Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto and any reference to any other thing owned by someone else.
Claimer: The OCs are mine. If any are sue-ish, well…they're still my sues.
Warning #1: Characters may sometimes be OOC. You have been warned.
Warning #2: Someone said that this thing may be on crack, well for some parts I'd like to agree with that person.
Reminder: Rosuto Juushu = Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto
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Chapter 21
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The Night before the members of the Rosuto contingent that were at the apartment complex during dinner had shared with the Konoha citizens the history of Rosuto no Kuni. Juushu told his Konoha friends about his adventures.
The Konohamaru corps were skeptical at first about the authenticity of the stories that the Rosuto group told them, but it took Juushu a little show of power to convince the three genin and one jounin that the stories were true.
The Konohamaru corps and Ebisu weren't the only Konoha citizens that attended the dinner, there was a Hyuuga, a Hatake, another Sarutobi, an Umino, an Ichiraku, a Mitarashi, a Maito, a Rock, and a Yuuhi as well.
Hinata didn't know how to react knowing that she had finally lost her chance with Naruto, she was a thousand years too late, she shouldn't have acted so timid, and just acted when she still had the chance, now due to her hesitation she no longer could get the man that she had loved all her life. Lucky Shino and Kiba.
Ayame and Iruka were happy for Juushu, that he finaly had one of the things that he had secretly, or not, wanted to have all his life, a loving family. Of cource, Juushu had a rather large family at this point in time, due to his considering all his friends, and the people of Rosuto no Kuni as his family.
Kakashi was glad that his student had a place in the world for himself, he was glad that he had found even more people who belived in him, who respected him, who acknowledged him, and who loved him. The only thing that bothered him was how the rest of the village was going to react to the knowledge that the Kyuubi no Jinchuuriki had an entire country supporting him, and could potentially wipe out the village in revenge for their previous actions. Kakashi voiced his concerns to Juushu, and was told not to worry all that much about it.
Anko found the revelation that her peeping compatriot was actually the daughter of one of the biggest anti-perverts in existence, actually just the fact that Naruko was Juushu's daughter was surprising in itself.
Kurenai felt a bit of pity for her former student and young friend, Hinata, she along with a whole plethora of people knew about the girl's crush on the blonde haired formerly little hellraiser. She knew that the girl would have to come to terms and accept the fact that Juushu was taken, and unless the dark blue haired Hyuuga wanted to become a concubine, she had no chance with the blonde.
Kurenai was one of many Kunoichi that believed that there are things that only women could do right, one of those things being cooking, during the meal she was surprised to find out that their meal was made by Juushu and not his wife. When she asked how some simple minded idiotic deadlast was able to become as good as he was with the culinary arts, she was asked if she knew about the advantages of lots of chakra and a mastery over Kage Bushin no Jutsu. That answered her question.
Asuma, wasn't all that familiar with Juushu, but saw him enough times in the past. He found it quite surprising that someone who was once so loud, and had horrible table manners, had become nearly perfect. Nearly since there were times that Asuma saw glimpses of someone who wanted to act in a different way.
One of the things that Asuma learned while the dinner was ongoing was that Juushu disallowed smoking during meal times. Asuma learned this due to his attempted lighting of one of his cigarettes, it just wouldn't light, as if some force was preventing it light. Juushu had discreetly used his superior will to supress the existence of smoking in his domain. His imagination put a dampener on the realm of smoking.
Gai and Lee were intrigued with the stories about the battles and fights that Juushu got into. They would have shouted and ranted about the power of youth, had Juushu not allowed them to shout within in presence. The two spandex wearing men were forced into speaking normally or not speak at all. The training that the soldiers and the vairous warriors, and even regular citizens of Rosuto no Kuni went through interested the two taijutsu specialists. They asked one of the Rosuto Elders, Juushu's generals and councilemn, to elaborate and share what they could. It was not everyday that one got the chance to catch a glimpse of an unknown training method, or a long forgotten one, or one from a country that one thought never even existed.
The guests of the dinner were invited to spend the night in the apartment complex, which they all accepted. Hinata had no choice due to the fact that she didn't think that she would reach her home with the information which she had just received.
Once all the guests that night were safely and securely tucked away in the beds or futons which they were provided, the Rosuto group went to the kitchen, which Juushu expanded, and had a meeting.
