Silver Platter

In a dark cave near Kirigakure...

A white humanoid appeared from the ground. Half of his body was under the ground. He was looking towards an old man that was sitting on a throne like chair.

"Have you found a proper Uchiha that can be my successor, White Zetsu?" The old man asked.

"I have looked for some time in Konoha, but I haven't found any one with the specifications you have given me. When I was returning, I passed near the battle ground of Kiri and Konoha and saw one Uchiha that fit into your requirements." White Zetsu said in a hoarse voice.

Madara then grinned slightly.

"Good. Tell me more details about him..."

———

In the headquarters of Root...

Danzo was sitting on his chair behind the desk. There used to be many documents on the shelves inside his office.

The day Hiruzen had told him to hand in all the documents, he thought he would have the time needed to burn most of them and only hand over the ones that didn't incriminate him, but when he arrived, Hiruzen's anbu were already waiting for him inside. Danzo felt that thing had taken a drastic turn against him. He saw the anbu taking the documents from his office for the entire day. He never felt more frustrated than now.

"I'll make Hiruzen pay for this mistake." Danzo said, remembering the episode as he got up from his chair and left his empty office.

———

In Hiroki's apartment...

"Aw, so bored. I thought I would like staying inactive after so long, but after a week, I'm already out of stuff to do." Hiroki said as he was laying on his bed as he was looking at his ceiling.

He has been thinking of what he should do and use his free time the best way he could. He suddenly sit up and a smile formed on his lips.

Hiroki hurriedly put on his gear and teleported to the forest of death.

Once he got there, he made a hand seal and one hundred and fifty clones appeared.

"I have one mission for you all. I want you to go around the nations in disguise and place as many Hiraishin formulas around important places. Kanabi Bridge is one of the most important ones. Place them around the important spots around Konoha as well. Move out." Hiroki said as most of his clones teleported while some shunshined away.

'That takes care of many things. I can go to many places and with my clones, be at two places at once. When I develop the Hiraishin until I'm able to teleport without using the marks as anchors, the places the clones have seen will allow me to go there whenever I want.' Hiroki said as he had a satisfied look on his face.

Hiroki then left towards Ichiraku's so he could grab some lunch. He talked a bit with Ayame and Teuchi after the meal. They talked mostly about casual stuff. Hiroki said goodbye to them and then went towards the central area of the village. As he was walking distracted while thinking about the next step he would take in the future wars, he bumped into another shinobi.

"Ah, I'm really sorry." Hiroki said, apologizing.

"Hey, watch where you are going kid. You might hurt yourself." The man Hiroki bumped into said.

Hiroki then noticed who it was. The man had short black hair. He was wearing a green flask jacket and on he had the Uchiha police force symbol on his shoulders.

'Fugaku.' Hiroki thought as he saw the man.

"I'll pay more attention in the future." Hiroki said as he started walking away. He didn't want to attract any attention towards him. Specially from Fugaku Uchiha, but he already did it unintentionally.

"Wait." Fugaku said as he watched Hiroki take a few steps as he was leaving. Hiroki turned towards Fugaku with a questioning look.

"Is there any problem?" Hiroki asked.

"You're Hiroki, right? I didn't recognize you before. I'm Fugaku Uchiha. It's nice meeting a young and strong shinobi as yourself. I've heard many great things about you Hiroki. I hope we can defend Konoha together in the future."

"It's nice meeting you as well Fugaku-san. With how things are right now, I believe we will have many opportunities to defend Konoha together."

"Yes, I hope to fight along with you. I'll go now as I'm still in my shift and I'm sure you have many things to do." Fugaku said as he left.

As Hiroki turned to walk towards his destination, he started thinking about what just happened.

'I guess that it's no secret what happened in Suna. I didn't think about the consequences it could have as I participate in major fights in this war. There's no helping it now.'

———

Hiroki arrived in the build where his apartment was. As he went up the stairs and walk towards the door to his apartment, he sensed someone watching him. He felt that something was wrong. He tried sensing for anyone nearby. He sensed someone one hundred meters away from him, observing his actions behind a bush in the forest. There also were three other hidden shinobi hiding.

'Danzo and his lackeys!' Hiroki thought as his face hardened with hatred.

He had also sensed a trap formation along with hidden bomb tags.

'If I step in front of my door, the formation will trap me. Danzo's lackeys will attack me and the bomb tags will explode. It will be seen as an attack from an enemy village. I guess these lackeys don't know that they would die as well from the explosions. I can use this opportunity and take care of Danzo once and for all.' Hiroki thought.

———

Danzo was watching everything happening. He signaled to his root anbu and they moved towards Hiroki while waiting for him to step in front of his apartment's door.

"Come on. One more step and everything will fall back into it's place." Danzo said anxiously.

He saw Hiroki step in front of the door and reaching for the knob. It was then that his anbu moved in and then a big explosion happened. He smirked lightly and then turned to leave, but stopped in his tracks as he felt a cold blade on his neck.

"Going somewhere Danzo-'sama'?" Hiroki asked sarcastically.

"You. How? You should be dead from the explosion."

"Well, even if I was caught in the explosion, I wouldn't die. But I knew what was happening even before I arrived in the floor of my apartment. I've been looking forward to taking care of you once and for all. I thought it would take some years for that to happen, but here you are. Handing yourself to me in a silver platter." Hiroki said.