Hey hey hey!
It's UltraZeta120moron! here with the second chapter or rather the first chapter of the Dragon Heart: True will of Fire, the first one is in fact a prologue and yeah i know it's frickin long as hell.
Anyway i wanna say i'm sorry for taking so long of actually make this but i've been busy these past months, either with work, learning how to use the Paint tool Sai and i'm creating my own game on RPG maker VX! so yeah i've been quite busy with that and other stuff. By the way i'm doing an opening and a ending of some sort on this chapter, like any anime they usually have flashy opening and ending so i'm thinking "why not?" and try write both the opening and ending that suits with the current Arc of the story.
anyway i've been ranting enough, so enjoy the story :D
Chapter one: Firion Tsukino enter the scene!
It was a normal morning in Konoha.
Birds were singing, people getting ready to open their shops, Shinobis ready to take either a mission or a nap from late night guard duties.
Today was going to be great day for Tatsumi as he opened his shop, and walked out and took a deep breath of fresh air. Sighed, He hoped that today selling will be better than yesterday. Took out a Can of soda and began drinking to gain some sugar energy due to waking up early in the morning.
He glanced toward the proud mountain where the four heads of the Hokage are carved, he nodded in respect to the past and present hokages and continue drink his soda...Until he eyed widen and spit out the drink.
Tatsumi let the can drop as he stared in shock at the hokage monument, some of the folk nearby notice his shocked expression and looked where he was looking.
A women gasped and pointed toward the mountain and shrieked "What happened to the Hokage Monument!?" Another screamed "Someone painted the faces of the Hokages!" true to the guy's word the hokage monument have been painted. The shodaime face have been painted with a grin and a perverted blush, but also it seems a red streak goes down from his nose indicate he's having a nosebleed.
The nidaime face been painted to look like some green skinned troll of sort with white text on the forehead that says "Shrek is watching" while the sandaime face was painted as he was crying and snot coming out of his nose. Lastly yondaime face was painted to look like some feminine woman with white makeup and red lipstick.
While it's somewhat hilarious to look at, the people weren't exactly happy what have happened to their proud monument.
"who could have done this!?"
"I bet it's that damn fox along with that damn cursed doll who did this!"
A shinobi with a bandana who stood among the crowd glared at the hokage monument, he didn't need evidence of who could have done this. Just as he was about to go look where the culprit were, he saw couple of blur jump across the roofs, one of the blur happens to be red and green which he intantly knew who it was.
Growling he began chase after the culprit along with the other shinobis that ranged from chunin and jounins.
"Get back here you little brat!" Screamed one of the chunin while chasing after a young red haired kitsune who looks to be 10 year old, the boy have short slightly spiked blood red hair with fox ears and tail dipped in black that almost looks like black flame, slightly pale skin and purple slitted eyes. His clothing is consist of a red sleeveless shirt and green shorts, wearing fingerless leather gauntlets and dark grey shinobi sandals. Lastly he's wearing a belt that held his shinobi pouch, pair of short swords and a quiver that held his special enchanted Bolts.
This young Kitsune is no other Firion Tsukino, adopted son of Akemi and Akira.
Firion glanced back as he jumped from roof to another in order to avoid the angry mob of shinobi's after him "Seriously why is it always something that happens whenever I visit, it's technically MY fault!?" he exclaimed as he dodge from some random chunin who tried to grab him from bellow, acting quickly he threw a smoke bomb down the ground as he jumped up to avoid two other chunins jumping at him.
With distraction of the smoke bomb Firion jumped off the edge, down toward bunch of clothes that was hung out to dry. Crashing into them Firion manage to catch the line but it quickly snapped from his weight, making him fall down to the ground but fortunately for him the clothes cushion his fall. peeking his head out from the pile he looked up to see his pursuers up at the roof somehow lost him as they were looking around for him.
"Dammit! don't you think you got away from us easily fox!"
Firion just stared at them astonishingly "They think it was that easy?...wait how the hell did they lose me?" he asked himself.
Hearing giggles he glanced toward couple women and two girls around his age staring at him and giggles, Hearing quick foot steps Firon assumed it's the shinobi's looking for him he quickly took a dress and a cowl he disguised himself as a girl he went up to the girls "morning ladies!" he asked cheerfully.
A women who's probably in her mid forties just chuckled "getting yourself into trouble again, aren't you Firion?" she asked while the two younger girls just giggled, Firion just grinned "me? getting into troubles? no way, the only way for me to get into trouble if I were caught-" suddenly a hand grabbed Firion by the back roughly, it was the Jounin with the bandana "GOTCHA!" He exclaimed as he held Firion up by back of his shirt.
"I'm in trouble!"
"and this time you little fo-" the man didn't get to finish his sentence as a small doll suddenly landed on his head and pulled his bandana down forcing him to drop Firion, the Doll have long blond hair with a large red bow that makes it looks like rabbit ears, wears a long red dress with a small red bow around her neck and black shoes.