Juushu opened with a list of the things that they were going to talk about. The plans of the 'now what' were drafted, and some were finalized. As soon as the sun rose above the horizon, the invasion of the rest of Elemental would be taking place. Juushu did not plan on taking over the rest of the continent. He merely wanted to root out the organizations and groups that he believed to be a danger to his people. One of these organizations being Akatsuki, another being the Jashin cult. Not that Juushu had anything against Jashin, but the god's followers and worshippers were a bit extreme in their practices, and needed to either be converted to the true Jashin relogion or eradicated. Another group that Juushu intended to destroy, or more like reorganize or something, was Orochimaru's Otogakure no Sato. Orochimaru was once a nice young man, with problems, dreams, and aspirations like any other person, he had also once in his childhood visited Rosuto no Kuni and Kyonshi's fortress, through accidentally falling through some shadows. There were a bunch of other groups and organizations, even a country or two that Juushu wanted the world to be rid of. But aside from these groups of people, there were also some individuals that the world did not need, some of them being not exactly human, or what one could call human.
His generals were assigned to different tasks, and priorities, one of these being the creation of alliances or non-aggression pacts with the other nations, not just hidden villages, temples, or just the samurais, but the entire nation.
Tsuneo, the only missing member of the contingent, would be given his orders the next time he was in the presence of his daimyou.
Once everyone exceopt Juushu were asleep, he left Hi no Kuni, and arrived a moment after leaving in his very own capital.
Once he had made himself relatively comfortable, he summoned his other high ranking military officers, and government officials. Even though it was still the middle of the night they all answered his call, and came to the meeting chamber as quick as they possibly could.
Once the last person that Juushu expected to arrive had arrived, and the man was sick to boot, he started his impromptu meeting. His summoned were unprepared for the meeting, some of them were sleepy, some of them were grogy, but the one thing that they all had in common was that they all were in their sleepwear, some of them in bathrobes just to hide the fact that they prefered to sleep in the nude.
Each of the people assmbled with given their orders, the military officials were ordered to gather the armies, and prepare for the closest thing to all out war. Even with Rosuto no Kuni's actual generals, the officers present at the meeting had enough authority to call all available people to arms.
Juushu instructed the military men to unearth the nearly forgotten war machines that were kept hidden meters below the earth, the army would be needing all the firepower it could muster. Being nearly forgotten did not mean that there weren't a few that were still on the surface. These few were used to train a number of soldiers in their operation.
Juushu had made sure that the ones in storage beneath the surface of the earth were in tip top condition, none of them needing to be repaired before being used. The only ones that needed maintenance were the ones that were continually in use, those that were used for training.
Even without Yuji, the Dragon Flights would be prepped and ready to leave at a moment's notice. Same went for the other beasts and creatures at the army's disposal.
The personnel of Rosuto Younen that were present at the meeting were given the orders to activate all sleeper agents in all every place that they had at least one, all the agents were to return home and submit complete reports of all the information that they had gathered. The spies that were under the employ of Rosuto Younen were also ordered to work double time in acquiring information on the best time to attack the targets, as well as to just send out the troops nearly undetected.
From what Juushu had experience when he first landed in what had become his nation, he was going to implement some of the things he had learned then to the other countries and lands in elemental. The continent would play by his rules. He wouldn't do all that the oppressors of the past, did, he would just mess with the economy and the way things in the rest of the continent were run. From order, he would create ordered chaos.
He expected that more countries would feel threatened than not from his actions, that being the reason why he ordered for the entirety of his armies to be ready to act at a moments notice. He had been allowed by some of Zombie-senseis friends to see glimpses of the most likely what would occur in the future of his world, therefore he knew that there was a great possibility that world war would erupt. Juushu would make sure that his nation would be ready for it.
The government officials that were present at the meeting were ordered to make sure that the public knew of some things that needed to be known by his people, some of which pertained to being prepared to a not so smooth future.
When the meeting was over Juushu shadow walked back to the apartment, specifically the room that his wife was in, and lay down to sleep away the remaining hours before the dawn.
It was sometime after breakfast that Juushu decided to meet up with the other people in the village that he had missed. Catch up with them so to speak. Even though that war with some parts of the continent was on the horizon, it did not mean that he couldn't have a bit of relaxation and fun.
