Standing on a tree branch that overlooked a small cave entrance, It was pitch black outside as it was a waning Moon tonight, but it didn't affect Chiba.
Opening his side bag dozens of explosion tags flew out and started floating in the air before flying straight into the cave. Chiba could hear the faint scream eminating from the cave he had sent them into.
During the Third Ninja war there was many deserter ninja of Konoha who refused to fight and hid away, not realizing that the moment the war ended, they'd become Konoha's primary target.
Konoha couldn't let Ninja that knew village specific jutsu and the village's secret infrastructures to run over to other villages and report this information for a reward. These deserters posed a major threat to Konoha's security with their insider knowledge and they couldn't be allowed to flee.
Chiba was assigned to eliminating these deserters, right now he was hunting a chunin ninja who knew of the shadow clone technique. This meant he carried the risk of leaking a Konoha exclusive B rank jutsu to other villages, this man had to be eliminated as he had already shown he wasnt loyal to Konoha.
Chiba didnt personally agree with these actions, hunting down and killings your own people because they fled the war and could potentially spill Village secret was cruel.
That being said knew nobody forced them into being a ninja, and nobody forced them to fleeing the village. If they were a ninja who refused to fight in the war, they'd simply be imprisoned for five years before let go.
Chiba didnt want to be hypocritical, while he didn't like agree with killing his own villages deserters, he also didnt agree with murdering people from other villages because of a pointless war. He swallowed all complaints as he resigned himself to being a Ninja, a murder.
The chunin he was chasing had used his shadow clone to try and leader Chiba away, only for his observation Haki to immediately realize he was fake and found the real user in a cave.
*Boom Boom Boom*
The powerful explosion tags rang out and could be felt all the way over to Chiba as he began walking over to the cave.
'If thousands of explosion tags can kill a high Kage level ninja like Obito, then a simple Chunin isn't a problem. The gravity fruit and explosion tag combo doesn't even cost me much Chakra, perfect for me i guess.'
Reaching the mouth of the cave, Chiba found the remains of his target before he cleaned a spot for himself and sat down. Chiba created a shadow clone, took out a piece of paper and ink before resuming his fuinjutsu training in the dark cave that was now filled with the smell of iron and burnt flesh.
The moment Chiba was healed up, the village immediately sent him out on missions after mission. His sensory abilities were well known and there were many ninja that were hiding after the war was over, Chiba had become more important than even most Jonin when it came to hunting down deserters.
The moment Chiba returned after this missions, he'd just be sent out on another one to find another deserter. So instead of immediately reporting back, he had been spending hours training after completing the mission before returning back.
As his clone started writing with his brush, Chiba used his gravity fruit to control five pieces of floating paper and began performing Hand Signs.
Moulding the chakra like the sealing jutsu asked for, the paper stuck to the mouth of the cave as he activated the Fuinjutsu...
'Warding Seal!'
A transparent blue wall appeared at the entrance of the cave before becoming invisible!
'This barrier can only stop attacks at the Chunin level and below, i guess its better than nothing. Since I've already made a bunch, I might as well use them!' Shaking his head, Chiba sat down next to the clone and began practicing his storage seal.
'Storage seal are relatively cheap and are easier to just buy than make, practicing it is really only good for experience. Gotta learn how to walk before you can run, i eventually plan on being good enough to seal Kage level attacks like Minato sealing the tailed beast bomb.
Chiba sat in the dreary and cold cave that was filled with the scent of blood from the charred corpse and continued practicing.
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Standing before a crowd of thousands of people, stood a blonde haired man that had a smile that could brighten anyone's day.
Minato Namikaze was addressing the civilians as he gave his inauguration speech as the fourth Hokage
"I am Minato Namikaze, an orphan of Konoha! I never knew my parents so I didn't know the feeling of family..... that was until I joined the ninja academy, made lots of friends and became the disciple of the legendary Sannin, Jiraiya. I am no longer an Orphan, Konoha is my home and all of you are my family!" The crowd of people felt their eyes beginning to water as they held on to their tears.
"You will hear many people boasting of my skills and might, but I only achieved this power because of Konoha's graciousness and peerless tutelage. I was taught by one of the greatest Shinobi in the world and I learned one of the most powerful jutsu that was left behind by our second Hokage!" Despite Minato trying to downplay himself, all it did was make the people think he was incredibly humble.
"As the new Hokage, I will follow my predecessors lead and continue to strive for prosperity and peace betwe...." Minato went on for over an hour, telling the villagers exactly how he felt and what he was going to do.
As he looked out into he crowd, Minato saw his beautiful red haired wife crying tears of happiness for him and he finally came to the realization that he actually achieved his dream.
All that Minato had left to complete in his life was to have children and raise them to become an upstanding shinobi and with his amazing wife, he realized that this was a garauntee.
As the speech had ended and the crowd began to disperse, Minato began walking back to his new office in the Hokage building. He was going to be mentored by Hiruzen for a month on how to perfom the basic duties of the Hokage but noticed a strange man standing before him.
The man had bandages around his eye and a cane In his hand, he emitted an air of darkness that Minato instantly understood. This man had caused the death of hundreds, possibly thousands of lives.
"You are Danzo Shimura right? It's a pleasure to be working with you" Minato said with a smile as he extended a handshake.
"It's a pleasure to work with you as well." Danzo shook Minato's hands as they stood their in silence for a few seconds.
"I actually came to talk to you about a problem that needs to be put to your attention now that the war is over....It's with the Uchiha..."