DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING OF NARUTO ASIDE FROM MY OWN IDEAS.
Finally, after a few minutes of watching the moon, the man spoke. "I look foreward to training my decendant, old friend. It should be an interesting experience."
"Indeed it will, Hamura Otsusuki. Indeed it will."
CHAPTER 3: CRIMES, PUNISHMENTS AND WEDDINGS.
22222222222222 THE NEXT DAY: THE HOKAGES OFFICE. 222222222222
Hiko sat in the office with Hiruzen and Hamura discussing the preperations for the executions that would happen the next day when the new secretary entered the room with a member of the Hyuga branch house in tow. "Sir, this young woman comes bearing a message for you." Was all that was said before stepping out of the room.
The Hyuuga stepped foreward and bowed to the Hokage and Hiko. "Sir, the Hyuuga clan elders have sent me to meet with you and inform you that clan business will not allow them to leave the compound. I have been instructed to listen to your requests and give their answer depending on what that is."
Hiko just stared at the girl, flabbergasted. He honestly couldn't believe the audacity of the Hyuuga clan, to send a messenger in responce to a SUMMONS! The sheer disrespect of the leader of the village in which they lived showed just how foolish they were. Hiruzen was much the same as Hiko. They had never done something so stupid before and many of them Hiruzen had worked with on occasion before.
Hamura just sat there staring at one of his decendants like she had grown a second head. He was also curious as to why she seemed so scared of her own family along with the bandages wrapped around her head. It was like she was hiding something shameful. "Young lady." He spoke, gaining her attention. "Why do you hide your brow behind those bandages."
The girl instincivly reached her hand up towards her head but stopped and took a good look at the third man in the room. Gasping lightly, she quickly dropped to the ground, like a slave before its masters, and begging pardons for not showing respect to a main house Hyuuga as she should.
"This, Hamura, is why I am having those elders executed tommorow." Hiko spoke after regaining his composure. "They have all but enslaved the Branch house, yet claim to be of the nobelest birth. Some claim to have been decended from the gods themselves. The bandages hide a seal that causes pain to any who bear it with just a small pulse of Chakra and a hand seal. It can even cause brain damage or death, depending on how long its held for."
Standing from his seat and moving towards the young girl, Hamura kneeled before her and placed a hand on her head, prompting her to look at him. "What is your name, child?" He asked with a kind smile.
"I-i-it's Saya, Mi'lord."
Gently, Hamura removed the bandages from Saya's head to see the seal. It took all of 30 seconds to see how to remove the seal once he looked at it. With a simple application of Chakra to his fingertips, Hamura swiped his fingers accross the seal, essentially removing it with the usage of Ninshu, the art he created with his brother. Saya was surprised by the act and moved her hands to her forehead, before Hiruzen handed her a mirror so she could see her now mark free face. Tears of joy fell down her face as she realised she was free.
Hamura smiled at her before turning to Hiko with a frown. "Lets go deal with my wayward children. This slavery has gone on long enough."
Hiko nodded and stood, moving around the desk and towards the door with Hiruzen and Hamura in tow.
The walk to the Hyuuga compound was rather short for the men and the guards that followed, all of them being from Hiko's EMBER unit, the TRUE elite force of fire country. Those who remained in the shadows burning away the dying branches and roots of the great tree of Konoha, that was what it meant to be in EMBER.
Arriving at the Hyuuga clan compound gates, the group was stopped by two Hyuuga clansmen weilding spears to guard the gates and stop any would-be tresspassers.
"Halt! State your business with the Hyuuga clan." The guard on the left ordered and he and his partner readied their weapons.
Hiruzen stepped foreward in his Hokage robes and hat, looking official. "You will step aside by order of your Hokage and let us enter. We have business with the Hyuuga clan elders." He commanded with an air of authority, impressing Hiko, who thought Hiruzen had lost his spine in his old age.
The two guards looked at each other, knowing that no matter what they did they would be in trouble. Either for treason against Konoha or for disobeying the clan Elders orders not to let anyone pass.
Hiko, growing impatient, stepped foreward and ordered his men to arrest them, which they did without question. He then walked up to the gates and knocked on them... hard. The gates flew back into the compound with a loud crash with large cracks and splinters in them where Hiko hit them.
The clans gaurds moved fast to intercept Hiko when each fell down under the sudden shift in gravity overtook them all, causing them to feel like a mountain was just dropped on their backs. One by one, they all fell unconscious, unable to handle the sudden pressure. Hiko moved with a grace only found in the highest of nobles as he walked towards where he felt Hiashi's Chakra along with a dozen other men.
Stopping at the doors, Hiko ordered it to be opened by Hamura, who grabbed the hilt of his sword and drew it with such speed noone save for Hiko and Hiruzen could follow it until they heard it click home in the scabbard. The doors fell in multiple chunks, revealing the stunned members of the Hyuuga Elder council and a terrified clan head.
When they saw Hamura's Byakugan eyes, each one of the Elders became enraged and demanded to know who he was, not having recognised him from the clan.
