《In Naruto With The Power Of One Piece.》 Chapter 1 - 1) Selecting Ninken *Knock Knock Knock* A boy who was sleeping in his bed was woken up by the knock on his door.?? "Yama, wake up. You are going to choose a Ninken today no matter what." The boy rubbed his eyes and replied while yawning "Ok, I will be down soon." *Sigh* ''I don''t want to select a ninken, nor do I plan to learn the ninjutsu of the Inuzuka clan. The jutsu of our clan isn''t that great this can be proved by the fact that we don''t have anyone notably strong in our clan. If I remember correctly Kiba didn''t play that big of a role in the original story because he lacked the strength to do so.'' ''But I don''t want to annoy mom for no reason and make my life harder so I will select one cute and strong ninken to be my pet.'' Yama walked out of his room with all those thoughts in his head and walked to the kitchen for breakfast. Soon he finished eating breakfast and went to choose a ninken. On the way to choose a ninken, he saw Tsume Inuzuka. Tsume and Yama were cousins, Tsume was 10 years older than Yama and she thought Yama as a cute younger brother and Yama loved it because she would often spoil him and buy him delicious food every time they met. Tsume saw Yama walking alone so she immediately came near him and started pulling his cheeks. "Where is my cute brother going?" ''Wasn''t she supposed to be a strict mother? Why is she so different compared to her older self?'' "It has already been one month since I turned 4 and I have still not chosen my ninken, so I am going to choose one today." She suddenly pulled his ear and started scolding him. "Just because I spoil you doesn''t mean I will let you off when you are being lazy. You have one of the highest potential we Inuzuka''s have ever seen. You have one of the highest chakra volumes even compared to kids a few years older than you and your sensory ability is also exceptional. So I won''t sit here and watch you waste your potential." "Ouch ouch, I am going to choose a ninken today so stop pulling my ear." She let go of his ear. "I am gonna go with you and make sure you choose a ninken today." Soon both Tsume and Yama reached the place where the ninken were bred. "Yo Tsume chan, it''s been a while since I saw you what brings you here today." The Inuzuka guard outside the breeding center said to Tsume. "I know I have been busy since I have been promoted to a chunin, I just returned to the village today after completing a mission and I met this lazy kid on the way so I am here to help him select his partner." "Hello, I am Yama Inuzaka." Yama introduced himself. "So you are the kid everyone is talking about, work hard kid you are the hope of our clan." ''Not this again, I don''t want to have any responsibility, I am just a 4-year kid for fuck sake stop putting your hopes and dreams on me. It''s not like I don''t want to be strong it''s the opposite, I want to be the strongest but not because I want to make the Inuzuka clan proud or make them the strongest clan in Konoha or to defend Konoha or be the Hokage.'' ''I just want to be the strongest so that I can do whatever I like whenever I without any consequences. After I become the strongest I am just going to laze around every day and boss other people around for fun, I don''t want to have any responsibility, I just want to be free and live a life where I can do whatever I want.'' Yama was a little annoyed and clicked his tongue. "Can you hurry up and let me choose my ninken." He said with an annoyed tone. The guard chuckled. "Looks like you are eager to meet your new partner." Tsume and Yama both entered the breeding center, where he could see about 100 puppies. He wasn''t a psychopath so he didn''t hate dogs but was rather fond of them the only reason he didn''t get a dog in his past life was that he didn''t want to take care of one. "Observation Haki" Yama murmured, an invisible aura came out of his body and covered the radius of 10 meters. Now he could sense everything within that radius. (AN:- For those of you who don''t know how long 10 meters is about the length of one school bus also remember I said radius.) ''Looks like I am making decent progress now let''s find one cute, smart and strong puppy so that I won''t have to take care of him too much.'' Yama checked which puppy had the highest amount of chakra using his observation haki, since all of them were very young none of them had too much chakra but among them, 3 stood out to him. Those 3 puppies had nearly double the amount of chakra compared to their peers. He was looking at the 3 puppies using observation haki and one of them looked back at him almost as if he knew Yama was looking at him. Yama was surprised by this because even most shinobis couldn''t tell he was using observation haki. Tsume who standing next to him also couldn''t tell he was sensing her despite being a chunin. He walked towards the petted and petted him a bit. The puppy rubbed his body on him and it looked like it liked getting petted. The puppy had white fur on his underside, most of his face and ears, and in the tip of his tail. The black fur covered the rest of his body like a cape including the patch around each of his blue eyes. Tsume walked towards Yama and looked at the puppy. "Are you sure you wanna choose this puppy? He is smaller compared to the rest of the group and also looks a little weaker." "He might be small but he is by no way weak compared to the rest of them and his small figure adds to his cuteness, I have decided I am gonna choose him." Chapter 2 - 2) Guy And Duy "He might be small but he is by no way weak compared to the rest of them and his small figure adds to his cuteness, I have decided I am gonna choose him." "Good you have to have trust and confidence in your partner, if you need any help with training let me know I will help you when I am free."?? "Thank you Tsume nee-chan," Yama replied with a smile. "So what are you gonna name him?" "Mmm, he is half white and half black and has blue eyes let''s see¡­.. How about Friday, yes Friday sounds good." "What does that have to do with anything?" Tsume yelled. Yama ignored her and looked at the puppy. "Friday do you like your new name?" The puppy excitedly shook his tail and barked to show his approval. "See, he likes the name so it''s fine." Tsume left Yama alone after giving some advice to him on how to train his partner. A week passed and Yama spent the week by training Friday, Friday was a very smart puppy and easily understood commands so it was very easy for Yama to train him. In just a week Friday became a self-sufficient dog, Yama could leave Friday alone for months and Friday could still survive. The first thing Yama did was walk him around Konoha to make Friday familiar with the place where he was going to stay, and for the next six days, he took Friday to the nearby forest and taught him how to hunt for his own food. A safe place to stay the night and so on. Of course, that was in an emergency condition, for normal days he taught him where he could find food in the house and where the toilet was. Now that he had finished Friday''s training it was time for his own training. It was early in the morning and he had just finished eating breakfast. "Mom, I am going out again to train Friday and I won''t be back till evening." "Be careful and don''t forget to eat." "I won''t mom, let''s go Friday." *Woof* Friday barked and ran after him. Soon Yama and Friday reached the outskirts of the village where they could see two people one of them looked like he was in his late 20s and the other looked about 5 years old. They both were wearing a green jumpsuits and were walking on their hands. The two men looked at Yama and Friday, ignored them, and continued walking in their hands. "Papa, this is getting hard I can''t do this for long." "Don''t give up yet Guy one more lap." Yama didn''t want to stop their training so he went near them took off his shirt and started to walk with his hands along with them. Friday also wanted to copy his owner so he tried to stand on his front two legs and walk but he fell on his face. The two of them were surprised by Yama''s action. "Uncle Duy, I want to train with you from now on." But despite Yama not wanting to stop their training both Duy and Guy stopped when they heard his words. "How do you even know my name youngster?" "You are one of the hardest working shinobi I have seen in Konoha so obviously I would know you." Guy had seen many shinobi make fun of his father so he thought Yama was also about to make fun of his father so he got defensive. "Are you trying to make fun of my dad?" Guy said with a clenched fist. Yama looked at Friday. "Friday did I not just praise his dad?" *woof* Friday barked and nodded his head. Yama then looked back at Guy "Do you have a hearing problem or are you dumber than my dog?" Guy clenched his fist even harder and lunged towards Yama. "What did you just say!!?" Duy caught Guy before he could reach Yama. "Guy it''s good to be youthful but you shouldn''t attack anyone that easily." Yama knew Guy had just entered the academy and it hadn''t been that long since he started training, he also knew currently Guy was jealous of Kakashi and felt that he was inferior to him, he had also seen many people make fun of his dad and he wasn''t able to do anything so he was frustrated. "How about this Uncle Duy, if he can beat me in pure taijutsu battle I won''t bother you guys anymore but if he can''t then I will start to train with you guys from now on." Before Duy could even say anything Guy yelled. "Ok, we accept." Duy looked at his son and laughed. "Haha, that''s the youthful spirit well done Guy." Yama wasn''t confident to beat Guy in Taijutsu because he hadn''t trained in any type of martial arts in both his lives but he was confident he wouldn''t lose. The Inuzuka''s were a strong bunch especially Yama, Yama was very strong both physically and mentally, he was confident he could take a hit and outlast Guy. What increased his confidence, even more, was the fact that Guy had just started training and wasn''t that strong. They didn''t want to make a scene in public so they went to a nearby open field. "Friday stay with Uncle Duy and don''t interfere in my fight, just sit back and watch me beat his ass." *Woof* Friday wiggled his tail and moved near Duy. "Guy before we fight let me introduce myself, I am Yama Inuzuka the genius of the Inuzuka clan so even if you lose to me don''t feel too bad I am naturally good at everything." Guy couldn''t even use ninjutsu so it was obvious that he didn''t like the genius kids so he became even more determined to beat him now because he said he was a genius. Guy rushed towards him and started throwing a barrage of punches and kicks. Yama didn''t have the technique to dodge the punches so all he could do was keep his hands high cover up and wait for the right time to strike. Chapter 3 - Guy Vs Yama When Yama felt the 1st punch land he was shocked at how much it hurt, Yama had underestimated Guy''s strength because of Guy''s age. The punches hurt more than he thought they would. He had the urge to use Arnament Haki to defend himself but he didn''t want to cheat. Guy, on the other hand, was confused, he thought Yama would be a tough fight because he was the "genius" of the Inuzuka clan but Guy was just punching him as if Yama was a punching bag. As he was lost in his thoughts he felt throbbing pain coming from his stomach he looked down and saw Yama''s hand on his stomach and in the next second, he was sent flying back.?? Guy landed on the ground and started coughing up. He got careless for a second and he had to pay the price, with a single punch it was clear who had more power. Guy looked up and Yama still standing in the position he started with the hands guarding his face but to him, it looked like a predator who was ready to take his soul the moment he let his guard down. He gulped and slowly got up. "Guy don''t give up use the power of your youth and so your best." With encouragement from his father, Guy got his confidence back and got ready to attack. He ran towards Yama again and started his attack once more. This time he was not careless and throwing wild punches rather his punches were calculated and accurate but Yama still didn''t move he was standing there taking all those punches waiting for an opportunity to throw his punch. Yama acted as if Guy''s attack didn''t affect him at all but that was far from the truth, every attack of Guy was hurting him more and more and pushing him towards his breaking point. He was trying to figure out the pattern and timing of Guy''s attack to counterattack him. But in Guy''s eyes, Yama was like a great mountain unfazed and unaffected by everything. Soon Yama found an opening, Guy threw a jab with his left arm but he overextended a bit which allowed Yama to throw a powerful left hook towards Guy''s left chin. Guy saw the punch coming but he couldn''t dodge all. All he could do was roll with the punch to decrease the damage. Although the punch didn''t land cleanly it nearly knocked out Guy. Guy knew if that punch landed cleanly he would be knocked out. Guy backed up to recover and luckily for him, Yama didn''t come after him to finish him off. But what he didn''t know was it wasn''t that Yama chose not to finish him off but rather he couldn''t. Yama wasn''t confident he could walk straight and go after Guy without falling on his face. Yama didn''t want to show his weakness so he smiled and taunted Guy signaling him to come at him. Guy didn''t want to be seen as a week opponent by Yama so he went towards him again. Guy was hurt by Yama''s previous punch and that could be seen in his movement, he was no longer sharp and accurate as before he was throwing some sloppy punches and was giving Yama plenty of opportunities to catch him. Luckily for him, Yama was also on the verge of collapsing so he couldn''t act on the opportunity. He kept covering up and trying to recover to try and land that big shot to knock him out. Yama couldn''t take the abuse for much longer so he decided to wait for one more opportunity to land a big shot and give it his all in that attack. Guy threw a kick towards his head and because he was tired his hands were quite low. Yama didn''t bother to defend against the kick but instead decided to counter-attack. Yama threw a right hand at Guy''s face. The punch landed straight on Guy''s chin which caused guy to lose consciousness. After Guy was unconscious, Yama too fell on the ground and started panting heavily. His face was swollen and bruised up. His whole body was sore and covered with bruises. Friday ran towards him and started to lick his face to try and heal him. ''Fuck, that was one of the worst decisions I have ever made. I can''t move my body. If I used all my trump cards I could have ended the fight in 5 seconds but my dumbass decided to have a pure taijutsu battle against the best taijutsu user of the future.'' Duy came over carried Guy, looked at Yama, and gave him a thumbs up with tears in his eyes. "That was a wonderful display of Youth, Yama kun come to training ground 27 at 6 am from tomorrow onwards." Yama showed a big grin on his face and nodded his head. "You have a lot of strength, endurance, and stamina but your technique is almost nonexistent and I think your speed, reflex, and flexibility are also not that great. "So from tomorrow, you will be mainly focusing on your technique. But we will also work on increasing your already monstrous strength and increasing your flexibility, reflex, and speed." ''I made the right decision by choosing to train under him, he has already accurately pointed my strengths and weakness.'' "Ok, sensei," Yama replied. Duy always wanted to take a student of his own but he was just a genin so no one wanted to train under him so he started training his son. When he heard Yama call him sensei his heart warmed up and felt more motivated to teach him. Duy came over to Yama and hugged him. "Don''t worry I will make sure to help you to the best of my abilities." Duy left with tears in his eyes after saying that. Now only Yama and Friday were left in the training ground. "Friday, we can''t go home with a face like this I need to fix this." A couple of hours later Yama and Friday returned home and Yama was completely healed at that point. Chapter 4 - 2 Years Later *Haaa* *whoosh* Guy threw a punch towards Yama''s face, Yama slightly moved his head to the side and dodged the punch. Guy was about to attack Yama again but before he could do that Yama attacked guy with a spinning wheel kick to the head.?? Guy didn''t have enough time to dodge so he used both his hands to block the kick but he was still pushed back by the kick. "That''s enough for today. Now get on ur hands and start your daily lap around the village" Duy who was observing the fight told them and left. They did as Duy told them to and stopped fighting and started walking on their hands. "Yama your strength just keeps increasing every day, your kick nearly broke my hands." Yama chuckled at Guy''s statement. "That''s why I keep telling you we are not on the same level and I am not your rival, I am above you." Guy laughed. "That''s the kind of attitude my rival should have, don''t worry I will catch up to you soon. I have already reached the level of Kakashi my other rival, we fought two days ago and it was a tie." "I am not a weakling like Kakashi." "Kakashi is not weakling the only reason our match was a tie is that he didn''t use ninjutsu if not I would have probably lost." "I also didn''t use ninjutsu and I still won so I am better than both you and Kakashi." "Kakashi is the same age as you and has already graduated the academy and has officially become a shinobi, unlike you who hasn''t even joined the academy you are 6 years old even I joined the academy when I was 5 and even I will graduate tomorrow." "Most kids join the academy when they are 8 or 9." "But you are not most kids you are my rival." "It has been two years since I met you which means u have been in the academy for more than two years, show me what you have learned from the academy." "They teach us various ninjutsu but I am not capable of using them. They also teach us the history of shinobi, decision making, survival skills, and other things like math which is very important." "I know the history of shinobi better than the teacher that teaches you the same with maths, I don''t need others to tell me how to make my decisions, I am a free man I will do whatever I want and I am confident to survive anywhere in the world. As for ninjutsu." Suddenly a clone of Yama appeared in front of them, Guy was surprised and looked to the side only to see a Yama who had transformed into him. Yama who was transformed into Guy looked at Guy. "Try and punch me." Guy knew Yama''s strength and didn''t hesitate to punch him. When the punch was about to land Yama disappeared into a cloud of smoke, Guy''s punch landed on something hard. The smoke disappeared and guy could see that he had punched a log. Guy was surprised by Yama''s flawless use of three ninjutsus that are taught in the academy. "See I already know everything they teach us in the academy so what''s the point of joining the academy?" "When did you learn ninjutsu?" "When you were wasting your time in the academy I asked sister Tsume to teach me ninjutsu and she was more than happy to teach me." "You are worthy to be called the genius of the Inuzuka clan, I am gonna need to train harder to catch up to you." They kept walking and making some small talks. "After a couple of days we won''t be able to train together regularly, it''s wartime and even though I am a genin I need to missions. They probably won''t send me to battle for a year but I will still be busy doing some small task inside the village." "Yea it is hard for us since both iwa and kumo are hostile towards us, especially because Hatake Sakumo the commander of Anbu committed suicide," Yama said to see the reaction of Guy. He could visibly see the sadness in Guy''s eyes. "Yes is Kakashi''s father." "Make sure you take care of Kakashi don''t let him be lonely." Replied Yama. After training with Guy for a bit the two of them went their separate way. Guy went to meet Kakashi and Yama went towards the forest. He went deeper into the forest and suddenly something pounced on him. "I missed you too buddy, what have you caught today?" Friday barked happily and led him to the cave. Inside the cave, there was a body of a bear. "You are not even half the size of a bear but you still managed to kill him that''s impressive. This is why people are afraid of animals with chakra. "We can''t let it go to waste bring the pan and some wood here I will cook some of it and I am going to store the rest in the storage scroll." Friday nodded and brought some wood and a pan. The two of them had spent near one and half years training in this place and had made this cave their second home. They had placed a mattress, water, oil, salt, food, cooking utensils, and some firewood. He placed the firewood in one place and created a fire in his hand without using any hand signs. He cooked some delicious bear meat and shared it with Friday. Yama laid on the mattress in the cave and started thinking about his future plans. Friday came near him and snuggled close to him. Yama slowly started petting him. "Friday we won''t get much stronger just by training in this forest, this war is the perfect opportunity for us to increase our strength. We need a lot of combat experience to get stronger quickly and war will provide us just that. "But the only thing is I don''t want to follow orders so we have to work alone, which will be much harder so be prepared, we are going to leave the village for a couple of years." __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ If you like this story consider supporting me on p@treon. Up to 20 chapter available on my p@treon. p@treon.com/coolestnerd Chapter 5 - Sparring Mom The next day Yama and Friday met up with Guy and Duy to celebrate Guy graduating from the Academy. The four of them went to a barbecue shop to celebrate. Duy and Guy kept trying to convince Yama to join the Academy but all their words fell on deaf ears. Yama separated from them and went back home.?? "Mom I am home." "Where have you been I haven''t seen you in nearly a week." "I was out training with Friday." "Go and take a shower and come to the kitchen I will prepare some food for you." This was not the 1st time Yama and Friday had left the home for a week or more. Yama''s mother was a single mother his father had left them before Yama was even born so he had never seen his father. His mom was a strong independent woman, and she worked as the advisor for the clan head and is one of the strongest people in the clan. She also wanted her son to be strong and independent like her so she gave him a lot of freedom from a young age. Her parents raised her the same way and she turned out to become one of the strongest people in the clan. So she believed it would work on Yama too. "So how has training been?" "It''s going great, I have been mainly focusing on my taijutsu, and I can confidently say I can beat everyone in the clan when it comes to taijutsu." Luna was caught by surprise by her son''s words. "Finish your food and come outside, I will test your words." "Sure." The two of them finished eating their food and went outside. "Don''t expect me to go easy on you just because you are my son." "You won''t be able to win even if you go all out so best of luck," Yama replied with a smug face. He didn''t show it on his face but he was nervous. He didn''t underestimate his mom so he immediately activated his observation Haki. "Here I come." Luna launched towards him and threw a kick towards his head. She was very fast so he had very little time to react but he had the instincts of the inuzuka clan and also the observation haki so it wasn''t that hard for him to react. (Luna is a OC) He ducked under the kick and punched luna in her stomach but Luna deflected the punch with her left hand and punched towards his head. He could see the punch coming towards his head, he was very surprised by this and barely dodged the punch by jumping back in the last second. Yama was used to sparring with Guy and Duy. Duy was a technical fighter and instead of beating him using the brute force he used speed and technique to bear him. As for Guy, he had significantly more strength compared to Guy. So when he attacked Guy even if Guy blocked his punch he would be pushed back so he was expecting the same results here too but Luna was an adult shinobi while he was just a 6-year-old kid. He was the weaker one out of the two. He had less experience, her instinct was as sharp as his. The only that that was going for him was the fact that he was slightly faster than her. In the past two years, Yama focused more on attacking because he had monstrous strength, stamina, and durability. He was not too focused on defense because his inuzuka clan''s instinct had gotten really sharp thanks to his daily spar against Guy and Duy. Luna looked at him and smiled. "Be careful I just nearly took your head off." Yama rushed towards her at full speed. Luna''s eyes widened a bit when she saw Yama''s speed. Yama threw a punch towards her face but she parried the attack with her own punch. When Luna''s punch connected with his fist he felt her power pushing him back but instead of being pushed back he used the backward force to do a backflip and kicked her in mid-air. Luna didn''t expect that and the kick landed on her face. She was pushed a couple of steps back. She touched her nose and could feel the blood leaking out of it. She showed a devilish smile "Cheeky brat." Yama didn''t let her stand there and relax, Duy knew his strength and had trained him to put keep moving forward and keep putting constant pressure on the opponent. Yama kept attacking her and putting pressure on her but Luna was no slouch, she was skillfully dealing with all of Yama''s attacks. Yama did land a couple of good shots on her but they were not enough to hurt her seriously. Luna also tagged Yama a couple of times but Yama was used to getting hit so Luna''s attacks were not something he couldn''t deal with. Luna was completely shocked by the power of her son. She hadn''t expected him to be that powerful, she was expecting him to have decent strength and she thought she would play with him a bit and defeat him, to make sure he didn''t get a big ego. But forget about playing with him she tried her best but still couldn''t defeat him which made her proud and made her believe that giving him freedom and making him independent at such a young age was the right decision. She wasn''t the only one who was surprised Yama was also surprised by Luna. Yama knew Luna was strong but he wasn''t expecting her to be this strong. They exchanged few more attacks but the battle was going nowhere. Luna stopped fighting and signaled Yama to stop too. "That''s enough, the battle won''t go anywhere if we only use Taijutsu." Yama agreed with her and stopped. "I am very impressed with your progress but you can''t just focus on Taijutsu. How is your ninjutsu and genjutsu?" "Not that great, my chakra control is good but I only know 4 ninjutsu, clone, transformation, substitution, and body flicker. As for my genjutsu, it''s terrible. I know nothing about genjustsu. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Join my P@treon, you can read up to chapter 21 right now and we also have a awesome and supportive community over there of 0 people. What are you waiting for, Join now. p@treon.com/coolestnerd Chapter 6 - Clan Head Luna nodded her head. "That''s fine, you already know 4 ninjutsu which is more than what some genin ninja know. As for genjutsu, it has never been a strong point of our Inuzuka clan. "You have really impressed me with your progress. So tell me if you need anything I will talk to the clan head and provide it to you."?? "I am planning to leave the village and gain different experiences to temper myself, so, please teach me shadow clone Jutsu and some offensive ninjutsu." Luna got worried when he said he was going to leave the village. "Yama, it''s wartime so the situation outside the village is incredibly dangerous are you sure you want to leave the village now?" Yama nodded his head. "Yes, the main reason I am planning to leave the village right now is because of the war. I want to experience war and I don''t want to be a shinobi for the village and forced to fight. I want to experience the war on my own accord." Luna hesitated a bit but finally nodded her head. "If that is what you want go for it but make sure to be careful. I will talk to the clan head and provide you a few ninjutsu and other materials that you might need." Yama hugged his mom and smiled. "Thanks, mom you are the best." Friday who was standing on top of Luna''s dog also barked excitedly. "Are you going to take Friday with you?" "Yes, he is my partner after all." "If you are going to take him I think you should learn cooperation ninjutsu." "I will be honest, I think our clan ninjutsu is not that strong and I don''t think there is any point in learning it but if you want to you can give me the scroll I might learn it if I am bored." If it was any other Inuzuka clan members they would be angry but Luna knew there was some truth to that statement, Inuzuka''s had never produced any Kage-level shinobi in history and that was because their clan jutsus were not strong enough. "I will talk to the clan head about you and award you few ninjutsu." "Thanks, mom." A day passed. *Slam* "Are you insane, how can you allow your Yama to leave the village during the war. If what you say is true and he is really as strong you say then we should protect him and train him not let him leave the village alone during the war. " Clan head of Inuzuka clan screamed. "He is strong because I let him be independent and do his own thing. We have tried to train geniuses before and how has that worked out for us? Let me remind you they all became slightly above average Jonnin at best." "Yama is different he is more talented than all of them." "Wrong, my son is more hardworking, independent, smart, and creative than all of them combined that is why he is strong. Let me cut to the chase, either you award him the ninjutsu, weapons, scrolls, and money so that he becomes grateful to the clan and help the clan in the future. "Or I can provide him everything he needs and he won''t have any sense of responsibility or feelings towards the clan. You can choose what you want to do but either way my son is going to do what he wants." "Why are you so stubborn, I am your brother, I only want the best for my nephew." Luna got up and started walking away. "Two hours, if no one comes to my home to give him the rewards then you know what''s gonna happen." Takauji sighed and shook his head. After his sister left the room he called one of the clan members and told him to prepare everything quickly. (Takauji is an OC.) An hour later Takauji himself went to Luna''s house. *knock knock* Luna opened the door, there was a smile on her face when she saw her brother there. "Where is Yama?" "He is in the backyard training with his partner." Takauji nodded his head and walked towards the backyard with Luna. In the backyard, Yama was playing fetch with Friday. "Is this his training?" He asked Luna Luna replied. "He does what he wants and trains how he wants." He sighed again and walked towards Yama. He cleared his throat to get Yama''s attention. Yama had already noticed him when Takauji reached the front gate. Yama turned around greeted him. "What brings you here uncle Takauji?" Takauji was caught by surprise. He thought Yama would be nervous to meet the clan head but he was relaxed and he even greeted him as the uncle and not the clan head. "I heard from your mother that you have been working hard and have made huge progress in Taijutsu. The clan has to take care of young genius like you so I am here to give you few rewards for working hard and making good progress." He took out the four ninjutsu scrolls, a scroll containing many shuriken, paper booms, and Kunai. He also took out 100,000 Ryo and gave it to Yama. Yama bowed down a little. "Thank you clan head for your generosity." Takauji had made it clear that he had given those things to him as clan head and not as his uncle so he had to thank him as clan head. "I also heard from your mother that you intend to leave the village is that true?" "Yes, I plan to leave the village within the next couple of days." "As a clan head and your uncle, I suggest you stay in the village, you are just a young kid and do not know the dangers of war and how hard it is to survive." "I greatly appreciate uncle showing kindness towards me but by taking risks and experiencing war, I believe I can grow and mature quickly and I am confident in my ability to survive." "Sigh seems like you are as stubborn as your mother." He touched Yama on the shoulder and looked him deep in the eyes. "Stay safe my dear nephew." __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thanks Scorpio for Joining my P@treon. If you want read 16 extra chapters join my P@treon. https://www.p@treon.com/coolestnerd Also if we reach 100 power stone, I will release a bonus chapter. Chapter 7 - First Kill *woof woof* Yama looked at Friday. "Are you hungry?"?? *woof* Friday nodded his head. "Well, I am a bit hungry too, we have been running for 5 hours." Yama stopped running and found a nice place to cook some food. "If only I had the wood release, my life would be so easy." Yama and Friday started eating some food. It had been a week since the two of them left the village. They were heading towards the battlefield between Suna and Konoha since it was one of the small battlefields compared to other battlefields. So far it was smooth sailing for Yama and Friday, they had yet to encounter any danger, and the reason for that was because they were in the center of the land of fire near Konoha so bandits and other shinobi didn''t dare to roam around the area. But now the chance of them running into trouble had increased drastically because they were in the outskirts land of fire and here there were many bandits, shinobis, and missing-nin roaming freely. After eating the food Yama put on his face mask again to hide his identity. They found a nearby cave and took a rest there for a couple of hours. Yama went over to the sleeping Friday and rubbed his belly. "Get up you sleepy head, let''s get going." The two of them started running again. After running for about an hour Friday suddenly stopped. *woof* he barked quietly. "You can smell humans? How many and how far are they." Friday could smell a lot farther than what Yama could cover with his Observation Haki. Yama could only cover about a 50-meter radius around him but Friday could pick up on smell from 1000 meters away. *woof woof* "5 people huh? Are they strong? Do you feel a sense of danger from them?" Friday shook his head. Yama smiled and Friday''s response. "Let''s go meet our new friends." Yama and Friday ran in the direction of the 5 people. After running for a bit the two of them got close to the group. Yama and Friday hid in the trees and observed them for a bit. The five people were all middle-aged men. All of them were carrying weapons like machetes, axe, and swords. They were sitting near the entrance of the cave, drinking sake, and talking about something. Yama observed them for a bit more and concluded they were not a threat to him and Friday so he approached them. Even though he didn''t consider them a threat he was still cautious. "Hello, uncles, what are you doing in the middle of the forest." Yama was tall¡­ for a 6-year-old, he was 4 and a half feet tall. He had a well-defined body but he wasn''t muscular. He had long black hair that reached his shoulder and black eyes. He still had a slightly childish voice. So in the eyes of the 5 men, he was just a small and weak boy or a small, weak, and flat girl. One fat dude put down his sake bottle and laughed. "Today is our lucky day. 1st we find a rich merchant group and get to rob them without casualties and now we find a cute little girl in our hideout." The other guy looked at Yama creepily. "Girl why don''t you show us your face." "I call dibs on her 1st, you guys can go after me." The 3rd guy spoke. "I was a bit nervous to make my 1st kill but you guys are making it easy for me so you have my thanks." Before anyone could even react Yama took out a kunai flickered next to them and pierced one guy''s neck. The blood from his body started to spurt out. When the four guys saw this scene they immediately backed away and took out their weapons. Yama was also disgusted by the scene and backed away. He wanted to throw up but he couldn''t show weakness now. The four people in front of him were ready to kill him the moment he showed weakness. "Damn it, the kid is a fucking shinobi." "Sorry sister we didn''t know you were a shinobi, we made an honest mistake please forgive us." "We are just normal civilians, we possess no threat to you please show us mercy." They were begging for mercy but he could feel their hostility. All of them wanted to tear him apart. This was his first life and death battle so he was nervous too. "Arnament Haki." He slowly murmured. His whole body turned black and the Kunai he was holding also turned darker. He didn''t want to give them time to attack so he struck first. He concentrated chakra to his feet and flickered next to one of them again and stabbed him in the chest. The guy next to him swung his axe at him but he ducked under it and slashed his neck. The two remaining guys saw this and started running away. Yama threw the kunai in his hand towards one of them and it hit him on the head. Friday barked and ran after the last remaining guy. Yama was completely covered by the blood. He looked around him and his brain slowly started processing what just happened. He could smell the disgusting smell of blood reeking from his body. He couldn''t take it anymore and took off his mask started to throw up. He could hear a faint scream coming from the back. He stood back up and looked back. Friday was dragging an armless person by his leg towards him. He sighed and put his mask back on. He was now a lot calmer so when Friday brought the last guy back he knocked out the last guy tied him up and went to the nearby river to clean up. Soon Yama and Friday found a river and started washing up. He didn''t even bother cleaning the bloody clothes and just threw them away. