Before we get into the next chapter I just wanted to make a quick AN. I am sorry for how late this chapter is compared to my others. I am going to school and have a part time job so updates will be sporadic at best. I have fun making and writing this story for you all but this is my first ever attempt at anything like this. So please bare with me as I figure this writing thing out. so sorry not sorry. But without further ado let's get into it
When hiruzen went to bed on the anniversary of his greatest failure, he expected to wake up several hours later with a hangover. But when he awoke to the sound of an explosion he was hard pressed to not be sent into shock from ptsd from the kyubi attack. However when one of his anbu knocked on his door he already had his shinobi gear on.
"lord third, there has been an explosion in sector R8, there were 10 casualties and 2 buildings have been damaged".
Hiruzen moved with speed that got him his title of god of shinobi and was on the scene in only a couple of minutes. But it would seem that he was to late, whoever had done this was long gone. It took his anbu a couple more minutes to reach him and when they did he quickly ordered 1 to get fire and first response teams on scene and the others to fan out and search for anything they could use to try and find out what happened.
(quick AN my konoha is much larger then most, it is also divided into a grid with the hokage tower as its center. positive numbers face the main gate while negative numbers go backwards pass the hokages monument. And the alphabet starts at A on the left and ends at z on the right. Also each grid is about 2 miles in either direction do with that what you will)
after a couple of minutes one of his anbu appeared in front of him already kneeling when they said in a distorted voice "sir we have found one kakashi hatake code name dog laying in a pool of his own blood, he is being transported to the hospital as we speak."
"Kakashi?" The hokage thought. Wasn't he on a mission? He must have completed it early and responded when he saw the explosion the Hokage concluded. Although the thought that someone could take down one of his best frighten him slightly. However that still didn't answer the question as to why the explosion was set off. "Leopard, have the casualties ran against known yakuze members and have full background reports on them on my desk by the morning." The anbu with a quick "hai, Hokage sir" shunshined away. Hiruzen rubbed at his temples as he tried to stop the headache that he was sure was going to come on from this situation.
Time skip 2 weeks later.
Hospital, shinobi wing
"He is right this way sir, the first thing he did when he awoke was to request you." The medic nin informed him, as he led Hiruzen to the intensive care unit. The doctor opened a door and let the Hokage, decked out in his formal robes, into the room.
There was a nurse checking over some machinery, as another was talking to one kakashi hatake who looked very scared even though you could only see half of his face with the mask he wore. When he spotted the Hokage his lone eye locked onto him and in a wavy voice that sounded like it hurt him to talk wheezed out "they took Naruto".
Hiruzens eyes widen comically as he tried to digest what the masked man said. It had been two weeks, two weeks of searching and infiltrating yakuze organizations only for it to all be wasted time and manpower. The Hokage didn't realize he was subconsciously releasing killing intent until he saw the nurse who was standing next to kakashi let out a gasp and fell to one knee.
Upon getting back control over his emotions and turning off the ki he turned back to the lone occupant of the bed and said in a commanding voice "report". Kakashi then explained to him what had happened, from his killing of the A rank team of missing nins to him stumbling on to the kidnapping of the fourths son and the villages jinchuuriki, he then explained how he pursued the two and subduing them.
However with the combination of him being significantly weakened from his last mission, and the perceived safety of his little brother figure, didn't sense the use of a mud clone and was snuck up on by a third ninja and stabbed in the back. Luckily he was able to stop the blade from reaching his heart but he was unable to continue pursuit and passed out.
The Hokage was very nearly sent into another fit of rage at the report from kakashi, if what he said was true then there should have been two body's for them to find. However no such body's were located. This led hiruzen to a conclusion he didn't want to believe, however he was broken out of his thought when kakashi spoke up again "Sir do you know who did this?" Kakashi asked.
Hiruzen cursed in his head. He must have let his thoughts slip onto his face. "Kakashi" he started, "do you know who danzo shimura is"
Back with Naruto (me? Idk)
it's been about 2 weeks sense I was kidnapped and all things considered it hasn't been bad.. per say. Well when you think of people being kidnapped you probably think of a dark room with a lone bed and maybe 2 terrible meals a day or something similar, but my kidnapper had a different idea.
Flashback 2 weeks ago
"Man my head feels like shit". I thought as I groggily brought up my hand to rub at my eyes. When I was done I opened my eyes expecting to see the same wood ceiling I had seen every other day, and prepare myself for another day of trying to understand the Japanese language from scratch, but the ceiling that I saw wasn't the same. That's when it all came flooding back to my mind as I sat bolt up right and took in my surroundings what i saw confused me.
I was inside of a normal looking room? It had normal grayish looking walls with a nice carpeted floor. The room also had what looked like baby toys spread all around the floor. Things like building blocks and stuffed animals and one of those colorful ring/ donut towers, there was a door on the far side of the room painted white. The only light in the room was coming from a standard circle light at the ceiling. I looked down to see that I was in a new pair of clothes the old hand me downs from the orphanage being replaced with a white t-shirt and a pair of blue cargo shorts. I also saw and felt that I was in a much more comfortable bed.
However I could recognize this for what it is, this was an attempt to lower my guard, to give me all the things I didn't have in an attempt to win my trust to whoever was going to walk through that door. Once I made this realization my first thought was danzo. It would make sense he would want me in order to train me as one of his little tools. However I can't know for sure, the shinobi that captured me weren't wearing any identifying clothing so for all I know instead of my status as a jinchurriki getting leaked my identity was. However I quickly dismissed that thought. If the hidden rock knew of me they would want me dead not captured.