"My name is Hamura Otsusuki, son of Kaguya Otsusuki, brother of Hagaromo Otsusuki and Progenator of the Hyuuga clan. I am here because I have just learned of the atrocities commited by my decendants and I am here to put an end to it."
Hiko stepped foreward at that moment. "Hiashi. Did you inform them of my orders?"
"Yes I did, Lord Hiko." Hiashi stated with a false sense of calm, fearing what would happen to him.
"Then why are they here. My ORDERS were to be at the Hokages office this morning. That means I expect them to be there BEFORE I arrive. Instead they sent a Branch house member to conduct our meeting as if what I had to say is unimportant compared to whatever they want." Hiashi flinched with each word as Hiko became angrier while the clan Elders looked at Hiko like he was trash beneath their sandals.
Finally, one member stood and spoke. "And just who do you think you are to give us orders, Commoner?" The way he said 'commoner', like it was an insult, which to them it is, just pissed Hiko off even more. "We of the Hyuuga clan Elder council do not have to follow orders of those that are beneath us."
At this point, Hiko hit a cold rage, his face going blank along with Hiruzen's. Neither men were in a position to be talked down to since both followed orders of a few, the Daimyo and Hiko for Hiruzen and the Kami for Hiko.
Every Hyuuga in the clan stood behing the three men, wondering what was going to happen.
Hiruzen stepped foreward at that moment, making his presence known with his own Killing intent. "Do you fools forget yourselves so easily? You are all still on the rosters as active duty Shinobi for the village. When I call a meeting with you, you do your damned best to make sure you are there on time. This village is a dictatorship and I am the Dictator, so when I say jump, YOU BETTER BE IN THE AIR WHILE ASKING HOW FUCKING HIGH!"
The Hyuuga clan, all the members in the compound that were still conscious, jumped in fear of the Hokages rage, some praying that the Elders would finally be put in their place.
Hiko snapped his fingers and an entire platoon of EMBER unit members appeared. "Arrest the clan Elders and march them to the Hokage tower publicly as a reminder of what happens to traitors in this village."
The Hyuuga Elders started yelling at that, some attempting to fight the EMBER unit before each were subdued with haste and had sealing tags slapped on them to shut them up and seal their Chakra so they couldn't fight. Turning to the gathered Hyuuga Hiko spoke with a commanding presence. "All Hyuuga clan members that have given the Caged Bird seal shall be in the courtyard in ten minutes. If any are on mission, inform us there so we can have them unsealed upon their return. If any are in the village doing training inforn a member of the ANBU that are here so they may be retrieved as well."
Hiashi stepped foreward as his clan moved to follow orders and informed Hiko that the only Hyuuga on missions outside the village were main branch members and his nephew, Neji, is currently with his team at training ground 9. Hiko nodded and had an ANBU move to go retrieve him.
In the compounds main courtyard, Hamura had each Hyuuga with a seal lined up so he could remove the seals, which each took a few seconds and had them move towards the EMBER units to have a real Bloodline gaurdian seal placed on them by actual sealmasters. Even the Main branch Hyuuga had the seal placed on them.
The seals were made the night before by Mito via shadow clone and were desingned to destroy the Byakugan in the event that they were removed from someone by force, killed or their children didn't recieve the seal by the time they were seven years old but only after they were five when they had their Chakra activated.
When every member had been unsealed by Hamura, he started looking around, hoping to find the young girl that had caught his interest. Finally, after a moment, he found her, hiding behind a wall and trying to look as small as possible. It reminded him of his wife a little, which made him smile in fondness of the memories of the kind woman that helped him raise a small family here on earth that held to his and his brothers beliefs better that his eldest nephew did.
So, walking over to the girl, Hamura spoke with a kindness she hadn't heard since her mother died. "Hello, Hinata-chan. Do you know who I am?"
Hinata, being the meek and rather introverted person she is, simply shook her head no, hoping this day wasn't a dream she was having.
"My name is Hamura. I would like to get to know my newest student."
Hanabi, having noticed the man and having heard him introduce himself earlier, grew angry and stormed over towards him. "Why would you waste your time on a weakling like her? I'm the one you should be taking as a student. She can't even win a simple sparring match against me."
Hamura looked over at Hanabi and frowned at her arrogance. It reminded him of his eldest nephew, far too much hubris, but he knew something she didn't. "There is a difference between being strong and using that strength to protect your family. Tell me, if Hinata's life was in danger and you had the choice, would you save her or leave her to die to save yourself?"
Hanabi froze at the statement, she never expected that kind of question and her seven year old mind couldn't find the answer. Hinata, however had no problem asnwering. "I w-w-would p-protect m-my s-s-sister with my l-life." She said with as much courage as she could muster.
Hamura turned back toward her with the biggest smile he could muster, showing just how proud he was at the answer. "That is the exact thing I wanted to hear. Come child, let us go get something to eat so we can get to know each other."
Hinata followed him wondering why he would want to teach her of all people as well as what happened to Naruko, her only real freind.
