Summary: An exciting mayhem was going on at a gate. A newly installed Sandaime came to see what's going on, only found himself being caught off his guard in shock to see him alive.
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Prompt: Reunion

Sarutobi Hiruzen slumped exhaustively, sighed as he looked over the papers involving the final campaign plan to attempting to win the First Shinobi World War.

It sucked to being a new hokage bore a heavy responsibility over his ninjas' lives and tried to minimize a loss of his ninjas during war, although he did not mind being hokage of his beloved village, he just wished that he was preparing mentally early to be a hokage, not thrusting into a kage position of Konoha unexpectedly. Being hokage made him feel like he grew older so fast overnight, thankfully he had his closest friends, and teammates to help him to shouldered a such heavy burden.

Then, a young man, probably at a least chunin rank suddenly blasted out through a door. He looked like if he was literally flying out of the bat-cave.

"Hokage-sama!"

"What is it?" An irritation at his ninja underling interrupted his musing over the plans, and a worry crept into him when he saw that a chunin look bit disheveled.

A young chunin panted heavily, a obvious sign that he was running in a hurry, and took a deep breath couple times. "H-Hokage-sama! It's something happened at a south gate!"

Then, he was standing up instantly in a little bit alarmed, went into a hokage mode.

"Report!" In his place, he was no longer Sarutobi Huizen, instead he was now Sandaime Hokage in a full power, commended with his voice with a power backing up him.

A chunin cowered bit, then steeled himself, proceeded to report to him.

"R-right, i don't know what's happening t-there, but a guard over there requested you to come to a south gate right now, i-i means right now! and he was saying that there were two people you should see there."

A brown eyebrow raised high in confusion, as he relaxed his tensed posture.

At a least, it was not news or reports involving that war, but he wondered about who on the earth are that two people that causing to prompt a guard from a south gate to request his presence urgently.

"Alright, i will come over there right now. You may dismiss." A leader told him as he went outside of his hokage office.

"Yes, sir." A chunin nodded but still following him to see what was going on at a south gate. They jumped and hopped over the roofs ahead to the south gate in a full speed.

Hiruzen already was running ahead faster but bit slow enough for his chunin underling catch up to him out of the courtesy.

A half hour later, by the time they reached a south gate. A exciting chattering noises reached to their sharp ears.

Hiruzen halted when he saw the crowd surrounding a gate, and jumped off from the roof to land on the street quickly following behind by a chunnin, behind the crowd whom blocked his vision from see the two guests.

A ever-growing crowd instantly noticed a presence of their hokage arriving, and moved away from him, making a wide empty space path for him pass though the crowd.

He then froze in shock and speechless as he finally spotted a white-haired man and unknown pink-haired woman standing at an entrance of the gate.

His body almost paralyzed when the familiar red eyes fell upon on him.

Sensei! He is alive! His mind shouted in a mix of an incredible joy and disbelief, his mouth unable to move to voice out his thought.

He was just standing dumbstruck, being surround by the equally dumbstruck and astonishing crowd, staring at a man that they thought that he died fighting against the Kinkaku Force corp.

Sarutobi Hurizen then realized that he was still standing, should move to greet them.

Swallowing a growing lump in his throat, his posture went straight and he willed his body moving, walking steady, which it seems to took a seemingly endless period of time from his mind, toward his supposedly dead sensei in an attempted dignified manner.

Out of all things he want to do was running toward him, shouting out in a burst of sheer happiness and crying in a relief at a same time.

Here, he was now standing front of Tobirama Senju, who smiled proudly to see his former student, no, his now equal as a fellow kage.

"Hiruzen...Good to see you again."

He barely hold the tears of joy and relief back upon hearing a familiar voice that he thought he never heard that voice again.

"Tobirama-sensei...welcome back home, and yes, it's good to see you come back alive." He spoke, his voice cracked and stained with a suppressed happiness and relief.

Oh, good lord...Hiruzen could feel a wild and uncontrolled joy tried to rolling, crawling out, tearing apart his control so badly that it was hurting so much. He was afraid to lose his facade and revealed a moment of weakness in a front of his sensei. He wanted to able to stay and pose as an dignified and strong hokage, not a man reduced into a mess of emotions, crying in relief as if he finally find a long lost brother.

"You don't have hold back, it's okay to cry when you are happy." That's all he barely heard from his sensei whispering softly just for him only.

Then, his dignified hokage facade crumbled, his face opened out for all the people who can see a mirror of their own feelings . He nearly trucked and hugged Tobiarama so hard that a white-haired man staggered bit for a moment and returned a gesture awkwardly in his own manly way.

A roar and shout of happiness and exclamation could be heard so loudly from the ever-growing audience comprised of both ninjas and civilians alike who just came to see their beloved Nidiame Hokage somehow miraculously came back to a life from his supposed death.

Meanwhile, Sakura who remained silent, couldn't help but smile in happiness as she witnessed a very personal and touching reunion moment between a sensei and student.

A/N: ...sorry?*dodged the extremely sharp things from the readers.* sorry! my life kept me occupied and busy. I offered you a longer chapter as an apology token. Anyway, i wrote Sarutobi's viewpoint to saw all happening, it's a nice reunion between a sensei and student, didn't you thinking? So, please comment and review! your review keep my muse creativity flow more!