same people I protect everyday, stab me in the back by going against my wishes by voting against me. I know they won't try anything to go against me right now as we need to rebuild the village and our respective clans. Now if you will excuse me I have a meeting to go to."

With that he left to meet his soldiers that were waiting for his command. When he got there the sight caused a pang in his heart to see all of the broken and sad looks on his troops face. He could really see the effect the Kyuubi did to his force, from the way it looks Konoha has lost a third of its shinobi to Kyuubi's might. Even then the military strength took a hit because of the Third Great Shinobi War killing most of the jounin.

Clearing his throat the Hokage address his men with a strong unwavering voice, "shinobi and kunoichi I know that we have lost our comrades, friends and family during the Kyuubi's rampage but we must pull together and strengthen the village, our home. Since we have more chuunin than jounin I implore you to continue to train yourselves to reach the position of jounin. We will continue on with missions but they will only be limited to A-rank and B-rank. Those of you who will be take A-rank missions will have no less than one jounin and three chuunin on a team. We must not be seen as weak to our clients and to the other villages.

"Those who are not on missions will stay here and help the populace rebuild the home and shops that has been destroyed. For a period of six months the village will be on lock-down starting tomorrow at dawn. In about fifteen minutes I will address the village and tell them of these changes that will start tomorrow. You are all dismissed."

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Deep underground of the Hokage tower Danzo met with his Ne operatives to give them orders that would ensure Konoha's safety. "I want squad two and six to kill the jinchuuriki known as Naruto Uzumaki, if I can't have the child to further Konoha's development them he must be killed so he won't become a threat to us. I also want squads three, one, and five to go out to the other hidden villages to keep the threat away from Konoha by any means necessary." Danzo looked at his troops, they were really the best of the best thanks to his training program. If only that damn fool of a Hokage didn't order him to disband Root he wouldn't have be sneaking around trying to protect the village. Now after the Kyuubi incident he will have to 'recruit' some more members, he was down by half now. Thinking of this he made his decision, "squads eight and ten I want you to go into the village and surrounding villages and 'recruit' members start with the orphanages. Also I want someone to spy on Sarutobi and report to me about his decisions before they are put into an effect and I want someone to get into the Daimyo's palace to spy on his activities. "

Danzo smiled as heard a chorus of "Hai Danzo-sama!" from his men. I will get my way even if I have to use force to get it Hokage-sama!