September 1st, 2003
After the release of two animated movies of Aladdin and The Toy Story, people applauded saying these were one of the best animated movies. In these few months Disney was finally established and it had the same logo like it had in the previous life of John. John even started searching for Bob Chapek and Kevin Feige to take over the helm of Disney when the time was right.
[Ding
Total fan value achieved - 150,800,000
Urging the host to work hard.]
Even though the fan values weren't the same like the lion king he was happy about it. He earned a lot from these two movies crossing the mark of 2 billion dollars. Soon he brought some copies at the expense of some fan values. These copies were important for the next phase of his plans.
In the morning of September 2nd, the family of three went to Tokyo. Jameson was surprised when his son asked him to take him to Tokyo. He didn't know what plans he had but he still supported him on his ventures.
On a chilly night of Tokyo they landed at the airport and went straight for the hotel. Such a long journey was tiring for everybody and they needed rest.
On the next morning, John took the family to Studio Pierrot with a lawyer and a translator as he would need them during negotiations. Soon they arranged a meeting with the CEO of the studio.
The CEO was pretty surprised and excited when he heard the famous creator behind those animated movies was going to meet him so he cleared his schedule for this meeting. Soon John arrived with his family and headed towards the meeting room.
"Hello Michiyuki Honma-san. It's nice to meet you. Hope we didn't disturb you by arranging such a hasty meeting" John said with a smile. The translator helped him convey his words to Honma.
"No no, it's our honor to welcome such a famous animation movie creator to our premises. I am just surprised that you would come to our studio" Honma said.
"Well Mr. Honma we are actually here to have a cooperative relationship with your studio and joining our hands we would like to depict a wonderful story in animation. The reason I chose Japan instead of USA because I believe that the story I have will appeal to Japanese audience more than Americans" John said.
Hanmo was skeptical to this point. He knew the animation industry in Japan and it can probably said as the top industry of animation in the whole world. Even though he had his doubts but he didn't express.
"I know you have your doubts about this so let me give you a present. I didn't bring any other presents with so I can only give you these 10 chapters of manga that I drew by myself. We can discuss the business terms after you read these" John added and gave him 10 chapters of manga he drew.
Hanmo started reading and the first page was the image of a cliff side of a mountain with image of few faces plastered on the mountain. It looked almost like the famous Mt. Rushmore only in this case the faces were different. He then saw the image of boy which cat like whiskers on both sides of the cheeks and he was drawing all kinds of weird faces and signs on the faces of the mountains.
Yes this is the famous story of Naruto. John knew that in order to be on top of the world he needed a strong background. And after much contemplation he chose the story of Naruto because he was afraid of choosing Bleach as the world of bleach might coincide with hell dimension. He wasn't sure if this world had Mephisto or even the real goddess Death, and the world of One piece is too complicated and the story didn't even finish so he chose the world template of Naruto. And he had a hunch that the cost of Bleach and others will be costlier than Naruto.
John knew that for bringing the whole world of Naruto to Earth it would start a storm but he already had a plan from the beginning to fight this in a peaceful way. John also speculated that bringing the whole world would cost him a lot of fan values but he was ready to pay the price and no matter how much time it took.
Hanmo read through the chapters and he understood that this story had a huge potential. Soon he decided to accept any kind of proposal because he knew that if the story went right it would be world famous. Hanmo believed that John would already have the whole story in his mind and he trusted his own judgement for the story submitted by John.
"Mr. John we would love to negotiate with you for acquiring the rights to make an animation of the story" Hanmo said with sincerity.
"Sure Mr. Hanmo we would love to co-operate. Disney and your studio will co-operate in this regard. Your company will have full freedom to make the animation and Disney will only be responsible for it's publication globally and other merchandise associated with it. 60% of the profits would be for your studio and this deal with continue even in future animation works. How does that sound?" John asked Hanmo.
Hanmo was overjoyed when he heard about this. Only a fool would refuse such a lucrative deal. He could already see lots of money coming in with this venture.
"I would like to add that I will also input some music and songs in this series of animation and the series will come out seasonal wise as opposed to regular episodes every week. This will keep the audience engaged and refrain ourselves in adding fillers in the animation. If you would like you can make up your own side story and make it as a movie later. Of course I would also be on the helm of it as I don't want to ruin it's story" John said. He really hated the fillers and weird flashbacks just to fill up the screen time and milk the story further. John always believed that doing this would downgrade the story by a lot.
He didn't wanted to smear the legacy of Naruto in this life. At the end it was never about the money, it was about the fan values. He would never negotiate with anyone when it came to fan values. Money was just a way to keep some people away from behind the scenes.
The contract was soon drawn up and John said to Hanmo that he would send all the relevant details, drawings and directions soon in a few months. This project would take years to finish and John gave him a deadline until 2007 to finish the whole plot and finish the animation. John also said that they could publish the manga too in the stores of Japan.
Hanmo happily agreed as it would generate more expectations from the animation. He was looking to the bright future and cooperating with Disney.
After taking a mini vacation in the country of Japan and admiring the rich culture and landscape of Japan, John and his father returned back to their city. John wanted to spend more time in Japan but he knew he had loads of work waiting for him.
Soon after coming back to New York, he started his daily life again as usual. He had been running around a lot and finally he could take a small breather. Even though he still had to draw everyday it wasn't so hectic as it was before.
He hired some local and even Japanese artists to draw for him everyday while he just directed the details for them and added the story to it.
August 4th, 2006
It had been 3 years since he introduced Naruto to the world and it was not astonishing that people loved it. What was surprising for John was that the story of Naruto became famous in USA too. John thought it was because of the fact that Disney was behind the production of Naruto. Even though it was produced in Japan, the main person behind the story was John himself.
Naruto's story appealed a lot to the audience. With the story of a boy who was ostracized just because he had a powerful demon inside him to being a hero. His sacrifices, his love for his friends and the enemies he had to face made the story enriching.
What surprised the people was that the line between good and bad became blurred as Obito wanted to unify the world to bring eternal peace and for doing that he was ready to sacrifice freedom. John even wondered at that point if he had given more ideas to Hydra because Hydra and Obito's dreams were inter-related. Of course the real reveal of Madara wasn't released as Madara was John's favorite character.
Even though Hydra would never pay attention to such flimsy animation which had no value in real world but the logic behind the whole story had appealed to the high levels of Hydra. Alexander Pierce after reading the whole report and understanding the gist of the story had even thought of trying to recruit John as the story was created by him. Finally after a lot of thinking, he refused to recruit as at the end of the day, the hero of the story was Naruto not Óbito.
In these 3 years Disney produced stunning animated movies and the studio grew from few workers to hundreds of them. John finally hired Kevin and Bob for taking the helm of Disney and shared ideas with them about the future of the company.
Disney, because of its popularity and meaningful plot, won Oscars almost every year. Some even advised him that he should try making real life movies too but John just refused their advances as he already plans for real life movies.
In these few years John had grown up to a handsome young man with the right muscles at the right places. He finally left his childish look and slowly turned into a teenager. He took regular defense lessons, even though he knew that it won't matter at the end as his powers would just explode but he still took precautions.
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