Chapter 10: negotiations & team selections

Sorry for the wait, I've had stuff that needed to get done.

The hits. THEY'RE OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!!

Sorry couldn't help myself, been waiting to do that for a while.

Skywiseskychan: Thank you for the constructive criticism, but I'm going to continue with my current writing style, I'll try to keep in mind about the "light ! Chakra", and about the fighting skills test. They. Are. Ninja. They are supposed to be underhanded to defeat a more powerful opponent. As for the dimension/ space thing look at chapter 278, Kakashi uses a time/space jutsu and says "Him and the explosion… I sent them to another dimension." So words like that are used and understood in the naruniverse. And I am not going to rewrite an entire story; I'll just use a different style with my next one.

Everyone: thank you for all of your compliments and don't worry, I will keep this story going for a long while, it's hard for me to write a short story.

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Location: Hyuuga manor

Date: June 5, 12 A.K. morning

Minato and Hiashi were preparing to go have "aggressive negotiations" with the council about their treatment of the Hokage and Kushina.

A knock was heard at the door; Hiashi activated his Byakugan to see who it was and said, "It's just Sarutobi-sama," and opened the door.

Sarutobi walked in and said, "Sorry, I'll be unable to help you with the council infestation, but I have some more important things to prepare for, just give them a good whack for me."

Minato replied, "Sorry to hear that Sarutobi-san, I guess you'll just have to miss out on the fun."

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Date: June 5 12 AK morning

All of the council members were talking about what happened the night before, the rumors were either wildly in accurate or scarily close to reality (fortunately most of those were ignored though). Many of the members wouldn't believe that Mizuki had betrayed leaf and blamed Kushina for all of it; they had yet to realize that she was the Yondaime's daughter. Suddenly a "thunk" was heard as a tri-pointed kunai landed in the front of the room.

Danzo said, "Is that…" but was unable to finish as his head lost connection with his shoulders.

Standing over the kunai holding Danzo's head in an outstretched hand Minato said to a shocked council, "I'm back, Bitches."

It was then that all hell broke loose, some were shocked that Minato was back and pleased that he had already cleared out the most corrupt person there, but those were few and far between. The majority of the council just thought it was an assassin using the Yondaime's image to confuse them. A few of the dumber ones called for the ANBU, who were under ROOT, fortunately for Minato he had taken care of them beforehand.
Minato lectured, "Do you think that I was unable to see what was going on while I was dead, I know each and every sin each of you has committed and you will be punished for your transgressions against my family and friends. First you make laws that make my daughter a second class citizen then you create a huge amount of paperwork for Sarutobi to do so he can't take care of Kushina. You make me sick. And that is why before I take my position as Hokage back I'm going to do a little purging of the council. Then in a plume of smoke Hiashi appeared by Minato's side and said, "Let's get this over with." He charged a few of the council members and killed them with jyuuken strikes to the heart. After he killed those three he did a kaiten and caused everyone within a 10 ft. radius of him to fly away. Minato was busy taking out council member after council member.

Neither Minato nor Hiashi attacked the shinobi half of the council, because, with the exception of Danzo, they had all been opposed to most of the sanctions the other half passed. None of the ninja's were helping the civilian side either. Whether it was because they approved of what Minato and Hiashi were doing or because they knew those two could tear through them like tissue was anybody's guess.

After the purging was done a little under half the council was left, all of which were the clan heads of the shinobi clans, Minato said, "Thank you, those of you that are left, because you kept my daughter from dieing and provided for her when you could, I know that the stipend that she received was made up of donations you gave."

Chouza spoke up, "It was the least we could do, but none of knew that Naruto was actually your daughter, that little fact only came to our knowledge a few days ago."

Minato replied, "I know and that is why I am indebted and grateful to all of you. This is because you took care of an orphan who too many were a demon. Thank you for taking care of her."

Minato continued, "One a different note I would like to announce that since I am no longer incapacitated I'll take over as Hokage and let Sarutobi-Jiji have a good long retirement this time.

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Location: Otogakure

Date: unchanged

Orochimaru's head whipped around in the direction of Konoha and said, "I feel a disturbance in The Force."

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Location: Hyuuga dinning room

Date: unchanged

Kushina had woken up before everyone else, because she was very excited about team placements that were going to happen late that morning. She was busy eating a large breakfast that had been prepared for her and the others, Hiashi had gotten the cook up early to make sure that everyone had a nice large breakfast

Hinata walked in and said, "Good morning, Kushina-chan."

Kushina replied, "Good morning, Hinata-chan, aren't you excited about getting our teams today?"

Hinata said, "I am, but I'll only be happy if I'm on your team."

Yoko walked in to hear Hinata say that and said, "Well isn't that sweet." And ruffled the girl's hair like an older sister would.

After a few minutes Cortana and john walked in, john was wearing his usual armor and Cortana was wearing a tight black tank top and royal blue shorts with a kunai holster tied to her right hip.

John asked Hinata and Kushina, "You girl's ready for team assignments?"

They both nodded the affirmative, and Kushina shouted, "Then I'll be one step closer to being Hokage, Dattebayo!"

Everyone just sighed at her outburst. Yoko said, "Alright we need to head to the academy after you girls, and guy, finish breakfast; so hurry up, we don't want to be late.

Everyone ate a quiet and fast breakfast and got out of the door early to make sure that they were all on time, and Kushina practically dragged everyone out of the house.

