Collaboration: Fan1One.
Beta: AnarionRising19 and Lord Farsight.
This chapter wraps up the Namikaze-Hyuuga incident. The Japanese-honorifics are dropped.
Minato's heritage is revealed in this chapter. His grandfather's interactions with Minato and Naruto were very similar to with his brother. Beside, Minato and Naruto were both the most proficient in his invented techniques.
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Hokage Office
Nearly ten years ago Tsunade Senju and her apprentice Shizune had been recalled to Konoha, S-level priority. Kakashi Hatake told them that they would be explained once they returned, much to their bewilderment. They coincidentally arrived with Jiraiya, who was equally confused.
Then they were all horrified at what they learned: her cousin and student Kushina's son had been kidnapped along with the Hyuuga heiress, the daughter of her another student Hitomi. She and her perverted teammate Jiraiya were shocked and furious beyond words. How could sensei screw up this badly?
They angrily confronted their sensei about this and even brought up the incident involving their traitorous teammate, demanding answers: how could Sarutobi let this happen under his nose? The two Sannin were then surprised and shocked at what they saw: the Nidaime's prized student couldn't stop apologizing tearfully and it pained them greatly when they saw how old and tired he had become.
It was their first time to see the mighty God of Shinobi broken down like this and it was seared into their memory forever. Then a realization hit both Tsunade and Jiraiya: sensei shouldn't have retaken the Hokage position in the wake of Minato's death and he should have enjoyed his long overdue retirement. But who else could take control of that situation? The Slug Sannin also realized she had a fair share to be blamed for. The Namikaze-Hyuuga Incident and those inhumane experiments wouldn't have happened had she stayed in the village.
Probably. Well, hindsight is always the best. Her presence still couldn't stop the Uchiha tragedy and her student Mikoto's operation failed despite its 66% success rate… due to her fear of blood. Like her sensei she couldn't stop apologizing to her Uchiha student despite Mikoto kindly saying it was alright. Even to this day the Senju Princess still blamed herself for this.
Things couldn't be worse, could they? Too bad fate was a bitch. Those tiresome elders, especially that war hawk Danzo Shimura. He had been cleared and was able to prove he was innocent that he wasn't responsible for the Namikaze-Hyuuga Incident. Yet he and the other two elders were still a complete pain in the ass. They had somehow found out there was a new jinchuuriki in Konoha a few months after her arrival, much to their anger and joy. The anger was for being kept in the dark, and the joy for the security and the good of Konoha.
But… they dropped this bombshell during a council meeting, and then all hell broke loose. Tsunade sighed as she still remembered the heated argument between Sarutobi and the three elders with the civilian councillors. The former ROOT leader had even suggested intensely that the jinchuuriki should receive further training instead of the standard ninja academy to protect Konoha due to the tensions with Iwa and Kumo. The Hokage rejected the idea as Kushina never received the so-called "jinchuuriki training" and she became a splendid kunoichi nevertheless. The Uzumaki even gained the moniker of Red Death in the last war.
A civilian councillor bad mouthed Kushina and her son by calling them demon whore and demon spawn respectively and it touched the Sandaime Hokage's sore spot. Something in Sarutobi snapped and a monstrous killing intent waved the council chamber and directed at that civilian. The dumb bastard was scared to the point he crapped and wet himself before a heart attack claimed his life. This made the rest of the scared civilian councillors and the three elders learn their place: the council was an advisory body to Hokage, and Konoha was a ninja village that was run by dictatorship. Nobody messed with the Fire Shadow.
It pleased her and the rest of the ninja councillors that the God of Shinobi was back. The Hokage immediately and coldly passed a decree: no one could reveal the status of the jinchuuriki on the pain of death. Everything started to turn out for better, and soon all important policies that were essential to the village were passed, including her dream: the Konoha Medic Corps.
However, a few days later the Nanabi jinchuuriki started to pay the price as those damn councillors began their petty reprisals. They circumvented the Third's laws and incited the civilians to abuse her: refusing services and told their children to keep a distance from her.
Poor girl. Fortunately the Aburame heir was always there for her. Then at the encouragement of their parents, other clan heirs and heiresses began to be with her, including that Haruno girl at the Yamanaka's invitation despite her councillor auntie's objection. The jinchuuriki didn't succumb to hatred and didn't lose control. The girl didn't give any chance to the justification to receive Danzo's training.
Last year a boy named Ranmaru came to Konoha. The boy claimed he had been with one of the infamous Mist Seven Swordsmen and that he didn't know the identity of the masked man who killed Raiga Kurosuki. To her and her inner circle's shock, the Water boy came with a fortune in 100 large gold bullions! The scroll contained a letter asking her to take care of Ranmaru and the gold was considered a payment and a gift on the condition she controlled her gambling addiction. With the help from everyone and this kind boy, she finally overcame her fear of blood.
Everyone couldn't help but wonder: who was this generous donor that took out the Kiri swordsman? To her annoyance, Jiraiya made a bad joke that she still had an admirer despite her age before he took his share of punishment. Of course she knew the underneath meaning of that bad joke, and knew that her perverted teammate still loved her… Could he still love her when she cancelled her henge?
The Senju had honoured the requests from the letter to settle her debts. She would try to quit her gambling addiction and would one day return the remaining gold back to that generous donor.
With the encouragement from sensei, Jiraiya, Minato's last student Kakashi, and her other two genin students, the Slug Sannin finally accepted the position of Godaime Hokage in honour of Dan, Nawaki, Kushina, Minato and Naruto. She would become the Fifth Fire Shadow after the Chunin Exam which was coming in two months. She always smiled when Sarutobi and Hitomi often mentioned that Naruto always wanted to become Hokage; Minato and Kushina's kid shared the same aspiration with her lover Dan and her brother Nawaki.
Team Shizune would later be renamed Team Anko after the former became the Godaime's secretary and Anko Mitarashi had been promoted to jonin along with Tsume Inuzuka and Ibiki Morino. Sensei, Jiraiya, Mikoto Uchiha, and Hitomi Hyuuga would become her advisors as Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado retired on her conditions to become Hokage. Oh, she would have loved to have Kushina as her advisor too…
Speaking of Kushina and Minato, Iwa and Kumo had been frantically building up their power when they had learned about their son. Naruto's existence had caused a global panic and it rocked the world. It amused her that Iwa's population threw feasts to celebrate Minato's death for a few hours until the second runner raced home with the shocking news of the Yellow Flash's son's birth. Too bad she couldn't see their expression. Then everything strangely quieted down when the Namikaze-Hyuuga Incident happened. However, Iwa resumed aggressive actions later, evident by the frequent border clashes in Fire Country.
