(A/N) I had no clue what to do with this chapter for the entire month i was on a break. Congrats you get an entire chapter of Mito arguing her way through the changes to the law book.
Mito woke up first, at the crack of dawn. An old habit, Hashirama often got up an hour or two later, and she liked having the house to herself for those few hours. It was quiet. Perhaps a bit too quiet when one remembered they had an infant in the house.
Her and Kushina had taken turns waking up to feed Naruto, Mito using the formula in the cupboards.
Mito quietly looked into Naruto's room, noting the sleeping infant. She wasn't sure how long ago Kushina had fed him, but it didn't look like he'd wake up for a while. She made a shadow clone to leave at the house, then slid out of the house, leaping up onto the rooftops to get to the Hokage tower. The office was far more organized than last time, the work of her clones last time, but new paperwork had somehow been added. She quickly sorted it into the appropriate piles. Not much else could be done besides complete the paperwork, so she made a few shadow clones, and got to work on it.
Currently, clan and village matters was likely most important, besides the general budget and signing off on stuff.
She quickly sent another shadow clone off to fetch the paperwork for changing and adding laws, and got to work.
A clone of Kushina joined her in the office an hour or so later, flopping across one of the couches and reluctantly pulling out a pencil and starting in on the Mission and ANBU matters stack.
Mito received the paperwork for changing the rule book, pushing aside the rest of the work she'd been working on in favor of focusing on it. She filled out the many sheets, eyeing the places signatures were supposed to go. The village elders were the primary part of the signing spaces, which, honestly, Mito really needed to find the paperwork to rectify that. While she was thinking about it, she sent a clone to find that as well while she went to argue the elders into submission on her chosen changes.
Danzo was, unfortunately, up first. She ordered the stack from least politically charged to most. Perhaps she could get through this quickly and without incident.
"What are these?" He asked, annoyance coloring his tone.
"You can read," Mito replied calmly.
Danzo narrowed his eyes at her, then looked at the papers. "What are you doing, redoing the entire rule book?"
"Not all of it," Mito said, gesturing to the stack. "Merely a large portion of it. It needs to be done."
"Shouldn't you wait until the village is more stable?"
"There are a few things I'm pushing off until then," Mito admitted. "But this needs to happen now. The Uchiha clan will require a new version when they are back up and running."
Danzo selected a paper from near the end. "And why is this being removed?"
"Because it's stupid," Mito said bluntly. "Uchiha are far more effective when trusted to use their dojutsu responsibly and left to govern their own. They also will catch more things while using their sharingan on patrol or in difficult cases."
Danzo tried a couple of times to provide adequate reasonings to not have the law be erased, but all were inane and were countered easily.
He gave in on that one in the end.
He worked through the stack for a moment, then found another he disapproved of. "These are not the same thing."
"Yes they are," Mito countered. "And besides, Tobirama would not stand for anything of the sort. He wrote the original law book after all, and I am basing many of my changes on his first drafts, which I was keeping safe for him." A power move, considering that while Hashirama started the village, Tobirama made it a village. Hashirama may have held it together initially, but Tobirama worked out the specifics, made the laws, and made all of Hashirama's dreams possible. She had worked behind the scenes, diplomatically keeping the clans in almost primarily through weekly meetings with the other clan head wives. The men thought they were in charge, it was so cute. Speaking of which, she needed to reestablish that. It had been a good idea, and would work wonderfully in this time. Perhaps set it up so each clan head had their own council of the women of the civilian families. Danzo wouldn't see anything coming.
Danzo worked for a while longer, Mito waiting patiently. She wasn't going to let anything slide under her nose any longer. It was time Danzo's influence was curbed. He was old, and the world had moved on. It was time for him to retire. She was quite sure Kushina would agree.
"I refuse to sign this one," Danzo snarled, tossing a piece of paper in her general direction.
"Do you?" Mito asked cooly. She picked up the paper, the one nullifying the rule about only Uchiha being able to join the police force. "I don't see a problem with the law nullification."
"The police force has always been only Uchiha!" Danzo blustered.
Mito raised one delicate eyebrow. "Really? Then tell me, was Kira Aburame an Uchiha? Or Fukuro Inuzuka?"
Danzo narrowed his eyes. "I do not know of them."
"Really? I believe they patrolled your home sector often. They were both part of the police force, and they did good work. They helped investigations immensely."
Danzo was outright glaring now.
Mito smirked. "Sign the paper."
Danzo snatched it back angrily, signing it in a quick motion. "Fine."
Mito collected the papers, quickly leafing through them to make sure they were all there and all signed. Yep, everything had been signed and everything was in order.
Onto the next person.
Homura was easier, luckily. Mito only had so many hours in a day, and she wanted this done quickly.
"This rule was put in place for a reason," he said, brandishing one she was particularly eager to get rid of. The genius exception. Should someone have high enough grades and prove that they were skilled enough to go onto the battlefield, they were allowed to. Mito wouldn't allow that to continue. One of the original purposes of Konoha was so children didn't die fighting their parent's wars.
"And it is being erased for a better one," Mito replied, leveling him with a glare. "I am editing this to be more in line with the original reason Konoha was created. To protect the children. Get in my way and I will show no mercy." Threats would work best with him, intimidate him into giving in. He was cowardly enough to bend to her formidable will.
(A/N) This chapter gave me so much trouble you wouldn't even believe. There's a poll, ends next week, so go vote before it's gone.