Second Meeting

After meeting with the Yamanaka couple Daiki went to find his father, standing on a random rooftop in the village, he looked towards the Hokage office and disappeared.

( Hokage Office)

Whoosh!!!

Daiki appeared in the office as the third Hokage was reading through some documents.

" Daiki, to what do I owe the pleasure of you visit again so soon?" The third Hokage asked not even raising his eyes from the files he was reading.

Daiki slowly walked over to the couch in the office and took a seat before answering his father.

" I had a nice chat with Inoichi." Daiki responded.

" Oh, it's good to keep in touch with your former sensei, he has taught you a lot."

" Are you going to continue to play stupid old man?" Daiki asked annoyed.

"Fine, I'm guessing he brought up the arrangement again, and seeing as you felt the need to come here, you gave him an answer." He says finally looking up from his files and standing up.

" I did, I agreed on the conditions, that Ino agreed as well and I didn't have to get married right away."

" Good, that's good, if your mother were still alive she would be so happy to hear this news, our little wilful Daiki is growing up." The third says his voice saddened as he mentions his wife.

" There are a lot of things that would have made mother happy, things she will never get the chance to see."

Hiruzen turned and walked to the window of the office and looked down on the village and spoke.

" Your heart, your smile I see her in you every day, you may have inherited my talent and intelligence but you have a heart as big as your mother's, you are the perfect combination of us both."

" So I know, you will make the perfect Hokage, kind but also ruthless, your thinking and methods are different than my own, but I have no doubt it is what the village needs."

" At least you finally admitted that you're forcing me into it." Daiki says.

" Well, I didn't try to hide it, so I figured you already knew, and since you didn't give too big of a resistance I guessed you weren't completely against it."

" All we need now is just the perfect occasion, and you can become the next Hokage."

" Yeah, I'm sure something will happen in the coming months." Says Daiki.

" Anyways I've got kids to babysit tomorrow and some free time on my hands now, I'm going to get some rest, see later Dad." He says as he gets up to leave.

But Hiruzen's voice interrupts him.

" She would be proud of you, and I am sorry that I didn't listen to you back then." His voice carried a complicated mix of emotions most felt were guilt and sadness.

Daiki paused for a moment, but carried on and disappeared from the office leaving the third alone.

( Daiki Pov)

He appeared standing on the rock face of the second Hokage as a tear dripped down his face, he quickly wiped it and sighed.

' I was powerless back then and because of that I couldn't change anything, mother was still killed on the night the nine tails was released, I tried warning my father but who would believe the words of a child when all I could do was tell him 'I have a bad feeling' '

' I can't hate my father, as he feels bad enough as it is, I can only blame myself, and when I find Obito, I'll make him wish he was dead already.' Daiki thinks.

" But enough of these dark thoughts let's head home." He says as he flashes away.

( Training ground the next day.)

Daiki was here sitting under a tree looking at his three students who were sitting in front of him staring back at him.

' From the way she's looking at me, it's clear they didn't tell yet, just what the hell are those two thinking?' Daiki thinks as he looks at Ino.

" OK, you had time to think about the things I said, tell me what you think." Says Daiki.

" I think you were right there isn't anything I wouldn't do to protect my teammates." Says Shikamaru.

" Same here." Choji adds

" Me also." Ino adds confused it's clear she wasn't updated about what was discussed after she was unconscious.

" Good, so what are you going to do about it?" Asked Daiki.

"..."

The three were silent clearly they didn't have answers.

" To make that sentiment ring true you need to start with yourself, to protect your teammates you need to be willing to go through hell training to gain the strength to protect them."

" Normally you guys would be doing D-rank missions now, but seeing as you my students we will skip that and spend your time training until I think you're ready to carry out missions." Says Daiki.

" There will be two aspects of your training the first being individual training and the second being team training, I already know what direction each of you will develop into even if you don't know yourself."

" Starting now stage one begins, in stage one you all have the same task, the first being climbing a tree." Says Daiki as he gets up.

" Huh, climbing a tree? Anyone can do that who can that help us?" Ino asked clearly not believing the training method.

Daiki simply turned ignored her and placed his foot on the tree and began to climb it one step after the other until he reach the top then he jumped off.

" I'm sure not everyone can climb a tree like that." He says looking at ino.

Her face turned red as she was embarrassed, and unable to respond to Daiki.

" That is an exercise to increase chakra control, the three of you will do it until you can do it smoothly without mistake, then and only then will we move on to the second part of stage one." Says Daiki.

' Right now chakra control is really important for these three the little amount of chakra they have, is being used poorly causing them to only be able to using one jutsu before bottoming out, and even when they grow into adults they aren't the type to have super large amounts of chakra to the better they can control the better.' He thinks as he watches the three getting ready to start their training.