Now Earth Country's borders mysteriously quieted down but there was a large Kumo presence on the Fire Country's northern border and eastern coast several days ago. The Konoha leadership couldn't help but wonder: what was going on?
Jiraiya had left to investigate the incursion. Now with sensei's help she was slowly winning the battle of paperwork and getting accustomed to the job of Hokage. Then a knock on the door was heard that would change her world yet again.
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"Enter!" Tsunade shouted after seeing the Hokage nod while still buried in paperwork.
A few seconds later the Team 7 jonin leader came in with four masked individuals wearing the old black Uzumaki armours, which looked like plated armours on both back and front and additional shoulder plates, similar to the ones the Senju and Uchiha clans wore in the founding of Konoha.
"Good afternoon, Hokage, Team 7 returning from the Wave Country mission, which was supposed to be a simple C-rank mission but turned to a A-rank bordering to an S-rank mission." Kakashi reported and looked at the Sandaime and the future Godaime busy at paperwork. He paused for a moment he didn't want to say that it was borderline to S since the run in with Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki.
"Also with some interesting companions that go by the names of Honoka Uzumaki, Tayuya Uzumaki, Hinata Hyuuga and Naruto Namikaze."
"WHAT!?" Both Hiruzen Sarutobi and Tsunade Senju shouted as they stopped their tracks.
Naruto removed his masks and his friends followed suit. "It's been nearly ten years, Grandpa Hokage. Long time no see, how have ya been?" He looked at Tsunade. "How do you do Aunty Tsunade?"
The Hokage's pipe dropped on the ground shocked to see who they were, while Tsunade Senju dropped her papers to the ground.
'Nawaki?!' The Slug Princess thought her deceased brother had come back to life, but it wasn't her brother after she rubbed her eyes.
Looking at the blond hair, blue eyes, and the six whisker marks on his face, Hiruzen and Tsunade then turned to indigo-haired girl with a pair of lavender-tinted white eyes. They shared the same facial features with the abducted heir of the Namikaze-Uzumaki clan and the heiress of the Hyuuga clan.
"Naruto, Hinata, is it really you?" Tsunade asked.
"Yes, it's us, Lady Tsunade."
"Yep, Pakkun even confirmed that it's them. We bumped into them in Wave Country." Kakashi added with his patented eye-smile.
Hiruzen felt tears coming to his eyes. He couldn't believe it; the two long lost children were finally back despite… they were like teenagers? He had been tormented by the abduction for almost ten years, and now he could free himself from it at last and he could now face Kushina and Minato in the afterlife. Tears started to flow from the his eyes.
Tsunade went to bear hug Naruto since he was the little bit of family that she had left in the world beside Shizune. "You two are nearly 13 years old, but why do you two look like teenagers? You are even taller than me!"
"How about we wait until the Hokage calls for a meeting of the council because we don't want to repeat what we are going to say?" Hinata suggested before she introduced the Uzumaki women. "Lord Hokage, Lady Tsunade, these two are Naruto's fellow Uzumaki clanswomen- Honoka and Tayuya. They dyed their red hairs so they could hide themselves, and thanks to them we were able to escape from our abductors."
"Nice to meet you, Lord Hokage, Lady Tsunade," Honoka and Tayuya bowed respectfully.
The Professor and the Slug Sannin couldn't believe it; the renowned Uzumaki clan of Uzushio was scattered around the world in the Second Shinobi World War. It was done by the Combine which was composed of Cloud, Mist and Rock the three shinobi superpower villages and Grass, Sky and other minor shinobi villages. Besides Tsunade and Naruto, there were additional two Uzumakis now in his office, it was something that the Sandaime Hokage never expected. He only expected that Team 7 returned from their first C-rank mission but no, the mission was upgraded to A-rank and bordering to S-rank. He was curious as to why it turned to S-rank, he and his Senju student would read Kakashi's report later.
"I will assemble the council meeting to inform everyone, everyone will be overjoyed to see the two of you are finally back." The Hokage was preparing to call for the council. He would like this to be presented to just the ninja council, but the civilian councillors would raise hell like that Nanabi incident.
"Lord Hokage, please wait a minute," Naruto presented him a scroll. "It contains the information about our abduction, including those involved."
Hiruzen and Tsunade began to read, and a few minutes later their eyes widened seeing that members from the civilian council and two Hyuuga elders planned this to happen.
"Kumo?" Tsunade gritted. "And these councillors and the Hyuuga elders were behind this?"
Naruto nodded and decided to give them another scroll. "The last scroll will nail the coffin shut."
Their eyes widened to see the Raikage's signature giving the Kumo ambassador instructions on how to execute the kidnapping. The office was filled by massive killing intents that made Hinata, Honoka and Tayuya twitched, and ANBU responded by storming into the room with weapons at hand.
"It's OK. You can all leave." The Sandaime waved his ANBU off. "Please assemble a council meeting in an hour and bring Hitomi Hyuuga as well."
"Hai!"
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Tsunade saw the radiating ruby necklace Naruto held was as large as her grandfather's crystal necklace.
"Aunty, this is the Uzumaki Reclaimer my maternal grandfather created. It contains a mass array of complex seals." Naruto introduced. "Its primary purpose is to help me to find an Uzumaki within the range of 300 meters radius. Its secondary use is to awaken an Uzumaki's potential power and enhance their abilities, so people have a better chance to survive the fields. I'm gonna awaken your potential, so put it on your palm and hold it tightly."
Tsunade felt a small sting on her hand and saw a tiny amount of her blood being absorbed by the stone. She would have freaked out had she not overcame her fear of blood.
"The ruby registers your blood and chakra so it won't tell me to find you again and you will receive a gift. However, in case you go missing, the ruby can extend up to 30 kilometers search radius with my sensor ability for you when I activate it." Naruto explained before the unbelievable happened.
The Sannin was glowing red for several seconds as several red lines snaked on her body, and she felt very hot and had some difficulty breathing. It was temporary as the heat and the red lines receded back to the stone.
