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Hello everybody stalkwalker88 here and well we hit 1000 hits!.

And it's only been 2 chapters since we hit 500 hits too!

Thank you all for reading so much and well even though it's not been too long since the last chapter but here is another one anyways thanks for reading I'm happy that this fic is doing okay

Sadly this is a shorter chapter but at the time of writing i wasn't in the writing mood per se so next one will be a lot longer than this one!

again as always thanks to my beta reader anon2619 for making sure this wasn't a grammar crime!

disclaimer I do not own naruto if I did side characters wouldn't get shafted so hard

chapter 6 time is ticking start!

Minato pov

I genuinely hated my job right now. Too much paperwork to start and situations like this really aren't easy to deal with. Well, what was I dealing with? Well, Kumo is pissed about their "ambassador" getting injured in our village even though their "ambassador" tried to kidnap a clan heiress.

They keep denying it even though we have proof and they're pissed about our village "spreading lies and propaganda" even though the evidence against them was concrete.

They are also pissed about their reputation being sullied... again, they really should have known they would have failed... I mean who tries to kidnap a child from a clan full of people who can see through walls?... But to be fair that has been their village's legacy, failing to steal bloodlines... although they did steal the Storm Release completely from the Village Hidden in the Snow and that was the only time they succeeded.

I was broken out of my thoughts when I heard knocking on my door.

"Come in!" I yelled as K saw the door open and saw Shikaku Nara.

"Hokage-sama," the man said.

"Yes?"

"I believe its time to plan for war."

I sighed. I knew this would come soon and I was preparing, although I didn't want another war. "I agree... although I wished we didn't have to do this. Kumo's demanding we give them a Hyuuga and we can't do that and we won't."

"They're trying to restore their lost honor... so the tensions are high right now."

I nodded.

"I propose we put the wartime curriculum back on the academy to prepare the students for war."

"We should also have the jonin and chunin train harder to prepare," I added.

"I was getting to that... but now we should also start testing kids for aptitudes in different fields, like seeing if they're good at fuuinjutsu, genjutsu, ninjutsu, etc."

"That's a great idea why didn't anybody think of that before?"

"I can't answer everything for you, Hokage-sama."

"I know, I know."

"Anyways, for the Jounin and Chuunin we should have them take fewer missions to train more, and then we can also have our Anbu join them too."

"If needed, we can always employ Danzo's Root to take on the more dangerous missions," Shikaku added.

"As much as I would hate to have Danzo's Root help, we need them so our other shinobi can train."

I then asked my secretary to call for Danzo since he would be needed to make war plans before we went to the council.

Takato pov

"You got a summoning contract for ninken?" Hana asked.

"Yeah, the boss summon is a giant two-headed dog."

"Cool…"

Hana was interrupted by our teacher.

"Mizuki vs Takato."

I grinned, it's been a while since we last fought and this time I was ready to win. I pulled my goggles over my face. "Can I keep my chains on me?" I asked, wanting to use them as armor.

"As long as you don't use them offensively you can keep them."

I nodded, I had my chains wrapped around my body like a skullmeramon with my sickles on both sides of my waist and I was wearing a cloak to hide them.

"I stepped up to the ring and took my cloak off. I was ready to win this time. I also deactivated my weights, which were only ten pounds, but once they were off, made me feel lighter than normal.

"Begin, " the teacher said.

'I looked toward my opponent. Mizuki is physically stronger than me, but I'm far faster and I have the sharingan plus I can defend with my chains. All I need to do is hit him hard and fast enough to send him out of the ring; I thought, looking at Mizuki's smug piece of shit face like he thought he was better than me.

"You should just give up, we both know it's going to go the same as last time," Mizuki said.

"No, it won't. I'm going to beat your ass so hard you're going to throw up," I said, with determination in my voice.

"Haha, that's hilarious we both know I'm gonna kick your ass."

"Poor bastard," I heard Hana say from the left of us.

I rushed in towards Mizuki, activating my 1 tomoe sharingan.