This doll is Firion best friend Shinku, the Forgotten doll youkai.
"hah! take that!" she exclaimed while standing on top of the jounins head proudly.
Firion grinned and gave her a thumbs up "Nice work Shinku! now come on let's get out of here!" Shinku nodded and jumped onto Firion shoulder as he ran past the jounin who was struggling to pull his bandana up.
[Theme song: Aladdin-One Jump Ahead (With slighty changed Lyrics)]
"gotta keep"
Firion began sing as he glanced back to the Jounin, running into an akimichi who tried to grab him.
"One jump ahead of the breadline"
Only for Firion to duck under him and dashed behind him, the Akimichi tried to punch him only for him to punch a barrel filled with large fishes as Firion jump over him.
"One swing ahead of the Fist"
He quickly snatched the fat man's belt as his pants fell down while Shinku laughed.
"I steal only what I can't afford"
Tossing the belt away as he and Shinku ran away with an angry Akimichi hopping after them while wearing a large fish to cover his modesty.
"That's Everything!"
Shinku sang along.
"One jump ahead of the lawmen"
Firion manage to run away from the Akimichi guy only to be stopped by a chunin with a katana who swung his sword at him which he side stepped as the chunin buried his katana into a wooden support beam that held a fruit stall up, which crashed down onto him.
"That's all, and that's no joke"
Firion ran past the trapped chunin along with an angry fruit saleman cursing the chunin for ruin his stall, Firion began climbing up to a large stack of barrels while Shinku flew beside him, several chunin began to catch up and climbed after him. Firion grinned as he leaned his foot on one of the barrels while Shinku stuck her tongue out at the chunins as Firion pushed the barrel down.
"These guys don't appreciate We're just kids"
It crashed into the first chunin as he fell over and crashed onto his fellow comrades, as they fell to the ground and the barrel broke which soaked them all with oil.
"Riff raff!" exclaimed one chunin "savage youkai!" shouted two other chunins "Scoundrel!" shouted another while Firion climbed up on Wooden construction platform, while reach the top he and Shinku had to dodge bunch of food thrown at them "Take that!" screamed the last one.
"Why can't we just get along, guys" Firion sang as he leaned toward the edge with Shinku beside him who crossed her arms and nodded...only to dodge from several shurikans, swords and many other dangerous weapon thrown at them which embedded into the wooden structure.
"Rip them open, take it back, guys" the group of shinobi's sang as they shook the platform, hoping to make Firion fall from the contruction platform.
"I can take a hint, gotta face the facts You're my only friend, Shinku!" Firion sang while both he and shinku jumped off the platform and grabbed hold onto a Line and swung himself with Shinku holding onto him toward an opened window. which turns out to be room for skimpy clad ladies of the red light district.
"Who? Oh, it's sad, Firion's hit the bottom" Three girls began to sing as they surrounded Firion and Shinku "crap wrong window!" Firion exclaimed as he blushed deeply due to how skimpy some of the girls wore "He's become a one-man rise in crime" one of the woman cupped his cheeks, making him even blush more.
One of the woman grabbed his hand and pulled him into a spin toward an overweight woman who happens to be the caretaker and she doesn't look pleased "I'd blame parents except I forgot what kind of people they are!" she swung her broom at the young boy who just ducked under it while glared at the old woman in annoyance.
Shinku grabbed his arm and pulled him toward the window while sang "Gotta run to live, Gotta escape to live" as they were neared the window Firion jumped up to the window's edge with Shinku on his shoulder "Tell you all about it when I've got the time!" he sang along as he jumped off.
"One jump ahead of the slow pokes"
Firion sang as he and Shinku hid behind a large muscular orc who was posing in front of a crowd while the group of the Shinobi's ran past them.
"One skip ahead of my doom"
As both the youkais posed with the orc in order to stay hidden, sadly they made a mistake as the orc flexed somewhat lower while Firion and Shinku flexed their arms up which made them visable for the crowds.
"Next time gonna use a non de plum"
Realizing their cover is blown they tip-toed away while still flexing and grinning nervously to the crowd "there he is!" shouted the lead Jounin with the bandana as he stopped, which only resulted with his fellow jounins and chunins crash into him and fall over.
"One jump ahead of the hitmen"
Firion sang as he jumped onto a sheep and another while Shinku floated next to him while doing few spin dances, glancing back he saw the shinobi's trying to get to him but the hoard of sheeps blocking their ways was making it difficult for them.
"One hit ahead of the flock"
Firion jumped off the last sheeps while plucked his hands in his pocket and walks away with Shinku giving the ninja victory sign.
"I think I'll take a stroll around the block"
As he ran away with the shinobi's after him, with the Akimichi (Who manage to put his pants on) just fell over a banana peel.
