The Exile

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Chapter 9: Introspective

Amon Senju, Takikage sat behind his desk and looked at his surrounding. His office which was in the new Takikage building was build as a thanks to him 5 years before as a thanks for his help in the rise of Taki. Amon quietly looked around at all of the picture that represented the almost 14 years that he had been the leader of Taki. It had been 12 years since had had come back to Taki with the rest of his family. A fact, which made Ayeka very happy was that he married Shizune a year later. The memories of that moment brought a large smile to his face, thinking of the happiness, and just how adorable Eien, and Naruto were at that point.

Then his mind went to a point that was 3 months later, Amon had decided to sleep in that day, knowing that Eien and Naruto where with Tenchi and Ayeka playing with their little ones. Amon slowly convinced himself that it was the right time to get up. Nothing seemed out of place until he came down the stairs, and noticed that the fanciest breakfast he had ever seen was sitting waiting for him to arrive. Amon quietly made his way down the stairs to his breakfast where he prepared himself for some horrific news. He noticed how quiet Shizune was and he became even worried, did some major accident happen with either Eien, or Naruto. No he would of heard about that by this moment, what could it be. Taking a bite, Amon looked closely at Shizune hoping to get some answer from his wife. Yet, he was unable able to read anything into what caused this meal to be made. Maybe it was just kindness, it was possible, was it a important day that he had missed, or she had missed, and thus was making up for it. No, she would never do that, he was the one to forget the important dates not her. Then she also looked a tad nervous, why would she look like that. Amons mind race as she walked over to him. When she whispered into his ear, he almost laughed, before putting down his silverware and giving his wife a huge hug.

"That is nothing to worry about," Amon said with a smile, "This is great, though, I wonder how Eien, and Naruto will deal with it, and we will for sure have to improve this place. Another kid, this is going to be fun."

Amon smiled at the memory of youngest son's birth. Tobirama Senju was named after his grandfather, the Second Hokage. Amons smiled thinking of the 11 year old boy, who had advanced one year in his learning to graduate with Eien and Naruto. Tobirama was very much unlike his sibling, he was a quiet child who spent most of his time watching older shinobi train, or studying the ways of the shinobi.

His mind went over his wife, Shizune, causing him to smile brightly at the thought of his wife. She had been so important to him over these years. He knew for a fact he could of never dealt with the problems and challenges without the aid of his wife. He also knew Shizune had done more the medic-nin of Konoha then anyone else in the history of the village. She still was pretty much the same though, and he was at least glad for that.

Amon's mind moved on thinking of all the challenging times that would come the following two years, but also the good times as well. He remembered the late nights with 3 youngsters, but also the first chuunin exam in the leaf, where his own Taki shinobi were able to hold there own if not more against every village that attended. He remembered that as years went, the Taki shinobi established themselves as equals to anyone. He also laughingly would remember the first two classes as the swordmen classes. Those two classes were ones filled by shinobi who learned swordsmanship as a major part of their academy classes. The top students from those classes were amazing swordsmen. While even up to this point, Taki had a huge amount of swordsmen, it was those first two classes that would be known as the ones that gave Taki the laughing name of the village hidden in the sheath.

Amon smiled as he looked at a picture of the first day that Eien and Naruto were at school. He remembered that a second later, the two were in a small fight over something minor. Then again, that was how they were, they were good kids and secretly respected the other, but the two sometimes would just hit heads on issues, from small things to large things, while Tobirama ignored the two of them, and went off to train. Amon smiled as he thought of his children.

Eien, the princess was pretty much the opposite of that, she was not afraid to get down and dirty with the boys, but she also had avoid really getting into much trouble at the academy like Tobirama. She was also a pretty loud young shinobi, and didn't lack for confidence in her abilities at all. Then there was Naruto, Amon shock his head as he thought of the overactive hyper shinobi. He couldn't remember the number of times that he had been forced to leave a meeting to go check on his son for getting into trouble. He also knew that Naruto was the hardest worker of the three, even a harder worker then Tobirama. Yet, his grade's were no where near that of Tobirama. At least he was able to make a good number of friends at the academy.

Amon, looked at a different picture of another close friend, and also fellow Konoha Exile. The picture was of none other then Obito Uchiha. He remembered that Obito had been over spending the week teaching, when the Uchiha Massacre happened. He found out latter the cause of the incident, but because of the attempted uprising of the Uchiha, the murders by Itachi, the elders of Konoha didn't want to deal with Obito. It was shortly after, that a false rumor came about that said Obito had something to do with the massacre. The village elders then used this as an excuse banish Obito from Konoha, along with Sasuke. It seemed the Uchiha clan as a whole as a taboo subject in Konoha. Amon quickly gave the young Uchiha along with Obito refuge in Taki, and later Obito was given the title of Jounin of Taki, and Sasuke would be among this years class of Taki shinobi. Amon was surprised a bit that they let the Uchiha's go, after hearing rumors that the elders may have had a role in the murder of the Uchiha clan.

Thinking of his old home, he knew that the relations between the two had been good, but had some rather rocky spots, such as when they took in the last Uchiha, or when they established a strong relationship with the cloud village as well. Still despite these problems, the two had always had a solid alliance, and he also had a good relationship with the Hokage as well.

Lastly, Amon looked at his desk to notice the large amount of paperwork he had finished that day. While the paperwork was never really that bad, the number of missions that the shinobi of Taki would go on, were far above average, and way higher then what they were when he started as leader of Taki. Still, it made him proud, his shinobi had proven themselves to the great lords, and were now counted on as much as any other mission as any other villages by the various lords. Amon slowly got up as he headed down to the graduation ceremony.

A/N- I hope you liked it, I think this will be the last chapter where Amon is the main character, the story will now more or less flow to the youngsters. If you liked it please review, also if you have any ideas also review. Two more favors, please vote in the poll, and please read Naruto: Friendship, I just edited it.