The Exile
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Chapter 6: Day of Memories
The sun shine brightly on the world, the birds were singing perfect songs in the sky, and everything seemed to be in perfect peace. For Amon, everything was going well as it could. He had to admit to himself he was very nervous about this day. A day that he had been dreading for a very young time. You see it all started a couple of days before.
Amon was sitting working on paper work on the exams of the new gennin class of students, when he got another letter from Konoha. This one was a request from the forth hokage himself to come and see him. It told him, that as the Kage of Taki, the two of them needed to set things up to keep the future of Konoha-Taki relations at this all time high. Amon knew that he did have a choice, and he was forced to have Tenchi watch little Eien, unsure it was right to travel that far with a baby. He had left the day before and had made good time on the first day of travel, and this day with its wonderful weather was going well too. Still it had been near two years since he had been forced into exile from the leaf, and now he was back. Yet, this time things were different, he was not Konoha shinobi, no he was a Taki Shinobi, and the Kage of Taki not Konoha. Still, seeing if Konoha had changed in 22 months would be interesting.
Amon, thought of the past, of the happy days with friends and family in Konoha, back before the times of wars, and death. He remembered when he lost different members of his family in the great shinobi wars. Pulling out his sword, he remembered how his grandfather and father spent 2 days making the sword with the help of Sakumo, and gave it to him when he was little. The sword was basicly the same as it was then, except one of the makers the symbol of the leaf was now that of the waterfall. He once saw his grandfather train when he was little before he passed away, it was amazing. He still even as a young adult, he could not match what he saw when he was but a child. His was only 5 when his grandfather died in the first great shinobi war, but despite that he would never forget the old. Amon laughed as he thought how he was too young to fight in the second great war, and it was the third great war, he made his own name, with the waterfall.
As he walked up to the gates of Konoha, he smiled as the doors opened quickly for him. Two young shinobi were at the enterance to welcome any friends of Konoha into the village to turn away enemies. The two looked at him for a second trying to figure which category he fit in or something.
"Lord Takikage, where is your body guards, you did bring some with you on your journey right?" one of the two asked politely.
"Yeah, I do know my way around here," Amon replied with a smile.
"Yes, your lordship, the Hokage is excepting you in his office, he will be glad to see you, do you need me to show.."
"Like I said, I have been to the Hokage's office a time or two, I got it, thanks for the welcome though."
Amon made his way towards the Hokage's office, noticing the town looked decent, it didn't look as nice as when he was there last, but he left right before the start of the third shinobi war, and that had taken a toll on Konoha. Amon still though could see the everlasting spirit of fire that was in the eyes of the villagers of Konoha. Walking into the Hokage's office, Amon had to remind himself that he was not a Jounin of the leaf, there to get a mission, but the Takikage, there to see the Hokage as an equal.
"Lord Hokage," Amon said politely walking into the Hokage's office.
"Amon, it is great to see you made it," Minato replied in a calm collected tone. "Lets drop the titles, we both know each other far to well for that."
"Of course, how are things, how is Kushina, doing" Amon asked deciding to start with the small stuff, and then figure out what Konoha wanted with Taki.
"Good, she is pregnant, and will give birth to our first child, a son," Minato said with a huge smile on his face, "She is handling the whole situation well, and so am I?"
"Yeah, forewarned children can be a handful," Amon said with a laugh, "Have you two came up with a name yet?"
"Yeah, Naruto, did you just say you had a child," Minato asked looking a bit surprised, "So you got married and everything and didn't tell your old pal."
"Hmmm…no, I adopted a young girl, who needed a family, it was a request, that I had to accept."
"I see, you know she would be welcomed her like a celebrity," Minato said as he laughed, "So what is her name?"
"Eien Hime," Amon admitted with a smile, causing Minato to laugh even harder for a second.
"Princess, you know your cousin would love to hear about it."
"Yeah, how is she, I heard she lost a lot in the last war."
"Yes she did," Minato said pausing to change to from a happy to sad subject, "She lost everyone one close to her, and she hasn't taken it too well."
"I am sorry to hear that, I will have to see if I can find her, to talk about it," Amon replied in a solemn tone.
