Well, I have the first official chapter up! I'm surprised I finished it this fast, since I have the flu. (no, not H1N1)
As you can all see, this story wil change POV in every chapter and there's no specific order. :D
I know, this doesn't have any SasuSaku, but I have to give you the background on this story. If you read till the very end, you can see a bit on where the story's going. :) -pats self on back for being so nice-
Well, I had a whole speech planned out for you, but now I'm too scared incase I look stupid, so without any further ado, READ ON!
Zutto Isshoni Itai
.:Chapter 1: Choices of The Council and Kage:.
.:TSUNADE:.
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Four Years Later. . .
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No one starts a war-or rather, no one in his right sense ought to do so-without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.
-Carl von Clausewitz
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A groan escapes my lips as I stare as the huge pile of paperwork Shizune just left on my desk. Can't she tell its nighttime?
"Why'd I have to become Hokage?" I mumble to myself. Surely, I believe that if you speak to yourself, you're insane, but hey, I might as well be insane due to all this paperwork. Being Hokage isn't easy. It's work, after work, then speaking with a bunch of old hags of a "council" and I barely have any time for gambling.
I know I have to get over my addiction, but too bad.
I recline back in my chair and grab a bottle of sake and take a nice good swig.
Ehh, maybe I'll finish this work tomorrow.
"Lady Tsunade! LADY TSUNADE!" a familiar female voice yells in my ear. That explains the shaking.
"WHAT?" I snap at, of course, Shizune.
"You have a meeting with the council!" Shizune stumbles and Tonton gives a meek 'oink'.
The empty bottle of sake and blank paperwork calls my attention. "Now?"
"It's important!"
"It better be or may this council be damned," I mutter as I follow my assistant into the council meeting room.
Yup, I should've never become Hokage.
"Lady Hokage." Mitokado Homura, the old fart, greets, giving me a look of hate. Well, fuck him too.
"Well, whaddaya want?!" I snap, getting right to the point. I wanna get out of here as fast as possible. I have my beauty sleep to catch up on.
"That's now way to greet your council," Koharu says to me, like she can boss me around. Last time I checked, I was the Hokage, not this bitch.
Well, excuse me! I think.
"Yeah, yeah, just get to the damn point already. Why'd ya want to speak to me?" I ask.
Koharu nods like she understands and turns her wrinkled face to my youthful one. Ha. She's old and ugly and I'm young and pretty. Who's so great now?
"You know of Orochimaru's Otogakure," Homura begins, tilting his glasses on his crooked, wrinkly nose.
"Hai," I reply, not willing to think up a snappy, rude remark, which is a shock. I always find a way to diss these old fags.
Maybe it's the fact that I barely got any sleep.
"Well, said Sannin was killed by Uchiha Sasuke, " the old fart continues, stating the obvious.
"I know that!" I snap, "Tell me something I don't know! Or are you just here to waste my time?"
"We're not done," Koharu interrupts, annoyed. Well, she's annoying me too.
I sigh, and fold my arms to the table, leaning back a bit. "Continue."
"After that, Sasuke and his Team Hebi, now known as Team Taka, set of in killing his elder brother. You know very well that after succeeding in killing his brother, the late Uchiha Itachi, Sasuke has set off to destroy Konoha," Koharu adds.
"And this affects me why?" I ask, yawning lightly.
"For Kami-sama's sake, Tsunade! You are the goddamned Hokage! You should definitely care about the sake of the village!" Homura yells at me, his weathered face red with anger, red as the nail polish on my nails.
"I know that, genius. I'm saying, what will this knowledge do to me? He's not going to attack soon, not in the condition he's in after sending an elite team to stop him. Sure that was like what?, a month ago? He can't heal that fast! After killing Danzou and then after all the use he put into his Mangekyou Sharingan? I'm a medical ninja, damnit! I know no one can get over that that fast!" I argue.
"Hai, we did put that in mind, but we sent a spy to his team," Koharu admits.
My face flushes red with anger, "You did what?! Without my consent?!" I yell, slamming my fist on the desk.