Mizuki aimed a punch at my face as I was getting closer, but I dodged and punched his smug face and kneed his sternum sending him flying away, but not out of the ring.

"You got lucky," Mizuki said, spitting out some blood and a tooth, his smug look now missing.

I smiled a happy smile, I wiped that smug look off of his face and knocked out a tooth!

Mizuki ran toward me trying to kick my sternum but my chains blocked him, I then grabbed his leg and punched his ribs... hard.

Mizuki then whilst still in pain, punched where my chains couldn't block, my lung area which hurt a lot.

I, now in pain, kicked Mizuki away who recovered quickly. He jumped up in the air towards me replicating the move I used in our first fight, aiming a chakra-infused fist toward me, but I saw this in slow motion with my sharingan. 'Damn, I love these eyes,' I thought, very happy that i could get my vengeance against Mizuki.

I infused a lot of chakra in my arm and fist. 'Serious Move: Serious Punch', I thought ripping off Saitama and punching Mizuki's face again very hard making him puke up some blood.

"GARRUGHH!" Mizuki yelled intelligibly, before getting sent flying away like team rocket.

But before I could revel in victory, Mizuki got up and rushed towards me in anger, punching my face and kicking my stomach pissed off at me.

I recovered and used chakra all over my body to make myself stronger and rushed towards Mizuki who had one hand clutching himself in pain and the other up in a guard which I slipped past with practiced ease.

I punched Mizuki in the groin again, sending him up in the air and making him wince and groan in pain. I then jumped up in the air after him kicking his stomach and upper cutting him making him bite his own tongue, biting the end off and sending him out of the ring painfully.

"Winner Takato," the teacher said quickly, before taking Mizuki to the infirmary.

"That was awesome!" I heard multiple voices say from around me.

"Haha, you kicked his ass!" Hana howled.

I laughed. "The best part is I got my revenge."

The teacher then came back 10 minutes later with Mizuki in tow and nobody noticed the masked man that disappeared.

Masked Man POV

It looks like my little brother is progressing nicely. He could be stronger but... he is innocent, he shouldn't know the pain of this world. Nobody should. He is still too naive though... but... yes I need to do this so he will never see the pain of the world... and then... I can also see Rin again...

"Madara," some black sludge said.

"Ah yes, Zetsu, what is it?" I asked.

"War is on the horizon. Kumo is pissed about Konoha hurting their ambassador who tried to kidnap the Hyuuga heiress."

"Ah yes, Kumogakure. They always try and fail to get bloodlines from different villages, don't they?"

"Yes and its quite pathetic too, their silly attempts at gaining power."

"And they will soundly lose again as always," I said. "Anyways, how is progress with gathering funds for our cause?" I asked.

"We are about 20 percent there. Kakuzu really is great with saving money!"

"I thought we would have more?"

"Well, Nagato has been using our funds for Amegakure."

I sighed. He did have to feed an entire nation and that wasn't cheap!

"So when will we be able to begin?"

"In about a decade at least, but at most, we will have thirteen years until we start."

"That's going to take a long time, but... we need this to be done efficiently so the wait will be worthwhile," I said, as the black sludge disappeared into the ground.

I then went back to watching. 'Hopefully I get to meet you one day, little... brother...'

Takato pov

"ACHOO! Huh, it looks like someone is talking about me," I said, as i was walking through the streets of Konoha.

People were glaring at me since I was an Uchiha, which they didn't like anymore. 'I wonder when the massacre is going to happen,' was a common thought I had.

But it seems that other than the civilians and some shinobi segregating the Uchiha, everything is fine... for now and besides, I was focusing on training to actually stop Madara... maybe I could convince my brother to go back to the good side...

My thoughts were interrupted when I saw a chibi blonde being fussed over by many civilians and shinobi alike.

"I see. Why naruto looks fucking adorable as a child ... I wonder if he will become like Sasuke in fanon ...'

But I just walked by instead and everybody got out of my way...

What I didn't notice was that the chibi blonde looked at me and decided to follow me in curiosity...

