Chapter 3
A blond sat atop the Third Hokage's head, his blue eyes looking over the village he hoped to lead. A bittersweet smile seemed to form on his lips, his eyes closing as he looked away from the village.
That was if they accepted him.
Which he doubted they ever would.
But he would change that, he would make them notice, whether they wanted to or not. His bittersweet smile turned into a more heartfelt one, he opened his eyes, a sense of determination swimming about the blue hues.
He'll make them see.
Even if it killed him.
In the end, Uzumaki Naruto did make them see. He had changed many minds and hearts, along with the way Konoha was. He had taken his rightful place and he had done his dead mother and father proud. Though at the moment as he sat in the meeting room with his three elders he couldn't help but hate his job at the moment.
Hokage.
It was a proud thing to claim.
It was also a horrific job.
"Uzumaki! Are you listening?" growled the blond haired woman as she slammed her hand down on the table top to catch the man's attention.
"Yes Tsunade-san, I am listening." 'Even though there is no point for you to complain, what is done is done.'
"You should have informed us of what you were planning. Do you think it matters if you are repaying this man back? Did you even think of what they are capable of and what that might mean if they decide to turn on you?" questioned the buxom blond, who even in her old age didn't look a day over twenty-seven.
"Of course, I mulled it over before I sent my messenger. Do you find me incapable of thinking ahead? I am not twelve nor fifteen years old Tsunade-san. I know what I am doing," responded Naruto, albeit his words had more of a bite than he had wanted them too. "Plus does it not give us an advantage to look over and see how those in the outer world work? They have different methods than us and I'm very interested in them."
"So because of your interest Uzumaki-san, you have brought in strangers into our home land?" spoke the bandaged up man at the end of the table. "I honestly do not see how this will work for us. This is a waste of our resources."
Naruto smirked.
"But Danzo-san, aren't you interested in their works?" questioned Naruto, his eyes locking with the lone one of the aged warrior. "I'm pretty sure that if the way they fight or do things, we might be able to incorporate some of them into our ranks. I've seen the way they fight and their powers are pretty interesting. Would it not be good for us at this moment to have something the rest of the countries don't have?"
"The thing you are forgetting Naruto, is that they need their own teacher for their specific training," cut in Jiraiya, before Naruto could say any more to the now interested Danzo. "Sure it'd be something we could trump our enemies over, but the time that it'll take for them to be up to par and on our standards will take too long."
Naruto held a smirk back as he looked at his own teacher. Leave it to the man who knew what those mafioso's powers were and to try to stop him.
"I know that as well, Jiraiya. The possibilities though, it would help us immensely. Of course if this were to be agreed on, the first generation that we manage to get would be a bit rocky, but by the third or fourth generation of these fighters we'll have a force to be reckoned with."
"And pray tell Uzumaki-san, how do you plan to gain this first generation?" asked Danzo a knowing smile at the corner of his lips.
"I've already started talking to one of our guests, from the files you have you would know he is the youngest of the lot. Ten year old, Vongola Lightening Guardian, Lambo."
"The youngest are easily the best to persuade," murmured Danzo, "What do you plan to do with him?"
"Naruto, don't tell me!" spoke out Tsunade as she looked up said child's folder. Naruto smiled at the elder woman's direction and nodded.
"They don't trust in him too much, they consider him a child. Sadly they don't know that amongst them he is four of the few that knows." Naruto emphasized the last word, his gaze landing on each of the three elders. "He already trusts me more than a couple of his people and I'm only giving it more time until I can suggest to him if he wishes to be a part of something new. Though that is if you three agree on this, then I'd just have to inform the council and tell them what is going to happen."
"Naruto," said Jiraiya, leaning against the back of his chair, "If you do decide to do this, only inform two or three of your council, there won't be much need for all of them to know."
"Sheesh," grumbled Tsunade as she ran a hand through her hair, "I agree with Jiraiya, inform a few of what you plan and make sure they are also ones that can convince some of these so called guardians to stay."