His first stop of the day was the Hyuuga compound, he had volunteered to escort Hinata back to her home, his wife was secretly seething inside due to knowing that Hinata still liked Juushu. She had Naruto and Naruko tag their father. Once the four were out of visual range of Tsukiko, the two 'children' left their father to his own devices, it was a known fact in all of Rosuto, that Rosuto Juushu was unstalkable. The man didn't just sense when someone was spying on him, he knew that they were there. This ability of his was one of the reasons why thirteen Ne operatives were knocked unconscious, bound, gagged, and dumped by Kage bushins in a certain warhawk's office deep beneath the village.
While Juushu walked her home, Hinata had some treacherous thoughts running through her brain. She was secretly formulating a plan that would ensure that Juushu would have to form a harem and marry her. Due to all the events of the previous night and day, she had for some reason finally snapped, although it wasn't obvious on the outside, on the inside she had gone into Uchiha mode, on the outside she was still her somewhat shy and timid self. But the closer the duo got to the compound, the more and more did Hinata start to resemble the rest of her clansmen. The more and more her inner self went nuts, the more and more her softer outer self became harder and harder as stone, like many within her clan.
Juushu had always had an effect on Hinata, be it positive, negative, or neutral, but there was always an effect. This was not an exception to that. Juushu noticed the change in her being, long before her facial expression started to harden. He knew something was up, just as he knew that she was his childhood stalker.
Upon reaching the Hyuuga compound he tried to politely decline Hinata's invitation to enter the compound and have a spot of tea. He tried and failed, since Hyuuga Hiashi had unluckily appeared and also invited him into his home, he wanted to know why his daughter had not returned home last night. It was not polite or proper to talk about such things in public. That and an inviatation by one of Konoha's clan heads was something that even he could not decline, the inviatation of a clan heir was declineable, but one from the head itself was not, unless he wanted to fast forward his plans by a lot.
Once inside the main house in the compound, specifically the head's office, Hiashi had a servant get Hinabi and Neji, as they too wanted to know what had happened that their relative was not at home with them last night.
Once all that the clan head wanted to be present were present he allowed his daughter to explain her actions. What left her mouth was quite shocking that it left the clan head in a state of shock for a whole minute, Neji didn't fair any better, and Hinabi had actually fainted. Juushu did not react.
Once Hiashi returned to the land of the living, he immediately bolted up and tried to slam Juushu against the wall in anger and rage. He tried several times, Neji aiding him, but all their attempts failed. Whenever they tried to just touch the blonde, their hands would just pass through him as if he were a simple bushin, except he did not fade or disappear.
Once the two men realized that nothing affected the blonde before them, both men called out for other Hyuuga to help in the endeavor. Even with the superior numbers Juushu remained in place with a calm expression on his face, as if he was not just accused of forcefully planting his seed in the Hyuuga heiress, and coming to the compound to demand that she be added to his harem, non-existent harem, he had a wife but that didn't make a harem.
Once the Hyuuga had run out of steam, Juushu told them the true events that had occurred the other day, as well as some suggestions on what to do to the liar of an heiress that they had in their clan. He knew that Hinata was more or less a good person, it was just that she seemed to be in desperate need of mental or psychological help. The strain of being obssessed with one person for most of one's life had finally been too much for her to take.
The Hyuuga with their supposedly almighty doujutsu activated had seen nothing that would indicate that Juushu was lying, when they had Hinata repeat her earlier statement, they noticed that she was actually lying, it was convincing to the untrained eyes, but to the Hyuuga, it was as plain as day. They were her family, they knew her personality, her mannerism, they knew her, not as much as they should, but enough to be able to tell that she was lying. That and that she had gone over the deep end, with a posssibility of getting back to reality if she was given help asap.
Hiashi had to apologize to Juushu about the clan's earlier actions, while Neji and the rest of the Hyuuga had the job of subduing Hinata, tying her up, gagging her, and bringing her to the hospiral. It took the rest of the people present, all of the rest of the people present to subdue Hinata, this was due to the fact that her newly snapped mental state had made her quite the ruthless fighter. Most of the branch house members were felled with her first attack, that was until Neji managed to block the pain and tackle her to the ground, forcing her to stop her activation of the caged bird seal. He had also forced her to go on the defensive, and the girl knew the Kaiten, as well as her own original technique. During the fight to stay free Hinata had shown, for more than an hour, that she had the power to become the next clan head, it was her mental state that needed a bit of tweaking.
Hiashi did not enter the fray due to the fact that there was a guest present as well as the fact that there were already more than enough people engaging his daughter. Juushu had stayed just to make sure that the girl was subdued.
