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The Emperor Kage

Chapter 6: Discussion

Normal POV.

The third hokage, Sarutobi had a lot on his mind. First Orochimaru come into Konoha, attack Team 7 and place a curse seal on Sasuke. And now Gekkou Hayate, third examiner of the chuunin exam was killed. The third hokage then decided to hold an emergency meeting with the jounins, ANBU Commanders and some of the chuunins.

"Some people may have heard about this already, but the body of Gekkou Hayate was found near the kikyou castle," The third said.

"What?"

"Hayate?"

"Oh no."

"It can't be!"

"Did Orochimaru kill him?" Anko asked.

"It's too early to conclude that," said Kakashi, "Hayate was most likely after Kabuto, a sound spy. But it is true Orochimaru is trying to pull off something."

"Then we must cancel the Chuunin exam and get Orochimaru!" Raidou stated.

Just as Sarutobi was about to speak, a puff of smoke appeared on the left-hand side of the desk. The jounins all tensed up and waited for the smoke to clear. Then Katsu stepped out from the smoke and said, "No point canceling the Chuunin Exam, he'll just attack Konoha faster."

"Katsu-kun! What are you doing here?" Kurenai asked.

"Kurenai-san! Show Kotashi-sama (crown prince) some respect!" said the female advisor seated on Sarutobi's left side.

"It's alright ma'am. I hated formalities any way." Katsu said.

"Kotashi-sama is right, also he revealed himself to Anko and threaten us not to cancel the exam as the Chuunin Exam is where the ninja of all our allies participate."

"Hokage-sama, cut out with the formalities, besides Orochimaru has enough power to conquer a small country," Katsu said.

"Yes and after leaving Konoha, I'm sure that other countries had their eyes on him," Sarutobi said, "He has a grudge against Konoha, so any country would want him."

"Then can it be that our allies have conspired with Orochimaru to betray Konoha?" Raidou asked.

"Well an alliance treaty is almost equivalent to a verbal agreement anyway," Kakashi replied, "How do you think the Ninja War started?"

"Anyway, we do not have enough information right now. We should not make any conclusions until we find out more." Sarutobi said.

"We have already sent ANBU members on recon…" said the female advisor before Katsu cut her off by saying, "Don't bother! It's rather obvious who Orochimaru is siding with."

Gasps and questions when flying amongst the Konoha shinobis.

"Togu-sama (another slang for crown prince), who, may I ask is siding with Sound?" Sarutobi asked.

"Look at the finalists of the Chuunin exams." Katsu said.

"There are 3 from sand, one from sound, and 5 from konoha so…" Ibiki said while pondering, "OH! You don't mean!"

"Yep! That was your ally… my spies have investigated and found that it was true," Katsu replied.

"Hidden Sand…" Kakashi muttered.

"And don't bother to even try talking Kazekage about it for he sent my messengers away and to send the imperial messenger away is liable to treason." Katsu said.

"Also," Sarutobi said, "I trust all of you. If the worst happen, we will assemble all of Konoha's power and fight."

"Sorry that I can't do much like getting the imperial army here… but I'll help to defend Konoha too! After all, the people of the continent are like the Emperor's children." Katsu said.

Everyone present smiled at the crown prince for what he said just boosted their morale.

Scene change. Naruto's current training area

Katsu's POV

Damn Sand and Sound! Peace is such a fragile thing and you are trying to break it! What the hell is wrong with you people? Do you really like war so much? Oh well time to see how Naruto's doing…

When I got there I saw Jiraiya-sensei really pissed off with Naruto. Naruto then shouted, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" and then he gave a look of success.

Jiraiya and I looked at what what Naruto had summoned. It was a tadpole with 2 hind legs.

"Just die! You have no talent at all!" Jiraiya yelled at Naruto.

"Well… at least he summoned one with legs…" I laughed.

"Yeah! I summoned one with legs so that's progress!" Naruto yelled back.

"YOU IDIOT! Try and summon one with both arms and legs!" Jiraiya scolded him.

"Shut up! It's better than before since it has legs!" Naruto argued back.

"Jiraiya-sensei… calm down… sake and beer is on me…" I said trying to calm my former teacher down.

"And I want RAMEN!" Naruto yelled.

"Well… for summoning a tadpole with hind legs I guess it calls for a celebration…" I laughed.

Scene change. Ichiraku Ramen.

Katsu's POV.

Naruto must really be a ramen freak but I guess it's alright after all how many chances do I get to have a 'eat-till-you-puke' contest? Not a home though… before we could even start eating our beef ramen, Chouji, the king of eating, arrived. At the end of the contest Naruto had 30 bowls, I had 33 bowls and Chouji had 34. Darn it! I lost by just one bowl… but I am just glad that we can spend some peaceful times before the finals…

After saying and waving goodbye to Naruto and Chouji, I headed to the bar where Jiraiya was waiting. We then sat down and I had beer while Jiraiya had sake. (I had my first beer when I was 15)

Jiraiya then decided to start a conversion by saying "Katsu-kun, you do know that war is inevitable."

"Yeah… people are gonna die… Orochimaru is strong… I have a feeling that hokage-sama is not going to survive the war." I said taking a gulp of beer.

Jiraiya stared at me, "You do know that you're underage to drink right?"

"Bah! A little beer don't kill anyone… after all you gave me my first drink when I summoned my first decent sized dragon." I said with a smile.

"You know about Naruto right?" Jiraiya said taking a sip of his sake.

"Yeah… what a burden… so unlike me." I said.

After our 'teacher-apprentice get together' session I headed back to the hotel when I stayed. War is inevitable huh? Then I'll try to reduce the death toll…

And that's all for the sixth chapter! I'll try to update soon! And please read and review so that I can improve the story a little!