222222222222222222 MEANWHILE: WITH NARUKO 222222222222222
Naruko wa snot having a good day. It started with a healthy breakfast of fish, rice, eggs and the evil known as vegetables. After eating, Naruko followed Mito outside for morning exercises, which consisted of lots of cardio and core building. since she was only thirteen, Mito kept her workouts just light enough so that she wouldn't cause the seals to work harder doing their jobs which could have adverse affects. That wouldn't be a good thing.
After two hours of exercises they moved on to Chakra control. This lasted another four hours. Then they had lunch, which consisted of more healthy foods that Naruko was forced to eat.
After lunch was Calligraphy work and sealing theory until dinner, which again, consisted of food Naruko was forced to eat. she enjoyed the meats that were served, same with the rice, she just didn't want to eat the veggies. So that forced Mito to do what she did with her son and Kushina and her granddaughter... and oddly enough, her husband who was quoted by Tsunade several times saying it was like eating his creations. How he had managed to convince Tsunade of this, Mito would never know. He used WOOD style, not carrots or celery.
After dinner, they moved on to Kenjutsu practice, getting Naruko used to weilding a sword in both hands or in either the right or the left which is how they discovered Naruko was ambidextrous, meaning she could use both hands freely as if both were dominant. When night fell, Hiko and Hamura had returned. Hiko looking annoyed and Hamura looking quite happy with the days events. When they returned, Mito stopped the training, wanting to relax for the day so she took Naruko to the hotsprings that Hashirama and Tobirama had made while she had added seals for self cleaning and heating seals to keep the water at a comfortable temprature to help relax the muscles.
Around ten or so, Hiko stated that they would be taking the rest of the day off from training for tommorows events. This meant that Mito had to get ready for her part, since she was executing the Civilian council while Hamura would be doing the same with the Hyuuga elders. Then they had a wedding the next day and team assignments meeting later this weeks for the Jounin sensei. Thus everyone went to bed to prepare for the day ahead.
2222222222 THE NEXT DAY: CHUUNIN EXAMS STADIUM 22222222222
The next day, the entire village was sitting in the Chuunin exam stadium, thinking that the 'Demon' was finally going do die and that the Hokage had finally come to his senses and followed the councils orders.
Hiko heard all this with his advanced hearing. He was not amused. When everyone in the village had taken their seats, Hiko signaled to the Daimyo to begin. Kenshin nodded and stood so that he could get everyones attention.
When all was silent, he began. "Twelve years ago, not even a few hours after the fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, had sacrificed his life for the safety of this village, a great mistake happened. The Civilian council forcefully seized power that did not belong to them from the Hokage, making themselves the ruling body of the village and turning it into a democracy."
Many amongst the villagers cheered thinking it was the best decision ever made, making Kenshin frown.
"That was a mistake that should have never happened."
The affect was instant. Everyone, both civilian and Shinobi stared at him, wondering what he meant by this.
"What I mean is that both Konoha and Fire Country are both run as Dictatorships. When either myself or the Hokage make a decision, we both expect it to be followed. It would seem that the only people that know how to actually follow orders are my own Samurai."
Many of the Shinobi and Kunoichi amongst the crowd shifted uncomfortably. They didn't like what the Daimyo was getting at but many couldn't deny that what he said was true.
"Bring out the prisoners!" That was the final order given as the gates to the arena floor opened to reveal the Civilian council members being marched in, each one chained and gagged so they couldn't talk. When they reached the center of the arena, they were forced on their knees with their heads bowed. "Before you are the first people to be executed, each guilty of many crimes. Slavery. Theft of clan property and possesions. Murder. Rape. Child molesting. Drug trafficking. Passing information to spies or enemies of the vilage. And finally, Releasing SS-class information to the public."
Everyone in the crowed were stunned by the crimes listed. Many wanted to claim it all as a lie but to call the Daimyo a liar would get them executed or arrested and imprisoned as well.
"Bring out the executioner."
Everyone looked and expected to see someone from ANBU. What they didn't expect was to see a tall woman with flame red hair held up in two buns with paper hanging from them, wearing a white kimono and weilding a sword walk out. Looking up towards the crowed the woman spoke with a voice that carried the weight of experience and regal authority to it. "My name is Mito Uzumaki-Senju. Nearly a century ago I was married to Hashirama Senju, the first Hokage. Forty years ago I passed away from old age. Due to the will of the gods and the actions of their servant here on earth, I have been returned to life and given a second chance to help my only clanswoman living here in Konoha. Her name is Naruko Uzumaki."
At the sound of Naruko's name, the gathered villagers began yelling and shouting, claiming it to be a lie and that the 'Demon' had no family. The yelling lasted for a moment before Kenshin yelled for the Samurai to draw their swords, instantly silencing the crowd once more.
"What Lady Mito says is the truth. My own personal doctors preformed the tests and all have come back positive. Naruko Uzumaki is the Princess of our long forgotten allies, the Uzumaki clan. Each Shinobi wearing a flak jacket has the clan symbol upon their backs and every headband bears the clan symbol as well with the addition to make it look like a leaf. And before anyone decides to remove those symbols from their backs remember that it is a crime to deface the clan symbol of an allied clan in any way."