"I think that you should arrange for her to be married to one of her teamates or something like that," Juushu told Hiashi, all the while not taking his eyes away from the ensuing brawl, "I also would suggest that you name either your youngest or your nephew as the heir. Your eldest does not appear to be fit to lead your beloved clan."
"I think after this display you may be right," Hiashi somewhat agreed, "By the way, you have yet to introduce yourself."
"I apologize for that, I am Rosuto Juushu."
"I think I've heard that name somewhere."
"I am the leader of Rosuto no Kuni, the recently revealed Land of the Lost."
"Ah yes, I think I received the memo on the meeting about you."
"Why are you telling me this?" Juushu asked.
"It would be better that you be made aware about something like that, than upset you by having to find out that the leaders of Konoha were talking about you behind your back."
"I see. But don't worry, I already knew," Juushu said.
Once Hinata was successfully bound and gagged, Juushu bid the Hyuuga head good day and left the Hyuuga home in search of others that he had known. He couldn't speak to Neji due to him making sure that Hinata got the help that she needed.
His next stop for the morning, as it was still morning, was the Yamanaka flower shop. Once inside he found himself face to face with the Yamanaka clan head, Ino having left for some training with Chouji and Shikamaru, as the three sometimes went on missions together.
"Good morning, welcome to the Yamanaka Flower Shop, how might I help you?" the clan head said.
"The name's Juushu, I'm looking for Yamanaka Ino, would you know where I might find her?" he asked.
"Juushu?"
"Yes, is there something wrong with my name?"
"No, not at all, its just that that's the same name as.." Inoichi was interrupted.
"Rosuto Juushu, leader, daimyou, and founder of Rosuto no Kuni."
"Yes, I was going to say that. How did you.." Inoichi's eyes widened as he realized just who was standing in his family's shop.
"Yes, that's me. I'm looking for you daughter since I just wanted to catch up with her."
"C-catch up? What do you mean?"
"My former name is Uzumaki Naruto," Juushu stated.
"NARUTO?!" Inoichi exclaimed, "H-how can you be Naruto?"
"I'm sure Baa-chan will tell you, the short version, or something like that. If she doesn't, then feel free to find me the day after tomorrow, since your meeting with her is tomorrow," Juushu said, "So..about your daughter?"
"Training ground sixteen," the clan head answered.
After getting what he wanted out of the clan head, Juushu bought a single red rose, bid the Yamanaka clan head good day, and left the shop, heading for where he sensed his wife to be.
While walking to the place where he sensed his wife to be, Juushu gradually deaged his physical appearance, he made himself look the age that he was expected by the rest of his friends to expect him to look. He wanted to catch up with his friends, instead of have to tell them his history as a whole or something like that.
He knew that not everyone was aware that he had returned, people knew that Jiraiya was back, but not everyone knew that Juushu was aswell.
Most everyoene would know a bit more about him and his country after Tsunade made her announcement to the rest of the village about him and his country. He wanted to know how his friends were all these years, how they had fared while he went off on his adventures, as well as gone off to war. He didn't want to have to explain over and over again how he had become Rosuto Juushu. So he'd let the rest of the friends that had not seen him yet call him by his old name, he'd tell his tale at some later date when they were all gathered together or something.
It was not just his body that he changed the appearance of, he also changed the appearance of his clothes, he had originally left the apartment wearing a blue shirt, black pants, and red shoes. As he walked he created an orange jacket and black jacket which was zipped up, he changed his pants into a darker shade of orange as compared to the orange of his old suit, and he morphed his shoes into black shinobi sandals. The only thing that would stand out was that he didn't have a hitai-ate on.
Before he could successfully reach his target, being his wife, he was intercepted by Haruno Sakura. More like he had bumped into her. It appeared that the cosmic forces did not want him to have it easy this day.
The girl noticed that it was Juushu that bumped into her, she noticed the rose in his hand, and immediately grabbed it thinking that it was for her, and that he had been rushing to give it to her as a hello present or something or other, and due to his haste had accidentally bumped into her.
"Hey Sakura-chan," Juushu said as he got back onto his feet, "Could you give me back that rose, its not for you."
"WHAT?!"
"Oh, and I apologize for bumping into you," he said as he plucked the rose from her grasp while she was still in her shocked state.