"Stop Thief!" shouted the jewel seller as he saw Shinku decorated in jewelry who was checking herself on a mirror "Vandal!" grabbing the necklace while glaring at the cursed doll who just smiled nervously at the man "Shinku!" Firion exclaimed while grabbed her and pulled her away.
"scandal!" exclaimed a woman who just appeared out of nowhere.
As the group of shinobi cornered Firion and Shinku, Firion held his hands up while Shinku held her fist up ready to fight as both backed up against a closed door.
"Let's not be too hasty"
on cue, a door opened behind Firion and Shinku. stepped out an overweight woman who just grabbed both Firion and Shinku, held them in bridal style while waving them back and forth. They look up who's holding them only to scream in terror as the woman began to sing.
"still I think they're rather tasty"
Firion and Shinku jumped off and rolled away, yet they ended up being surrounded by the group of shinobi's although Firion didn't show any concern just grinning while had his hands behind his head.
"Gotta run to live, gotta escape to live, otherwise we'd get along"
"WRONG!" the crowd exclaimed as everyone jumped at him till a cloud of dust formed, they kept fighting within the cloud for few seconds until they stopped and saw that none of them had Firion or Shinku in their grasp. The bandana wearing jounin let go of his fellow ninja from the headlock and saw from a distance two boxes were moving.
"wait a minute...THERE THEY ARE!" he shouted as Firion and Shinku discarded the box and ran away.
They kept running for a while until they passed by a weapon store, Shinku saw this and flew over to one of the weapon racks and pulled a katana out while a young girl shouted "hey! don't take that!". Ignoring the girl with buns on her hair Shinku flew in front of the group of shinobi and swinging her blade around to show she's armed.
"She got a weapon!" one of the jounin screamed while everyone backed off. The bandana wearing jounin just growled "you idiots, we ALL got weapons!" while took out his own katana and held it in the air, the rest followed suit with several kunais, katana and...a rubber duck?
Shinku grinning nervously while dropped the sword and flew away. Shinku manage to catch up with Firion while he jumped over a cart filled with fruits and slide under a wagon, giving the people nearby a surprise gasp.
"One jump ahead of the hoofbeats"
"VANDAL!"
Firion kept singing until both he and Shinku stopped when couple of chunins and jounins appeared in front of him, forcing them both to take another way
"One hop ahead of the hump"
"SAVAGE YOUKAI!"
But even trying to take another path they were blocked again, forcing them to take nearby stairs that lead to a very tall building with a group of chunins and jounins after their tail.
"One trick ahead of Disaster!"
"Scoundrel!"
Shinku flew up ahead of Firion but nearly crashed into bunch of chunins, Firion grabbed Shinku in time before she was slashed in half by one of the chunin holding a katana.
"they're quick but I'm much faster"
"Take that!"
Firion ran into an open apartment and quickly saw a window he made a dash for it with the bandana wearing jounin and his fellow ninja's nearly catching up to him.
"here goes, better throw my hand in Wish me happy landin' All I gotta do is jump!" Firion sang while jumped out of the window, the rest of the shinobi's followed suit and tried to grab him but failed as they fell, except one. While Firion manage to avoid being grabbed by the group but the the jounin with the bandana manage to grab on to his foot.
"HAH! got ya little rat, this time you won't escape from me!" he screamed.
But Firion just grinned "really? you forget about one thing!" he said, making Shinku who was perched on his shoulder nod "yeah!" she exclaimed.
"Oh really? and what would that be!?"
Firion just pulled his foot from his grasp and began float away from the bandana wearing jounin, making him eye widen.
"I can fly dumbass!"
"DAAAAAAAMN YOOOOOUUUUUuuuuu-" And he kept screaming while he and the others landed on a very large pile of fertilizer, a Khajiit and a Dark elf who were wearing gas masks while holdin shovels just looked at the group of shinobis in the large pile of sh*t and looked at each others in confusion, they just shrugged and continue to their work.
Firion and Shinku flew over to an alley, they manage to hide behind a large dumpster from passing by jounins and waited for a bit until the coast is clear. peeking around to make sure there was no ninja hiding somewhere Firion and Shinku left their hiding spot and high-fived.
"alright Shinku! we're the best!" Firion exclaimed cheerfully.
Shinku grinned and nodded as well "yeah! we show them who's the best!" Firion nodded and glanced around to make sure there's no one here. Seeing they're the only one in the alley Firion sighed in relief "looks like coast is clear, C'mon let's go back before they finds out we're gone" he said.
"Before who finds out?"
"Before mom finds out we're gone before breakfast...wait a second who am I talking-" looking behind both Firion and shinku paled when they saw who it was, it was Akemi who was standing right behind them with arms crossed and had her eyes closed and smiling at the young youkais...Except it wasn't a smile of mercy.
It was a smile of promising pain and terror.
"toooo heh heh...heeeh...Hi mom" Firion ended his sentence in high-pitch voice while Shinku hid behind him.
