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Chapter 91
The fourth Kazekage kept a straight face and acted as professional as everyone in the room. Suna could not announce its involvement in the invasion yet, Rasa wanted to be the final nail struck into Konoha's downfall and he planned on being it. He refrained from looking at Orochimaru of the Sanin who stood behind him in the disguise he referred to as Orimaru.
Sarutobi could not excuse himself from the room, this was a five Kage Summit, and whoever was brave enough to attack them was a fool but Whoever was brave enough to attack Five Kages and come out victorious would make them the fools. Hiruzen Sarutobi could only sit there and let what happens, happen.
"What is the meaning of this Sarutobi?!" Rasa began with a bite in his tone his deep and gruff voice barking out the question like an order. He was quite the actor. After all, nobody caught on to the fact he was acting, maybe because every other Kage in the room was hoping for Konoha to just fuck there and then because the exams went splendidly.
"It is nothing to worry about." Hiruzen answered straight, his old, raspy, and faded voice sending the message of 'I'm not in a good mood right now' to the gathered Kages and their protection details.
"It must be some drunk tourists, the Police Force will handle it." Rasa watched Fugaku Uchiha turn on his heel with a grunt and walk toward the exit. The gold dust user knew that even with the difference in titles, he wouldn't be able to kill Fugaku without pulling out the big guns, they are from the same generation after all, and Rasa could still remember the fear the man struck on many of his allies.
"Wicked Eye Fugaku." The fifth Mizukage called out to Fugaku but the man continued walking, it was one of those innate Uchiha swaggers everyone loved to hate.
"Quite a rude man." The Masked, hooded Kage deduced uncaringly, you could tell by the way he phrased his words.
"A Fourth Shinobi world war is a close call away, kirigakure Just found itself out of a civil war. To participate in another war now is self-destructive." Rasa listened to the Hokage speak, he felt bewildered that the third would simply jump back to a previous subject they all wanted to hear nothing about.
"I do not want to hear about your ordeals Sarutobi,! I asked you to tell me more about the Taya Tag, and that is all I want to hear about." Rasa nodded in agreement with the fourth Raikage's words, he could just imagine Hiruzen convincing the other Kages to ally with the leaf village when he was cutting out of that alliance.
'I will become a laughing stock of a Kage.' The invading man thought with a nervous sweat dripping down his brow.
"As a product of the leaf village! The distribution and trading of the Taya tags will only be negotiated with its allies!" Hiruzen boomed with authority also smacking his table in anger but reining it in with no one being the wiser. Rasa thought those TAYA Tags would be very useful in his endeavors but it gave him a great idea.
"Then Sunagakure as an ally of Konohagaru would like to know more about these Tags." Rasa shot back at the aged Hokage and caught him unprepared, If Hiruzen denied an ally in front of potential allies he would be taking steps back in his attempt to ally with them.
Hiruzen smiled nicely Rasa's way but Rasa could see that little twitch in his brow, the fourth Kazekage decided to grunt and look at the feeds in the room. The audience did not panic because they did not pick up on the chaos happening outside the stadium and the blaring siren had stopped sounding a while ago.
Down below Yamato was making his way to the blonde Genin who held the hyūga girl in his arms. The Wood release user said the siren was to 'tell the whole of Konoha that the finals had a winner'.
The Kazekage was weary of Naruto Uzumaki, there was a reason why the clan was killed off but Rasa wouldn't waste his time contemplating those reasons now. When he had more pressing matters to worry about.
"Well then Sarutobi, will you deny your 'ally' this privilege?" Onoki asked with a smirk that said it all, he was enjoying himself and Rasa almost sneered at the old man. Orochimaru's words about the history of Kages replaying in his mind, as well as Gatō's proposal.
'It is truly a shame that Gold amounts to nothing in a society where the only people interested in it have them in abundance.' Rasa felt a pang in his chest when he heard those words spoken by Gatō back in Suna but he knew for a fact that it was true. Rasa has the power to call upon a huge amount of gold at will and somehow Suna still suffered economically, the absurdity.
'I truly miss my paperwork.'
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'No don't Sasuke-Kun, this guy is out of your league.' Itachi told me but his eyes never left the masked man standing in front of us. I blinked and the memory stopped, itachi called him ghost the first time we met, and the dobe thought him a Uchiha.
I remember everything that happened very clearly from the moment I activated my dojutsu and tried to jump at the chance to fight another opponent after feeling the thrill of battle during my fight with Haku.
I kept a straight face and sat on the bed I had occupied after losing to Naruto, that memory would not go away either. My mother looked at me with a twinkle in her eyes I could not recognize. I think I'm just being paranoid after what I have done.
'She truly was useless to the bitter end, what shinobi dies by getting choked?..' The thought annoyed me but I let it die because the subject of said annoyance was no more, which leaves me able to concentrate on more important things.
A Shinobi is a killer, the definition of the dark side of society, and yet they want to make it about 'rainbows and butterflies…' I hate losing, I hate weakness, I seek strength and strength is what represents a strong Shinobi! I solve my problems the way problems should be solved, directly and immediately.
