The Meeting.
3rd Person Pov.
Fugaku was enraged, his face was red and his nostrils were flared. He sat, crossed legged at the meeting hall. The Uchiha clan and it's police force were seated Infront of him. His eldest was sitting by his side, with a face of curiosity and confusion.
Itachi understoid what the village had done to the Uchiha's, listening complaint after complaint. He had seen them, the sharingan spinning in the eye sockets if the Kyubbi, a sign than genjutsu, specifically sharingan genjutsu was placed on the beast.
Who could have done such a powerful genjutsu to control the strongest bijuu? He wondered, the only person plausible was his father or Shishui, the former was considered the strongest Uchiha in the clan and Shishui was said to be the Uchiha with the strongest genjutsu.
"We cannot Accept this Fugaku, We have settled in this land since the founding of Konoha!" An angry police man shouted, Kazuma, one of Fugaku's childhood friends. Many Uchiha's ralled behind him.
"The Hokage thinks we're the ones behind the Attack, they have been steadily decreasing the number of Uchiha's in the police force for the last couple of years. That's gives him another reason to suspect that it is our doing." Fugaku siad with a calm façade, of course he was furious with the matter but a good leader needed to be calm to make good decisions.
"We mustn't loose our footing within the police force, 15 Uchiha's have perished in the last year just because they were removed from the Police force and sent on suicide missions. Not to mention all the others who died in the Kyubbi attack." Fugaku finished, the clansman listened for a few moments, understanding their leaders words
Itachi looked up to his father, the clean head was a wise and just leader, even in such a predicament the leader doesn't loose his temper. The Uchiha heir understood that it was his responsibility to lead the clan in the future.
That is also the reason why he attends such meetings. Instead of training or studying, training might make him strong but just being here and listening to his father would make him capable of leading.
After an hour long discussion, the conversation ended with Fugaku Uchiha vowing to Talk to the hokage about the situation and appointing the Police force for helping in reconstruction.
Itachi left the meeting hall and went to the forest where he usually trained, he jumped from branch to branch, sticking his kunai in the carved targets, each kunai had hit the bull's eye perfectly.
"Impressive." Commended an Uchiha, of particularly short stature. Itachi turned in delight upon hearing the voice.
"Shishui?" Asked Itachi, after a week, he had finally met his older brother figure.
"You came earlier than you said you would." The younger Uchiha commented. Shishui smiled and sat on one of the branches.
"I am just so amazing you know." Shishui praised himself with a chuckle. The two conversed for a while before returning it the Uchiha Compound.
...
A boy was sleeping in a stretch of endless grass, near a ocean blue lake. He had pink hair and green eyes and seemed anywhere from 4 to 6 years old.
He was Shirai Haruno, sleeping in the grassy plains of his mindscape.
He opened his eyes slowly to be greeted by the blue sky, he stood up from his position and yawned.
This place wa strange, everything was under his control, everything seemed strange here. He could feel every blade of grass, every wisp of the wind and every drop of the water.
Everything was a part of him, yet it all followed the laws of nature, gravity felt the same, every drop of the water felt real and every part of his body functioned like he'd know it would.
This world was basically another replica of earth, but just in his mind. He could command the earth to mould to his wishes and make his imaginations appear out of this air, he wondered if the creation of all things felt similar to this.
Shirai had an idea, an idea to make proper use of this place. He knew that he couldn't train while in the orphanage, so he simply entered his mindscape while pretending to sleep. This place still consumed a large portion of his Yin Chakra to run, roughly one fourth of an IP per hour, considering that his current chakra pool is 6 IP and he regained a fifth of an IP per hour, the cost could be basically negated for most of the time.
(IP is the unit Shirai made up to measure chakra, An IP is the initial portion of chakra he had when he first unlocked chakra.
His Yin chakra in therms of IP is 6 and his Yang chakra in terms of IP is 2)
But creating constructs and manipulating the world also took a tenth of an IP of yin chakra to a majority of his Yin Chakra, being 6 IP. This was all the information he collected in the span of a few days.
"Fire style: Great Fireball Jutsu!"
Shirai weaved a few handsigns, A giant fireball appeared Infront of him, obliterating everything in its path and burning the grass. Just as he expected, he cannot use proper jutsu's here but he can simulate them based on the effect they would have on the real world.
"Shadow clone jutsu"
Shirai said, emulating the famous jutsu of Naruto Uzumaki. Nothing happened, He hummed. Then only the jutsu's he has understood thoroughly and has used in the real world can be used.
Although this mindscape cannot be useful for training jutsu's or physically exercising, it can be used to improve muscle memory. Thought Shirai
Even then, I cannot practice any actual taijutsu or ken-jutsu here because I lack a teacher. Shirai thought with dissapointment.
The best usage of this mindscape would be to train his kunai and shuriken jutsu's. Shirai, by no means was proficient in them, making the situation not as disadvantages as it may seem to be.
*Shirai-kun wake up, Someone is here to see you.*
He heard someone call from our side, he closed his eyes and open them again. Finding himself in his orphanage bed.
