"What!" Fugaku's voice pierced through the surrounding calmness immideatly as his eyes widened, his gaze almost turning fierce as he looked at Minato.
However, he knew that someone like Minato would never joke about this situation.
"Kakashi and Kazuo found him during their last mission." Minato said and didnt explain any further as he put his hand on Fugaku's shoulder.
A split second later, the two of them dissapeared from view and reappered hundreds of meters away inside of the Konoha Ninja Hospital.
It was at this moment that they saw the person they had just been talking about getting discharged by the medical staff.
"Obito Uchiha," Fugaku said, his voice slightly raised, causing Obito to turn around and stare at who had just called him.
His only remaining eye immediately focused on Fugaku Uchiha, his clan patriarch.
"Hello, Patriarch." Obito was usually a happy go lucky ninja, someone who didn't have a drop of seriousness in his blood however even he knew that respect should be showed to the patriarch of his clan.
Immediately Obito walked closer before giving Fugaku a full ninety-degree bow.
Fugaku remained stoic however his fierce eyes clearly showed warmth, his voice however was just as cold as always.
'Always with the tough love.' Minato thought to himself as his lips slightly twitched upwards.
"Rasie your head, you will come later to explain everything to me, for now you can go and rest. Your house wasn't touched, we left everything as is." Fugaku said causing Obito to immideatly raise his head and straighten his posture before giving a nod and starting to walk out of the medical ward.
"I'll also need you later for a report to lord hokage however you can rest for the day." Minato said toward Obito who gave another nod before leaving the hospital.
"I'm sure that isn't the only reason you called me for Minato, what do you need from me?" Fugaku asked with a voice that was borderline a whisper however Minato heard it clear as day.
"I might need your help later with another student of mine, Nohara Rin to be precise, she could now be called a pseudo jinchuriki of the nine tails and could go berserk at any point before i fully reinforce her seal, when i do so, I'll need your ocular powers to help control it better so that the chances of a problem occuring get lowered." Minato replied.
Fugaku had questions, however now wasn't the time nor place to be asking them and so he merely gave a nod of his head before turning to head out of the hospital.
"I'll help. Come together with Obito tomorrow."
"Sure will do," Minato replied, as his eyes trailed on Fugaku before he disappeared from view.
*Sigh*
"All of them are troublemakers." Minato thought as his mind went to his four students.
One had disappeared for months and had been considered a dead man only for them to appear with a mangekyou and then get controlled to kill his teammate.
The other was just as bad, a genius beyond any other who had become a Jonin at age twelve and then went on to get severe trauma from his 'dead' teammate and close himself in so that almost nobody could get near him.
The third had been the most normal until today when she became the pseudo jinchuriki of the nine tails and now was at risk of going berserk.
and finally the last one, on paper he was the best student Minato had ever had, he was social aswell as a genius, someone who learned everything as if he was a sponge and knowledge was water.
On the surface that is, Minato knew that a normal guy wouldn't have gained Danzo's attention so easily and even Lord Hokage had told Minato to observe him carefully.
Minato had clearly seen it, the way Kazuo mastered techniques was weird to say the least, it almost looked to Minato as if Kazuo had mastered the techniques beforehand and then tried to act as if he didnt know them and was learning them at a slower pace.
And so he had Kazuo learn techniques that only he himself knew, such as his own taijutsu style but that acting of his didn't change.
'A prodigy beyond even Kakashi, however, he fakes it and lowers himself so that he can appear more normal.' Minato thought before releasing another long-winded sigh.
It was at this moment that one of the nurses called him.
"Sir, we have completed the check up on all of them. None of them are in any serious danger besides Chunnin Kazuo who appears to have gone through severe chakra withdrawel, however that has been dealt with and he is now concious and the danger has been avoided. Would you like to see them?" The nurse asked, causing Minato to immideatly give a nod as he started following her through one of the numerous halls of the ninja hospital.
The buildings indides resembled a white maze, there was no color anywhere to be seen and the hallways were clearly made to confuse anyone who didnt have an exact map of the place.
Around two minutes of walking later, the nurse and Minato arrived before a white door, entering inside Minato saw three beds with his three students.
On the left side, the one closest to the door was Kakashi who had a book in his hand.
It was a book called Icha Icha Paradise.
'Kakashi is reading master Jirayas book?' Minato thought, his mind completley befuddled before his gaze went to the next bed.
Nohara Rin was laid on the bed and was eating an apple however the scene which should have been normal was clearly not.
Her teeth had been elongiated and looked like that of a feral beast whilst her eyes had the same brown color as before, her black pupil had become feline-like.
And finally the boy on the last bed...
"Yo Minato Senpai, were you worried about me? I knew you loved me Minato Senpai!!"
And his good mood disappeared just like that.
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So the first major changes of the plot are here, Nohara Rin is now techniclly a jinchuriki atleast close to one though she's more like the Cloud brothers. Kinkaku and Ginkaku.
Kakashi has discovered a new book.
Obito has become much more jaded however he has still remained a part of his child-like nature and ofc the major change is that he's still a part of the leaf.
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Looking at the book in his hand, Kazuo felt like throwing it in the garbage bin almost instantly.
*Sigh*
Releasing a barely audible sigh, Kazuo decided that opening the book wouldn't hurt.