Akemi just stood there while emitting a dark aura, making Firion and Shinku freaking out. The silence went for like 3 or 4 seconds before Akemi spoke "Firu...Shi...What is this me hearing about the Hokage monument being vandalized? And why were those Shinobi's chasing you two?" she asked.
Firion and Shinku just backed slowly away, sadly they ended up backing up to a wall next to an abandon closet, Firion just gave her a look "C'mon mom! everytime we come to visit uncle and Auntie those idiots accuse us whenever something happens in this village" he defended himself with Shinku backing him up "yeah! it's no fair!"
Akemi just looked at them and asked "really? are you really, REALLY sure about that?" Firion and Shinku nodded while crossing their arms "Yeah! we're innocent!" Shinku exclaimed.
Firion nodded "yeah like Shi said, we were just taking a morning stroll, we had no part in what happened at the hokage monument!" as he finish his sentence the closet next to them suddenly opened up and out fell couple of empty can of paint and inside the closet on the wall "Firion and Shinku hidden prank stash" was written.
Firion and Shinku just stared at the empty cans of paint and at Akemi back and forth. They both grinned nervously while stared at Akemi who's dark aura just got bigger, making them both sweating bullets.
Firion just chuckeld nervously "hehehe...ok maybe it was us, but it was pretty funny prank right?" Shinku nodded "y-y-yeah!" she said.
"Firion, Shinku" Both froze when she said their name while walking up to them and cracking her knuckles very loudly "It's looks like i need to do some discipline once again" she said, making both of them shaking in fear as each steps she takes they could literally feel the ground shaking.
"w-wait now mom we uh-"
"please miss Akemi spare us!"
"Childrens...BE prepared to be punished"
On that day, everyone in Hi no kuni (Land of Fire) heard scream of bloody terror.
[At the Hokage office]
Firion and Shinku couldn't help but be disgruntled of their predicament.
both of them were tied up and had several talisman plastered all over them to make sure they didn't escape or use magic and chakra. Minato couldn't help but sweatdrop of Akemi's way of making sure they didn't do anything. as for Akemi she stood behind the kids with her husband by her side...And several stinky chunins and jounins by the office door glaring at the kids, they weren't happy to see the damn Shrine maiden got them before they could give them their own way of punishment.
Minato just sighed knowing how his men were thinking, it's no surprise they were youkai haters, especially hate foxes more. It's a good thing Akemi and the chunin instructor Iruka always catch them before they did "well Akemi, thank you for making sure nothing TOO drastic happen today and for you guys...Dismissed and please take a shower" the group acknowledge and left while muttering of how they couldn't give those damn youkais rightfully punishment they deserve.
"Now, while it was somewhat humorous prank you kids did but i'm glad it was paint that vanish in few hours you used or else your mother would force you clean all that off the whole day" Minato said.
"Yes lucky indeed" Akemi said while had her arms crossed, Akira nodded and had his arms crossed too "yeah I agree, you better behave and stop pulling too much prank" he said making the kids just look at him with deadpanned expressions.
"...weren't you the one who made a bet we couldn't do it without being notice before everyone wakes up dad?" Firion asked.
No sooner he asked that Akemi immediately grabbed her husband shoulder in bone crushing grip as he tried to run away "really now? well I have to punish him once we come home" Akemi said sweetly while ignoring Akira's plea of stop crushing his bones. Minato just shook his head and chuckled, this isn't the first time his cousin did this and likely won't be the last.
But then he remembered something, he picked up a letter, something that Obito requested a while ago. While he was sad that Obito wanted to quit the shinobi life due to the new council political bullshit and their influence of his only fellow Uchiha left alive in Konoha, He sighed sadly as he remembered the Uchiha massacre that happened years ago.
Minato remembered when Itachi Uchiha came to to him one day, covered in blood and told him of what have happened, Minato have never before been so angry with Danzo for ruin the chance of avoiding bloodshed while he and Saritobi was trying to find a way to stop the incoming Uchiha rebellion. But slaughter nearly every one of them was not of their plan and Danzo took this matter by his own hand by taking Shinzu Uchiha's sharingan of which he has a special ability he could persuade Fugaku stop the rebellion, although he manage to only steal one of his eyes he threathen Itachi that he would have Sasuke killed and the Uchiha rebellion made public.
Itachi knowing that they still haven't recovered from both the war and the Kyuubi attack, if the truth of what his clan plan came out to the public there's is no doubt a Civil war will happen.
Not wanting his village he love so much end up in a civil war and his brother killed by the war hawk he has no choice but to make the ultimate sacrifice. Itachi agreed if only Sasuke is to be spared or else he will make sure Konoha end up in civil war, Danzo agreed and Itachi went to do the horrible deed.