Everyone was silent and was holding their breath to see what gift Tsunade had received. The Shodai's granddaughter felt more powerful and vigorous and she deactivated her special henge to see the result by looking at her arms before she grabbed a mirror to see her face. To her surprise, she had no wrinkle nor flaw.
"Is it a dream?" She again performed the necessary hand signs to deactivate her henge for confirmation, "No, it isn't! I feel like twenty years younger! I can't believe it!"
"Wow…" All the present, especially Hinata, the Hokage and Kakashi were astounded by what had happened.
"It seems the longevity trait in your Uzumaki blood has been awakened, Aunty Tsunade." Naruto read the tiny texts appeared on the ruby. "You won't get a special ability or upgrade like Honoka with chakra chains and Tayuya with heal bite. You wouldn't mind that because you are a Sannin, would you?"
"So, what have you gained from the ruby, Naruto?" The curious Team 7 jonin leader asked.
"Wisdom and leadership. The ruby has granted me these two most important things to lead the Uzumaki clan and to look out for their well-beings. But I think the reason I don't gain access to the Uzumaki bloodline limits is that the more potent Namikaze blood… Just like Senju in Aunty Tsunade's case. This also explains why I have blond hair instead of red hair."
"I think I have the answer to that," the Sandaime was smoking his pipe and walking towards the windows to see the Hokage Monument, particularly the giant bust of his sensei.
"I think it's time to let you people know this: Naruto has Senju blood. Tobirama's daughter married a member of the Namikaze clan and gave birth to Minato. She and her husband died in the early stage in the second war and Minato hence became an orphan not knowing about his parents. I told him his heritage when he was promoted to chunin during the wartime and I gave him sensei's scrolls in the hope he could master Hiraishin to win the war."
Everyone's eyes widened at this revelation, they looked the Hokage pictures of the Nidaime's and Yondaime's. Despite the hair colours, but they had strong resemblance in hair style, eyes and facial structure.
Tears started to flow Tsunade's eyes before they fell. She couldn't believe it. Not only was Kushina her cousin, so was Minato.
"Then why?" She asked. "Why didn't he tell me?"
"I don't know. But my best guess is that he wasn't in rush to tell you this because you already had supports from your genin students for Dan and Nawaki. Not to mention he was our trump card in the last war, and he was always away. He planned to tell you after Naruto's birth but he and Kushina were gone..."
It saddened her that Minato didn't connect to be a family with her, but it made her cherish everything she'd got now. Beside Shizune and Ranmaru… Looking at Naruto, Honoka, Tayuya, she had more people to call a family.
Naruto was surprised at his father's heritage as well. 'Is Hiraishin a second Senju bloodline limit beside Mokuton?'
Another question quickly popped up in his mind. 'Then how come the Hokage Guard Platoon could use the jutsu as well?' He found his answer while looking at his surrogate brother and his eye patch. 'A non-Uchiha can still use Sharingan well. There's hope for the Hiraishin. I'll ask the Hokage about my father's and great-grandpa's scrolls later, or I will seek the platoon for help.'
From the windows the Hokage saw the council members arriving at the Hokage Tower. "The councillors have arrived. We'll talk about this later."
As everyone left the office to attend the meeting, Tsunade asked a tower staff to guide Honoka and Tayuya around Konoha, and they would un-dye their hair.
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Konoha Council Chamber
Gently putting her crutch to the side, Mikoto sat on the Uchiha seat after greeting her fellow councillors, including her Hyuuga teammate Hitomi. Everyone was wondering why the Hyuuga matriarch was here; even Hitomi was puzzled why she had been asked to come. The last time she'd been in the council meeting was when the Namikaze-Hyuuga Incident happened.
Mikoto still painfully remembered that emergency council meeting her husband and she attended nearly ten years ago and seeing Hitomi's crying desperate face as Hiashi tried his best to comfort her, even the Hyuuga father was fighting back his tears for their daughter and their surrogate son. The ninja councillors were all shocked and sad, but all remained neutral. The civilian councillors were pointing fingers towards Fugaku and the Uchiha clan for the incident despite both Hiashi and Hitomi's vouching that the Uchihas were not to blame.
This incident and the Kyuubi incident were the catalyst that finally pushed Fugaku into orchestrating a coup which led to the downfall of the Uchiha clan. She was shocked when she read her husband's diary after the massacre: he planned to involve the whole clan in the coup, but only abandoned this idea due to her injury that had sensei Tsunade and Hitomi frequently visiting the Uchiha compound. They had unknowingly saved the clan from total destruction.
After the massacre, everyone turned sympathetic to the Uchiha clan. Civilian councillor Sakiri Haruno had been harassing the Uchiha matriarch boasting her undying loyal support for the great Uchihas. But to her, Hitomi's and Tsunade's frustration, this Sakiri and the rest of the civilian councillors had managed to remove the important history of the Uzumaki clan from Konoha academy textbooks to spite Kushina. The councillor often suggested a marriage between her son Sasuke and the councillor's niece Sakura. She of course knew the intentions behind: exploiting the political situation and the population supports to the councillor's advantage, and to regain the civilian's power in the Konoha leadership.
The Uchiha matriarch politely declined and said that the marriage would be up to the children. But the fawning had become more frequent ever since the children were assigned to the same team. She checked Sakura Haruno's records and found nothing remarkable beside her excellent chakra control and book smart, the latter which was quite practically useless in the field. Not to mention this girl had the typical fan girl attitude that her son held great contempt at. The Uchiha jonin wondered how this kind of girl managed to graduate top and was assigned to be with her and Tsume Inuzuka's sons and a top jonin.
Turning to the direction of the Shimura clan seat, she cast a glance on the clan head and… the architect behind the massacre. The Sandaime Hokage had privately told her that the Nanabi jinchuuriki was supposed to arrive in Konoha a few months after the massacre, but he deliberately delayed the schedule to ensure the Uchiha clan's safety from the warhawk, to honour her eldest son's wish.
Her reminiscing stopped when the chamber doors opened, the Hokage and her sensei Tsunade came in, followed by her son's jonin sensei Kakashi. What caught her and other councillors' attention was the two following masked individuals in old Uzumaki armours, which the civilians failed to recognize. Everyone in the chamber watched in awe that the taller one, a katana strapped on his back, was radiating a regal aura.
