Chaprter 10. Just so you know, when you see this, I will be working on the begining of my second story. So the updates my come later, I'm not dropping this! I'm still going to update this, just less often. Well, let's get the show on the road.
Naruto would only be mine if I became Masashi Kishimoto.
Naruto and his fiancé walked into the council room and it immediately went silent. Naruto walked up to the only empty seats in the room and sat down on it, filling them for the first time. Finally Danzo stood up, "What are you doing here, Dem- I mean, Boy?" Instantly changing his choice of words when he saw the glare coming at him from the third and fifth.
"I see for once you have decided to hold your tounge, Danzo." Naruto said, his face expressionless. "As most of you know I'm the heir of the Namikaze household. Since my father, may he rest in peace, is unable to perform his duties as the clan head, I'm taking up the role with Miss Hyuuga as my advisor."
"This is an outrage!" Danzo yelled, "This, Dem-…Boy, cannot be Namikaze heir! It is Impossible!"
Naruto stood up, "It is also impossible for ROOT to still exist. But does it?"
Silence. Thoughts were flying through almost everyone's minds "ROOT? Didn't Sandaime discontinue that program?" Hiashi wondered.
"I thought I told him to end ROOT!" Sarutobi mentally yelled.
"Does he know about that? No, no. No one knows that it's still exists." Danzo thought, "What are you getting at boy?"
Naruto smiled, "What if I told you, I had undeniable proof that ROOT exists."
Danzo laughed, "I'd say that would be the biggest lie I've heared in my life."
Naruto smiled, "Really? Tell me Danzo, does the name 'Syu' mean anything to you?"
"No, it is just a name." Danzo lied, it did mean something to him, it was the name of one of the most rebellious students he had ever had. It was a miracle the boy was alive; the boy had a beating at least once a day for activities that Danzo would never allow in his program, namely playing games, smiling, and every once in a while crying.
"Really, well let's ask him, shall we." With a simple flare of Naruto's coat a young boy came into view. His skin was a sickly pale color, and he looked like he hadn't had a meal in weeks. Chouza Akimichi looked at the boys showing rib cage and wondered if it was possible to survive being that thin. Danzo, in a rare show of emotion, paled. "This is Syu, last name unknown; I personally retrieved him from the ROOT complex that should no longer exist." He shot a glare toward Danzo. "Syu is beaten at least once a day for smiling an earnest smile. He is whipped for making up and playing games, this boy has not once seen the sun. If this boy were to look at a tree, he would see nothing but what it is according to science, the beauty of it completely lost on him. Well, why don't I let the boy speak for himself?"
Syu looked at Danzo, a fire of hatred in his eyes. "That's the man! He killed my friends! He beat me! He destroyed my life!" the boy began to breathe heavily, "You made me lose my humanity!" The boy began to cry, but tried to stop himself out of habit. Hinata took him up and hugged the boy, telling him it was ok to cry.
"Take him to our house." Naruto told Hinata. Naruto turned to look at the council. "There is a saying, 'There is always someone who has it worse off than you.' After my childhood I thought I was that someone, then I saw what this thing is doing to children. I knew my last name; these children don't even know what a last name is. I had hope of starting a family in the Uzumaki name, if these children even thought of hope they would be struck down.
"And the worst part is that it is being done in our name. Do you know what that means? That means that all of Konohagakure is responsible for this atrocity! I can see Kirigakure if they knew about this, I can see them saying 'and they called us cruel for our methods? We teach them pain by having them kill each other; they wipe out humanity all together.' I can see Iwagakure, 'See what evil they hide behind their gates? We cannot let this evil continue.' I see Kumogakure and Sunagakure 'This is our ally? We cannot be affiliated with such cruelty.' If you add all of this together, you have another Great Shinobi War, and Konoha on the losing side.
"Is that what we want? Do we want Konoha destroyed because of one man's disobedience? I'd rather die. I will not let this evil continue. I would disown Konoha and throw away my dream of being Hokage if this is the kind of man I would have to lead."
The council was silent. This was a very serious matter, if Naruto was correct about this accusation, then Danzo's head would have a new home. If it was a false accusation, then Naruto would be shamed and most probably be put to death.
Then Danzo spoke up. "You have no proof against me. That kid could have been pulled off the street, and every word he said would have been a lie for a meal. If you plan to carry out your accusation, I suggest you find proof."
Naruto smiled a foxy smile. "I plan on doing just that, if the council will follow me." Naruto walked to the door. He was followed by Hiashi. Then by Chouza, Shikaku, and Inochi and the Hokages. Then Shibi Aburame and Tsume Inuzuka followed. Danzo stood wondering what was the boy doing then something he had said came back to him "…I personally retrieved him from the ROOT complex…" That could only mean one thing. He had to stop that boy.
Naruto led the council members down a long hallway, when suddenly two ROOT ANBU agents appeared. "You will go no further." One said.
Tsunade walked up to them. "Stand down. He has my permission to be here."
"I'm sorry Hokage-sama, but none of you are allowed to go any further."
"What? You WILL let us pass."
"I'm sorry Hokage-sama, but none of you are allowed to go any further." He said again.
"What!?" She reared her hand back ready to strike the man. Only to be stopped by Naruto.