Many of the older Shinobi and Kunoichi who were thinking about doing just that paled at that statement.
"Lady Mito, you may begin with the executions."
With the order given, Mito drew her katana and began cutting the heads off every Civilian council member till she got to the last. The last woman, by the name of Tsuki Haruno had bitten through the gag in her mouth and began shouting to her brother to save her from this 'crazy whore', claiming she didn't deserve this.
Her brother walked up to the railing and spoke with a calm voice. "Your scheming ends now, slut, for you are no sister of mine. I have had enough of your meddling in my family. It's bad enough you told my daughter that a proper young woman needs to diet to keep her figure and convinced her that training will make her ugly and undesireable, but I also remember when you cheated on your husband to try and get at the possesions that belonged to the clans of Konoha, claiming you deserved them without even working for them. Please, Lady Mito, put her out of my misery."
Mito nodded and simply swiped her sword down, ending the life of a worthless fool. Nobody seemed to notice that each person executed glowed black for a brief moment with a small trail moving to the Hokages box at the top of the stadium where Hiko and Hiruzen sat with Naruko.
After the stadium was cleaned the Daimyo spoke once more. "The second execution today shall be of the Hyuuga clan Elders for the crimes of slavery and Treason against the Hokage as well as theft of village funds by way of mission payments that were not preformed. The execution shall be trial by combat. The last man standing lives."
Once again the gates opened and this time the Hyuuga Elders walked out, followed by a man everyone thought was a demon due to the horns protruding from his head. "Hamura Otsusuki, brother of Hagaromo Otsusuki the Rikudo Sennin, progenator of the Hyuuga clan. You may begin when ready."
Many amongst the crowd were exited that the Sages brother was amongst the living, hoping he could destroy the Kyuubi once and for all. But they all watched with rapt attention, wanting to see how the first Kami-no-Shinobi's brother would fight.
The Hyuuga Elders moved into the Jyuuken stances they had mastered years ago, thinking they would have an advantage in numbers, forgetting that this man had more experience fighting than them, and that only one person would be walking out alive. Hamura simply stood in place, observing each man present and finding every hole in their fighting styles that he could, which were many if he took everything into account.
First was that each one was well past the age that they should have stopped fighting, so their bones and joints were damaged due to wear, tear and time. Second was that they were too stiff, like they were trying to immitate a rock or a mountain meaning that they had almost no flexability.
There were more, but just as he started thinking of them, the first Elder made to attack. With his own Byakugan, Hamura was able to see how the man would strike and deflected it by using his own Chakra to 'pierce' the palm strike aimed at his heart. The affects were instant as when Hamura's fingertips touched the mans open palm, he shattered the Elders entire Chakra network in his right arm up to the elbow. Considering the fact that Hamura's Chakra was easily 20-30 times as potent as the average humans, doing that was actually a trivial matter. The result was the fool dying in agony from the pain of having his Chakra leak out and kill him with Chakra exaustion.
The next two to move attacked from the sides in a pincer move, hoping to catch Hamura off guard. Hamura responded by proving the term 'flows like water/wind around a stone' as he simply bent backwards, bringing both hands up 'guide' the two strikes towards each other. The two Hyuuga's felt their arms break at the elbow where Hamura touched them but couldnt stop the attacks which landed on each other, on was hit in the head, the other in the chest at the third gate which forced it to open and cause the poor fool to start leaking Chakra at an alarming rate, to the point that he felt his muscles crush his bones from the sheer amount of power coursing through his body.
Hamura stood straight again and a quick mental count, three dead seven to go. Deiding to stop messing around, Hamura grabbed his sword hilt and with speed most would not expect, rushed the three Hyuuga on his left drawing his sword so fast that none had a chance to defend themselves as the sword passed through them, cutting through flesh and bone like they were butter.
Turning to the last four, three of them moved foreward intending to overwhelm Hamura who started weaving in and out of their attacks, slashing each one of them at random points, causing each to bleed from all the cuts they recieved.
Up in the stands, Kurenai Yuuhi turned to Hinata who had sat with her and Kurenai's best friend Anko Mitarashi. "Hinata, this is why I told you that you should learn how to defend against sword wielders. The Jyuuken isn't designed to deal with weapons masters." Anko just nodded in agreement while cheering for the fight and eating a bag of popcorn that she got from... somewhere. Anko was mostly just happy the Civilian council was dead. Now maybe she could get promoted to full Jounin.
Back on the field, Hamura had just finished crippling the last of the three Hyuuga he was honestly just toying with and turned to the last one who had entered into a strange, to Hamura, stance. "You are within my field of divination. Eight trigrams: One-hundred twenty-eight palms."
Launching himself foreward, the last Hyuuga Elder believed that with this technique, he would be able to end the fight and reclaim his rightful position as clan head after he chalenged Hiashi for the position. What he didn't expect was for Hamura to simply raise his sword a half-second before he had made it close enough to make the first strike, impaling himself on the sword right through the heart and cutting through his left lung, killing him almost instantly.