Juushu then created a single Kage Bushin, and handed the rose to it, and had it be the one to give it to his wife in his stead, seeing as he had stumbled on a problem. The clone took to the rooftops to avoid any further misunderstandings with any other kunoichi.
When Sakura regained her compsure after getting out of her shocked state, she punched Juushu with as much strength and power she could muster at the moment, which considering who her teacher was was a lot.
Juushu was sent flying into the concrete wall of a building owned by his own company, so he didn't have to worry about any financial reprecussions of the actions of his pink haired friend. He wouldn't have to pay for the repairs and such, but he'd make sure that his friend and her family did, slight revenge for some events that occurred when he was younger.
"What was that for Sakura-chan?" he asked when he got back onto his feet.
"You baka! I thought that flower was for me!"
"Sheesh, then how is it my fault?"
"You bumped into me," she answered. For someone of her intelligence she sure wasn't showing any in this situation.
"I apologized, and how does that have anything to do with your jumping to conclusions. Add that to the fact that since I haven't seen you in such a long time, there is the possibility, or rather the fact that my feelings for you have changed."
"Huh?" Sakura said, being caught of guard by Juushu's statement.
"There is another girl in my life, sheesh, go ask your master about it, geez, and I really wanted to talk to you civilly too. Guess I'll just have to get back to looking for Ino," Juushu said.
"After hearing Ino's name, Sakura's mind jumped to conclusions once again, and sent Juushu flying once again. The blonde once again destroyed another wall of another building which he luckily owned.
"Hey baka! Where's your Hitai-ate?" Sakura asked as Juushu got back to his feet.
"I'm no longer a shinobi of Konoha," he answered as he dusted himself off.
Once again jumping to conclusions, the thought that he had gone rogue had entered her mind, so she rushed him and attempted to punch him again. This time she missed by a lot, since at the last second he dodged her attack.
'Geez, if fighting is the only way to get out of this mess, then fighting is what I'll do..' he thought to himself, before unleashing an attack of his own.
In the middle of one of the streets of Konoha, a fierce battle broke out, good thing that it wasn't anywhere near the residential district, or any busy streets.
Sakura used chakra powered punches and kicks, which destroyed the pavement, and the buildings and other structures of the immediate area.
Juushu, dodged all the attacks, and created several dozen clones to run interference, while he made his escape. As quickly as he could he entered the shadow realm and went about searching for Ino's shadow. Since he knew that she was training, most likely with Shikamaru, he would get to play a prank on the unsuspecting Nara.
The Kage Bushin that had the honor of delivering the single rose to his creator's wife, had found himself some trouble of his own. He had changed his appearance into that of someone resembling one of the Uchiha. Most of those guys were pretty boys, which caused a considerable number of kunoichi into thinking that the single rose was for one of them.
'What's with today,' the clone thought, 'Is it dumb kunoichi day?'
What the clone, and Juushu, were unaware of was that there hadn't been that many romantic acts done by the male populace lately, and the females were experiencing a bout of romance deprivation, which was causing a majority of them to act in the irrational way in which they were acting.
The clone had to deplete his considerable chakra reserves in order to create several other clones, five of which were assigned the mission of getting that one rose safely to Tsukiko.
Once the girls realized that the rose wasn't for any of them, the battle royale began. Rather once all of them collectively thought that the clone had led them on, or were stringing them along for some sick reason, they decided to pound him into mush.
Juushu, and by extension his clones, wasn't someone who would willingly let himself be beaten up, plus there was still a mission that had yet to be completed, this made the clones prioritize survival first.
It was a good thing that the clones and the girls were fighting on the roofs of the village, as well as the fact that none of them were students of the Slug sannin.
Off in the distance, the lead clone could see that where the original was, was being decimated by a battle of clones versus Sakura, the pink haired kunoichi was demolishing a Rosuto Younen district all on her own, with clones trying their best to contain her. The bad thing about the clones was that the ones that Juushu had created and left behind were all normal regular Kage Bushins. The only advanced Kage Bushin was the one who was given the task of delivering the rose, which was why it had a considerable amount of chakra at its disposal, as well as why it could, as well as its clones, survive after being pummelled by a relentless barage of things from the kunoichi that were attacking them.