"A back up plan is necessary if that fails then," said Naruto as he leaned back in his chair, satisfied that they had seen his way. He began to straighten the folders in front of him and he once again looked up at Danzo, "If this fails we would need to send some of your operatives along with a couple of mine to a certain location so we can have our own."
Danzo nodded in understanding.
"Is there anything else that you would all like to add in?"
"Are you sure this is what you want?" mumbled Jiraiya, his gaze on Naruto. "You do know that you will end up making enemies with Reborn and Vongola if you go through with this."
Naruto closed his eyes, a sigh escaping him. He nodded. He already knew what he was getting into. But this was for the village.
"I know what I am doing and if all goes right, Vongola and Reborn would never know who did it or how it happened."
.ii.
He had promised that soon after he was done with his business, he would come get them and show them about the village. For now they were free to do as much lazing about as they wanted.
Which was exactly what Hibari did.
Of course he refused to stay inside with everyone else. Instead Hibari took to going outside, his pet Hibird following closely behind him as the twenty one year old followed one of the paths that led into the forest that surrounded Konoha.
'There was a village, Kyoya. A huge village, surrounded and hidden by these huge, beautiful trees. And if you happened to just laze about one of the paths and look up, you can see people running through the treetops. These people were called shinobi. They were the warriors of this village, Kyoya. They protected its people and they also kept the peace amongst their village.'
His grandmothers voice said in his head and to see if her words were true, Hibari stopped along the path, found himself a nice tree to rest against. He looked up and it was to his surprise that was his grandmother had said was true, every now and then he would see people garbed in black streak past the green tree tops.
"Just what did my grandparents know," murmured Hibari, as he held out his finger for Hibird to rest on. He stroked the small bird, who chirped its like for the treatment Hibari was giving it. The twenty-one year old gave a rare smile to the small animal, before sending the bird off. The young man breathed a sigh of relief, though he tensed up as he felt someone nearing him. Hibari's eyes narrowed and he calmly looked around, but he couldn't find or pinpoint in which direction his watcher was. The corner of Hibari's mouth twitched and he forced himself to relax. It wouldn't do well to overreact, especially if the stories his grandparents had told him were true.
But for now he wouldn't think about, he would just sit against this tree and relax. Letting nature keep his mind in check and hopefully away from those idiots inside.
.ii.
Sasuke couldn't help the growl that came from his mouth as he glared at the ten year old child. Said child gave the twenty-six year old a sheepish smile, before running off.
"I uncovered one of them! Lambo-sama is the greatest!" exclaimed the child as he ran down the halls to the main living area of the Hokage's home.
The Uchiha sighed, barely keeping himself from palming his face. How could a child, untrained in the ninja arts, sneak up on him and take off his mask. The only reason he had caught the boy was because said child had exclaimed his success and had woken an irritable man up. Though Sasuke would give the boy a hand for doing as he did, not many were able to sneak up on him while he slept. Still that didn't stop the proud man from hunting the boy down and strangling him up from his ankles.
"Oi! You can't do that! That's cheating!" the child yelled as he hung upside from the ceiling.
"Tch, I just did idiot."
"Who are you calling an idiot, idiot!"
Before Sasuke could reply and poke the boy in the forehead, a voice called out to which the young boy made a face.
"Lambo keep it down – Lambo! What do you think you're doing?" questioned the black haired teen as he approached where the young boy was being held.
"Punishment," uttered the Uchiha, his dark eyes now on the toffee eyed teen. The man blinked at the Uchiha's response, his eyes trailing down to what he held in his hand, before a grin threatened to split the mans face in half.
"So you were one of our guides last night?"
Sasuke raised an eyebrow, but he didn't give the man a yes or no. The black haired teen, seemed used to this type of attitude and continued to approach his side.
"I'm Yamamoto Takeshi," said Yamamoto as he held up a hand, a carefree smile on his lips.
"Uchiha Sasuke," murmured Sasuke as he grasped the man's hand and shook it once, twice, and then let go.
