Naruto : Chapter 19

"We are the council, we deserve respect." Wakata Teiji said.

"Who does he think he is? I will get that order from the Hokage. Just he waits." Isami said and stormed to the Hokage's office.

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The Hokage was working on his paperwork; questioning himself how it always was so much paperwork he had to do. But he couldn't delegate it either because the council would try to pass laws that were only meant to increase their wealth or screw Naruto over.

Then Isami Haruno stormed into his office. He would have to remind her who ruled the village.

"Hokage Sama, I demand that the … boy and his sensei are called in. The brat poisoned my daughter yesterday, but when we sent him a messenger to call him before the council, his sensei refused to let him go. He said he would only allow it if you gave the order." She ranted loudly.

"Councillor Haruno, you want to tell me that you think you can command me?" He asked dangerously.

"No, Hokage Sama, of course not, but he poisoned my daughter." She said, realizing she had made a mistake by just charging into the office.

"Do you think you have more power over my ninja than me?" The Hokage asked again.

"No, Hokage Sama." She answered.

"Then why do you think you can use the ANBU guard the civilian council got as a messenger to command one of my ninja? If you want to question one of my ninja, you will first inform me of the supposed crime said ninja committed. Then I will decide if an order to appear here is justified. Do you understand?" He asked icily.

"Yes, Hokage Sama." She answered intimidated.

"Good. And your so called poisoning of your daughter was a paralysing agent that only worked for ten minutes. Kakashi already took care to solve the issue yesterday and reported to me what he did to prevent such an incident in the future.

Make no mistakes; I know what you tried to do. This is your last warning. Stop sabotaging Naruto Uzumaki or you will regret it. Naruto is a ninja under my command and therefore you have no control over him anymore. Leave my office, I have to work." The Hokage dismissed her.

When she had fled his office, he called Cat, one of his ANBUs.

"Cat, fetch me all the ANBU that are tasked with guarding the civilian council." He ordered.

"Yes, Hokage Sama." Cat answered and vanished.

Five minutes later the ten ANBU that rotated to guard the civilian council knelt before the Hokage.

"Which one of you was on guard duty for the civilian council today?" The Hokage asked.

"I was, Hokage Sama." Lizard answered.

"Good, then please explain me, Lizard, why would you leave your post to play messenger for the council?" The Hokage asked.

"They ordered me to fetch Naruto Uzumaki for questioning because he poisoned the daughter of councillor Haruno." Lizard answered.

"Lizard, do you know the chain of command?" The Hokage asked the obviously stupid ANBU.

"Of course, Hokage Sama." Lizard said, not knowing what this was about. Others started seeing what the Hokage was up to.

"Then please inform me where in that chain the civilian council ranks." The Hokage asked.

"The council is directly under the Hokage." Lizard answered.

"Cat, please inform this stupid moron of the true chain of command." The Hokage said, angrily.

"The civilian council is nowhere in the chain of command. The only part of the council that has commanding power is the ninja council.

They rank under the Hokage, the jonin commander and the ANBU commander, meaning they would be in fourth rank of the chain of command, but only in times where the Hokage is absent from the village or in no condition to command the forces.

Which would be in case of a severe illness or death. In case of an illness, the normal ninjas are under the command of the jonin commander, which at the moment is Shikaku Nara, the ANBU are under the command of the ANBU commander, which is me.

The ninja council is only consulted in case both jonin commander and ANBU commander need more authority to get something done." Cat told them.

"Thank you Cat. So, get it in your brains that the civilian council has no power to command any of my ninja. The only other orders you are to follow are those of Cat or if he isn't available too, the ninja council. I thought my ANBU would know that.

So you will only guard the civilian council from the shadows and only one ANBU at a time. You won't make contact and won't follow any of their orders. Am I understood?" The Hokage said.

"Yes, Hokage Sama." The ANBU answered.

"Dismissed." The Hokage said and the ANBU vanished.

The Hokage rubbed his temples. This shouldn't even be an issue. He really needed to clean this mess up as soon as possible.

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Isami returned to the meeting room and told her fellow councillors the reaction of the Hokage. They were enraged, but realized there was nothing they could do at the moment.

The Hokage had the power to deny them their request and could delegate the punishment of one of his ninjas, especially a genin, to said genin's jonin sensei. And going up against Kakashi Hatake wasn't a smart thing to do. But they had thought Kakashi would listen to their orders, after all he had followed them and passed his team.

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Sakura felt like her legs were made of lead. She couldn't feel them anymore. The resistance seal Kakashi sensei had placed on her first thing in the morning was horrible. She felt like she couldn't move at all. This was not like wading through water, this was much harder. Thankfully they had a break now. She couldn't take another step.

Sasuke was tired. The resistance seals were the real deal. No wonder that Naruto had become strong using them. But now that he was also using them, he would become that strong as well. It would take some time, but he knew the prize was worth it. He was getting closer to Itachi.

He looked at his team-mates and his sensei. Naruto didn't look any more tired than normal. But he was already used to working with this kind of seal. Kakashi of course was also doing well. He had been surprised that his sensei had joined them doing the exercises, but also pleased.

It felt like they were all comrades to him, not only subordinates he had to train. Of course Kakashi's training program was harder than theirs, but it was something to strive to get to.

The worst part of the day was the morning run. He had felt so damnable slow with the seal. Especially when Kakashi and Naruto ran more laps than him and Sakura. He had been jealous of Naruto again, but he swallowed his feelings and told himself he would soon enough surpass his blond team-mate.

And Naruto had even told him the key to learn using the seals faster. You had to strengthen your muscles with chakra. Once it felt normal again if you used chakra, you had to reduce the amount of chakra to get the same effect on your own.

Well, except if you didn't train, then it would be best to just train your muscles without chakra. With the seals staying active for the next two weeks he would see if that was true.

"Okay, that was enough of a break. Next part of our training is teamwork." Kakashi said.

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