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thank you Jesus Esqueda and Alexander Brown for joining my P@treon. If you want to read 16 extra chapters join my P@treon. https://p@treon.com/coolestnerd I might or might not be releasing MHA fanfic on my P@treon starting tomorrow. Chapter 8 - Bounty He just laid on the river and started to relax and tried to get his mind off what just happened but he couldn''t. He kept thinking about what he just did. The more he thought about it the more flaws he found in himself. ''I feel so dumb. They were just ordinary bandits and I panicked while fighting them, and why did I use Arnament haki on my whole body for no reason and drain both my chakra and stamina.?? ''And why did I back away after attacking the 1st guy and give them the time to recover, fuck that was terrible, those guys were like bugs compared to me and I was nervous facing them.'' Yama was very dissatisfied with his own performance. He spent a long time in the river and finally relaxed a bit. After washing up and refreshing a bit he went back near the cave to question the last guy. Soon Yama and Friday reached back to the cave. Yama removed the piece of cloth that was covering the guy''s face. "Please, let me go, don''t kill me." ''This is gonna be easy.'' "I won''t as long as you answer a few of my questions." "I will do anything just let me live." "Sure, 1st tell me a little about your group." "We are a small bandit group who rob merchants and people who are running away from the land of leaves to the land of fire for protection. We also sometimes sneak into the battlefield after the battle is over and identify the corpse of people who have a bounty on their head and collect the bounty." "How much money have you collected till now?" "About 9 million Ryo." "Good now hand me all that money." "It''s deep inside the cave." "What, you don''t use storage scroll?" "We are civilians we can''t use chakra to store or remove the items from storage scroll." "Lead the way." Yama and Friday followed the man inside the cave. The man wasn''t lying they soon found 9 million Ryo on the cave floor. Yama quickly placed all the money inside a storage scroll. "One final question, tell me the location of the black market, I like the idea of becoming a bounty hunter." The guy explained the location of the black market in a detailed way. "Good, you have been very helpful to me." "Ca¡­can I go now?" "No no, since you have been so nice to me I will send you off by my own hands." "Plea.." Before he could even say a full word a kunai pierced his neck and killed him on the spot. "Friday looks like we are heading to the black market." Yama didn''t want to stay here any longer because the smell of blood would attract a lot of wild animals and as well as shinobis so it was not a safe place to stay. A day passed and Yama and Friday finally reached the black market. The black market was a dangerous place and Yama didn''t want to appear weak and let others see him as prey so he transformed into a big and intimidating guy. He also activated observation haki, it had already become a habit for him to activate observation haki whenever he was worried or nervous. He told Friday to stay outside and wait for him. He could sense a lot of chakra signatures inside the building. He entered the building and saw many dangerous-looking people drinking beer and talking with each other. Just judging by the amount of chakra of the people here the majority of them were high-level chunin and some were jonin. He looked at the counter and saw a skinny-looking guy standing there. He looked the weakest out of all of them buy Yama could see the amount of chakra everyone has thanks to his observation haki so he could tell that the skinny guy was the strongest out of everyone in this place. He was most likely an elite Jonin level shinobi and not many people would be able to take him down. Yama slowly walked towards the counter. The skinny guy asked with a smile. "How can I help you, sir?" "I want to buy a copy of the bingo book." The skinny guy took out a copy of the bingo book and handed it to Yama. "Can you also give me the detailed map of the warzone between Suna and Konoha?" "This is quite expensive, sir are you sure you want to buy it?" "How much is it?" "The bingo book is quite cheap it''s only 10 thousand Ryo but the map is 5 million Ryo." "Yes, I would like to purchase them both." Yama didn''t want to stay in this place more than necessary so he walked out quickly. He met with Friday and went back into the forest to find a place to stay. The two of them soon found a place to stay. Yama sat down and took out the bingo book and started to look through it. He could see a lot of people from Konoha on that list. Satutobi Hiruzen -150 million Ryo, Jiraiya -100 million Ryo, Orochimaru- 105 million Ryo, Tsunade- 98 million Ryo, Fugaku Uchiha- 50 million Ryo, Minato Namekaze- 15 million Ryo. "Damn, Minato is already getting attention from the villages I feel bad for the bounty hunters that go after him. The world will soon realize how dangerous he is once he slaughters Iwa shinobi." He kept looking through the list and found people from other villages. 3rd Raikage A - 148 million Ryo, Son of 3rd Raikage - 55 million Ryo, Onoki -145 million Ryo. All the Kage had more than 140 million bounties. He knew he couldn''t take anyone with more than 20 million Ryo bounty so he started to look for people who had less than 20 million Ryo bounty. Sasori- 18 million Ryo. "Haha, these people are crazy, this fucker is gonna kill the strongest kazekage in history within a few years and his bounty is only 18 million Ryo." He kept looking and finally found the target he could probably take. Jo kichiro (Another OC)- 8 million Ryo. :- Target is a chunin of sunagakure age -16, he has shown good potential in medical ninjutsu and concocting poison. Target is proficient in using puppets and poison. ______________________________________________________ Thanks Jeff for joining my p@treon. If u want to read 16 extra chap join my P@treon https://www.p@treon.com/coolestnerd Chapter 9 - Sneaking Into Sunas Base (AN:- I make things look a bit easy in this chap and that''s not too realistic so read it with a grain of salt and don''t flame me on the comments. I wrote it like a month ago and I am too lazy to change it.) "That''s the only guy I can take out right now, there''s a few other guys but they''re too far away for me to go after them. The only problem is that he''s a medical nin, so he won''t be fighting on the front lines, so it''ll be hard to find him."?? Yama took out the map he bought from the black market and started looking at it. After looking at it for a while, he sighed and shook his head. "This is troublesome. I have to make a loop around the battlefield to reach the rare side of Sunagakure''s army, but that''s the safest option, so I have to do it." He looked at Friday and patted him gently. "Thank goodness you''re here, with your nose we don''t have to worry about getting caught or ambushed, we can safely get to the back of Sunagakure''s forces. But that''s for tomorrow, today we''ll do some training and rest for the rest of the day." Yama took out the ninjutsu scrolls the clan head had given him and began practicing them. A day passed, the next day early in the morning Yama and Friday set off for the battlefield. Soon the temperature began to rise more and more and the trees became thinner and soon they found themselves in a desert. Yama had never been in a desert in his life, so this was his 1st time being in a desert and luckily for him, the desert heat didn''t bother him at all. Friday was constantly telling him where any shinobi were nearby and they were constantly changing directions to avoid them. It was also the first time in his life that he saw a battlefield. There were broken weapons and scattered body parts lying around on the ground, and there was a heavy smell of blood in the air. Yama was once again disgusted by the scene, but he wanted more than anything to be strong and free, so this wasn''t enough to make him give up. As for Friday, he didn''t care at all. As long as he was with Yama, he would be happy. The two rested for a bit and then continued walking, finally arriving behind the base camp of the Sunagakure forces after 8 hours. At the moment there weren''t many people in the camp as most were at the front. All Yama needed to know now was whether Jo was in the camp or not. Even if Yama''s observation haki wasn''t enough to travel the long distance to check if Jo was in the camp or not, he could use his advantage of being Inuzuka to his advantage. Since his target was a medicine nin, all he had to do was use his sense of smell and figure out where he could smell the most medicinal herbs and poisons because that''s where his target would most likely be. So he would only have to check that one place to find out if his target was in the camp. With Friday''s help, he easily found out where the camp''s medical room was. Friday also smelled about four people inside the medical room. According to Friday, the four of them had the strength of low level chuunin. Since this medical room was where they made poison and medicine and not a place where they treated patients, it was very likely that all four of them were medical- nin. So the chance that Jo was one of the four was very high. Yama was willing to take the risk and make the sneak attack. The next thing Yama and Friday did was to track down the location of the scouts in Sunagakure''s camp. The scouts'' main job was to make sure no one snuck into their camp and keep an eye out. They were usually shinobi with good detection skills and low combat skills. After confirming the location of the scouts, he began to see if there were any high ranking Jonin in the base. It was no surprise that with the help of Friday, he was able to figure out that there was a high level Jonin in the base. "Friday, go to the place I showed you earlier and hide there, I''ll be right there." Friday didn''t want to leave Yama alone, but he knew once Yama decided on something, he wouldn''t change it. So he retreated. Yama created a shadow clone and had it transform into Minato Namekaze. Then he ordered the clone to reveal itself to the scouts of Suna and pretend to spy on the camp. The clone did as Yama said. The scouts of Sunagakure immediately recognized Minato, as his fame had skyrocketed due to the war. To the guards, it looked like Minato hadn''t noticed them, so they secretly sent the message back to the camp. When Chiyo, who was in charge of the camp, heard the message, she smiled and shook her head. "That brat had potential, but fame seems to have gone to his head too much. Follow me, let''s get rid of this brat before he grows up and gives us headaches in the future." Chiyo wasn''t going to pass up the opportunity to kill one of Konoha''s geniuses. She wanted to get back at Konoha for killing her children, so this was a very good opportunity to get back at them, so she didn''t really think. Chiyo, along with a few chuunin, left the camp to hunt "Minato". As soon as Yama sensed someone strong leaving the camp, he ordered his clone to run away and distract them for as long as possible. Once he made sure Chiyo and the strong chuunin were far away, he rose from his hiding place and rushed towards Suna''s camp. Soon he was spotted by one of the scouts and he began calling for reinforcements. Yama didn''t have time to think things through, so he used his ultimate trump card, his Devil Fruit. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Just released the 1st chap of my MHA fanfic on my P@treon. https://www.p@treon.com/coolestnerd if you want to check it out and also 16 extra chapters of this fanfic. Chapter 10 - Devil Fruit "Mythical Zoan - Hell hound Hybrid Mode" As soon as he said that his body started to change. His size increased from 4 and half feet to 8 feet tall. His skin turned red and had cracks filled with fire all over his body. His fingers became sharp as blades, his head turned into a dog''s head and he grew a thick 6 feet long tail.?? He was like a walking ball of flame. If people just came close to him they would be affected by the heat. After transforming into this form his strength and speed would be boosted to a very high level and his command over the fire would also increase. The only problem he had was staying in this form consumed way too much stamina and chakra. Currently, he could only stay in this form for about 10 minutes. The scouts who were observing him suddenly turned pale due to fear, they hadn''t seen such a monster in their whole life. Yama rushed towards the medical room where he suspected his target would be. After transforming his speed had increased so much that he quickly reached the medical room before anyone could stop him. The door to the medical room was closed. "Fire fist." He punched towards the door. A huge ball of fire came out from his fist and blasted the door open. The four chunin inside the building were extremely shocked. They were just creating a new kind of poison and suddenly a giant monster broke into their room. Even though they were medical-nin they were still shinobi. All of them took out their weapons and got ready to attack Yama. Yama saw that his target was in that group of four and was relieved. "Conquerors Haki." A dreadful aura engulfed the four of them and suppressed them, when the aura washed over them they were scared stiff, they couldn''t move. They felt like a huge predator had locked them as his target and was ready to rip them apart. Yama moved towards the four of them and swiftly decapitated all four of them. He quickly placed the head of his target in a storage scroll and ran out. Some chunins had surrounded the building and were to attack him. "Fireball." This one one of the ninjutsu given to him by the clan along with shadow clone, cooperation ninjutsu, and one other ninjutsu. He released another huge fireball from his mouth which opened the way for his escape. He took out a bunch of kunai that had a paper bomb attached to it and threw it towards the chunin who were following him. Because of his increased speed, the chunins had a very hard time following him and he kept throwing paper bombs towards them which made it almost impossible for them to follow him any longer. It had been more than 10 minutes and his transformation was about to be undone he was overexerting himself. But thankfully he was about to reach the spot where Friday was hiding. Friday could now smell the Yama''s scent and could tell that he wasn''t in a good condition so he ran towards him. Yama saw Friday run towards him and let out a smile, his transformation became undone and he collapsed to the ground. By this time Chiyo and her group had returned back to the camp. "What happened here?" One of the scouts came forward and explained everything happened damn that Konoha tricked us, Chiyo was furious and wanted to tear them to pieces. Friday quickly ran over out Yama in his back and started running towards their hiding spot. Yama was unconscious for 13 hours before finally waking up. Friday came near him and started to lick his face. Yama giggled. "Stop it Friday, I am fine now." Friday rubbed his head on Yama''s body demanding him to pet him and comfort him for making him worried. Yama laughed and happily obliged with his request. After eating some food, cleaning up, and resting for a bit the two of them set off towards the black market to claim the bounty. Back on suna''s camp, the higher-ups were having a meeting. "I don''t think yesterday''s attacker was from Konoha. I think that he is a bounty hunter, he only took the head of jo after killing him. Jo was the only person present on the camp who had a bounty on his head, of course, the only person except for Chiyo sama but the attacker wouldn''t be dumb enough to target you" Rasa said. Sasori nodded his head. "According to the information we have if he wanted he could have caused a lot more damage than what he did. If he was really from Konoha his main focus would be destroying food storage and not killing a chunin." Chiyo sighed. "Guess now we can just wait and see if the bounty on his head gets claimed or not." At Konoha camp. Tsunade didn''t want to be involved in the war again but the old man convinced her just to stay in the back and treat the wounded and counter Chiyo''s poison so that was all she was doing. "Tsunade sama according to our spies and scouts someone broke into Suna''s camp yesterday and killed four chunin shinobi." Tsunade was surprised by this news. "What wasn''t Chiyo supposed to be in the camp defending it?" "She was in the camp but apparently he led her away from the clan using the clone and attacked the camp when she was gone." "Looks like we are going to have a little easier time from tomorrow onwards because they are going to increase the defense of their camp." ¡­. After a long run, they finally reached the black market. Yama and Friday both entered the building this time. Yama walked to the counter and said. "I am here to claim a bounty." "Name of the target?" The skinny guy asked. "Jo kichiro of sunagakure." Yama replied and took out his head from the storage scroll. The whole room turned silent when he took out the head. Chapter 11 - Killing A Jounin The skinny guy broke the silence. "So, you are the gentleman who attacked suna''s camp right under Chiyo''s nose." Yama didn''t deny nor did he confirm anything. "Can you hurry up with my payment?"?? The skinny guy smiled and nodded his head. "Sure, may I know your name, sir." Yama wasn''t too good with names, the 1st thing he thought when the guy asked his name was that he was going to be a famous bounty hunter in the future. And whenever he thought about a bounty hunter his mind would remember Zoro. "Zoro" The skinny guy took out 8 million Ryo and handed it to Yama. "Would you like anything else, sir?" "Give me a few paper bombs and Kunai." Yama paid the skinny guy and left the building. Yama took out the bingo book and started looking for his next target. 5 years later. A team of four Kumo Anbu was returning back to camp after successfully completing a search and destroy mission. The leader was Jounin and the rest of them were chunin. Since they were Anbu all of them were wearing masks. "Hello, I am looking for someone named Todoroki, so todoroki, please step up the rest of you can go free." (Another. Oc) Another masked man and a dog appeared in front of the four masked men. When the masked man appeared the four people started sweating. "Who are you?" One of the masked men asked. All of them already knew who he was and why he was there but the guy still asked the question to stall and come up with a plan "I am the strongest swordsman in the world Roronoa Zoro." "But... But you don''t even have a sword." "Don''t worry that won''t stop me from separating your head from your body." Yama rushed towards the four of them. They knew their best bet was fighting back and trying to survive. One chunin threw a kunai towards Yama. "Arnament Haki." Yama''s right arm turned black and he slapped away the kunai. He went over to the chunin and grabbed his face and slammed it on the ground. Yama''s fists were so hot that they left a little burn mark on his face. "Lightning release lightning blade." The Jounin shinobi got behind Yama and attacked him from the back. Yama sidestepped and grabbed the head of the other two chunin and banged them together. The Jounin came at him again with the lightning blade but he ducked under his attack and punched him on the chest and backed away. He looked at them and smiled "Good luck surviving this." The four of them looked confused by what he meant. "Ignite!" Yama yelled. Suddenly the place where Yama touched them was engulfed in flames. He had touched three chunin in the head so their whole head was in the fire. They started screaming in agony and they died within 30 seconds. He had punched the Jounin on the chest so his body was engulfed in flames. The Jounin also started screaming in pain. "Lightning style body armor." His whole body was covered in lightning which suppressed Yama''s fire and put it out. "Hooo, you survived that, no wonder you are a Jounin." The Jounin knew he wasn''t a match for the guy in front of him so he started to run away. "Thank you for running away, I was dying to test my new technique.'' "Tracking Fireball." A small fireball shot out of Yama''s hand and started to follow the Jounin. The fireball was fast and was about to catch up to him. He changed his direction slightly to dodge the fireball but the fireball also changed direction and followed him. His eyes widened in shock. In that split second he knew if he didn''t turn back and stop that fireball his chance of survival would be slim, so he turned back and threw lightning-infused kunai at the fireball. The Kunai did its job, it collided with the fireball and stopped it. Yama saw this and sighed. "The speed is fine but it still lacks power." In the next second, he flickered away from the place and went after the Jounin. He was significantly faster than the injured Jounin and he caught up to him quickly. He jumped towards the Jounin''s back and yelled. "Rasengan." A blue spinning chakra sphere appeared in his hand and he punched the Jounin in the back with it. "Argh," The Jounin yelled and fell to the ground. "I told you I would collect your head, time to fulfill my promise." "No, noo please." Yama''s arm became red and his fingers became sharp like a blade. With one swing of his hand, he decapitated the man. Friday was checking the corpse of the chunin to see if they had anything valuable. Yama had taught him to do so. Yama also started to search the corpse of the Jounin and found a map of the current hideouts and base of Kumo shinobis. "Jackpot." "Friday let''s go time to collect our money." *woof* Friday barked and ran towards Yama. Yama jumped on Friday''s back and started heading towards the black market. ... Yama and Friday entered the black market. There was currently an uproar going on at the black market, everyone there was talking about the disappearance of the third Kazekage. Yama sighed when he heard the rumor. "So Sasori is already this strong huh? I am still not strong enough if I use my devil fruit I can fight with a Kage on equal footing for a while but I won''t be able to kill them and if the fight drags on I would be the one to die. This world is full of monsters I need to get stronger quickly." "Sasori might have used poison to kill Kazekage that still dosn''t change the fact that he killed the Kazekage." The manager of the black market saw Yama walk in and he immediately greeted him. "Welcome back sir Zoro, who was your unfortunate victim this time?" ''Zoro'' had recently become quite a famous bounty hunter and no matter which black market he went he would be well respected. Chapter 12 - Kakuzu (AN:- Till now Yama has yet to transform into complete hell hound he has only transformed into his hybrid form in case anyone was confused.) Yama took out the head of the Jounin from the scroll. "This time it''s a Kumo Jounin his head is worth 25 million."?? The manager looked at the head and checked the bingo book to confirm if Yama got the right guy. "Yes sir, you have got the right person, do you want anything else or just the money." "I am not done selling you stuff yet." Yama took out a piece of paper from his pocket. "This is a map that has the location of 8 of Kumo''s hideouts and also contains the information about their main base. How much is it worth?" The manager looked a little surprised and hesitated a bit. "Well¡­ I need to verify the information first, I can''t just give you the money." "If the information here was all correct how much would it be worth?" "According to our rate if you inform us about one secret hideout we will award you 10 million Ryo, if all these 8 locations are correct that''s 80 million Ryo." "This also contains the information about their main base." "We already have most of the information about their main base so it''s not worth anything." "Ok, give me the 80 million now if the information here is incorrect I will give you back the money next time I visit you." "Well... I am not sure I can do that. We can''t pay you before verifying the information." Yama released his conquerors haki suddenly everyone felt a murderous aura pressuring them. The furniture in the building started to crack because of the pressure, many people started to get knocked out just by the pressure. Everyone became dead silent. "Are you trying to imply that I would lie to you for this chump change?" The strongest person in this place was the manager and he was mid-tier Jounin at best. If he was at the level of Elite Jounin maybe he would have a slight chance of defeating Yama but with his strength, he would just be seeking death. "No, no sir. I will prepare the money right away." The manager hurriedly took out the money and handed it to him. Yama loved this feeling of power and this is what motivated him to grow stronger. If five years ago he was in the same situation and he found this map, the manager would take the map and claim the location on the map was fake and wouldn''t pay him anything if he tried to protest he would be killed. This world was unfair and cruel, the people who had strength would always abuse their power and make life unfair for people weaker than them. And Yama didn''t mind that in the least he had accepted it as human nature. A lot of people hated it and thought it was cruel and unfair and complained about it all the time. Yama agreed with them but he didn''t hate it. He adapted to it and grew stronger. He took the money from the manager and withdrew his conquerors haki and started walking away. "Oh, I almost forgot, tell that bastard Kakuzu that he is dead once I find him." The manager weakly nodded his head. Everyone in the black market knew that Zoro and Kakuzu didn''t like each other. Kakuzu was a world-renowned bounty hunter who had been active for ages and was one of the strongest bounty hunters for ages. It was even rumored that Kakuzu attempted to kill the 1st Hokage and survived the fight against the God of shinobi. While Zoro was the new kid in the block who was gaining both strength and popularity quickly. At first, Kakuzu didn''t care about him too much when he was going after the small fries but once he leveled up and started targeting the people with higher bounty Kakuzu didn''t like it. Kakuzu felt like Zoro was robbing his money by going after the target with a higher bounty. So two years ago Kakuzu went after Zoro. Two years ago¡­ Yama and Friday were returning to the black market after collecting the head of three Iwa chunin. Friday suddenly stopped and barked. "What happened Friday?" *woof woof* "Someone strong is standing in front of us? And you feel threatened by his presence?" Friday nodded his head. Yama didn''t take Friday''s warning lightly. Friday had one of the best sensing abilities in the world he was the only one till now who could fill Yama''s observation haki. He decided to go around the person because he didn''t want any trouble with someone that strong yet. After a few minutes, Friday barked again. "What he is following us?" Now Yama started to get a bit worried, he had made many enemies till now by killing geniuses and important people of different villages but the villages wouldn''t send someone that strong after Yama in a time of war and weaken themselves. Yama had bought a storage scroll that could store living beings to hide Friday inside the scroll in case of a dangerous situation. He took out the scroll and placed Friday inside the scroll and got ready to confront the person following him. When he turned around and saw Kakuzu was the one who was following him his heart got cold. "It''s an honor to finally meet you, Kakuzu." "Give me all the money you took from me or I will also give you the honor to die by my hands." "Hell hound." Yama turned into Hell hound Hybrid and quickly rushed towards Kakuzu and the two of them started to fight. Thanks to Yama''s increased strength and speed as well as his Arnament Haki and Observation Haki Kakuzu couldn''t hurt him and was on the losing side. But Yama couldn''t maintain this form for too long. And once he transformed back he wouldn''t be a match for Kakuzu. "Kakuzu don''t think I can''t kill you. I just need to destroy all your hearts, I am not like 1st Hokage I won''t let you run away that easily." Yama started to bluff. Kakuzu who was already surprised by Zoro''s strength got even more worried when Zoro even accurately described his weakness. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Thanks jorden martin for supporting me on p@treon If u want to read 16 extra chapter as well as a new MHA fanfic join my P@treon https://www.p@treon.com/coolestnerd Chapter 13 - Not Late To The Party Kakuzu was a cautious person and he didn''t want to engage in a battle where his life was on the line if it wasn''t absolutely necessary. That is why he ran away when he faced the1st Hokage. The bounty on Hashirama was great but it wasn''t good enough for him to risk his life. Kakuzu was shocked by the strength shown by Zoro, he didn''t expect him to be on his level.?? "Since neither one of us can beat each other there is no point in continuing this pointless fight." Kakuzu turned back and started running away. The thought of going after Kakuzu didn''t even enter Yama''s mind, his transformation would be undone any second now and he was just hoping Kakuzu wouldn''t change his mind and return back. He summoned Friday back from the scroll and he got out of there with the help of Friday. Of course, Yama being Yama he didn''t let the situation end just like that he wanted to make Kakuzu embarrassed to even show up to the black market anymore. So he spread the news of how he kicked Kakuzu''s ass and how Kakuzu ran away from him like a pussy. At first, nobody believed him but since Kakuzu didn''t deny the situation so they all assumed Zoro was telling the truth. From that day onwards Zoro was more feared and respected in the black market. He had also been working on a technique that would help him defeat Kakuzu if not it would guarantee that he wouldn''t lose and he finally mastered it, so he wanted to find Kakuzu again for a rematch. Back to the present. It had been a couple of days since Yama killed that Kumo Jounin and right now was heading towards Kirigakure to collect the head of one of the seven swordsmen Juzo Biwa one of the future members of Akatsuki. He got a little information about his whereabouts from the black market and was going after him. He was a little worried he might encounter all 7 swordsmen at the same time but he was certain he would survive. Although the current 7 swordsmen weren''t on the level of Kisame or Zabuza they were still very skilled Jounin and if they worked together they could even be a problem for any Kage alive. ''Juzo is probably the strongest one in the group followed by Fuguki who has samehada and after that the guy who has the needle sword and the guy with the axe and a hammer. The rest of them are not that strong. ''If I try hit and run tactics and decrease their number one by one I can probably take all seven of them. I also have Friday his strength can not be underestimated, if he ambushes one of the weaker ones out of the seven he can probably kill them. ''They each have about 40-50 million bounty, if I can kill them all I will be rich and also their swords, I can''t forget about the sword each sword would also fetch me millions of dollar. I have decided, I am going to kill all 7 swordsmen of the mist.'' At Konoha. Ever since Yama left Guy didn''t have anyone to train with or spar with so he was feeling very lonely. He would sometimes go and visit Yama''s mom to ask what Yama was doing. According to her the clan head of Inuzuka clan had taught him four ninjutsu and one of them was how to summon a pigeon so Yama could use the pigeon to send messages back home. So he would visit her often. Kakashi and he were also on a different team so he also couldn''t find Kakashi for a spar. As for his teammates, their taijutsu wasn''t strong enough to spar with him. He couldn''t wait to go out and participate in battle but he was only a genin and he wasn''t sent to battle. But a few months ago he was finally promoted to chunin along with his teammates. And today the three of them left Konoha alone to head to the front lines and deliver a message. Although they didn''t leave the village to participate in the battle, Guy was more than happy just to be able to reach the battlefield. Duy was worried about the safety of his son so he secretly followed his son. A couple of days passed now Team Choza (Guy''s team) and Duy who was following them from afar had reached near the border of Kirigakure. They were running in a thick forest so visibility was very low. Thanks to their luck Guy, Ebisu, and Genma arrived in front of 7 people. 6 of them were holding something that looked like a sword and one of them was holding an axe and a hammer which were connected by a chain. "The seven ninja swordsmen of the mist." Guy murmured. The Juzo Biwa guy holding the executioner blade spoke. "Hehe, look who we have here, three Konoha''s bitches came here to deliver us their head." Guy wasn''t paying attention to what Juzo was saying all he was thinking about was successfully escaping from them. He looked around carefully and thought about many escape plans but. "There is no way we can escape." He said with a dejected face. Suddenly a green glowing figure jumped down in front of them. "Father, what are you doing here?" Guy exclaimed. "You kids run away, I will hold them back." "What do you mean to hold them back, you are a genin while they are Jounin you are no match for them." "I can open the 8th gate." "But Papa." "Remember, the self-rule, only open the 8th gate when you are protecting someone precious to you, I am doing that. Now leave." Guy couldn''t hold back his tears and started crying. Fuguki laughed. "Such a touching scene between father and a son nearly brought a tear to my eyes." Duy glared at Fuguki and was about to open the 8th gate. "Looks like I wasn''t late to the party." Chapter 14 - Showing Some Hidden Cards "Looks like I wasn''t late to the party." Everyone looked at Yama when they heard his voice.?? "Zoro, what are you doing here?" Juzo asked. Guy, Ebisu, Genma, and Duy hadn''t gone out of the village too much so they didn''t know who ''Zoro'' was and since Yama had transformed and looked like a scary dude they couldn''t recognize him. But all of the seven swordsmen knew him. And it would be a little troublesome for them if Zoro decided to help the people from Konoha. Everyone knew Zoro had some kind of connection to Konoha because he had never claimed a bounty of anyone who was from Konoha. "Nothing much I was just coming here to collect your head." "You might be strong but you are no match for seven of us we aren''t weak like Kakuzu." Yama chuckled a bit. "If he was here right now you would already be dead." Suddenly Guy yelled. "Friday is that you?" Friday was happy that he was recognized by his old friend so he wiggled his tail happily and ran towards Guy and tackled him and started to lick him. Guy laughed and started petting him. "It''s really you Friday, so does that mean you are Yama." Yama sighed and walked over to Guy and Friday. He lightly hit Friday on the head. "This stupid dog, I told him not to reveal our identity." He then transformed back to his real body. He was 5.4 feet tall and was slightly taller than Guy who was currently 5.2 feet. "It''s really you." Guy came over and hugged Yama. Yama hugged him back for a second and pushed him back. "Now is not the time for that." He looked at Duy and started talking. "I will take care of the guy with the executioner blade, the guy with sameheda, the guy with hammer and axe, and the needle guy. The five of you take care of the remaining three. "Uncle with your strength as well as the help from team Choza and Friday they should be easy work. After that come and help me. Don''t hesitate to kill." He looked at both Guy and Duy when he said that. Duy looked at Yama''s eyes he could tell just by looking at Yama that he was strong he couldn''t believe he was the same guy who got nearly got beat up by his son seven years ago. Duy nodded his head. "Leave it to me." "How dare you treat us like small fries?" The fat guy with Samehada yelled and rushed towards them. Yama was watching everything using his observation haki so as soon as Fuguki moved Yama released his conquerors haki towards the seven swordsmen. All of their expression changed when they felt the crushing pressure. Yama knew this was going to be the hardest fight till now so he needed to go all out from the start. He had mastered few abilities use in the fight against Kakuzu but he needed to use those now. "Hellhound." He transformed into his Hybrid form. "Advanced Soru." In a blink of an eye, Yama disappeared from his place and appeared in front of Fuguki. Yama fused one of the six powers of marines soru with body flicker and created a new Jutsu which was way faster than normal body flicker or soru. He wanted to test how it compares to the speed of A or Minato''s flying thunder God. "Flaming Shigan." Yama coated his index finger with arnament Haki, and increased its temperature, and trusted it towards Fuguki''s heart. His finger melted right through Fuguki''s fat and entered his body. Kushimaru the guy with the needle sword use the thread in his blade to pull Fuguki before Yama could pierce his heart. Fuguki looked below and saw the muscles in his chest just melting and dripping on the ground and his blood boiling away. All seven swordsmen became terrified. The pressure they were feeling, Yama''s appearance, and the scene they just saw made them realize what kind of monster they were facing they just wanted to turn around and run. But they knew with Yama''s speed they were just asking to be killed one by one. They weren''t the only one who was shocked. The four people from Konoha were also speechless. Guy couldn''t believe how strong Yama had become and how far behind he was fallen. He couldn''t call him his rival anymore. He couldn''t rival Yama in anything, Yama was far better than him at everything. Ebisu and Genma on the other hand didn''t know who Yama was so they were shocked and jealous of Yama''s strength and talent. Friday and Duy on the other hand were proud. Duy was proud because he had once trained the monster in front of his eyes and Friday was proud. After all, Yama was his owner. Yama didn''t let the seven of them of them catch a break. "Flaming tempest kick." He rapidly started kicking the air. Arch of flames started to fly through the air towards the seven swordsmen. This was another modified power of the marines. The seven of them were skilled enough to easily deal with the attack, they scattered a little and easily defended against the attack. Duy and the others who were just standing in a trance till now finally started to act. "I am going to be in the front, the four of you support me from behind." Yelled Duy. The rest of them nodded and followed behind Duy. "Firewall." Yama touched the ground and created a giant firewall and separated the seven swordsmen into two groups, three people in one team and four in another. Duy and others went after the group with 3 people and he started to fight against the four of them. All of the seven swordsmen used the same technique. "Hidden Mist." They created a thick fog everywhere, the fog was so thick that one couldn''t even see few feet in front of them but the Kiri shinobi were well trained to fight in this kind of situation. Chapter 15 - 1 Vs 4 When Yama saw the fog filling the surrounding he smiled. Others might have trouble fighting in the fog but he was the last person on the planet who would be affected by it. Since his observation Haki used chakra it was a little advanced. It could see the flow of chakra inside others'' body and it wasn''t affected by fog. Even if he didn''t have the Observation Haki he had his sense of smell which could help him locate the opponent. Juzo didn''t know that Yama could clearly see everything so he ran towards Yama and tried to chop his head.?? Juzo was fast buy Yama was faster. He ducked under the attack and hit Juzo in the Ribcage with a Rasengan. Juzo was flung back after the attack. On the other side of the wall Yama could hear Friday''s roar. He heard that and smirked a bit. "Juzo looks like he isn''t affected by the mist we need to work together." Jinin the guy with a hammer and axe yelled. All four of them knew if they didn''t work together it would be next to impossible to win against him. The four of them start to surround him from a distance and all of them rushed at him at the same time. It was going to be next to impossible to defend against all the attacks so he covered his whole body with arnament haki. All of them were swordsmen and primarily focused on close-quarter combat and rarely used ninjutsu. When the four of them started to attack together Yama was forced to be on the defensive. Their swords were making contact with Yama''s body but they weren''t direct hit they grazed him slightly which thanks to arnament haki didn''t affect him at all. His hell hound form also had slight regeneration ability so he wasn''t worried at all. While they were mercilessly attacking Yama was searching for an opportunity to counter-attack. "Ignite!" Yama yelled. All four of them caught on fire. He had been leaving a bit of chakra on their body every time he made contact with them and he could ignite his chakra whenever he wanted. All of them were caught by surprise by this. He focused on Fuguki who was already injured. "Flaming Shigan" Fuguki who was already busy dealing with fire covering his whole body couldn''t defend against Shigan. Yama''s finger pierced his head and Fuguki died on the spot. Most of the mist ninjas were proficient in water release so all of them quickly put out the fire in their bodies. On the other side of the firewall. When the surrounding was covered in the mist. The Konoha group stuck together because it was extremely hard for them to see what was going on. No one could see properly except for Friday, just like Yama mist didn''t affect him too. Friday barked and tried to signal the others to cover their ears but they didn''t understand him as Yama did. So he raised his hand and closed his ears so they could understand what he was saying. All of them understood what Friday was trying to say and covered their ears. As soon as they did that Friday infused Chakra in his voice and roared. His roar caused the air to ripple and the shockwave traveled through the air and hit the three swordsmen and pushed them back and thanks to the roar the mist in the air had also dissipated by a significant amount. With the visibility back Duy immediately rushed forward towards the three of them. And the rest of the Konoha team got ready to support him. Back to Yama. Yama flicked his finger to remove the blood of Fuguki from them. "One down three to go." The heart of the three remaining swordsmen began to beat faster. Yama calmly created three fireballs on his hands. The ball slowly hovered over his hand. "Go." The three fireballs started to move towards three swordsmen. The three of them tried to dodge the fireball but it followed them. All of them sneered at this scene and tried to stop the fireball with their sword. When their sword was about to touch the fireball Yama yelled. "Split." All three fireballs split into two and hit their target. All three shinobis were injured by the fireball but none of them were seriously