Chapter 55

"Good. You will need to be in sight and depressed for when you fail. I am sure he will approach you then. Remember, it is imperative that you get your hands on the exact thing he wants. We cannot take any chances. We need a confession so I'm sure you will know what to do when you get your hands on it.

Hinata, I will need you to monitor the surroundings to see if anyone would try and save him or if there are any accomplices around or if anyone would try and intervene. Aoi, Kouki, I will need you both to tag him and anyone Hinata finds." I relayed my orders to the group in one breath. Yes, you guessed it. With the different character setting I've seen, and the whole 'Liberation' thing going on, you must be absolutely crazy if you think I am going to leave 'episode one' to fate or chance. With Guy and Kakashi both probably teaching Naruto, there was a chance the quadruple canon armor wearing Naruto already knows the Shadow Clone Jutsu. So yeah, you bet your sweet forbidden scroll, I am pushing things myself.

"With Guy away with his team, you can inform Kakashi. But just him. Having another Jounin on Mizuki would be good in case something unexpected happens. Aside that we can't have anyone else with risk of info leaking to Mizuki." The plan was solid and even without thinking about it much they all did not find any fault with it.

Naruto was about to speak when realization hit him. "Wait, did you say 'another Jounin'?"

"Mm? Oh, I did not tell you? I'm Jounin rank." My words seemed to blow his mind; Not just him, but Hinata as well. Both mumbling about a twelve-year-old Jounin.

"It really is nothing surprising. Kakashi became chunin at six, and Jounin at twelve. He is a bigger monster than you know. If not for certain unfortunate circumstances halting his progress, he probably would have been Hokage by now; And a powerful one too." I stopped Naruto from asking what he wanted, "If you want to know, you would have to ask the person himself. It is not my place to say." He agreed.

"Don't worry about it. In the end it is only a rank. The most important is your personal strength." In the end that is the truth. Like I needed to say that to the man that was still genin rank even as a Hokage. Say what you will, but he never finished the first chunin exam, neither did he pass the other one. Kakashi may have 'bestowed' the rank of Jounin to him as the Sixth Hokage, but that was just to get him to study up as an upcoming Hokage.

After finalizing everything, Naruto and Hinata eventually left. Everything was set for tomorrow. Even if I couldn't get my hands on the Reanimation Jutsu, I had to get my hands on the Flying Thunder God, no matter what.

Us siblings talked with each other and had a nice family dinner before we all retired to bed. Finally, tomorrow was the day and I was looking forward to it. "I hope nothing unexpected happens, else I will have to push Naruto to get his inheritance in order for me to get my hands on it." Even after a whole year I had been unable to recreate my own version. I did not even know how to begin it, even though I knew the mechanics behind it.

I asked Ken, the sword maniac Uzumaki, but he said he had never really thought about it, hence, he never really created anything of a sort. After explaining the mechanics to him, even he testified to the genius of the Second Hokage for coming up with such a Jutsu. We were too engrossed in creating the 'Will Erasure Seal' for us to waste time recreating it. He did, however, create a counter seal for it; Not just for the Flying Thunder God, but any space related jutsu. Did I say how much of a genius he was?

Finally, morning came. When I came to the dining, Aoi was already preparing with Kouki and the back practicing with his katana. What surprised and impressed me were the three guests present.

"I met Aoi when she was shopping for groceries this morning. Such a big shot now er? Buying houses and stuff." As if she knew what I was going to ask, she spoke first, her husband shaking his head occasionally.

"What did you expect? Kicking all three of your children out just so you could get freaky alone in the house. You better not have gone near my stuff." I glared at the two who had completely ignored me. They just sat there waiting for their breakfast.

I decided to ignore them and concentrate on the third guest in the room. "How come you are here as well, Kakashi-senpai?" Senpai because he was also Anbu and my senior at that. Only giving it up to become team-whatever it may be now's teacher.

"Good morning. May I speak with you outside?" I nodded before indicating for us to move to the back. I could hear Kouki finally done with his practice. I leaned on the tree and asked him.

"Don't worry, I put a silent seal around this place. Whatsup?" I already had an idea of what he wanted to talk about though.

He looked at me for a while before speaking. "Naruto and Hinata came to me. I have already spoken to the Hokage; He agrees. It will just be us, in case there is a leak. Naruto will get whatever Mizuki wants in order to get a confession out of him." I nodded. It seemed he still had something else to say.

"Is there something else? You seem to be struggling with something."

"You seem to know quite a lot about me." I raised my brow slightly. I knew he would ask.

"Of course, I am a ninja. It is my job to know interesting things. I have traveled and been through quite a lot in the past year, you know." I smiled at him before I continued, "I understood your circumstance, but I did not respect you nor your decision. I may not have lost like you did, but I know I would not have given up like you did. The moment we resolved in our hearts to be shinobi, to take other's lives, we resolved ourselves to lose as well. That does not mean we want to lose them. Far from it. If I lost them, who knows what I would do, but I know I would not continue to wallow; Destroy something, turn to the dark side, something, but never give up. In fact, the whole reason I attained this strength of mine is so those I have close to me can be safe, and I will continue to get stronger. With the kind of forces in the dark, not even my current power is enough. Why would I sit back and wait for them to get stronger while I suck on my thumb?"

He narrowed his eye at me. I knew my words had struck a chord. I was actually expecting him to punch me out of anger, but I was surprised that he did not. Maybe he knew I was right? I intended on making him my new pet project, to see how he would turn out.

[They say we should save Karin. What do y'all think?]