"Lady Hokage, please calm down. We chose to send an ANBU to this mission and we found out enough information." Homura speaks softly.
"Send him in," I command, "And make it quick."
"I'm afraid I cannot. See, Sasuke found out and managed to kill her. However, we do have a written status report on the information gathered," Koharu hands me a bunch of yellowing pages that were all ripped and had some burn marks.
Reaching my hand out, I grab the paper reluctantly. I bring it up closer to my face and begin to read.
Day 3 of Mission - Sasaki Chi
I really don't know what, but Team Taka is planning something. I'm playing along, and they seem to have fallen for my façade but I still have to watch out. I'm guessing they're planning on doing some evil to Konoha. They don't really trust me that much, so I haven't much to say.
Day 7 of Mission - Sasaki Chi
Okay, well I now know for sure that Uchiha Sasuke is planning on destroying Konoha, possibly wanting to take it for his own to control.
Day 16 of Mission- Sasaki Chi
Sasuke is NOT going to destroy Konoha, he's going to rebuild it! Into his own little world, where everything goes the way he plans, after killing every single innocent person the Leaf village.
Team Taka seems pretty eager to help him.
Suigetsu- He just really wants to get to kill a bunch of innocent lives.
Karin- She's just too much in love with Sasuke to make her own opinions.
Juugo- This guy's a tough one. He's served Orochimaru (just like Karin) and is pretty peaceful, unless you anger him. My inferences are that the only reason he serves Sasuke is because he admires him and is willing to help him, even in destroying Konoha.
Sasuke- He's a cruel person, who really only cares about himself. The only person he basically talks to is Juugo, so I can't squeeze much information out of him. He seems pretty prideful of his plans and over-confident of his actions.
Day 23 of Mission - Sasaki Chi
I know their intentions.
Sasuke is planning on launching an invasion on Konoha. Then, he wants to bring chaos to the government launching it into a civil war, getting it to destroy itself. This most likely will rid Konoha of its government system and may even get the Council and possibly even Hokage, out of the question. Without all this, no one will stop this civil war. After this, people will be fighting for their lives to even notice anything out of the ordinary.
Then Sasuke will have the perfect opportunity to strike.
Of course, Sasuke's not stupid either. He knows of Konoha's alliance with Sunagakure, so he is planning on wreaking havoc to the Sand Village as well. That way, Konoha won't be able to receive much help from its closest ally who will also be in civil war, though I doubt that he'll feel the need to remove the Kazekage. Then again this is Sasuke I am talking about…
I put the papers down. "Wow," I breathe, "He's becoming more and more like Orochimaru each day."
Koharu nods.
"What do we do to this?" Shizune asks. I nearly jump out of my seat at the sound of her voice. Funny, I would've noticed her there…
Ah, it's probably nothing.
"Flee. We have to evacuate the village." Homura speaks.
"That's for cowards!" I snap, "We're the most powerful out of all ninja villages! We can't just evacuate the village! That's damn crazy!" I explode.
"And what else? I'm pretty sure that by now the Uchiha has a gazilion of minions groveling at his feet," Koharu says, her wrinkled eyes glaring at me, saying I'd-do-a-better-job-as-Hokage-than-a-novice-like-you.
"Even more reason!"
"Too risky," Homura agrees with Koharu.
Ughh, leave it up to those old hags to mess up everything. They always disagree with me.
Wimps.
We're about to go to war and they wanna hide under the beds, crying for their fossilized mommies.
That can't save you.
Fighting can.
And will.
A gasp comes out from behind me. Shizune.
"Excuse me, Lady Hokage?!" Koharu vents.
I'm puzzled for a second, until I realized that I just mused out loud.
Oh, shit.
"I-I," I stammer. Normally, under regular circumstances I wouldn't give a fuck over something as juvenile as this, but this isn't a regular circumstance.
Shit. Fuck my life.
"If you feel this way about your council, maybe we should resign!" Homaru snaps.
Koharu throws her two cents in, "Yeah, let the powerful Hokage rule all by herself." Shizune gives her a look, a warning sign.
Yeah, I can feel a temper tantrum coming up.
