Chapter 54: Refuge In Audacity - 5

Chapter 54: Refuge In Audacity - 5

For some reason, after he checked Daiki's seal out for him, confirmed that it was done well and sent a message back to the village with his summons for him, Jiraiya pretty much was done with him, didn't even invite him back into the whore house with him.

How rude.

'You're getting too much enjoyment out of this.' Isobu pointed out as he made his way through the gates of the Leaf Village, Tanzaku Gai was only about an hour or so away at top speed for him after all.

'Come on, he's a legendary ninja, don't tell me you didn't get a kick out of dropping our story on him and watching him cycle through different variations of shock.' Daiki retorted.

It truly was the little things that mattered the most in the end.

'Maybe a little, but you should be careful this does not come back to bite you, you've painted quite the picture of yourself after all.' the three tailed Bijuu replied.

Daiki honestly didn't see how. Sure, his excuse story painted him as a very pragmatic person willing to put his life on the line for the village should a threat arise to it and he was in the vicinity no matter how little of a chance he stood...

Actually, when put like that, he saw Isobu's point.

'Well, it's not like they'll ask something absurd of me like laying my life down anytime soon, I'm a Perfect Jinchuuriki, I should be about as valuable to the Leaf as Killer Bee is to Kumo.' Daiki shrugged, honestly, the most annoying thing was probably going to be people hanging over his shoulder or maybe trying to suck up to him to endear him even further to the leaf.

With that thought in mind, he made his way through the village, making his way straight to the Hokage Tower.

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"Daiki-kun, what do you think of being Hokage?" the Sandaime asked.

"In the chunin exams?" Daiki raised an eyebrow.

"Indeed, it's just an idle thought I had while waiting for you to return," Sarutobi threaded his fingers together lightly, and looked him in the eye, "You are of course officially a genin right now, as such, eligible for the exams. And what I mean by this, is you're strong enough to put on a very good show during exams, I dare say, you could dominate the competition, no?"

Oh, he saw what he was getting at, "Maybe, there's a few other genin to look out for, but none I can see that I can't beat." Daiki nodded. The only real problem was Neji, not even Lee. Lee had a crippling weakness to Genjutsu and, well he now had access to a pretty powerful Genjutsu through Isobu.

But there was still roughly a month left before the Chunin Exams, and he could now use much more clones freely and had a bunch of Yagura's techniques ready and waiting for him.

With those, plus the Kiba blades, he wouldn't even need Isobu's chakra to beat the Hyuga.

"I like your confidence my boy," the Sandaime grinned a bit, "Assuming there are no special outliers, I dare say you will win this chunin exams coming up definitively and make quite the splash, that is, if you accept."

"Accept?" Daiki blinked.

"Yes, as I said, I'm of mind to promote you to Chunin here and now," Sarutobi nodded, "But, if you would like to hold off, I will use this Chunin Exams to gauge your ability in full as a shinobi myself, and, should you show the ability required, come the end of the Chunin Exams, you will skip straight past Chunin and become a Jonin."

Daiki blinked.

Before his eyes widened, "Wait, seriously?!" that sounded awesome! Forget toiling away after becoming a Chunin to get the requirements needed to become a Jonin, or at least qualify to be tested as one, if he did this, he would disregard all that annoyance and focus more on his grind.

...Or he could become a Chunin right here and now.

Honestly, objectively, no matter what one he picked, he was just winning here wasn't he?