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Chapter 8

The next morning, 4:00 AM, on top of the Hokage monument

Hiruzen appeared on the top of his stone head carved on the mountain, dressed in his full battle armour. If what the stranger, Simon hold him about Danzo's secret ANBU were true, then he should make sure that Naruto is found safely. By him, the Hokage; him alone.

Sarutobi was not going to take any chances by informing his ANBU about Simon, you can never say who the black cat among his animal masked bodyguards is. So he got ready for a full combat, getting his Bo staff and informing Enma that he might need his assistance.

After standing on the top of the stone face for a full minute he started to get worried. What if that man who calls himself Simon was lying? I hope is a good guy, I don't want another of those guys of that calibre on bad terms, thought Hiruzen when he remembered his encounter with the guy who kidnapped Sasuke, that guy still made him uneasy on nerves. Something about that guy told him that nothing good will come out of dealing with him. Then suddenly he sensed Naruto.

"Naruto, come out. Only me, your jiji is here" shouted Hiruzen.

Immediately Naruto jumped off from the cliff on to the Yondaime's head. From there he jumped to where Hiruzen was standing and happily gave him a hug. Sarutobi gave a surprised smile, at least this is my old Naruto.

"Jiji! I have so much to tell you! That guy in white kidnapped me from Ichiraku's and took me to some dessert in Suna, he told me many stuff" told Naruto releasing Hiruzen and fidgeting excitedly, "He said that I have some super power. He seemed crazy at first, but now I think he is ok kinda reminds me of myself. Then there was this movi-"

Hiruzen cut him off by holding a hand to his mouth. He looked at Naruto seriously, "Not here Naruto. Why don't we go to your house? We will talk there, okay?"

Naruto tried to speak, but then nodded with Hiruzen's hand still on his mouth. Realising his mistake Hiruzen removed his hand.

"Sorry about that, I am a bit tensed today. Now then, is it an okay?"

Naruto nodded again preferring not to talk and he and Hiruzen went, jumping from roof to roof, without making a sound.

Later, in Naruto's apartment

"So Naruto, he told about Mokuton I suppose?"

"Yes he did. Not only that, my evil self said I killed Mizuki-sensei with it" said Naruto in sadness. He still couldn't believe that he would kill someone, even of by accident.

"You have to understand, Naruto, first kill was not something I wanted you to experience in your age. It is mentally traumatising, so much that some people still cannot get over the pain of taking another life. It is a good thing that you don't remember killing Mizuki"

"That is not entirely true, jiji. I do remember it now. All of it came back to me when my evil-self told me about it" said Naruto softly.

Hiruzen held his breath sensing Naruto's sudden change in demeanour "Naruto are you alrig-"

"I am fine, jiji. I am fine because now I understand why you behave how you behave"

Hiruzen was confused. Naruto nodded to his confused face "I now understand why the Hokage doesn't look down on other people. You don't look down on others because you know that you have more blood on your hands than they could ever have in their lives. And the fact that you killed others to keep your villagers safe made all of it worth the pain and effort it had cost you"

Hiruzen now understood why Simon kidnapped Naruto; he showed Naruto the way to make peace with his own pain. He gave Naruto something that nobody in the village could give him, self-confidence. Hiruzen smiled, I am glad that Naruto will be in safe hands. Today Naruto told me something only a select few have ever realised. Minato your son has grown so much. So much that feel that I can hand him the hat now.

"Very good Naruto. You will become a very good Hokage in the future my boy" said Sarutobi ruffling Naruto's hair. Naruto also put on a big smile.

"So now that we have sorted that out, I will tell you about the arrangement with Simon" said Hiruzen in his professor tone "Simon will be joining our village as a ninja in a few days. I have taught him the henge and I believe he made some improvements to it so that he can transform into a ninja of Iruka's age. I am introducing him as a student of Jiraiya so that there won't be any problem to put you under his apprenticeship, but you are going to be placed inTeam 7"

"What? You are putting me under that whako?"