Itachi slaughtered every uchiha all except his younger brother and Obito who happened to be away in Silver creek for a mission. Once the deed was done Itachi wasted no time to inform him. Minato rubbed his forehead when he remembered of what have happened that night, Minato had no choice but to classify the event, make the young Uchiha a missing nin and promised Itachi not to tell Sasuke the truth no matter how much he hated it, needless to say this wasn't the best day that happened nor it wasn't easy for Obito either when he found out
When Obito came back from a mission in Silver creek he heard of the slaughter and tried to find sasuke who survived the event. Sadly it seems the council manage to get their grubby hands on him and used the village law to keep Obito away since Sasuke is a civilian and that the shinobi council have no power over him because of that and he need counselling of the event that transpired.
Since Obito is a shinobi and by their words was not suited to look after the child because of his work, no matter how much Obito tried to show he can take care of Sasuke and that he was suited to look after him since he got friends who could help him but sadly the council wouldn't budge no matter what.
Ever since then Obito began to hate the shinobi life, the shinobi life have taken so much from him, first they took his teammate he happen to have a crush on, second his entire clan except Sasuke was murdered by Itachi and third the constant nagging from the council and even some from the shinobi council want him to marry several girls in order to repopulate the Uchiha clan.
Minato sighed as he kept staring at the letter, he knows that Obito isn't really interested in marry some complete strangers and if the council found out he can use magic no thanks to the magic eye he got from Deeha they no doubt do everything to keep him in Konoha no matter what.
"No doubt if Danzo found out he either tries to kill or capture him" Minato thought as he looked up and sees Akemi untie Firion and Shinku while he sees Akira face planted on the wall, sweatdropping he coughed to get their attention.
"Akemi since you and your family are heading home today, you wouldn't mind give this to Obito" he said while holding the letter up.
"Ah you manage to finish the paperwork for Obito right?" Akemi asked already knows Obito situation. Minato nodded as Akemi took the letter "yes, it's a good thing i finish the paperwork last night or else...well..." "You fear Danzo or someone else would try kill Obito when he's leaving the village?" Minato nodded at her answer.
Akira manage to pull his head out of the wall and turn to his cousin and wife "well it's a good thing Obito going with us, I hear he's looking for a place in Silver creek" he said making Minato nod.
"Yes and i hoped he could go with you and your family Akira, hope you don't mind" Akira just laughed "nah we don't mind, beside he can live with us once he find some nice place to settle in Silver creek" he said.
Firion and Shinku looked excited when they heard Obito is coming with them "what? Obito is coming with us?" Firion asked, Akemi nodded "yes Firion, he's coming with us and no he's not going to help you or Shinku with any pranks you two are planning" Akemi said sternly.
"Aw man"
"you no fun miss Akemi!"
Just then the office door opened up and Kushina along with two young girls walked in, the first girl has blond hair done in twin hair style, tan skin and blue eyes, wearing a black shirt with the Uzumaki swirl on the front and blue shorts, lastly black shinobi sandals. The other girl have long dark blue hair with pale skin and brown eyes, wearing shrine maiden clothing.
these young 10 year old girls were Natsumi Namikaze and Leah Tsukino, young daughters of the Namikaze and Tsukino family.
Natsumi grinned cheerfully "Hiya Dad! did you see the Hokage monument!?" she shouted, making her father chuckle at her cheerfully personality.
"yes Natsumi, surprise you weren't with Firion and Shinku though" Natsumi just huffed "I would but they left without me!" Firion just chuckeld "sorry but we were kinda in a hurry" Shinku nodded "yeah, sorry Natsumi-chan".
"treat me some ramen then i forgive you!"
"u-um Natsumi-neechan isn't ramen unhealthy?" Leah asked shyly, making her both her cousin and her brother look at her in shock "UNHEALTHY!? Leah Ramen is the food of GODS!" both Firion and Natsumi exclaimed rather dramatically, making Shinku, Minato and Akemi sigh and shook their head.
Kushina cheered along with the kids "Yeah like they said, Ramen is the food of gods!" "Kushina please don't encourage them" Akemi said while giving her a deadpanned expression, making her just laugh.
"Speaking of ramen, Fenrir said he was going over to ichiraku ramen stall" Akira said. Akemi got an idea as she called Firion over to him "Firu, can you take this letter with you and go find your brother, once you found him go look for Obito and give him the letter and hopefully he packed everything up before going back home with us" Firion nodded as he took the letter and stuffed it in his pouch.
"You go ahead Firu, i stay with Leah-chan" Shinku said as she perched on Leah's shoulder.
"you sure?"
"Jupp~"
"Well you better hurry up kiddo, we going to leave within an hour so you better find Fenrir and Obito quickly, meet ya in the main village square" Akira said, Firion nodded as he left through the window and flew away.
"Um mommy why is mr Obito coming with us?" Leah asked.
"Obito is quiting being Shinobi and want to start over a new life back home with us" Akemi answered her daughter with a smile, making Leah smile a bit. She actually found Obito really nice and funny, plus he's like an uncle to her, Fenrir and Firion who sometimes looked after them when they were little.