The sound of pages flipping soon intensified as two people got fully immersed in reading the books.
'Fuck, this shit's actually good?' Kazuo thought as he put down the book and made a discreet tiger hand seal, sealing it away into his wrist guards that he had already put back on.
It was the next day that a medical ninja came inside the room whilst holding a couple of papers in her hands.
"You are all free to go, you just need to sign these papers." The medical ninja said as she handed one paper sheet to Kazuo, Kakashi, and Rin.
After signing it and completing the discharge procedures quickly, the three of them were finally free from the hellish room that was in Kazuo's opinion, depression worthy.
Exiting out of the front gate of the hospital, Kazuo, Kakashi, and Rin were met with Obito Uchiha, Kushina Uzumaki, and Minato Namikaze waiting for them.
"Yo Senpai!" Kazuo said whilst a large grin grew on his face.
"Hey, Kazuo," Minato replied awkwardly as usual.
'Keep all of my emotions in check.' Kazuo thought as his gaze remained on Kushina for just a slight second longer than on the two others.
"You all want to have some ramen? Im sure you were tired of the hospital food." Kushina immediately offered as she came and gave Rin a large hug.
"Sure, that sounds great. Minato Senpai is paying right?" Kazuo said as he brought his arms to the back of his head, clearly forming a carefree image of himself.
'This should be better than acting shy considering that I already know them for a while now.' Kazuo thought as he started walking ahead of the group towards Ichiarku Ramen.
"What do you mean I'm paying!" Minato said almost immediately however the rest had already started walking away, leaving the poor man alone to simply shake his head at his wallet's incoming demise.
"I guess I can bear it for one meal right?" Minato said that the more he thought about it, the more he felt a gut-wrenching pain at imaging the stacked up plates next to Kushina.
Minutes later, the group of six arrived at Ichiarku Ramen, thankfully the place was empty otherwise there wouldn't have been enough room for all of them.
After everyone ordered and had their fill, chattering amongst themselves for around half an hour, the group decided it was time to head off.
"Well, I'll be heading back home," Kazuo said as he got ready to split off from the group.
Only to be stopped a moment later by Minato grabbing his shoulder.
"I think we should have that talk first," Minato said, his eyes much colder than before.
*Sigh*
Releasing an inward sigh, Kazuo gave a nod of his head and followed the group of five toward Minato's house.
Once inside, the man merely made a single hand seal before the entire walls of the house lit up in hundreds of fuinjutsu seals.
"A silence seal? No, it should be much more than that considering the complexity and scale of the seals." Kazuo wondered aloud as he looked at the shimmering seals on the walls which were quickly fading away.
"It's a privacy seal though it's much more advanced than the ones usually used in the commander tents in the front lines," Minato replied before walking toward the living room, the rest of them following him before sitting down on the couches around the low wooden table.
"So we all have something to share don't we?" Minato said before his eyes which were wandering around the team's seven members got focused on Kazuo.
"How about you start Kazuo?"
"Do I have to tell this in front of Kushina-san?" Kazuo asked, his voice clearly losing its casual tone.
"You can consider her as a member of team seven to some extent. Though I won't force you." Minato replied as he gave Kazuo the choice.
Kazuo took a moment before shaking his head.
"It's fine. So you're curious about the jutsu that I used? Kakashi most likely told you about them right?" Kazuo questioned first instead of answering the question.
Minato didn't give a vocal reply, merely giving a nod of his head.
"It's a kekke genkai of sorts." Kazuo said after a moment of thought, his words resonating around the room.
For a moment, Minato's eyes widened slightly, this had been on the list of possibilities however the chance of it being a kekkei genkai had been so low that he hadn't considered it as a valid thought process.
This would check out a lot of Kazuo's strangeness both in the war and outside of it.
Minato had already noticed how fake Kazuo's behavior was, though it had gotten harder and harder to notice when he was faking it and when he was not as the days went by.
He certainly had a talent for acting.
Kazuo didn't wait for another question, merely making a single tiger hand seal and unsealing a bunch of paper sheets, and placing them onto the table.
Grabbing one of the white paper sheets with his index and middle finger, Kazuo injected his chakra into it.
Immediately the paper started folding on itself and changing color, it didn't take longer than a split second for it to turn from a white sheet of paper into what looked like a completely metallic shuriken.
"I can manipulate paper, I can make it change its color as well as shape and harden it to levels similar to steel," Kazuo said before putting the paper shuriken on the table.
It made a sound as if it truly was made of steel instead of soft paper.
"I see, well then you don't need to explain any further than that," Minato replied.
"I don't?" Kazuo questioned.
"No, a Kekke Genkai is something extremely personal, only the Hokage has the right to command you to tell him everything about it," Minato replied before his gaze turned toward his next student.
Obito Uchiha.
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I thought about it and I decided that the most logical course of action for Kazuo would be to actually tell Minato about his Paper Style Jutsu.
I felt like it would be an advantage to him if Minato knew rather than a disadvantage and as we all know, Kazuo is an extremely goal/benefit-oriented person.
I actually just read this from the word description and these two words fit him quite well.
Sociopath: Someone who doesn't empathize with others and cooperates with people solely for their own benefit.Opportunistic: A term that describes someone who takes advantage of opportunities, often at the expense of others.
So yeah, either way, thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed the chapter.
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