CHAPTER 11 THE COUNCIL
Naruto looked around the room with a fox like grin at the look of shock on their faces.
"I am the son of the fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze, and Kushina Uzumaki."
"You can't be serious Hokage sama!" Choza yelled in anger slamming his fists on the desk
"Calm down Choza." The Hokage said
"How can I when not only this demon dirties the fourths name, and you're going along with it!" Choza yells
"I am 'going along with it' because it is true I have known about it since the beginning." The Hokage said in a flat tone, getting a shocked look from everyone.
"What I want to know is." Hiashi cut in "If even the counsel didn't know I am assuming you were the only one who knew about his lineage, how did he find out?" he asked in his emotionless tone
"Well I just looked in a mirror." Naruto said pulling out a picture and threw it at the head of the Huuga clan who caught it with ease and looked at it. "Haven't seen many aryan brothers around here. Maybe this will help" Naruto said with a smirk as he closed his eyes and when he opened his eyes where blue as the sky.
"A small resemblance to his looks doesn't mean you're his son." Hiashi said passing the picture along for everyone to get look as some got looks of shock on their faces.
"What do you mean a 'small' resemblance?" Kakashi said "he looks exactly like Minato sensei." He said not even looking at the picture "and I have always known who he was Minato sensei told me of his secret relationship with Kushina and they were expecting a child."
"You knew of this Kakashi?!" Choza yelled
"Wow this one likes to yell." Naruto chuckled
"In my order to not tell anyone about the fox it was also not to speak of his heritage, for the fact we didn't want Iwa finding out about him, in case they tried to come after him." The hokage said
"That still doesn't answer my question." Hiashi cut in "how did he find out if no one on the counsel knew and no one was to speak of it?" He asked again
"Simple the fox told me." Naruto said getting a gasp from the council
"He has been corrupted by the fox it has gotten loose we should kill him now." Choza yelled
"Calm yourself Pillsbury." Naruto said "now I am guessing you all think the same but he just beat you to the punch." Naruto asked
The council all nodded except for Kakashi. "Damn straight" Tsuma said
"I agree with Akamichi on this if you have been talking with the fox you have been corrupted by him and should be put to death." Haishi said
"So your saying simply talking with someone that is considered bad is good as being corrupt?" Naruto asked
"Yes." Haishi said calmly
"Then what about you doing those back door dealings to gain pull in some of the smaller farming villages?" Naruto said getting the council to star in shock at Hiashi.
"What would make you say that?" Hiashi asked calmly not wanting to give himself away
"Well about three months ago I saw a certain Huuga head talking with some guys I know personally to be pretty bad mercs, about putting the squeeze on some small time villages." Naruto said "Even if it was just a conversation according to your logic you are corrupt for even talking to them."
"Well how do you know it was me?" Hiashi asked
"Well unless you have a twin…"Naruto began but stopped for a second "oh wait you did didn't you, what ever happened to him? That's right he took your place to save your ass. What a waste." Naruto scoffed
This got under Hiashi's skin him talking about his brother like that "how dare you speak of my brother like that."
"Oh did I finally get the great master of emotions to snap." Naruto said
Hinata watched from behind her father as this guy no boy was standing up to her father without even flinching and even got him to show his anger. 'who is this boy? I must learn more.' She said to herself
"If the fox had corrupted me answer me this." Naruto began and looked at the council as his eyes turned back to their demon form "how are you all still alive?"
This got a look of fear from everyone on the council "cause the fox has been yelling in my ear for me to kill all of you for the way not only you but the village had treated me when I was younger, yet here you are all still alive, answer me that?" Naruto asked getting a look of fear and wonder from the council
"You have soiled the name of the fourth by claiming to be his child and wanting his family things demon." Kizashi said "We should have killed you that night seven years ago. When you killed that man who was protecting my daughter from you." He said through his teeth
"Oh yeah thought you looked familiar you're the one who was leading that mob." Naruto said with a grin. "If I remember you were one of the first to run in terror when I tapped into the fox's chakra."
"You should have died that night for attacking my daughter." Kizashi said
"That ain't how I remember it from what I remember I was the one protecting her from that pedophile." Naruto said this got a look of confusion "you never asked her what really happened that night?"
"Of course I know what happened you attacked my daughter and that man came to help her and you killed him." Kizashi said
"Egheghegh (buzzer noise) wrong I was the one who saved her that night the old man was about to rape her and I stepped in and stopped it." Naruto asked "hell did it a second time in the land of waves just ask Kakashi." He said looking over at the silver haired Cyclops
"It is true Gato got his hands on Sakura and was going to try to put her in his prostitution ring but was going to have his way with her first. Fox here killed Gato before he could do it." Kakahsi explained at hearing this Ino gasped at not being told about it sooner. "and Sakura confirmed his story about what happened that night seven years ago as well."
"So if you don't believe me ask her for yourself when you get home." Naruto said
"That aside you are still the demon and can't possibly be the heir to the Namikaze name." Choza said
"Hell just having the fox in me should be evidence enough to say he was my father." Naruto said
"How so?" Asuma asked getting interested in this debate
"Simple who here would give up their child to have this demon sealed in them?" Naruto asked getting a shocked look on all their faces.
