Chapter 64: 60. Meeting
After the dinner ended, everyone went their way, except Hiruzen and Kakashi.
"Now follow me."
Naruto, Hiruzen and Kakashi followed me inside the secret meeting room inside the palace, which even had several seals for emotional sensing just like outside, but more concentrated, to deal with Zetsu's porous technique. Researching on Nue helped me with developing the emotional sensing seal.
"Alright. I have things to discuss now."
"Yes Shiori-chan."
Hiruzen nodded, turning serious.
"Till when are you going to hide that Naruto has Kyuubi sealed inside him?"
So, I started off with dropping a bomb. Until Naruto was a genin, I have not told him about Kurama, since it was clear in the OG series that Hiruzen let things happen with Mizuki so that Naruto will know about Kurama and get Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu. But even if Iruka is not that person for him to tell him that he doesn't care if he holds Kurama, I am much better.
So he should have told Naruto about Kurama much before, but I waited for graduation and genin test. But since he didn't, I plan to have this conversation so that my Naruto won't be sad once Hiruzen dies.
I am thoroughly disappointed by Hiruzen.
"What do you mean Shiori-chan!? I have Kyuubi sealed inside me!?"
"Yes. You have the strongest bijuu sealed inside you."
For some reason, I found Naruto's expressions weird. It was less of a shock and more of a 'oh shit!'. I will ask him about that later.
I turned my focus on Hiruzen, who had the face of 'I had no choice. Please pity this old man.'
He sighed, and said, "I was going to tell him about it when he becomes Chunin-"
"Then I don't need to ask you any further. I can only say, it's a horrible choice. You should not hide things from Naruto, not about himself."
"I am sorry about that. Maybe it was another one of my bad decisions afterall."
I don't even want to talk about his expressions anymore. It is really hard to determine if he is a good person with brain damage in the decision making part, or he is an evil one who tries to play puppeteer.
Still, he didn't talk about Naruto's parents, even after this. See this Naruto? Please don't be sad when this old coot dies.
I sighed, and looked to Naruto.
"Naruto, Kyuubi is the strongest out of the nine bijuus that exist in this world, capable of beat all others at the same time. He is a very intelligent being, but Mangekyo Sharingan and Wood Release are his natural enemies."
"He?"
Hiruzen, and Kakashi asked. Well... He is a he, right? Naruto doesn't seem to be confused about that part though.
"There are nine of them!?"
His eyes were... sparkling? Okay, something really doesn't seem to be right with Naruto's reaction.
Something is... really weird...
I shook away those thoughts, keeping in mind to talk to Naruto about this later, and turned to Hiruzen and Kakashi's question.
"Well, I assume he is a male. 'It' will be too disrespectful.
First Hokage, Madara and the previous two Jinchurikis, which I assume are from Naruto's clan, disrespected him enough.
He is a force of nature, neither evil nor good usually. But if you control someone, force him to involve in 'puny' humans' conflicts, then the moment control is broken, seal him and his brothers and sisters in 'puny' humans, and then you complain that he killed the leader of the successor of that puny human, Hashirama.
You have to think from his perspective. Unless you are Hashirama or Madara, all humans are what ants and mosquitoes are to us.
I had visions of two of conflicts involving Kyuubi yesterday. Both of them involved him being controlled by Mangekyo Sharingan, and once the person controlling was defeated, he was then sealed within a human. If there has been another incident, I don't know."
Honestly, I have no need to tell all of this to them. But it is mostly for Kurama. I don't know if he can see and hear things from the outside world, but I believe he is very intelligent. Why was only Kurama capable of giving the KCM mode? Why couldn't Gyuki do the same? Then there is Baryon mode. I believe that he has better knowledge over chakra than Boruto's trash villains.
Plus, I am kind of bootlicking Kurama. I know he has a lot of pride, so maybe he will become slightly less angry?
Because of me, Kurama didn't witness Naruto struggling like in the original, and I don't plan for Naruto to go through pointless struggle. But Kurama is important for Naruto. Even if Naruto becomes strong enough to be able to handle Madara without the help of Kurama, if Kurama doesn't cooperate, most of Naruto's chakra will be used in maintaining the seal.
"Wait... Did you say that he was being controlled by Mangekyo the second time too? Could you see who was controlling him?
And didn't your seer ability disappear?"
"Umm, yesterday, I was under a lot of stress about Karin... so it just happened?
