Time to deal with it

I look at tsunade and see that she fell asleep on my shoulder so I hold her while I gently get up, then I lay her down gently and put a blanket on her that I put into my inventory earlier. I then look to everyone else, "I'll be back soon, I have to go talk to the Hokage. For you guys the Hokage is the leader of this village."

After making sure that at least Olivier, Ezio, and Orochimaru heard me I flash off. If Jiraiya, who was in a daze because he couldn't imagine me getting tortured, wonders where I am he can ask the others.

Once I get to the doors in front of the Hokage's office I knock, and soon after I hear him tell me to come in. I slowly open the doors, enter and sit down. The Hokage took notice of this and spoke up after I was completely seated, "Joseph... what happened to you? I may not have known you long but even during the training I gave to you, you always had a smile on your face. Right now, if I'm being honest you look like a defeated man."

I nod slowly to what the Hokage said before replying, "I was kidnapped and tortured. It's because I said too much about the future so I know it's my fault, especially since I should have done so, if at all, once I was stronger. I was just too overzealous and trusting..."

The Hokage sighed and thought of what to say for a bit. I sat there in silence until he finally spoke, "Joseph... you have helped my Village a lot, No I think it's safe to say it's your village at this point if I'm being honest. You have learning abilities that put the best of us to shame, you were able to complete monstrous tasks that you, by all means, should not have been able to complete, and last but not least, sometimes it's not wrong to put trust in others. It is very important to remember that you aren't alone in your battle as you have been acting for however long, so long as you have one good Ally then you will never have to fight alone. Though I do agree with you that telling so much is wrong, you need to get better at bluffing that your hand is better or worse than it is, it will get you far in life. Like take my tactic of us fighting, I have not left this room since the fight and almost nobody knows I am here, only those with high permissions do, and this is all to make them believe us to be weaker. Joseph you are a strong person so don't let this drag you down for long, but you definitely should take it to heart and grow from it."

I nod to what he says. It's all stuff I've thought about before, but for some reason it just feels more powerful hearing it from someone else. I know I need to change, and how I need to, but hearing someone else tell me why and how to change just strikes me much harder than myself. Maybe my low self-esteem​ is bubbling back up, well I can drown that with alcohol later, heh.

The Hokage sighs, "Now that we've gotten that done, and that I know what happened to you let me first give you my sympathies. I am truly sorry about what happened and didn't realize it impacted you so much. I forget that you didn't grow up a ninja like we raise our young. Now, we have an important topic to discuss. I was told by Orochimaru when he stopped by that there are some people you... summoned?" The Hokage raises his eyebrows as he says this to me.

I nod in reply as he continues, "I won't bother asking you how you can do this, but I was told these people can accomplish amazing things. Are they trust worthy?"

A wry smile appears on my face as I speak, "Well they still have complete autonomy from me so if they don't like someone they can try to harm them. I haven't known them for long either so I have the bare amount of trust with both of them, as for the last one... well I would advise people not to aggravate the man in red as well, he is an extremely free spirit that I would be completely unable to stop should he get even a bit upset. Maybe later I can talk him out of it, but for right now he has been summoned for not very long and isn't loyal at all." The Hokage looks at me for a moment before nodding. I think he can tell I'm already giving him a lot of information regarding them.

He then started speaking once more, "Well I suppose that is good enough. I will inform everyone to not upset the man in red. Now I wanted to know, have you become stronger in the time you have been gone?" I nod, I don't want to say how because I can still feel an ache from those damn tigers. The Hokage nods, "Good, then I will need you to go and fight whenever you are ready, I will let you handle it as you wish too since I want to see how it is that you will end this. Remember this is a test, so I will join in and end it all if I find you inadequate to do it, that would mean you fail the test and are not suited to be Hokage."

I nod, stand up, and turn around before talking, "I'll take care of it right now since I need vacation soon." I look back to see the Hokage nod and I leave his office.