"How could you ask that of us?" Tsuma said "to sacrifice our child like that." She said looking at kiba with a protective gaze.
"How could you expect him to ask?" Naruto said as everyone looked like it hit them all at the same time "he couldn't ask someone else to give up their child when he couldn't do it himself."
"Well if this is all the evidence you have a resemblance and a theory of morality then we can't accept you are his heir." Hiashi said thinking he has him "unless you have some hard evidence then this meeting is finished."
"All the DNA evidence along with Minato's marriage license to Kushina and her hospital record of her being pregnant is all here." The Hokage said holding up a file.
"Hokage sama who's side are you on?" Choza asked
"The one that I should have been on to begin with. He is the rightful heir to the Namikaze name and should be given what truly belongs to him." The Hokage said
"There is your evidence ball, is in your court." Naruto said
"We will further deliberate this since it is such a delicate manner." Hiashi said
"Very well but just remember I asked nicely you try not give me what is truly mine I will take legal actions. I have a good friend who is a lawyer and I will get it in the end." Naruto said "oh and Hokage the scrolls are all undamaged and in a safe locations wouldn't want anything to 'happen' to them while they were deciding right?"
"Yes they are safe with the rest of the scrolls." The Hokage said
"Oh and this should go without saying this doesn't leave this council hall the thirds order about my background is still in effect." Naurot said "now I will only be here till the end of the Chunin exams if you haven't released them to me by then I will take legal actions." Naruto said.
"Very well I call this meet to an end." Hiashi said as everyone got up and began to walk away.
"Holy shit you just stared down the entire leaf council and didn't give an inch." Mei said "even I felt intimidated a bit when I was just simply asking for an alliance."
"Yeah well I am kinda hungry I'm gonna go hit up Ichiraku alright." Naruto said
"Alright" Mei said as her and Zabuza walked away
Meanwhile the council member's kids were all talking about what had happened, outside the council chambers.
"Did you see that guy he was nuts." Kiba said "staring down the entire council like that and not even flinching."
"he had them in the palm of his hand the whole time" Shikamaru said
"kind of scary though don't you think?" Choji said "you think it's true that he has the nine tails in him?"
"don't know but you saw his eyes they were like a beasts." Kiba said
"Yeah but he isn't that bad of a guy." Ino said getting everyone to look at her in confusion
"What?" they all asked
"You know him?" Choji asked in shock
"Yeah I ran into him with Sakura at the hot springs he was body guarding the Mizukage who we met there as well and became friends with. We had some lunches together and he was her escort while we ate most times." Ino explained "he was mostly quite not saying much but he seemed alright." Ino said
"And not too bad on the eyes either" Hinata added with a smirk
"Got that right." Ino said with a pevish grin as the boys sweat dropped.
"I think I am gonna try to learn a bit more about this Fox." Hinata said as she began to walk away from the group
"Hey just remember be at the exam location at eight." Kiba yelled to her. "and be careful"
"Yeah I got it." She said back as she kept walking
Naruto walked toward the ramen stand with Kuza
"You know we are being followed?" Kuza said in the fox language so only him and Naruto could
"The girl a couple booths back or the ANBU on the roofs?" Naruto whispered back
"The ANBU have been following us since we got here" Kuza asked
"These ones are different they seem to be trying to hide themselves harder than the others" Naruto said
"Root?" Kuza asked
"Most likely." Naruto said
"What should we do about them?" Kuza asked
"Just let them be for now, wait for them to make the first move this is their home turf." Naruto said
"Very well you're the boss." Kuza said as they arrived at the ramen stand and Naruto sat down while Kuza jumped up on a stool next to him.
They sat there and Naruto ordered a couple bowls of ramen for himself and some side orders of fish for Kuza just waiting to see what the people following them would do. After a few minutes a girl about his age with pale eyes and blackish blue hair stepped up next to him and turned toward him.
"I'm Hinata Huuga and you're going to go out with me." Hinata said looking down at him
Naruto just stares at her with a blank look on his face for a second with a noodle of ramen hanging out of his mouth. After a moment he slurps up the noodle and says "and why would I do something like that?"
"Because I am a Huuga the most prestiges clan in the leaf, you should be honored to take me out for a date." She says in snobbish tone.
Naruto looks her up and down she was wearing sandals with ninja pants and a cream colored jacket that was unzipped all the way down showing her fishnet like armor and her already developing body. He liked what he saw but he hated being told what to do almost as much as he hated people who thought they were better than someone just because of their family.
"Sorry don't do blind dates let alone date blind chicks." He replied knowing it would piss her off.
"I'm not blind these are the Huuga eyes the Byakugan eyes the greatest doujutsu there is." Hinata said
"Whatever." Naruto shrugged
"Whatever?" Hinata repeats angrily "I am the heir to the Huuga clan you will do as I say and go out with me." She says as she slams her hand down on the counter then leans in a whispers to him "or I will tell everyone who you really are, I was in that meeting you know." At this Naruto whips out a knife and slams it down at her hand on the counter and it goes right in between her fingers. While she was distracted by that he grabs her by the throat and slams her on the counter and glares at her with his demonic eyes.