injured. "Power is still an issue." Yama shook his head. "Maybe this will do more damage." Yama started making a fire spear in both his arms and throwing it at them. Although the spear didn''t track the enemies it was very fast because Yama was throwing it with his strength and it was more deadly thanks to its piercing power. Yama now started to use hit and run tactics, he would separate them using ninjutsu and once they were separated he would target one of them and go after them using Advanced Soru attack them, and retreat again, once the other two arrived to help and repeat the whole process again. The swordsmen did try to attack him by using some water release and some low-level illusion mist but none of them worked on Yama. They couldn''t win a fight against Yama in a long-distance battle where they exchanged ninjutsu because Yama was significantly better than them at ninjutsu and they also couldn''t win against him in a close-ranged attack if they attacked alone. Their only hope was to regroup and attack Yama together but Yama wasn''t going to let that happen. "Bastard do you have no honor fight us like a man." Jinin who was tired of Yama separating them and attacking them yelled. "Shut up you dumb fuck. I am fighting you 3 on 1 and you talk about honor, how dumb can you be, you are so dumb that you even consider hammer and axe connected together with a chain a sword." The fight continued it had nearly an hour since the fight began, Yama couldn''t hold his transformation any longer so he transformed back to his original form and fell on the ground unconscious, and scattered next to him were the bodies of four out of the seven swordsmen of the mist. The giant wall separating the two sides also disappeared once Yama collapsed. On the other side, Guy and others were still fighting. But thankfully they had already killed two out of the three people and the last one was on the verge of death. Chapter 16 - Rest When the wall of fire disappeared everyone looked over to see what happened. When they turned around they saw five bodies laid on the ground. The remaining swordsman was Raiga, his only hope for survival was the four swordsmen fighting Yama would kill Yama and come to save him, that''s why he was struggling to survive.?? But now that he saw the four of them had died he didn''t continue to fight he just accepted his death. Duy kicked his head and killed him on the spot. Friday immediately ran over to check Yama''s condition. He came over and gently pushed Yama and rolled him over to his back. He carefully looked at him and he knew Yama had just exhausted his chakra and nothing more. Yama usually deliberately exhausted his chakra to increase the size of his chakra pool so this scene was very common for Friday. The Duy and team Choza also ran over to Yama. Friday barked and signaled that Yama was fine. Duy let out a sigh of relief and sat down behind Yama. He was also exhausted and could hardly move because he overexerted himself. After confirming Yama was safe Friday started to do his usual job, which was looting the corpses and collecting their heads. He took out a bunch of sealing scrolls from Yama''s pocket and he headed towards the corpse of the seven swordsmen. He 1st carefully checked all the bodies to check if they had any valuables and he put whatever he found on the sealing scroll then he carefully placed all of the seven swords in different sealing scrolls. Duy and the others were confused at first as to what Friday was doing but once he started putting the swords in the sealing scroll everyone was clear what he was doing. Guy, Genma, and Ebisu had never witnessed death before so seeing so many people being killed today and them being looted right in front of their eyes was not a pleasant scene. Even Duy was visibly uncomfortable. "Friday it''s not nice to loot the corpse." Guy said. Friday tilted his head and looked at Guy as if Guy was dumb. Friday was seven and half years old and out of those seven and half years, he had spent 5 years of his life on the battlefield. And for him, things like this were very common. He had seen not only Yama do this but also many other people looting the person they killed. Friday ignored Guy and continued doing his job. Once he had finished looting the corpse it was time to collect the head. Friday knew all 7 of them had a bounty on their head so he needed to collect all of them. He infused chakra on his front paw and sharpened his claw. With one swing of his hands, he decapitated the corpse. The blood started to spurt out of the body. Guy and the others couldn''t handle such a scene and began throwing up. Even Duy threw up. Soon, Friday finished everything up. He came over and carried Yama on his back and signaled Duy and others to follow him. Since Duy couldn''t move Guy carried him on his back and started following after Friday. Friday brought everyone to a nearby cave so everyone could rest. Yama didn''t wake up for 8 hours and after 8 hours he finally woke up. Friday again came over to Yama to get his cuddle and petting. Every time Friday carried Yama to a safe place after Yama passed out he would demand attention and praise which of course Yama was more than happy to provide. So Yama woke up and started petting Friday. "You are the best friend I could ever ask for. I love you so much." Friday happily wiggled his tail and licked him. Guy looked at Yama who just woke up. "How are you are you? How are you feeling?" "Never been better." Yama replied while moving his arms. "How did you end up near Kiri?" Yama asked. "We had a mission to deliver this scroll to a spy of Konoha hiding in Kiri and after that, we are heading to Kumo to deliver another scroll to Jiraiya sama who is leading the battle against Kumo." "What about you uncle Duy why are you here?" "I was just worried about Guy and decided to follow him." "Ok, Guy you deliver the scroll to the spy in Kiri and head back to Konoha with uncle Duy, he needs medical attention." Ebisu and Genma didn''t seem to like Yama''s idea. "What about scroll we need to deliver to Jiraiya sama?" Ebisu asked. "I will take the scroll and head to Kumo." "The scroll is super confidential we are ordered to directly hand it to Jiraiya sama and no one else." Yama was annoyed by his tone. He released conquerors haki and yelled. "Shut up, I am not asking your opinion, I am ordering you do you understand?" Ebisu, Genma, and Guy all felt the murderous intent and they were all close to passing out. "I asked you a question." Yama yelled again. They all weakly nodded his head. "Good, you should know your limits, if I wasn''t here today you would have died here along with Uncle Duy, so accept that you are weak as bugs compared to some of the monsters that are participating in this war and put your head down and learn to adapt or have the strength to do as you please. Now give me the scroll." Guy took out the scroll and handed it to Yama. Duy looked at Yama and asked. "When are you going to return to the village?" "I will return once the war is over and it won''t take long for the war to end. Kazekage is already dead so suna will sign a peace treaty and once suna signs a peace treaty Kumo and Iwa will be put on a tough spot and they will also soon sign the peace treaty." Chapter 17 - Meeting Someone Unexpected The situation was a bit awkward, Ebisu and Genma were afraid of Yama that they couldn''t even look at him, and Guy was so shocked by Yama''s strength he was cursing himself for falling so far behind. Yama and Duy made some small talk and the rest of them just listened. He also knew the basics of medical ninjutsu so he did some basic treatment for Duy.?? After some time Yama prepared food for everyone. After eating the food Yama decided it was time to leave. He had already recovered 50% of his chakra and he was sure that no one in Kiri except Mizukage could hurt him and the Mizukage wouldn''t come after him for no reason. "Guy, uncle Duy it was nice meeting you after such a long time, but for now let''s head our separate way. Guy next time we meet I am going to spar you like in the old days so don''t disappoint me." Guy heard Yama''s words and a desire to become strong filled his heart. "I will defeat you next time we meet." "Haha, best of luck." *woof woof* Friday also said his goodbye to Guy and Duy and left with Yama. "Friday, we don''t know when we will visit Kiri next so let''s take a little tour." *woof* Friday barked and the two of them started to head towards the city. There was also a black market in Kiri but he didn''t want to risk fighting the whole of Kiri himself by revealing he killed their 7 strongest ninjas. So he just wanted to visit the city and enjoy its beauty for a couple of days before leaving. He was about to reach the city when he saw about 50 shinobi standing above the ravine. He checked inside the ravine and saw two people talking one figure was of a female kunoichi and the other one looked like a Kiri shinobi. Yama felt that he had seen this before and knew what was going on but he couldn''t quite put his finger on it. He felt like things were going to get troublesome so he put Friday inside the scroll. Then he saw the guy stab the girl in her back and it suddenly hit him. ''They are going to kill Pakura.'' Pakura was the hero of Sunagakure but she was betrayed by her own village who made a deal with Kiri and they sacrificed Pakura to fulfill the deal. She was also very beautiful, so there was no way Yama was going to let her die. Yama transformed into his Hybridform again. "Advanced Soru." He rushed towards Pakura at his full speed, the Kiri shinobi who stabbed her was about to retreat and thousands of Kunai were about to rain down on her killing her on the spot. When Yama reached there he could hear her cursing her village and the shinobis that killed her. He picked her up from the ground and ran away from there as fast as he could. The Kiri shinobi above had already started to throw Kunai towards her. The kunai rained down from above but they all hit the ground. The Kiri shinobi were all shocked. "What happened what''s going on?" "I saw a red figure take her away at the last second." "We can''t let them leave, follow them." "But, they have already gone too far we can''t sense them." All the Kiri shinobi began to panic they didn''t know what was going on. But they still ran towards the general direction where Yama and Pakura went. Far away Yama was still running away while carrying Pakura. "Who are you?" Pakura asked. Yama ignored her question. "Do you need immediate medical attention or can you hold on for a bit?" "I am fine, they just used paralysis poison on me so I can''t move." "Good, just hold on a bit longer I will treat you soon." Kirigakure was an Island, so either Yama had to run on water for hours to get out of here like he did when he came here or he could take a boat. He liked the idea of holding Pakura in his arms for hours but she was injured so it wasn''t such a good idea. He took her to a nearby dock and got on the biggest ship. The crew of the ship was still on the deck. He was still in his hell-hound from which scared the shit out of the crew. He released a bit of his conquerors haki to scare them even more. "Set sail towards Kumo." That''s all he said and the crew knew what was gonna happen if they didn''t do as he said so they obliged. He pointed at a random guy. "Hey, you take me to the best room you have." "Yes, sir please follow me." The guy led Pakura and Yama to a room. Yama gently put Pakura on the bed with her back facing upwards. Then he took out Friday from his scroll. "You still haven''t answered my question, who are you?" "I think you already know the answer." Pakura sighed. "Are you here for the bounty on my head?" "Although 53 million is a tempting amount but no. I do what I want and I don''t do what I don''t want and I have no plans of claiming the bounty on your head." He transformed back to his original form, took out a kunai, and made some cuts around the area where she was stabbed, and started to suck out the blood from her back. Not with his mouth but by using medical ninjutsu. He learned the basics of medical ninjutsu to heal Friday in case he got injured. Most of the low-level ninjutsu could be bought in the black market so he learned some useful ninjutsus. "Why did you save me?" "Because I felt like it." "I didn''t expect the wild Zoro to actually be a little kid like you." "You also didn''t expect your village to betray you did you?" Pakura became silent. Yama kind of felt bad. "I am sorry, that was kind of insensitive of me." "It''s fine, I no longer belong to that village." ________________________ Chapter 18 - Pakura Yama wanted to leave her alone for a bit so she could arrange her thoughts so he left the room. He had also extracted most of the poison from her body and she would be able to move soon. He went outside with Friday. The ship was sailing towards Kumo, all the crew on the ship looked scared they were nervous because they weren''t sure whether they would live or not. They were peaking over at Yama from time to time.?? They were obviously confused, a monstrous-looking thing and a girl entered the room and a young kid and a dog left the room. They wanted to ask the kid a few questions but they were afraid that they would offend the kid and the kid would call the monster to kill them. Yama called another random guy over. "Hey, you, yes you. Go and prepare some food for three people. If the food isn''t good I am going to tie your limbs and throw you in the sea." Yama had an authoritative tone which made people listen to his orders. "Yes, sir." Was the only thing that came out of the guy''s mouth. Yama walked over to the deck with Friday and started looking at the sea. "This reminds me of one piece, the time I used to wait each week for the release of a new episode. This reminds me of home. I miss it sometimes, the peaceful world where my biggest worry isn''t survival but whether I would get good grades or not or whether my crush likes me back it not. "I wonder what my parents are doing, how they coped with my disappearance, I miss them too. Sigh, the good old days." Friday didn''t understand what Yama was saying but he could tell that Yama was sad. So he snuggled closer to him and rubbed himself on him. Yama looked at Friday trying to cheer him up and a smile formed on his face. "This world is not too bad either, after all, I have a cute little friend like you. I also have Luna, I can tell she loves me a lot, after all, what mother doesn''t, but I sometimes feel bad for her, she loves me very much but I just can''t truly accept her as my mother." The guy from before came over to Yama. "Sir¡­ the food is ready." "Follow me and bring the food to the room." The guy followed Yama while carrying the food into the room. Yama knocked on the door because he didn''t want to intrude on her privacy. "Come in." Yama entered the room with Friday. The guy followed the two of them into the room and left after giving them food. "Can you move now?" "I am little sore but I am ok." "So, what are your plans going forward?" Yama asked. "Do you really intend to let me go free?" "I already told you, you are free to do whatever you like." Yama said while eating. Pakura bowed down a little. "If that is true I am really grateful for your help." She paused for a bit. "One favor, I will give you one favor, you can request for anything you want and I will agree even if that risks my life" "Sure, I don''t mind a beautiful kunoichi indebted to me, but you still didn''t answer my question what are you going to do next?" She thought for a bit. "Revenge, I am going to take my revenge on the mist village as for suna, I will cut all my ties with them but if they antagonize me again, I won''t let them off easy." "I don''t think you should go after Kiri, they are already down bad, and the situation inside Kiri is going to be dangerous." "What do you mean down bad and dangerous situation?" "I can''t tell you about the dangerous situation but if you involve yourself with Kiri in the near future, you are going to die and you can trust me on this one" Yama didn''t want to tell her about Madara yet because he didn''t want any piece of Madara, that guy was a monster who he wanted to steer clear of. "As for the down bad thing I meant this." Yama brought out the sealing scroll and took out all seven heads of the seven ninja swordsmen." Pakura was completely stunned. "This¡­ this when did you kill them." "Few hours before I saved you." Pakura couldn''t believe what she was hearing. She knew Zoro was a monster but so were the seven ninja swordsmen of the mist. She could understand if he killed one of them or even if he killed two of them. But killing all seven of them was not something even Kage could do. She was also hailed as the genius of suna or the hero of sunagakure but compared to this young kid in front of her she felt weak. "Did you kill them alone?" "No, I only killed 4, 3 of them were killed by my friends from Konoha." This made her feel a little bit better but still killing four of them alone was not a feat many shinobi could do herself included. She maybe could fight 2 of them at the same time but kill four of them¡­ this made her both respect and fear ''Zoro'' a bit. "What kind of relationship do you have with Konoha?" "You are asking way too many questions, eat your food is getting cold." She realized that she was intruding way too much in his personal life so she became a bit flustered. "I am sorry if I was a bit intrusive." "It''s fine, I don''t mind too much. I hope you take my advice of not going after Kiri cause I don''t want you to die before I can claim my favor." Yama said as he finished eating and left the room. Pakura looked at the eating Friday, smiled, and patted his head. Friday was good at sensing things and he could tell that Pakura had no ill intent towards him or Yama so he didn''t mind getting pet by her. ___ Chapter 19 - Reaching Kumo Two days passed, they could now reach Kumo in less than a day. Within those two days, Pakura and Yama became a little more comfortable with each other, and Friday and Pakura became much closer.?? Since they were on a ship, Friday had nothing to do, he was bored and wanted attention and Pakura was there to give him attention. She thought Friday was cute and wanted to pet him all day and Friday wanted to be petted all day, so they became an inseparable duo. Pakura was in the room petting Friday and someone knocked on the door. "Come in." Yama entered the room with food for three of them. "You''re a bad influence on my dog. Now he will become even more demanding and lazy." "Look at this cute little fluffy ball, he can be as demanding as he wants when he''s cute." *wuff woof* Friday indicated his approval of her by barking. He handed both Friday and Pakura their food. "We will reach Kumo within a day." Pakura got a little sad. "One day, huh, so we''ll go our separate ways after one day." "Not really, it depends on what you want to do, if you want to follow us, you can." Pakura hadn''t thought of that. Now she was starting to think about it hard. Friday was also excited about the idea of Pakura following them, so he happily started wagging his tail and tugging on Pakura''s clothes a bit to tell her to follow them. "Your relationship with Konoha might be affected if I follow you. I don''t think they''ll like it if I follow you." "You don''t even know what my relationship is with Konoha, I was born in Konoha and have few friends and family in Konoha. I don''t work for Konoha, I don''t owe them anything and I don''t belong to them. "I just don''t kill anyone from Konoha out of the goodness of my heart. I already told you, I follow my heart and do what I want, so if you want to follow me, Konoha has nothing to say about it." Those were some bold words coming from him, but Pakura knew he had the strength to say those words. "If you don''t mind, I''d like to follow you. I don''t belong to Suna anymore and you warned me not to go after Kiri and I think they already got their punishment so I have nothing to do but if I follow you I can pet this fluffy ball all day." Pakura said as she started petting Friday. "I already regret inviting you." Said Yama jokingly. A day went by. They just reached Kumo and the crew members were in the process of docking the ship. For the crew members of this ship, the last few days had been stressful, though Yama didn''t force them to do anything except cook and sail. The constant threat of death would be stressful for anyone. Yama, Friday, and Pakura were about to leave the ship. The crew members were very happy that they were about to leave the ship, but Yama turned to look at them. "Who is the captain of the ship?" Their hearts were pounding, they just wanted the three of them to leave them alone, but it looked like Yama had other plans. No one answered Yama''s question. "I said, who is the captain of this ship?" Yama said while releasing a bit of his conqueror haki." A tall and fat guy stepped forward. "I am the captain." "How much does it usually take you to get someone from Kiri to Kumo?" The captain was a little surprised, he hadn''t expected that question. "We usually charge 50,000 ryo," the captain said truthfully. Yama nodded and took out a bag containing 100,000 ryo and tossed it to the captain. "It contains 100,000 ryo, take it and treat your crew well." No one had expected Yama to be so generous. The captain bowed deeply and began to thank him. He waved him off and left the ship with Pakura and Friday. "I didn''t expect you to be so kind." "I may be a bit self-centered at times, and I like to abuse my power and bully people from time to time, but I''m not too cruel." "So fierce Zoro has a friendly side too, that''s good to know." "Yama is my real name, as of now Zoro is dead, I used the name Zoro to hide my true age and identity because I was weak, but I don''t need to do that anymore." "So where do we go now, Yama?" "To Konoha''s base, we''re going to meet up with Jiraiya." A few hours passed. Yama tried to think about what was happening in this war. ''Obito is probably ''dead'' now and Kakashi should have received his sharingan, Minato should also be with them at this time, which means he''s near Iwa. Once the bridge is destroyed, he''ll probably head towards Kumo. '' Soon Rin will also be kidnapped by Kiri or Madara to be more specific, and he will be more active towards Kiri and Iwa, so Kumo is safe. I don''t want to mess with Madara yet, that bastard is a freak of nature. So Rin will have to die, I can''t save her.'''' ''Getting the 3rd tail is very tempting, if I get the 3rd tail I won''t have to worry about my chakra, but once again I won''t make a move to anger Madara.'' Three kunai landed in front of Yama, Pakura, and Friday. Yama immediately stopped all his thought processes, activated his observation haki, closed both eyes, and kept interrupting his chakra flow to make sure he wasn''t caught in some genjutsu. "Stop right there and tell me the reason you came, Pakura." A small brown haired man, followed by a few leaf shinobi, arrived in front of them. "Wicked eyes Fugaku." muttered Pakura. She looked to Yama and saw that he had his eyes closed, and she realized that she had already made a mistake. Chapter 20 - Facing Fugaku When she opened her eyes the next second, she was trapped in a strange world. Even Friday wasn''t safe from the genjutsu. Fugaku moved towards Pakura to kill her while she was still trapped in his genjutsu. He took out a kunai and tried to slit her throat.?? "Closed range Tempest Kick." Yama moved towards Fugaku and delivered a powerful kick to his ribs. Fugaku hadn''t expected the boy to break out of his genjutsu so quickly, so he was hit cleanly by the attack. The force of the kick was also much stronger than he had expected. The wind was knocked out of Fugaku. "Urgh." Fugaku flew back. "Captain." The three Konoha shinobi walked towards Fugaku. Yama touched Pakura and Friday and injected them with his chakra, disrupting their chakra flow. Thanks to him, the two were able to break free from the genjutsu. "Be careful, he''s not to be trifled with, and don''t look him in the eye. Worst case scenario, you take care of the three shinobi and take off with Friday, I''ll take care of Fugaku." Pakura was surprised by Yama again, she was instantly rendered helpless by Fugaku, but Yama was not only able to break Fugaku''s genjutsu, but he was able to land a kick on him and help her escape from the genjutsu, saving her life again. Yama looked calm on the outside but on the inside he was very nervous, he would rather fight Jiraiya than Fugaku and that was because Yama''s weakest point was Genjutsu. He would have to constantly worry about falling under Fugaku''s genjutsu, and he would have to interrupt his chakra flow very regularly to be safe, which would reduce his fighting efficiency by a lot. But the thing that bothered him the most was Fugaku''s Mangekyou ability. He had no idea what Fugaku was capable of with those crimson eyes. "I thought Pakura was the biggest threat in the group, but it looks like I was wrong. What''s your name, boy?" Yama had gained Fugaku''s respect, not anyone could land a clean attack against him. "Fugaku, we''re not here to fight, we''re here to bring Jiraiya this scroll." Yama took out the scroll he had gotten from Guy and showed it to Fugaku, the seal on the scroll was from Konoha and was still intact. "How did you get the scroll?" "That''s not important, is it?" "Give me the scroll." "Is your name Jiraiya?" Fugaku frowned. "Boy, don''t try to fool me if you want to live, I said give me the scroll." Yama slowly transformed into his Hybrid form, now towering over Fugaku with his size. He then released Conqueror Haki with all his might towards Fugaku. "And I asked, is your name Jiraiya?" The three shinobi couldn''t withstand the pressure and fell to their knees, barely conscious. Fugaku was also under a tremendous amount of pressure and he began to doubt himself as to whether or not he could defeat this boy, especially since he had now found out his identity. ''How many people has he killed to release such murderous intent?'' "So you are the famous bounty hunter Zoro. I can now understand why Kakuzu ran away after facing you, but I am not Kakuzu. I won''t lose to you." "Yes you will, but you''ll lose to us," Pakura said as she created three scorch release balls. Fugaku frowned again. Maybe he could beat Zoro in a one-on-one fight, but if he added Pakura, things could get complicated - the three shinobi were practically useless under that suffocating pressure. If he didn''t use his mangekyou, it would be very difficult to win this fight. Neither side wanted to fight the other, and the fight came to a standstill. After a long stalemate, Fugaku decided to take Yama and Pakura to the camp, because if they tried anything funny in the Konoha camp, not even God could help them. "Follow me, but if you try anything shady, don''t blame me for being merciless." "Lead the way." Replied Yama as he stopped his conqueror''s haki and transformed back into his original form. Pakura let out a sigh of relief. Yama was now facing the leader of the legendary Uchiha clan and was completely calm, while she was sweating on the other side as she stood before him. Now they followed Fugaku to the Konoha base where they would meet Jiraiya. If she wasn''t with Yama, she would never consider doing something like this, but being with Yama strangely boosted her confidence. Yama really was as wild as the rumors claimed. Soon, they reached the base of Konoha. The scouts noticed Yama and Pakura following Fugaku. They approached Fugaku and asked if everything was alright. Fugaku nodded his head and said that everything was fine. Fugaku, Yama, Pakura and Friday made their way to Jiraiya''s camp. On the way to the camp Yama noticed a familiar face, he saw Tsume, he knew she was at the battlefield but he didn''t know where she was. Tsume was in the corner talking to her teammates so she didn''t notice Yama. The four people entered Jiraiya''s camp. Inside were four people, one of them was Jiraiya and the other three were probably Jounin level shinobi, but Yama couldn''t recognize them. Jiraiya looked at Fugaku with a questioning look. "He is Zoro, and he has a scroll sent to us by Konoha." Jiraiya looked at Pakura and then looked back at Fugaku asking him why she was here. "I don''t know, she was with the kid, I tried to kill her, but that kid is a cunning bastard and not so easy to kill." Jiraiya nodded, understanding what Fugaku was getting at. Jiraiya pointed at the chairs and smiled. "Please, take a seat." Just by standing in front of Jiraiya, Yama could tell that Jiraiya was strong. ''And Pain killed him when he was in the sage mode, without much trouble, I''m still weak.'' Pakura on the other side was fearing for her life. Jiraiya and Fugaku could both kill her in a second, and the other jounin in the room weren''t to be trifled with either, all that, and Yama was still calm. Chapter 21 - Tension "So Zoro, can you please pass me the scroll?" Jiraiya asked. "It''s Yama, Zoro is no longer necessary." Yama passed the scroll to Jiraiya.?? Jiraiya looked at the seal to check if it was intact. The seal was intact, so he nodded and put it in his pocket. He didn''t want to read the information on the scroll in front of so many people. "So, how did you get this scroll, Yama?" "I don''t think any of you know this, but I''m from Konoha too. Yama Inuzuka is my full name." "We already suspected you were from Konoha." Jiraiya nodded. "I haven''t made many friends there, but I have a few, well, two to be exact. Long story short, I was in Kiri a few days ago and I luckily found them when they were attacked by some Kiri shinobi. "I was able to rescue them and send them back to Konoha for medical attention, and I decided to continue their mission and bring you the scroll. But a hot-blooded, red-eyed idiot decided to attack us on our way, but he was weak and wasn''t able to do shit." Yama decided to tease Fugaku a little, knowing that Jiraiya wouldn''t let him act up. Pakura''s anxiety shot through the roof. She was sitting in the middle of people who had the power to kill her as soon as they wanted, but Yama didn''t care and called one of them an idiot to his face. Fugaku glared at Yama and was about to say something, but Jiraiya spoke first. "My goodness, no need for such harsh words, we''re all from Konoha." Then he looked at Pakura and added. "Well, almost all of us, and would you please tell us how you met Miss Pakura." "Well, I don''t want to go into details, I just know that she is no longer part of the Sand Village, but is my partner." Jiraiya was curious how Yama got the heroine of the sand village Pakura to leave her village and join him. He was also envious of Yama''s luck in getting a beauty like Pakura at such a young age. "Since you''re here, how about helping us in the war against Kumo. We could really use the help of someone as strong as you. There are three monsters in Kumo that are extremely difficult to deal with. The Raikage, his son and the Jinchuriki of the Eight Tails. But with you here, we can wrap things up pretty quickly." "Why should I help you?" Asked Yama. Jiraiya hadn''t expected that question. "For Konoha, for your village, for your clan." "I have done much more for the village than you can imagine. If we look at all my accomplishments, I''m sure it''s more than some red-eyed bastard or maybe even you. The number of enemy shinobi I''ve killed is no joke. What has the village done for me? Why should I help the village any more than I already have? "Did the village give me a safe place to live? No, it sent my friends and family to war. What has the village done for the clans that live in it besides send us to war? The red-eyed freak has it worse than us. His whole clan is discriminated against and yet they have to fight and die for the village that hates them. "As for my clan, I will take care of them once I return to Konoha. You don''t have to worry about them." As he said that, the situation became much more tense. Fugaku knew that what Yama said was true and his heart hurt when he said that. It hurt even more when he heard someone else say it to his face. Jiraiya was also speeches. He knew that the Uchiha''s were discriminated against, but he would rather not talk about it, especially in front of the head of the Uchiha clan. "Fugaku, doesn''t your blood boil when you hear a bastard like him talk about sacrificing your life for the village while they treat you worse than a dog in the village. Jiraiya, don''t give me that ''do it for the village'' talk. You''re not Hiruzen, you''re not good with your words." He said as he released a bit of Conquerors Haki. Yama tried to suggest Fugaku to work with him and bring down the village. Yama wasn''t planning on overthrowing the village, but he was planning on putting pressure on the village to let them know not to mess with him or the uchiha clan. "If you want me to fight Kumo, then give me an incentive to do so." There was a long silence in the room. "Name your price, I am interested in working with you." Fugaku spoke. Jiraiya was starting to get worried, he could clearly understand what was going on. An alliance that could potentially topple Konoha was being formed right in front of his face and there was nothing he could do about it. If he tried to stop them now, and if they rose up and started attacking Konoha along with Iwa and Kumo Konoha would have no chance of surviving. Pakura and the other jounin found it hard to stay in the room because of the tension between these three individuals. Yama looked at Fugaku and smiled. "Two Uchiha, I would like to take two Uchihas of my choice and train them and of course I would like to work more with you in the future." Fugaku frowned a little when he heard the request, but he finally agreed. He didn''t care if the Inuzuka clan allied with him or not, what he wanted most was an alliance with Yama. Yama looked to be about 13 or maybe 14 years old, but his strength was almost as great as his own. Even before Yama suggested it, he had already thought about overthrowing the village. He was sure that Yama would reach the Kage level in the future, and having a Kage level shinobi to help him overthrow Konoha was worth the sacrifice of two Uchiha. The two shook hands. "I hope we have a long working relationship." Chapter 22 - Elders Meeting "Pakura will also work with me; if anyone touches her, I will chop him to pieces." Yama then looked at one of the jounin in the room. "Prepare two rooms for the two of us."?? The jounin ninja looked at Jiraiya for his approval. Jiraiya nodded his head and gave him the go signal. "Wait, one room will do." said Pakura before the jounin left the room. Yama was surprised, but he didn''t say anything. Yama, Pakura, and Friday left the room. After they were a little ways away from the camp, Pakura yelled out. "You''re crazy, what you just did will make you a target for the higher-ups of Konoha." "No, it will give me the reason to kill Danzo and even the two old elders if they annoy me too much. There are only 7 people in Konoha stronger than me. Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Tsunade, Minato, Fugaku, Danzo, and Hiruzen." "Fugaku is on my side, Tsunade might be stronger but she is afraid of blood, until she overcomes that fear she is not a threat. Jiraiya and Minato won''t attack me just like that, they will try to talk things out first. "That leaves three, Orochimaru is a smart man, I can discuss things with him, Hiruzen is the Hokage, he won''t come after me personally. I also don''t think he''ll agree to kill a genius kid like me." "I only have Danzo to worry about, if they send someone else I can just kill him." "What about the jinchuriki of the nine tails?" "If Kushina could control the 9 tails, I would be worried, but since she can''t, I''m not worried about her." Pakura was about to ask him another question, but he stopped her. "Before you ask another pointless question, I have a question for you." "What is it?" "Am I so handsome that you already want to share a room with me." Pakura became flustered. "Shut up, it''s just dangerous to live apart, so for safety reasons..." A week later in Konoha. "I told you we should have eliminated the Uchiha a long time ago, now they''re openly planning to betray us!" Danzo yelled. "If we had eliminated the Uchiha like you said, we would have lost this war long ago." retorted Hiruzen. "How did we not know about Inuzuka Kid for so long?" Asked Hiruzen. "I talked to the head of the Inuzuka clan yesterday about the kid, apparently he''s his nephew and he left the village when he was six years old." Replied Mitokado. (One of the elders.) "It''s not uncommon to have the strength to leave the village at the age of 6. Sakumo''s son graduated from the academy when he was 5." nodded Hiruzen. "So he''s a missing nin?" asked Danzo. "No, he never joined the academy and officially became a shinobi of our village. So we can''t call him a missing nin. Also, we can''t compare him to Sakumo''s son. He''s way ahead of him, both in strength and intellect." "He was considered the greatest genius of the Inuzuka clan, and rightfully so. He tricked Chiyo and managed to kill four medical- nin of Suna before he even turned seven. After that, he became a bounty hunter under the name Zoro and started killing high-ranking shinobi from every village except Konoha." "He created a jutsu that allows him to transform into a half-human half-dog, increasing his power many times over. I talked to Takuji about this jutsu and he said that no one in the clan''s history has ever created one like it. "His control over fire is at such a high level that he doesn''t even have to make hand signs to use it. He has also fought Kakuzu, which is by no means an easy feat. "As for Pakura, she was used as a sacrifice by her village to improve their relationship with Kiri, and Yama probably saved her when he was in Kiri. That may be why she''s following him. She''s strong, but not strong enough to cause major problems, so we can leave her here and just keep an eye on her for now." "He also killed four of the Mist''s seven swordsmen by himself when he was in Kiri." "What?" Danzo was the only one surprised by this. "Four days ago, Team Choza returned to the village and reported that Yama killed four of the seven swordsmen and they killed the remaining three with the help of Might Duy and Yama''s ninken." Hiruzen said. "We can''t let him live any longer, he is a serious threat to our village, we should kill him along with the Uchiha clan." "I object, I don''t think it''s right to kill one of them. Yama is a genius who has the potential to become the next Hashirama. And the Uchiha clan is still a part of our village, we can''t just kill them, that would make the other clans lose their trust towards us." said Hiruzen. "I also agree with Hiruzen, we can''t kill the boy, as for the Uchiha clan, we can deal with them after the war is over." Koharu said Mitokado nodded his head as well. "I''m also against killing the boy, he''s only 12 years old. And it''s not like he doesn''t care about the village, he hasn''t killed anyone from our village even though many people from our village have a large bounty on their heads, that alone shows that he has some respect for the village. "If I had to guess, I''d say he''s just angry that the village hasn''t recognized his efforts and we haven''t rewarded him. And we still have plenty of time to deal with the Uchiha clan." "I hope you don''t regret your decision." said Danzo angrily. "But we still need to separate him from Fugaku, we can''t let Fugaku have too much contact with him." said Koharu. "Let''s send Fugaku to Iwa and Minato to Kumo, that will solve a lot of our problem." Chapter 23 - Collecting Bounty Two weeks passed, Yama had teamed up with a random jounin and they killed a few jounin and some chunin level shinobi. The jounin who teamed up with Yama just followed him because Pakura, Friday, and Yama did what they wanted and he had no say in the matter. There was no head-on clash between the two sides yet, so Yama was yet to face the future fourth Raikage and Killer B.?? On the 8th day, something happened that was beyond Yama''s expectations. Yama was sitting in Jiraiya''s camp, along with Jiraiya, Pakura, and Friday. Yama saw Kiba''s father, or at least Hana''s Father. But he wasn''t quite sure, because he might have changed things and he might not be Kiba''s father but rather a different man, but he just assumed he was Kiba''s father because he looked kind of like Kiba. (Hana is Kiba''s older sister) Tsume and the man came to Jiraiya camp to ask permission to go back to the village because Tsume was three months pregnant. Tsume saw Yama at Jiraiya''s camp and was completely surprised. "Yama, what are you doing here?" Yama showed a small smile. "I''m here to fight for our village." He said it sarcastically to make fun of Jiraiya, but Tsume didn''t catch his sarcastic undertone. She came over to him, pulled his cheeks and rubbed his hair. "I knew you would grow up and make us proud." Yama smiled and said nothing. "I heard from Aunt Luna that you left the village years ago, where have you been until now?" "I''ve been traveling to various battlefields to help our village." "This is my little brother, I''m really glad to see you again." She pulled him into a hug. "Anyway, this is your brother-in-law, his name is Ida." She pulled the chubby little guy next to her and patted him on the back. "Ida, this is my younger brother, say hello." The poor guy already looked scared of Tsume. "Hello." Jiraiya cleared his throat to get Tsume''s reaction, as she kept talking and ignoring them. Finally, she looked at Jiraiya, bowed, and apologized. "I''m sorry, Jiraiya sama, I was just saw my younger brother again after years and got a little carried away." "It''s alright, what brought you here?" "I want to go back to the village with my husband because I''m pregnant." Jiraiya gave in to their request and told them they could go. "Sister, tell my mother that I miss her and that I will be home soon." said Yama. "Sure." Tsume smiled. Seeing the two, Yama wondered who his father was and what he looked like. After a week Fugaku received a transfer order, he was sent to Iwa because according to them the situation in Iwa was not good and they needed some reinforcements. Yama and Fugaku both knew that was bullshit and the higher-ups were just trying to separate the two. It was all within Yama''s expectations, they didn''t seem interested in attacking Yama either, which was good for him, and even if they were planning on attacking him, Yama had thought of a plan to deal with it. And the result wouldn''t have been pretty for Konoha. Let''s just say that plan involved Yama wearing a black cloak with red clouds. With Fugaku gone, Jiraiya didn''t want to get into a fight until Minato came to take his place, so Yama had about four days off from fighting the enemy, so he decided to claim the bounty of the Mist Swordsmen. "Jiraiya, I''m heading to the black market and I''ll be back soon." "You can''t leave yet, it''ll be troublesome if they attack while you''re gone." "I didn''t ask for your permission, I was just informing you, and don''t worry, I may not be Minato, but I''m still pretty fast. I''ll be back before they wipe you out." "Sigh, kids these days." Jiraiya sighed. Yama, along with Pakura and Friday, left the place and headed to the black market. The black market wasn''t that far from their base, so he reached it pretty soon. The three of them entered the building. The manager recognized Pakura immediately, but he was unable to recognize Yama. Rumor had it that Zoro was a child, but the manager couldn''t confirm it yet. "Welcome to my humble shop, how can I help you?" the manager said as he looked at Pakura. "I''m here to collect some bounties." The manager thought Pakura was the leader of the group, but looking at the way Yama spoke, it was clear he was the leader. The manager''s eyes then landed on Friday then back on Yama. "I''m sorry, I didn''t recognize you Sir Zoro, or should I call you Sir Yama from now on." "News travels pretty fast, huh, you can call me Yama from now on." "Very well Sir Yama, may I see whose bounty you''re here to collect?" "There are a few." Yama took out the sealing scroll and placed all seven heads of the seven swordsmen of the mist. The manager was completely stunned. There was another rumor about the disappearance of the 7 ninja swordsmen, but he never expected that all seven of them would be dead, especially at the hands of Yama. The manager took a deep breath. "How did you manage to kill them all?" "Does it matter?" The manager shook his head and glanced at the bingo book. "If we add up all the bounties, the total comes to 302 million ryo." Yama nodded his head and proceded to take out the seven legendary swords. The manager was prepared for this in a way, but seeing all seven swords together was breathtaking. "How much for these?" "About a hundred million each, if we add them together with the heads, it''s about a billion ryo in total." "Okay, we''re in business." "Sir, we have a small problem, we don''t have a billion ryo with us right now, how about you come here after a week and collect the bounty?" Yama had no problems with that. "Sure, give me some bear meat too, Friday loves it." He looked at Pakura. "Buy whatever you want." Pakura smiled. "I didn''t know bounty hunters made that much money, I''ll empty your pockets." Chapter 24 - Not A Let me just start this off by saying thank you, the amount support you guys have given me is insane. I have been working on this fanfic daily for more than a month. I had some basic plans on how I wanted to develop the story and I have somewhat followed the original plot. But I have not planned the story whole way through so I am kind of stuck, I know the basic direction I want to take the story but I need to do a lot of research to go down that path. I can either go with the flow and continue the story without much planning or I can take a break for a few days to properly plan the story.? ? Further down the line I want to add the otsutsuki but I haven''t read or watched boruto so I have no information on them, so I don''t know adding them to the story will be good or bad. So I asked the people on my P@treon if i should take a break or just go with the flow and they said to take a break. So i will be back after about 4 days. (Image here.) Chapter 25 - Minato After Pakura had purchased everything they needed, they returned to the Konoha base. After a day, Konoha''s scouts saw them near Konoha''s base and reported it to Jiraiya. Jiraiya heaved a sigh of relief. "Thank god he returned in time, but he''s really smart and annoying for someone who''s 12, Minato was so much better compared to him, even Nagato, Konan and Yahiko were much better than him in terms of behavior.?? "But I have to admit that he has talent like no other, maybe that''s why he''s so arrogant. Once Minato comes back, I''ll make sure Minato humiliates him a little." Soon, Yama entered the inside of Jiraiya''s camp. "See, I told you that I would return soon." A day passed. Pakura woke up early in the morning and looked beside her, there was a second mattress beside her and Yama was sleeping over there and Friday was sleeping between them. It hadn''t even been a month since she had met this boy, but she already owed him a lot. He had saved her life twice in the last few months and had even threatened the people of his own village, telling them not to hurt her. He was four years younger than her, but he was stronger than her. She had made it her new goal to become stronger than him and protect him, not the other way around. So she woke up early in the morning to start training. After waking up, she also woke up Friday, who liked to train with her, and the two of them quietly slipped out of the tent, not wanting to wake up Yama. Yama woke up almost two hours later, stretched a bit, and walked out of the tent. He ate a quick breakfast and headed into the forest to join Pakura and Friday for training. Suddenly, he sensed something. He activated his observation haki and saw a yellow haired guy running towards him at high speed. "He''s already very fast without using the flying thunder god, if he uses the flying thunder god, his speed will..." Yama shook his head and continued running towards the forest. "Nice to see you again, sensei." Minato greeted. Jiraiya came over and hugged Minato with a big smile on his face. "How have you been, Minato?" "I''m fine, I just wish the war was over, there are too many dead already." "Yeah, I heard one of your students died." "Yes, Obito Uchiha, he was a good boy." "Let''s not talk about the depressing stuff. Let''s talk about your relationship with Kushina, how far did you guys get?" said Jiraiya as he nudged him with his elbow, a smirk plastered on his face. "It''s going great." Said Minato with a forced laugh. Minato quickly changed the subject. "I heard you had some trouble with a kid." "Don''t mention that bastard, he''s a real pain in the ass to me. He''s inconsiderate and arrogant and has no respect for others." "It sounds like you really don''t like him." "The first day I met him, he hinted at allying with the Uchiha to overthrow Konoha right in front of me. And that Fugaku bastard agreed." Minato grew serious when he heard that. "The treatment the Uchiha clan is getting in the village is not good, Fugaku has the right to be angry, but this..." Jiraiya nodded. "This could make things even worse, and the likelihood of an Uchiha revolt will increase many times over. So when this war is over, we have to try to solve the problem between Konoha and Uchiha, or things will get ugly." "Tell me more about the boy." "Well, you know they call you the greatest genius of all time." Minato nodded. "Well, he is a greater genius than you. He''s about 9 or 10 years younger than you, but his strength is already very close to Kage level. His genius level is scary and he can become Konoha''s greatest weapon, but if he plans on going against Konoha..." "What are the chances of that happening?" "I''d say about 20%, he''s young and arrogant but he has some respect for the village, if we can get him to lose his arrogance and humble him a little that would be perfect." "And that''s where I come in?" "Yeah, you''re the only one who can compare to his genius. He seems to be the type to follow his heart and do what he wants, but if you beat him, no, if you absolutely destroy him in a fight, he''ll probably lose his arrogance and start training hard to beat you." "So where is he?" "Are you going to fight him now, aren''t you tired from all the running?" "Haha, you can''t even call that a warm up, don''t worry, I''m in great shape." "He should be in the east forest training with Pakura." Minato headed towards the forest to meet Yama. Friday had turned into a giant dog and sparks were coming out of his body and he was chasing Yama. Pakura controlled her three scorch release balls and sent them after Yama. At the same time, she was also attacking him with shurikens. Yama dodged the attacks of two of them while he was blindfolded. Minato saw this scene and was shocked, even his senses weren''t sharp enough to do what Yama just did. Yama took out a kunai and threw it towards Minato while he was still blindfolded. The kunai flew straight towards Minato''s head. Minato moved his head slightly to the side and dodged the kunai. Yama took off his blindfold and looked at Minato. "It''s not nice to spy on other people, is it?" ''This guy is good." thought Minato to himself. Minato came down from the tree and laughed awkwardly. "It wasn''t my intention to do that." Pakura was the only one surprised by Minato''s presence Friday knew about Minato''s presence even before Yama did, but he just ignored him. _____________________ The last couple of days have been really stressful. I lost all my contacts and data on my phone, and my dad suddenly fell ill and had to undergo surgery so I have spent the last 3 days in the hospital and I will be here for 2 more days. I didn''t get to do much research at all but I did plan the basic outline of the story and I am pretty happy with the outline. Thank you to everyone that stuck around to support me. Image of my Dad''s surgery. Chapter 26 - Fighting Minato "If it was not your intention to spy on me, then what was your intention of coming here?" Asked Yama. "Jiraiya Sensei told me that we have a young genius from Konoha in our camp, so I decided to visit you and look at your skills."?? Yama laughed a little when he heard Minato. "So basically that pervert sent you here to humiliate and degrade me." Minato was once again surprised by Yama, he couldn''t believe that Yama was so smart that he could grasp the truth of the situation so quickly. "Aren''t you ashamed, you''re ten years older than me, you''re considered the greatest genius of all time, your teacher is the perfect Sannin, your lover is the girl from the Uzumaki clan who can teach you high level Fuinjutsu, and yet you still want to bully me. "A kid who got stronger on his own, who didn''t have a teacher like the perverted Sannin to help him get stronger, the kid who survived and fought alone in the war and made a name for himself, and you want to come here and put me down. "I expected better from you but you turned out to be scum like the rest of them, you want to humiliate me don''t you, well I wish you luck because you''re going to need it and let me tell you one thing, if you''re careless I''m going to rip your head off." Yama sounded angry on the outside, but inside he was very happy. He just wanted to make fun of Minato a little, just because he could and because he thought it would be fun. Friday could sense Yama''s true feelings, so he knew he wasn''t really angry at Minato and was just pretending to be angry, but Pakura didn''t have Friday''s ability to sense feelings, so she thought Yama was angry at Minato. She walked up next to Yama and glared at Minato. "If you dare to even touch Yama, I swear I will kill you if thats the last thing i do. He''s done so much for your village and instead of rewarding him you treat him like this, I guess all shinobi villages are just scum." Minato was now undecided on whether or not he should fight Yama. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that fighting him was wrong and that he should try to mentor him instead. Yama could see the hesitation on Minato''s face and began to panic. He wanted to fight Minato and compete with him, he didn''t want to waste this opportunity. He touched Pakura on the shoulder. "Pakura, it''s alright, I want to see the strength of the greatest genius of all time." He looked Pakura in the eye and gave her a small nod to tell her it was okay. Pakura backed away and went to a corner with Friday to watch the fight. Yama glared at Minato. "Well, what are you waiting for, come at me." Minato still hesitated. "Advanced Soru." While Minato was still hesitating, Yama came right in front of him. He didn''t want to use the finger pistol because that was deadly and he had caught Minato off guard, so he didn''t want to hurt him because that would be unfair. So instead he just raised the temperature of his finger and flicked it at Minato''s forehead. Just as Yama''s finger lightly touched his forehead. Minato used the Flying Thunder God and backed away. ''He''s much faster than I expected, but that was an attack I could have easily dodged. I need to concentrate.'' "Haha, so much for being a genius, if I wanted I could have killed you right here, do you want me to show you how?" "Flaming finger gun." Yama once again raised the temperature of his finger and this time he trusted the finger to a tree next to him and his finger went through the hard tree as if it was butter. Minato saw this and took a deep breath. "I''m sorry for disappointing you." He took out two of his marked kunai and spoke slowly. "Let''s go for a second round, this time you won''t be able to touch me." Yama didn''t take those words lightly, he carefully ran towards Minato again. Minato threw one of the kunai at his head. Yama dodged the kunai by moving his head slightly, but he kept a close eye on the kunai, knowing that Minato could teleport there. Just as he was about to reach Minato, Minato let go of the other kunai from his hand and the kunai began to fall to the ground. Yama knew that Minato was about to teleport behind him, so he turned around and hit the kunai behind him. Minato appeared there as he expected, but just as his punch was about to connect with Minato, Minato disappeared again. Minato teleported back to the kunai, which he released from his hand. The kunai was still in the air at this point, that''s how fast the two of them were moving. Yama knew he messed up and activated Arnament Haki all over his backside, not knowing where Minato would attack him. Minato created a Rasengan and attacked Yama at his ribs. Yama saw this with his Observation Haki and increased Arnament Haki concentration on his ribs. The Rasengan landed on his ribs and he was sent flying forward, but he managed to land on his feet. Yama wasn''t really hurt because he used Arnament Haki at the last second. "I didn''t expect you to be able to defend against that, is that a jutsu you developed too?" Pakura was worried about Yama, but when she heard Minato, she let out a sigh of relief. Friday, on the other hand, barked and cheered for Yama, knowing that neither of them had any malicious intent, so they would both be fine. Yama laughed and didn''t answer him. He slowly transformed into his Hybrid form. Yams also released his conqueror haki. Suddenly, Minato felt a huge pressure oppressing him, trying to tear him to pieces. Yams spoke slowly. "Let''s go for round three." Chapter 27 - Fighting Minato 2 Yama charged at Minato again, but this time he was much faster than before, in a split second he was in front of Minato. Minato''s eyes widened when he saw Yama''s new speed, but he managed to teleport to the previously thrown kunai at the last second.?? Yama immediately turned around. "Fire Release: - Great Fire Destruction." This was a jutsu used by Uchiha Madara. This technique created a sea of flames, it is a wide range attack, and the attack speed and power of the technique was also great. For all these reasons, it was incredibly difficult to dodge this technique. He also didn''t need a hand sign to cast it, so it was even faster and harder to dodge. Both of Minato''s kunai were also engulfed in flames, so he couldn''t teleport to his kunai. Minato saw a massive wave of fire coming towards him. He took a deep breath and immediately teleported to a tree where he 1st stood. Yama saw Minato appear on the tree thanks to his observation haki and turned around. When he turned around, Minato was right in front of his face, ready to hit him with another Rasengan. "Ignite." Suddenly, Minato''s entire face lit up in flames. Yama dodged Minato''s attack and tried to attack him again, but Minato teleported away again. "Wind Release:- Wind Blast." Minato put out the fire on his face, his hair and eyebrows were a little burnt and a small part of his skin was also burnt by the fire. As soon as he put out the fire, Yama was in front of his face again, this time with a Rasengan of his own. Minato teleported away again, but this time Yama was very close to hitting him. The attack missed and the Rasengan hit the tree, destroying it to pieces. Minato''s heart was beating fast, he still didn''t know how Yama had managed to set his entire head on fire. If he was a little late to put out the fire, he would be badly injured, if not dead. He didn''t want to approach Yama again, because he didn''t know how he got attacked. He had been surprised by Yama several times today, he was even more determined now to make sure Yama stayed on Konoha''s side. He still had the confidence to defeat Yama because Minato had one last trump card, Sage Mode, but without it he wasn''t confident in defeating him. Sensei was wrong, he''s not near the Kage level, he''s already there. Fortunately, he is a low level Kage. Yama sighed and transformed back into his human form. He also withdrew his conqueror haki. "I accept defeat, you''re too fast for me, I can''t beat you." This was the 1st time Pakura saw Yama use so much of his power and she realised that the distance between them was still huge. She couldn''t even dodge one of Yama''s attacks that Minato was dodging. Nor would she be able to respond to Minato''s attacks. Even if she was called the hero of Suna, she wasn''t on the level of those two monsters, at best she was an elite jounin. Just wait and see, I will close the gap very soon. She became even more determined to surpass Yama. Minato heaved a sigh of relief and stepped closer. "How did you do that?" He asked, pointing at his own face. Yama smiled. "You''re not the only one who can placemarks. When I flicked you at the beginning, I attached a small amount of my chakra to your body and when I thought I could catch you, I lit it, but I was wrong, you were faster than I expected." "What about the Rasengan?" "You''re a famous man, it''s not hard to get information about you, I heard about your technique and tried to replicate it. I also added my own little twist." Minato was a little confused. "What do you mean by a twist?" "Flaming Rasengan." A very dense spinning red fireball appeared in his palm, but it took a little longer to create compared to normal Rasengan. He looked at Pakura and Friday. "Cover your ears and back up a bit." Both Pakura and Friday did as he said. Minato didn''t need to be told what to do either, he backed off as well. Yama hit the ground with the Flaming Rasengan. As soon as the Rasengan touched the ground, there was a huge explosion, the ground started to shake and a huge crater formed on the ground. A sea of flames covered the area near the impact point. And a huge amount of stones and debris were thrown away by the shockwave. The Konoha camp shook a little and they heard a huge explosion in the forest. Jiraiya came out of his camp and headed towards the forest. He ordered some jounin shinobi to follow him and some others to keep the peace in the camp. After the explosion was over, Yama stood in the middle of the huge crater completely unharmed. Minato teleported himself near Yama and began to look at the damage the technique had done. He drew a cold breath when he saw the damage Flaming Rasengan had done. "That''s definitely an S class jutsu. How did you create that?" Yama smiled and before he could say anything, Jiraiya and a few Jounin arrived on the scene. "What''s going on?" Jiraiya saw the massive crater on the ground and was surprised, he was even more surprised when he saw Minato''s face. He looked at Yama and Yama and Yama looked perfectly fine. "Looks like your plan to send Minato to humiliate me didn''t work out so well. Next time you try something against me, I''ll use some of those attacks inside Konoha''s base." Yama said with a grin. Minato then looked to Yama. "Do you want to train together? We can help each other out." That was exactly what Yama wanted. "Sure, but on one condition." "And what''s that?" Minato asked. "I''ll help you train, but either you or Jiraiya have to train Pakura and Friday." Said Yama. Jiraiya immediately got excited thinking about taking Pakura as his student. "Sure, I accept." Jiraiya exclaimed. Yama looked at Friday. "Friday bite his balls off if he looks at Pakura the wrong way." Friday barked and immediately went after Jiraiya. ____ AN:- I am lonely and need friends. If you are from Nepal and are interested in stock market you would be my Ideal friend. If u want to suggest me some ideas for this fanfic or ideas for new fanfic I need you too and finally I don''t know how anything about discord so need someone experienced to become my discord mod. https://discord.gg/4rAWdgUrDG Join my discord I am lonely. Chapter 28 - Bee Vs Yama A year has passed. This has been a relatively peaceful year in the battle between Kumo and Konoha. There were three main reasons for this peace. Suna''s withdrawal from the war, Iwa''s fight against Kumo, and Yama and Minato joining the battlefield.?? Everyone knew about Minato''s powers, Yama''s popularity also soared after the news that he had killed the seven swordsmen of the Mist spread. Those two along with Jiraiya as well as Pakura put a lot of pressure on Kumo. Konoha also didn''t go after Kumo because of Kiri, Kiri had been targeting Konoha lately so they didn''t want to waste manpower by going against Kumo for no reason. There were a few minor clashes between the two sides, but nothing major. About six months ago. Yama went off to kill some Kumo Jounin to make some money, because he hadn''t stopped doing his job as a bounty hunter. Sometimes he''d go out and hunt down a few jounin ninjas for a few million ryo, but this time he hit someone with a much bigger bounty. He met the jinchuriki of the eight tails killer bee. Yama had already noticed Bee, but Bee had not yet noticed Yama''s presence. Bee was accompanied by two Kumo Jounin. "Advanced Soru." Yama was moving towards Bee at an extremely high speed . Bee sensed that someone was coming towards him at a very high speed, so he immediately jumped away to defend himself, but unfortunately, the two jounin weren''t so lucky. As Bee looked forward, he saw Yama removing his bloody fingers from the heads of the two Jounin. The lifeless bodies of the two jounin fell to the ground. Yama looked at Bee as he wiped the blood from his fingers. "How much do you think I can sell a tailed beast for." "You screwed up by coming here, I''m sure in the past, you have bled but now you''ll be dead." ''Bee be careful, I can tell he''s strong, be careful.'' The eight tails warned him. "Don''t worry, I can feel that, your worries you can seal that." Bee rushed towards Yama. "Flaming tempest Kick." Yama sent a arch of fire towards Bee. Bee dodged the attack and continued moving towards Yama, and punched towards him. Yama had been fighting with Minato almost every day for the past six months, so he could easily react to Bee who was in his base form and hadn''t used eight-tailed powers yet. He wanted to see if his base form power was greater than Bee''s base form power, so instead of slipping and countering like he normally would, he parried the blow with his own. Yama was pushed back four steps while Bee was pushed back three steps, Yama smiled when he saw that. If he didn''t lose to Bee in terms of strength, he was sure he wouldn''t lose to Bee in a fight. Since the gap between the two of them in terms of strength wasn''t that big, he was confident that he wouldn''t lose, and that was because he had mainly been training his speed, reaction, and observation haki with Minato for the past six months. Bee was also pleased with their first exchange. He could see that he had more power than his opponent, and he hadn''t even used eight tail powers. "You''re not so confident now, are you? You fool, I''m cool." Yama signalled Bee to walk towards him again. That was what Bee was planning to do anyway, he ran towards Yama and punched him again. But instead of parrying his attacks like last time. Yama moved his head slightly to the left, wrapped his fist with Arnament Haki and hit Bee on the chin with a powerful punch. Bee fell to the ground and rolled backwards. Yama looked at him with a big grin on his face. "Your fighting skills are just as crappy as your rap. I''m going to have fun slowly picking you apa...." Yama paused for a second and immediately ran off without finishing his sentence. Bee was extremely confused by this scene, he had no idea what was going on. About 15-20 seconds later, his brother A arrived there along with a few jounin. "Bee, what happened?" Yama also returned to the camp and told Minato and Jiraiya what happened. Yama, Minato and Jiraiya immediately headed there, but by the time they got there, Bee and A were long gone. ... Back to the present. Yama, Minato, Jiraiya, Pakura and two Hyuga Jounin were all in the same room. According to their spies, Kumo was planning a final attack on them, led by the Wicked A and the Killed B. This was Kumo''s last move, if they won they would hold a stronghold here and turn their attention to Iwa for a while, and if they lost they would sign a peace treaty with Konoha and go to Iwa. "If the third Raikage isn''t here, then we can easily destroy them, but we can''t rule out the possibilities." Said Jiraiya. "I don''t think the third will be here. If he came here, Kumo''s battle front against Iwa would collapse and they would be crushed by Iwa." spoke Minato. "Why are you even holding this meeting? Minato will take care of A and I will take care of Bee. Pakura and those two can lead the troops, Jiraiya can just stay on standby and take care of the third Raikage in case he shows up. "If not, he can cheer us on or join the fight, whichever he prefers. We need not worry, we will win this battle easily." No one could find fault with what he had just said. Jiraiya looked around, "Does anyone have a problem with Yama''s strategy?" One of the Hyugas spoke up. "Can he really take on the eight tails'' Jinchuriki? I heard Bee is a perfect Jinchuriki." "I suggest you take a listening test. All you hear is crap about people from another village, but you don''t even know that I can beat this perfect Jinchuriki you speak of." ________ AN- Here to rant again. My father got released from hospital yesterday and today we had to rush him back him cause he started bleeding from his stitches and the way they treat him is horrifying. I have no knowledge of medicine what so ever but there has to be a better way to do this. He was in so much pain, I felt dizzy and nearly passed out so had to stop the video and take a seat just by looking at it. If u want to watch the vid go to my ******* its public there u dont need to pay to watch the vid or join my discord https://discord.gg/4rAWdgUrDG Chapter 29 - Rematch "I suggest you take a hearing test. You hear shit about people from another village, but you don''t know that I defeated that perfect Jinchuriki that you talk about." said Yama to the Hyuga. The Hyuga Jounin felt a little offended that a kid disrespected him. "He didn''t even use half of his power against you and you ran away."?? Minato heaved a sigh. He knew Yama would cause a small commotion now. "Shut up you white-eyed dumbass, I can kill anyone in your clan in a minute you weak bitches. If you think you can take on A and Bee on your own then go for it, if not then shut the fuck up." Jiraiya and Minato tried to calm Yama down. Both Hyuga jounin activated their Byakugan and glared at Yama. "What are you looking at, I''m going to gouge your eyes out. Even if that bastard Hiashi comes down here, he won''t be able to save you fucking losers." Pakura on the sidelines laughed at Yama''s antics. Minato didn''t want the situation to escalate, so he teleported Yama into the forest. Minato and Yama had grown much closer over the past year. They spent almost every day together, so Minato now knew Yama very well. He knew that Yama was a calm person, and he only antagonized others because it was fun for him. "Is it really that much fun to insult other people?" asked Minato. Yama laughed and replied. "You should try it sometime, it lifts your spirits." "What if the people you insult try to return the favor?" "If they try that, you just beat the shit out of them." "Sigh, your habit of insulting people is going to bite you in the ass one day." "When that happens, I''ll have you come and help me." "If you go too far, even I won''t be able to help you." "So you''re saying you''ll kill me for two Hyuga Jounin." Minato shook his head. "Yama, I know you''re a smart kid and you know exactly what I mean." Yama laughed and walked with Minato back to the camp. At the camp, Jiraiya had already calmed Hyuga Jounins and sent them out of the tent. Jiraiya glared angrily at Yama. "Brat, how many times do I have to tell you not to make trouble with your own people." "He tried to insult me first." "Don''t act like I don''t know you, Minato already told me about you." "Fucking snitch." Yama muttered. Minato heard that, but he just shook his head. "Enough fooling around Yama, go get some rest, tomorrow we go into battle and hopefully it will be the last battle in this war. " And remember, don''t kill Bee, we don''t want a permanent grudge against Kumo. If you do, you know what can happen." He said the last part while looking at Pakura. Yama laughed and said nothing. A day passed and it was the day of battle. Even in war, there were different rules. And everyone followed the rule, at least on the surface. If there were no rules, the death rate in the war would double. Most of the big battles like this also had rules like the war would only start after sunrise and would end after sunset. Both sides took their troops and gathered on a battlefield and were waiting for the sun to rise. Yama was on the front line along with Minato, Pakura, and Friday. He created a clone and had the clone transform into Killer Bee. He then began to reenact the events of their last meeting. The clone threw a weak punch towards Yama, he slowly dodged the punch and hit his clone with a punch, sending him to the ground. The Kumo shinobi was getting pissed off at Yama''s antics. Bee was a little annoyed as well. "Don''t forget the part where you ran away in fear, tell everyone about it loud and clear." "You were lucky that your big brother came to help you, otherwise you would be dead by now, but this time you won''t be so lucky, I brought my big brother to deal with your big brother, so no one will save your life this time." said Yama as he patted Minato''s shoulder. Minato and A looked at each other and assessed the opponent''s strength. They hadn''t faced each other yet, so they didn''t know how the fight would go, but they were both confident in their abilities. A expected to fight Jiraiya, but Jiraiya was nowhere to be seen, which made him anxious. The long-awaited moment finally arrived, the sun rose in the sky and both sides began to throw ninjutsu at each other. Yama activated his Arnament Haki and Observation Haki. He charged towards Bee and dodged all attacks effortlessly. A and Minato began to fight. Pakura began to mummify the Kumo Jounins with the Scorch Release Balls. Friday covered his body with a lightning cloak and began to move at very high speed, tearing through the Kumo chunins. "Time for a rematch bee." Yama punched towards Bee''s face, but he managed to dodge the punch. Yama''s punch flew past his face and he went to throw a punch himself, but he felt a sharp pain in his stomach. Yama had hit him with his knee when his punch missed. Bee tried to dodge, but the hand that flew past his head came back and Yama''s elbow smashed the back of his head. Bee shoved Yama and put some distance between them. From this exchange of blows, Bee knew that Yama was faster and more technical than him. "Buddy, I need your strength." Bee said to Eighttail. Eighttail, who was watching the fight, knew that Yama was not an easy opponent, so he immediately gave Bee his chakra. "Eight-tailed cloak mode." Chapter 30 - Full Transformation ''Mythical Zoan - Hellhound Hybrid mode'' ''Conquerors Haki.''?? A wave of Conquerors Haki shot out from his body, mainly targeting all the Kumo-Shinobi. All the Kumo-Shinobi were confused by the wave of pressure they were facing. The people of Konoha also felt the pressure, but not as much as the Kumo-Shinobi because it wasn''t directed at them. The fight paused for a second. Many weak Kumo-Shinobi began to pass out one by one, and even the strong ones had their combat power suppressed. He knocked out almost a thousand people and suppressed the rest of them. If Kumo didn''t quickly find the situation to stop the pressure, there was no point in fighting this battle, they might as well surrender now. Minato knew immediately that Yama was the one behind this. He looked at Yama and smiled. A saw that and he also knew that Yama was the one who had caused the situation. "Bee, that bastard is behind all this, finish him off quickly." Everyone was surprised by A''s words. Even the shinobi from Konoha didn''t know that Yama had that kind of power, they knew that Yama was strong, but this was something that not even Kage could do. Bee was about to move towards Yama, but Jiraiya stood in front of Yama. "Yama you only activate this jutsu for a few minutes, you don''t need to fight, I''ll take care of the Jinchuriki." "Oei, don''t steal my opponent, go help Minato if you really want to fight." Yama pushed Jiraiya aside and charged towards Bee who was in his 8-tail cape mode. Jiraiya sighed and shook his head and went to help Minato. Bee and the hybrid form Yama began to fight. Bee was in a hurry to finish Yama off as soon as possible, so he started attacking Yama. He used both his hands and the 8 tails of his cloak to attack Yama. But in the past year, Yama had trained his observation haki to the point where he could sense the coming attack before the opponent even attacked him. It wasn''t future sight, but a downgraded version of Goku''s ultra instinct. Bee kept attacking Yama, but not a single attack landed. Yama clapped his hands together. "Flaming arrows." Hundreds of arrows made of fire appeared around the two of them, and at a very high speed moved towards Bee. The arrows pierced halfway through Bee''s cloak, but they couldn''t reach all the way inside. Although the arrow didn''t touch Bee, the heat affected it. The pressure from the conqueror''s haki, the extreme heat, and the mental pressure from knowing that if he didn''t finish Yama quickly, they would lose the war, all affected Bee. Bee''s movements became a little sloppy. Yama kept dodging his attacks and tagging him with a fireball, a punch, a kick, and a Rasengan on him. But thanks to the Eight Tail''s cloak, Bee was able to avoid a lot of the damage and keep moving towards Yama. Bee came forward once more and tried to land a blow on Yama, but Yama slipped the attack. Bee saw a Rasengan appear on Yama''s hand, but he didn''t care, he wanted to take this opportunity to exchange blows with Yama. But instead of attacking Bee immediately, as Bee had expected, Yama took his time. The ball on Yama''s hand turned red and began to emit a dangerous aura. Bee knew this was dangerous, so he used his tails to block the attack. The Flaming Rasengan hit Bee and a huge explosion was created. Bee flew backwards like an arrow and crashed into a huge boulder that formed a large crater on the boulder and Bee fell to the ground from the explosion. The Kumo Shinobi''s morale dropped even more, while the Konoha Shinobi''s morale couldn''t be higher. A was about to give up, but suddenly he heard a huge roar. Bee had fully transformed into 8 tails. Yama saw that and smiled. "Hellhound full transformation." Yama''s height increased from 8 feet to 25 feet. He looked like a giant wolf, his skin took on a darker shade of grey, and brown coloured flaming spikes came out of his back. His claws were razor sharp and very strong, just like his teeth. Its eyes were red and fire came out of his mouth with every breath. Its size was similar to the size of eight tails. Fire was pouring out of various parts of his body, making it unbearable to stand near him. Kumo Shinobi looked at Yama with fear. Minato smiled. "How many more tricks does he have up his sleeve?" Friday jumped up and down excitedly, because now Yama looked a little like him. Yama ran towards 8 tails. Since Yama wasn''t that fast in this form, Bee managed to grabbed him with his tails. Suddenly Yama ''s whole body was engulfed in fire, the size of the spikes in his back increased and pierced Bee''s tails. Because of the heat and the spikes piercing him, Bee couldn''t hold Yama anymore, so he let go of him and backed away. Yama ran at him and tried to split his head with his claw. Bee tried to block Yama''s attack with one of his tails, but Yama''s claws sliced one of his tails off. Yama turned around and looked at Friday. Friday knew exactly what to do. He charged towards the tail at full speed and sealed the tail in the sealing scroll. A kumo ninja ran towards Friday, but he felt someone grab his head. In the next second, all the liquid in his body evaporated and he was dead on the spot. Pakura let go of his head. "I don''t like people who attack dogs." Bee backed away after his tail was cut off, and Yama didn''t immediately go after him because he was keeping an eye on Pakura and Friday, making sure no one could hurt them. Once the two had safely retreated, Yama turned his attention back to Bee. Bee was in the process of charging a tailed beast bomb. Yama grinned and began to create a huge fireball in front of his mouth. Chapter 31 - End Of The War Both Bee and Yama fired the attack at the same time. The tailed beast bomb and the huge fireball collided in midair, causing a huge explosion. The fireball and the tailed beast bomb pushed each other in the air for a while, but the tailed beast bomb was stronger than the fireball, so it continued to move towards Yama.?? The fireball had taken away most of the tailed beast bomb''s power, so Yama simply knocked the ball away with his palm. Minato looked at A: "A, do you really want to let your brother and your people die in this battle? I don''t want to form a permanent grudge against Kumo, but if you don''t back down now and sign the peace treaty, I will be forced to kill you. "If you withdraw now, next time we meet we will be Kage and we could be on friendly terms, but if you continue to act foolishly, your entire village could be destroyed." A glared angrily at Minato, but he knew that everything Minato said was true. He was already losing his battle against Minato, and now even Jiraiya was there to help Minato, who was already dominating him. Bee was also on the losing side against Yama. Yama had already cut off one of his tails. He also knew that his father, the 3rd raikage wasn''t having a great time against Iwa, and if he and his troops were killed now, the history of Kumo would end right here. "Everyone retreat." Shouted A Yama looked at Bee. "Looks like your older brother doesn''t believe in you. But can you blame him? You''re getting your ass handed to you." "Bee, don''t waste your time talking to him, back off." "Yeah, listen to your brother if you want to live, run away like a little bitch you are." "Bee, hurry up." A yelled again Bee turned into his human form and ran away with his brother. Yama also changed back into his human form. As the Kumo Shinobi retreated, all the Konoha Shinobi began to celebrate. "Yes, run away." "You can''t harm us, we have Yama on my side." "Haha, Yama is stronger than your perfect Jinchuriki." "Konoha is the strongest." After the Kumo shinobi retreated, the Konoha shinobi also returned to the camp and began to celebrate. Everyone started drinking sake, eating meat, and dancing. Yama was the hero of the war, so everyone jumped on him and started praising him. Yama was also quite drunk, so he liked it when they sang his praises. "Yama San, you''re a young and talented boy, my daughter might not be comparable to you but she''s a beautiful and hardworking lass, how about I introduce the two of you once we reach the village." Pakura was really upset that everyone was offering up their daughter to Yama. She knew she liked Yama, she had come to terms with those feelings, she just thought it was only a slight physical attraction and nothing too deep. But just the thought of Yama being with other girls made her crazy with jealousy. She wanted Yama all to herself. "How about I vaporize your blood before you reach the village." "Miss, no need to be so angry, I didn''t know you two were a couple, but anyway, young man, if this miss thing doesn''t work out, or if you want to take a second wife, come talk to me." Pakura punched the guy in the face and pulled Yama with her. "Pakura, where are we going? I want to drink some more sake and stay at the party, I''m the hero of the war, I need to be at the party." "What are you going to do there? Listen to their marriage proposal?" "It''s good to know that I have lots of options." Pakura became even angrier. "So you''re planning on marrying them?" "No, of course not." Pakura''s mood got a little better. "Not unless they''re are beautiful. If they are beautiful, I might consider ma..." Pakura suddenly grabbed him by the collar, pulled him closer to her and gave him a quick peck on the lips. Her face turned bright red with shame. She was totally embarrassed. "You took my first kiss, and if you dare think of another girl after taking my first kiss, I''ll make sure you regret it." After saying that, Pakura quickly ran away ashamed. Yama came back to his senses after Pakura gave him a quick kiss. He touched his lips and smiled. "That girl..." "There you are, I was looking for you, what are you doing here?" asked Jiraiya. "Nothing." "Come with me, let''s drink all night, the night is still young." "Where''s Minato?" "We can''t all be drunk now, can we? He and a few others are keeping watch in case someone attacks us." He nodded and followed behind Jiraiya. His thoughts still lingered on Pakura, but Jiraiya was starting to feed him alcohol, so he decided to deal with that stuff later and just enjoy the moment now. After drinking all night, Yama passed out drunk on the floor somewhere. Some random shinobi carried him to Yama''s own tent. Pakura was in the tent, still ashamed of the whole situation. She was hugging Friday and complaining how Yama wasn''t paying much attention to her. What she did not know was that Friday was very comfortable in her arms and had long since fallen asleep, and he did not pay any attention to her either. "Excuse me, miss, this is our young hero''s tent, isn''t it?" Pakura saw that Yama was passed out drunk, so she sighed and walked towards him. "Yes, this is his tent." She took Yama and slowly led him to his mattress. The guy who had brought Yama to the tent walked away to drink more. Pakura carefully laid Yama down on his mattress. She stared at Yama''s face and her face turned red with embarrassment. She turned around and walked over to her own mattress. But Yama suddenly grabbed her arms and pulled her towards him. Their faces were extremely close to each other. _______ AN:- I don''t want to give too much spoiler but I want to do like a year time skip but I don''t want Mc to learn important stuff like sage mode or advancing his haki during this time. Suggest me few things for our mc to learn or do during this one year that wont increase his strength by too much. Also join my discord. https://discord.gg/4rAWdgUrDG Chapter 32 - Returning To Konoha But Yama suddenly grabbed her arms and pulled her towards him. Their face was extremely close to each other. "Yama what.."