"Calm down, Hokage-sama." Naruto said, he stepped in front of her, his back facing the ANBU. "Allow me." He said. Before either could react, he punched both of them, straight in the jaw. "Pinning Kunai jutsu!" The two ANBU suddenly found themselves stuck to the floor, pinned by a dozen kunai. "This way, please." Naruto said as he continued to lead them. Finally, they came to a large room, with three chairs and a bookcase. Naruto walked over to the bookcase and started pushing it out of the way. Then they saw it. The council members stood at the top of a huge cylindrical room. "Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, the ROOT complex."
Danzo hobbled down the hallway. He had to keep them away from that room. Hopefully, his ROOT ANBU agents should have stooped them. He turned the corner and saw a sight that he had hoped he would never see. His two agents were pinned to the ground by dozens of Kunai. Then he looked down the hallway into the room. The bookcase had been moved. "Oh, no."
He had to get out of there; he couldn't let them catch him. If they got his hands on him he'd be executed. He turned to hobble out of there but then saw another sight he had hoped he would never see. In front of him stood Kyuubi.
Naruto looked down at the chain that held the toddlers and broke it with a quick slash of his sword.
"Why are you doing that?" One of the toddlers asked.
"Because I'm here to show you emotion."
"What's emotion?"
Naruto smiled at the boy, "Emotion is being happy or sad, loving and hating, being angry or confused."
"But the rules say we can't be happy."
Tsunade looked at the boy. "Well, I'm the Hokage, and I'm changing the rules."
Kyuubi dragged the very-much-in-trouble Danzo down the hallway to the council members. He threw him at their feet. "Here is the man responsible for this. What do you want to do with him?"
"Execute him!" Chouza said, "Children should not be put through this kind of torture."
"I agree with my teammate." Shikaku said, every hint of laziness gone upon seeing this injustice.
"I too agree with my teammate." Inochi said.
"I'd rather die than watch this scum live another day." Tsume said.
Shibi too agreed, "Logic may say that emotion would get in the way, but to annihilate it completely? That destroys ones humanity. If Danzo continues to live then the Aburame will no longer be a clan of Konoha."
"And the Hyuuga will join you." Hiashi said.
The council turend to Naruto. "I cannot let him live." Naruto said. "I cannot be Kage of a villiage that gives people like you life."
"So be it." Tsunade said. "Danzo, at the soonest possible moment, you will be beheaded. Which one of you would like the honors?" The council members looked at each other, wondering who would do it.
"I would." A new voice said.
The council members turned to see who had spoken up. It was a thin boy with the same sickly pale skin as Syu. He wore black, had black hair, and had a brush and scroll in his hand. Danzo looked up at him. "Sai?" Danzo asked.
"Yes, Danzo, I want to be the one to cut your head off. You ruined my chance to be human, I may never get that back, but if I can stop you from doing this to any other child, then it will be for the good of the village."
"Sounds good to me." Naruto said. The rest of the council quickly agreed.
"Tsunade turned to Sai. "Whenever you are ready."
Sai nodded and unrolled the scroll. He drew a sword with his ink brush. "Ink sword Jutsu." The sword jumped from the paper to his hands. Danzo began to squirm away, but was stopped by the bone breaker jutsu. Sai lifted the sword high above his head and brought it down.
Naruto stared at the corpse. "What a first day."
Naruto came home to his fiancé and Syu, who had stopped crying, naturally, and when he saw Naruto he ran to thank him. He hugged Naruto's legs tightly. "Thank you so much, Naruto-san. Thank you so very much." He began to cry with joy.
"It was the only thing I could do. I couldn't let Danzo use you, it just wouldn't be right."
Just then Kyuubi walked in, "Naruto, there are some people who want to see you."
Naruto nodded, "Hey Syu, I need to go talk to someone."
Syu nodded and let go hesitantly. He went to the door to see Sai and many others of the ROOT refugees. Sai bowed and the rest did also. "Namikze-san, we wish thank you for your service to us and we wish to repay you. Is there anything we can do for you? Anything at all."
Naruto stared at them, each now with a slight glint of emotion in their eyes, it was small, but it was there. "Do not ask me what you would do, instead, ask yourselves. What is it that you want most in
life? If it is emotion, search it out. If it is a family, make one. If it is to become the greatest Hokage, then get in line." Someone actually laughed. It was small but, like the emotion in their eyes, it was there.
"But if there is anything you want to do for me, take each other, and support each other in your goals, become something, make yourselves a force to be reckoned with. Have it so that if one of you is challenged, he has challenged all of you. Rise from the ashes of this catastrophe, and become something new."
"Naruto-san?" Syu asked form inside the house. "What are they doing here?"
"I think they should answer that." Naruto said.
Sai looked Naruto, then Syu, finally, he looked at the congregation behind him. Finally, he picked up Syu, and placed him on his shoulders, Syu laughed, and Sai felt something in his heart when he heard it. "We've come to pick up you, Syu. After all, the Pheonix clan has to stick together."
Everyone that stood behind Sai couldn't agree more to his choice. And before Naruto's eyes, the Pheonix clan was born.
Wow, I have impressed myself. I wrote this chapter in the same day I wrote the last one. I also realized something; I don't know any of Sai's jutsus in Japanese, so my original ones are going to have some company. Well, check out my other story, as soon as I put it up there.