The Twin Flashes of Konoha.
Naruto/Yugao
"Speech"
"Jutsu and Bijuu"
'Thoughts and mindscape'
Own Nothing.
XX
The Shinobi gathered into the Hokage's Office. The civilians and the shinobi councils all converged on Team Seven and the reinforcement team.
"The debrief is now in session." Announced Danzo, the moment Minato took his seat.
"Point of order Hokage-Sama why are the Civilians here?" Asked Naruto.
"We are concerned about the…" Began one of the Civilians only for Naruto to begin to pulse his chakra. It felt the build-up before a storm and the underlying Killing Intent petrified the civilians.
"How dare…"
Naruto cocked his head "How dare I? More like how dare you! This is shinobi business and not yours." Naruto growled reveal the sleeping warrior child that had fought in the Third Shinobi War closing days.
The Shinobi that could, would and had gone toe-to-toe with Uchiha Itachi; Prodigy, Heir and Wonder Boy of the Uchiha Clan. Here he was turning on the Civilians. "Naruto, enough. He makes a good point Elder Shimura."
Naruto pressed on "Another point of order, Yondaime-Sama why is this being set up as a Court Marshal? This at most should be a debriefing between Team Seven, Reinforcement Team 2 and Yourself."
Danzo and the other two Elders, glowered at Naruto and levelled their KI at him. "We find your attitude and respect to us to be wanting."
"Mainly because you're gone and done. The three of you are old and washed up. Elders Koharu and Homura you undercut the Yondaime far too much and diminish him due to his age. Danzo, you've lost an arm and an eye, for your so-called reputation of a "ninjutsu" specialist you're career and respective careers are over. The three of you can't stop me…That is fact." Naruto snarled and his chakra appeared briefly.
Sasuke, Hantei and Sakura gulped and the latter began to shake. The former two just stared. Sasuke, knew that Naruto was an extremely gifted and powerful shinobi as did Hantei but neither of them realised the raw gap between them. "Enough. Naruto stand down. This is standard protocol for when missions are mis-filed and more resources are required." Minato stated.
Naruto nodded and then bowed "Apologies, Yondaime-Sama. Elders."
Yugao looked at her fiancé "That's probably going to bite you."
"I know love. Should they try anything…" Yugao nodded. She didn't like the Elders, none of the Corps did. They respected them but hated them with a passion. Naruto and Kakashi were two of the few that had the courage and the willpower to stand up to them. However, it was only Naruto and Kakashi who were willing to go into open warfare with them. Itachi would join them if diplomacy failed to work.
Speaking of Itachi, he was observing the trial. The debriefing continued, it seemed to go faster than normal. Minato grinned, his eldest definitely knew how to keep the pressure on the council. He looked at the shinobi "All things considered, well done. The bounties will be given directly into your accounts…"
"Konoha procedure, yes Sensei." Kakashi said and with that the meeting finished. The moment the last of the council had left barring Tsume, Minato was out of his haori and had pulled Kakashi, his sons and Yugao into a hug.
"I was worried. It only got worse when I heard that S-rank nin were involved." Minato whispered.
Naruto broke free but wrapped his arms around Yugao and nestled his face into her hair "I practically shit meself. All I can say is thank Kami, I'm so good with Fuuinjutsu otherwise their would have been six coffins."
"What happened to Kisame?" Minato asked.
"Bugged out. After I got him with a Rasengan and then used a Hiraishingiri. Almost had him too, parted him from his fucking sword only for the fucker to use his Kirigakure no Jutsu!, kicked me in the gut. Grabbed his sword and fucked off." Naruto said.
Minato nodded "All of you, Namikaze Household for dinner."
With that Tsume headed over, hugged her step-children and she and Minato, used the Hiraishin to vacate the room. "First new jutsu, the Shunshin. Seal is Tiger. Be warned concussions are common." With that the three Jonin vanished.
Tenten was tired. She had never been more tired in her entire life, but on the upside it was pleasant experience. She could feel her skills improving dramatically and visibly every single day. Hayate-sensei, was relentless! Every move, every kata, every strike, slash, stab, block practised and practised again. Anything went wrong in an exercise she had to repeat it.