Although Natsumi was saddened when she heard this "whaaaat? big bro Obito is moving away!?" she asked and half shouted. Minato nodded sadly and answered his daughter "yes, Obito want to start a new life somewhere else but don't worry he'll be visiting when he have time" Natsumi just mumbled sadly, sad that big bro Obito is moving away.
Kushina just patted her head "hey don't worry Natsumi, you still have Kakashi and Anko to play with" she said, cheering her daughter up.
"Well let's go back and pack anything we had with us" Akira said, Akemi nodded as both she, Akira and everyone else left the room leaving Minato alone in his office. He sighed as he leaned back to his chair, thinking back about how much have happened these past 13 years have not been very pleasant.
First the riots of villagers blaming the people from Tamriel that lives in Silver creek, believes they were behind the Kyuubi attack despite he told them it was a demon who caused the incident. Second the attempted kidnapping of one heiress of the hyuuga clan by the Kumogakure who wanted a powerful bloodline in their village. Third the Uchiha massacre which caused a huge set back of their military strength.
Needless to say, these past years hasn't been very kind to say the least.
Minato sat in silence until he speak up "sensei...I know you're there" no sooner he said that jiraiya materialize from the shadows, the old pervert just grinned while crossed his arms and leaned back on the wall "Can't seem to hide from you anymore can I kid?" Minato just smiled as he sat straight up.
"well I am the hokage, I must be ready for anything after all sensei" Jiraiya just sighed "just don't forget to take it easy kid, alright?" Minato nodded as he glanced out from the windows, the silence between the two went on for a moment until jiraiya broke the silence "the kid certainly grown up, hasn't he?" Minato nodded with a small smile.
"That he has..."
"Heh, to be honest i expected the kid to be taller but he still looks like a toddler" Minato chuckled "actually you can thank his Youkai growth, apparently from what i Heard from Akemi most young youkai stop aging in certain ages, Once they reach to an acceptable age they stop growing so that their power can properly grow" Jiraiya raised an eye brow and smirked "really? you know, his short appearance can be really useful fighting a large opponent who's not used fighting small fast enemies" he said.
Minato nodded "jupp, but still..." Jiraiya notice Minato drifting off in thought and asked "hey, something wrong?" Minato said nothing for a moment but then spoke "Sensei...what do you know of dreams? you know, like dreaming when you're sleeping?" Jiraiya tilted his head and raised an eye brow at that question but answered it anyway "dreams? well dreams are mostly conjured up by images from the brain when we're sleeping, but why do you ask about something like that kid?".
"...You remembered about the strange fox woman i summoned?"
"Yeah, I remembered that...wait does this have something to do with the dream?" Minato nodded "yes, last night after i was done with Obito's papers i went straight to bed to sleep from all the hard work i did, but as i slept i...i wasn't sure what i saw" Mianto closed his eyes, trying to remember the dream he had "I remember the sky was burning, the land cracked with red large crystals sticking out of the ground, I could hear the scream of the damn in the air...I even saw demonic creatures that i never seen in my life, fighting against humans, elves, deadra hell even angels and many other races that i never seen before. They fought for their lives and yet in the end...they failed"
"Then suddenly the world turn black, a complete void of nothing...After a moment of complete silence there was a small bright light, it got bigger and bigger by the second until I saw a giant heart shaped crystal within a large open space of stars...When i saw the crystal i felt...Peace, something i haven't felt for like forever"
"but suddenly something was wrong, the crystal suddenly had red cracks on it...The cracks became bigger and bigger until the crystal shattered." Minato shuddered "I never forget this feeling, pure horror, despair and agony...like my very existence within me just shattered when the crystal broke"
"then there was a bright flash of red explosion, when the light died down i saw the same woman all those years ago standing in front of me...behind her was the same crystal heart, completely intact like it never shattered to begin with"
"The fox woman smiled at me while held her hand out to me, at first I hesitated but slowly took her hand. The world around me suddenly changed to an open flower field and clear blue skies, before the dream ended she said something to me...she said Be aware of the coming Void, but never fear...Protect the child of destiny, for he has the heart and the will to guide lost souls to peace and then the dream ended" Minato finished as Jiraiya was in deep thought.
Jiraiya was thinking over the strange dream Minato told him about, it is no mistaking it, it's a warning...A warning of something terrible is about to happen.
"Minato, from the description of the dream of yours I would say it's a warning" Minato nodded "yeah i was thinking the same thing Sensei, there's no way it could be a simple dream" he said.
Jiraiya sighed, to him it felt like problems just seem to pile up every day. Ever since the Kyuubi incident problems just kept piling onto them like crazy, first with the riots, the attempted kidnapping, the Uchiha massacre and let's not forget about Orochimaru deserting the village for inhumane experiments.