?? He pulled her even closer and kissed her on the lips. Pakura tried to back away but Yama held her tightly and didn''t let her. He didn''t want to force her to do anything that she didn''t want so after a couple of seconds he let her go. "Now we are even." Pakura didn''t know how to react, she was so embarrassed that she wanted to go live on a deserted island for the rest of her life. She went to her mattress and buried her face in the pillow. The next day, everyone started to pack up things and head back to Konoha. Few people stayed back to observe the actions of Kumo. Pakura was slightly conflicted, she wanted to be with Yama but the thought of going to Konoha scared her. She had fought and killed Konoha ninjas before so she was worried about the reaction of the village higher-ups. She wanted to talk to Yama and convince him not to return to the village and just travel the world with her, but she was too embarrassed to talk with him right now. Yama could see that she was uncomfortable. "What''s going on is something bothering you?" Her heart started to beat faster because the memory of the previous night started to play in her head, she took a deep breath and calmed down. "Yama let''s not go to Konoha." Yama wasn''t expecting she would say that. "What''s the reason?" "I am just worried, I don''t think the higher-ups will be too fond of me and I dont want you to face trouble because of me." Yama chuckled a bit. "Don''t worry, I promise they won''t be able to do anything to both of us." "But¡­" She wanted to say something but Yama stopped her. "No buts, Minato is going to be the Kage soon and do you think he will create trouble for us. I am sure your sensei Jiraiya is going to help us too if they take things too far. "I also have a small connection with Fugaku and obviously, the Inuzuka clan is also on our side, all these people who fought against Kumo have already accepted you as their allies. With all these people as our allies do you still think anyone is going to create trouble for us?" Pakura shook her head. "Calm down and don''t think about it too much, I promise I will protect you." Two weeks passed. Yama, Pakura, and Friday were the first to arrive at Konoha. Because of their large number, the speed of Konoha''s troops was pretty slow. Yama was bored moving so slowly, so the three of them separated from the group and arrived early at Konoha. The three of them reached the entrance gate of Konoha. "Stop, who are you guys state the purpose of you visiting Konoha." Two guards at the gate stopped them and asked. "Ahh... Well, you guys might not know me but I am part of the Inuzuka clan and this lady here is my future wife." Pakura''s face became flushed again. "As for the reason for coming here let''s just say, I left the village when I was quite young now I am returning back because I miss my mom." The two guards didn''t like his nonchalant attitude too much and were a little annoyed. "Show us something that proves your identity." One of them asked in an annoyed tone. Yama picked up Friday, and showed him to them. Friday tilted his head in confusion. "This is my dog, so I am Inuzuka." The two of them starting to get angry. "We don''t have time for your jokes, hurry up and show us your identification." Yama suddenly felt like someone was watching him and he knew who this someone was. Friday also felt someone watching him so he barked and signalled Yama. "Yo Hokage same, it would be nice if you told your guards to let us in instead of spying on us." "Brat have you gone insane, who are you talking to?" "Just talking to the second biggest pervert of Konoha." A masked shinobi jumped down next to them. "Let them in, it''s hokage Sama''s order." "Hai." The two guards responded and let Yama and Pakura inside the village. The anbu looked at Yama and Pakura. "Two of you come to the Hokage sama''s office immediately." "I am pretty tired after the long journey, and I also miss my mom, so I am going to visit her, I will take a rest for a day and maybe tomorrow I will go to his office." "It''s Hokage sama''s ORDER, not his request, visit him immediately." "It''s not a nice way to treat your war heroes is it now? Lower your tone a little and tell your Hokage that I am going to visit him tomorrow." "I SAID COME¡­." Yama immediately disappeared from his place and appeared in front of the anbu. He grabbed the anbu by the neck and picked him up. "Lower your tone while speaking to me you useless maggot if you don''t want to get crushed." He released his conquerors haki and the two guards and the anbu were terrified. The two guards couldn''t stand straight and fell to their knees. Yama could feel Hokage still watching him. "Old man, teach these bugs to learn their place or else they might get crushed." Yama applied a bit more pressure on the anbu''s neck. The anbu grunted in pain. "If you want to talk to me that badly come and visit me yourself. And if you keep watching me I might crush a few of your bugs out of annoyance. Yama let go of the Anbu''s neck and started walking towards the Inuzuka clan. Pakura was starting to get worried it hadn''t been 5 minutes since they reached the village and Yama had already fought an anbu. The two guards gulped in fear as they remembered their previous attitude towards this man. Chapter 33 - Meeting The Clan Head Again Hiruzen saw Yama''s attitude and let out a sigh. "He is going to be a pain to deal with." Yama, pakura, and Friday went to Yama''s house. Yama had sent a message to his mom saying he had departed from Kumo and heading home along with Kumo shinobi, so she was expecting him to arrive a day later.?? Yama knocked on the door. A few seconds later he could hear some footsteps. Luna wasn''t expecting anyone to visit today so she was wondering who came to her place. The scent of the person was kind of familiar to her but she quite couldn''t put her finger on it yet. She opened the door and when she saw Yama she was completely surprised. She pulled him into a tight hug. He also hugged her back. "Mom, I am home." "Mhm, took you ages I missed you so much." She said with tears leaking through the corner of her eyes. "Don''t worry mom I won''t be leaving anytime soon." "I won''t let you leave even if you want to." Friday was also wagging his tail excitedly waiting for his turn to get petted. Luna let go of Yama and spread her hand towards Friday. Friday immediately jumped into her arms. "I missed you too, little guy. Did Yama take good care of you? You look so cute and I can tell you have also gotten a lot stronger." Friday was squealing with happiness. After petting Friday for a bit she let go of him and looked at Pakura. "And she is?" "Ah... She is the girl I told you about in the letter." "Oh, the hero of Sunagakure Pakura or should I say former hero of Sunagakure. I heard you left your village." Pakura bowed a little. "It''s a pleasure to finally meet you, aunty, Yama talks about you a lot. As for the sunagakure situation, it''s more accurate to say that the village abandoned me." "It''s a pleasure to meet you too, please come inside." The four of them entered the home. "You guys wash up a little I will quickly prepare some food for you guys if you had informed me that you would reach home today I would have prepared few things for you." "It''s fine mom, you don''t need to do anything special, just your usual cooking is perfect." "The two of us have a lot of catching up to do, so from the start tell me everything about your journey." The three of them spent the entire day talking with each other. Later that evening the shinobi that were in battle against Iwa arrived at the village. That included people like Orochimaru, Fugaku, Kakashi, Guy, Duy and many others. Iwa heard the Kumo''s plan about signing a peace treaty after one final battle against Konoha and focusing their attention on Iwa. So instead they signed a peace treaty with Konoha even before Kumo and now they outnumbered the raikage and his group by a large margin. Orochimaru, Fugaku and the others went to the Hokage''s office to submit a report and Yama went to meet the clan head of the Inuzuka clan. *knock knock* Tsume opened the door. She was holding a small child in her arms. When she saw Yama at the door a huge smile formed on her face. "I didn''t expect you to reach here so I thought you were going to arrive tomorrow." "I arrived a little early and is this cute little girl, my niece?" "Yes, her name is Hana." "Can I hold her for a bit?" "Of course." Yama carried Hana and slowly moved her back and forth. "Little Hana, uncle didn''t bring you any gifts but next time I come to visit you I will make sure to buy some gifts for you." Tsume''s husband walked into the room. "Welcome back to Konoha brother in law." "Haha, thank you, and congratulations to the two of you for giving birth to this cute little angel." Yama handed Hana back to Tsume. "Nee-chan, I need to meet Uncle Takauji, is he in his room?" "No, father is in the clan meeting room." Yama went to the clan meeting room to meet the clan head. He opened the door and saw Takauji writing something on a piece of paper. "It''s been a while since I last saw you uncle." Takauji came over and hugged Yama. "You have grown up a lot since I last saw you." "And you look young as ever uncle." "Haha, so how was the war like for you, tell me about your journey." The two of them talked for a bit. Yama told him a few this about his experience and Takauji told him about things going on in Konoha. He told Yama about the elders coming to meet him to ask for information about him, his son in law, being a grandfather and other small talk. "So what brought you here today, do you have something you want to talk about or did you just come here to meet your uncle." "Both, I wanted to meet sister, my niece and also my uncle and I also have something that I want to discuss with you." "What is it?" "I won''t beat around the bush and get straight to the point, I want to be the new clan head of Inuzuka clan." Takauji chuckled a bit. "Don''t worry young man you are the greatest genius our clan has ever seen the clan head position is yours in the future but currently you are too young. Wait a couple of years and the position is yours." Yama shook his head. "We don''t have time to wait for a couple of years. The things in Konoha aren''t as peaceful as it seems, and I plan on shaking things a bit and the Hokage, Danzo and the other two elders might not be so fond of my action and they might be a little hostile." Takauji frowned a little when he heard Yama. "What are you talking about? What do you plan to do?" Chapter 34 I have been under a lot of stress for the last couple of months and I just want to read some nice long cultivation novel or any other nice and long novel for that matter. So give me some suggestions. And no I am not taking a break, chapters will be released at a regular rate.?? Chapter 35 - Itachi Takauji frowned a little when he heard Yama. "What are you talking about? What do you plan to do?" "The elders don''t like the Uchiha too much and have been suppressing them since the generation of 2nd hokage and I don''t like that.?? "I openly told Fugaku that if the elders don''t change the way treat the Uchiha I would help him if he revolt and the elders didn''t like that too much. That is why they contacted you and asked you about me." Takauji was getting nervous hearing Yama. Yama continued. "As you know the third is getting pretty old and soon new Hokage is going to be appointed and I want to go to the meeting representing the Inuzuka clan." Takauji was hesitant, he didn''t mind Yama being the new clan leader he had already decided that Yama was going to be the next clan head but the thought of going against the third and the elders worried him. He was also worried about Yama''s inexperience, he didn''t doubt Yama''s strength he had heard about Yama''s feats and knew Yama was stronger than him. When he met Yama could tell the feats of Yama weren''t exaggerated. He also didn''t doubt his intelligence he knew Yama was smart but it still bothered him that Yama had never experienced leading people or a clan. "Yama I don''t mind making you the clan head but the thought of going against the Hokage feels unsettling." Yama smiled. "Uncle, It''s normal to be worried but I promise you, I won''t let the clan be in any danger, I just want the name of the clan to pressure them a little. I will also make sure that our clan doesn''t get neglected like it currently does. "If you are worried about me being inexperienced either you or sister Tsume can help me run the clan, I will be the clan head just in name, I will protect you and provide you with resources while you can run the clan." After some convincing Takauji agreed to make Yama the clan head of the Inuzuka clan. "I trusted you and your mother''s decision and let you leave the village at such a young age and that turned out to be a very good decision, so I will trust you once again, I hope you won''t do something that might endanger our clan." "You don''t need to worry about anything just continue to do what you are doing, I will take care of the rest." "I will announce you as the clan head tomorrow." He then took out a scroll and basically wrote that he was going to step down from the position of the clan head of the Inuzuka clan and Yama was going to be the new clan head. He signed the paper with his chakra signature and told Yama to do the same. "Now you only need the signature of your mother who is the only elder of our clan and you are officially the clan head of Inuzuka clan." "Thank you, uncle." After talking with Takauji a bit more he left the Inuzuka clan compound and went towards the Uchiha clan. He was a veteran who had survived in the war for year''s so it was child''s play for him to sneak into the Uchiha''s compound without anyone noticing. "Now which one of these is the house of Fugaku?" He activated his Observation Haki and searched for Fugaku''s chakra signature. "Found him." He moved towards Fugaku''s house, it was dark so it was even easier for him to reach Fugaku''s house. All the doors and windows of the house were locked except for one. He could see a kid about 5 years old kid practising chakra control inside the room. "I wasn''t planning on meeting him so soon but one small interaction won''t hurt anybody." Yama jumped through the window and landed inside the room. The kid saw him come through the window and immediately jumped back and threw two kunai towards Yama. Yama easily caught both kunai with his bare hand. "Mhm, you have got good instinct and your skills with Kunai is also pretty good, not bad at all." "Who are you?" Fugaku heard some noise coming from his son''s room so he went there to check what was going on. "Itachi what''s going on." He opened the door and saw Itachi holding a kunai and Yama standing in front him." "Long time no see, Fugaku, how have you been?" "Yama, what are you doing in my son''s room?" "Don''t look at me like that, I am not a gay paedophile like Orochimaru. All the windows and doors of your house were closed except this one so I just jumped in." Fugaku shook his head. "Come follow me." Yama followed after Fugaku and left the room when he was about to leave the room he ruffled Itachi''s hair. "Train hard kid." ''So he is the guy father was talking about. I didn''t believe it but I could tell just standing in front of him he was as strong as my father if not stronger. How much did he train to become that strong at such a young age? I really need to train harder.'' "So what brought you here?" "I heard you were back today so I just wanted to meet you and discuss a few things with you." "Are you here to choose the two Uchiha you want to take?" Yama shook his head. "That can wait for now. We all know that a new Hokage is going to be appointed soon." Fugaku nodded. "What do you think the chance of you becoming the Hokage is?" Fugaku thought for a bit. "Almost none existent, neither the third nor the three elders of too fond the Uchiha clan." "Good, we are on the same page till now, who do you think are the people who are most likely to become the 4th hokage?" "Orochimaru and Minato, Jiraiya also has a solid chance but he doesn''t want to be the hokage." Yama nodded his head. "Now, who are you going to support out of the two?" "Orochimaru." Chapter 36 - Last Chance "Why? Why do you want to support Orochimaru and not Minato?" "I made a deal with Orochimaru, If I help him become the Hokage, he is gonna help the Uchiha clan."?? "And how is he gonna do that?" "No, more discrimination against the Uchiha, we are going to get the same job like a normal shinobi, expand our clan territory, get more resources." Replied Fugaku. Yama shook his head. "And you trust that snake? Do you know who else is going to be supporting him? Danzo, Danzo is going to support Orochimaru and do you think Danzo is gonna let you live your life peacefully? "And do you know why Danzo and Orochimaru are partnering with each other, it''s because they are both helping each other perform research on different things such as human experiments, research on Keke Genkai, dojutsu and one of the most important things they research on is the Sharingan." "What! What proof do you have?" "I have my ways, I have told you this much I am sure you can do a little digging and find out whether I am telling you the truth or not." Fugaku was very angry, Sharingan was the pride of the Uchiha clan. He couldn''t let the outsiders possess the pride of their clan. "If what you said is true I am going to kill them but if it isn''t and you are lying I won''t take too kindly of making a joke about the pride of our clan." "Don''t be dumb, will you even be able to kill them? Even if you fight one of them you might not be able to deal with them forget about both of them and did you forget about Danzo''s root." Fugaku calmed down a bit when he heard Yama''s reasoning. "What do you suggest I do then?" "First do a little digging and gather some evidence against the two of them. Second, we are going to make Minato the Hokage." Fugaku didn''t seem to like the idea of making Minato the Hokage. "Fugaku, let go of your pride, I know you and Minato are rivals and you don''t want to support him but has he ever done or said something against the Uchiha? The sole reason you don''t like him is that he is better than you." Fugaku didn''t know how to respond, everything Yama said was true. "So, listen to me you are going to support Minato because even if you support Orochimaru he isn''t going to win. The third, Jiraiya, the two elders, me, the people of Konoha everyone is going to support Minato. Orochimaru has no chance of winning." Fugaku thought for a bit and nodded his head. "I guess, that''s true." "So first you are gonna find some evidence against Orochimaru and Danzo. Second, we are going to help Minato become the Hokage. Third, we are going to wait, once the perfect opportunity arrives we are going to eliminate both Danzo and Orochimaru." Fugaku looked at Yama for a long time. "Fine, I will trust you and do some digging on the two of them." Yama smiled. "Good and once you find the evidence and you trust me completely, contact me again I will tell you some good news." Yama left the Uchiha clan territory and headed back home. He entered the house and saw his mother, Pakura, and Friday waiting for him. "Why are you guys still up? It''s already 1 am." "I was just having a chat with Pakura and the time went by really fast. Anyway, where were you till now?" Luna asked. "I went to visit uncle Takauji. And speaking about Uncle Takauji, please sign in this scroll mom." Yama took out the scroll and handed it to his mom. "Mhmm, what is it?" She took the scroll and started reading it. "What? How did you convince your uncle to make you the new clan head at such young age? Yama doesn''t lie to me, did you trick or force your uncle in some way to make you the new clan head?" "Mom, have a little fate in me, I won''t harm my uncle just to become the clan head." "Then how did you manage to convince him?" "Just ask him when you meet him tomorrow, I am tired so I am going to sleep. Friday let''s go." Yama went towards his room along with Friday. Luna looked towards Pakura. "Have you started sleeping together with him?" Pakura turned bright red. "Nowe haven''t done anything like that yet." Luna laughed hearing Pakura''s embarrassed voice. "So, you are the shy type. Until you are ready I will prepare a separate room for you." Pakura nodded still embarrassed. Luna signed the scroll and led Pakura to her temporary room. A day passed. Early in the morning Hiruzen, Danzo and the two elders were at the meeting room. "So, he disobeyed your order and attacked an anbu?" Danzo asked. "More or less." "We tolerated him because he is a genius young kid and decided to give him a chance but since he is so arrogant let me take care of him. I will make him loyal and make him join the root one way or the other." "Looking at his actions that might be the best decision." One of the elders spoke. "He said he is going to come here today, let''s not be too hasty, he has close relation with Jiraiya and Minato if they figure out we did something to him the consequence might be dangerous. "Not to mention the Inuzuka clan, although the clan is small if we take their genius kid they might cause a big commotion which will affect our relationships with other clans." Hiruzen said. "Then what do you suggest we do? Watch that arrogant kid dance all over the village and betray it in the end?" Danzo said angrily. "Let''s just watch him for now, he is going to meet me today and based on his actions today we can judge what to do next." "Fine, this is the last chance I am giving the kid. If he acts up again I am not gonna ask your permission before making my move." ______ AN:- Not gonna give too much spoiler but Mc is gonna create a group in the future help me chose a name for the group. These are the suggestion given to me by people on my discord https://discord.gg/sybEqVmbTb 1) Yagure (Dusk) 2) Nichibotsu (sundown) 3) Hati (The one who hates) 4) Team 0 5) Others (Comment your suggestion) Chapter 37 - Meeting Hiruzen Yama finished eating his breakfast. "Mom, did you sign yesterday''s paper?" She handed him the scroll. "Yes, I did clan head." She said with a smile.?? "Now don''t start teasing me, mom." "I am not teasing you, you are the new clan head what else should I call you except clan head." "As your new clan head, I forbid you from ever calling me a clan head from now on. Also, I am going to meet the Hokage today so I don''t know when I will return back." Pakura got worried. "I will come with you." Yama shook his head. "It''s fine, you stay here and help mom and others prepare for the celebration tonight." Pakura still was a little hesitant to let Yama visit Hiruzen also especially because of what he did yesterday. He leaned forward. "Be a good girl and do what I said, I will give you a little reward if you do as I say." He then kissed her forehead and flickered out of the house with Friday. Luna saw that and laughed. "Kids these days." Pakura also wanted to run out and disappear from this world forever. Yama made his way to the Hokage''s building. There were few shinobi patrolling the building but they had been ordered not to stop Yama. So Yama easily reached his office. "Come in." Before he even reached the door Hiruzen told him to enter the room. He entered the room and saw Hiruzen sitting alone in the room. "It''s nice to finally meet you Hokage sama." Yama said with a smile. "I was looking forward to meeting you too." "It''s my honour." "I first heard of you when you killed the medical-nin of sunagakure. But I didn''t pay too much attention to it because I didn''t know you were from Konoha. After that, I kept hearing about you time and again. "I heard about you not killing a single Konoha shinobi and thought you might be related to Konoha in some way but because we were in the middle of the war I couldn''t verify your identity. "And finally I knew about you after you rescued team Choza and after you reached Kumogakure to meet Jiraiya. And I heard from Jiraiya that you were a bit angry towards the village." Yama shook his head. "Angry isn''t the right word, I was a bit indifferent and also a little disappointed and I still am. What disappointed me was the racism you and the elders displayed and also the lack of support you show towards your shinobi and your allies. "What happened to Sakumo Hatake? What happened to the Uzumaki and what is happening and what is going to happen to the Uchiha?" "Let me tell you, Sakumo just failed one mission and even that was to protect his teammates, but instead of praising him for protecting his teammates, you ruined his reputation which lead to him killing himself. "He was your direct subordinate who completed hundreds of missions and was the hero of the second war but because of your incompetence he died. "The same thing with the Uzumaki, they were our allies for decades, instead of standing up for them and helping them as soon as adversity arrived you gave up on them. "And now you are suppressing the Uchiha for no reason even though they have been a part of our village for decades. Why do you hate the Uchiha what have they done to you? You hate them because decades ago one Uchiha fought against the 1st Hokage. "Now you are scared of the whole clan just because a few decades ago one of them tried to take over the village, you have no backbone and easily get pushed around by Danzo and the other two elders. "You are the Hokage and not them, Tobirama chose you as the Hokage for a reason, if you just listen to everything they say what''s the point of you being the Hokage. I am glad a new Hokage is going to be appointed soon." Hiruzen didn''t know what to say or how to feel, Yama attacked every little insecurity in his heart. He was being lectured by someone 4 times younger than him. His pride was hurt, he was hailed by many as the strongest Kage alive some even referred to him as God of Shinobi. He had mastered all 5 chakra nature and knew nearly all the ninjutsu available in Konoha. "Brat learn to show some respect towards your elders and don''t be too arrogant just because you have some strength you are still far away from reaching my level." Hiruzen warned Yama. "Old man, no need to act tough at your age you should be worried about pulling some nerves and hurting yourself instead of trying to compete with a youngster. "You already have a bad relationship with the clan head of the Uchiha clan, I don''t think adding the clan head of Inuzuka clan on that list is going to do you any good." Hiruzen scoffed. "Takauji doesn''t have the guts to stand against me." "Your age is really catching up to you huh? You don''t even know what''s going on inside your own village." Yama took out the scroll and threw it at the table. "You are talking to the new clan head of the Inuzuka clan. Tonight there is a celebration, you are invited. Also, the three of you who are listening to our conversation like creeps are also invited." Yama turned into a puff of smoke and disappeared. His real body was in a forest with Friday. "Friday first we need to train your body even more before we try to assimilate the chakra of the 8 tails in your body." He then received the memory of his shadow clone. "Ohh, things got a little intense in the end huh. I guess I will head to Fugaku''s place and invite him to tonight''s celebration." Back at Hokage''s office Danzo and the two elders came out of the hidden room. "Now that he has become the clan head we can''t attack him easily without causing a huge uproar." Danzo said while clenching his fist. "What the hell is Takauji thinking?" An anbu entered the room and kneeled down. "The team from Kumo have arrived at the village, Jiraiya sama and Minato Sama are heading to your office." Chapter 38 - Argument Hiruzen looked at all three elders. "Are you gonna stay or leave?" "Since we are already here and the situation with Yama is a pressing topic we might as well discuss it with Jiraiya and Minato since the two of them know him the most."?? After a couple of minutes, Jiraiya and Minato reached the Hokage''s office. Minato bowed down and greeted everyone. "What''s going on? Did we interrupt your meeting or something? It''s rare to see you four old people in a room together." Said Jiraiya. "We were talking about Yama, he is a real problem we need to solve quickly." Jiraiya laughed when he heard them. "Now you know how I felt dealing with him daily for more than a year." Hiruzen spoke again. "We can talk about him in length after this first quickly give me the details of what happened on the battlefield." "Well, we have to talk about him, after all, he is the main reason we won the war. That kid is special, he has created a lot of unique and powerful Jutsu. He instantly knocked out thousands of people and suppressed all of them using the ninjutsu he created himself." Said Jiraiya. Minato nodded his head. "He was doing that while he was still fighting the Jinchuriki of 8 tails Killer bee, and the scary part is he was winning the fight. Both Bee and A are quite similar in strength so we can say without a shadow of a doubt that he has the strength of a high-level Kage." "Yes, and the thing is he is only 13 and half years old. I doubt even the 1st Hokage was that strong at his age. At this rate, he might surpass the 1st hokage in strength. Thanks to him the battle was pretty easy and we won without many casualties. Hiruzen and the elders face grew darker and darker the more Jiraiya and Minato talked. Jiraiya noticed this and asked. "What''s going on? You guys don''t seem to be too happy." Danzo spoke. "That kid can be a major threat to the village because of his attitude and strength. He will sooner or later join with the Uchiha and rebel against the village." Mitokado nodded his head. "He also became the clan head of the Inuzuka clan which adds another layer of problem for us to deal with." "Haha, that kid becoming a clan head at such a young age, he is something else. What exactly did he do to make all of you so mad in just a day." Asked Jiraiya. Hiruzen explained how he attacked the anbu just after he entered the village, how he disrespected him, he also brought up Yama and Fugaku openly agreeing to ally to potentially overthrow Konoha and how the Uchiha are always a threat against the village. Jiraiya let out a sigh and shook his head. "Sensei is your mind in the right place? You are not the same intelligent and smart sensei I used to know. Just because a kid disrespected you, you classify him as a threat against the village and want to eliminate him? "And it''s not like his words contain no truth, maybe you could argue that if you helped the Uzumaki even Konoha might have been in a lot of trouble but that doesn''t invalidate his statement and there is no defence against the stuff he said about the Sakumo and the Uchiha. "And even everything he said was a lie and everything you said was the truth, can you even eliminate him?" Jiraiya pointed at Mitokado and Koharu. "I doubt they would even be slightly useful in the battle between High Kage at best they are strong as a jounin. That leaves you and Danzo. The two elders frowned and looked angry. " I doubt either one of you can kill Yama in a one on one battle and if we assume what you said is true, Fugaku won''t sit still and let you attack him two on one. "You can use the Anbu, Root, and maybe even Orochimaru. But you aren''t facing just the two of them you are facing the whole of Uchiha and the whole of Inuzuka. "Even if you manage to win it will cost you almost everything because I won''t help you neither will Minato, so are you sure you want to go down this path?" Danzo was extremely angry. "Jiraiya so you are gonna betray your teacher and the village just for a random kid." He yelled with anger. Minato spoke up. "How is that betraying the village? You planning on eliminating two strong clans of the village for no reason is betrayal, you planning on killing the genius who has the potential to surpass the 1st is betrayal. "I know Yama better than most of you here, yes he is arrogant and a little cocky but he has every right to be arrogant. He is better than all of you why would he not be arrogant." He also pointed at Mitokado and Koharu. "If you two are so old and weak but still have arrogance and Ego why wouldn''t a young and talented kid like him not have arrogance. "He is also smart beyond belief, I don''t think you would be able to kill him even if you tried and trust me when I say this he will make you regret ever going against him." Danzo couldn''t hold back his anger. He stood up and slammed the table. "What''s gotten into the two of you, what has the kid done to manipulate you two to this extent?" Minato shook his head. "Look, I know him well, despite his arrogance he is a really nice kid, he just follows his heart and does what he wants, I will take responsibility of him, I will make sure he doesn''t rebel against the village, leave him to me. The elders and Hiruzen weren''t dumb, they knew without the help of Jiraiya and Minato, fighting against the Inuzuka and the Uchiha was a dumb decision, that would weaken Konoha beyond recovery. So after some more debate, they gave Minato the responsibility to take care of Yama. Chapter 39 - Celebration Later that evening a lot of people were gathered at the Inuzuka clan''s area. There was a small stage in the middle of the ground. A meal of cold food was displayed at the long table and the guests were serving themselves from the table. Almost all Inuzuka were present there and there were also a lot of people from other clans. Takauji had invited a lot of people from different clans. Hiashi Hyuga and his brother were there, Fugaku was there with Itachi. The clan head of different clans like, Yamanaka, Akimichi, Nara, Aburame and other different clans heads were there.?? Takauji went to the stage. "Thank you, everyone, for joining us the Inuzuka clan for this special occasion. As you all know I have been the clan head of the Inuzuka clan for the past 20 years and I have been alive for 40 years and within this time, I have never seen someone like my nephew Yama. "I will even go as far as to say that even compared to the ones in the history of not only our clan but the geniuses in the history of the shinobi worlds my nephew is still at the top. Be it his strength or his intellect he is far above his peers and can be compared to the Kage''s. "Just a couple of days back he knocked out thousands of shinobi from Kumo and fought off the perfect Jinchuriki of the Kumo, Killer Bee. We can even say that he almost single-handedly won that battle for us. "He also has many other feats such as killing the seven ninja swordsmen of the mist, fighting off Kakuzu who even survived the battle against the 1st Hokage the God of War Hashirama Senju." When Takauji was listing out Yama''s achievements a lot of people were surprised and many even thought the Inuzuka clan head was completely lying even the other Inuzuka didn''t believe him. The news of Yama''s achievements were suppressed by the Hokage and Danzo so not many people knew about it. They began to laugh and murmur something to each other and were making fun of Takauji. The only person who believed Takauki''s words were Pakura, Friday, Fugaku, and Itachi. Itachi was looking at Yama with admiration in his eyes. Having the strength to decide a fate of a war single-handedly, was the kind of power he wished to have. Pakura was getting pissed off because people were doubting Yama so she was ready to explode. Suddenly Fugaku spoke in a loud voice. "I was on the battlefield with Yama for a short period and I can confirm everything Takauji is saying is true." The crowd went quiet for a bit, they were having a hard time believing that Yama was that strong. They started at Yama as if he was a monster. They began to murmur and gossip again. All the Inuzuka present there well feeling proud and happy looking at the jealous faces of the people from another clan. *Haha, our clan has a bright future with a genius like him on our side.* *We Inuzuka''s are no slouch it was only a matter of time for a genius like him to be born in our clan.