Bab 14: My Shop getting Famous-2
(3rd Person PoV)
"Oh, it's time."
Hiruzen muttered as he saw the clock showing that it was now 5pm. Stretching his tired arms from all the paperwork, he decided that he should go and take a look at what Shiori is selling.
And if her being capable of predicting the future is a child's imaginative lie, or innocent truth. One can never be too sure about strange happenings in the ninja world.
As he leisurely walked towards the stall in disguise, he took in the scene of a peaceful and bustling Konoha. The economy has stabilised after the reforms, the skirmishes with Kumo are over, and there have been rumours in Kumo about finalising a peace treaty with Konoha, something that couldn't happen till now.
But all his contentment came crashing down as he heard of certain whispers.
'Hey, have you heard about her?'
'What?'
'That purple haired girl... I heard that she was bewitched by the Fox, and is now under his control.'
'Hey... don't Kitsune often disguise as pretty women to lure the people in the tales? What if she is that Fox's accomplice? We should stop our kids from buying from her shop... Her main targets must be our kids, and that's why she has taken the form of a kid...'
Hiruzen became alert as he got to know the gossip. It could be Danzo, but it isn't impossible for the people to form those stories on their own. He may be the Hokage, but he can't mind control everyone to think in a certain way, nor he can stop rumours to come out non-stop.
So the best he can do is to create a new rumour that will overpower all other conspiracy theories, while still being BS. People don't like realistic theories.
Now... let's think of a rumour, that will make people to be minder towards Naruto and Shiori, and also help her business to boom.
Shiori being economical powerful will be helpful for Naruto to become the Hokage. He knows firsthand how the importance of having a powerful wife is necessary for the Hokage for stability. Mito-sama brought the alliance of the Uzumaki clan, and Kushina was the only survivor of the same clan and held the Nine-tails, along with good relations with the Uchiha clan, which was a first. So Shiori will need to have a huge amount of wealth so that the clans and jonins don't give trouble to Naruto, who is being hated by the entire village.
And if she becomes powerful enough to control the newly formed Civilian Council due to economic strains, it will be for the best.
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"Sasuke! I told you to not eat raw tomatoes!"
Mikoto scolded Sasuke as he made a mess. She would have to clean it before those demons, the ants, catch a smell of it and give her headache. She wished she had the Byakugan to locate and kill each and every ant from existence.
"Kaa-chan! I want to get my drawing, just like Masato!"
"Yes, we are going. But before that, wash your hands and mout-"
"Kaa-san, I am home."
"Oh Itachi, you came early for the mission? Go with Sasuke and bring his poster."
"Yes Kaa-san."
"Yay!"
Sasuke jumped with joy and hugged Itachi, with his dirty hands...
"I will change and come, wait for me outside."
Itachi poked Sasuke's head, and went to change his clothes.
Mikoto could only sigh as she saw her eight year old kid's back disappearing from sight. While Sasuke did increase her work, a lot, Itachi had never given her any trouble. But that's exactly why she is worried more about Itachi than Sasuke.
While she has seen a genius like Itachi grow and become a fine man with a cheerful and healthy mind, Itachi is different than Minato. He isn't cheerful, he isn't enthralled by a cool jutsu, and he certainly doesn't have a goal, like to become the Hokage.
Sigh... If only her husband and the clan didn't pressurize her kid so much. She doesn't want him to get stress lines like Shisui. Well... Let's clean up, and then see who this rumoured Shiori is that is becoming a very favoured person in the clan. Who knows, she might end up seeing Kushina's son.
Maybe with her being liked by the clan, Sasuke and Naruto can become friends...
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Kakashi was looking at the big posters hanging on the stall with wide eyes. Wide eye.
Any normal three-year old kid, who has been inside the orphanage until recently, can't determine how a person she met for the first time will become the Sixth Hokage. Not the Fifth. But that was okay. He is famous, so she might have heard about him somehow. And the purple lightning can be a mistake in coloring. He is known as the best lighting user in Konoha, so that thunder attack from clouds can be child's imagination of how real life lighting looks. Though the bulldog like shape can be her imagination.
There is no way she knows about Pakkun, right?
But Guy? For a normal person, he is a Green jumpsuit wearing, running while doing a handstan, and 'Youth' shouting weirdo. There is no way, even if she is a plant, that she could know the name of his final move.
'Night Guy' is the thing that only he knows about aside from Guy himself. The red aura is the thing only he, the Hokage and elders, the Samehada weilder who managed to escape alive, and Guy's genin teammates know about, given that they witnessed Guy's father's final move.
So, how exactly she has the exact depictions of what Night Guy could be? The name itself?
In the small panel he is in, stopping Guy, he looks roughly 10 or so years older. He can't exactly determine the exact age. And the background looks like a war site, with destruction on an even bigger scale than the Kyuubi rampage.
He felt a chill, as if he is seeing the future through the poster. A future where Guy has to use the Eighth Gate. A future of a war on an unimaginable scale.
"Oh, Kakashi! I am here to challenge-huh?"
Guy arrived on the tree Kakashi was standing on. Even though he can't use chakra good enough to be a sensor, and even though Kakashi is really good at hiding, Guy always manages to find him. Due to his 'Youth', or so he says.
But that Guy didn't completehis sentence to challenge Kakashi for a Youthful competition. Because he was staring at his poster, 'Night Guy'.
"Kakashi, who is that girl?"
"Come with me."
Kakashi came out of his hiding place, and approached the stall where many children were buying Shin-chan, and some were asking if the posters were for sale.
"Oh, Kakashi-san! Guy-san! Thanks for coming here! How do you like it?"
Kakashi wanted to make some excuse to pull her to the side and question her about all these strange things. But he felt a disguised Hiruzen in the vicinity.
'Hey, have you heard that this girl is the reason that Kyuubi is calm inside that boy? I heard from someone with connections to the elder Danzo that if anything happened to that girl, or the container, the Kyuubi can be unleashed again. She is the 'Demon's Sacrifice'. '
Now, Kakashi was more confused about why the Hokage was spreading such rumours. Before Kakashi could look for any signal from him though, Guy has already started talking with her.
"Such YOUTHFUL talent!"
"Umm, Guy-san, if you don't mind, can you teach my friend taijutsu-"
"Of Course! I am going to finish my report, and then, let's meet your YOUTHFUL friend!"
... Kakashi imagined a Naruto in green spandex, with a boul cut, shouting 'Youth!'...
Alright... It's best to not think about it. For now, the Hokage will handle this, but if all this turned out to prove that she does have some sort of future prediction ability... he needs to pick up his training. Because in the next ten years, Naruto will be probably in his position like he was in the previous war...
He needs to prevent any more of his comerades dying. And that includes his sensei's son too.
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Status Power Mingguan
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Power 
-- Power
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