"Why did you not wait for the medical Ninja' to bandage you up Sasuke-Chan?" I reluctantly laid on my back when my mother pushed me down and I looked her in the eye before replying.
"I needed some air." Quick simple and realistic.
"We need to talk about something important." She continued quickly unbothered before standing straight.
"I know it is hard sometimes to express ourselves when we're hurting." 'Mother' I thought finding myself immediately mellowed down by her sad tone. She unclipped the first button of my hospital gown, and I don't know why I felt I had to look back into that observation.
"When you were still a baby you loved Itachi so much and, and you-you would always reach out to his face." The second clip. "Itachi said you were the most joyous when reaching out to his eyes, and he loves your smile so much he wishes to see it everywhere." The next button and I narrowed my eyes in confusion. She smiled back at me like she always does, she unclipped the last button and I now lay as naked as I was born, the hospital gown being all I had on.
Mother quickly went through hand seals and I watched her with my eyes able to follow her hand movements even at the speed she cast them. 'Ox, Tiger' wasn't a long sequence but I activated my eyes and captured it, adding it to my repertoire.
"Mystic palm" she whispered before picking up where she left off. "My baby?…" She choked on her words and I spoke.
"What are trying to say, Mother." I said softly feeling very much like a villain for seeing her cry, I didn't understand what she was trying to imply, does she know something?!
"Is-did does-…oh Sasuke!" The green chakra flickered for a moment when Mother lost her cool again and began leaking tears on my stomach. I tried to speak up and tell her she didn't have to get emotional like this but.
"Have you ever dreamt about strange eyes before? Like a Sharingan with a distinctly different pattern ?" She managed to say quickly and I frowned not quite able to remember ever…. Wait! the day Naruto and Hinata came over. The dream was blurry but I remember a very menacing eye staring me into a repeat of the nightmare that led me to the eyes in the first place.
"Mom!!" I called out in fear when the memory of her dead body lay in front of me. My active eyes captured the fear, sadness, and anguish I felt and stored it away to torment me another day.
"You have." Mother voiced and I looked at her in the eye again, seeing that twinkle I could not place. "It was whose eyes?" Mother asked panicked even as she healed my wounds. I could feel a weight in my eyes, the kind I felt every time my dojutsu activated.
I saw my reflection in her eyes and immediately deactivated my Sharingan eyes.
'Why is it not ending!' I panicked inwardly…
"Oh Sasuke!…" Mother cried profusely and took a sad look down to wipe her tears with her shoulders before looking back at me. Mother looked back at me and I saw the dojutsu deactivated.
"We all love you Sasuke-Kun, look at mommy okay.., I-I am so proud of you, and I love my handsome little boy. His incredible and strong, why would he not have all the girls running for him..?" Mom was ranting but I captured all of her words in a very slow tempo. 'What is she trying to imply.'
"Sasuke-Chan, what is the Sharingan to you?" Mom asked me with her dojutsu activating, revealing a distinctly different pattern I had never seen and everything went dark.
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"Stop! In The Name Of The Law!." Shisui exclaimed with a smirk on his face as he poked his enemy's forehead protector with his index finger like he was a child.
"You could hurt the talking head with that kunai!." The police officer continued while vitalizing his body and spinning his shadow to set a trajectory before moving with maximum velocity.
The sound ninja's eyes widened when the Uchiha Jōnin dodged his forward hand thrust and instead delivered a kick to his head that had him spitting blood and rolling on the floor unceremoniously for a couple of feet damaging his clothes. The Ex Investigator landed in a crouch and moved away from the location so fast it fooled his enemy's brain into seeing an image that was not there anymore.
"Do Not Fight Back, Let Us Let Our Words Do The Talking!" Shisui is a fun guy, you can say he is 'cool' in his own goofy way. A 'cool' Uncle kind of figure. He landed a devastating punch to the sound Ninja he couldn't name's nose, and broke it on contact.
'I've never seen something as funky as a two-headed criminal.' Shishui thought as he stopped to observe the sound of ninja as he grabbed onto his nose that bled like a faucet. The police officer moved and arrived in front of his target who reacted quickly but Shisui still dodged a Kunai thrust to the heart by moving left and out of the way.
He threw two jabs immediately after dodging cleanly, the jabs landed squarely on the sound ninja's nose and did more Damage while also disorienting him. The Uchiha kicked low and hooked his foot around his opponent's leg before pulling back. A kata of the interceptor fist every Uchiha should know.
The sound ninja landed on his back, hitting the back of his head on the rooftop they did battle hard and quickly rolled out of the way expecting Shisui to follow through with his attack but the Uchiha didn't.
Shisui was surprised to see the man's injuries heal away when the black patterns around his face glowed a fiery orange and spread throughout the body. The ninja smirked in an egotistical way that Shisui thought reminded him of a Uchiha.
Shishui likes playing the good cop so he smiled as he did his job. The ex-investigator took the Interceptor fist and moved with lightning speed to attack the sound ninja turning blue for some reason.
