Chapter 86 - Chapter 88

Dragon was standing in his office and looking out of his window. His eye scanned this little side branch city of his empire.

Rize and Sebastien had travelled around the nations and recruiting rouge ninjas to act as the city's defence force. They were tracking down and capturing the worst of the bingo book and experimenting on them.

Dragon had set some ruled about who they could take by force and who they could experiment on. For example, if the target is known to harm and kill children then they have been allowed to do whatever.

But he also made his limits clear to them. They are not allowed to touch innocent civilians and children. They are not allowed to massacre a village or cause mass destruction. And with Rize's abilities, causing mass destruction is pretty easy.

'Who do I wanna be?' Dragon was standing with his hands behind his back and focused on this long-overdue question.

"Alucard, who am I to you?" Dragon asked and Alucard stepped out of a shadow in the corner of the room.

"A mighty and wise master that is brutal and merciless. But also calm and good at collective thinking."

"The thing is, I don't know who I am most of the time. I could have spared those two boys, Darui and C. But I killed them in cold blood."

"Would Naruto and Gildarts recognize that version of me? And more importantly, would they accept that person? And what will Sylvia think."

"Perhaps master needs to figure that out." Alucard was genuinely worried for his master. What would happen to the master he adores, respects and fears if he loses sight of who he is.

"In that, you are correct, Alucard. It's about time I finally figure out who this new version of me is. And more importantly, who I wanna become. If I wanna protect my family for an eternity then all the questions I have needs to be answered."

"Alucard, call Danzo in here." Alucard bowed his head in acknowledgement and sunk down through the floor.

A minute later there was knocking on the door.

"Come in," Dragon felt Danzo's aura behind the door so he didn't bother to turn around.

"You sought me, Lord Dragon." Danzo kneeled down,

"Yes, I am heading back to the leaf village. And from now on this office is yours. I have questions about myself that I need answers to and I won't get that by sitting on this seat, or any seat for that matter."

"So from this moment and until the moment where I return, you will handle the matter with the five villages. All of that falls on you now. Ask Sebastien and Rize if you need anything. You are taking over my position until I'm back so you have full authority over this branch office."

"I hear and obey, Lord Dragon," Danzo said and bowed his head in respect.

"Don't destroy the world, and act according to my wishes. Do not fail me, Danzo."

Dragon wanted Danzo to become this worlds, permanent overseer, so he would use this time to test Danzo. Test his loyalty and his capabilities.

"I understand. I will not fail you, Lord Dragon."

Dragon didn't say anything more, he just opened the window in front of him and disappeared with the wind passing by.

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A few days later Dragon was sitting inside his home with Sylvia and drinking tea. The feeling of returning back home after a journey was still the best in his opinion.

Naruto and Sasuke were at the academy since it was still noon. And Jugo was in the back and cleaning the tea kitchen.

Gildarts and Obito had already returned and Gildarts was out and about in the village. He was trying to pass the time doing something fun. And fun for him was sitting outside the academy and observing Naruto and his class do some light sparring.

He was sitting on a branch and watching the kids go up and demonstrate their skills. What he enjoyed most was watching when they would spar.

'They are so young yet so skilled in fighting. I wasn't this good when I was nine years old.' Gildarts watched with anticipation how Naruto and Sasuke made their way up on the stage.

'I have a bad feeling about this. those two get way too excited in a fight.'

Naruto and Sasuke threw three shurikens at each other and they clashed in mid-air, creating sparks that acted as the signal for the match to start.

Nauto ran up and threw a punch that was blocked by Sasuke. He used his left arm to block the punch and immediately he launched a strike that was aimed at Naruto's stomach.

Naruto saw the punch coming and raised his leg and used his knee to block Sasuke's strike. Sasuke did a leg sweep and tried to get a hit on Naruto's legs. But Naruto jumped up and brought his leg down on Sasuke's head.

The boy dodged the leg by jumping back. Naruto dashed after Sasuke and simultaneously covered his hand in haki. Sasuke saw the hand turn black and quickly did the same, his fists also got covered in haki.

'Oh, this won't end well...' Gildarts observed the fight and sighed.

Sasuke that was jumping backwards with Naruto chasing after him, stopped moving and quickly charged Naruto instead. Both boys raised their fists and collided with each other.

As soon as their fists touched a small outburst of aura appeared and broke apart the stage. it looked like two conquerors haki's were clashing in mid-air. Naruto and Sasuke stood there and were pressuring each other.

The boys let go at the same time and then they started to trade punches at a speed only a jonin level ninja could keep up with.

They kept throwing and countering each other's punches for a few solid seconds. And lastly, they put all their strength into their dominant hand and traded a final blow. They collided, and another, much larger outburst of aura appeared and the entire stage blew apart.

The teachers and students had already moved away so the majority of them didn't get affected by the explosion.

But two rouge blocks from the stage, that was half the size of the kids here flew off and headed for the kids. A girl with long blonde hair saw the block heading towards her and fright bubbled up inside her.

'nononono' She said to herself as the rock flew at her. A rustle was heard from a distant tree and a shadow moved at incredible speed towards the girl.

As the block came to smash into her, Gildarts appeared in front of her and raised his hand and let the rock collide with his palm. The block of stone started to light up and bend unnaturally just before it got obliterated into nothingness.

"Are you okay?" Gildarts bent down and looked the girl in the eyes. Her eyes were wet and she stared at Gildarts and nodded carefully.

"Good. Now stay here." He smiled and looked over at where the other rock had headed.

The rock Gildarts didn't stop almost crushed a group of three kids but just before it landed, a giant man appeared and slapped it to the side. The rock seemed as light as a feather when you saw how easy he slapped it aside.

"How irresponsible." Dragon said and looked at the teachers of the class. He glared at them in fact.

"Why would you let those two fight without the Anbu around. If my son hadn't been here, that girl would have died."

"I apologize master Dragon. The rules were a simple and short sparring session. It was my mistake for underestimating them." Iruka the teacher, said to Dragon and bowed.

"No matter. I need to take my son and Sasuke home a little earlier today." Dragon turned to the three kids that he saved from a crushing end.

"Are you three okay?"

"Y...Yes, thank you, master Dragon." Said a very familiar white-eyed girl.

Hinata stood there with two other boys. One had a bag of chips in his hand and the other one had a haircut like a pineapple.

"That was amazing, can you teach me how to slap away a rock like that?" The boy with the bad of chips asked.

"One can not predict the future, so maybe someday." Dragon smiled and gave the boy's forehead a quick tap. He smiled and nodded at the pineapple boy who gave a nod back in return. No words were exchanged between them.

"We have something to discuss at home, and also. Now there is definite punishment in store for both of you." Dragon grabbed Sasuke and Naruto by the collar and disappeared from the spot.

"W...Wait!" The blond girl asked Gildarts. Her cheeks were red and when he turned around and saw it, he predicted trouble in his future.

"Yes?"

"My name is Ino. What's yours?" She asked while standing there and looking at the ground and occasionally into his eyes.

"hm, Gildarts. Nice to meet you, Ino. But I must be going, have a nice day." He said and bowed like a proper gentleman as Sylvia had taught him.

Gildarts did like Dragon and also ran away from the scene as fast as he possibly could.

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