The five man Advanced Kage Bushin cell, wasn't faring much better as compared to the other clones. They had it harder. Every once in a while a clone separated from the group in order to prevent a number of shinobi from getting the rose, after all sealing the rose in a storage scroll, and running in the direction which is away from the Hokage Tower, as well as those carrying and protecting the scroll not having Hitai-ates, more or less signified that these people were not exactly friendly towards the village, most likely they were an amatuer squad of enemy shinobi that had managed to steal something from the Hokage Tower and were making their escape. Most of their pursuers were Chuunin and some low level Jounin.
Being Advanced Kage Bushin, these bushins had a lot of chakra to spare, therefore each one that opted to stall created a couple clones itself. It was like the Uchiha Sasuke Retrieval Mission all over again, except this time the enemy were Konoha-nin and the team was made up of clones of one man. The objective itself was also different.
Among the pursuers were Inuzuka Kiba and Aburame Shino.
The presence of these two Chuunin proved to be problematic to the delivery clone. Since once it was the only one of the group left, it was confronted by the two Chunin, that did not want to budge. The clone then had no other choice but to create some clones of its own, all the try and get to its target as quickly as possible.
Kiba knowing that the nin infront of him were clones, he and Akamaru quckly attacked with teeth and claws by using that technique of theirs that makes them drill into the enemy. Thinking that the clones would easily be defeated, they were surprised to find the clones relatively unharmed from the attack. Only one of their number had been killed.
Shino had the honor of facing off against the delivery clone. He sent chakra draining bugs the clone's way, which the clone managed to avoid for the most part. It created a few more clones to give it more time to escape. All through the encounter it kept running in the direction of its target.
Shino pursued the delivery clone, leaving Kikai Bushins to deal with the clones that the clone created, all the while following the delivery clone.
Suddenly the clones changed directions, the target had teleported to another part of the city. For what reason, the clone didn't care, the only thing in its mind was the completion of its mission. This action surprised the normally unsurpriseable Aburame.
'If he is not escaping to the wall, then what is his true objective,' thought the Aburame.
"The target has moved, need to lose this bug user, must get to target," were the mumbled things that left the clone's mouth, which were also the things that Shino was able to hear.
'Target? An assassination attempt? a kidnapping?' Shino thought. Those were the logical possibilities, the direction that the two were moving would lead them to the Ninja Academy, where many of the village's future were at the moment. It was nearing lunch time, the student's would be out in the open, not nescessarily vulnerable, but they would still be out in the open. Seeing as the clone, not that Shino could tell that it was a clone, was alone, the logical conclusion was that it was either an assassination attempt or a sabotage mission.
The Academy was in sight.
The clone leaped onto the roof.
Shino quickly threw some kunai in an attempt to stop the clone from doing whatever he thought the clones was planning on doing.
The clone spun in place and dove for the ground below, which enabled him to narrowly avoid the projectiles.
Shino sped closer.
As the clone hit the dirt, it rolled, all the while unfurling the scroll and unsealing the rose. It ended up in a kneeling position infront of Tsukiko who was sitting on a bench and was watching the children that were leaving the building to have their break.
"Juushu-sama ordered us to bring you this single rose. He intended to give it to you himself, but some complications arose which forced him to have us bring it to you. He also wanted us to tell you, 'soon'."
Once the rose was safely in Tsukiko's hands, Shino dropped down with a kunai in hand and stabbed the clone through its neck, effectively killing it. But unlike most clones, this one turned itself into a blood clone in order to give the illusion that it was an actual person rather than just a mere clone.
Tsukiko screamed. The clone had acted perfectly, the act was enough to fool Tsukiko into thinking that the clone was not a clone, and was actually one of the Rosuto shinobi. One of her own. Her scream attracted the attention of Yahiko who was in the vicinity. He quickly rushed to her aid, even though she was a seasoned war veteran, she had not seen battle in quite a while. Whatever had made her scream didn't help her either, and Yahiko, in the absence of his daimyou would make sure that nothing happened to his friend, who just happened to be the second most powerful person in all of Rosuto no Kuni.
Shino felt someone moving towards him, just in time he jumped back avoiding a deadly slash. In the spot which he had previously been standing on was a man completely clothed in black, like one of the shinobi of old. Yahiko had, while moving, unsealed his spymaster uniform and draped it over his form. After the failed attack, he took a defensive stance infront of Tsukiko, his ninjato in a reverse grip in one hand, and three kunai in the other.
Before anything else could happen eight ANBU arrived on the scene, but before they could act or even utter a word, the dead clone burst into flames. Much like how the clones of the war burst into flames.