Hamura looked at the man who had just tried a last ditch effort kill move (at least, thats how he saw it) and was now impaled on his sword. "Well... that was anti-climactic." It was honestly the only thing he could think to say, cause it was true.
"Winner: Hamura Otsusuki."
The crowd cheered for the winner until the Daimyo silenced them once more. "Let this day be a reminder. All Traitors shall be executed and none are above the laws of fire country. You may all go back to your daily business."
As the stadium emptied of its people, Yugao and her soon-to-be husband Gekko Hayate entered the Hokages booth, to speak with Hiko about the wedding which he told her it could take place today or tomorrow. After a few minutes, they both decided on the next day so they cold invite their friends. Hiko informed her that the meeting for the Jounin sensei would take place about an hour before the ceremony so she and Hayate would have a little over a week for vacation time. Both accepted the proposal.
22222222222 THE NEXT DAY: HOKAGES OFFICE 9 A.M. 22222222222222
The following morning, the Jounin who would be taking on students had gathered in the office. All execpt one who was always late. since Hiko had no tollerance for lateness, he ordered the room sealed to begin the meeting. One Jounin who was accustomed to these meetings asked if they were going to wait for Kakashi to arrive.
"Hiruzen?"
"Yes, sir?"
"How late is Kakashi to these meetings?"
"Normally about two or three hours."
"Yea I'm not waiting. If he cannot show up at the appointed time then he doesnt need to be here. I have better things to do than to wait for a Jounin who can't follow simple instructions and be on time."
Everyone present wondered if Kakashi would be punished this time, since t seemed like Hiko didn't tolerate any form of insubordination.
"Now there will be a few changes to how teams will be placed, as well as who will be Jounin instructors. Six of you who would normally take on teams and give them a test will be continuing your normal duties for the village. The ones who will be Jounin instructors shall be Yugao Uzuki, Kurenai Yuuhi and Asuma Sarutobi. You will also have an additional instructor to help cover areas you are not familiar with or simply cannot help your students. Such as Hinata Hyuuga shall be gaining help from her ancestor Hamura." Hiko pointed over to the couch at the man in question, who was really just a shadow clone, which he had been taught by Mito how to preform.
"Yugao, you shall be in charge of team Seven, consisting of Naruko Uzumaki, Ino Yamanaka and Shino Aburame."
"Yes, sir." Yugao saluted. She was honestly happy with the team she was given, knowing that she would have a well balanced team. Asuma and Kurenai however were not happy.
"Sir, I had requested the Ino-Shika-Cho trio and Kurenai had requested the three students best suited for tracking." Asuma said, a little miffed and wanting to know why he wouldnt be getting the team he wanted.
"Yes I know. I have decided to split up the teams, however, to create more balance." Hiko then gave the same explanation he gave to the Shinobi council about well balanced teams and being able to handle situations out side the original mission perameters. Asuma and Kurenai thought about this for a moment and saw the reasoning clearly.
"Kurenai, You shall be training Hinata Hyuuga, Sakura Haruno and Chouji Akamichi. If Sakura proves to be difficult when it comes to training, or even eating right, send her to miss Mitarashi. Anko, you have my permission to do whatever it takes to destroy her fangirl attitude short of killing her. drag her on a bandit clearing mission if you must, just make it happen." Anko seemed a little too happy by that order.
It was a well known fact that Anko hated fangirls with a passion, almost as much as she hated her former 'sensei'.
"Finally, Asuma, you shall be training Sasuke Uchiha, Shikamaru Nara and Kiba Inazuka. You shall be recieving help from an Uchiha who we managed to save from the massacre, Shisui Uchiha. Don't ask how we saved him even though his death is on record. That information is classified. However you also have permission to beat the stupidity out of your students until they each work like a well oiled maching." Asuma nodded at his team and orders.
"Now before move on with our day, we have one more thing to inform you of. Anko Mitarashi, step foreward."
Anko did so nervously, almost afraid she would be killed or worse, demoted.
"After reviewing your records, as well as the psychological profile we have on you, I am promoting you to full Jounin status. Congratulations young lady."
Anko was stunned, it was like a dream come true for her. The only thing better would be getting Orochimaru's head on a silver platter. Kurenai and Yugao both gave her congratulations, happy for their friend getting her promotion. Yugao asked Kurenai and Anko to meet with her outside the tower after the meeting. Hayate did the same with Asuma and Genma Shiranui.
A knock was heard in the room, signaling the secretary had something to inform Hiko. Hiko dismissed the Jounin and unsealed the room. As everyone left, they all saw Kakashi standing there wondering if the meeting was canceled. However, everyone just shook their heads as they walked passed making him even more confused until the Hokage walked out and beckoned Kakashi to enter.
"Jounin Kakashi Hatake. I would like you to explain to me why you were late for a meeting that you were informed of for this morning."