"If there is one thing I hate it's being told what to do when it doesn't involve a job. Above that is pompous little shits that think just cause their clan name is something means they're something. But the thing I hate above those is being threatened and you girly just got your third strike so I suggest you steer clear of me from now on." Naruto said as he released her throat and let her up and pulled the knife out of the counter and put it away. He then pulled out some money to pay the bill and for the damage for the counter.
"I get it, the whole 'daddy never loved me so became a rebel and gotta act stronger then I am' thing. Just a word of advice, don't try to pull it on someone who is stronger than you and knows it." Naruto said as he began to walk away with Kuza following behind
'Damn you Namikaze.' Hinata sighed to herself 'such an asshole, no respect for the clans, so arrogant of your own power, and you're the only one I have ever seen stand up to my father without flinching even the slightest bit. You are perfect you will be mine.' She smiled evilly.
Naruto was walking away with Kuza at his heels.
"The vixens in this place are crazy." Kuza said
"Yeah." Naruto agreed
"You got this one who is demanding to be with you, then you got the blonde pushing the pink one on to you, the weapons one who is just about worshipping you. How did you get so…" Kuza began but was cut off
"Fucked?" Naruto cut in
"I was gonna say lucky, but guess that works too." Kuza sniggered.
"Not how I meant it, besides that one only likes me for my name her father probably put her up to it cause even though he doesn't like me he wants power and my name is pretty big here. Ino just wants to find a guy for Sakura and to get her away from her love interest, she would push her on to any guy just to get what she wanted, and as for Ten Ten she just respects my swordsmenship." Naruto explains
"So you were paying attention to the girls 'mindless girl talk'? and you said their names." Kuza teases
"It was either that or listen to Kurama complain about the 'mindless girl talk'." Naruto joked
"Oh god I was ready to hang myself then realized I didn't have any rope in here." Kurama sighed in his head getting him to smirk.
"And what is wrong with saying their names?" naruto asked
"nothing." He sniggered
"Now to deal with this guy." Naruto said as he turned toward a dark alley, just then a shadowy figure stepped out of it wrapped in bandages.
"Well must give you credit Namikaze or do you prefer Fox." the man said
"Ah Danzo, commander of the super-secret underground group known as root, and since that information hasn't been released just go with Fox I prefer that." Naruto said
"I see you have heard of me." Danzo says with an evil smile as his root ANBU jumped down surrounding him "I would like to ask who told you of me so I can silence them for giving away information."
"I got just as many contacts around the world as you." Naruto said
"Fair enough." Danzo said
"Now why have you had your boys following me?" Naruto asked
"To be sure you weren't a threat to the village of course." Danzo said with a fake friendly smile
"Please don't give me that weak ass shit, if that was true your boys would have stopped me from roughing up that Huuga girl even if they knew I wasn't going to hurt her." Naruto said
"Hehe you are good." Danzo chuckled
"You want the power of the Fox to use as a weapon." Naruto said
"You should have been put into root when you were born and became a tool for the good of the village." Danzo said
"Well I wasn't, now then you have two options here." Naruto said getting Danzo to raise his unhidden eyebrow. "one you walk away now and we go our separate ways, or two you try to take me by force and I call on the Fox's chakra and kill you and all of your boys here and if you try to call more here I will kill them as well, and if you did get the upper hand I would release the fox on this village again and the fox would seek you out first so you could never complete that goal of gaining the power of the fox."
"Hehe you over estimate your power demon." Danzo said as his guys got ready to attack
"And you over estimate your position with the risk of losing that alliance you just made with the mist since I am employed by them and considered as one of their ninja's." Naruto said
"I will just say you attacked first." Danzo said
"Really?" Naruto said with a grin "is that what you saw Kakashi?" he said as Kakashi jumped down from the roofs
"Not what I saw." Kakashi said
"How about you Zabuza?" Naruto said
"Nope I saw this old fuck threaten you along with his goons." Zabuza said as he walked out of a fogged up alley.
"Very well we will settle this later demon." Danzo said as his ANBU jumped away and he turned and started to walk away.
"Oh and the Hokage will hear about this Danzo." Kakashi said
"Like that bleeding heart would do anything about it." Danzo called back over his shoulder as he walked away
"You know that won't be the last you see of him right." Kakashi said
"Yeah but I ain't worried." Naruto said
"And why is that?" Kakashi asked.
"Let's just say I got my sources on him and his operations." Naruto said
"Mind telling me about these 'sources'?" Kakashi asked
"Matter of fact I do." Naruto said
"and why are you out here ain't you supposed to be 'guarding' Mei." Naruto asked looking at Zabuza
"She is fine and can look out for herself." Zabuza said "she actually sent me out to look for you, to make sure you didn't do anything stupid. Like you said you are employed by the Mist so if you start something that reflects on the village."
"Right well I am gonna head back to the hotel and get some sleep." Naruto said as him and Zabuza turned and headed toward the hotel.
Kakashi watched as they walked away and thought 'better be careful Naruto when Danzo wants something he is nearly unstoppable.'
END CHAPTER 11