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Shikamaru found himself in the section of the audience assigned to the Genins of Konoha. Choji was praising him profusely, saying he almost had them with the strategy they worked out. Choji also mentioned how he was angry at Sasuke for almost killing him, and Shikamaru Cynically thought what Choji's anger would do about it.
'I almost killed him, troublesome.' Shikamaru at that moment lost reality and entered his mind. 'I was so close to killing him, what got into me.' Shikamaru did not know what led him to seek out Sasuke when he got eliminated but when the Nara found him and saw him lying peacefully in bed, he only felt a single urge, and that was to rest him in peace forever.
'Was it because he almost killed me?' Shikamaru could never forget the scene, the flash of light before he died. Death had gripped his soul and given it a shake, at that moment all Shikamaru could think was.
'I don't want to die.' The Chūnin hopeful raised his hands to the top of his head and rubbed his hair back, trying to relax his stiff posture and loosen his shoulder muscles. Shikamaru could feel the charge of what was being expected of him physically weighing down on his shoulders.
'Right after almost dying they hit me with this troublesome revelation.' The Nara was very much annoyed.
"I'm sure you will become Chūnin, the audience was very excited when you all attacked team 7 and even built an alliance with the foreign ninjas." Choji kept talking while he ate away and munched on some chips with a bottle of water next to him.
'The Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tailed Fox.' Shikamaru groaned at the reminder of the new information he was handed. The Nara Genin watched Naruto converse with the wood release proctor of the finals for a few seconds before the two made their way toward the corridor leading out of the arena floor at a leisurely pace because Naruto Uzumaki wanted to bask in the loud noises a bit longer.
'Like a final boss of a game.' The Nara strategist thought with a grim outlook on life. 'How did I not see it before?' The Nara lost sight of the world around him and entered his mind again.
'Tailed beasts are chakra constructs that cannot be killed, only sealed or let loose, if a Jinchuriki dies, his tailed beast will leave the body over a period while reforming elsewhere. Most tailed beasts are still slowly siphoning chakra from their previous jailer's corpses which means most Tailed beasts ever jailed were never in their full strength, whenever they rampage.' Shikamaru rubbed his head while ignoring Choji to continue examining the information given and the ones already taught at the academy before compiling them.
"The only man to have ever fought all-tailed beasts in their full power and come out victorious was Hashirama Senju, the God of Shinobi." Shikamaru mumbled subconsciously as he lost his cool in his own way.
'Naruto, the Nine-tailed fox's Jinchuriki.' The Genin imagined how chaotic the world had suddenly become.
"Shut Up." Shikamaru was starting to think the word troublesome was too long and troublesome on its own to say. Choji who was about to speak out blinked in confusion before nodding with a confused look in his eye. 'Troublesome' Shikamaru still inwardly Added.
"Choji. There. Is. Something. We need to talk about." Shikamaru said gaining his 'best friends' interest. Shikamaru didn't know what they wanted from him but he would try his best because he did not know the grinning blonde's threat level, not counting the fox in the mix.
"A one-man Ariel bombardment unit." Shikamaru can think of many more dangerous uses but the thought of the combination of flight and a hundred exploding clones could do to a village scared Shikamaru a lot.
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Ino locked the door to her room and jumped on her bed, she was sweating but thanks to her daily morning jogs she was not left breathless from running a great distance to reach home. The Yamanaka barely thought about anything before opening the folder labeled 'Jin' and turning it upside down to spill all its contents on her blue duvet.
Dropping on her front to lay flat on her bed, Ino found three dossiers lying there with photos. The first showed a picture of a redhead and Ino immediately recognized her as Mito Senju, the first Hokage's wife.
"Mito" Ino read the name written under the title, 'First Name:' before reading under the title, 'Clan Name:' "Uzumaki?" The platinum blonde's eyes widened immediately as she jumped to an absurd conclusion.
'His the son of the first Hokage!!' She inwardly exclaimed. 'No no the timeline doesn't correspond…' Ino relaxed her hyperactive imagination and continued reading the file.
'To strengthen relations between the newly built Hidden Leaf village and its ally The Village Hidden in the Whirlpool. A marriage was proposed by the Senju Clan, The strongest man in the world wanted to marry the strongest woman in the world. Hashirama Senju personally made the trip to Whirlpool to ask for the first heiress of the Uzumaki clan's hand in marriage.' INO was captivated by the tale so much her mouth had been hanging open for a minute.
'Ninja Information?' Ino read under the heading and learned a little more about the First Lady of the village hidden in the leaves. 'Birthdate, May third. Sex, female. Status, deceased. Blood type, O. Classification, Jinchūriki.' Ino paused and mumbled the word a few times.
"Jin-Chū-Ri-Ki, Jin-chūriki, Jinchūriki." Ino thought she never heard a thing about the name and continued reading quickly, her heart was pounding in her chest since she felt like she could get caught any minute now.
'They loved each other tremendously.' Ino she read and thought that was sweet.