34 Aftermath

After mugen left, the third stared at the bodies on the ground for a while.

Suddenly, there was movement, kushina struggled weakly to get up and take her baby in her arms. Crawling she lifted up her upper body handing it to him.

"Kushina!!!! you're alive"

"Please take care of him, his name is naruto." kushina said to him.

"Naruto, alright... you should rest for the child sake....." he stopped seeing her smile and eyes. She drew her last breath.

Shortly before,

She was about to die so she mustered up strength from her motherly love, to give the third a few words for her son. Accomplishing her wish.. she died.

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A day later.

In the gloomy atmosphere, created by death and the weather.

Minato and Kushina's funeral was held. The villagers mourned reflecting on the times spent with him.

.....

A few days after, the aftermath of the attack was beginning to settle down.

People were suspecting the uchiha for their possible influence on the attack and not defending the village.

At this point in time the third, danzo and the two elders called a meeting with the higher leveled ninja remaining.

Minato's seat was empty and that was a problem for the village's stability.

"Isn't there someone qualified from the generation after minato?" asked shikaku.

"No, while they are an excellent batch of students, there are none quite ready to hold the mantle of hokage." the female elder replied.

"In that case..." hiruzen began, in the same split second danzo looked ready to 'shyly' nominate himself.

"You're not?!!" danzo exclaimed.

"Wait, i recall there is someone who fits the criteria, he is extremely young but he is more cunning than an old fox, he has leading and fighting experience but, his attitude is ... well i suppose that is how a leader should behave, wheter leading nothing or something." hiruzen stated as he rubbed his chin in thought.

"What?! you know of some one" the elders said in surprise, none coming to mind.

"Did we overlook someone?" they looked at each other.

Mugen was on the otherside of the wall(tent? i don't remember it seemed like a tent). He had an ominous feeling for awhile now, something was going to happen. Hearing the third's words..

"No, it couldn't be" he had a ridiculous idea.

"Yes the blue reaper of our very own village. His actual age is quite small however his experiences are far greater, he is qualified to take the mantle of Kage."

"That brat!!! are you going senile hiruzen, you can't entrust the village to a breast feeding child." Danzo shouted in anger.

"Him. I suppose he is qualified but he is quite young." the two elders thought in agreement.

"How about we make him acting hokage for now and see how it goes. We can promote him to the full postion after, if it proves too much to handle, we must prepare a counter measure." the male glasses wearing elder stated.

"Hiruzen, how about you assist him in his role to set him on the right track" the female elder asked.

'I doubt that kid needs any help." hiiruzen slightly smiled.

"You two can't be seriously going along with his suggestion!!!!!! That boy.. he's...he's too weak and inexperienced.. yeah.. thats it! He's too green."

"Oi" a voice sounded from the shadows nearby. Dark ice blue eyes with 4 strange symbols within appeared in the darkness. A figure walked out. A tall young man in a loose dark blue kimono with a black sash appeared. He had a mysterious charming evil vibe, it was indescribable, he was indescribable. He had a nonchalant smile on, his almost sluggish movements added even more to his charm somehow.

"Have you been listening? What do you think?" hiruzen asked.

"I refuse." mugen closed his eyes after two simple words.

"What?! He refused!!" the elders, danzo and the bewildered ninja who hadn't a clue what was going on exclaimed in unison.

"Hahaha, i expected as much. We as ninja have a duty to protect the village. You are a ninja as well. You should protect our village, hokage is just another rank, think of it as being promoted." Hiruzen argued.

Mugen looked at him. He didn't look like he was planning to give up the ridiculous thought of him being hokage. Spending the rest of his life signing papers behind a desk, just the thought was horrifying, but he did become a ninja but still that wasn't enough for him to listen to him, it was the tea shop near hishouse, with the dango shop and that bread shop owned by a kind old lady who always gave him free bread saying how cute he was that influenced him. Nowadays she called him handsome though, this village had grown on him.

A home was a mysterious thing, it will always be apart of you. Still, he put his own interest first, life was too short to be living for someone else.

He sighed, "Fine, i'll compromise."

He held up three fingers." 3 years, i'll take control for three years and hand the village back over to you."

He turned around his back facing them, "There will be no further change old man, this is my pity for you and this village, have a nice break, eat sleep live a little ,spend time with your family. Though are you sure old man, i'm not like you, the ones before you, or danzo, i'm a different kind of being."

Mugen titled his head to stare at the oldman, the shadows looming over his face, those demonic blue eyes.

"It is better this way, handing things over the younger generation." he replied.

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The villagers were shocked that the new hokage was going to be a young child, the villagers doubted his abilities as did many ninja, however in just a short 3 weeks, he completely changed the village. His carried out indescribable acts and added on a few mysterious thing s to the village, He somehow got the village repairs to be finished in one week. He immediately made some changes to the structure of things.

In 3 weeks mugen proved his worth, and in a mere three weeks the village was entirely different. In a mere three weeks he gained the villagers recognition. The acting half the hokage was soon shedded. Recognizing his capabilities as hokage, the coronation was held on this very day.

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Mugen wore a deep blue kimono with a black sash and brown sandals with white socks. He held the atrocious looking white and red hokage head-wear in his right hand.

Gazing at it he thought, good god, what fool designed this. Sigh.

"Lord hokage, it's time." a ninja slightly bowed and informed.

Mugen went out to complete the ceremony.

Afterwards, he had to take care of the paper work that piled up in the hokage's absence.

He brought over some farmers with the lure of fertile soil and land with good conditions. He got them seeds for crops that suited the climate and gave them some proper farming methods. They were reluctant at first to take his advice but they had to since it was his land.

He devised several different new formations for battle. With his sharingan he indirectly created new jutsu through having ninja alter their handsigns and judging their chakra out put, several large scale jutsu were created but they took a long time to cast and a large amount of chakra, they weren't battle oriented jutsu so they were fine.

On that topic, they were lacking jutsu.

"Gather all the ninja." Mugen ordered.

"All of them sir?" subordinate A, asked.

"All of them." all included thos eon missions secret or otherwise.

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"Did you hear, the fifth hokage called for a meeting,"

"Yeah, i heard. Something big must be going down,"

"Yeah."

Idle chatter echoed across the village.

In a secluded section of the village. All ninja gathered.

Mugen sat on a platform on chair with fancy fur and decorations. He was sipping tea.

After a while when everyone was present he began.

"Tell me, what can a fork be used for." mugen asked.

"You there to the far left, answer."

"AH, me... well i guess it is made to eat food with." the ninja replied.

Chatter spread across the crowd, why did he ask him that?

"Correct, but it can be used for so much more. You could heat it to use as a knife, use it to dig etcera. The point of this is that everything has a purpose but it is possible to find new ways to make use of them. Water jutsu can be water the fields, fire as fuel, earth for construction, justu aren't only for war. That being said we need a larger variety of jutsu in our arsenal."

"I don't like to steal, but as i recall there was a certain village stealing jutsu. The mantis stalks the cicada unaware of the oriole behind."

Waves of discussion flooded through the crowd.

"We're heading to the hidden cloud."

Mugen looked at the clouds. "It's about time i had some fun."