A silence settled over the two, as Sasuke continued to taunt Lambo, who wiggled in the ropes that held him. A smirk passed over Sasuke's lips, this reminded him too much of that idiot friend of his.
"You're a swordsman?" came the question, snapping Sasuke from his thoughts.
"Ah," he said, nodding his head. "Not exactly a swordsman, but I can fight decently with this blade."
The toffee eyes of the to-be mafioso glinted dangerously and it unsettled Sasuke, This man was just happily laughing and not caring what happened to the child. Now he looked like he was a eying prey – Sasuke's eyes twitched at that thought. He, Uchiha Sasuke, was not in anyway prey to anyone. So raising what seemed to be a nicely plucked eyebrow, Sasuke grasped the handle of the katana, and with a haughty look he proclaims to the Vongola Swordsman.
"How about we trade blades?"
Lambo was cut down, fell to a messy heap on the floor, and his cries were ignored as the two dark haired men left the room and off outside to the training field.
"Geez," uttered Lambo as he rubbed his head, "Stupid duck head."
.iii.
Arms folded across his chest, a tick mark on his forehead and the corner of his mouth twitching in annoyance. The Hokage was not pleased.
"So tell me again how exactly you two idiots managed to broaden the landscape of my training grounds?"
All his fellow ninja did was grunt, before turning away and picking his fallen katana up. The other one, just hid his sword behind his back, rubbed the back of his head and grinned. One was nervously chuckling, the other was far to used to this, Naruto was definietly not amused.
"Uchiha! You either fix this within the next hour or you'll be doing D-ranks for the next three months!" threatened Naruto, who then turned to the teen, "And you! I don't care what Reborn thinks you'll be training under Tenten on your free time!"
As Naruto fell through the common phase of his 'yelling and punishment', he then quickly fell into following phase 'whine and complain about everything' to which the Sawada and Gokudera brats happened on.
While Tsuna stared at the firy and disasterous scene before him, Gokudera whistled lowly, but to the two quickly switched it up as Naruto turned on them, a pitiful look on his face.
"Keep a watch over him," he grumbled as he passed by the pair, "I need a drink,"
Tsuna and Gokudera gave each others looks, before turning to Yamamoto who had at that point finally sheathed his sword and was now staring at the Uchiha as he somehow managed to summon a wave of water to extinguish the fire that had started.
"So what happened here?" questioned Tsuna once he got over his amazement.
"Uh, we sparred..."
"Idiot! Spars don't end like that!" grated Gokudera as he pointed in the now smoky direction.
"Well, the guy surprised me," mumbled Yamamoto, "You know he doesn't have a bad hand in his sword, he could honestly demolish me in a real fight."
"...But...you've already beaten Squalo-san!"
It was at that point that Sasuke had given up trying to fix the landscape, so he turned away and walked up to the trio. Clamping a hand on Yamamoto's shoulder Sasuke gave the teen a smirk.
"Not to bad, Yamamoto," and with that the Uchiha walked away, secretly hoping that that one Yamato man was in the village so he could help him in his dilemma. "The idiot would probably set aside the worst D-ranks...(shudder)...I better find that man fast."
AN:
Hey I see that you made it to the bottom, so the least I could do is beg for you to not kill or maim me in anyway. From the way this chapter started to go, I'm going to make this story fully AU. Because well, eheh. Things are different. Some things that happened in canon happened here, others did not [like Jiraiya and Danzo dying and other stuff that will be written on later if I remember]
Ahh, hopefully you enjoyed this :) If not well, I'm sorry, and the only reason Sasuke won one over on Yamamoto was because the way he fights with his sword his with a lightening extension to it and well, lightening and water don't really mix [where the water came from no clue] but yeah. Everything went BOMB.
The beginning eheh, I couldn't help it.
Plus it'd be nice to see this, though the way Naruto had told the three [especially Danzo] he's going to things a bit differently.
So uh, other than that
Bye~
Until whenever! :3
-Sorugao-Bandgeek
