Chapter 3
It had been three years. Three years since her second little brother had died. Three years since her life had become meaningless. The only reason she took this stupid job in the first place was because she wanted to see his dream come true. She had truly believed the necklace's curse would not affect him, that he would truly become Hokage, and she wanted to be the one to place the hat on his head and announce him to the village, her little brothers and lover's dream coming true through him. But now she is obligated to sit in an office all day and try to keep the country out of the war that seems to be knocking on her door step with no hope to escape. How she wished to be gone from the office and sitting at the casino drinking sake and gambling. But now she was honor bound to stay and protect the village that her grandfather and uncle created even though most of the village sickened her. Yes, the Hokage's life sucks at the moment and it seemed to her, her life was teetering on the edge of a cliff to hell. Amagakure the known seat of Akatsuki has locked up their borders and not even her best spies could get in then back out alive, and she was sure that they were up to something. Then, there was Oto according to Jiraiya's Intel her old team mate seemed to have put his plans on hold till he can get Sauske to achieve the Mangekyou before he posses his body, so they are looking for Itachi since killing Naruto didn't seem to have unlocked it. Luckily even Orochimaru can't get into Ama either so there is not a current threat from him but Iwa Konoha's age old rival has finally recovered their strength and are ready for the slightest mess up to declare war once again. While allied with the hidden mist if the combined forces of the two great nations were to attack, Konaha would be destroyed. Suna withdrew their offer of military aid. Garra and the sand siblings had received leave from Suna to come for Naruto's funeral. To say they were disgusted when they showed up to see partying in the streets civilian and shinobi alike would be a complete understatement. Then a year later when Gara had become Kazekage he told the people of Suna of Naruto and how the village treated him and how the villagers celebrated when he died. Shortly after that the lands of snow and wave canceled their trade agreements with the leaf and the Star village withdrew its offer of military support as well. Basically the villagers of Konaha had doomed the village. They stood alone against seemingly superior forces. Of course the leaf was not defenseless the rookie nine by far the most powerful graduating class as a whole in the history of Konaha is a huge bump to its defenses with Shikamaru, Ten-Ten, Lee, and Sakura as Jounin Neji, Shino, and Kiba as ANBU and the rest trying for Jounin. Even with such outstanding ninja added to their ranks they would be out numbered 5-1 if both villages attacked. Mist being about the same size as them with well trained shinobi, although all of them are heavily reliant on Suton jutsu still quite dangerous while the Hokage was sure that in a one on one battle they would be able to pull out a victory. But when you add in Iwa's huge army the chance of victory is almost nothing Iwa's army is easily 4 times the size of Konaha's. Even though most of their Jounin are on par with Konaha's chunin the over whelming numbers would wear them down eventually.
"Hokage-sama" Shizune said as she walked in the room snapping Tsunade from her musings. "The Jounin Instructors are here to see you"
"Send them in then" Shizune nodded and disappeared out the door. A couple seconds later all the Jounin instructors for the current genin teams walked in.
"Good, now that you all are here I can start." she said as she leaned on her desk resting her elbows and folding her hands in front of her face. "As you all know from our recent Jounin meetings war is on the horizon no matter how much we may wish it wasn't. I am sure you all remember in war we cannot spare any forces so genin will be sent to the front lines and fighting alongside everyone else and I am charging you all to prepare them for that. I am suspending all D Rank missions for the next three months each genin team will take at least one C rank mission. On days that you are not on missions you are to spend at least ten hours training with your genin also I will be combining teams to perform some lower end B rank missions. That will be all. Dismissed." as she said this all of the jounin in the room nodded and exited either disappearing in a cloud of smoke or walking out the door. When the last one had left Shizune walked in.
"Are you sure this is the right decision? They are only genin." she asked with worry evident in her voice.
"Shizune I know you remember you were only a genin in the last war lucky even there you were in our medical unit but you still saw front line battle. I don't like doing this but they are ninja and their place is protecting the village not hiding in it." She said distress all across her face. "All I can do is try to give them some experience before they are forced into war." -Knock- -Knock- Someone Knocking on the window caused the two women to turn around and see Jiraya sitting outside of the locked window. Shizune immediately went over and let him in. "You better have good news for me I don't think I can handle any more problems right now." she pleaded, causing Jiraya to have a huge smile on his face.
"I have news that will make your year Hime but I do have to tell you that the snake in the hole is much more dangerous than the one laying in the sun." Tsunade immediately sat up straight and started making some seals recognizing the code her team had used during the last war after fifteen seals she sat her hands down and asked.
"So what is so important that you want me to use this genjutsu? It is really draining I can only hold it for about a half hour."
"First please don't kill me I only did what was the best for the village and everyone concerned." his statement caused her eye brow to twitch in anger
"What in hell did you do this time?" Tsunade asked venom lacing her words
"I came to tell you that the last Namikaze has returned." And before she could say anything he threw a Kunai down in front of her desk and there was a sudden flash of yellow light. When Tsunade's vision returned she thought she was seeing a ghost, she thought she saw the fourth standing in front of her he was about six foot one with long spiky yellow hair Anbu body armor and a long black sleeveless cloak with red flames coming up from the bottom of the cloak showing off large muscular arms but what caught her the most where the dazzling blue eyes and the defined whisker marks on his cheeks.
"Nnn..aru..to?" Tsunade stuttered out thinking that she had drunken too much Sake and was having a dream.
"Hey Baa-chan" He said with a huge smile on his face. That was all it took for Tsunade to fly over the desk and wrap him in her arms crushing him against her.
"It's really you I thought you were dead, how?" She cried out tears falling down her face.
"If you let me breath I will tell you what has happened these last three years." Naruto was able to get out before Tsunade quickly released him. Then gave him a look that said start talking.
"At the Valley of the End I hesitated at the last second giving Sauske an opening to drive his Chidori into my heart."
"How are you alive then?" Tsunade asked knowing that there is no possible way to live after having that jutsu hit your heart.
"I didn't, I died." He said getting confused looks from the two females in the room. "When I died I met the Kyuubi, she had been freed from her cage, on the edge of death. And she told me that she is a servant of Kami I will explain about her in after just trust me for now. Anyway she told me that Kami had chosen me to be her champion on earth and would give me a second chance at life as long as I do her will when the time comes. She also told me that he would teach me to control her chakra and teach me a special taijutsu style. After I woke up I told Jiraiya and we traveled to the temple of the Snow Sage where we trained for a year on strength and speed training and Kyuubi trained me in Taijutsu. After the year was up Jiraiya and I spent the next two years training in Ninjutsu mastering a few of my father's moves as you saw along with taking on S rank missions as hired assassins. We made quite a name for ourselves too." Suddenly Tsunade's eyes widened
"Fox?" Tsunade asked "You are fox the one who took out a camp of 40 grass nin including their x head of ANBU after a failed Coup?" Naruto smiled and scratched the back of his head smiling.
"So you have heard of me too?" Tsunade nodded
"Well I can't hold this jutsu for much longer so we need to get to business I assume you wish to return as a Shinobi of Konaha and claim your heritage and name?" Naruto nodded. "Very well I will need to sleep for an hour or two after this then I will call the council. When the council is assembled I will introduce you and Jiraiya will toss down that Kunai again, until then it would be best if you stay hidden leave Now." she finished with a partial shout causing Naruto to hurry and flash away before she collapsed into Shizune's arms who laid her down on the couch.