Though I don't know the identity, he is probably the one who used genjutsu on Karin instead of Itachi.
I have a clue who he is though. But before I tell that, I want something in return."
"More money?"
What use of more money will I have if I can't even use all the money I have earned until now properly? I shook my head, and said,
"Did you remember that I hired Tazuna from the Land of Waves for building this palace?"
"Yes."
"I have realised that he is a very important person. Even though I sealed his memories for the security of my palace, he still holds something very important. In one of my recent dreams, he was a teacher in ChishikiOri, a University which I built in Land of Waves, and something significant is going to happen with one person studying there, and I don't know who that is. I want permission to establish it in the Land of Waves. I will convince their daimyo, but I also need your permission."
Chishiki means knowledge, and Ori means guide, while also being a part of my own name. I know that combining words like this doesn't work in Japanese, but I am the trendsetter.
Line starts from where I stand.
Plus, it will be a unique name.
Hiruzen fell into contemplation, thinking about this payment. It is impossible that he doesn't know about the condition of waves. Inari was somewhere around Konohamaru's age by his looks, and his stepfather was killed when he was able to remember it, so around atleast 2-3 years old. I paid Tazuna for his job when I was around 9. So either Gato wasn't there at that time, given that Tazuna didn't really felt like he was in very tension, or his money may have been stolen.
Well, there is even a possibility that he would have hired Konoha to take care of Gato, but I want to remain positive.
What do you think old man? I know you sent Naruto's team that time so that Land of Waves will lean towards Konoha. So am I not giving better solution to you? Controlling education means controlling people. The examples are lying around in both this and my previous world.
There will be a good thing though. No useless homework in my university for my students, *cough* cheap workers.
After some minutes passed, Hiruzen nodded.
"Very well. If you can convince the daimyo of Land of Waves, you can establish your university. But no ninja related things. No fuinjutsu, nothing."
"I wasn't going to.
Anyway, as for the user of Mangekyo in the last time Kyuubi was used, it's that person that Kakashi saw and was shocked in that poster years ago. Other than that, the only thing I know about this person is that he got defeated due to teleportation.
"Your Flying Thunder God is very troublesome, Fourth Hokage." he said.
The person's face, hair, body, voice, I couldn't see anything. It was the first time I had a dream which showed a person as blur.
I want Kakashi-sensei to master that jutsu and keep it secret until the war, and teach Naruto in this palace. We can't let anyone knowing about it."
Hiruzen was frowning and contemplating.
Kakashi was confused, and looked kind of, 'relieved'? Why though?
Anyway, my Naruto wouldn't spout nonsense like "Obito is the coolest guy!" for that brainded simp. He will give him a Rasengan, and mark him.
Then appear out of nowhere, and pluck out his Kamui Sharingan.
I then took out a seal from my pocket, and took out the thing I am going to sell now that I have turned the situation serious.
It's like how fraud coaching companies convince people that their kid needs their tution. First ask some questions that is way above their level, embarrass the kid in front of his/her parents, and then give the solution, that is their tution.
"This is Ninja Gauntlet that I have made, which Naruto and me are using, though mine is a bit special.
It can store upto 4 offensive jutsus on the level of Rasengan.
Has a Chakra oscillation mode so that the user can break out of genjutsu automatically, though I am not sure if it will work against Mangekyo.
Then, it can shoot out tiny scrolls which contain my trap seals.
And most importantly, summon the user to it's pair. Naruto and mine are pairs, obviously, and I am selling the only pair that I have made to you, Kakashi-sensei.
1 billion ryo, for each gauntlet."
"1 BILLION!?"
Hiruzen and Kakashi shouted. Geez. It's not that much. A top shinobi like Kakashi may just have to use up 4-5 years worth of his work. And if anything, he does have his clan compound.
'This is the place where 6th Hokage lived! Kyaa~!'
I can imagine some princess out there might be interested in buying that house if maintained and advertised in such a way, for a 100 times more price.
"*Cough!*, it is not much, given how revolutionary this is. Just imagine, you are fighting an opponent you have no chance of beating.
You have exhausted your chakra. But you have four jutsus as powerful as Rasengan stored. You wouldn't even need multiple handsigns, just one.
If that doesn't work out as well, you can always summon yourself to the safe place where you have the other half of the pair.
And the most interesting part is that you will only need chakra as low as performing a fodder E-rank jutsu since the chakra will be stored in the crystal inside beforehand.