"I still find it odd to think with you in Taki, that she is the last of her clan here."
"It is the sad fate of a warrior clan to have this happen."
"Yeah, but the Senju were the founders as well, and now it is just you and Tsunade. Her the granddaughter of the First Hokage, and you the grandson of the Second Hokage."
"Well, things happen, clans rise and fall, even the Uchiha will fall someday," Amon said wanting to get to a different subject, "So what was the real reason you wanted me here, I know it was not for just small talk."
"Correct, Amon, I have been hearing disturbing rumors about a new threat, and I believe the Senju's old enemy Madara is behind it. I wanted to get Taki's agreement of an alliance against this and other possible threats. You see, Konoha is in a weakened state right now, we lost a large number of shinobi in the last war. Many worry that the best days of the village are behind it," Minato said pausing, "Taki on the other hand avoided the large hardships, thanks to input you. Our intell, tells us Taki has grown much stronger since the war, and I know will become a equal to the great shinobi villages in a few years. This alliance will allow for both of us to continue to raise over the years and show the rest of the world that starting any more wars would be a fools error, especial with how wrecked most of them are now. Secondly, I have something for you, it was left too you, and despite your allegiance now, you should have it."
"I have no problem with the alliance," Amon replied stopping, "I am unsure I should have the other."
"Amon Senju…It was your grandfathers, at least honor his will in that!" Minato said angrier then he had ever seen him.
Amon sat still thinking about his grandfather, after a second he knew it was always right to take it, "Fine, it will be the symbol of the alliance between Leaf and Waterfall."
Amon took his grandfather's sword from Minato and slide it correctly as he had been shown years before by the original owner of the sword.
"I better go see Tsunade, I am sure she will get herself drunk latter," Amon said walking out of the Hokage's offices.
As Amon walked towards the district he knew he would find his cousin, he consitantly played with the sword with his thumb moving it just slightly. It was the sword of the Thunder God, a sword that he knew he would never be good enough to use in combat. As he fiddled with the sword, he thought about his cousin. She was a good deal older then him, being that he was the grandson of the first hokage's younger brother. Tsunade had gotten to know both the first and second hokage well, while he never meet the first hokage, since he died before he was born. Still, when he thought of his older cousin, he smiled, she had been pretty nice to him growing up, before the second great war. He had never really ran into that much afterwards, until he graduated, and was forced to run missions for the lady from time to time. He wondered how bad things were for her. While Nawaki was also his cousin, he never really knew the young gennin before he died. He did know Dan though, he was a heck of a shinobi, one which he figured would be a kage a hundred years before him. He also knew him, because of his niece.
Walking into the first bar he could hear Tsunade as soon as he walked in. Walking into the gambling hall and bar, he could hear the complaints of Tsunade at her machine. Amon, knew about how she could never win at anything dealing with luck, well everyone knew that. Amon smiled as he noticed Shizune running to try to find a way to get more chips. He allowed his eyes to follow his cousin's assistant for a while, before walking father into the room. Just from his observations, she had not changed very much at all since he saw her, right before he left
"Amon Senju, how is my little cousin doing," Tsunade turned to him with a large smile, " heard you're the Takikage, congrats. You know we Senju are together much."
"Yeah, good to see you too, you look great, but then again you always did," Amon said with a smile, "Shizune, you look great too. As amazing as ever, I would say."
The comment caused Shizune to blush slightly.
"Well Amon, you need to remember write, it would help some people a lot," Tsunade said very serious for a second, "Well, hey you are a powerful fellow now little cousin, why don't you join the big leagues, I am sure you can handle a little gambling."
"Sure, sounds great, no problems here," Amon said walking up to one of he machine and putting some lose coins into it.
A/N- I hope you liked it, I decided to make Amon a Senju, it makes more sense why someone would think him important enough to force out of Konoha. The next chapter will be the nine tails attack, I was going to make it this one, but I wanted to use this to give Amon more of a background. He also will more then likely never use Thunder God sword except for maybe the next fight he is in. It will be more of a symbol in Taki then anything. If you liked the chapter please review, if you have any ideas, on anything related to the story say so in the review.