Afterwards, she and Hayate-sensei would spar! It was like working with an artist, it was pure poetry in motion. She picked up her bokken and settled into her stance, ready to go again. Hayate grinned, not a small secretive one; but one that warmed her to the core "Hajime." He yelled and the pair began to fight.
Gekko Hayate was happy. More than that, he was ecstatic. He wasn't blessed with a trio of Genin to impose his teachings on. To be fair, he had sat down with the Yondaime and had explained that he feared he would not be a good teacher, for the fact of his over-specialisation. What hurt was that Minato had agreed. But what cheered the man up was that in order to save Kenjutsu from becoming a forgotten art; all Genin and Chunin were required to have much more than familiarity with it. He, had been promised first pickings of any that wanted to go further into Kenjutsu.
Not even two days later, Higurashi Tenten was introduced to him. What made it even better was that she was his sole pupil, only to be shared by one Namikaze Naruto; another practioner of Kenjutsu. The Hokage's eldest's skill in Kenjutsu was only matched and surpassed by his skill in Kenjutsu.
Gekko, fought the cough down. Naruto had used a diagnosis seal on him to reveal that his cough was from a genetic defect that meant his lungs were smaller and subsequently had 25% less alveoli and less developed Bronchioles in his lungs. Him getting caught by an acid breathe attack back in the Third Shinobi War didn't help much, neither did being saved Orochimaru and his apprentice Miterashi Anko. More the former two than the latter two.
Due to this being brought to the Medical Corps awareness, his treatments were now becoming much more effective. Where he was once had to augment his strength with chakra, when it used to be muscle memory was slowly returning to muscle memory.
Tenten was proving to be a rather amazing pupil. She picked up the skills quicker than he did, but he was always quick to demonstrate that speed did not necessitate mastery. What better way for him to demonstrate then to have spars every session with her either defending or attacking with a specific move, technique or kata.
It used to be all the time but now, nine times out of ten, Gekko would win. However, that number was decreasing…slowly but still decreasing was decreasing. "Apprentice Higurashi."
Tenten swiftly bowed "Shisho!"
"You are ready to move onto the Intermediate stages of the Hidden Leaf Sword Art."
(Namikaze House)
Naruto sighed in relief, that song he had heard whilst in Wave, it was about back breaking work and going with friends to the pub to drink the sorrows away. It fitted pretty well here, Yugao was with Tsume in the kitchen getting the final bits of dinner ready.
Naruto and Minato with Kakashi grinning were playing the 'eye-contact' game with Iruka. Surprisingly, Iruka was doing pretty well.
Iruka kept his breathing steady and pulse calm as he stared down the two Namikaze. Ever since He and Hana had been caught in that position, the tension between them had been frosty. This was the end game. "He'll do. What do you say Naruto?"
"Could have left him to stew a bit longer tou-chan. But yeah, I think he clocked our game. Iruka-chan, well done…you've lasted longer than most people."
Iruka stiffened as he looked at the two "Naruto-san? Yondaime-sama?"
"Please, Iruka-kun, it's not Yondaime-Sama whilst I'm at home. It's Minato. No suffixes." Minato said.
"Right, Naruto, Minato what was that about? I guessed it was a game?" Iruka asked.
"My stepsister…" Naruto said.
Iruka nodded "I'm not the best Shinobi, but I'll…"
"Do right by her. You'll treat like a normal person. Your record speaks for itself. Not outstanding but definitely not anything to be sniffed at; the Umino Family is honoured to have a man like you in it's branch. Your family, the immediate have the same words being repeated 'dependable', 'reliable', 'trustworthy' and most importantly 'loyal'." Minato said.
Iruka nodded "I see…" He turned to find Hana waiting with a nervous disposition clear on her face.
"They approve."
Hana's face suddenly lit up as Tsume summoned them all for dinner. As they sat down and dinner and the evening progressed, Iruka was treated to a valuable site…the Namikaze-Inuzuka family being a family "How's Genin life?"
Iruka could only smirk at Hantei's and Kiba's expressions.