He looked at the Matron, blue eyes, back hair, fair skin and nicely sized boobs.
"Someone is here to see you." The matron said, he blinked a couple of times befor breaking out of his trance.
Who is here to see me. Shirai thought, he hurriedly went to the meeting room. Who could it be, his cousin's, his aunt's and Uncles, Itachi? Maybe not him.
He opened the door to the meeting room as instructed and looked inside, his eyes widened slightly. There was an old man, wearing white and red robes with a hat in red and white with the kanji for "fire". The old man smiled lightly upon seeing him.
"The Hokage?"
...
3rd person Pov, Civilian Council Room, an hour ago.
A number of the Hi no kuni (Fire nation) entrepreneurs and business people were gethered in a room with a large 'U' shaped table and two larger tables Infront of the table. One could notice the people sitting there wearing nice and expensive clothes.
A singular man was sitting on one of the larger chairs, a guard right besides him. He was the governmental head of Hi no kuni, The Fire Daimyo.
A singular old man walked in from the council room door with two shinobi guards on either side. He had a circular hat with red details as well as a white and red robes, The symbolic kanji on his hat read "fire".
"Hokage-sama" (lord hokage)
They all simultaneously said, standing up to greet the village leader with respect. The hokage waved his hand down and, they all sat down.
"Ah, Hiruzen, sorry to hear about your loss." The Daimyo said in a sad tone, Hiruzen sighed before sitting next to the man.
"It should have been him here instead of me." Hiruzen muttered to the leader of the village, the daimyo had personally come to the village after hearing about the Kyubbi's rampage so Hiruzen was grateful to the Daimyo for coming to solve the crisis himself.
*Slam*
The doors were closed shut, to make sure no sound escapes the room.
"Ahem, Ahem." The elderly hokage cleared his throat and got the attention of the audience.
"I am sorry for all your losses, Many of us lost a great lot that day." Hiruzen said, glancing over a few people.
"And again I humbly apologize for calling all of you present here in a short notice, I was just informed mere moments ago about the arrival of Daimyo-sama aswell." Hiruzen said, taking a glance at the Daimyo.
"As of today, The total calculated cost of renovation and restoration of the dirstruction just about rounds up to, seventy two billion and sixty four million ryo." The Hokage said with a wince. The people were shocked, the amount was higher than the amount of ryo strored in the village's treasury, which was just around 50 billion, give or take a few billions.
"Including the life insurance of all the shinobi who passed away, that amount reaches 75 billion Ryo." Hiruzen sighed as he put down the paper, the Daimyo was visibly shocked as well.
"That would put us in significant debt from the lack of shinobi in the village, wouldn't it hokage-Sama." A council member stated the obvious.
"You are correct, but we cannot, no we must not increase the cost of mission's, which would bring an even greater disaster." Hiruzen said with a frown, the Daimyo looked like he wanted to say something.
"Why not increase the tax amount then? It would be a good solution wouldn't it?" The Daimyo proposed.
"We're not taking into account that 30% of all shinobi and 25% of the civilians in the village is dead. The living conditions are as bad as they could now, Taking more tax will only worsen the living conditions, Would it not?" A civilian woman spoke up. The Daimyo was clearly upset about a commoner swatting away his idea.
"Although you are indeed correct, Miss Sukaza. We mustn't dissuade the idea." Hiruzen told the woman.
"We should persuade the Shinobi Clans, The Hyuga and The Uchiha Clan have been hoarding a large sum of money even before the founding of the village." A civilian purposed the idea.
"While you may have a good idea, the Hyuga clan has had one of the greatest losses in the attack, not to mention the growing rumor on the Uchiha's for their involvement in the Attack, it would be illogical to persuade them." Hiruzen commented, countering every one of the ideas thrown at him.
"The Uzuamaki, Namikaze, Senju and Haruno clans are wiped, Their accounts can be accessed, can they not?" A civilian stood up and asked the question.
"Hmm, The Senju clan's vault is empty, courtesy of my student Tsunade, The Uzumaki and Namikaze vaults require a blood seal to activate, There is a great risk trying to open those vaults and the Haruno clan and it's heirs are currently in the orphanage." Hiruzen commented.
"The two Haruno siblings are alive, the older of the two children of Kizashi is still 4 if I seem to recall correctly." A council woman argued, Hiruzen squinted his eyes. That woman was Mizushi Shizuna, She had married a rich Entrepreneur out side the village if he recalled correctly.
"You say they are still toddlers." The Daimyo stated, Mizushi nodded. Hiruzen glanced at the Daimyo, the man likely didn't want to give the village money and was just here to search for alternatives.
Hiruzen looked back at the standing woman, her jealousy over her sister's love marriage drove her to marry a rich Entrepreneur, the reason why she has earned a seat att he council.
The jealousy of the sum her sister's children are heirs might have also what caused her to standup and state the fact, In front of the daimyo. Who, as everyone knows is a sly, clever and greedy fucker.
"I will talk to the kid myself later to ask the question, for now stand down Miss. Shizuna." Hiruzen said to the woman, it was worth a shot, wasn't it?
The meeting continued for another half an hour before ending.