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The Hokage gave the council a formal greeting after he and the future Godaime took their seats, while Kakashi and the two masked individuals stood behind the Senju princess.
"I called this meeting because of some information I have come across shows that some people in this very room are traitors and they have committed high treason." Hiruzen announced with anger in his tone.
'What is going on?' Everyone hearing this coming from the Hokage wondered, even Danzo, Homura and Koharu shared the same thought.
"Traitors? Who?" Jiro Matsumaru wondered aloud what was going on, while his fellow councillor Sakiri Haruno looked at Tsunade wondering if this was a stunt that she was trying to pull to suppress the civilian council's power further in the village.
'I can't afford to lose the chance. Sakura is close to Sasuke. Once the boy becomes the Uchiha clan head, I will know everything that goes on in Konoha, and I will have the wealth, power, honour when she marries him!' She turned to the ninja side, certainly someone from that side was a traitor.
"The traitors are involved in the abduction of two very important children in Konoha nearly ten years ago," Tsunade said venomously as she nodded to the two children who removed their masks. Once the masks were off everyone gasped and eyes widened, they thought their beloved Yondaime had come back to life.
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, son of Minato Namikaze the Yondaime Hokage and Kushina Uzumaki the Whirlpool Princess, the heir of the Namikaze and Uzumaki clans and the Land of Whirlpool."
"I am Hinata Hyuuga, daughter of Hiashi and Hitomi Hyuuga, the heiress of the Hyuuga clan."
Everyone was stunned in disbelief except Hitomi who was quickly walking to them, her hands covered her mouth and tears were running down her cheeks. The Hyuuga matriarch did not believe at what she saw: the girl in front of her bore a strong resemblance to herself despite her eldest daughter was supposed to look like a pre-teen.
"Hinata? Naruto?"
"Yes, I'm Hinata/Naruto." The children both nodded. Hitomi took both of Hinata's hands in hers, looking at the young girl's face and pale lavender eyes. Yes, the girl was definitely her own flesh and blood.
"Hinata!" She engulfed her daughter in a tight hug, crying in joy to see her alive and fine. "I missed you so much my baby girl! Kami knows how much I missed you! Thank Kami you are safe!"
"I missed you too Mother!" Hinata was crying too. She felt a pang in her heart when she noticed her parents had aged as they had a few strands of white hair.
"Hinata…" Hiashi quietly joined to hug his daughter with tears in his eyes. He was fighting hard to keep his dignity as not to cry in joy in front of the people.
While everyone was watching the reunion of parents with their daughter, Naruto smiled in relief. He finally brought his Hinata back to her parents, nothing else could describe this happiness as this burden was lifted from his shoulders.
Hinata was finally home. Kurama was congratulating him and all his hard work and sacrifice had finally paid off, he was so glad it was done. Kakashi put a hand on his shoulder and complimented him silently with his eye smile, proud of what he had done. The Hokage and the Slug Sannin were also smiling complimenting him, and he smiled back to thank all of them.
"How it happened?" Hiashi broke the silence. Naruto answered by giving him a scroll and the Hyuuga clan head began to read it.
"The Kumo ambassador kidnapped Hinata and Naruto, and it was the Raikage behind it all." Hiashi said while Jiro and Sakiri started to pale. He continued to read more down the scroll. "These two councillors were responsible as they provided critical information and assisted the kidnapping. You got drunken mobs to stir up trouble so the Uchiha police was distracted. The Raikage's memo says Jiro sold Naruto as the Kyuubi to Kumo for hefty amount of money, and Sakiri just wanted to get rid of Hinata so her niece could get closer to the heir of Namikaze and Uzumaki clans."
The incriminated councillors trembled at the killing intents coming from the ninja councillors, even the most stoic elder Danzo was releasing a monstrous amount of killing intent and fury. A wet spot appeared on Jiro's pants.
Hiashi Hyuuga looked at the pink-haired councillor with murderous eyes. "Sakiri, you had my daughter kidnapped while some of my clan elders helped you?"
The Haruno was trembling heavily as every ninja in the chamber was directing their killing intent at her and her fellow incriminated councillor. Her crime in the past now came back to bite her in the butts.
"YES! Sakura told me Minato's boy always hung around with your daughter, while she never got a chance to even talk to him! And your elders wanted to get rid of her because she was obviously against the Hyuuga TRADITIONS!" She shouted as she lost it. Everything she had planned for was ruined.
"That's it. ANBU, arrest Sakiri and Jiro and take them to Ibiki." The Hokage ordered coldly. "All those involved will be sent to death row after the interrogation."
The ninja councillors watched with no sympathy while the civilian councillors watched in horror as the two incriminated civilian councillors were led away. It pleased the ninjas councillors to see the corrupted councillors being dealt with. Tsunade would drop another bombshell later, to finally rid herself of those civilian councillors once and for all. Hiashi passed the scroll to the jonin commander Shikaku, the latter shook his head in disappointment seeing how everything was done.
"Thank Kami that they have returned home safe…" Mikoto muttered to herself while wiping a tear off her face. "I will help and protect your son Kushina… I WILL." And she was angry at the Haruno councillor who first accused the Uchiha clan in the Namikaze-Hyuuga Incident, then started to kiss ass after the massacre.
Hearing his mother's name, Naruto turned to the source and noticed a crutch next to who he recognized as his Uchiha aunty.
'So the rumour is true that she's crippled in the massacre.' Naruto thought about his mother's friend. 'Then I have to ask Tayuya for a favour. Yeah she's gonna complain about this.'
Homura adjusted his glasses. "Is it really true that you've been held captive in Kumo all this time?"
Naruto and Hinata turned to look at the elder before turning to Hiruzen who nodded. The Hyuuga nodded and decided to tell her part first shocking everyone.
"Sex slave? You were a slave for the purpose of breeding there? My Kami!" Hitomi was shocked and horrified that her daughter had been treated like a slave and a breeding stock.
Hinata nodded but smiled at Naruto. "Yes, Kumo uses females as breeders so they can have even more ninjas with bloodline limits." This news greatly disturbed everyone in the chamber, only Danzo remained unfazed.
"They wanted to reproduce Byakugan through me, and they wanted to breed Hiraishin and Uzumaki high chakra reserve and chakra chains through Naruto. Fortunately, Naruto found me when we were nine years old, and he used his high ranking to protect me from harm and we've been together ever since. Naruto had been a Kumo jonin since at the age of nine."