* Hiashi looked at Yama with jealousy. Hyuga clan was one of the Nobel clan and also one of the strongest clans but it didn''t have any geniuses like Yama. The Uchiha clan had a genius kid named Uchiha shisui but they had no one. The other clan heads looked at Yama with fascination and also a little jealousy. Fugaku looked at all the different expressions on people''s faces and smiled. He also had a conflicted feeling when it came to Yama but he had dealt with them long ago. Takauji cleared his throat to get the crowd''s attention and continued. "With all his achievements I think we all can agree that he has the qualifications to lead our clan and be the next leader of the Inuzuka clan. That is why today I am stepping down from the position of clan head and crowning Yama as our new clan head." There was another huge commotion in the crowd. All of them could agree that Yama should be the next clan head but most of them felt like it was a bit early for him to be the clan head. Yama walked up next to Takauji. "Thank you uncle for providing me with this opportunity." He looked at the crowd and released a small amount of Conquerors Haki. "You might have certain doubts on whether I will be a good leader or if I have enough experience to make the right decisions for the benefit of the clan. Trust me when I say this I will make sure my Inuzuka clan becomes one of the strongest clans in Konoha. "I promise from now on no one from my clan is ever gonna lack resources, I am going to protect you to the best of my ability and make sure none of you are looked down upon. "I will make sure your hopes and dreams come true but I can''t do that alone. I need your support and guidance to make that possible. Together we can achieve anything so, please believe in me and lend me your support." The Inuzuka clan members felt a majestic aura coming from Yama they felt that making Yama their leader was an obvious choice. After his, every word their trust and belief in him grew. In the end, they were cheering and clapping happily. After that Takauji and Yama stepped down from the stage and everyone continued eating and drinking. Yama walked over to Fugaku and Itachi. He ruffled Itachi''s hair again and looked at Fugaku. "I didn''t think you would even show up." "You invited me didn''t you?" "Thanks for the support earlier." Yama said with a smile. "Well, we did say we were gonna work together." Yama laughed. "That is true, so did you look into the thing I told you yesterday?" "I am working on it but so far from what I have gathered, it seems like you were telling the truth, my blood is boiling just thinking about it." Minato appeared next to Yama out of nowhere. "About what?" Chapter 40 - Minatos Place Itachi got scared when Minato appeared next to Yama out of nowhere. "Oe don''t just appear next to people like that you scared the kid." Said Yama.?? Minato looked at Itachi and scratched his head. "Haha, sorry kid I didn''t mean to scare you. How about I buy you some sweets later?" Itachi shook his head. "No, it''s fine." Minato nodded his head and looked at Fugaku and Yama "What were you guys talking about?" "Let''s talk about that later, talking about it openly is not ideal." Yama said. Minato let out a sigh. "Yama you can''t go a day without causing trouble can you? You know how much trouble you caused me and Jiraiya because of your little antics yesterday and also your meeting with the Hokage today." Yama laughed. "Haha, I was just letting him know the things he did wrong or is doing wrong." Fugaku had no idea what Yama did or what he said to Hokage so he was a little curious. "What do you think are the things he is doing wrong?" "Let''s go somewhere private and talk." Said Yama. Fugaku nodded and looked at Itachi. "Itachi, you eat some food and return home, I will return later." "Ok father." Itachi left the three of them alone. "Where are we going?" Asked Minato "My place isn''t quite private, I need to either buy or build a house, I can''t live at mom''s place for too long." Fugaku shook his head. "What about my place?" "The hokage won''t like me and Yama going to your house, and I can''t teleport to your house, I have never been there." Fugaku and Yama both looked at Minato. Minato sighed. "Fine let''s head to my place." Minato teleported all three of them to his home. Kushina heard some noise. "Minato are you home?" A red-haired girl walked came to their view. She saw two other guys with Minato and was a bit surprised. It was already late night and Minato usually never brought any guests. "Kushina this is Yama the kid I talked to you about and also the head of Inuzuka clan and this is Fugaku the head of Uchiha clan." She bowed down a little. "Hello." Fugaku nodded and didn''t say anything. "Hello, sister Kushina hope we get along well." "Likewise." "Since I didn''t invite you and brother Minato to today''s celebration, how about I treat the two of you with some ramen." A smile formed on her face. "Sure, I will take you up on that offer." Minato showed a wary smile on his face and shook his head. "Kushina, we will go to the upper room and talk for some time it will probably take a while so you can go to bed if you want." The three of them headed to the upper room. "So? What did you do to make the Hokage angry?" Asked Fugaku? "He refused to follow the Hokage''s order and best the Anbu sent by Hokage and today morning he went to meet Hokage and told him he was an incompetent leader and said he was happy that new Hokage was going to be appointed soon." A smile formed on Fugaku''s face. "You are a crazy brat." "The anbu didn''t treat me with respect and everything I told hokage is how I truly feel." "What exactly did you say to him?" "I told him that he killed Sakumo, I also told him he couldn''t face any adversity and he let the Uzumaki die and I told him how he is treating the Uchiha is wrong. I basically said he was a pussy for being afraid of the Uchiha clan just because year''s ago one person revolted. I also called the three elders creeps for good measure." Fugaku looked very happy, he looked at Minato. "That old man must be boiling with rage. What did he say to you and Jiraiya." "Saying that they were angry would be an understatement. Since Yama became the leader of the Inuzuka clan, they were thinking about eliminating the entire Inuzuka clan." He paused for a bit. "As well as the Uchiha clan." Fugaku couldn''t hold his anger, those bastards, we have been working for the village for year''s and this is how they treat my clan?" Fugaku looked at Yama. "Yama, let''s take our clan and leave the village, we will show these bastards what we are made of." Minato panicked a little, he didn''t want two very strong clans leaving Konoha. Yama shook his head. "And go where? My clan won''t have much trouble but your''s, you are going to get hunted down by all five major villages for your eyes, you will suffer the same fate as the Uzumaki clan. "We just need to be patient once the time comes, we will appoint Minato as the Hokage and once he becomes the Hokage we don''t need to worry about them anymore." Fugaku had already decided against supporting Orochimaru, but he didn''t fully trust Minato either but he trusted Yama so he decided to do as he says. "What if they attack us before we can appoint him as the Hokage?" Yama showed a big smile on his face. "I don''t think that''s gonna happen but in case that does happen, we can level the village completely and destroy Konoha completely but it''s just that there is a high chance that we might die as well" Minato panicked again. They were constantly talking about leaving the village or destroying it. "How?" He asked. Yama smiled and looked into Fugaku''s eyes. "I don''t want to expose anyone''s secret but he is way stronger than what you think. I am sure you have thought about few things haven''t you Fugaku?" Both Fugaku and Minato were surprised. Minato was surprised because Yama said he and Fugaku had the strength to go against the whole village and still destroy it. And Fugaku was surprised because Yama figured out his secret. He hadn''t told a soul about his secret yet Yama was able to figure it out. ''He is a scary guy, the hokage and the elders have messed up by going against him.'' Chapter 41 - Talk Fugaku nodded and didn''t say anything. "So, what were you guys talking about before I joined you?" Asked Minato.?? Fugaku looked at Yama. Yama nodded his head so Fugaku continued. "Yama told me Danzo and Orochimaru have been conducting various illegal research and some of them are messed up like human experimentation and whatnot, he also told me the two of them have also been experimenting on various Keke Genkai. "And one of the major items of their experiment is our clans sharingan, I did some digging and everything points out everything he said is true but I have yet to find concrete evidence." Minato was shocked again. "Are you sure? This is a serious allegation if this is true we need to take action immediately." Yama laughed. "Don''t be too hasty, we don''t have concrete evidence yet and the war just ended we can''t weaken the village by killing two Kage level shinobi." "If you don''t have any evidence how did you find out about it originally." Asked Minato. "I have my ways." Yama smiled. Fugaku and Minato both just stared at him. "Stop looking at me like that, I can''t explain it to you and even I did you won''t believe me." They both continued to stare at him. "If you two don''t stop I am gonna melt your face in." "Just tell us." Minato said "I can''t explain it to you, I just somehow know things and they turn out to be true." "Sigh, you are weird, anyway what are we gonna do about Danzo and Orochimaru?" "We will just let them be, for now, let the things cool down. We can deal with them after you become the Hokage." "It will still take about six months for a new Hokage to be appointed and I still haven''t won, you are talking as if I have already been selected as the next Hokage." "The only other person who is gonna compete with you is Orochimaru and I am certain everyone except Danzo is gonna chose you over him to be the next Hokage." "So we are just gonna wait until Minato becomes the Hokage?" Fugaku asked "No, we will gather some evidence against Danzo and Orochimaru." Minato didn''t like the idea too much. "But we can''t let them continue their unethical experiments." Yama shook his head. "You don''t have to worry too much, once we start our investigation and start to gather evidence against them, they will surely notice someone observing them and stop the experiments for a while because they don''t want to get caught just before new hokage is about to get appointed." Minato was still not fully on board but after some convincing, he agreed. "Also, no messing around till I become the Hokage, I have been assigned to keep you in check. So you will be spending a lot of time with me." Yama nodded his head. "Sure, you can help me out with managing the clan it will be kind of preparation for you before you become the Hokage." "Sigh, how are you this lazy and have this much strength?" "I don''t know maybe I was wrongfully killed because of the creator''s mistake in the past life and he gave me some gifts as compensation." "It''s already very late I am going back home, contact me anytime you need me." Fugaku stood up. "I need to leave too, I can''t stay for too long otherwise Kushina won''t be too happy." Yama also said. "Ok, see you tomorrow.". "Also, tomorrow around 1 pm let''s meet up at the ramen shop, make sure to bring Kushina with you." "Sure." Yama and Fugaku both left Minato''s house. When Yama reached home everyone was asleep. So he quietly entered his room and saw Friday sleeping on the floor next to his bed. A smile formed on his face. He picked up Friday placed him in the bed and slept next to him. The next morning Yama heard Pakura calling him for breakfast. Friday was still asleep next to him. "Friday you sleepy head wake up." Yama walked down along with Friday. Pakura and Luna were preparing the table. "You have been home for two days and both days you have been out all night both days." Said Luna. "I had a meeting with the head of the Uchiha clan, I will be back today in time." "So, you are leaving today as well?" Asked Pakura. "Yes, but today, I am taking you with me." "Where are we going?" "We are going on a date." Luna laughed when she heard her son. "Kids these days." Pakura couldn''t say anything and hurriedly sat down and started eating breakfast with a red face. After they ate breakfast Yama talked to his mom a bit and played with Friday. After some time Takauji arrived there. He taught Yama about his responsibility now that he was a clan head. He basically said that he would help Yama do the majority of the job and Yama just had to do the bare minimum. And Yama couldn''t be happier about it. "Uncle, I have one more request." "What is it?" "I want to move out of mom''s house, can you help me find a small house with a big open ground. Also, it would be better if the house was a bit isolated. I want a bit of privacy." Takauji looked at Pakura and smiled. "Haha, I understand. I was also young once." The two of them talked more and after a while, Takauji left the house. "Pakura, get ready we are leaving soon." Pakura was getting nervous since Yama said they were going on a date. She had never been on a single date so she didn''t know what to expect, she wanted to know how other people act on a date so she could copy them. Her heart was beating really fast. When she heard Yama''s voice it started to beat even faster. "Wait, I will change first." ''What am I saying, I have been dressed and ready to leave for an hour.'' Chapter 42 - Date ''What am I saying, I have been dressed and ready to leave for an hour.'' She calmed herself down and walked out of her room. She was wearing a red Yukata and she looked gorgeous. Yama looked at her and was shocked by how beautiful she looked. He kept staring at her with his mouth wide open.?? "Why are you looking at me like that? Do I look ugly?" "You are gorgeous. Hehe, I can''t imagine how many guys are gonna be jealous of me today." Yama held Pkaura''s hand and the two of them left the house. Yama showed her around the village. Pakura liked shopping so he took her to different shops where she bought clothes for herself, Yama, Luna, and she also bought clothes for Friday. They were turning a lot of heads as they moved through the village. Pakura was gorgeous and Yama was also a good-looking guy. He had a chiseled jawline, he was 5.4 feet tall with slightly long black hair and dark eyes. After all, that shopping and walking around the two of them were a bit hungry. "Let''s go to the Ramen shop, I am starving." Said Yama. "Yeah, let''s go, I am hungry too." The two of them made their way to the Ramen shop. Outside the shop, one Yellow-haired boy and a red-haired girl were standing. "You are 15 minutes late, you said we would meet at 1 pm." "Sorry, we got a bit carried away with the shopping and didn''t keep track of time." Pakura looked at Yama. "You didn''t tell me we were going to meet brother Minato today." "Maybe I forgot to tell you anyway let me introduce the two of you, she is Kushina Uzumaki partner of Minato, and Kushina she is Pakura, my future wife." Pakura was a bit embarrassed but she had slightly gotten accustomed to Yama''s teasing. Pakura looked at Kushina and bowed a little. Kushina smiled and bowed back. "You look beautiful." Kushina complimented Pakura. "Thank you but I can''t compare to you in the slightest." The two of them complimented each other for a bit. Minato and Yama just stood there and listened to them helplessly. "Are you two keep gonna complement each other or are we gonna go inside and eat some Ramen." Asked Yama. "Let''s go inside, I am going to make sure your pockets get empty today." Kushina declared. Pakura giggled. "I am not sure that is going to be possible, his pockets run very deep." "Hehe, I like challenges, it wouldn''t be fun if it was easy." The four of them entered inside and ordered some ramen. The guy from the Ramen shop was more than happy to see Kushina because she was a regular customer and she always ordered a lot of ramens. The two girls were happily talking with each other, both of them could be considered an outsider to Konoha because both of them were originally from a different village. Yama was happy to see Pakura getting along with Kushina, he didn''t want Pakura to feel lonely or sad. He didn''t want her to feel like an outsider in Konoha. Kushina broke her own record of the highest number of ramen eaten in one sitting. She held the previous record at 11 bowls and now she set the new record by eating 13 bowls beating her previous record by 2. "Oh man, I am full, thanks for the treat Yama. How about this you and Pakura come to our place a day after tomorrow and I will treat you to my special recipe." Kushina invited the two of them. "Sure, we would love to." Pakura replied before Yama could even answer. When Yama saw this he was happy. They both went their different ways. "Did you have fun today?" Asked Yama She paused for a bit. "I don''t remember having fun before I met you, all I did was train constantly and fight for the village that didn''t even care about my life. I am really grateful to have met you." She slowly moved towards him closed her eyes and pressed her lips against his. She felt as if the time stopped when her lips met his, but the flutter only intensified. Pakura''s heart pounded in her chest as her knees got weaker. She could only focus on how soft he felt against her mouth. "Yama, when did you come back?" Guy screamed. Pakura got flustered, broke the kiss, and backed away. Yama was a bit angry and he glared at Guy. "Oh... Sorry looks like I interpreted something." Guy also became a little embarrassed, he saw his friend after a long time and couldn''t hold back his emotions so he yelled. Yama let out a sigh. "It''s fine." He looked at Pakura and smiled. "We can continue what we were doing later." "So anyway Guy, where were you for the past couple of days, I tried to look for you and uncle Duy but the two of them were nowhere to be found." "I was out on a mission, and so was dad after that incident with the most swordsmen he got promoted to a Jounin." "Good, he deserves it. Anyway, let me introduce the two of you. Guy this is Pakura my partner and Pakura and this is Guy my childhood friend." Guy was a bit flustered and couldn''t look Pakura in her face and Pakura was also the same. "Hello, it''s nice to meet you." Said Guy. Pakura also awkwardly replied. "It''s nice to meet you too." Guy hurriedly tried to change the awkward topic "Yama do you remember what you said to me last time we met?" Yama chuckled. "I remember, I said I would spar you the next time we met. Do you remember what you said?" Guy nodded. "I said I would defeat you." "Let''s go to our old training ground and I will beat your ass as always." "Haha, that''s the spirit my rival should have." Chapter 43 - 6 Months The three of them went to the training ground Yama and Guy used to train in their childhood. "Are you ready Yama?"?? Yama laughed. "Do I have to be ready to win a fight against you?" He teased Guy. Guy had fought with Yama countless times and he knew Yama loved making fun of his opponents to make them lose their cool so he was already expecting this. A smile formed on his face. "That''s the Yama I know." He rushed towards Yama and started attacking him. But sadly for him, Yama had been constantly sparring with Minato one of the fastest shinobi in the history of the shinobi world. But Yama was impressed with Guy. Guy had improved considerably and had reached the level of Jounin. While sparring Yama remembered his childhood and felt a little nostalgic. "Guy, I can tell you have improved considerably but just this much won''t cut it, use your eight gates." Guy hesitated a little, Duy told him to only use the eight gates when he was protecting someone precious to him. But Guy considered Yama his rival and didn''t want to fall behind him too much and without using the eight gates it was next to impossible for him to beat Yama. "Guy, just use it it''s fine uncle Duy won''t blame you." With a little encouragement from Yama, Guy didn''t hesitate anymore. He directly opened the 6th gate because he respected Yama''s strength. Yama also transformed into his half hybrid form because he didn''t want to disrespect Guy when he was showing him this much respect and also because he knew how much of a cheat the 8 gates technique was. Well as for the fight¡­ it was one-sided, to say the least. Guy touched him a grand total of 2 times and that also was only because Yama wanted to test the strength of 6th gate Guy. Yama didn''t have much problem taking punches of 6th gate Guy but it was not a pleasant feeling so he ended the fight pretty quickly. When the fight ended both Yama and Guy had a smile on their faces. Yama was happy just remembering the days of his childhood and Guy was happy because he could land few attacks on Yama, he felt that the gap between them was not as great as he thought it was. Guy slowly collapsed to the ground. "I have yet to master the 6th gate completely, I can''t move after I use it." Yama shook his head and carried Guy to his home. There he met with Duy and after a brief conversation with the father-son duo he went back home with Pakura. 6 months passed. Not much happened in the past 6 months. Yama, Pakura, and Friday moved to their new house. And the two of them grew a lot closer to each other. Their relationship with Kushina and Minato had also improved even more. Kushina and Pakura regularly trained with each other and so did Minato and Yama. Yama also visited Fugaku a couple of times to talk about the village, Danzo, Orochimaru, and some other things. Itachi had started to compare himself to Yama and train even harder to surpass him. Yama had collected enough money during the war to comfortably run a whole village for years so providing some money to run a clan was not a problem for him. He gave some money to his mom and his uncle who helped him run the clan. Because of the money, he provided the situation of the clan had gotten a lot better. The clan members didn''t need to do pointless low-level missions to earn a living and could focus their time training. The clan also provided them good quality food and gear. The clan built better training and breeding facilities for the ninken and Yama provided the clan a lot of low-level to mid-level ninjutsu. Overall in the past 6 months, the situation of the Inuzuka clan had improved dramatically, and people were thankful and appreciative of Yama. Yama as a person had also changed during the last 6 months. Previously he didn''t want any responsibility and wanted to do whatever he wanted, he didn''t care about the consequences of his action. Now things were different, he began to think about how his actions would affect him or the people around him. This change was caused mainly because previously he thought of himself as a lone wolf, he thought he didn''t care about the people around him and didn''t think of them as real friends or family. But now he found out he was wrong, the more time he spent with Pakura, his mom, Guy, Duy, Minato, and others he could tell, they genuinely cared about him and loved him. This made his heart warm up and he started looking at them as his own friends and family, he genuinely started to care about them. Yama was currently at his house with Minato and Fugaku. "We need to call Jiraiya back. 6 months ago Hiruzen would choose you to become the next Hokage 10 times out of 10 but now since you have allied with Yama and me I don''t think he will be too keen on supporting you and with Jiraiya outside the village things don''t look too optimistic." Yama shook his head. "I agree we need to call Jiraiya back but I don''t think that''s gonna be enough, Danzo, Hiruzen, two old bastards, and Orochimaru are all gonna be against us." "Sigh, then what are we going to do?" Minato asked. "We don''t have any options we need to expose Danzo and Orochimaru and turn Hiruzen and two elders against them. If we had options then I would choose to deal with them after Minato becomes the Hokage but that''s unlikely." The three of them started discussing the details of the plan. "Fugaku, make sure you warn all the Uchiha to stay in the clan compound that day, I will do the same with my clan. Hiruzen and Jiraiya won''t let us kill them so things will get messy I don''t want our people to get caught up in the mess. "I will go and bring Jiraiya here tomorrow, with the flying thunder God it won''t be too much of a problem for me." Chapter 44 - Meeting Begins Later that day Yama arrived at his house. *knock knock*?? Pakura opened the door, Yama leaned forward and kissed her. "What''s for dinner? I am starving." "Pork and Rice, we still have the pork that Friday hunted last week." Friday also came to the door and played with Yama for a bit. After eating dinner Yama and Pakura went to bed and Friday slept on the floor next to them. "Next week when they appoint the new Hokage things will get hectic, you and Friday stay with mom and the rest of the clan and protect them." "What do you plan on doing? I don''t want you to do anything crazy that might put you in danger." Pakura got a little worried. "Don''t worry they won''t be able to hurt me even if they tried I just want you guys to be safe." "Don''t beat around the bush and tell me what you plan on doing." "Danzo and Orochimaru they are doing some illegal research and we plan on exposing them. They might get a little angry and retaliate so I just want you to make my loved ones don''t get hurt." Yama hadn''t told Pakura about the illegal research so she was surprised. "How did you find out?" "We did a little digging but make sure you don''t tell anyone what I just told you not even mom, if they hear about what we plan to do things will get complicated." Since he became the clan head of the Inuzuka clan, he was given an assistant that was meant to follow him around and help him but Yama didn''t want to be bothered so he ordered him to come to his house every morning to take orders. Usually, he would just give the guy some small chore like cleaning the house or buying vegetables, the assistant was not supposed to be used as a maid but Yama didn''t care about that and the guy also didn''t care too much because the job was easy and the pay was quite good. Today Yama ordered the guy to call the elders of the clan for an elder meeting. There were only 2 elders in the Inuzuka clan one was his mom Luna and the other was his uncle Takauji. Once the two arrived at his place he told them to keep all the Inuzuka clan members inside the clan territory and not let anyone outside the day the new Hokage was about to be appointed. They asked him what was going on and he just said things could turn very dangerous very soon. He also told them to keep this information secret from the outsider because he didn''t want others to know what was going on. Later that day Minato brought Jiraiya to the village and explained everything to him. Jiraiya was angry and wanted to confront Orochimaru right now but Minato stopped him. "Sensei if I can become the Hokage without exposing them then that would be Ideal because once I become Hokage we can swiftly deal with them without any problems so for the safety of our shinobi and our civilian we have to wait." A week passed. It was now time to appoint a new Hokage. The clan heads of the majority of clans in Konoha were invited to the meeting to witness the appointment of the new Hokage, as well as help, choose the New Hokage. Although the clan heads were invited to help ''choose'' a new Hokage lot of them didn''t get any say in the matter it was especially true for the clan head of weaker clans. There were a total of 17 people in the meeting. Hiruzen, the three elders, Yama, Fugaku, Jiraiya, the potential candidates, Orochimaru, and Minato, and the rest of them were clan heads of different clans like Nara, Yamanaka, Akimichi, Aburame, Hyuga, and few other clans. "Thank you, everyone, for attending the meeting I look forward to hearing your thoughts and opinions." Hokage said. "In my opinion, there are four people here suitable to be the Hokage, of course, some are more qualified than the others, the four of them are Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Danzo, and Minato. Out of the four of you those who want to be the Hokage, please stand up." Danzo also wanted to be the Hokage but he knew his chances of winning were slim to none so he didn''t stand up. Jiraiya had no interest in becoming the Hokage so he also didn''t stand up. Orochimaru and Minato both stood up. This was not a surprise to anyone. Hiruzen nodded and continued. "Is there anyone else who thinks they are qualified to become the Hokage or think anyone else is qualified to become one, this is your time?" Fugaku thought he was more than qualified to become the Hokage but saying that here would do more harm than good. If it was old Yama, he would have told everyone he was the person most qualified to become the Hokage just for some self-enjoyment. Right now the thought did cross his mind but he held himself back. Everyone looked at each other but no one stood up. Orochimaru and Minato were the only two candidates. Everyone more or less expected these results. "Now, since you two are the only candidates tell us why you should be the new Hokage, and of course after that, the elders, me, and the clan heads will decide on who is more fit to be the Hokage." All the clan heads knew that was all just bullshit, the clan heads were all in a tough position if they favoured one of the candidates, the others would be angry, and even if they gave their opinions it didn''t matter too much. So most of them would rather stay neutral and let the Hokage and the elders decide who was going to be the next Hokage but this was not true for all clan heads. Uchiha and Hyuga clans were strong enough and independent enough that they didn''t need to worry too much about how either candidate thought about them. And the last clan head who would let his opinions be heard loud and clear was of course Yama. Chapter 45 - Speech Minato was the 1st one to give a speech. "As most of you know, I am a son of a civilian, and the majority of the people in Konoha are civilian. I can comfortably say that I can understand them most out of everyone in this room and I think all of us can agree that understanding the people is one of the most important qualities a leader can have.?? "I have also been around different clan heads of Konoha namely the clan heads of Nara, Akimichi, and Yamanaka during our time on the battlefield against Iwa and I can understand their thought process pretty well too. Lately, I have also been around the clan head of the Uchiha clan and Inuzuka clan which has helped me understand more about the clans in our village. The Hokage and the elders frowned a little at those words. He continued. " I also have the strength needed to be the Hokage, I am sure you all have heard about my feats during the war, I killed the whole Iwa battle squad alone, they issued a flee on sight order on me. "My speed is second to none I fought against and dominated the current Raikage. I also have the complete support and trust of my wife who is one of the last few Uzumaki and also the Jinchuruki of the 9 tails. I am also fairly young and still have a lot of room for improvement. "So because of the understanding and knowledge I have of the people of Konoha, the clans of Konoha and also my strength, the people around me, and my youth I think I should be the next Hokage of Konoha. All the people in the room had to agree that everything Minato said was true and Minato was more than qualified to become the 4th Hokage. There was a bit of silence in the room after Minato''s speech. *clap clap clap* Yama clapped his hands. After that everyone else started clapping. " That was a great speech, you have what it takes to be the Hokage but 1st let''s hear Orochimaru out too." Hiruzen said. *Hehehehe* Orochimaru chuckled. "I am not a man of many words so I won''t bore you with a long speech, whatever Minato said might be true, but I just don''t think he is quite ready yet to be the Hokage, he has not experienced any real adversity as for me we all know how I got the title of sannin. " Let''s not even go to the 2nd world war let''s talk about this war, there is a reason why when Minato was in Iwa battlefield he was not the main commander I was and even when he was in Kumo battlefield Jiraiya was the main commander. "And if we want to talk about reputation I don''t think he has quite reached the level of sannin quite yet, I am the teammate of his teacher which should also indicate the level of experience difference between me and him. "I think he should be the Hokage but not yet, I think he should be the 5th Hokage of Konoha after all like he said he is quite young and has a lot of room for improvement." Many people thought what Orochimaru said was quite reasonable and he was pointing out some valid points. They felt like Orochimaru should be the 4th Hokage and Minato should be the 5th. Yama felt people starting to agree with Orochimaru so he had to change things quickly. "Orochimaru, you compared yourself to Minato quite a bit but you didn''t compare your strength is there a reason for that?" Orochimaru frowned a little, he had not talked about the strength because he knew at best he was equal to Minato if not he was weaker than him. "Should I even talk about my strength? Did you forget about the Hanzo incident?" "Don''t be delusional Orochimaru, you were not fighting Hanzo alone Jiraiya and Tsunade were fighting alongside you, and even then you were not able to defeat him, he let you live, your biggest accomplishment is surviving against an opponent who you outnumbered by 3 to 1." The clan heads who didn''t know Yama''s personality were all surprised and began sweating they could feel the pressure rising in the room. Hiruzen didn''t want to cause a commotion today so he spoke up. "Ahem, now since both the candidates have given their speech now it''s our time to do the job and select a new Hokage." He looked at Danzo, Koharu, and Mitokado. "Let''s start with the elders, elders please give your thoughts." Currently, Hiruzen, Koharu, and Mitokado were conflicted. They didn''t want to make Orochimaru the Hokage because they knew with his personality he was not suitable to become the Hokage. But Minato was too close to the Uchiha and Yama and if he became the Hokage the threat of the Uchiha taking over the village would skyrocket. Danzo saw their hesitation and he was the one to speak 1st. "I think Orochimaru should be the Hokage. I think because of his experience he has a little edge over Minato." The other two elders also thought that Orochimaru''s personality was less of a threat than the Uchiha''s taking over. "I agree with Danzo here, experience is the biggest teacher in life." Said Koharu. Mitokado also nodded. "Haha, looks like all of us have similar though I also think currently Orochimaru is more suitable to become the 4th Hokage." Since all the elders made their decision Hiruzen decided to trust them and his student and go with Orochimaru. "I trust the ability of my student to lead the village properly. I also think he should be the 4th Hokage." With the 4 of them siding towards Orochimaru the winner was already final even if all the clan heads sided with Minato which was very unlikely, the decision still wouldn''t change. Jiraiya, Fugaku, Minato, and Yama were looking at each other and patiently waiting. Chapter 46 - Truth Each clan head began to say who they think should be the Hokage, since they all knew Orochimaru was going to be the clan head they didn''t want to be on his bad side by saying Minato should be the clan head. One by one Hiruzen asked their opinion on who should be the clan head and everyone said Orochimaru.?? "Fugaku who do you think should be the 4th Hokage?" Asked Hiruzen. "Minato." He replied with confidence. Few clan heads admired the bravery and honestly of Fugaku and few thought Fugaku was an idiot for going against the future Hokage. "Yama what about you?" "Unlike most of the cowards in the room I have the balls to say my opinion freely, I think Minato should be the Hokage." He pissed off more than half the people in the room with one sentence. All of them were glaring at him angrily. But he just looked at them and smiled. Hiruzen continued. "Jiraiya I am guessing you are going to support your student." Jiraiya nodded and didn''t say anything. Hiruzen frowned at this, Jiraiya was normally a cheerful dude who constantly cracked a joke and lighten up the mood of everyone but today he hadn''t said a word which was wired, and Hiruzen had some bad feeling about it. After a bit of a pause, he continued. "Since the majority of the people agree that Orochimaru should be the 4th Hokage I think the results are pretty clear, does anyone have anything to add or say before I officially pass the Hokage title over to Orochimaru?" Yama raised his hand. Hiruzen immediately got a headache. ''What the hell is he up to now?'' Hiruzen thought to himself. "Yes, what is it Yama?" Asked Hiruzen Yama looked at Minato, Fugaku, and Jiraiya. "Guys, it''s time." Minato used flying thunder God and teleported away, Fugaku and Jiraiya both used body flicker Jutsu and left their place. Everyone was surprised by what was going on but in the next second, they were even more surprised. Minato, Jiraiya, and Fugaku all returned to the room carrying a lot of unconscious shinobi. The situation in the room got very intense. Everyone got up from their chair and got into a fighting position. Hiruzen roared. "What the hell are you guys doing?" Jiraiya finally spoke. "Calm down old man listen to what we have to say." Danzo looked at Jiraiya coldly. "You better start explaining." Yama laughed out loud. "You are going to regret those words." "We don''t want the information to leak outside the room for now so we had to knock them out for a bit because we don''t know if there are any spies in the group." Minato explained. Koharu looked angry. "Do you think there are going to be spies in anbu? All individual anbu are hand-picked there is no way any village would be able to plant spies in the anbu." "Who said anything about other villages?" Fugaku asked. This confused everyone for a second but all of them were smart people they realized the underlying meaning of his words. When they combined what Fugaku said with what Yama said, everyone understood they were talking about Danzo. Danzo had a bad feeling about this. His heart started beating faster, Orochimaru was also getting a bit nervous. "Don''t beat around the bush and tell us what''s going on." Hiruzen yelled angrily. "Well, since the security inside the village is lacking, we decided to do a little security check throughout the village to you know insure the safety of the villagers. And while doing that we found some interesting things like some labs where they were conducting some not very legal experiments. "And do you want to know who are the people conducting the experiments? Our beloved elder Danzo and the guy who you all were about to make the next Hokage, Orochimaru." The more Yama spoke more anxious Danzo became he knew he was done, he could no longer stay in the village after everyone found out the things he and Orochimaru were doing. He looked at Orochimaru and he also looked as nervous as him. Danzo''s mind was working in overdrive. He knew once Hiruzen and the others started digging the truth he wouldn''t be able to hide it no matter how hard he tried. So as a last-ditch effort he decided to attack Yama and somehow run away. "Ridiculous." Danzo immediately tried to move towards Yama to attack him but suddenly he felt someone catch him and pin him to the ground. "Calm down elder Danzo, if you try to do that again you might lose your life." Minato teleported on top of Danzo and pin him to the ground. Orochimaru was about to move but Jiraiya glared at him. "If I were you, I wouldn''t try anything funny." Everyone in the room was completely shocked by what was going on, Yama and the others were accusing Danzo and Orochimaru of conducting illegal experiments, and looking at the actions of Danzo it seemed true. Danzo took a deep breath. "Boy let go of me before I cut you into pieces. A big battle was about to break out and everyone was very tense and ready to fight. "Enough! Minato let go of him, Danzo if you try and attack anyone again I promise it won''t end well for you." Hiruzen yelled. Minato looked at Fugaku, Jiraiya, and Yama for their approval. Jiraiya nodded his head and told Minato to let go of Danzo. "Yama the allegations you are putting on them is not a joking matter if any of this turns out to be false I will make sure you regret it. So stop speaking non-sense and show us the proof." Said Hiruzen. "We know the exact location of both of their labs and we have also caught a few of the guards from their bases so you can use the help of the Yamanaka clan to know the full truth or we can just go there now raid their base and I have enough trust that you will be able to figure out everything yourself." Chapter 47 - Confrontation Koharu looked at Jiraiya. "Jiraiya, you lead Hiruzen there along with, the ino-shika-cho trio, and the Hyuga clan head. The rest of us are going to stay