"Yeah!" I drawl, "because apparently the council doesn't give a fuck what happens to Konoha."
"Lady Tsunade!" Shizune says in her high-pitched voice, trying to fix the problem.
"Stay out of this, Shizune!" I yell. My assistant gives me a shocked look, that I don't blame her for considering that I have never yelled at her, not even when I was drunk.
Shizune bows her head, her dark hair flying in the front of her face, "Hai," she says and runs out of the room.
"Well, then we better be going since the Hokage doesn't want us around any more because she's too intelligent to need our help since we're so 'old'" Koharu says nonchalantly and stands up to leave.
This really angers me.
My words being flung back at me, ouch, that hurt. But I don't give them the satistfaction of knowing that.
My evil mind thinks up a devious plan to get those bastards back for that, "Hey, ya know what? You're right, you do know what you're doing. I'll just resign as Hokage and let you take control- which means hiding during an invasion. Yeah, go 'head." I stand up and start walking away.
"You're joking?" Homura replys, as if trying to persuade me.
"No, no, go right ahead. Ya know what you're doing. You'd make a much better Hokage." I spit back, coldly and cruelly. I'm acting eccentric, I know, but I have to teach them not to mess with me.
Koharu glares at me, resolute to stop me, "Tsunade, we're just thinking of the village's best interests."
"I know. That's why I'm letting you take charge," I shrug, turning my head astray from them, "Apparently, hiding is better than fighting."
"If we fight we'll lose a lot of shinobi. He probably has his own militia!" Homaru yells, well as best as an old man can yell, that is.
"So? We'll survive. We have the Kyuubi."
"Again with the Kyuubi talk," Koharu rolls her eyes, "Bijuu are untamable!"
"Naruto will do anything to protect Konoha. We'll win," I explode. I never knew that a council could be this stubborn.
"At a risk," Homaru adds, in a low, husky voice that is barely above a whisper.
"I'm willing to take that risk," I say, turning to face them once more.
Both members nod slowly, as if trying to take this in. "So, we fight?" Koharu asks.
"Why not?" I throw a question right back at her, "What's there to lose?"
"Everything," Homaru responds.
"Or the village." I take a deep breath, "Listen, I don't give a damn what you say. We're going to get the biggest invasion of our lives. It's mediocre to just stand around here waiting for it to just happen, when we're strong enough to stop it. Our lives are at stake! So I, Tsunade of Konoha, the Godaime Hokage, declare war against Uchiha Sasuke and Team Taka." I say as nobly as I can muster. "And you can't stop me!"
"I thought you said you were going to let us make the choice," Koharu butts in, the imbecile.
My eyes roll and I shrug, "Yeah, well I take that back. You are now banished from your positions."
Homaru puts an arm in front of Koharu to stop her from fighting, "Fine. If you slip up, don't come running to us for our help."
"Don't worry, I won't," I smirked.
We were going to war.
"Is it true, Lady Tsunade?" Shizune runs into my office.
"What do you think?" I reply coolly.
"Oh Kami-sama, we're going to war!" Shizune gasps.
"Don't faint on me," I yell at her.
"But…Lady Tsunade…"
"I know what I'm doing, Shizune!" I drum my fingers on the hardwood desk, "I'm thinking of Sakura to record their basic movements."
"But what if she gets hurt by Sasuke?" Shizune asks, her eyes wide with fear.
"Don't be a sissy," I reply, "She's just going to watch from the outside, without meeting with the group. I think it's a pretty good idea, ne?"
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Oh, how wrong you were
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Well, how was it? I know this was the first chapter so I couldn't get onto your favorite part in the story. :) (PS, Madara is not in this to make it easier on my soul)
I rated this fic M .for the language, violence, and possible death (though no one important will die). I'm not planning lemons in this, but if you want some, just let me know in a review. :)
PS for anyone who wants a lemon: If you've ever had any experience with writing lemon (cause sadly I haven't) could you just give me some advice on how to write an interesting, romantice, awesome lemon scene? Arigato!
Grrgh! I HATE the way this turned out. So EPIC FAIL! -hides under desk and cries-
~Princess Hana~