Walking into the hidden leaf for the first time since he had transmigrated felt like a surreal experience to Kazuo.
It was like he was still in a dream, rather it would be more appropriate to call it a nightmare at the moment.
Using the body flicker, Kazuo used the memories of this body to find his way toward the Hokage building.
Heading inside, Kazuo quickly went to the receptionist.
"I have an emergency report for the Hokage from Shikaru Nara," Kazuo said as he looked at the woman behind the desk, his eyes faintly shaking as he tried to express his emotions better.
The woman looked at Kazuo startled for a brief moment before nodding her head and heading up to the Hokage office immediately.
Merely seconds later, Kazuo received the seal of approval and headed up the stairs to the Hokage office.
He was now merely seconds away from meeting the Hokage.
Sarutobi Hiruzen who was considered as the second god of shinobi, was a ninja that had mastered all five chakra natures and countless jutsu which gave him the title of professor.
And Kazuo, a mere genin in the clothes of a Chunnin was going to be meeting him, and trying to lie directly to his face and then get away with it.
The hurdle in front of Kazuo was hard, impossibly so however Kazuo had no other option besides going Rogue which he didn't really wish upon himself, it would slow down his training speed immensely and he would lose access to getting jutsu from the leaf, having to rely on his system completely.
As he came to the third floor of the building and walked for what was only a few meters, Kazuo came face to face with a large wooden door.
On the right side of it, there was a golden plate with only a single word inscribed upon it.
'Hokage'
Reading the sign, Kazuo took a deep breath before steeling his will and resolve.
*Knock* *Knock*
There was a moment of silence before Kauzo heard a voice call him in.
"Come in"
Nodding to himself, Kazuo opened the door and headed inside, making sure to close it after him.
Walking to the middle of the room, Kazuo knelt down on one knee and loudly announced.
"It is a pleasure to know that Lord Hokage is in good health, i have an emergent report to make about the battlefield on the border of the Hot Waters and the Cloud," Kauzo said all at once.
He wanted to get this done as quickly as possible whilst also being as polite as he could.
He had yet to even glance at the Hiruzen's face, fearing that the old monstrous ninja would be able to tell something wrong in an instant.
"Rise up, Kazuo," Hirzuen said after a moment of silence.
'He already read my file whilst I was coming here, making sure to know at least my name and some of my backstory so that he could use it in the conversation and garner more respect and love from me about him as a leader and the leaf itself.' Kazuo quickly thought once he heard the man call him by name.
He had never talked to Hiruzen in this life and neither had the previous owner of this body so any other explanation was illogical besides the one that clearly tells you he's trying to use manipulation tactics.
Getting up and straightening his body, Kazuo finally lifted his head to look up at the Hokage of the Hidden Leaf.
Not looking at the military leader now would be extremely strange and would be a cause for suspicion.
The man looked different from how he had in the anime and manga that Kazuo had watched and read in his past life.
He had brown spiky hair with almost no wrinkles on his face.
It was clear that he wasn't young as his skin had started to deteriorate however he still looked like a man in his prime.
'This guy's still in his fucking prime isn't he?' Kazuo thought as he looked at Hiruzen.
Kazuo had a lot of respect for Hiruzen and Danzo, whilst he hated the two to death, one more than the other. Kazuo could give his respect to them.
They were shinobi without cheats, shinobi who had trained their ass off in order to achieve the amount of power that they had, they had studied, trained, and used every single thing at their disposal to arrive at where they were now.
And to Kazuo, that was something respectable.
Someone who Kazuo detested even more than the two would be Nagato, a man who had been given the Rinnegan but had achieved almost nothing in the end.
"Give your report Kazuo." Hiruzen finally said as he nodded his head.
"Yes sir!" Kazuo almost shouted before taking a deep breath and starting to spew his string of lies interwoven with truths.
"We were ambushed when we arrived at the meeting location with the three other camps. The enemy had killed the other camps and had been wearing disguises to pretend that they were hidden leaf shinobi, Shikaru noticed something wrong almost immediately and told me to be ready to flee back and report to the leaf so I stood on guard as Shikaru headed to the middle of the clearing to talk to the other three camp leaders." Kazuo said before he took a shaking breath.
"And then they severed his head and all hell went loose sir, I didn't see anything else as I followed Shikaru's orders and ran to the leaf as fast as I could without looking back even once," Kazuo said as his eyes started tearing up, his voice getting clogged up, as he continued.
"Im sorry, I was a coward, Lord Hokage," Kazuo said as he fell down onto his knees, his head hanging low.
'You better believe me you old perverted fuck, I pulled an entire skit here just for this shit.' Kazuo thought to himself as he sat on the ground, his eyes looking at the ground as tears dropped from his eyes from staying open for too long and looking at the same spot.
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For a few moments, absolute silence reigned in the room before Hiruzen broke that silence with his stern voice.
"You ran from the battlefield Chunnin Kazuo."
"I was given a mission to..." Kazuo started before he saw Hiruzen lift his hand up to stop him from talking further.
