I woke up on the day after my grandmother's funeral; her death did not seem real to me, but I knew it happened. After getting ready, I decided to leave the Mokukage mansion and walk around the village, but as soon as I opened the door, there was someone waiting for me; she had the Vanguard waiting with her. She had medium length blonde hair and light blue eyes; she wore the traditional clothing for an elder…this was the elder my grandmother told me about. Without exchanging any words, I followed her and the Vanguard through the village leading me to a large building located near the academy. We walked inside to a room where other elders were sitting down at a large rectangular table. I was directed to sit beside the elder who led me here; I felt nervous being in presence of the people who helped run the village. I could feel a drop of sweat running down my brow. The elder stood up and looked at me, and then she began to speak.
"We are here today in order to discuss business about the Third Mokukage. It was stated by Lady Kei that her grandson would take the mantle. Would any of you like to raise any objections before we vote?" she asked her colleagues who sat before us. The room was dead silent for a couple of seconds before a male elder stood up with his piercing brown eyes set on me.
"Lady Terri, with all due respect…the boy is too young to handle such a responsibility. I motion that I take over until the boy is of age to become the Mokukage," calmly said the man as he looked around.
"Sir Takakura, you do bring up an interesting point: Gefurii may be young, but he has potential. His grandmother, our former Mokukage, specifically requested that he take her place. Your point is not strong enough for us to disobey something that was basically an order. Motion denied. All in favor for Gefurri becoming the Third Mokukage, please raise your hand," requested Lady Terri; seven out of the eight elders raised their hands in agreeance (the exception being Takakura who turned away from the group out of anger).
"Majority rules: our new Mokukage is Gefurii; we will still need the vote of confidence from the citizens at a later time, but as for now…Lord Mokukage, will you please stand?" Lady Terri asked me. I stood up without giving it a second thought. She handed me the official hat and haori of the village; I put on the hat as symbol…I was now the Mokukage.
"Our meeting is now adjourned; I will stay here to discuss business with the Mokukage," explained Lady Terri as the elders left the room. I was still sitting, waiting for her to say something.
"You are now the Mokukage, so your duty begins now. We have much to discuss, so follow me," she told me as she walked into the hallway and into the room next door. I followed her into the room where I saw four people were waiting for us. I sat down in an empty chair among the four people. I could clearly see 3 of them; one guy had a similar complexion to me and had short black hair and brown eyes. The next guy had a light complexion, slightly tan, and had short brown hair and blue eyes. The other (visible) guy was a bit pale with curly brown hair and brown eyes. The fourth person was covered from head to toe, so I had no idea what he or she looked like. As I was observing these strange people, I noticed that they all had hats and haoris; they were kages.
"I have called you all here to discuss some business. This is the first time in a long time that all of the Secret Kage has held a meeting. The shinobi world has many enemies that need to be apprehended and the Gokage are not getting along too well to do things effectively," explained Lady Terri as we all looked at each other; we were all speechless.
"Who is to say that we can get along better than the Gokage? We do not know each other at all," replied the guy sitting beside me, and we nodded in agreeance.
"Sigh…you remind me of your grandfather…he was slightly stubborn…" she started to say as she walked around the room, "This is the newly appointed Mokukage Gefurii, next to him is the Uchuukage Dewalt, next is the Umikage Devin, next to him is the Chikakage Vincento, and last is a representative for the Hikage who could not be with us today. Now that introductions are done, we can get down to business. The number one threat as of right now is Orochimaru…he is an S-ranked criminal who is also a wildcard. No one can predict what he is truly planning," she explained…my emotions started to swell after hearing his name. I still harbored some hatred for what happened with my parents, but I calmed down for my sake and the creature that lived inside of me.
"My village is outfitted with a telescope, so I can offer some observations...we do live in the sky after all," replied the Uchuukage. The rest of us gave a blank stare, but we believed him.
"I think we should do some extra patrols with our intelligence units. If we find anything, then we can dispatch the information to each other," said the Umikage; we nodded to agree with him.
"I think those are all good ideas; I think that we can adjourn this meeting…oh…one more thing…make sure that the Secret Kage stay secret," Lady Terri warned us before we prepared to leave; I stayed seated in my chair. The Uchuukage stayed to talk with me some more.
"I can feel it; you have a grudge against Orochimaru. You don't have to say anything because I just know you do. Whatever he did to you, we'll prevent him from doing to anyone else. From here on out…we are a giant team that will work together," he told me as held out his hand. I stood up and shook it.