Harsh loss and Bounty

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Harsh loss and Bounty

I arrived at about the same time as the four fueling the barrier did and what I found was not good at all. The old man was dying and I could tell immediately that there was no saving him. it's hard to describe but it was as though his soul was slipping away to somewhere else and I don't mean in a normal manner either. The four fueling the barrier took Orochimaru who for a lack of a better word looked broken. Not dead but like something critical to him had been stolen and he lost some of his will to live.-

I didn't try to stop them as my full focus was on trying to keep the old man alive for as long as possible but it was an uphill battle that I was badly losing.Alll latest novels at novelhall.com

"*Cough* You are wasting your time Kenzo *cough* The reaper will have his prize, theres no denying it now." the old man sucked in a raspy breath. "Listen, I have long prepared for my death. *Cough* In my home I left a envelope hidden in a secret place next to my bed *Cough* Above the picture of my wife. Open it and give it to whoever becomes Hokage next and as a final warning, beware Danzo. He will act against you now that I am gone but I believe that you will do what is best for the village. It has been my honor to watch you and Naruto grow up*Cough* A shame I'll not see the great men you'll become." and like that the third Hokage breathed his last.

With his death the monkey king Enma disappeared with a silent mournful look as the summoning ended. I won't lie it stung at my heart to see the old man go and tears filled my eyes. As though the world felt the same rain began to fall from the clouds overhead as more and more shinobi arrived after subjugating the Suna forces in the village. The entire village mourned the man and the losses we suffered on this while Shikaku took over temporarily as the acting Hokage until a new one could be appointed. I did as the old man asked of me in his final moments and went to his home in secret to retrieve the envelop as he said and what I learned from it disgusted and disturbed me.-

None of the other great villages wanted to get in our way as they had learnt from experience that we were most dangerous when recklessly motivated like this. The man hunt for the snake sannin led to a very large amount of missing nin in the land of fire getting killed in the crossfire which funneled a large amount of funds into the village from the bounties on them. That was the interesting part about the bounty system, anyone including the village that posted the bounties enemies could cash them in.-

The reason for this was mostly because in exchange for some money the other villages could get a heads up if a dangerous shinobi appeared in another village. It was actually one of the reasons I never went bounty hunting as while all the villages knew I was the student of Tsunade Senju they didn't know what my combat strength was. Hell most of Konoha didn't know how strong I was or even had a guess for that matter. That all changed on the day the Hokage died as the spies in the village as well as the villagers themselves had witnessed the power I had at my disposal.-

It came as little surprise then to learn that I now had an entry in the bingo book(book of bounties, gets updated every month). I was given an A-S ranking and a bounty of two million ryo in every village other than Suna and of course Konoha. They had my information on my known feats and skills as , chakra beast taming, massive chakra reserves, extreme strength, extreme Iryonin jutsu and sensor type ability. They even had an entire page dedicated to all my known beasts and their threat level, abilities and even individual bounties for each beast if someone somehow managed to kill one and bring proof.-

The bounty for shiro was ironically WAY higher than my own at a staggering fifty million ryo and his ability was listed as a highly suspected kekkai tota. It came as little surprise that literally none of the other villages wanted to see such an ability show up in Konoha. I found it a bit funny where they couldn't even agree on whether I was an A or S rank threat shinobi so they just put both.