"Kid, we should be on guard, something bad is heading this way and it all started with that damn demon" Minato expression turn dark, the mere mention of that demon brought nothing but hatred for him. If it wasn't for it Minato could have lived a happy life with his family and maybe...just maybe, Naruto could be living with them.
Minato sighed as he kept staring out over the village, he was the Hokage and it was his duty to make sure his village and it's allies are safe, no matter what. "Hopefully we're prepared to fight this...Void" he thought, but deep down he couldn't help but felt...Fear of mentioning the void.
Unknown to him, a certain fox lady have already made preparation to help them...Even if it means dragging people from her own homeworld to aid them.
[With Firion]
"Alright time to find big bro and hopefully none of the idiots in this village decided to attack me... again" Firion said to himself as he flew over several buildings, looking for the ramen stand.
it didn't take too long to find the stall so he dived down, as he came closed to the ground he slowed his descent as he landed close to the ramen stand entrance. Walking in he was greeted with an middle age man with his daughter making some ramen, and looking to left he saw his brother sitting on one of the chairs while reading a book with an empty bowl placed in front of him.
the teenage boy has black spiky short hair, fair pale skin and deep blue eyes. His outfit is somewhat resemble a samurai look with a red open jacket with short sleeves, a black shirt with long sleeves that ended with pair of red fingerless metal gauntlets. Black pants with lines going down the sides with different colors, the right is red while the left is blue and brown simple belt.
Wearing red boots and lastly a sheated katana tied to his belt.
This young man is Fenrir Tsukino Hakurei, Firion older brother.
Fenrir noticed his brother entering the ramen stand and smiled a bit, he already heard what his brother and his doll friend did and manage to get away from the shinobis without any difficulties. It just showed all the training with Deeha and many others trainers back home have paid off for him "Hey Firu, I see you and Shinku manage to pull your prank successfully" Firion grinned when his brother praised him "yeah but mom caught us in the end" he mutter at the end.
Fenrir just chuckled as he closed his book and sat up "Well either way lil bro, I've to say both you and Shinku are getting better" he said, Firion smiled bit "thanks, but anyway mom wanted me to find you and Obito" Fenrir raised an eye brow "Obito? he's coming with us?" Firion nodded as he said goodbye to Teuchi and Ayame as they left.
"yeah, apparently uncle blondy manage to finish some paperwork, now Obito isn't a konoha shinobi anymore" Firion said as both he and Fenrir walked through the street of Konoha while ignoring the glares from several villagers and passing by shinobi.
Fenrir was surprised to hear that but he can understand why, lately the people of Konoha have suddenly became more hostile than ever and it made everyone back home worried greatly. They heard of the sudden riots at the shinobi village and were even more surprised to hear that they blamed THEM for the Kyuubi attack.
To the people of Silver creek, this accusation felt nothing more but childish blame, like they sought out for a scapegoat to unleash their anger on. But in the end they simply ignored them and even refused to pay the so called reparation bills for damages and death, it was a good thing Daimyo intervene or else there would have been a war between Konoha and Silver Creep.
Fenrir sighed as he scratched behind his head "well i certainly don't blame him for wanting to quit but something tells me the damn council of this place is going to complain again..." Firion just shrugged "ah let them nag, if they tried anything to instigate a war the shinobi council and Uncle blondy will stop them" Fenrir nodded, although he was still worried since humanity have always shown they can start a war by any stupid reasons.
Shaking his head he kept walking as both he and Firion knows that Obito usually hang out with his friends at BBQ restaurant.
They neared the restaurant as they could hear laughter from inside the building, Fenrir walked in first with Firu behind him and making himself look not important. Which is something they usually did when they're in Konoha because there's usually some jackass who simply drank too much and picking a fight with them once they see Firion.
Walking inside they look around and saw Obito with Kakashi, Anko, kurenai, Asuma, Kotetsu, Izumo and Gai.
As they walked over to them they could hear their conversation "As i told the guy take your goddamn money and shove it up your ass you racist f*ck! and ever since then I haven't been sent to any A or S ranked missions for two entire month's" Obito said as he told his friends on some of the missions that didn't exactly go too well.
"Man that have to be harsh, no A and S rank mission for two month?" Izumo said as Asume who sat next to him just took a deep breath on his cigarette, he let out a large puff of smoke until he spoke up "eeyup".
Obito nodded as he finish drinking his tea "Yeah but in the end it was worth it, I gotten a lot of respect from those Khajiit traders for defending them from that racist jackass that they are willing to give me discount whenever i'm at Silver Creek" Anko perked up when she heard this "Traders? you mean the Moonlight Trade company that rivals some of the biggest trading companies that exist in Elemental nations?" she asked.
Obito nodded as he sat back and relaxed a bit, Obito have changed quite a lot these 13 years, his spiky black hair have somewhat gotten longer but didn't reach his shoulders, where he usually wore his shinobi headband to cover his left eye was replaced with a black bandana, he wore a similar jounin vest but it was dyed black with bluish tint on it and underneath the vest he wore a black shirt and black pants.