Kakashi looked fairly sheepish as he rubbed the back of his head, never taking his eye off his book. "Sorry about that, I got lost on the road of life after avoiding a black cat that crossed my path."
Hiruzen just sweatdropped while Hiko looked annoyed.
"So who will I be getting for my team?" Kakashi asked while turning a page in his book, still not caring that he was in the presence of his superiors.
"You won't be getting a team."
Kakashi looked up from his book and blinked, wondering if he heard right. Then, he looked over to the Hokage, whom was sitting on the couch smoking his pipe. "Hokage-sama, perhaps I misheard, but I think your friend just said I'm not getting a team."
"No, Kakashi-kun, you heard right. Lord Hiko has decided that you won't be getting a team and I happen to agree."
Kakashi looked rather confused by this. "Then, who will train Sasuke? I'm the only person in the village with a Sharingan that can possibly train him."
*THUMP*
Turning back to the Hokages desk, Kakashi saw three stacks of folders on the desk. One was rather large, while the other two were about the same size. The one in the middle had a stamp on it marked 'deceased'. Kakashi shivered when he looked at it and hoped it was only the one that was marked like that.
"Do you know what these are, Kakashi?" When Kakashi shook his head in the negative, Hiko continued. "These are the files of the teams you have failed for the past seven years, a total of 21 students, 21 potential Shinobi who could be Chuunin or Jounin by now. Of them, we have four who are now Shinobi for the village, thirteen who are civilians with a few tricks doing menial jobs in the village and four that are dead. The four that are dead commited suicide not two weeks after you told them they weren't even worth training just because they couldn't pass your test. A test that you deliberatly made harder that how it was designed to begin with."
Kakashi lowered his head in shame at that, not having known what happened to the teams that he failed.
"I know for a fact that Tobirama never told his students not to eat breakfast, Hiruzen did the same with his Gennin team and your sensei followed suit as well. Also, none of the Jounin, aside from you, have ever been late to a meeting when it was called by the Hokage."
"To be fair, sir. I'm always on time for any mission involving village security or an A-rank mission or higher."
"... You are an idiot if you think that is even remotely acceptable. It shouldn't matter if the meeting called is to inform you of an A-rank mission of if its just to inform you of a promotion of one of your colleauges. Being informed of a meeting and the time of said meeting means you should be at the appointed place fifteen minutes early."
Kakashi felt like shit now. "From now on you will be at EVERY meeting NO LESS than TEN minutes early, unless it was a last minute meeting, and you will be here standing at attention and your eye focused on the Hokage with your book no-where in sight. If you fail at this, I will DEMOTE you to CHUUNIN and assign you to the worst, in-village, missions I can find for six months. If it happens more than once, I will have your Sharingan removed and a mind walker enter your head to copy down every Jutsu you have ever copied. You don't want to know what I will do on a third offense."
Kakashi felt his world crumble at this declaration. Lose his Sharingan?! It couldnt get any worse, could it?
"You are dismissed, Hatake-san. I have a wedding to prepare for."
Kakashi left, moving like a robot as he, for once, used the door to leave.
Hiko wished there was another way to get through to the man, but this was the easiest. He has so much potential, yet, he relies too much on his reputation and Sharingan to reach it. Hiruzen watched on sadly as Hiko tore down Kakashi like he was being a petulant child, which to Hiko, he was.
"Perhaps we should leave soon, Lord Hiko. I am giving away the bride, after all."
"Of course." Hiko sighed and left a few of his own unusual clones to deal with the paperwork.
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The wedding ceremony held by Shinobi is normally a quiet affair,consisting of the bride, groom, priest/official and a few guests. Theres never any fanfare or parties and almost never any special clothes, like a wedding dress. Most Kunoichi opt to wear a simple Kimono that one can fight in and most everyone carried weapons, even the priest. The quests for Yugao's wedding consisted of her future Gennin team, her best friends Kurenai, Anko and Hana Inuzuka and her old Gennin teammate, and Hayate's bestman Genma Shiranui while Hayate had invited Asuma and Maito Gai.
Presiding over the ceremony was Kenshin, the Daimyo, while Hiruzen walked Yugao up the isle. Mito had Naruko in a formal Kimono from her childhood, while Ino was in a formal kimono of her own that her mother had gotten her and Shino wore a more formal set of his normal clothes. Inoichi and Shibi, along with their wives, sat with their children, explaining how a Shinobi wedding worked, both who understood the reasons behind keeping it quiet.
The ceremony only lasted a few minutes, which consisted of the Daimyo speaking a few words about love and loyalty to each other, Yugao and Hayate saying their "I do's" and an excanging of sake cups to signify equality in all aspects of their marriage and lives together.
After the ceremony, Inoichi, Shibi and Mito brought thier families up to greet and congratulate the new couple, with Ino gushing over all the pretty kimono's. After which Yugao took the three Gennin aside and explained that they would be team seven in a little over a week and that they should get to know each other and perhaps do some training with each other and Mito since she would be the co-sensei for team seven. Inoichi and Shibi agreed whole-heartedly, despite Ino complaining about the team placement and not being on a team with 'her' Sasuke-kun.