'Nine!?' Everyone thought astonished. 'Kakashi is the youngest to become a jonin, but Naruto is even younger!'
Then it's Naruto's turn to tell his story starting how he was a Kumo ninja and how he was able to recover his sealed memories by destroying the seal, but he deliberately left out the detail of receiving help from the Kyuubi no Kitsune.
"Jinchuuriki… do you have any control of the Kyuubi by any chance?" Danzo leaned forward on his cane. He was very, very interested at what Kumo did to the Konoha's jinchuuriki, or his jinchuuriki.
"Kid, you better watch out for this guy. He is Danzo Shimura, and he was the one to suggest an assassination on B. Your parents had mentioned that he was very dangerous. To what level, I don't know, I can't even sense his malice." Kurama warned. "He is definitely not the one to be trifled with."
"Yes, I have control of the Kyuubi no Kitsune, as I received trainings from Kumo's jinchuurikis…" Naruto answered.
Tsunade stopped him before he went any further, and the Yamanaka clan head raised his hand.
"How did you escape?" Inoichi asked. Hinata smiled and told the tale of their escape as everyone listened intently: Naruto used his shadow clones to place advanced explosive tags all around Kumo, destroying almost every military infrastructure.
"Yes, I visited Uzushiogakure to use her techniques and equipment for our escape." Naruto reluctantly admitted and sighed inwardly when elder Koharu and other ninja councillors bombarded him with questions about the Uzumaki armours and seals they used.
"There was a tunnel created in fear of the invasion led by the Yellow Flash in the last war and we used it to evacuate as many slaves as possible." Hinata concluded and skipped the part about those ex-Kumo ninjas and their families to protect them.
Everyone was shocked at the facts Naruto sealed the jinchuurikis of the Nibi and Hachibi in a space-time world and nearly killed the Raikage twice. He drove Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki away in Wave Country. Mikoto winced at the mention of her eldest son, while Hiruzen's pipe fell on the floor. Nearly killing a kage and held off two S-rank ninjas were incredible, no one in the age of 12 could do this!
All even Hinata were confused when Naruto left a cryptic message "I will play tic-tac-toe on the Raikage next time I meet him."
"Wow, that's quite a tale, Naruto, Hinata. Kumo kidnapped children with bloodline limits from Water and Earth Countries, especially Water, to increase their numbers with bloodline limits... Sort of the exact opposite situation with Kiri." Tsunade commented.
"Yeah, but let's just say Kumo learned a very hard and painful lesson."
"What do you mean?"
"Lady Tsunade, please read it." Hinata gave Tsunade a report that she, Asuka and Sayuri wrote prior the escape.
The world's best medic took the report and read the first line before doing a double take. "Wait. You both took growth acceleration drugs? Is that the reason you look like teens? And the fertility pills? Some of the ingredients are unknown and might not be safe! What is the Kumo leadership THINKING!?"
Tsunade continued to read down the lines about what Naruto did. "The ingredients you put into the factory and the water supply… You sterilized all Kumo's slaves and ninjas?"
"No" was Naruto's answer and it made a few people raised eyebrows. "Most of the shinobis and kunoichis who have been taking those pills. I guess slightly over half of the takers were sterilized." Everyone's mouth dropped open. Even the lazy jonin commander was awed.
"Kami… You destroyed a generation of shinobi for Kumo, maybe even two." Shikaku said.
"I sterilized them, especially the slaves because I don't want to see any more rape babies and more suffering. You have heard that Lady Tsunade has mentioned the pills are dangerous, so I personally punished everyone involved in the pill production, the Kumo leadership and those professionals saying the drugs being harmless, but they didn't take the pills. They are hypocrites, so I personally snuck into their houses and drugged their food and drink. I've made sure I sterilized every one of them and their families. I even sterilized their children and babies by applying Leech seals on them. It's an Uzumaki fuinjutsu which seals an organ's abilities, in other words, I sealed their kids' reproduction abilities." There was steel in Naruto's tone. "The only necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing, and too many innocent people have suffered and died while these assholes enjoy and exploit it. I punished the Kumo leadership by castrating their lines. I hit where it hurts. I also mixed the female growth acceleration drugs in the Raikage's exclusive vitamin supply. A little payback for him treating females as baby factories, don't you agree? Too bad I can't see his face when he realizes he has boobies and his voice feminine…" There was an evil smirk on the blond's face.
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Said scar-faced man in Kumo had begun to wear reserved clothes yesterday before, not showing his abs and manly chest anymore, much to the bewilderment of his ninjas.
C and the rest of the staff often wondered why their leader was very quiet, until the shocking report of the Akatsuki's failure reached Kumo.
"FUCK!" The Raikage screamed in a girly voice much to the shock of everyone. He had a pretty good guess that who was responsible for this. His rage had reached sky high, and it was gonna take a while to reverse the effect.
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Everyone was shocked at what the blond did: the Kumo leadership clans would be extinct when their last child passed on in the future. There was an awkward silence across the chamber as the males here mentally cupped their crotches at the word of castration and what Naruto did to the Cloud clans. Even Hiashi and Shibi Aburame looked slightly uncomfortable.
"Impressive, but I'm disappointed too."
"Huh?" Everyone turned around to look at the owner of that voice.
"Care to explain?" Naruto narrowed his eyes looking at the mummied man, who narrowed his one eye at him in return.
"I'm very impressed at your abilities as a ninja, I give you credit for that, and I accept the fact you failed to destroy Kumo R&D Center. But why didn't you kill the Kumo jinchuurikis when you had the chance? WHY? You just sealed them temporarily instead. Don't you know killing them could have crippled Kumo permanently? Won't that be much easier to convince them to surrender?"
There were murmurs among the civilian councillors, even the other two elders Koharu and Homura narrowed their eyes and gave the whiskered blond a questioning look.
"Those two jinchuurikis are my teachers and our saviours, and they helped us a lot." Naruto defended his action. "If it wasn't for them, then the Raikage might not have let me take Hinata in the first place. It was only thanks to them that we weren't forced to become parents as soon as possible. Kumo would have loved to have us producing future super soldiers that might have all abilities: Hiraishin, Byakugan, chakra chains and high chakra reserve. Thanks to them we were able to avoid that fate, so I spared them. It was my way of showing gratitude for what they had done for us."