I also dismissed the idea of someone knowing of my reincarnating of ashura, because if I remember properly from cannon anything relating to the sage wasn't even confirmed tell shippuden and that was many many years from now. So that brings me back to the last thing that makes me special, me being a jinchurriki. Based on the fact that I haven't been looked at any different then a little orphan child my status wasn't leaked. Which limited the pool of people who knew of my status to only 18 people. Well assuming that nobody broke the law that I was sure was in place preventing my status from being discussed.
And of those 18 people 7 of them (the civilians) aren't shinobi trained so they couldn't have done it. And the clan heads I think would know better then to disobey the Hokage. So that only left the elders, and only one name comes to mind. Danzo.
However I was broken out of my thoughts when the door finally opened up and in stepped a woman. She was about 5'6 and had light brown hair and was wearing a standard black and white maid outfit. Her eyes however gave her away. They were completely dull and lifeless, it was a little creepy I had to suppress the urge to shiver when those cold eyes landed on me. "Master uzumaki, you are awake." she said more like a statement then a question. She then continued on to say "your attendance has been requested by the lord of this house".
I was very wary of the blank faced woman, it was obvious that she was being forced to do this and if someone can force an older teen to do something then they sure could make me, a child do it. However after a couple of seconds I decided that maybe I was saved and that hopefully this lord wasn't who I thought it was.
I scooted off my bed landing as quietly as I could, got to practice what I can when I can. And followed the woman out of the room. She led me down the wooden hallways, they seemed to be tastefully decorated too with some engravings on the load baring struts and little tables with some plants on them. We passed a couple of art pieces depicting different places in nature.
It wasn't until we took another left turn into an open room with a two doors in between two stair cases. (Think the front entrance for the Queens manner from arrow) she then lead me up the stairs we had to make another turn to continue up but I was half tempted to just book it out of the door between the stairs. It was one of the first doors I had seen other then the one to the room I was in previously.
However I knew I wouldn't be able to get far so I just added it to the mental map I was making of the place. After a couple more turns the woman brought me to a set of mahogany doors. She then brought up her hand and knocked three times on the door. A faint "come in" could be heard from the other side. The woman then grabbed the two handles and pushed open the door. When she did it revealed a study. On the opposite side of the door was a fireplace with a fire already lit inside. On the left side of the room the entire wall was filled to the brim with books and scrolls neatly placed on book shelfs. In the center of the room in front of the fire place were two couches facing each other, between them was a small carpet. Then when my eyes got to the right side of the room I almost made an audible gulping sound.
Sitting at a desk doing some paperwork was the mummy himself, Danzo Shimura. He stopped what he was doing when he saw me looking at him. He put down his pen and turned his lone eye on me. I immediately schooled my face into one of boredom and disinterested in anything around me, however it was anything but. I was taking in every detail of the man that I could. So that's why I could see the slight narrowing of the man's eye good eye.
When I saw this I cursed mentally before saying in as childishly as I could while keeping my face the same, "you are mummy?" The woman next to me looked down at the floor as she shifted her weight between her feet uncomfortably. But my attention was drawn away from her when I saw a rye smile come onto the old war hawks face. Then he waved his hand to a chair in front of him and said "sit you brat". I wasn't sure how much emotion would be best to show around this man so I settled for a slightly but noticeable narrowing of my eye brows.
However this man was still someone I did not want to make to angry so I walked to the chair. My small stature however meant that the seat was at eye level to me. That wasn't going to stop me, so with all the strength I could I reached up into the seat, happily finding a small button to grab onto so I could fling my leg up into the set before pulling up the rest of my body.
When I finally turned around and looked at the old man he was giving me an appraising look. As if he was judging my usefulness. That thought made me realize that from here on this would be a test and the results of which I don't know if I wanted to know the answer to. However after a couple more seconds of us just sitting in silence I decided to say something like any other kid would, "the girl said you need see me." Danzo just nodded his head before saying "yes I did ask for seniki to bring you to me when you awoke." I wasn't sure if he was trying to stall for time, or if he is doing what my German teacher does and was just fixing my sentence for me.
In any case I just decided to nod my head. This seemed to be the right choice because the one eyes man continued saying "Naruto do you know who I am?" This was a question to see how much I knew. So I decided that since this man practically lives and breaths the shadows it was best to deny anything and take things as they come. I shook my head in the negative. He then said "Each morning I appear to lie at your feet. All day I will follow no matter how fast you run, yet I nearly perish in the midday sun. What am I"
"A riddle?!" I cursed again mentally. So this is a test I finally concluded. I thought about what he said for a couple of seconds before it hit me. When the sun is in mid day the only thing that parishes are, "shadows". This was the right answer it seems as the leader or root had a slight smile on his face, which seemed completely out of place for what I knew of this man. "Correct, brat."
End of flashback
After that little interview as you could call it. Danzo had said that he thinks that I have potential and that I would be staying with him instead of at the orphanage. I had initially wanted to down right refuse but I knew that any other 1 year old would jump at the chance to live inside of a big house with a bunch of nice things.
So I didn't say anything and instead followed seniki I think he had called her out of the room. And after that day started a sort of training. I would be waken up every morning by seniki and she would make me breakfast. After which I was allowed to do as I pleases until danzo got back which was around noon.
From then he would give me lessons of sorts. He would mainly talk about something, it could be anything from the weather to old story's back when he was a shinobi. He then told me to interrupt if I didn't understand anything. This did wonders for my speaking and understanding of Japanese. It also allowed me to gain much insight and information on who danzo was as a person.
However I was always wary of the old war hawk. Even if most of the story's he told made enough sense, I still wasn't willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. All of this could just be some plot to deceive me and all of these stories could be lies.