Inoichi and his wife practically begged Mito to change Ino's mind about Sasuke and to get rid of her fangirl attitude which Mito promised would be gone within a month at the most, not liking fangirls herself.
After everything was said and done, Anko dragged Kurenai, Hana, Genma and Asuma to the bar to 'celebrate' her promotion, which in her schemeing mind meant getting everyone to pay for all her sake and dango and maybe try and get Asuma and Kurenai into a few provocative situations for 'blackmail/teasing' material, having a camera in her pouch for just such a reason.
Hiko and Hiruzen just shared a drink and watched everyone enjoy themselves till the sun had set and it was time to go home and get some sleep.
It was going to be a long week.
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Naruko could be found skipping happily towards the academy, ready to begin her carreer as a Kunoichi with her team. Shino and Ino were walking with her, talking happily about what they had learned during the past week and a half. All three were now able to preform the tree walking exercise, though Ino and Shino were continuing it until they had better reserves. Shino and Naruko had come to the same agreement about Naruko housing around 3/4 of his total colony on her body during each training session, which she usually had a couple over-powered clones just sit there and play Chakra feast for a few hours for the insects until the training session was over with.
Mito had finally gotten Ino to worry less about clothes, her hair and boys and start taking her training seriously... mostly. She had at least gotten Ino to start eating more than just a light salad and convinced her that mud and sweat were easier to wash off than blood.(A/N: it really is.)
Of course Mito only had a short period of time to work on that so she counted it as a work in progress.
The three arrived at their classroom, being amongst the first to arrive. The only ones to arrive first were Hinata, who had shown a remarkable improvement since meeting Hamura, and Sasuke, who looked over at Ino and prayed she wouldn't come over to bug him.
He did however have something to say to Naruko. "You should hand over those weapons since you would never be able to use them well. Swords of that quality belong in the hands of an Elite like myself."
Naruko looked at him like he was an idiot. "Doesn't your clan have a whole stash of weapons they either had made or stole from others over the years? Go choose one of them instead of stealing the only things I have from my mother."
Naturally, Sasuke became rather pissed at being told no, but before he could retort, the door opened and Mito walked in. "I do believe the Uchiha clan has already got an armory in their compound, which they happen to have stolen quite a few weapons from my clan over the years. I can sense them from here. We will be going to your clan compound to retrieve them so I may give them the proper burial back home."
Bafore Sasuke could say anything, Mito turned to Naruko and held up a rather irate looking fox. "Naru-chan, I believe you forgot this." The fox and Naruko both growled at that.
"I didn't forget him. He refused to get up this morning, even with the promise of raw meat or a rabbit and the chance to scare the shit out of people. He even bit me on my ass. How did you get him up anyway?"
"I just threw him into the bath tub." Mito said this with a smile.
Ino and Shino had been told about the foxes true identy and Naruko's unique situation. Shino said that it was pointless to hate Naruko for her prisoner since it would be hypocritical of him with his clans own partners. Ino just showed how mature she really was when she said she didn't care since she could see the fox in a physical form.
The three Gennin and one fox went to sit down in the back of class with each other when the rest of their classmates entered. Some looked at Ino and wondered why she was both early and not sitting next to Sasuke. Others were wondering why Naruko was here when she failed the exam.
Finally, a stampede was heard causing Naruko to put in noise canceling ear buds and cover the foxes ears while Kiba did the same with Akamaru. Ino just looked confused when half the class did the same thing. "Whats going on?"
"We are preparing for Sakura's entry. Why? Because she can be very loud."
Ino looked even more confused by this when she had to cover her ears as Sakura came bursting through the door screeching about "TRUE LOVE" or something like that. Sakura continued to, loudly, gloat about being first when she spotted Ino in the back sitting next to 'bug boy' and the dead last. She almost wondered if Ino was finally seeing that she couldn't win Sasuke's, but instead focused on what was a slightly more important detail.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE, LOSER? THIS IS FOR THOSE OF US WHO GRADUATED!"
"I did graduate, you moron, else I wouldn't be here."
"DON'T LIE! WE ALL SAW YOU FAIL!"
At that moment, Iruka entered the room, followed by the Hokage, Hiko and nine other Jounin.
"Actually, miss Haruno." The Hokage's caught everyones attention. "Naruko did, in fact, graduate. It was discovered that there was a traitor in the academy that had purposely altered the test results for Naruko so she would fail. He used her desperation to get her to steal the forbidden scroll of seals so he could turn it over to his master. Due to miss Uzumaki's impressive skills with stealth and her ability to learn one technique from the scroll in a few hours, something most Jounin couldn't boast, I had no choice but to graduate her."
Sakura, now sufficiently cowed, went to her seat and sat down quietly while everyone wondered why Naruko was being sabotaged. Sasuke grew annoyed that the dead last was able to do something so easily and formulated a plan to get the scroll and learn every technique in it so he could put her in her place.