The reasons were utterly rubbish to the Darkness of Shinobi who had no problem ripping an eye out of a loyal Konoha ninja and nearly succeeded at another eye, not to mention the person was the family of one who had saved his life on several occasions in the past.
"You let your personal feeling ruin the chance? There is no doubt that the Kumo jinchuurikis will be against us one day. What if them refuse to surrender and holds on until their jinchuuriki return? Are you really that optimistic and naive?" Danzo shook his head in disapproval. "You failed to look at the bigger picture and you have endangered Konoha. You greatly disappoint me, boy."
All people were worried as the argument could escalate. Naruto's fists clenched and he was very upset, but somehow he felt the elder was right. He had planned to use the Flying Thunder God technique to pressure Kumo to surrender, but the plan was ruined with the destruction of his parents' house.
The Third Hokage quickly came to his surrogate grandson's defence. "That's quite enough, Danzo. In case you forget, Minato spared the jinchuuriki to the Hachibi in the last war. So can you say your Yondaime Hokage disappointed you?"
'Tsk,' Danzo was annoyed but it did shut him up for good.
Naruto took a deep breath. "I sealed the two Kumo jinchuurikis with my space-time technique as long as possible, but we might not have enough time due to the incoming Chunin Exam in Konoha in the next two months. My conscience, however, wouldn't allow me to kill my teachers whom Hinata and I owe a lot to. But Elder Danzo is right in a sense: the hidden Cloud village might come to Konoha with their two jinchuurikis for revenge one day, so me and my Uzumaki clanswomen will stay and help protect the village until this Kumo matter is dealt with. I'll discuss with my clanswomen about our future."
The blond's expression became weary after the long debriefing. "Is there anything else we need to talk about? I think we can all go now. I want to deal with those Hyuuga elders and hire contractors to rebuild my parents' house with their money."
The mention about his parents' money made the rest of the civilian councillors very nervous, which made him raise an eyebrow and a word "What?"
"A large portion of the Namikaze's and the Uzumaki's fortune have been used to fund various Konoha's programs and probably the councillors' businesses and their election campaigns. They said the sole heir of these inheritances, namely you, was gone." Tsunade dropped the little bombshell. The Slug Sannin had to tell her nephew the fact that these greedy bastards took his inheritance for their own uses.
It pleased her to see the pale faces of those civilian councillors as they were scrambling for cover, and she felt sorry for upsetting her nephew. It's better than later and she could restrain him from killing the civilians now.
Everyone felt a wave of killing intent and bloodlust from Naruto, so strong that the Slug Sannin and the God of Shinobi were slightly affected but they didn't show it. All the civilian councillors passed out with foams in their mouths and wet spots on their pants, and a squad of ANBU stormed into the council chamber.
"What the fuck…" Naruto hissed in low voice and his fists were shaking, not caring about the profanity in the council. "My parents' house is gone. My inheritance was stolen. Not to mention the Uzumaki clan is long forgotten in Konoha academy history. You treat me and the Uzumaki clan like shit…"
He pointed his finger at the accused. "YOU FUCKING CROOKS!" He nearly launched a shockwave in the council chamber. He furiously put his right hand on the hilt of the Arashi, ready to cut down those thieves literally. It took all the combined efforts of his lover, aunty, surrogate brother, and future parents in law to stop and calm him down.
The Hokage along with the rest of the ninja councillors were saddened to see the distress and the fury of Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze. Rats were infesting Konoha and those people had committed treasons and spat at Minato and Kushina's memory. The civilian council was established to support the war efforts in the last war. It was supposed to be dissolved when the war ended, but those civilian councillors used the crisis of Minato's death to prevent the dissolution until the Sandaime put them in their place three years ago.
These shenanigans ended today. Hiruzen Sarutobi couldn't imagine the ensued chain reaction, but sometimes you have to cut to heal. Beside he and his second successor would never need to worry about the civilians trying to regain power. Seeing those passed out civilian councillors being carried away by ANBU, he made a proposal. "With Jiro Matsumaru and Sakiri Haruno being responsible for the Namikaze-Hyuuga Incident, and the entire civilian council embezzled the Namikaze and the Uzumaki accounts, I move a vote to have the civilian council permanently dissolved. The money, or the businesses funded by the Namikaze or the Uzumaki money, will be returned or given to Naruto."
The future Godaime added her proposals after she and the others managed to calm down Naruto. "I also propose a full criminal investigation on the academy system and restore the Uzumaki history to the public. Lastly, we should recognize Naruto as the clan head of the Namikaze and the Uzumaki clans and we should grant him the councillor seats as the representative of the two clans."
The ninja councillors unanimously agreed all the proposals, including the representatives from the Shimura, Utatane, and Mitokado clans. Naruto would have two seats in the Konoha council as a representative of the Namikaze and the Uzumaki clans. The return of the Yondaime Hokage's son would be announced to the village tomorrow.
It pleased everyone, especially Tsunade on the facts that everything was now back in order and the future council meetings would very much more productive. The future Godaime Hokage promised that she would help her nephew as much as she could.
"Very well, then this meeting is adjourned. I'll send a messenger monkey to Jiraiya to investigate Kumo and strengthen the patrols on the northern border." The Hokage rose from his seat and everyone followed suit. "We will continue tomorrow to discuss the incoming Chunin Exam and how we should deal with the hidden Cloud village."
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After all the other councillors left, Hiashi and Hitomi stayed and bowed deeply to Naruto for saving and protecting their daughter.
"Thank you for protecting our daughter," the Hyuuga couple bowed again. "There is no word that can describe our gratitude to you. We are forever in your debts."
"Nah, it's alright. I'm very happy that Hinata is finally back home and to her parents, Lord Hiashi, Lady Hitomi." Naruto was rubbing the back of his head and grinning like a fox. "Every sacrifice is worthy for this."
Hitomi took a deep breath breaking the atmosphere. "So my little Hinata has a boyfriend?" She was smiling and giggling at her daughter's shocked and blushed reaction. "Oh sweety you think you can hide it from me? Besides from the way Naruto is standing very protectively of you, I assume I'm right." She giggled again.
Hinata smiled and nodded as she held hand with her lover.
Kakashi flipped a page of his precious orange book and was giggling. Perhaps Lord Jiraiya could find a very good material from his godson for Kakashi's beloved novel series. The one-eyed jonin lightly elbowed his surrogate brother. "Say, you mind telling us what base you two are up to now?"