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Location: Konoha academy

Date: unchanged

At the entrance to the academy Yoko split off and said, "Sorry, I need to go meet up with some of the Jonin instructors."

The other four waved good-bye and went to their room. Sasuke was already there and said, "What are you doing here, dobe? Only those that passed are allowed to be here."

John was the one to reply, "Hey Bastard, she's not the only one here, anyway we were passed by the Hokage when we caught and punished a traitor, or did you not notice the leaf insignia on my shoulders and back, and Kushina's headband. You know for a genius you're pretty stupid."

Sasuke said, "Che, whatever." And went back to brooding and thinking about killing a certain man.

Kushina and the others just went to sit down in the back and chat until the class started.

The other students came in to the classroom in ones and twos until Sakura and Ino came running in yelling about who was going to sit next to Sasuke. Iruka came in and used his "Big-head no jutsu" to quite everyone down. Once everyone was quite he went into a long-winded speech about what it was to be a real ninja, the only ones who would remember it even later in the day were Cortana and Shikamaru, because they memorize everything they hear or see. After he was done he went into teams.

He started, "Team one will consist of…" everyone mostly ignored him unless their name came up, then he got to, "Team seven will consist of Uzumaki Kushina, John, Cortana and Hinata, you will have Sarutobi Sandaime as your Jonin instructor…"

He was unable to finish the sentence when Sasuke interrupted him, "Why does the dobe and his loser friends get a Hokage for an instructor. If anyone should I should, after all I am an Uchiha."

Iruka coughed and said, "Well, logically the lowest in the class has the most to improve therefore she needs the best teacher. Any way, because you have a four man team you will have an assistant instructor, her name is Yoko. Next team eight will consist of Yamanaka Ino, Akimichi Choji, and Nara Shikamaru. Your Jonin sensei will be Sarutobi Asuma. Team nine is already in existence so team ten will consist of Inuzuka Kiba, Aburame Shino. Your Jonin sensei will be Yuuhi Kurenai. Last but not least Sasuke will have an apprenticeship to Hatake Kakashi."

He continued, "You all have an hour for lunch, see you." And he left the room.

Kushina was the first to ask, "Why do you think Oji-san is going to be our sensei, shouldn't he still have to be Hokage."

Hinata replied, "My guess is that your father took up being the Hokage, now that he's back. And Sarutobi-sensei wanted to make sure that we had the best teacher we could get and who better than 'The Professor.'"

Kushina struck a thinking pose and replied, "Yeah, that makes sense, now on to ramen, we have just enough time to eat at Ichiraku. Let's go!"

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Location: unchanged

Date: June 5 12 A.K. afternoon

All of the sensei's had come except for Kakashi, Sarutobi, and Yoko. Most had been waiting for their teams when the students got back, Kurenai and Asuma entered just after the last students got back, so that left the five of them to wait.

Yoko walked in and said, "What's up brats I'm here to bring you to Sarutobi-san. Hurry up let's go."

Everyone filed out of the classroom and Kushina ran up to the chalkboard and grabbed an eraser, walked out the door, made a Kage Bunshin stood on it and placed it in the door so when it was opened it would fall on the next person to walk through. With her prank done she ran to catch up to her teammates.

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Location: 5 miles outside Konoha

Date: unchanged

Sarutobi was standing at the 5 mile marker in a brown and gray Jinbei top and a wire mesh shirt underneath with shinobi pants and the standard sandals. When the group of genin and Yoko got to him he said, "We all know each other pretty well so we can skip the introductions and go ahead and get the test done with."

Kushina asked, "What test, I thought we already passed the one we needed to be shinobi?"

Sarutobi replied, "Yes you did but that was to weed out the worthless ones, however you were discriminated against by Mizuki, that's why you failed last time, anyway this is less of a test and more of an exercise, I will tie all of you together here and you need to make it to Ichiraku Ramen before 6 o' clock to pass, that's it, oh and if you do pass I'll buy you all dinner there." He tied them all together, and then he and Yoko ran back towards the village.

John said, "Well we obviously are supposed to work together to get there in time, but he forgot about my strength, just lean on me and I'll pick you up and we'll get there in an hour or less."

Though Cortana thought it might be a bad idea they all agreed that this was the fastest way, and so they complied. Hefting everyone on his back like a huge backpack he started jogging back to the village. After about forty-five minutes the reach the village gates and john stopped and said, "I'll let you down now we should walk in like we worked together to get back."

They agreed and got down to walk, after a little trouble they managed a healthy pace through the village and with Kushina leading the way they got to the stand in under a half-an-hour. To say that Sarutobi was stunned was an understatement.

Sarutobi said, "Wow, you just beat the village record for that test, it took the fastest before you about two-and-a-half hours, so congrats, it's a little early for dinner, but if you want I'll still buy you some ramen now." He was praying to what ever god that existed that they would say no, but Kushina had other plans.

She said, "What do you mean 'if' of course we want some now, it's ramen the most delicious substance on earth." And ordered a bowl. Seeing that they might as well get some free food everyone else stayed and had ramen. Kushina topped out at fifteen bowls and john had only ten.

Crying Sarutobi paid for the dinner, which cost him a small fortune, and said well that was a very good start for team work with your test, remember to meet at the entrance to training ground seven tomorrow at eight. Ja ne." and hopped onto the roof and jumped away.

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well that's it for chapter 10, I don't know how long it'll be before I can update next, hopefully soon, hope you like the teams, because they're not changing. The next chap will probably be the start of the Wave arc, so until then, Ja ne.