here." Koharu didn''t know what Yama and the other were planning so she didn''t want to let them out of the office until the situation was clear. "No, I am going with them, they are obviously framing me, I want to see the so-called proof." Danzo yelled.? ? "Since they are framing me too, I am not gonna sit here while they lie about me." Orochimaru said while releasing killing intent. Everyone in the room could feel his terrifying killing intent. "How many people has he killed to be able to release this much killing intent." Shikaku murmured. Suddenly he felt another pressure that was way more stronger than Orochimaru''s killing intent. He looked to the side and could instinctively tell the pressure was being released by Yama. "Your puny killing intent scare no one, don''t make me put you in your place." Orochimaru wasn''t a hokage candidate for no reason instead of backing down he released even more killing intent but it was still nowhere close to the pressure released by Yama. The tables, walls, and the floor started to crack because of the pressure between the two. The room got completely silent. Everyone could feel the suffocating pressure released by Yama and Orochimaru. They were all shocked by the level of strength displayed by Yama. Before when Yama was acting arrogantly the clan heads who didn''t know him properly just thought Yama was a foolish kid who didn''t know what kind of monsters there were in this world but after seeing this they understood that Yama was also one of the monsters so he could afford to be arrogant. Choza had heard from his students that Yama was strong but this level of strength surprised him. Everyone looked at Yama as if they were looking at a monster. Although both Danzo and Orochimaru looked calm on the surface they both knew if the fight began the two of them had minimal chance of survival. Especially because of the presence of Fugaku, Minato, and now Yama. The rest of the people present here would hesitate and would probably not attack them with killing intent but those three were not going to hold back. Hiruzen knew if he let this continue any longer and once Yama and Orochimaru started to fight only one of them would survive and most people could tell who that survivor was going to be. Hiruzen took out the staff jumped between the two and slammed the staff on the floor. "Stop this at once." The two of them acted as if they didn''t hear Hiruzen and continued releasing the pressure. "Did you not hear me?" After a couple of seconds, Orochimaru was the 1st one to withdraw the killing intent. Yama smiled and withdrew his conquerors haki. "That''s what I thought." "Stop it, Yama." Hiruzen yelled again. Hiruzen knew keeping Orochimaru and Yama in the same place was asking for trouble. "We are going to do as Koharu said. Me, Shikaku, Choza, Inouchi, Hiashi, Danzo, and Orochimaru are going to follow Jiraiya rest of you stay here." Danzo and Orochimaru were both extremely happy about this situation. With only this many people with them, Danzo was confident he could now escape. Yama had already expected this situation and he had no problems with it. He even secretly hoped that Orochimaru would escape because he had some use for Orochimaru in the future but if he got caught or killed he was fine with it too. Minato also wanted to go with Jiraiya but Hiruzen didn''t allow it. So Minato, Fugaku, Yama, Koharu, Mitokado, and few other clan heads were left in Hokage''s office. The situation there was still pretty tense even though the Hokage and the others left. There was complete silence in the room no one was talking with each other. Yama extended his Haki as much as he could and was watching Hokage and the others. After about 10 minutes a small smile formed on his face and in the next second everyone in the room heard a loud explosion. Minato who was already anxious didn''t need another reason to leave the office to make sure Jiraiya was safe. Yama also didn''t find any point staying here so he headed towards the explosion along with Fugaku. "Sensei are you fine?" Minato asked Jiraiya whose body had slight burns marks. "Yes, don''t worry about me. Go after Orochimaru and Danzo." Minato nodded and teleported to Danzo or at least he tried to. He was surprised when he found out he couldn''t teleport to Danzo he then tried to teleport to Orochimaru but the result was the same. "My mark has been destroyed I can''t teleport to them which direction did they went?" Jiraiya pointed at the collapsed building which was on fire. "They were inside the building." Minato was surprised once again, few other shinobi had already arrived at the scene and were extinguishing the fire and looking for Danzo and Orochimaru. He just stood there not being able to do anything. "How did they destroy my mark so quickly?" He murmured. "They didn''t, they just destroyed the part of the skin where you marked them." Yama said as he arrived at the scene along with Fugaku. Yama looked at the burning building raised his hand and pointed his palm towards the fire. Suddenly all the fire on the building rushed towards Yama and entered his palm. "Hehe, I finally managed to use it properly." With the fire gone everyone started looking for Danzo and Orochimaru but all they could find was some dead bodies of root shinobi. After a couple of minutes, an anbu came in front of Hiruzen. "Sir, we found an underground passage system and it looked like they escaped using the passage..." "Minato and Yama you two are the fastest out of us here go after them immediately." "Old man, don''t be too hasty, listen to the whole report." Hokage looked at the anbu and the anbu continued. "It''s an underground maze and extremely complicated one at that we need to interrogate someone who knows the path or we need multiple teams of experienced trackers." Chapter 48 - Escape Hiruzen looked at Yama. "Yama you are an elite tracker, go with Minato and track them down. We will gather other experienced trackers and cover other routes." "Ok." Minato replied and looked at Yama telling him to start moving. Yama sighed helplessly and went to the underground maze along with Minato.?? Yama knew the path Orochimaru and Danzo took but he didn''t want Orochimaru to get caught so he led Minato to the wrong path. He did want to kill Danzo but if he took Minato with him Orochimaru would also be dead along with Danzo and if he went there alone he wouldn''t be able to fight them two on one. Hiruzen and Jiraiya along with various other clan heads also entered the mage with some experienced trackers but Orochimaru and Danzo had long since escaped the village. The maze had many exits all were outside Konoha towards the edge of the land of fire no one knew which exit Orochimaru and Danzo took. After ''searching'' for a day Yama and Minato''s route came to a dead end so the two of them returned to the village. Jiraiya and Hiruzen had also already returned back to the village. Minato and Yama both went to Hiruzen''s office which was now repaired. "Did you find anything?" Asked Hiruzen. "No, it was a dead end." Yama said while shaking his head. Hiruzen let out a sigh. "We found many exits but we don''t know which one they used." "How did they even manage to escape in the first place?" Asked Minato Hiruzen looked angry just thinking about it. "As soon as we reached the research lab. Danzo and Orochimaru rushed inside. We all ran after them but many shinobi started attacking us. They were not normal shinobi they were kamikaze who strapped themselves with various paper bombs. "While we were fighting with the kamikaze the two of them disappeared from our view and in the next second the whole place blew up. Their other lab that was located on the other side of the village also blew up a couple of seconds later." Yama knew all of this but still hearing this from Hiruzen with a frustrated voice made him satisfied. Minato on the other hand was pissed off. "I told you to take me with you but you didn''t agree, and now look what happened as the result of that." Minato said with an angry voice. Hiruzen couldn''t say anything to that. He just stayed silent. Yama looked at Hiruzen "Now that one of the Hokage candidates has become a missing-nin, I believe only one candidate is remaining." Hiruzen''s whole attention was on catching Danzo and Orochimaru and he had nearly completely forgotten about this matter. Now that Orochimaru left the village he had no other option than to name Minato the new Hokage. "I will call another meeting tomorrow and announce Minato as the 4th Hokage." After that both Minato and Yama headed to their respective house. Both of them had not been home for over a day so their family would be quite worried about them. Yama went to his mom''s house because he had told pakura to stay at her place and protect her while this whole Danzo and Orochimaru situation was going on. When he reached the Inuzuka clan''s compound many people started to greet him. But the 1st one to greet him wasn''t a human. It was Friday, Friday jumped at him and started licking him. "I missed you a lot to buddy." Friday kept clinging on to him. "Since you don''t want to separate from me why don''t you carry me in the back and take me home like the old times." *woof woof* Friday barked with excitement. "Thank goodness you are fine leader, there is a rumor going around that Danzo and Orochimaru attacked the higher-ups of the village and deflected." "Haha, thanks for worrying about me." "I am so happy you are fine." Another clan member said. "Don''t worry your clan head is strong, I won''t get hurt easily." After talking briefly with few clan members along the way he finally reached his mom''s house." Friday had informed Luna and Pakura that Yama was coming home so they were waiting for him at the door. Yama 1st went and hugged his mom. "When will you stop worrying me?" "Mom your son is strong you don''t need to worry about me." He then hugged Pakura. "What took you so long?" "Orochimaru and Danzo ran away from the village and we were chasing after them but unfortunately they managed to escape." "We heard a loud explosion did you get hurt anywhere?" Asked Pakura. "I wasn''t there when the explosion occurred." "Who is going to be the 4th Hokage?" "Tomorrow, Minato will get the title." They talked for a while, ate dinner, and Yama, Pakura, and Friday left for their own house after dinner. The next morning Yama and Pakura were still in bed. Pakura snuggled close to Yama. "Good morning, Yama said and kissed her on the forehead." Instead of her usual playful way, Pakura looked a little sad. Yama rolled over and got on top of her. He gave her another peck on the lips. "What happened? Why do you look so sad?" She paused for a bit. "I have a request." Yama was a bit surprised. She usually never asked for anything. "What is it?" "I want you to train me. I did train with Jiraiya sensei and Kushina also taught me some Fuinjutsu but¡­ but I am still so weak compared to you. "I want to help you, protect you. I felt so useless when you were in danger yesterday and all I could do was stay home and hope for your safe return, I don''t want that. I want to be strong enough to... To walk alongside you wherever you go." Yama laughed. "I made me worry for no reason since tomorrow Minato is going to be the Hokage we will be partying and I will be helping him little settle into the office I might be a little busy for a couple of days. So how about this, after one week, I will completely place my focus on training you, Friday, and few other people." Chapter 49 - New Hokage When Friday heard Yama was going to place his full attention on training him he got excited and started running around the house in excitement. Yama had promised him to help him fuse with the chakra of the 8 tails but he hadn''t done that yet because Friday''s body was still a little weak. After that Yama and Pakura got up and made some breakfast. After eating breakfast Yama headed to Minato''s house. Minato''s house was quite far from his house but with his speed, it didn''t take Yama any time to cross that distance.?? *knock knock* "Yo lord Hokage open the door. Lord Hokage, did you forget me after you become the Hokage?" Minato opened the door. "When are you going to grow up?" Yama entered the house. "What? You are the Hokage that is why I am going to call you Hokage, what''s wrong with that?" "I am not a Hokage yet." "Ok, so how does future Lord Hokage sound?" Kushina joined Minato and Yama. "So does that make me lady Kushina?" She asked with a smile on her face. "Of course, we can''t disrespect the wife of the Hokage, everyone has to call you lady Kushina. If anyone doesn''t call you that let me know I will teach them a lesson." Yama and Kushina teased Minato for a bit. After a couple of minutes, Minato and Yama were ready to leave the house and head to Hokage''s office. Yama and Minato were one of the 1st people to arrive at the meeting but soon everyone else arrived. At the office all the same, members that were present during the meeting two days ago were present. Of course, Orochimaru and Danzo were missing but except for them, everyone else was there. "Since everyone is here let''s not delay the meeting any longer. We all know why we are here today, so if anyone has any objections towards Minato becoming the 4th Hokage or if you have any other Hokage candidate in your mind speak up." Everyone stayed silent. "Good since none of has any objection, from today onwards I hand over the title of the Hokage to Minato Namekaze." Hiruzen said as he took out a scroll and signed it. He then handed the scroll over to the two elders who also signed the scroll and finally, he passed the paper to Minato. "Minato once you sign this paper you will officially become the 4th Hokage." Minato look at the scroll and became a little emotional. He had dreamed of this moment since his childhood and it was finally coming true. "Are you gonna keep looking at the scroll or are you gonna sign it?" Yama asked from the side with a sarcastic tone. Minato smiled, shook his head, and signed it. "Congratulations on becoming the 4th Hokage, I wish you the best of luck and hope you lead our village to a greater height." Hiruzen said. Minato nodded. "I will try my best." "I will be right here along with the elders helping you from the sidelines." "Thank you Hokage sama." "Also tomorrow, you will be publicly announced as the new Hokage so prepare a speech for that." Koharu said. Minato had to do a few more paperwork but after that, he was free for the day. "So, where are we going to go to celebrate you becoming Hokage?" Asked Yama. "You know I don''t like to party so let''s just invite a few close friends and family and go for a barbecue." Said Minato. "Who are you going to invite?" Minato thought for a bit. "Jiraiya and Fugaku" "Sure, I will go and bring Pakura to the barbecue place let''s meet there." "Ok, make sure to stop at Fugaku''s place and invite him over since you are heading that direction, and don''t forget to invite his son, I owe him a sweet." "You just became the Hokage and are already give me orders huh?" Yama said as he left. On the way, he stopped at the Uchiha compound. If it was before he would have to sneak into the compound because he didn''t want Danzo and Hiruzen to action against him but now he didn''t need to worry about that at all. Yama walked right in through the front gates of the Uchiha compound and entered the Uchiha territory. It was quite rare for a non-Uchiha to enter their clan territory. Since the Hokage and Danzo started suppressing and Isolating them they rarely had any visitors. When Yama walked in he was receiving a few wired gazes but he didn''t mind them too much and kept walking over to Fugaku''s house. This time instead of sneaking inside the house from Itachi''s window, he went to the front door. "Oe, Fugaku come out and greet your guest." The people who were watching him instantly became angry. They couldn''t believe how a random kid was disrespecting their clan head. Yama was doing this just to mess with the Uchiha''s and seeing their reaction made him happy. "Come out before I break your door." The people were getting even more riled up. Among the people who were in the crowd who were watching him, there was one kid, who wasn''t looking at him with anger or hatred, he was just curiously observing Yama. Fugaku I opened the door. "Do you really have to cause a scene every time you see a crowd?" "It''s too much fun not to." Fugaku let out a sigh. "Come inside." "No, I am good, I am just here to invite you to a little celebration, come to the barbecue shop in one hour along with itachi, it''s an order from our new hokage." After saying that Yama turned around looked at the kid who was observing him, smiled and he used Advanced Soru to get out of there. As soon as the kid saw his speed he was completely surprised. "What kind of monster is he? Itachi did tell me he was strong but this is just crazy, and here I was thinking I was fast." The boy murmured as he shook his head. ______ An: Sorry I was busier than I thought I was going to be. Chapter 50 - Deal Yama soon arrived at his house. "Pakura, Friday get ready we are heading to barbecue shop."?? "Did anyone else cause any trouble or oppose Minato becoming the Hokage?" "No, no one was that dumb." "That''s good, how many people are coming to the party?" "7 including us 8 if you count our cute little furball." "Am I gonna meet anyone new?" "Yea, Fugaku''s kid, he is a talented kid." "That''s a really big compliment coming from you." After Pakura got ready, the three of them headed to the barbecue shop. Jiraiya, Minato, and Kushina were already there. Pakura and Yama greeted the three of them. "You look beautiful as always." Jiraiya said with a lustful tone. As soon as he said that he felt a sharp pain in his leg. "Ouch" He looked down and saw Friday biting his leg. "Can''t I even compliment her you damn bastard get off me?" Kushina laughed. "Maybe I should get a dog too." After a couple of minutes the final two people, Fugaku and Itachi arrived at the shop. "Fugaku you are late, what took you so long to reach here?" Asked Yama. "Some of us have responsibilities and are busy." "No need to be a jerk about it," Yama said with an annoyed tone. Fugaku ignored Yama. "Everyone let me introduce you to my son, this is itachi, if there were two less people in this room I would call him a genius." Itachi bowed down. "Hello, thanks for inviting me." "Ahh, he looks so cute," Kushina said. "Yes, he also looks well mannered." Pakura nodded. Fugaku continued "Itachi let me introduce to everyone, this is Jiraiya one of the legendary sannin." Jiraiya waved his hands. "This is Kushina one of the last surviving members of the Uzumaki clan." "Hello" Kushina waved her hands. "This lady here is Pakura and was the war hero of sunagakure but this kid somehow tricked her to leave suna and join us." Pakura giggled at her introduction. "I didn''t trick her, I charmed her but can you blame her anyone would be charmed by my appearance and my strength." Yama laughed. Itachi strangely couldn''t find anything wrong with the statement and subconsciously nodded. Fugaku shook his head. "And unfortunately you already know this loudmouth here, he is Yama, and the less you associate yourself with him the better." "Hehe, I am gonna give you some bad news later today." Yama chuckled. No one asked him any questions as you what he meant because Yama was a wired guy. "And finally this is Minato, our new Hokage." Said Fugaku Itachi didn''t know this and was caught by surprise. He bowed down again. "Greetings Hokage sama." "No, no it''s fine no need for all the formality. We are all friends here at the end of the day." After the introduction, they all began to order some food and joke around, and have some fun. Itachi on the other hand was still a little shocked and couldn''t believe he was sharing a table with some of the strongest people in the world. After a couple of hours of eating and drinking, everyone was ready to leave. It was just 4 pm and the sun was still up. Minato was paying the bill, Kushina and Pakura were talking to each other, Jiraiya was staring at them and Itachi and Fugaku were about to leave. Yama tapped Fugaku''s shoulder. "I want to talk with you in private." After spending a decent amount of time with Yama Fugaku knew when Yama was joking and when he was not "Let''s talk at my place." "Sure." Yama turned to the side and looked at Pakura. "Pakura, I will go with Fugaku for a bit, I will return home after a couple of hours." "Sure, don''t be too late." Fugaku, Itachi, and Yama went to Fugaku''s place. After reaching there Itachi went to his room and Yama and Fugaku went to the meeting room. "What do you want to talk about?" Asked Fugaku. "Do you remember the deal we made when we 1st met?" Fugaku understood where this was going. "Yea, I remember it pretty well." "The deal for us was to have a long working relationship and in return, you give me two Uchiha." "I think I have held up my end of the deal pretty well and you can also see the results of that pretty clearly, we chased away Danzo who hated your clans to the bones, Orochimaru who did various researchers on your clans dojutsu. "Now we have a hokage who is not going to suppress you or Isolate you. I think it''s fair to say that you have benefited from this deal immensely." "Yes, I know all that, I am going to fulfill my end of the deal I won''t back away so just tell me who are the 2 Uchiha you want." "Before I say who I want, let me tell you one thing first. Once they become my disciple, you won''t have any control over them anymore, they don''t need to follow your orders or the orders of the clan. Of course, if they want to they can choose to help you out but remember that''s their choice." Fugaku thought for a while. "I am fine with that as well." "Ok, the 1st person I want from your clan is Shisui Uchiha." Fugaku became silent again. Shisui was one of the most notable genius the clan had ever seen. He was ahead of his peers in every field be it, ninjutsu, taijutsu, genjutsu, shuriken jutsu he was also leagues ahead of his peers when it came to maturity and intelligence, and Shisui was only 10 years old. But the person sitting in front of Fugaku was Yama, when he was 10 he fought against Kakuzu. At 12 he had a little clash with Fugaku and at 14 he defeated the perfect jinchuriki killer bee. And in Fugaku''s perspective, Yama had to be one of the smartest people in the world. In the 1st interaction between Fugaku and Yama, Yama impressed Fugaku a lot because of the knowledge he had of what was going on in the village. Later he was able to figure out Orochimaru and Danzo were doing some illegal research before even the Hokage got any wind about it. And the thing that scared Fugaku the most was the fact that Yama had somehow figured out Fugaku had awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan. ___ Join P@treon pls 16 chapter extra. Discord benefit. My gratitude. P@treon.com/coolestnerd Chapter 51 - Itachis Disease Fugaku thought about it a bit more, either he could say no, not keep his words and ruin his relationship with the monster sitting in front of him or lose some authority over one of the genius kids of his clan. When he thought about it this way the choice seemed obvious.?? "Ok, I agree, name the second member you want." Yama kind of expected it but he didn''t know how Fugaku was going to respond after he named the second person. "The second person I want is... Itachi Uchiha." "Not, what kind of joke is this? You want me to hand over my son to you!" Fugaku roared. Itachi who was in the other room heard his father scream. He was confused by what his father meant when he said he was not going to hand his son over. Itachi knew the only person in the room other than his father was Yama. ''What is going on?'' He wanted to know more about the situation and went close to the door and started eavesdropping. His mom Uchiha Mikoto also came to the door to listen to what was going on. Mikoto signaled his son to stay quiet. Itachi responded by nodding his head Yama let out a sigh. "Calm down and listen to me first." "Don''t overstep your bounds Yama, just because¡­" "If you don''t stop immediately and listen to me I won''t take your son under me even if you beg me later." Fugaku was angry, confused, and worried. Fugaku took in a deep breath. "Say what you have to say." "Hehe, your lack of self-control nearly just cost you your son''s life." Fugaku got even angrier. "What do you mean by that?" "Your son, he is a talented kid but the poor kid has an incurable disease which will most likely claim his life before he turns 25." Fugaku was completely shocked he couldn''t process what was going on. Fugaku spoke with a cold voice. "If you are lying or joking about it, tell me right now if you take this joke any further¡­" Yama shook his head. "Itachi come inside please." Yama opened the door and saw the figure of Mikoto and Itachi standing there frozen in shock. Yama brought Itachi inside the room. "Itachi do you feel like you run out of stamina rather quickly even though train a lot?" Itachi was surprised, even though he didn''t lack stamina compared to his peers but with the amount of training he does, he should have been leagues above other kids but he was at best slightly better than them. "Yes." Replied itachi. "Do you sometimes get random chest pain?" Itachi nodded again. Fugaku and Mikoto couldn''t believe their eyes. "He has a problem with his lungs and down the line, the disease is gonna affect his nervous system, other organs like kidney, and finally his heart. "Since now we know he has a disease we can suppress the disease with proper medications but removing it completely is next to impossible." Mikoto got down on her knees and bowed down. "Please, please save my son, I beg you." She said with tears rolling down her face. Yama quickly pulled her up. "No need to bow Mikoto-san, don''t worry about Itachi leave his whole responsibility to me. I will take care of him properly." Fugaku took Mikoto out of the room and calmed her down. Yama looked at Itachi who looked like a guy whose whole world, hopes, and dreams had been shattered. He ruffled Itachi''s hair. "Don''t be sad, you will be completely fine, you are very young so the disease won''t affect you right now and we will give you some medicine to suppress your disease. And in the future, I will help you completely get rid of the disease." Itachi weakly nodded his head. "If you are worried your disease is gonna affect your strength, don''t be. From now on, I will be training you and I will force you to be stronger than ever even if you don''t want to." Itachi got a little excited when he heard Yama was going to train him from now on. Fugaku returned back to the room. "Itachi go stay with your mother help her ease her mind." "Ok father." "Tell me honestly, how serious is the disease and can you cure it." "If you don''t believe me, call some favors and bring some medical ninjas together and tell them to cure Itachi''s disease if any of them succeed I will give them a billion ryo." "If none of the medical ninjas can''t cure him how can you?" "I can''t, at least not right now. In the future, I am sure I will be able to cure him." "How? How will you cure him? How did you know he has a disease in the first place? How did you know about Danzo and Orochimaru? How do you know about my Mangekyo?" Yama let out a sigh. "There few certain things I don''t want to explain or talk about and this is one of them, we all have secrets Fugaku." "Not in front of you, I feel like you somehow know everything." "Let''s not talk about this topic." There was a long silence. "Fine, I will give Itachi to you but promise me you will save him." "Don''t worry I will take care of him." Fugaku gave a small nod. "Tomorrow I will talk with Shisui and his family, I am sure they will agree." "Ok, send them to the Inuzuka clan territory the day after tomorrow." After that Yama left the Uchiha clan territory and headed back home. Yama was planning what he was going to do in the future. ''That was a painful experience now two more members and my team should be ready.'' Chapter 52 I am going to change my upload schedule. I am very busy currently with my personal life and also I don''t have a laptop currently so for about a week there is only going to be one chapter every two days but after that things will return back to normal. Chapter 53 - New Group Yama reached his home. "Pakura I am home." Yama said as he entered the house. "You are pretty late what took you so long?"?? Yama moved closer to her and swept her off the floor. "It was a stressful day, and I need to release some stress." Yama said as he carried her towards their bedroom. The next morning as Yama and Pakura finished eating breakfast they heard a knock on the door. "Friday, check who is at the door." Pakura instructed Friday. Friday did as she said and opened the door. A masked anbu was standing at the door. "Sir, Hokage has summoned you to the office." Yama giggled a bit. "Looks like the village is already getting better after Minato became the Hokage, tell him I will be there soon." "Hai." The anbu left. "Well, I planned on meeting him today anyway so that''s good." "When will you be back?" "I don''t know, you can go and visit Kushina or do some shopping if you want cause from tomorrow you won''t get any free time." "What? Why?" "You will find out tomorrow." Yama said as he walked out of the house. Yama reached the Hokage''s office and saw Minato who was wearing the Hokage robe. "That robe looks good on you." Minato smiled a bit. "I do like it a lot." "So why did you call me over?" "Well, I wanted to discuss about your role in the village." "What about it?" "I was looking through the files and saw your information on the high-level bounty hunters list and in the list of clan heads in Konoha. "And in all of those documents, you are never acknowledged as a shinobi of Konoha. The best you got was shinobi from the Inuzuka clan. "So what? Just give ma a ninja headband and assign me as a jounin." "That is not easy, I can''t just make you a jounin when you are not even part of the village, at best I can make you a genin if I do as the rules suggest. "So you want me to take the chunin exam and slaughter all the candidates? That sounds quite fun, I am in." "No Yama that''s not what I meant. What I am trying to say is that I need to bend a rules a bit and make you a shinobi of the village without you having to take all the tests. Give me some suggestion on what I could do." Yama thought for a bit. "Create a new position, a special position and make some rules and make me the leader of this position." "This can work, what do you want this position to be called?" "Instead of position let''s make it a group." "What do you want the group to be called." Yama started to think again. ''Since I am going to use them to take down Akatsuki. "Yagure." (If anyone is confused Akatsuki means dawn and Yagure means dusk.) "Sure, sounds good to me." "Also, make it so that even Hokage doesn''t have any authority over members of Yagure, Yagure will be a self-governing figure." Minato stared at Yama with a disappointed look on his face without saying anything. "What?" "How can you be this lazy?" "Shut up, just do as I say." "So you plan on doing nothing and laze around every day?" "If you keep disrespecting me, I will tell Kushina that you used to stare at every kunoichi''s ass during our time at war." "But that''s not true at all." "Well, she doesn''t know that." Minato could already imagine getting his ass kicked and eyes gouged by Kushina. And he shuddered just thinking about it. "Fine, I will do as you say." "Oh and I also need few members in my team, I have already selected 4 of them now I just need two more." "How have you already found 4 members when you didn''t even know you were going to create a group." "I planned on creating my own group even if you didn''t call me here today." "So who are the 4 people who you have selected?" "Itachi, Shisui Uchiha, Pakura, and Friday." "Itachi is too young." "So what, I wanna train him." "Sigh¡­ how did you convince Fugaku to let you train his son. And who are the other 2 members you want to add to your group." "Might Guy, and other is your student Kakashi. I want to train all of them and make them complete monsters who are going to be the pillars of Konoha in the future." Minato thought about what Yama said and he loved the idea. He knew how good Yama was and knew if Yama seriously trained all the members of the group who already all have high potential they would all become one of the strongest people in the whole world. "I will agree with all your conditions only if you agree to train them seriously and not waste your time and their potential." "How lazy do you think I am?" "I am just making sure." "Anyway, I will contact Guy, you go and contact Kakashi and send him to the Inuzuka clan''s territory tomorrow." "Ok." Yama talked with Minato for a bit more and worked over some minor details and after a while, he left the office and went to find Guy. Guy wasn''t the type of person to stay home. If he had a bit of free time he would be out training so it would be hard for most people to find Guy but Yama wasn''t one of them. He used the observation haki to it''s maximum range. Currently with his Haki could cover the whole village. "Found him." The guy was in one of the training grounds with his two teammates Ebisu and Genma. "Yo, Guy long time no see, where have you been these days?" Guy looked at Yama and a smile formed on his face while Ebisu and Genma got nervous. "Even though the war is over, it did a lot of damage, many missions were put on hold during the war and now because the war claimed a lot of life we are short on manpower, we have been on a mission nearly every day because of that. Chapter 54 - Race "Well, you are in luck, from now on you won''t need to go to those annoying missions anymore." Guy was confused. "What do you mean?"?? "From tomorrow you will be spending your time training under me." Guy was still confused. "What are you saying, even if I start to train under you I am still a shinobi and I still need to do missions." Yama shook his head. "Not if you are part of my group. I have already talked to the Hokage about it and he has agreed to let me form this group. I also told him I will add you to my group and he is fine with that too." "What about my team?" Guy asked guy while pointing at Ebisu and Genma. Yama shrugged his shoulder. "I don''t know Minato will do something about it. Maybe he will find them, new teammates." This whole conversation was confusing to Guy. "Why is Minato sama involved in this?" "Oh, I forgot you guys didn''t know about this. The 3rd Hokage stepped down from his position yesterday and made Minato the new Hokage. Today the news will be announced to the public, and in the evening Minato is going to give a speech to the public." Yama was telling them so many things and all three of them were extremely confused. "Don''t think too much, just come to my clan tomorrow morning," Yama said as he turned around and left the group. After Yama left Guy turned around and looked at his teammates. He didn''t know what to say and they were in the sama situation. The situation between them was very awkward. Yama was currently heading towards Minato''s house. He saw Pakura and Friday there when he looked for Guy. He soon reached there. They talked to each other for a bit ate some lunch and in the evening they went to listen to Minato''s speech. Many people were surprised that Minato became the Hokage but they were happy about it especially the civilians. Inuzuka clan members were also happy Minato became the Hokage because they knew their clan head had a good relation with him. The rest of the day was uneventful. Somewhere unknown¡­ "Why are the two of you here?" "Hehe, I heard you guys were recruiting some people so thought we might as well try our luck." "Why do you want to join us?" "We have a humble goal of destroying Konoha." The next morning Yama and Pakura were eating some breakfast. "So, what''s our plan today? You said I was going to be busy from today." "Just wait for a bit, I have already informed few clan members to bring them to our house once they enter our clan territory." "Who are ''they'' you are talking about?" "You will know once they arrive here." After a couple of minutes, they heard a knock on the door. Nowadays Friday didn''t even need to be told to open the door. Yama''s assistant had brought Itachi, Shisui, Guy, and Kakashi. "Who was the 1st to arrive?" Asked Yama. Yama pointed at Itachi and Shisui. "These two arrived first, then this kid in the green arrived after him and the white-haired was the last to arrive." "Thanks for the hard work, you may leave now." The assistant nodded and left. "Ok, now we are leaving too. Pakura, Friday come, outside. All of you know the location of training ground number 7 right?" All of them nodded. "Ok, let''s check your speed, let''s see who is gonna be the 1st and the last to arrive at the training ground. Don''t disappoint me." All of them nodded again and looked at Yama. "What are you looking at me for, go." All six of them started running towards the training ground with their maximum speed. Yama smiled, turned around, locked the door, and after that, he began running towards the training ground. Soon he ran past all six of them. Kakashi couldn''t believe his eyes. ''How is he so fast? He would be faster than sensei if sensei didn''t have the flying thunder god.'' Guy and Itachi looked at him and got more motivated to become stronger. Pakura and Friday already knew this was gonna happen. Shisui saw the blurry figure run past him and he sucked in a deep breath. ''When will I reach that level?'' Yama soon reached the training ground and was waiting for the six of them to arrive there. The 1st one to arrive there was Friday who was closely followed by Pakura and then Shisui. Guy and Kakashi arrived nearly at the same time but Kakashi was a little faster. The last one to arrive was Itachi but he was also the youngest out of everyone by a significant margin. All of them had different thoughts going through their minds. Shisui thought he was going to be the fastest by a large margin because speed was his best attribute but he couldn''t believe he was third, behind a dog and a Kunoichi. Pakura on the other hand was ashamed that she was nearly beaten by a kid 8 years younger than her. Kakashi couldn''t believe what he just saw. Kakashi was known as the genius when he was in the academy but he lost to a kid 4 years younger than him. Guy on the other hand was excited because found so many strong people to compete against. Itachi who arrived last was disappointed in himself and he realized once again how weak he was and he now wanted nothing more than to train and become the strongest. "Good, none of you have disappointed me. All of you did better than I thought you would." All of them looked at each other and they all thought the same thing. ''I will surpass all of you.'' All except Friday, Friday was just happy that he didn''t disappoint Yama. Chapter 55 - Introduction Some of us know each other, some of us don''t and some of us have never seen each other. So let''s start with the introductions, I will go first. My name is Yama Inuzuka, 14 years old, clan head of Inuzuka family and now the leader of Yagure which from today onwards you all are part of." Shisui and Kakashi both were surprised by Yama''s age.?? "I am Pakura 18 years old... And this little fluff ball is Friday" *woof woof* "I am Shisui Uchiha, age 10, I hope I get along with all of you well." "I am Itachi Uchiha, I am 7 years old." "Hatake Kakashi, age 14." "I am Might Guy and I am 15 years old. I hope to we can train together and multiply the power of our youth." Yama sighed and shook his head. "If any of you have any questions ask me now." Kakashi raised his hand. "Yes Kakashi what is it?" "What is the objective of Yagure." "There are a lot but let''s just say we will be hunting down enemies of the village, right now you guys are not strong enough to do such missions so we will focus on training." "Any other questions?" They all looked at each other but no one spoke up. "Good, since no one has any questions let''s start with your training. To train you guys properly I need to know your how strong you are. So we are going to have a little match you vs me." Pakura had not fought once since she arrived at Konoha, she only had little spars with Yama or Kushina once or twice but it was nothing serious so she was itching to fight. "Who is going to fight you first?" Yama was also in a similar situation as Pakura, he had fought once or twice against Minato and Fugaku but nothing too serious. Because if they went all out inside the village they would cause a lot of destruction. "What do you mean by first, you all are going to fight me together and don''t hold back attack me with the intent to kill or none of you will be able to touch me," Yama said with a crazy smile on his face. A chill went down all of their spines when they saw his smile. "Don''t be too cocky." Pakura was the first one to