Anbu Mission

Although these bugs were overpowered at first glance, they had a few minor drawbacks. They only listened to simple commands. Their intelligence was extremely low when compared to the regular Kikaichu. 

Coupled with their low intelligence, they died too soon. In short, if they weren't supplied with enough chakra to keep themselves alive, they would die in a matter of 5 minutes. 

But this weakness could easily be negated with Kira's immense chakra reserves. Currently, the amount of chakra he could use was only 20% but what would happen once he managed to get the "help 10,000 people" achievement? He could disperse his clones and get back 100% chakra access. 

Aside from that, even though his chakra capacity was at F grade, his chakra reserves still continued to grow with his age. In short, due to his young age, he was unable to fully utilise the true strength of the hashirama cells.

He walked into the Hokage office and saw Hiruzen sitting at his usual place but the man looked sick. Although he had given Kira a good opportunity, Kira was still a little angry at him for not punishing Danzo properly. 

He ignored the man's sick look and instead, simply announced his arrival. 

"Sensei, I'm back." he said before he began to explain about his new and improved microbugs. Seeing that Hiruzen was impressed, he pushed forward and asked for another favour. 

"Sensei, due to the drawbacks that my microbugs have, I need some kind of container that's unique or can store chakra inside it."

Hiruzen nodded before sighing, "I understand that you want something like that, but unfortunately, we don't have anything like that in our storage. Instead, I have another idea. Why don't you use scrolls to store your bugs and summon them whenever you want them instead? 

This way, you don't have to keep them in your body and nor do you have to feed them chakra as the concept of time doesn't exist inside these scrolls."

"Oh, to think that the solution would be so simple." Kira said as he recalled the jutsu. He had learned about it when he studied the scrolls in the Hokage office, but he had never used it before. 

Saying that, he turned around to leave, but Hiruzen's words stopped him. 

"Wait. I have a mission for you. Here, take this mask. From today, you'll be a part of the anbu." Hiruzen said as he grabbed a mask from the drawer under his table and tossed it towards Kira who caught it without any effort.

While Kira was busy taking a good look at the mask, Hiruzen asked him a question. 

"Kira, do you know what the responsibilities of the Anbu are?"

"Protecting the hokage?" Kira answered in the form of a question, but Hiruzen patiently explained. 

He shook his head an said, "That's just a tip of the iceberg. More than ninety percent of the anbu are sent out on espionage or assassination missions. Sometimes, it takes them years to complete so technically, there are only 10% of the anbu staff roaming in or around Konoha.

Some of the regular shinobi could be stronger than the anbu, but the anbu is trained in assassinations. They don't fight long, drawn out fight and instead, are taught to end the fights as soon as possible. 

This is the reason why your aburame clan is highly sought after. Their tracking abilities are very useful for espionage missions and their poison bugs are useful for assassinations.

Anyways, here's your mission." Hiruzen said as he handed Kira a paper before continuing. 

"You'll have to live like a normal citizen in the land of fire, close to the border that we share with the land of rivers. That's the place there the hidden village of the valleys is from.

Your task is simple, just go with your team and learn from them. You don't have to do anything drastic. They're capable people so just learn from them."

Kira nodded and then glanced at the mask, "But sensei, I'm only ten years old. I thought that the age limit was 13 years for this."

Hiruzen nodded as he grabbed another paper from his drawer, "Here, forged documents of your age. Now go. Just keep this in mind, the hidden clouds and the hidden stone have already started attacking the borders. It's not full scale yet, so they're just skirmishes.

But from how things are going on, there's a high chance of a war popping up. When that happens, you might be sent to the front lines. So... I want you to mentally prepare yourself to see a lot of your friends and family die..."

Kira said nothing and silently stared at the mask in his hand. The third great shinobi war was the longest and the worst war when it came to losing lives and resources. For 4 years, the other hidden villages launched skirmishes against Konoha but as time passed, and the fights got more heated, it evolved into a full fledged war. 

A war that lasted for 2 more years before the other villages were forced to sign the peace treaties. It was a war where the originally, good minded akatsuki was forced to become what it was in the anime. 

Obito was crushed by a rock and was brainwashed by Madara, manipulated so well that he was sent out exactly at the time when Rin was stabbed. Turning him into one of the final villains.

And lastly, the third raikage had to face an opposing force of ten thousand shinobi of the hidden stone village single-handedly for three consecutive days and nights, in order to allow his comrades to escape to safety. Unfortunately, he died due to chakra depletion. 

Kira stood silently, staring at his mask as he asked himself one question; 'Should I actually stop this war using the knowledge I have and lose most of my chances of getting character points... or should I just let things go as they are supposed to, while taking advantage of various things to improve my personal strength?'