Wearing black arms guard and dark blue shinobi sandals, lastly he is wearing a belt that held his shinobi pouch for kunais and shurikans, last of all a strange but elegant dagger sheated to his side.
"YOSH! OBITO YOUR PASSION OF UNDERSTANDING AND TOLERANCE BURNS BRIGHTLY! I CHALLENGE BOTH YOU AND KAKASHI TO SUMO!" Gai might exclaimed as he dramatically pointed toward kakashi and Obito, Kakashi just continue reading his icha icha book while Obito just sat on the bench with his head up, not looking at Gai.
three literal seconds later they finally spoke "hmm? did you say something Gai?" this just makes Gai exclaiming "GAH! CURSE BOTH OF YOUR HIP ATTITUDE!" the rest of the gang just laughed.
Kurenai began to notice Firion and Fenrir walking toward them she gave them a small wave "hello Fenrir, hello Firion how's it going you two?" she asked with a smile, the rest began notice our young heroes which makes Gai grinned and gave them two humbs up "YOSH! YOUNG FOX AND YOUNG WOLF IT'S NICE TO SEE YOU TWO ON THIS BRIGHT SUNNY DAY!" Fenrir just smile while Firion tried to cover his ear from Gai's screaming.
"Nice meeting you too Gai-san"
"SUCH POLITENESS!"
Anko smacked behind Gai's head and scolded him "idiot stop shouting, you're hurting little red ears" Gai eyed widen and fell down to the floor and began anime cry with a dark cloud over him "oh no! you're right Anko-san! how could i carelessly not thinking of Firu-kun's safety from my passion of youth!" but then he stood up as his eyes burned while holding a fist out "YOSH I MUST RUN 500 LAPS FOR THIS CARELESSLY ACTION AS AN ACT OF PUNISHMENT!" with that he disappeared in a blur while screaming youth at top of his lungs.
There was a heavy silence in the room as Asume once again let out a puff of smoke and said "eeyup".
Kotetsu just snorted "well that was eventfull" Kakashi nodded as he kept reading "no kidding" he mutters as he flipped a page, ignoring two glares from Anko and kurenai.
Obito just chuckled and shook his head, he turn his attention to the kids and smiled a little "well kids, what brings you here?" he asked "Uncle Minato finished the paperwork for your resigning from the shinobi life" Fenrir answered and gestured his brother to give Obito the letter, Firion nodded and walked over to him and took the letter out and gave it to the Uchiha.
Obito somewhat looked at it in surprise, he expected the damn council continue to fight keeping him here but it seems his old sensei manage to win the fight, shaking his head he opened the letter and read the paper.
He chuckled as he read the resigning paper, not only did his old sensei allowed him to quit the military but made sure that no one from the council is to bother him or else face heavy fine from breaking the new law Minato made, thinking back on that law he can't help but be glad he made it. Every time a shinobi who either grown old or has a family he or she need to take care of, the damn council won't let them and says that it's their duty to continue to serve the village and using the excuse of ending the great war and the kyuubi incident to keep them in the military.
Obito pocketed the papers and faced Fenrir and Firion "well looks like i'll be coming with you now" that got everyone attention.
"Oh? you're finally quitting?" Anko asked.
Obito nodded "yeah about bloody time if you ask me, I had enough of the damn people of this village. Especially the damn council...bloody vultures couldn't even give me a bloody vacation" he mutters.
"Speaking of vacation, I heard your family are going for a vacation in land of Grapes Fenrir, Firion" Kakashi said, making both of them nod "yeah" Fenrir answered "although we're still trying to comprehend why the hell a land is called Grapes but gave up after like five minutes".
"I don't know about you but i don't think we'll have that much fun, i mean it's a land called GRAPES...what kind of idiot names a land grapes?" firion said.
Izumo shrugged "no idea kid, but hey me and Kotetsu were once at some wicked place where we camped when we had our vacation" everyone raised an eyebrow, Obito couldn't help but ask "what were you two doing camping in your vacation?".
Kotetsu answered "well we did stuff..."
"what kind of stuff?" Anko asked.
Izomu says "well..."
[Flashback]
within a large forest valley, a tent was set up near a river and Izomu was cooking their catch of the day.
Rock on a stick.
"ugh, kami...I'm a bloody shinobi and yet me and Kotetsu can't even catch a frickin turtle for dinner!" Izomu grumbles.
This is where I stopped writing, It was after I announced that I was getting sick and tired of Naruto that i just wanted to stop writting any stories about him and his butt buddies of ninjas...sadly because of that the story became affected due to that.
I actually really liked this but I literally can't stand Naruto anymore, so chances are I simply have to re-write the whole thing with another crossover.
but don't lose hope yet, this story might get revived but it certainly won't be the main Naruto crossover that's for sure!