When I get back to my house I see Jiraiya petting Arthur while Ezio and Olivier were talking. Tsunade is still sleeping where I left her, and Orochimaru and Alucard are God knows where. I walk over to the three awake people, "I am going to go try and finish this war, do any of you want to come with me?"

Ezio thinks for a moment and scratches his beard before nodding, Jiraiya smiles a bit and shakes his head before talking, "Someone had to play backup so I'll stay here and hold down the fort, you can grab me if you need me though." I nod and look to Olivier.

She stands up, "I wish to see how those in this world fight so I will join you. That last man was too weak for me to make a good basis." Yeah, she does seem like a battle fanatic now that I think about it.

I grab both of their shoulders and teleport to the front of the gate. System what do I need to attach to myself and how long will it take?

'Host needs to attach Amateratsu, Lava Release, Magnet release, Joestar bloodline, Time release, Regenerative Immortality, and host has 2 summons. For all releases and Amateratsu it will take 20 seconds and will harm host. For Bloodline and Regenerative Immortality host will be in intense pain for 5 minutes.'

I make some shadow clones and sit down. I have some shadow clones go to each of the camps and the rest to be hidden for me to use sage mode. I almost forgot to have a few set aside for reading the tigers techniques too.

I sigh, infuse them all system.

'Affirmative host.'

--------3rd person POV-------

What Joseph was planning was a way to get this war done without any more casualties. He sent a clone to each camp with a letter of challenge to whoever had the authority to pull troops back. The letters stated that if they wished to take a route that avoids the most bloodshed then they are to meet him at the gates in front of the leaf. Truthfully Joseph doesn't expect for this to work, but if some people will at least show up to talk then maybe, just maybe, he can save some lives.

Some clones were killed on sight, others were given audience, yet few were actually truly listened to. There were a total of 5 groups that listened to Joseph's message, and 1 group who couldn't help but grieve.

That one group belonged to Hanzo's village and the message that they got was much different. It spoke of 'we have killed your leader and we expect your unconditional surrender if you wish to avoid further bloodshed. You are to report to the front gates of the leaf village with someone that is capable of making decisions for talks of reparations, and discussing surrender and withdrawal of troops. Not arriving by the end of the day will result in your destruction starting tomorrow morning.'

Joseph held no sympathy for those that tortured him, but he was at his core a kind person, not a murderer, so he wished to give them a way out. Though he will not be kind when it comes to discussing reparations for his unjust torture, he plans on trying to have them surrender their village in some way, shape, or form. Whether it be directly given to the leafs control or if it is made a satellite.

As for the rest, he will tell them that since there have been no active aggravations against the leaf other than surrounding it he will allow them to leave with no negatives, just a passing glance. If they insist on fighting then he plans on challenging them to a duel, if Joseph wins then they will surrender, if they draw then war will go on, and if he loses Joseph plans on giving them something and giving them one last chance to withdraw before he will send Esdeath at them to wipe out the troops.

The camps all talked to each other and discussed their plans, each camp, regardless of whether they listened to the clone or didn't, heard of the meeting from their allies. There were several more that began listening and decided to join the meeting, many began to plan various schemes so they may ensure their victory and eliminate the threat that he represents to them. There ended up only being one village that refused to attend the talks by the end of the day.

Hanzo's old group elected a person to speak for them as it was the Shinobi with highest authority while also being the most sensible. They were tasked to not upset the man who sent this message any more as they had already tortured him, if they acted wrong their village would be destroyed since the man who could kill Hanzo would surely be able to destroy them.

With that all the attendee for the meeting arrived at the gates 4 hours before the final time limit as they still wished to have light. When they arrived they saw a blonde man with a solemn look on his face sitting in the ground with his eyes closed. Sitting beside him was a beautiful blonde woman polishing a thin sword, and on the other side of him was an old man meditating.

The young man gave them no odd feeling, but the two beside him, they scared them more than they could possibly imagine. They gave them a sense of might, more so from the woman than the old man, but the old man still have them a sense of fear.

This began the meeting of mights.