3 hours later

'Today is getting boring,' I thought whilst looking at the nature around me. Truly, nature was awesome and I'm glad I was born in Konoha instead of Suna or Iwa. 'This is what I have to protect one day... my thoughts were broken when i heard a sneeze.

I then turned around and saw an adorable sight.

Chibi naruto... I almost wanted to awww right there, but I wanted to know why he was following me.

"Heya kid, why are ya following me?"

Naruto then looked at me knowing he was caught. "I wanted to know why those people were glaring at you."

'Oh I can't tell him that much he won't understand,' I thought. "Well somebody with eyes like mine caused a bad thing so they don't like my clan much," I said, as lightly as I could, also showing him my sharingan quickly.

"Why would people treat your clan badly if only one person did something bad? That doesn't mean you all are."

I sighed. I was in for a long day. "Well, it's how people are sometimes. They make bad choices and have a bad mentality and think that others are the bad person/thing."

"That's bad though, people shouldn't do that."

"Listen, I know people shouldn't do that, but sadly it's how the world works... but anyways instead of that topic may I ask your name?"

Naruto looked up and smiled. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki!"

"Well, Naruto, my name is Takato now it's getting late would you like me to take you home your parents must be worried about you."

Naruto looked down, sad. "My mom isn't alive and my dad always is at his work late, so I'm home alone."

'Even with Minato alive, Maruto's life still sucks.' I thought, deciding to do my good deed for the day.

"Well, Naruto, how would you like to go get something to eat?" I asked, already knowing where to go.

Naruto looked up and smiled again. "RAMEN!" he shouted in excitement.

"You want ramen?"

"Yes, yes!"

I smiled. I was definitely making the right choice, Naruto needed somebody in his life if Minato isn't around often. I then took Naruto to Ichiraku Ramen which cleaned out my wallet, but it was worth it as Naruto had the biggest smile I've ever seen. He looked really absolutely happy like he was an adult that won the lottery.

"So Naruto, did you like the ramen?"

"Hehe, I loved it. Can we get more soon?"

"Well," i started, then looked at his puppy dog eyes jutsu. "Yeah i can buy more ramen soon but you still have to eat healthy foods too."

"Hooray!"

"Now, I'm sorry to say this, but you have to go home. Your father might be home and worrying about you," I said.

"Ok... lets go."

"Don't worry I'll visit tomorrow after the academy, ok?"

"YATTA!"

'Damn it, it was well worth it to buy that ramen.

I then took Naruto to his home, but nobody was there.

"Bye, Naruto!"

"Bye!"

I then left and went back home.

"Damn though, my poor wallet..."

Chapter end

Alright guys how did you enjoy this chapter i enjoyed writing it even though it is short

We are going to have a time skip next chapter to graduation which is two years and then we are going to meet more characters like takatos teammates and sensei also we will see the thin line of peace in the elemental nations

A few things

1 who do you want takatos teammates to be?

2 what do you think of all the character interactions this chapter short they may be

3 do you all want longer chapters but less of them or more chapters but shorter ones

4 did you all like the different point of views this chapter

finally, do you all want this to be a gen fic or no personally i do want to attempt to write some romance at least for Kakashi

anyways we have over a thousand hits at the time of writing this thank you all for reading i really appreciate it

we also almost have 20k words for this fic and I'm happy

I just want to say I'm aiming for over 400k words for this fic with over 100 chapters which will contain content up to boruto which won't exist in this universe I'm making nor will the alien or reincarnation bullshit(other than takato) i really hated that shit and madara should have been the final villain and Kaguya shouldn't have existed and black zetsu should have actually been Madaras will

Last we almost have 20k words here for this fic next chapter will be the genin exams, graduation, and the true beginning of takatos quest to become the strongest since he will have a jonin sensei

anyways question of the chapter what do you all think of the jiongu personally i think it's underused and overpowered

i think i inflated the word count enough like a fith of this chapter is a/ns and that's not good

stalkwalker out