When Tsukiko and Yahiko saw that happen, they both visibly relaxed, but Yahiko still had his wits about him, and was ready to spring into action at a moments notice. Luckily Juushu had briefed his whole contingent about a situation such as this one occurring, if they were to see one of theirs dead and burst into flames, it wasn't anything to worry about, and the man or woman wasn't really dead.
The ANBU were given the descriptions of the members of the Rosuto contingent, and therefore realized that two of the people involved in the incident were infact members of the Rosuto contingent.
Tsukiko and Yahiko both agreed to go with the ANBU to speak with the Hokage and resolve the issue or event that had occurred.
On the way to the tower, Juushu joined the group, he had abandoned his quests of finding his friends once he felt that his wife was in danger, a feeling which passed a few minutes afterwards. But he went to her none the less, just to be on the safe side.
Once they got to the tower Tsunade was waiting for them outside of the tower, with all the other Konoha-nin involved in the chase.
Before Tsunade could say anything, Juushu beat her to it.
"I know for a fact that Konoha has not yet fully recovered from the Sound and Sand Invasion three years ago. I also know that this village was one of the most peaceful of all Shinobi villages, what I want to know is what happened?" Juushu said, "First that student of yours, Haruno Sakura, attacks me for insane reasons, then your Kunoichi attack my delivery teams, then they are assulted by your Chunin and Jounin, and last but not least," he faced Shino, "Shino, you're a friend and all," he faced Tsunade once more, "Shino 'kills' one of my men, its a good thing that that particular one was not human to begin with but an automatic puppet."
He paused briefly to gauge the reactions of those present.
"I, being a daimyou, as well as being a guest and not a shinobi of the village, the paperwork was filed three years ago, I'm sure that you just approved it without reading it since you don't know how to properly deal with paperwork, am appalled at the treatment I and my family have received today. I am very close to declaring war on the entirety of Hi no Kuni."
"Naruto..err Juushu," Tsunade said which earned her a collective gasp from the Konoha-nin present, "Konoha doesn't want a war, I apologize on behalf of Konoha for the actions of the few, no one was seriously injured, can we just forget about this incident?"
"Juushu-sama," Tsukiko addressed her husband, "It was just a misunderstanding. Lets just put this behind us and forget it ever happened, you still have some other things to do, that are more important than this, right? So please just forgive Konoha, they're not like the nine."
"Fine.." Juushu agreed to forget about the incident, since it was all a big misunderstanding, but of course he wouldn't just leave it at that, he dumped an entire report about the whole affair, in complete detail, on Tsunade's desk, that she might know of all the things that had transpired.
Once Juushu left, with Tsukiko following him, Yahiko had a few words that were needed to be said.
"Know this, anymore future acts of violence t'ward my lord, and there will be war, and Hi no Kuni will feel the wrath of Rosuto no Kuni, Kyuubi no Yoko will seem like a child's temper tantrum compared to the hell that Rosuto will unleash," Yahiko warned, then left, he just vanished into the wind. He was not Juushu, which means that he just ran faster than even Maito Gai was used to tracking.
Later that day, Tsunade decided to have her meeting with the village council as well as with the clan heads during the afternoon of that same day. Due to the events of the morning, she felt that it would be better to tell them about Juushu and his country sooner rather than later. She also had Shizune, Mikio also known as Dan, and Jiraiya look for the alleged file that she had signed regarding Juushu's resignation as a shinobi of Konoha. She needed that piece of paper as proof for some of the members of the councils in order to make sure that they did not try and do something stupid.
Before the meeting commenced, Shizune handed Tsunade the piece of paper which showed that indeed Juushu was no longer a shinobi of Konoha. She told Shizune, Mikio, and Jiraiya to wait for her in her office. They were not members of either council, even though one of the three of them was the Gama Sennin.
She started the meeting by telling the council members and clan heads the abridged version of the history of Rosuto no Kuni, she also had to explain to them that time travel was possible. They were forced to believe her, when they all heard a triple layered voice say that if they did not believe the possibility of time travel and that it was part of the way Rosuto no Kuni worked then they'd all be sealed by the Shinigami into teapots, the Shinigami then appeared before their very eyes ready to do just as the voice stated, they all knew that it was the real thing since the feeling that it gave off was unmistakably that of the death god, that and the god spat out the Sandaime and Yondaime who further threatened them into believing Tsunade. When they all agreed to the truth of the Godaime's words the Shinigami's presence vanished from the room, taking the souls of the departed kages with him.