Everyone was confused that the two lover birds blushed as red as tomato and they were stammering. A bad chill ran down Naruto's back for some reason. Everyone in the room realized something not quite right.
"Home run?" Kakashi asked, didn't realize he had created a big trouble to his surrogate brother.
Hiashi's mouth dropped and the blond was sweating bullets. They were just 12 years old for Kami's sake, but the adults forgot the environment they grew up in.
"HE TOOK MY DAUGHTER'S INNOCENCE?" The Hyuuga patriarch was struggling to break free of his wife's and the Slug Sannin's holding. He wanted to strangle the blond despite the Hokage's presence. Naruto took three steps back. A protective father was very scary, and he wondered if he would be like this when he had a daughter.
"SIR! I REALLY LOVE YOUR DAUGHTER VERY MUCH!" Naruto immediately bowed deeply to Hiashi. "I am going to ask you both for the hand of your daughter!"
This shocked everyone even Hinata: Naruto was going to marry her. The Hyuuga princess blushed and her mind was filled with images of their wedding and they both cladded in traditional wedding kimonos, exchanged vows.
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Thirty Minutes Later
Naruto, Hinata, her parents, Tsunade and an ANBU squad were walking to the Hyuuga compound. There were a lot of things needed to do, starting tomorrow. The most important was that he would search for the whereabouts of his parents' and his great-grandfather Tobirama's scrolls.
Hiashi had agreed to let Honoka and Tayuya stay in the Hyuuga compound. Hitomi had informed Hinata had a sister, and the girl was shocked and couldn't wait to see her little sister.
"Aunty, you are a powerful Sannin and you regain your youth, but I still need to remind you that you need to be careful." Naruto advised Tsunade. "You don't have Wood Release but your children might have it. Kumo or any other interested parties might come to you to gain access to Mokuton, like Kurotsuchi's case they had hoped to gain access to the powerful Dust Release."
"Got it kid," Tsunade answered with a smile to Naruto, who smiled back.
Now they had reached the clan compound gates. The blond casted a glance at the Branch family bodyguards and gate guards and understood why they always wore forehead protectors on their foreheads: the vile seals they couldn't remove without death.
There were kanjis above the gates: Hyuuga, which meant "Towards the Sun." It was ironic to the name of the clan, which had a dark and ugly tradition. Hinata wasn't the only one the Hyuuga elders wanted to get rid of, they were more desperate to get rid of Naruto.
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Ten Minutes Later, Hyuuga Compound
"A clan meeting now?" Hizashi asked his brother. The younger twin brother wondered why Hiashi was so quiet, and his stern face showed something was going to happen.
"Go get everyone," Hiashi said in a cold voice. Just thinking what Naruto and Hinata reported made his blood boiled that someone from his family would do such a treasonous thing. It took thirty minutes to get the clan meeting chamber filled but everyone noticed a squad of ANBU.
"Lord Hiashi, what is the meaning of this? Why are ANBU here?" An elder asked.
"Perhaps Lord Hiashi decides to make Hanabi the heiress of the clan," another elder guessed.
Hanabi smiled and frowned. She's happy being acknowledged by the elders who groomed her to be the heiress of the most powerful clan in Konoha. The young girl didn't like the harsh ideology on the Main/Branch family in the clan either, but she chose to accept it and people's pre-destined fate.
Hiashi and Hitomi had told their younger daughter about her long-lost older sister. Hanabi had seen her toddler photos with the Yondaime Hokage's son and they seemed happy together until they disappeared ten years ago, two years prior her birth. It saddened her that she never saw her sister and she often wondered where and how they were now. The elders however simply told her to forget about her sister, like she simply didn't even exist.
Her thought was stopped when her father turned to the ANBU squad and pointed at elders Kakuei and Noboru sitting next to her.
"High treason. It seems you took your petty revenge on Naruto Namikaze by colluding with councillors Jiro Matsumaru and Sakiri Haruno to have him and my daughter Hinata kidnapped." Hiashi spoke, fury abundant in his voice.
"WHAT!?" Everyone in the room was shocked to hear this while the ANBU squad immediately restrained the two elders.
"This is a false accusation!" Kakuei protested. "Where is the proof?"
"I am the proof," Naruto walked into the room in his Uzumaki armour. He looked at the elders responsible for this. Everyone looking at him was shocked to see him while others have their Byakugan on thinking someone had henged into the Yondaime Hokage or a genjutsu.
"No jutsu, I'm real and so is someone else."
Hinata walked in with her mother and Tsunade, again shocking everyone in the room.
"Based on the Raikage's memo, you requested the Raikage to seal Naruto's memories and hoped that he would die on a battlefield and Hinata wouldn't be strong enough to survive there. ANBU, take them to Ibiki." The Slug Sannin ordered.
The elders made ANBU release them by juken their arms before they charged murderously towards Naruto with their Byakugan active.
"You brat must die for the good of the Hyuuga clan!"
Before they took another step, Naruto Namikaze disappeared in a yellow blur and took out an Uzumaki dagger. He slashed X-shape on each of the two elders' faces, careful not to damage their eyes. The elder screamed in pain as they were holding their bloodied faces and the blond used this opportunity to slash-destroy their clothes above their waists before slapping his hands on their chests.
"SEAL!" The blond seal master shouted as he put fuinjutsu on the Hyuuga elders and activated them. It shocked everyone that the elders' eye colour turned from white to brown and the veins around their eyes retreated quickly.
"My Byakugan!" The bloodied-faced elders tried to activate their precious bloodline limits but to no avail. "I-I-I c-can't activate my Byakugan!"
The scene terrified every Hyuuga that the elders lost their Byakugan. 'Their Byakugan are sealed! Without death! How can it be possible?'
"This is the real reason you want to get rid of me: for I am an Uzumaki, a clan which is proficient in fuinjutsu. You fear that I can remove those seals on the Branch members' foreheads with ease." Naruto said as he kneed each of the elders in the stomach and knocked them out. The ANBU squad then took them to Ibiki for good.
"The elders will be made a good example and this's why I called for this meeting. I want this be a lesson to everyone to think twice about committing treason." The Hyuuga clan head pointed at his eldest daughter. "As of right now Hinata will resume her duties as the heiress after a few complications have been taken care of. Meeting adjourned."