"Before anyone gets the bright idea to steal the scroll let me warn you." The man next to the Hokage spoke up next. "The scroll is currently locked in a different vault under tighter security with orders to execute any who try to gain access to it. In addition to that, Naruko has unique situation which makes her able to handle the Chakra costs of the Jutsu in that scroll. She has more Chakra than even Hiruzen here did in his prime. Also, clan status means nothing to the gaurds of the scroll, they will capture you or kill you regardless of your name or position in your clan."
The Gennin were wide eyed at the statement and Sasuke had no doubts his name wouldn't protect him. Some, however, were not that smart. "CHA, You should just give that scroll to Sasuke-kun. As the last Uchiha, he actually deserves it."
Hiko just looked at Sakura like she was an idiot but decided to keep the information of how many Uchiha were still around to himself. After all, those in EMBER had sworn off the clan name after the massacre since they knew what was truly going on at the time.
"Moving on, we shall now inform you of your team placements and the new way we are doing things. In the past, each class had a 66% failure rate, meaning that only three teams would graduate from the Jounin sensei's test." The entire class hade fearful looks in their eyes, even Sasuke. "This year, we are doing something different. Teams one through six shall be getting retired black ops members as their Sensei who WILL whip you all into shape an bring your level of fitness up to the proper standards. No more dieting, no more doing the minimum to pass. You will be worked to the bone to become stronger, faster and smarter. If you aren't crawling into bed after wolfing down enough food to feed a grown adult, then they aren't trying hard enough. This also means you will be put into appartments with your team and Sensei to ensure you get the maximum amount of training in without your parents interfering."
The entire class looked fearful at that. Most of the girls wanted to complain but the Jounin were realsing KI at a steady rate, affectively shutting them up.
"Now team one shall be..." Hiko read off the names of the students and their jounin sensei, stopping after each team so the Jounin could take their new teams and get to know them while getting their personal affect from their homes moved into their new residents. "Now for the final teams, you shall have your primary sensei who shall lead you on missions and an auxilary sensei to cover anything your primary sensei can't, such as Genjutsu, Taijutsu or Ninjutsu as well as anything to do with gender specific questions or problems. Team seven shall be Naruko Uzumaki, Ino Yamanaka and Shino Aburame under Yugao Uzuki with Mito Uzumaki as your auxilary sensei. Shino, you can come to me with any problems or questions you may have in the future."
Shino nodded in thanks but wondered why he couldnt go to his father or another clan member. In the end he just put that question aside and decided to ask later.
"Team eight shall be Sakura Haruno, Hinata Hyuuga and Chouji Akamichi under Kurenai Yuuhi and Hamura Otsusuki." Chouji and Shikamaru shared a look, they were sure they would be put together. Sakura just wailed at the unfairness and Hinata smiled, happy with her teachers.
"Finally team ten shall be Kiba Inuzuka and Akamaru, Sasuke Uchiha and Shikamaru Nara under Asuma Sarutobi. Your auxilary sensei shall be Shisui Uchiha."
Every Gennin just gaped at that, but before anyone could say anything, the door opened and a tall man with raven colored hair and onyx eyes entered the room. "Sasuke, follow me. Asuma-sempai we'll meet you at training ground ten at around two or so. I have much to tell my cousin." Asuma just nodded at that, fully understanding what was going on and just had his other Gennin and one Nin-ken follow him to a BBQ place for lunch.
Hamura smiled jovially at his new students and beconed them to follow him and Kurenai to a nice little tea shop that served a delicious Oolong tea that he enjoyed.
After team seven was all that was left in the room with their sensei's and Hiko, the three Gennin went down to find out when they would start training.
"OK, so, for the next month, the three of you will be doing teamwork building exercises and the simple D-rank in village missions. The D-ranks is so you can learn how to do simpler jobs you may need later on down the line. That and we can't have the academy students start doing them till next year at the earliest."
"So we will be doing nothing but training for the next month?" Ino asked this question, curious on when they would get to leave the village.
"Pretty much. In a month, however, we will be leaving for a training trip that will last about six months."
Naruko was practically bouncing like a rabbit... Or a six year old full of caffeine. "When can we get started?"
Hiko smiled at her, glad she was excited to begin getting stronger. "After we get some food, you three need all the nutrients you can get, after all."
Ino groaned at the prospect of food. Mito had gotten her to start eating normally, like she had promised to Ino's parents, after training her into the ground then putting delicious smelling food in front of her face. IT. WAS. TORTURE!
The group of six made their way to Ichiraku's ramen stand for a quick bite to eat before their training started, talking about what their training might be like.
Hiko just watched on as Mito scolded Naruko on her, still terrible, eating habits, a small smile on his face at the joy of a simple moment of life.
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A/N: Thank you all for the reviews. hope you enjoyed this chapter.
please let me know how I did with my first ever fight scene. also i made a small mistake with the name of a god... I meant to spell Inari and spelled iMari by accident... I appologize for the small mistake.
I dont gaurantee I will be able to update often since the first took me months to make and a week for the second... I was on a roll with this one.