Tsunade ended her little speech by confirming that Uzumaki Naruto and Rosuto Juushu were indeed one and the same. This little revelation and confirmation made some members of both council, as well as a few clan heads to call for the deaths of the members of the Rosuto contingent, stating that they were demons or monsters and were planning something devious as the reason beind their pleas and accusations.
These cries and arguments were swiftly met with a blast of killing intent from their Hokage as well as some of the other councilmen and woman and clan heads.
Before the meeting was over, Tsunade had all the people at the meeting agree not to provoke the Rosuto contingent into declaring war, especially since they were still in the dark about the true military capabilities of Rosuto.
It was nighttime, the streets of Konoha were painted black due to the darkness of the night, for some reason the street lights were not lit, and all was quiet, as if the whole village was in preparation for something sinister to transpire.
For the first time during his visit to Konoha, Juushu had shut off all his senses in order for him to actually sleep, which was probably a bad thing, he knew what his very village was capable of, but he never suspected that what was to occur that night would be worse than he had ever imagined.
Silently, in the way their legend was told, the a number of konoha shinobi snuck into the apartment complex, their target was any member of the Rosuto contingent that they came across. There were ten of them, ANBU, the best of the best, while at the same time the worst of the worst, these were not the regular ANBU who followed the orders of the Hokage and the Hokage alone, these were members of the illegal Ne division, run by the old warhawk Danzo.
The first person that the Ne team came across was Yoshiko. One of the group placed her in a deeper sleep, using a genjutsu that was similar to the forced sleep technique. She was then carried out of the complex, the other members of the team made sure that no one witnessed what they were doing. Getting caught would be a very bad thing for Konoha.
Once they had finally reached their base of operations, they presented her to Danzo, who smiled.
"Now that demon wont be able to do anything that might endanger Konoha, with her as a hostage, we can control whatever army he has and crush our foes."
The next day, the Rosuto party did not find anything amiss. Not finding Yoshiko in their midst, they chalked it up to her having gone out to explore the rest of the village or something like that.
When they left the complex to spend the rest of the day doing who knows what, Tsukiko couldn't shake the feeling that some was very wrong with Yoshiko's disappearance, or leaving early. She asked Juushu to find out where the girl was or at the very least what she was doing.
Juushu opened up his senses, activated and accessed his powers and abilities, and checked up on the girl, she was the youngest of the lot. Not a second later, Konoha felt the one thing that they never thought that they would ever feel again. The forgotten memories of Juushu's entrance into Konoha resurfaced, as well new ones were added to those ones.
It may have been morning, but to the entire Hi no Kuni, it was twilight. Juushu in a fit of anger had made the moon block the sun. He had overridden the control and commands of Tsukiyomi himself, and the god did not mind at all. In the next moment, the whole of Konoha, including the rest of the Rosuto contingent feared for their lives, as a chakra contruct resembling the Kyuubi towered over the village, and a wave of pure killing intent washed over the village, this one stronger than anything that Touken could muster.
On top of the head of the chakra golem stood Juushu, in full battle gear, in one hand was his katana. He leapt off of the head of the Kyuubi golem, landed infront of the Hokage Tower, turned around and sheathed his katana. What followed would have amazed the people present, if it weren't for the fact that they were all scared shitless.
Each of the heads on the Hokage Mountain dropped to the groud, as if they were decapitated from the mountain. Behind Juushu, the Hokage Tower exploded after a visible vertical slice through its middle could be seen by people nearby. Juushu made sure that no one died that day.
Holding out his arms as if carrying someone, he willed Yoshiko to appear in his arms. Before he could leap back onto the head of the golem, Tsunade along with the Konoha-nin that had come to their senses arrived attempting to block his path.
"Naruto! What do you think you are doing? Why did you suddenly attack?" Tsunade demanded.
"Ask Oji-san's third greatest mistake," was the only reply that Juushu gave before leaping into the air, becoming the wind and taking all that was his with him.
"I shall snuff out the flames of the Land of Fire, any and all that oppose me shall suffer," Juushu announced for all of Hi no Kuni to hear, "Blame your protectors for this tradgedy."
With those parting words the sun shone once again above Hi no Kuni, but a feeling of dread and foreboding settled on the populace of one of the five great nations of the elemental continent.