15. Hiruzen

Hiruzen

Hiruzen was walking through the streets after the pub, contemplating today. Not even the strongest sake could make his mind forget the words of his two worthless parents. He himself wondered if his sons would have been. If Kasaro or Asuma became jinchuriki, would he be able to leave them to their fate.

Thinking about it, his feet brought him to the hospital on their own. A sense of danger never left him. When he got to the right floor, he saw a table near the newborn room where Maya had fallen asleep. But when he tried to wake her with clicks, he checked her pulse and it turned out that she was alive.

Next to the nurse's hand were two cups half-filled with tea. Sniffing a little, he recognized that there were sleeping pills in there and then he realized that his sense of danger never deceived him.

When he flew into the room with the babies with a bullet, he saw a black-haired kid with a doctor's robe and he was conducting the seal of submission and checking the seal of nine-tails. Hiruzen flew into him without hesitation, putting the seal of paralysis on him.

The kid wriggled, but couldn't reach the seal of self-destruction. Hiruzen, prioritizing, looked first at the seal of restraining Kyuubi on Naruto's stomach. When he was sure the seal was intact, he touched his forehead to remove the seal of submission. He got into his head first, and when he got in, he saw whole hallways.

After walking around for a bit, he saw a seal of submission on the wall that was burning away. Hiruzen learned that Naruto was not affected by mental tabs. And when he came out, he learned that he had woken Naruto up with that action. Hiruzen picked him up in his arms so as not to wake the others.

And Naruto clapped his hands in response and hugged Hiruzen's beard and salivated on the old man's neck. Hiruzen smirked at this action, rubbing his neck. But suddenly Naruto's gaze became menacing and with his drooling finger he pointed at the doctor's underside and showed him his tongue. Hiruzen could barely keep from laughing and quietly said to Naruto.

"Yes Naru is a bad uncle. What do you think I should do with him?"

In response, Naruto showed a crookedly folded fist and waved it through the air with a babbling 'booh-bam-baa-bam'.

Hiruzen at this tried even harder not to laugh.

"Naru, I'll definitely do it to him so I don't mess with little kids anymore, but I'll ask him something first. Is that okay with you?"

Naruto just laughed and clapped his hands together.

Hiruzen touched Naruto's forehead with his chakra to put him to sleep. When Hiruzen put Naruto to sleep, he turned to his enemy.

"Well, shall we have a chat?"

With those words, Hiruzen created a shadow clone to wake up the nurse while he waited for her. Maya flew into the room and almost woke everyone up. Hiruzen signaled her to come over to him.

"Maya-chan, you see why I asked you to look after our future in Konoha?"

Maya only lowered her head at that. And with a squelch she said.

"I'm sorry. It's all my fault."

"Don't cry, Maya-chan, the main thing is that everything is fine, and this one (pointing at the impostor) I'm taking him with me..."

"Tretty-sama?"

"М?"

"Can I hit this bastard once? -Mm?''

"Okay, but don't make any noise."

"Okay."

Bang, and the impostor is standing with a broken nose.

"Okay, Maya-chan, I'm counting on you to make sure it doesn't happen again."

"Yes, Hokage-sama."

Hiruzen shunshin took a hostage and brought him to his training ground. Of course, he guessed who it might be. But it still needed to be checked. When he checked his tongue, he was convinced his reasoning was correct. As he did, his gaze locked onto his burned hands.

Although Hiruzen wasn't a doctor, he could make some diagnoses. In his opinion, the asshole's hands had been damaged when he had tried to place a mental tab. In response to his action, the ninetail's chakra burned Anbu's hands and that he had spent all of his chakra on that bookmark. After checking it, he called out.

"Kasaro!"

"Yes, Father?"

"Take this man to jail!"

"A spy?"

"Loser!"

"Got it, Dad!"

Once Kasaro had taken the prisoner away, Hiruzen decided to pay a visit to an old acquaintance.

***

Danzo's office

Hiruzen hadn't been to see his old friend and enemy in a long time. He entered Danzo's office and threw a badger mask on his desk

"Recognize him?"

"I have no idea!"

"Stop playing games, Danzo! He looked threateningly at his companion."

"All right, Hiruzen, what now?"

"Nothing."

"Nothing. Even if I give you up, you'll still slip away, sometimes I think Orochimaru is your son."

"Are you kidding me? Are you serious?"

"And seriously, if one more dog barks at Naruto, your organization is finished! And you!"

"Look at you. Naaruto, you even call that monster by his name? Do you have a crush on him?"

Hiruzen simply summoned a diamond staff and extended it to pin Danzo against the wall. No matter what they said about the old Hokage, even Danzo couldn't keep up with him.

"Danzo, I told you, if one dog barks at him, it's over! Think of it as a warning."

Danzo, coughing, continued to spew his words out of his filthy mouth.

"Hiruzen, why such drastic measures?"

"I've been fooled by you, so I've picked up some bad habits. Once again, leave the Kyuubi host alone."

"Or what? Are you gonna turn me over to the Fourth? That milk-sucker doesn't care about his son."

"What makes you think I need to go to the Fourth?"

"Oh, what's that I'm hearing? -Oh, what's that I'm hearing? You want to deal with me because of the jinchuriki? Is it treason?"

"What do you mean? Danzo!"

"It's quite simple. Minato is the current Hokage, not you. He made a law about not influencing the jinchuriki! And you, as his closest advisor, are breaking his law?"

At this tirade, Hiruzen only laughed.

"Ha-ha-ha-ha, I told you you'd slip away."

He let Danzo go and withdrew his staff. But then he looked threateningly at Danzo and added.

"Danzo, I've said it all, and I don't intend to take back those words... Remember that!"

-See you later, old friend, and that was the end of it.

When Hiruzen left, Danzo let his emotions get the best of him and tore up everything on the table. No matter how much one rocks in front of the Third, Danzo would still think thrice before going up against the Third.

He was angry, for he had just had one of his roads to power blocked. Now he'd have to go back to his old plan. And he needed Kakashi.