"Don't worry Naruto, he is a good person, besides you will be training with him on weekends. Anyway, I will give some scrolls on chakra, jutsu and element manipulation. Give it to him the next time you see him. By the way, your team sensei – Kakashi has a test planned for you on the training grounds tomorrow, you will meet you teammates there"

"Yeah yeah", grumbled Naruto and took the scrolls which his jiji gave him.

"Also take this money" said Hiruzen handing him out some ryo and a slip of paper "go to the cloth shop near the Akimichi's restaurant and get some ninja clothes"

When he saw Naruto grumbling about 'orange is my favourite colour' he chuckled and said "I know you like orange very much, so you can some orange in your clothes. But take care that there is only very little of it. One more thing before I go-"

At this he pulled out two sheathed short swords from his back. Both were identical, single edged and progressively broader as it reached the tips. He handed them over to Naruto.

"These are the swords that Simon requested. I an unusual choice, usually nobody use short swords. And the ones I have heard are of uniform length. But I guess you might find some use for it" said Hiruzen looking at Naruto proudly "I found them in the first Hokage's weapon collection after all!"

With that Hiruzen left with a shushin leaving a stunned Naruto in his wake.

This swords belonged to the Shodaime Hokage?, thought Naruto looking at the sheathed swords. Now he was pulling out one of its sheath, the metal gleamed in the sunlight that poured out of the window.

Looks powerful,… maybe I should change my style of clothes as jiji advised to suit these swords, thought Naruto, wait a minute, day after tomorrow is the weekend right?... I must get my new clothes today.

Then he felt a small tug on his hand, he felt like pulling out the other sword. He slowly unsheathed the other one and threw down the sheaths, he felt like the swords connected with him, they felt like an extension of his arms. He wanted to test them out, so he sheathed them again and ran off to the training grounds.

After sometime in the training grounds

TAJUU KAGE BUSHIN NO JUTSU!

A hundred clones of Naruto appeared in the ground. Naruto was holding his swords in his hands, a determined look on his face.

"Guys! I want to test out these swords, so come at me at full strength. Let us see who wins, one me or a hundred me!"

So all the clones came at him all at once.

They were made plans to defeat Naruto. They knew that fighting at close range would only get them killed. So they fought from a distance, throwing kunai and shuriken at him. But by some miracle Naruto was able to deflect most of them with his swords. That's happened before! These swords feel as if they always were a part of me, I can use them like my arms to deflect things. This is AWESOME!

Now excited Naruto threw himself at his clones. He fought with them like a maniac, he had no clear style, but he could handle the swords well enough. He fought like a brawler killing his clones in the simplest ways- he sometimes cut them on their legs by ducking and cutting, sometimes throwing one of his swords at a clones head and then later catch it by jumping to where the sword would fall, he even tried to knock out clone by hitting him on his head (if that was even possible!).

Then suddenly some clones got inspired and threw three of them (clones) at the original.

Naruto was fighting two clones and had just finished killing them when he saw the three clones hurled at him. His swords were touching the ground, at the position he had killed his clones. He could not lift up the swords in time to defend himself, even if he did at least one of them will hit him and he will fall down- game over.

But Naruto had never been someone to give up so easily, he subconsciously passed some chakra into the swords. But before he could even lift them a big tree root erupted from the ground-

TWAK!

POOF!

And all that was left was Naruto and his clones staring at the root dumbstruck.

"What the hell!" shouted Naruto and his clones. His remaining clones poofed themselves and Naruto ran away before anybody could see him.

Little did he know that a silver-haired cyclops of a ninja was spying on his future student. His lone eye widen when he saw the tree root come out of the ground. After Naruto left he came down from his hiding place and inspected the tree root. He noticed that it was an unusual root, it was not connected to any tree, a little amount of it was underground so that it strong and steady on the outside.

"Interesting…" he whispered and the burned up the root with a small Katon jutsu. It is a good thing the Hokage asked me to check up on Naruto, if one of the ROOT were here it would have surely caused a lot of trouble.

After that he returned to watch Naruto from a distance.

-End of chapter-

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