Chapter 48 - Caught [2]

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As Kiho heard what the Fire Daimyo said, his face paled but his eyes were cold, a sign that he wasn't going to apologize, he couldn't resist nor could he struggle with Kakashi above him ''Hear my words before I die, Fire Daimyo! Even after I die, my spirit will always haunt you, I pray that you die!'' he shouted with a wide smile on his face, his sanity being replaced by insanity.

'Boring... What a boring speech.' Naruto thought, the next moment, Kiho laid on the ground motionlessly, his eyes devoid of any light, the vitality of his body left it in a quick manner, signaling his death after Kakashi pierced his heart.

Moyasu's eyes showed just how sad he was at the moment 'Why did you do that, Kiho? If you just accepted your mistakes and turned over a new leaf, you wouldn't need to die!' he thought but couldn't let his sadness overtake him, the Fire Daimyo has to maintain his composure, principally in front of others.

Meanwhile, Unsogakure.

Naruto's Kage Bunshin was looking at the report regarding the entire world's news in order to keep the 'Main Body' information about it, while reading it, his eyes narrowed after looking at a certain part 'Akatsuki? A new group composed of S-Rank Nukenins (missing-nin), not much is known about them except for the fact that they have killed two Jinchuurikis by now... Even with that, their objective isn't clear.' that was what the report said.

'Not clear? If their objective isn't clear then the sun is blue from now on, is there only retards in the world? They have killed many Shinobi from two Villages: Kumogakure and Iwagakure and the Jinchuuriki is from there, which means they died while protecting them, one of them is Roushi, Jinchuuriki of the Four Tails and the other is Yugito Nii, Jinchuuriki of the Two Tails.'

Naruto's Kage Bunshin thought before doing a hand sign, another Clone with a smaller but still enormous amount of Chakra was made to stay there 'I'll disperse and send that information to the 'Main Body', their objective is the Jinchuurikis!' then, he disappeared with a puff of smoke.

Back to the Fire Daimyo's Mansion.

Naruto had just taken a bath after the immediate execution happened and changed his clothing to another set of the same he always uses, they were preparing to go back to Konoha, suddenly, a slight amount of pain surfaced over his head as new memories settled there.

'Akatsuki, eh? All of them are S-Rank Nukenins? It seems I'll need to train harder in order to get stronger faster, my stay in Konoha will need to be shortened too, it's too dangerous for me to stay here but if I leave right now, I won't be able to protect myself completely...' Naruto thought as a crisis was approaching, he guessed it wouldn't take more than 5 months for someone to come over, trying to capture him or in this case, Kurama.

'There's also that thing the Space-Time said, blessed by it, eh? Maybe I'll be able to teleport without Hiraishin or even manipulate it... I'll see if I can grasp something about that when I return, if so, my strength will take a huge leap, really huge leap.'

Naruto narrowed his eyes slightly while thinking to himself about 'Space-Time' words, he also felt slightly annoyed that he couldn't think of a nickname to it yet, an uncomfortable feeling, he mused.

Inside of his mindscape while lying comfortably on the wide grass in front of him, Kurama said while stretching his huge body in a lazy manner

'Kit, your strength growth will become faster and faster, geniuses, principally one like you, that has not ever appeared, I'm here even before Ninjutsu was created and even so, I've never seen someone like you, from 12-18 years old, your potential will completely show itself, just let it take your time, if something goes wrong, you can just let me smash them to a pulp.'

Naruto shook his head slightly 'A genius isn't worth anything if he/she isn't strong enough, Kuu-san.' he said inwardly.

'You're no fun, kit, why can't you at least have some confidence in yourself? Even if someone of Kage-level tried to kill you, with your Swift Release and my help, you would be able to run away.' Kurama said.

Suddenly, Kakashi, that was standing already in front of the Fire Daimyo's Mansion entrance, shouted ''NARUTO! Come over, everyone is already here, what is taking you so long? Did you take over my habit of being late?!'' he sounded as if he was reprimanding Naruto, however, at the end of it, his voice was slightly proud.

Instantly appearing in front of the entrance, Naruto said ''I was talking to Kuu-san about some things and as such, I ended up getting distracted.''

'I still can't get over the fact that he calls Kyuubi as 'Kuu-san'...' Kakashi thought while smiling slightly, even that enormous, overpowered beast suffered from the fate of being nicknamed by Naruto.

As both Team Kakashi and Gai stood in the entrance of the Fire Daimyo's Mansion, Moyasu said with a small smile that hid his sadness ''I'm thankful for everything you had done, you saved not only me but the entire Land of Fire from a coup'd'etat, I couldn't even imagine someone I created as my own son would do that. As such, your rating for this mission will be 5, it would be 10 if the maximum was 10!''

They nodded slightly at his words before Gai said with his usual wide, youth-filled smile ''Thanks for your kind words, Fire Daimyo-sama! We're sorry for what happened and we hope it won't ever happen again to you, now, we will return to our Village!''

The Fire Daimyo nodded while watching the departing backs of Team Kakashi and Team Gai, he had work to do, even if his heart was broken, even if his life seemed to lose color slightly, his feelings didn't matter in front of the Land of Fire destiny and the lives living inside it.

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