This will save your life. What's more important, some money that you don't have much use of, or your life?"
I explained the benefits, advertising it's practical use.
"Say Shiori-chan, since you are a genin now, why don't you join R&D department? You will even receive a good funding-"
"Nope. Then the products won't be mine, and I wouldn't be able to earn enough from them, right?
And what if it leaks? The security of the village isn't good. Look at what happened yesterday with Karin."
Hiruzen fell silent at that.
"Well, I am not really scamming you. It's the fair price for something this good. And I am not really going to give it to everyone.
What if someone it goes into enemy's hands? I trust the future Hokage to be able to use it wisely, and protect it from greedy eyes.
Plus, Naruto said that you aren't THAT strong since he could get a bell from you.
I have seen Hashirama vs Madara+controlled Kyuubi fight. Hashirama absolutely destroyed them, and the fight only lasted that long because he wasn't ready to kill Madara until the end.
And you, I doubt you could win against Itachi, who is absolutely fodder against the Fourth Hokage."
Say what you say, father-in-law destroys Itachi very easily, in any and every forms. No matter how much Itachi glazers try to hype him up.
Even Madara had to catch Raikage at one place to put him under genjutsu. And father-in-law can't be caught.
Moreover, he isn't sick. Has a very high amount of chakra. Several times more than Itachi. Not only he kept suppressing Kurama's seal during the delivery for a very long time, he teleported several times, teleported entire Kurama, his Bijudama, and the most impressing thing? He was way too tired, and still dragged entire Yin half of Kurama using Reaper Death Seal. Almost as much chakra as Gyuki. In comparison, Hiruzen could only take Orochimaru's arms.
And Minato could enter perfect sage mode almost instantly. Though he probably couldn't hold it for long.
Okay, enough Father-in-law glazing.
On to the serious matter, this should be enough to weaken Kakashi mentally that he is not strong enough. Now he will buy-
"I am not buying it."
"Why!? You are the top ninja, 1billion per piece shouldn't be anything for you. What is more important, money or a trump card to save your life?"
Aaaaaand he fell silent. BECAUSE OF COURSE, HE IS DEPRESSED AND ALWAY THINKING ABOUT DYING!
Oh god! How could I forget that he was being melodramatic like 'Oh, I guess this is it' even after the Fourth Shinobi War. And this Kakashi is much worse than that.
Tch, I will have to look for another person to buy it. I don't want to scam Guy-sensei. He has been teaching Naruto, me and even Karin sometimes for free.
And I don't want to give this to Hiruzen. He needs to die so that the Legendary Sucker can come here. Even an extra paperbomb can change the outcome of battle, and a multi-purpose tool which can be used to run away from battlefield? And storing four A-rank offensive ninjutsus? That will turn the tides and cause a tsunami. I don't want that.
"Alright. If you sell the whole pair for one billion, Kakashi will buy it. But you will have to join the R&D department and not exceed any of your future products to be more than 50M."
"Then I guess the negotiations are done here. I have put the value correctly, I guess I will just stop working on the teleportation gate-"
"Kakashi, you are buying it. 2 billions, and you will buy the pair. Though Shiori-chan, you need to agree to my condition too and join R&D department."
Alright. Hiruzen is soft enough. If it was Tsunade or anyone else, they would have not agreed with such an outrageous price.
"Thank you for your patronage. Here is the contract for the pair.
You can either enter into contract with both of them, or can give one to your partner. I mean, 'partner'.
The summoning contract is for sentient parties, and from what I have gathered from Karin's ability, when two people are very, very close to each other, they start having similar wavelength of colour of chakra that only she can see. Maybe your summons may have similar wavelength of colour?"
"So this means that I can't have the other part of the pair?"
Hiruzen asked.
"No. Not if you and Kakashi are not very, very close. I mean, very very close. Me and Naruto close."
"Then I guess not."
Hiruzen awkwardly chuckled.
"Hey Shiori-chan! Maybe Guy-sensei can get that? He always talks about how hip and cool Kakashi-sensei is, so why not try with him?"
"Naruto, there's no way that will happen. Guy and me are close, maybe even very close, but not very very close."
Kakashi dismissed it.
"Well, let's just try it out, Kakashi."
Hiruzen joked to Kakashi, and the meeting came to an end. I earned two billion yen in a day!
Woo hoo!
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And apparently, the other half of the pair worked out perfectly with Guy-sensei.