"You were not given a mission. Minato here can attest to that." Hiruzen said as he nodded to a corner of the room.
Turning his head, Kazuo saw the yellow flash of the leaf looking at him in what looked like disappointment.
'This...' Kazuo felt shock go through his mind.
Minato had actually responded to the kunai being thrown and had arrived in time for the battlefield.
That meant that the whole journey had been pointless.
In fact, he had lost everything he had built up so far simply because of this bullshit.
Kazuo felt furious, furious at himself for his own error.
*Sigh*
"What happens now, lord Hokage?" Kazuo asked as he turned to look at Hiruzen.
The previous look of grief and subservience was completely gone from his face.
"You will face jail time, you will first get interrogated and tortured before you either get executed or work for the rest of your life in the mines or somewhere similar," Hiruzen answered, his words stern as he looked at Kazuo.
"I see, well I don't agree with that," Kazuo said as a small smile appeared on his face.
Hiruzen looked at the young shinobi with a surprised face, this wasn't what he was expecting in terms of a reaction.
Not at all.
"You think that you can escape from here? In front of me, the Hokage and Mintao Namikaze?" Hiruzen questioned, his tone appearing genuinely curious about Kazuo's next move.
Kazuo stared at him for a while before nodding his head with a light smile.
"Of course I can you old mother fucker." Kazuo said with a light laugh.
His words caused the expression on Hiruzens and Mintao's faces to crumble slightly.
At this moment, in the silence, a slight sound was heard.
*zzztttt*
It was the sound of explosion tags about to go off.
The Hokages and Mintao's expressions quickly changed once more as Minato teleported to Kazuo and proceeded to teleport him away.
Kazuo's last moments were him looking at a random field before he exploded.
'Fucking hax' Kazuo thought.
*Booom*
The scenery quickly changed once more as Kazuo found himself back at the border of the land of Hot Waters and the land of fire once more.
'I am royally fucked.' Kazuo thought to himself as he sat down on a large stone in the middle of the forest.
'Think, think you dumbass, how do I fix this.' Kazuo thought to himself however at the moment no plans went through his mind.
*Sigh*
'I can try returning to the camp once more and fabricate some lie that I was put under a Genjutsu and kidnapped.' Kazuo thought before nodding his head.
There wasn't much he could do besides give it a try, there was nothing to lose and everything to gain at this point in time.
'If only I could return farther back in time.' Kazuo thought to himself before shaking his head.
'Let's just do this.'
Turning around Kazuo used the bodyflicker to run at incredibly high speeds through the dense forest.
If before he had cared to not use a lot of chakra then now he didn't at all.
His most important task was to arrive as quickly as he could back to the camp.
The faster he did come back the more chances there were of his lie actually working.
It had taken him almost the entire night to arrive where he had been however with him using his entire chakra reserves like a reckless man, Kazuo managed to shorten that time significantly.
Arriving at the location where the battle had taken place, Kazuo saw that completely destroyed forest.
It didn't resemble what it had once been even slightly.
Signs of jutsu use were all around him however most importantly, there was no leaf camp here.
'They must have continued on toward the border.' Kazuo thought before taking out his last soldier pill and popping it inside his mouth.
'When these wear off, im going to go on my damned death bed.' Kazuo thought however he didn't care at the moment.
Using Shunshin again, he disappeared from his previous spot.
It took four hours however he could finally hear the sound of shinobi using the body flicker jutsu.
Arriving close to them, He quickly saw the group stop.
It was the leaf ninja.
As they observed him, shock went through their minds.
Kazuo looked completely ruined, his body covered in blood and dust with countless scratches and slices covering his body.
'I had to fucking do this to myself so I don't seem suspicious.' Kazuo thought to himself as he Shunshined into the middle of the group.
No one stopped him as he arrived next to Shikaru.
"Im back commander," Kazuo said as he bowed lightly to the man.
"Where have you been? I heard that you deserted us at the start of the battle." Shikaru said as he looked at Kazuo, his facial expression was furrowed as he looked at the twelve-year-old ninja.
"I don't dare desert the leaf, I was dragged away using a Genjutsu and had to fight my way back, it was a team of young Gennin from the cloud," Kazuo answered, his breath rough as he kept his head down.
"I live and breathe for the leaf sir, I would give my life for it gladly. I could have run away however despite these injuries I wanted to come back and help inside the battle as soon as I could, it seems that I was too late however." Kazuo announced loudly as lifted his head and turned to look around him.
"Im sorry my fellow comrades!" Kazuo practically screamed his apology out as he looked at the shinobi all around him.
For a moment silence engulfed the forest before almost the entire shinobi camp started giving words of encouragement to Kazuo, telling him that it was all right and that he had already done enough for them.
Kazuo's words of patriotism had lit a fuse in them, and his obviously damaged condition gave them something to feel sorry about, his image as a kid only intensifying this fact.
Meanwhile, Kazuos lips curled upwards slightly.
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