make a move. Three Scorch release balls that were a little bigger than a normal Rasengan revolved around her at high speed acting as her defense and she had one Scorch release ball in her hand. She moved towards Yama with her fastest speed. She tried to hit Yama with the Scorch ball in her palm but he easily stepped to the side and avoided her attack. One of the balls that were revolving around her changed its direction and came towards Yama at a high speed. But Yama was still able to dodge it. The ball slipped right past his face. Once the ball went just past his head its size increased drastically. Everyone saw Yama being engulfed by flames but in the next second Yama appeared on top of a tree and a piece of log turned into ashes inside the ball of fire. Yama was about to jump down from the tree and attack Pakura but a giant Friday who was coated with lighting pounced at him in mid air. Yama had no way to dodge the attack because Friday was double his size and was too close to him. Yama had no choice but to counterattack. Yama coated his body with arnament and created a big Rasengan in his hand. "Sorry Friday." Yama''s Rasengan and Friday''s lightning-coated paw collided. Friday flew away and crashed into the ground. Yama landed on the ground and moved towards Pakura but two shurikens came flying towards him. His body was already coated with Arnament Haki so he didn''t even bother to dodge. He just slapped away the two shuriken''s and looked at Itachi who threw them. He smiled and ran towards Itachi but he was stopped by Pakura, Guy, and Kakashi. Guy had already opened 6 out of the 8 gates and Pakura this time was attacking Yama from a little far away using her Scorch balls, and Kakashi was right beside Guy trying to pierce Yama with his Chidori. With the three of them attacking together, Yama found it a little troublesome to dodge all their attack after all Pakura was a high Jounin who was close to entering Kage level, Kakashi was a Jounin and, Guy with 6 gates was maybe even stronger than Kakashi. And not to mention, Shisui and Itachi both were throwing Shuriken at him. So instead of dodging, he decided to trade blows. Guy was about to kick him in the head and Kakashi was attacking him from the side making it harder for him to dodge. Instead of avoiding the kick, Yama moved towards the kick. The kick landed cleanly at Yama''s head Yama smiled and punched Guy in the guts with his full power which made guy fall to the ground and start coughing up blood. With Guy and Friday down there were only 4 of them left. He easily took down Kakashi and Pakura who were near him. Now only the two Uchiha were in a fighting condition. Yama started moving towards Itachi. Shisui flickered right in front of him and tried to pierce Yama''s head with a kunai. Yama caught Shisui''s arm and started right into his eyes. Shisui started right back at Yama and his eyes turned red. He tried to put Yama into a genjutsu. Instead of falling into genjutsu, Yama pulled Shisui over his head and slammed him back to the ground. "I trained very hard to make sure I don''t fall into genjutsu created by your clan head so there is no way I am going to be affected by yours." Chapter 56 - Training Now the last remaining person was Itachi. Itachi saw how easily Yama beat the other five people and was terrified. He was holding a kunai on each hand and was in a fighting stance. Yama wanted to test Itachi so he started at Itachi and released a bit of his conquerors Haki. Itachi who was already terrified was not having a good time. When the conquerors hit him his face lost all colors. His heart was beating so fast he felt like it would explode but despite all this, he didn''t move and kept staring at Yama''s eyes. ''Hooo¡­ normal genin would be easily knocked out with this much pressure. Let''s increase it a bit more.'' Itachi felt the pressure increasing. His knees started to shake his he could feel the blood at the back of his throat but he knew Yama was testing him and didn''t want to give up. After about 10 seconds the pressure was too much. He started vomiting blood and he fell to the ground. ''A tad bit better than a low-level chunin.'' Yama made a mental note. He withdrew his haki and moved towards Itachi. Yama knew basic medical ninjutsu so he healed Itachi and others using Medical ninjutsu. After he healed them a little, he spoke. "Since none of you are in the condition to continue training today, you can all leave. Tomorrow come here before 7 am, if you are even one minute late there will be consequences am I clear?" He said while looking at Kakashi. "Hai." They all replied at the same time." "Good, you are free to leave." After all of them left Pakura, Friday, and Yama were the only three people left in the training ground. Pakura looked at Yama and pouted. "Did you really need to hit us that hard look at us both me and Friday we cannot walk, right Friday?" Friday who was busy chasing a butterfly heard Pakura, paused, looked at her, laid on the ground, and pretended to be injured. Yama saw this and sighed. "So, what do I have to do to make it up to you?" "Well, since we can''t move, you need to carry us home." Yama let out another sigh. He created a clone, the clone carried Friday and Yama carried Pakura and took the two of them back home. It was the next day, Pakura woke up early and made some breakfast. After eating breakfast Yama, Pakura, and Friday left the house and headed back to the training ground. They reached the training ground around 6: 50 AM. When they reached there Itachi and Shisui were already there. "Good morning, hope you rested well and have recovered completely." Yama greeted them. "Yes, captain." Shisui replied. "What about you Itachi? You need to take care of your health better than anyone else." "You were the one who injured him." Pakura murmured. Yama and Itachi both ignored her. "I am completely fine." After about 5 minutes, Guy and Kakashi both arrived at the training ground. Yama smiled. "Since we all arrived at the time let''s start. I am going to separate you guys into three teams of two. I will separate you based on how well you know each other because I want you to work well together. "So, the two Uchiha you are going to be one team, Pakura and Friday you are another team, and Guy and Kakashi you will be one team." "Your training will be mainly separated into four parts, Ninjutsu and Genjetsu training, Physical training, Combat training, and the last one is going to be personalized." "For your Ninjutsu and Genjetsu training, you guys can tell me what Jutsu you want to learn and I will provide you with the training scroll or if you want to create your Jutsu, I can help you with that too. "I want all of you to be as physically strong as you possibly can. In the future, I am going to teach you all some very useful techniques and Jutsu that need you to be physically strong." "I hope I don''t need to explain to you why combat training is useful. This is where your team comes to play, we will mainly do three-way team battles. This way you can train and to develop your battle IQ, teamwork, awareness." "As for your final training, I am going to assign you each of you a thing you should focus on. "So let''s start with you Itachi since you have yet to awaken your sharingan and your health is not very good. I want you to focus on healing jutsu. In our group only I know basic medical ninjutsu but I am not very good so we need a medical ninja. I will help you out with the basics. "Shisui, you are gonna focus on your speed and genjutsu. I will provide you with few scrolls of genjutsu and also help you train your speed." "Kakashi, you are going to learn to use your Sharingan and also basics of fuinjutsu. Pakura will help you with fuinjutsu and Shisui you help him with his sharingan" Itachi and Shisui were completely surprised when Yama said Sharingan, the higher-ups of the Uchiha clan knew Kakashi had sharingan but Kakashi currently wasn''t that famous, and not many people knew he had a Sharingan. They started at Kakashi for a while but they didn''t say anything. "Next is Guy, you are already physically strong enough so I will teach you something special." "Pakura you are going to train to control your scorch release, even more, it''s one of the most powerful jutsu ever so I want you to perfect it." "And finally, Friday, you already know what we will be doing don''t you buddy?" *woof woof* Friday barked excitedly. "Any questions?" They all shook their head. "Good, now let''s start with physical training." Chapter 57 - Itachis Dilemma 3 months later. The members of Yagure had just finished their daily training and were ready to go home. They were looking at Yama waiting for him to permit them to leave. "Finally after 3 months, you are getting your 1st mission. In the last 3 months, all of you have improved your strength a little and I believe you are ready for your 1st mission. "This is going to be a competition between the three teams, so each team has to work separately and the loser team gets a punishment. Your mission is to find Lady Tsunade and the 1st team to find her wins. "There is also a side mission, while you search for her you will also be working as a bounty hunter and collecting some money. The team that collects the highest amount of money also wins. "So there is a chance, there might be only one loser or if a single team wins both missions, there will be two losing teams. "I know I have given you all enough money but none of you are allowed to take any money when you leave the village. Also, guy, I am going to place a seal on you, you won''t be able to open the 7th and 8th gates because you don''t have full control over the 7th gate yet." "One final thing, I won''t be going with any of you, so you will be responsible for your own life so don''t be reckless. I don''t want my team to die prematurely Is everything clear?" "Yes." "Good, tomorrow morning get ready and gather at the village gates at 7 am." Everyone went back to their place. "Yama, will you really not come with us?" Pakura asked while hugging him. "No, I know you are strong and have done all this before but you still need to sharpen your skills." "Will you miss me? What will you do once I am gone?" "Mhm, I don''t know, maybe hang out with some beautiful Kunoichi" "Ahh, ahh stop I am joking, no need to pinch me." "Your jokes are not funny." "Of course I am going to miss you a lot. So today you aren''t going to get any sleep." ¡­. The next morning all the members of Yagure arrived at the village gate before 7 am. "Have you all prepared everything you need?" "Yes!" "Ok, next time we meet is going to be when you find Lady Tsunade. Now off you go." All 6 of them left the village gate. All of them had left the village so it was not something new to them, some had more experience and some had less. Itachi had only left the village once with his father, Shisui had left the village quite a few times during the war, same was true for Guy. Kakashi was a jounin so he even had experience leading a group outside the village during a war. Pakura was known as the hero of suna for a reason and Friday had spent more time outside the village during the war than he had inside the village so one team had a clear advantage over the others. Fugaku arrived next to Yama the 6 of them left the village. "Are you going to follow them? The war just ended it''s still not safe for kids to wander outside the village" Asked Fugaku. "Why? Don''t you trust the strength of your son and the genius of your clan?" "Sigh, not everyone is a monster like you Yama." "Haha, I will take that as a compliment, and don''t worry I won''t let them die." Fugaku nodded. "When are you going to return?" "It might take a month or two." After talking with Fugaku for a bit Yama created 2 shadow clones. "Let''s see how far my students have reached." Yama and his two clones started to follow the three teams from a distance. The three teams had already separated from each other. All of them were heading in the same direction but all of them took a different route. Itachi and Shisui were running through the forest. A lot was going through Itachi''s mind. He had 1st heard about Yama two and half years ago when his father told him about Yama. At 1st he didn''t believe his father, he couldn''t believe a 12-year-old kid was nearly as strong as his father who he looked up to. But when he met Yama he knew his father was not lying and from that point onwards he began to look up to Yama. When Yama said to Fugaku Itachi had an incurable disease, Itachi felt like his whole world was about to shatter. But once Yama said he would save him, he felt relieved. And he could now see that Yama was not lying, he taught him medical ninjutsu, he constantly checked upon him during their training session and Itachi knew this mission was also specially created to help him. Yama wanted to take Itachi to meet Tsunade the best medical-nin in the world, so she could take a look at him. Itachi was extremely grateful towards Yama. "You look like you are in deep thought, what are you thinking about?" "Shisui, what do you think about Yama?" "Scary, he is a scary guy. He is just a few years older than me and he is already at the peak of the world when it comes to strength, and not only that, he is the smartest person I have ever met. "When he looks at me I feel like he can see through me, he knows me better than I do. With his level of intellect and strength, he can one day rule the world if he wants, and with his personality, this is not an insane thought. I just wish I never have to go against him." Itachi fell into another deep thought. "Let''s say if one day he went rough and fought against the village whose side would you pick," Itachi asked. "What kind of question is that? Of course, I would choose the village but I hope that day never comes because knowing him I don''t think we can win. I am not saying this because of his strength but because of his intellect." Itachi began thinking again, to Shisui it looked like a really obvious question but to Itachi, this was a very hard question. Chapter 58 - Black Market Two days passed. These two days were smooth sailing for everyone. They were all still inside in the land of fire near Konoha''s territory and not many people would be foolish enough to cause trouble especially against a shinobi. They might have encountered few spies on their way but the spy was not going to reveal himself so in their eyes, the few people they encountered were just normal civilians. Yama was currently in the black market where all three teams would probably visit. He had changed his appearance and also smell so they wouldn''t recognize him. He was just drinking some sake with the regulars to blend in and also because he liked sake. He was waiting for them here because he wanted to see who they would choose as their 1st target. The 1st team to arrive there was the team of Pakura and Friday. Yama was already expecting this after all they were the most experienced and the strongest team out of the three teams. When Pakura and Friday walked into the black market the manager immediately recognized them. It was the same black market Yama went to for the first time and there was still the same skinny manager that Yama was a little scared of when he saw him for the 1st time. "Hello, miss Pakura, little Friday¡­ well you are not so little anymore. Anyway, what brings you here today?" It was Pakura''s 1st time coming to this specific black market and by the way, the manager was talking it seemed like he had met her before. "Do I know you?" "No miss, but I hope Friday over here recognizes me." He said as he looked at Friday. *woof woof* Friday barked and wiggled his tail excitedly. "Looks like Friday does remember me. How is sir Zoro or should I say, sir Yama?" The manager asked with a smile. "He is doing great. Anyways, do you have any information on Lady Tsunade?" The manager nodded his head. "The last time we heard about her was more than a month ago, she was at the land of waterfalls at that point but right now she can be anywhere." "Thanks, that''s better than nothing, I also want a bingo book." The manager took out the latest edition of the bingo book and gave it to her. "Is there anyone that is around this area?" "Yes, there are quite a few of them, a lot of shinobi didn''t want to go to war so they ran away with their family and became a missing-nin, and now that the war is over villages have resources to spare so they have a bounty on their head." The manager pointed at few Jounin and chunin level shinobi who were probably in this area. Pakura was ready to leave the black market but suddenly she froze on her spot. Every piece of information in the black market would cost money and she had obtained quite a bit of information and also a bingo book. Although the cost would probably not be that high, Yama had not allowed them to take a single penny with them when they left the village. The manager had treated them with so much respect and now if she said she had no money her reputation would be ruined. ''Yama you just wait, once I find you I will kill you for making me suffer this kind of embarrassment.'' "Ahem, about the money¡­" "There is no need to pay miss since Friday still remembers me I am quite happy so this one is on the house." Pakura was looked at Friday as if she was looking at a god. "Thank you." "Haha, no need to thank me just tell sir Yama I said hi." Pakura and Friday left the building. After a couple of seconds, Yama heard Pakura screaming. "Friday you are my hero!" Somewhere near the border of the land of fire. "Kakashi, why are we not going to the black market and looking for bandits instead? We need to buy a bingo book and also we need information about Tsunade sama." "Sigh¡­ what do we need to buy a bingo book?" "We need to go to the black market." Kakashi let out another sigh "Why am I stuck you?" "What do you mean?" Guy asked "Where are you gonna find the money to pay them?" Kakashi asked in a frustrated voice Guy realized his mistake. "They might give it to us for free we never know, haha." Guy laughed awkwardly. Somewhere else near the border of Land of Fire. "Shisui why are we going towards the black market? Don''t we need money to buy a bingo book and other information?" "Well, I ''borrowed'' some money from the merchant we passed earlier I am sure he won''t mind too much." Itachi nodded and followed after Shisui. Yama was quite surprised to see Shisui and Itachi enter the Black market. He thought Kakashi and Guy would be the second team to reach the black market. Itachi and Shisui also asked the exact same thing that Pakura and Friday asked which caused the manager to raise an eyebrow but he didn''t say anything. Itachi and Shisui paid the manager and left with the bingo book. Finally, the last ones to arrive at the black market were Kakashi and Guy who came almost a day after Itachi and Shisui. It took them this long because they spent a lot of time looking for bandits they could rob. After searching for about 5 hours Kakashi had given up on searching for bandits and just wanted to steal money from a rich merchant but Guy didn''t want to take money from innocent people. The two of them arrived at the black market and asked the exact same questions as the previous two teams. Now the manager was extremely curious as to what was going on but he didn''t ask anything and just did as they said. It was now time to pay the money. "How much for the book and the information?" "I will give it to you for free if you tell me why you are looking for Tsunade san." Guy looked at Kakashi and yelled. "I told you, I told you we could get all this for free." Guy had a huge smile on his face. Chapter 59 - Separate Ways Guy told the manager the mission was given to them by their captain Yama that is why they were looking for Tsunade. The manager was a bit surprised but if Yama was the one who gave them orders it would make sense he would make them work as a bounty hunter. After getting the bingo book and some information for free Kakashi and Guy left the black market. Now everyone was at the land of grass and they were looking for some shinobi with bounty while also looking for Tsunade and also moving towards the land of waterfalls. Two more days passed, during these two days they didn''t find any hints of Tsunade but all three teams encountered some shinobi with bounty. They didn''t have any problems dealing with them because the people who they encountered were all only chunin level shinobi. Pakura was a high Jounin and even Friday was at the level of High Jounin after his 3 months training with Yama so only Kage level shinobi would be a threat to them. As for Kakashi and Guy, they were both around mid-Jounin level shinobi and maybe a High-level jounin would cause some trouble for them. But they had a bit of a problem finishing the job properly because Guy was hesitant to kill his opponent but thankfully Kakashi didn''t care about that and finished the job. And finally for Itachi and Shisui. Shisui was at the level of low-jounin and Itachi was mid chunin level. A mid-level Jounin would be hard for them to handle. Even Itachi alone could deal will all the enemies they met so far. The 1st team to reach the land of the waterfall was Pakura and Friday. The teams had been traveling and fighting constantly for a week from Konoha to the land of grass and now the land of the waterfalls. They were all tired, Pakura and Friday decided to take a rest. After a couple of hours, Itachi and Shisui also reached there and the last team to arrive there was Kakashi and Guy but they were not late by a day, they had caught up a little and had arrived 5 hours after Itachi and Shisui. The two teams also took a rest for a bit. Now all the teams were in the land of the waterfall. The next day they started to snoop around and search for some information about Tsunade. They all saw each other doing the same thing but no one thought about working together. Yama who was secretly watching them shook his head. After a while, they all figured out Tsunade was not in the land of the waterfall anymore. Now none of them had any clue where Tsunade could be. They all had 2 options, return back the way they came and head to the land of Rain and the land of Rivers, or keep moving forward and head towards the land of sound or land of Hot waters. The team of Pakura and Friday and the team of Kakashi and Guy decided to keep moving forward and head towards the land of sound. Now Itachi and Shisui were the only ones who had not decided where to go. "Itachi what do you want to do?" Shisui asked. "I also want to go towards the land of sound but even if we go that way we won''t be able to win, Pakura and Friday and even Kakashi and Guy are faster than me, they will find Tsunade sama before us." "I agree, lets go towards the land of the Rain. While they go looking for Tsunade sama, we will spend our time collecting bounty and also slowly moving towards the land of Rain and land of the rivers. "If Tsunade sama is in their direction they will win but we will also not lose because we will have the highest bounty collected. And if she is in our direction we will win both competitions." After deciding to what was best for them they returned towards the way they came from. Few more days passed. Itachi and Shisui were at the border of the land of Grass and land of the Rain. "Itachi, to your right." Shisui yelled. Itachi immediately jumped to the side. A big ax struck the ground where he was just standing. Shisui threw a kunai and it pierced the neck of the guy who was holding the ax. "That''s another 9 million done." Shisui said as he laughed. "At this rate, it''s going to be impossible for us to lose," Itachi replied with a smile. "Not if you die before that." The two of them heard a new voice and immediately jumped away. They turned around snd looked at the source behind the voice. A green-haired guy, who was wearing a black cloak with red clouds and had a scar running across his chest, and his left was standing near a tree and looking at them. Shisui and Itachi both were nervous, a guy sneaked up to the two of them without them even noticing. "Who are you?" Shisui asked trying to sound as calm as possible. "Do you know why a lot of missing-nin and other people with a bounty stay in this area? It is because this place is in the center of 3 big nations so the shinobies from the village don''t really snoop around in this dangerous territory." "We will quietly leave this area, we won''t bother anyone." Said Itachi The guy laughed loudly. "You konoha shinobi are hilarious, you want to leave after killing people in our territory?" Both Itachi and Shisui''s heart was beating very fast. "Any last words?" The guy asked them. Shisui and Itachi knew he was not joking. This was going to be a true battle to the death and they were scared. "If you hurt us our sensei won''t let you live anymore." Itachi yelled. "Ohh, interesting can you tell me your sensei''s name so I can kill him after I kill you guy" The last tiny hope for the two of them was that hearing the name of Yama might scare him but that was very unlikely since he was not even afraid of Konoha. "Our sensei is Yama." Said Itachi. Chapter 60 - Plan (Sorry I am suffering from Jaundice so I wasn''t able to post for a couple of days but now I am a bit better.) The guy turned silent for a bit. Then slowly a huge smile formed on his face. "I have been hearing about that kid a lot lately, I wonder how he will react if give him heads of his students in our 1st meeting?" Itachi and Shisui knew they were doomed. "Are you guys going to try and fight me or are you gonna run? If you want my advice you should run, I haven''t had a proper hunt in so long. I would love hunting you guys down, hehe." As soon as he said that Shisui flickered right in front of his face with a kunai ready to gouge his eyes out. When the Kunai was about to make contact with the guy he disappeared from his place. Shisui''s eyes widened in shock. "Watch out." Itachi yelled. Shisui turned to the side and saw a kick coming towards his head. He immediately used substitution Jutsu to dodge the attack. He landed on a branch of a tree but he again felt a presence on his side. When he looked to the side he saw a punch moving towards him. It was too late for him to dodge the attack so she blocked his face with his arms. The punch connected with Shisui''s arm. Shisui went tumbling back and crashed into a nearby tree. Itachi didn''t sit still he was very proficient in using fireball jutsu so he used it to attack the guy. A giant fireball came appeared behind the guy. The guy used substation Jutsu and dodged the attack. Itachi ran towards Shisui and started to heal him a bit. "Shisui are you fine?" "Oe are you seriously healing your friend right in front of me, you fucking dumbass." The guy moved towards Itachi and shisui at a high speed. Itachi started throwing kunai straight towards the guy''s face. Itachi''s kunai throwing skills were extremely good. If the guy just lazily tried to dodge the kunai he wouldn''t be able to do it. But he slowed down his speed took out a kunai of his own and blocked all of Itachi''s attack. He looked towards Itachi and saw two Itachi coming towards him. "Hehe, running towards your own death I see." When Itachi got close enough the guy tried to pierce him with his Kunai. Instead of defending both bodies of Itachi jumped on him. The guy managed to pierce one of the bodies but in the next second both of Itachi''s bodies exploded. When the dust settled Itachi and Shisui saw that the guy''s cloak had been burned and tattered a bit but he looked completely fine. Shisui and Itachi became pale. "Hehe, you managed to surprise me kid but now you are gonna die." The guy said as he began to run towards Itachi again. As he was getting close to Itachi, Shisui stood in front of him and activated his sharingan. "Stop" he yelled at the top of his lungs as he looked deep into the guy''s eyes. The guy''s eyes widened for a second but his speed slowly decreased and he came to a complete stop. Shisui had no time to waste he immediately flickered in front of the guy and pierced his neck. But as he was able to do that guy moved slightly dodged the attack, grabbed Shisui''s head, and slammed it into the ground. "Hehe, how was my acting? You guys are truly unlucky if it was anyone else they would have fallen into your genjutsu and died by your hands but unfortunately for you, you met me." Somewhere else. A half-black-half-white figure came out from the ground. A guy with purple eyes looked at him. "I have some information about jinchuriki of 9 tails." "What is it?" "A couple of months from now, she is going to be at her weakest during her childbirth. Giving us the perfect opportunity to extract the 9 tails. Konoha is also the weakest it has ever been. Jiraiya is not at the village, Tsunade left the village, Orochimaru and Danzo are with us." "How many members do we need to complete the mission?" The black and white figure thought for a bit. "Well, even though they are at their weakest, they are still Konoha''s strongest shinobi village throughout history. There are a couple of people who are going to give us trouble. Although Hiruzen stepped down from the position of Hokage he is no slouch. "Then obviously there is the current hokage Minato namakaze who I am afraid can even go toe to toe with you, Pain." "We also can''t forget the leader of the Uchiha clan the wicked eyes Fugaku, and finally the person I am most worried about Yama Inuzuka." Pain frowned for a bit. "The last time I asked you about him you just said he was an inexperienced kid." "That was before I spied on him, I have tried to spy on him a couple of times, and everything I get a feeling he knows I am there it feels as if he is the one watching me and not the other way around. He is an unsolvable puzzle, I don''t know anything significant about him. "I think we should call everyone to a meeting, a group consisting of Hiruzen, Fugaku, Minato, Yama, and other elite shinobis cannot be taken lightly we need to plan this properly." Black Zetsu suggested. Pain looked at the girl standing beside him. "Konan, what do you think about this matter?" "I agree with Zetsu, we should be cautious when our opponent is the whole of Konoha." "Fine, Zetsu contacts our members and call them back here let''s plan this thoroughly." Zetsu nodded and slowly entered back into the ground." Chapter 61 - Sunas Plan At Konoha. Fugaku was at Hokage''s office. "I am a bit worried about Itachi, I know he is under Yama''s supervision but Yama is a reckless kid, and Itachi and the others who are under him are not freaks of nature like him. I have a weird feeling itachi is in some kind of danger." "Don''t worry too much, Yama is one of the smartest people I have ever met, he understands the difference between him and the others, your son will be completely fine. "The only way your son might be in danger is if all the Yagure members are very far away from each other and can''t reach the other in time to help them. "Yama gets attacked by 2 or more Kage level shinobi and at the same time your son also gets attacked by a strong shinobi which is unlikely, to say the least." Said Minato "Sigh, as a father I can''t help but worry." "Speaking of that I heard Mikoto San is pregnant and you are expecting a second child pretty soon." Fugaku nodded his head. "Yes, she will probably give birth in about a month. I heard you are also about to be a father are you nervous?" Minato smiled. "I am a lot actually. I don''t know if I will be a good father, I already have the responsibility of the whole village and that takes a lot of my time I don''t know if I will be able to give him enough time." "So you are already assuming the gender?" Fugaku asked. "I just have a feeling it''s going to be a he." Fugaku laughed. "Don''t be too worried, you will be a good dad." "I hope so, he is not even born and I am already in love with him." "I felt the same way when I first became the father." At Sunagakure. The suna council meeting was going on. Rasa, Ebizo, Baki, Chiyo as well as a lot of other members of the council were present in the meeting. "Ok, with that I believe the meeting is over unless someone wants to add something or talk about another topic." said Rasa. One of the council members raised his hand. "Yes, Sajo what is it?" "I want to talk about Pakura, although the plan you just made will help us solve most of our financial problems we still won''t be able to match most of the other countries when it comes to resources. "Since she has now joined Konoha how about we name her as a missing-nin and demand her head from Konoha. Since Konoha currently lacks high-level shinobis they will try and protect Pakura and because they are currently weak they won''t start a war with us instead they will compensate us." Goza nodded his head. "I agree, since both Orochimaru and Danzo have left the village they are in no position to start a war with us. And because Pakura was a shinobi from our village we have every right to demand her head from them." The Suna council started discussing what to do about Pakura and whether to go forward with the plan suggested by Sajo. "Since the majority of us have agreed with Sajo''s opinion we will go forward according to his plan, and Sajo since you are the one who suggested the whole thing you will be the leader of this operation." Rasa announced. After that, their meeting came to an end. At the border of the land of the grass and the land of Rain:- Another big fireball came towards the guy from his side. He jumped back a little and easily dodged the fireball. Itachi immediately rushed to shisui''s side. He carried shisui and created some distance between them and the guy. Shisui''s genjutsu didn''t work on the guy nor was his speed able to catch the guy by surprise. Right now Shisui was hurt, he could barely stand up after the guy slammed his head into the ground. Itachi''s trump card the exploding shadow clone which he developed with the help of Yama also didn''t work it was only able to damage the guy''s cloak. His fireball jutsu wasn''t fast enough, shuriken and kunai couldn''t do much damage. Itachi couldn''t think of a way to survive. His heart was beating uncontrollably fast, he kept trying to figure out a way to live but he couldn''t. The green-haired guy was slowly moving towards him with a ferrous smile on his face. In the next second, the guy flickered right next to Itachi and kicked him on the guts. Itachi was barely able to follow his movement so dodging or blocking the attack was out of the question. Itachi flew away from his position and he crashed into the tree. Itachi started puking blood. Itachi''s vision was getting a little blurry. He looked forward and saw the almost unconscious shisui move towards the guy and slowly attack him with his kunai. The attack was so slow and weak the guy didn''t even bother dodging the attack. The kunai touched his skin but it didn''t have enough force to even draw a little bit of blood. The guy grabbed Shisui from his neck and raised him above the ground, Shisui tried to struggle but it was of no use. Then he slowly took the Kunai from Shisui''s arm looked at Itachi and showed him a big grin. Itachi knew what the guy was about to do but he had no power to stop it. Tears started flowing out of his eyes. "Nooo, please stop." The guy didn''t listen to him he slammed the kunai into Shisui''s heart. Shisui puked a little bit of blood and in the next second his body went limp. "Noooo!" Itachi screamed at the top of his lungs with blood flowing out of his red eyes. Chapter 62 - Sharingan Noooo!" Itachi screamed at the top of his lungs with blood flowing out of his red eyes looking at the guy holding his friend''s lifeless body by the neck. But in the next second the scene in front of his eyes changed. Shisui was on his knees just like him looking towards him with a weird sharingan. He looked at Shisui and was completely confused and Shisui also looked very confused. The both of them had just seen the other get killed helplessly right in front of their eyes. The green-haired guy entered their vision. Their expression changed from confusion to fear. They both immediately got shivers down their spines. The green-haired guy shook his head. "You guys are from the Uchiha clan and you get trapped into genjutsu this easily you guys have really disappointed me." With a puff of smoke, the green-haired guy turned into Yama. When they saw Yama they both were relieved. They were thankful that what they just saw was not reality and just a genjutsu. They were glad that none of them were going to die today. Yama came to Shisui carried him to Itachi''s side, and started healing the two of them. "Shisui, why did you rush to attack before you confirmed whether or not your opponent was trapped in your genjutsu. "Itachi you have three chakra affinities, fire, water, and wind. I taught you to add wind chakra to your kunai and shuriken before you throw them. "Your teamwork was almost none existent, I watched you fight with some weaker opponents and you guys were working well together but what happened to your teamwork when you were facing a stronger opponent. "And did you forget about the part where I told you guys when you create some distance between you and your opponent and if you are safe for the moment to disrupt your chakra to make sure you are not trapped in a genjutsu "When we return to Konoha all of your training times will be doubled." Yama let out another big sigh. "Anyway, congratulation to both of you, Itachi you have awakened your sharingan, and Shisui you have awakened your Mangekyo." Both of them were surprised by this. Itachi took out a kunai and looked at his reflection on the metal. He saw one tomoe sharingan on the reflection and all the pain and mental stress he had a second ago all disappeared. He looked around him and now that he knew he had a Sharingan he started to notice few changes in his vision. "Don''t get too excited, you are still injured and now that you have awakened your sharingan the enhanced perception will throw off your timing so you need to adjust to that." Itachi nodded and handed the kunai to Shisui. Shisui also looked at the reflection and saw something that looked like a four-pointed shuriken. He was ecstatic and couldn''t believe he awakened the legendary eyes of his clan. He didn''t care about the pain he just went through, he was more than happy to suffer the same pain again if it meant having some kind of improvement on his sharingan. "You too shisui don''t get too excited you are even more injured than Itachi now stop using your sharingan and wasting chakra for no reason, we will train your Mangekyo abilities once we return to Konoha." Shisui who was resting his back on the tree leaned forward and performed a deep bow. "Thank you, thank you so much sensei." "What are you thanking me for?" "You did all this to help us awaken our sharingan didn''t you?" Yama laughed. "You guys are not that special I kicked the ass of the other two teams too, you were just lucky that you awakened sharingan during the process." "In my mind, you helped me awaken the Mangekyo so it doesn''t matter what you say." Shisui replied with a smile. Itachi also bowed down immediately after hearing the conversation between the two. "Thank you for helping me awaken my sharingan as well, sensei." "Sigh, since you guys want to give me the credit so badly I will take it. One more thing, I have told all of you to call me Yama or brother Yama, not sensei or leader makes me feel old." "Hai sensei." Replied Shisui. Yama coated his arm with arnament haki and punched Shisui on the head. "I am sorry brother Yama." "Nii san, where are the other teams?" Asked Itachi. "They are probably heading this direction with another clone and my real body." "This is not your real body?" Shisui asked in a surprised tone. "No, my real body is with the team of Pakura and Friday. Beating them with a clone without using my most powerful technique is next to impossible." "Even with my Sharingan, I couldn''t tell you were a clone." "Don''t feel too bad about it, when I first met the 3rd Hokage even he wasn''t able to figure out that he was talking to my clone. Anyway we can''t stay here for too long even if my real body was here I wouldn''t risk taking you inside the land of Rain, so we are taking a detour." "Why?" Itachi and Shisui asked at the same time. "Our village has many strong shinobis like Minato, Me Jiraiya, Hiruzen, Fugaku, Kushina, Pakura, and Hiashi and I think if we all attacked the land of rain together we would still not win. Basically what I am saying is that Rain is the strongest shinobi village." "Wh¡­what are you saying, the people you mentioned are all Kage level shinobi except maybe sister Pakura and Hiashi sama but if they work together they can be compared to a Kage. How can 7 Kage level shinobi not beat them easily?" Shisui was shocked? "We could maybe have defeated them when Orochimaru and Danzo were in our side but I think they have now¡­ forget about it will talk about this topic in the future. Just remember this one of the main objective of Yagure is to take them down."