Just as Hiashi finished his address and people were about to leave. There is a shout "Big Sister!" It was his younger daughter dashed towards his older daughter, surprising everyone.
Hanabi had been awed by the aura radiated by this mysterious and beautiful Hyuuga teen when she entered the clan meeting room. The aura was of strength and beauty, not to mention the teenager wore armour, a bow and a quiver on her back, and two elegant daggers behind her waist. She was a beautiful and a true warrior in her eyes, then the young Hyuuga was shocked to learn that this teenager was her long-lost sister. The little girl couldn't suppress her joy anymore. She ran and hugged her sister never minding what the elders would think of or not caring that this could make people talk or frown.
'Is this cute little girl my sister Hanabi?' Hinata hugged her sister in return and noted that she had a strong resemblance to their father. Their mother Hitomi and uncle Hizashi were proud and happy knowing Hanabi was the type to break from the Hyuuga emotionless facade.
People were leaving the meeting room. Naruto was greeting his lover's sister, and he sensed strong malice coming from many of the Hyuuga Main members. They were shooting virulent glares at his back for the stunt he pulled but the blond played ignorant.
'Whatever.'
The Hyuuga Branch members cast one last glance at Naruto with hope. They grew up branded for a life of servitude, and freedom was a dream to them as it was impossible to remove the seals on their foreheads unless death. His demonstration on the two elders showed that it's highly possible the young fuinjutsu master could remove the seals on their foreheads. Many of them absentmindedly touched their foreheads and believed what the blond could bring them.
Salvation.
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"What does Hiashi want?" Naruto asked as he dropped his Arashi katana to the floor, relaxing and preparing for his future father-in-law.
All people except him had left the meeting room. Hinata and her mother and sister went back to their house; the three ladies were happily spending time talking, enjoying their reunion, and making up the lost time while waiting for Honoka and Tayuya. Tsunade had gone back to the Senju compound as Shizune and Ranmaru would arrive home this evening.
But Hiashi told the blond to stay in the meeting room.
'Is Hiashi going to lecture me about my behaviours at the Village Council and the Hyuuga Clan meetings?' He wondered. Hinata's innocence was the last thing he thought his future father-in-law would bring up, and the Namikaze wasn't aware of the impending doom.
Naruto didn't know that Hiashi went back to his house to don his battle attire and grab his family heirloom sword to have a serious talk with him.
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Fifteen Minutes Later
Natsu Hyuuga, Hanabi's caretaker, was taking Honoka and Tayuya to the Hyuuga compound at Hitomi's request. Their hair had returned to their original red colours and had attracted many males' attention and whistles while they were on their way to the compound.
To their surprise, they saw Naruto was jumping from roof to roof very fast. He seemed panicked.
"Come back here!"
The three ladies heard a male voice and saw another man running in the same direction, with a sword in hand.
"Who is he?" Honoka asked while taking out her daggers. She and Tayuya were going to help Naruto, only to be stopped by the young Hyuuga woman.
"Stop! That's Lord Hiashi, Lady Hinata's father!"
The Uzumaki girls paused at this revelation and this made them wonder why the Hyuuga clan head was in hot pursuit of Naruto with a sword. What did Naruto do to incur the wrath of the Hyuuga patriarch?
Naruto cursed that he left his katana at the Hyuuga clan meeting room, as he hand-clapped Hiashi's sword before he resumed running for his life and his "little Naruto." Heck, even with his weapon, this was far more terrifying than facing Kisame, Raiga and any other powerful sword fighting opponents. The Kyuubi no Kitsune bent over and was laughing his ass off at his host's predicament. The blond heard his future father-in-law was cursing and shouting at him to stay still.
"Give me a break!"
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Late Evening, The Supposedly Disbanded ROOT Headquarters
Danzo Shimura had issued orders to several agents of his to monitor the jinchuuriki to the Kyuubi no Kitsune, to dig more information about him. It's obvious the boy didn't tell the council everything.
The ROOT leader had been furious that the councillors and the Hyuuga elders sold the weapon to an enemy village, and nearly let them gain access to Konoha's most invaluable abilities: Hiraishin, Byakugan and chakra chains.
For this, they had to die.
He regretted that he disposed of his most competent spies the Yakushis as they had the best chance to locate the Konoha's jinchuuriki and then they could have reclaimed him. On the other hand… it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The war hawk smiled at the fact that Kumo just did Konoha a big favour.
It was the first time Konoha could have a fully realized jinchuuriki, and it was too good to pass up. Despite Minato's boy nearly killing the Raikage and managed driving off Itachi Uchiha and his Mist Swordsman partner, he still wondered how powerful the jinchuuriki was.
With the Nanabi and the Kyuubi at hand, Konoha would definitely dwarf Kumo, which had the Nibi and the Hachibi. Konoha would be far more powerful if the ruling clan of the unofficial sixth superpower, namely the Uzumaki clan, joined the village. The ROOT leader was very interested in that Leech seal technique that could seal an organ's functions. It could be used as an assassination fuinjutsu that could seal a heart or a brain functions and make the victim looked like die in a natural cause hence no trace was left behind. It would be very handy to ANBU Black Ops assassination teams.
The only invaluable Uzumaki techniques the Konoha crippled elder had in his arsenal were the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing technique learned from Kushina's father's body and… the curse seal technique from Mito Uzumaki-Senju who introduced it at the founding of the village. Konoha would come to the top of the world if the Uzumaki clan joined Konoha with their fuinjutsu. Imagine how powerful Konoha would be when her ninjas were armed with the Shield seals.
But the elder could see the Uzumaki clan head's reluctance to stay in Konoha. Now, he would have to "convince" him to stay in Konoha permanently… and let Konoha slowly assimilate the dead Uzushio without the Uzumaki clan realizing it. Kushina's son would have to give up the prospect on reviving Uzushio and eventually embrace his jinchuuriki fate.
Shimura, which meant "for the village," and the fanatical patriot was proud that he never shamed his surname. He would use any mean necessary to protect Konoha and ensure her supremacy, no matter the cost. The village came first, and everything else was considered secondary, and even human lives were expendable.
For the good of Konoha.
The hallway echoed the soft knocking sound Danzo's cane created on the floor as he was leaving his office for home.
'Understand what Konoha has to do to ensure her global supremacy.'