Chapter 139: Grinding On Snakes - 1

Chapter 139: Grinding On Snakes - 1

A period of silence filled the air between Hokage and subordinate for a few moments.

Hiruzen seemed to be quite at ease with it, but after a minute of the man saying nothing else after the discussion about Lee and Tsunade, Daiki found himself shifting slightly.

He wished the old man would stop beating around the bush and get to the point of why he called Daiki here after the end of the prelims.

"Patience is a virtue you know." the old man commented finally after another minute when he stared to drum his fingers on his thigh, voice casual, idle.

Daiki rolled his eyes, "I'm a shinobi, not exactly a very virtuous person." he replied.

He stole, tortured and murdered as a profession. And he was pretty damn good at it if he did say so himself.

"Perhaps, though taking a few moments to enjoy some peace and quiet every now and then won't kill you my boy," the old man shrugged lightly, "Still, I suppose we're both going to be quite busy this month, so I best get down to business."

"To defeat the huns?" Daiki prodded, rolling his eyes and crossing his arms.

"Quite," the Hokage nodded, agreeing with him and not at all questioning the reference, "First, let us talk of you training."

'Finally, some good shit.' Daiki uncrossed his arms and leaned forward eagerly, the old man having gained his full

attention.

"I see that caught your attention," Sarutobi chortled a bit, "Well, first things first, I know you no doubt have quite a few things you want to work on yourself already, how long will you need to complete everything you have on your plate already?"

That gave Daiki a bit of a pause.

The old man wasn't wrong.

His clones were constantly hard at work and the list of techniques he'd pilfered shortened by the hour. As it was though, he had over ten techniques still to learn and that wasn't taking into account training the wind element or earth element. Not to mention completing the seal to add Shisui's eyes to his own nor completing the Lightning Release: Chakra Mode.

But taking those last two out of the running and;

"A week, maybe two at the very most." Daiki replied.

As it was, he thought two was a bit of a stretch. Unlike Naruto, he didn't have a bijuu constantly trying to take control of his body and slowing his training down. Also unlike Naruto, he already knew all he needed to, to train both the wind and earth elements.

Sure, the wind was thanks to Naruto's future selves example which he mostly had to puzzle out on just vague advice from Kakashi and a bit from Asuma, but eh, that didn't impact Daiki.

He figured he could train both elements to the limits he knew of in just a few days, two maybe three a piece and then get the elemental jutsu down with his clones within a day. Really, the one he figured was going to take the longest singular jutsu wise was the Mysterious Peacock Method.

'Then again, I've got some things to take care of as well.' he mused. Which could slow him down...a tad depending on his mood.

At his explanation, the Hokage stroked his chin in thought for a moment before nodding, "I see," he mused, "You have eight days."

Daiki blinked.

What?

His befuddlement must have shown on his face because the old man chuckled, "Do you think that's unfair of me to demand of you?" he asked the boy. This chapter was first shared on the Ñøv€lß1n platform.

Daiki stared at him for a moment, before shrugging, "Not really?" he replied. He was a bit confused, but he thought it was accomplishable.

"Good, if you did I was going to cut it down to six days," Sarutobi's smile spread into a grin, "Sadly, as much as I'd love to take my time teaching you, we're going to have to make it a bit of a rush job, my old student has made it so that I'm going to be very busy, so the time I can set aside for your training is limited."

Ah.

Fucking snake face.

Not only had that bastard made such a big fuss and made it so he'd have to rush everything due to his little hissy fit bitch fest invasion plan, now he was even messing with his gains?

'I should have just bijuudama'd him and damned the consequences.' Daiki growled inwardly.

'You know, blowing everything that annoys you to kingdom come isn't actually an answer to all the problems that ail you.' Isobu commented dryly.

'Clearly you just weren't using enough explosions then.' Daiki snorted. The only time a Bijuudama wouldn't work, was if a bigger Bijuudama blocked it or stupid hax like the Kamui.

There was a limit to how much chakra even the likes of the Preta Path of the Rinnegan could absorb at once. Hell, if someone did try to absorb a Bijuudama, unless the drain rate was monstrously fast, then the Bijuudama would just explode and render the attempt moot and the user erased from existence.

God he wanted to fire a Bijuudama at a proper target so badly.

Isobu sighed.

Though, putting that thought aside and thinking back to Pedomaru, "Did you find out anything useful from that Kin girl?" Daiki asked.

A bit hopeful.

If she knew of the invasion coming up then-

Maybe.

Honestly, he was sure he could reach that level at least. But Madara and Hashirama's level?

That was where the doubt festered.

Madara was a fucking monster capable of beating down Bijuu Mode Naruto, the eight other Bijuu, Gaara and Sasuke at the same time.

Without his fucking eyes.

That guy was a freaking monster. And Daiki was terrified of fighting him. Even with Bijuu Mode with an amped up Isobu, even with the Sage Mode, even with the sage transformation, even with Shisui's Mangekyou....he didn't think he'd be even close to Madara Uchiha's strength without his eyes, nevermind with his Rinnegan or god fucking forbid Six Paths Madara.

Quite frankly, if Madara wasn't betrayed and ganked by Kaguya, then he highly doubted Naruto and Sasuke could have beaten him. In fact, if Six Paths Madara fought Kaguya, he was sure Madara would have stomped her ass silly and made her his bitch.

"Well, we'll see in time I'm sure, should we have it," Sarutobi rolled his eyes in amusement, "Still, the reason I bring all this up, is to make sure we have that time."

Daiki raised an eyebrow, "And how will you do that?" he asked, "Unless you've got a hyperbolic Time Chamber hidden in the Hokage Mountain or something?"

Sarutobi gave him a queer look, but didn't comment at all on his quip, "While quality is always appreciated, quantity has a quality in of itself and there is strength in numbers," he stated, "What we need are allies. Powerful allies. Especially with how strained our relations are with Suna. We barely avoided war after the Kyuubi attack when we were weakened with the loss of Minato and many of our shinobi, the only reason we did was thanks to Minato himself doing a number on Stone and Cloud and the sudden loss of the Third Raikage."

"Allies are good." Daiki nodded and said nothing more.

After all, it was a given they'd never be allied with Stone or Cloud.

"Quite," Sarutobi grinned lightly, "Cloud are constantly gathering more strength and Stone will look for any chance to undermine us. Our alliance with Sand is shaky at best, which leaves only one."

...Say what?

"You can't be serious." Daiki gave the older man a deadpan look.

"Oh, but I am." Sarutobi's grin widened a bit.

"...How though?" he asked, gaping at the man and utterly lost, "I've kind of got one of their bijuu stuck in my gut and prancing around like a peacock with a set of their most treasured weapons."

"So you're aware that you prance around that a peacock, interesting." Sarutobi stroked his chin and mused.

He was fucking with him, wasn't he?

"How the hell would we even manage that?" Daiki goggled at the man. Last he checked, Most shinobi villages weren't exactly happy to part with a Bijuu and legendary set of chakra weapons.

Not to say he was against it. He would happily team up with the foxy babe that was Mei Terumi. He just didn't see how it would be possible without handing over his swords and evicting his buddy and then dying in the process.

"Ah, I think you're misunderstanding something," Sarutobi's eyes were positively gleaming now as he corrected Daiki, "Not we, but rather, you."

"....The fuck do you put in that pipe you're always toting around old man, that must be some good shit." Daiki gave him a dry look.

"I get it imported from Kusa actually," Sarutobi replied without missing a beat, "To be exact though, I'm being fully serious here. Think of it, as a test."

"...Making an alliance with a village that will be raging mad at me in particular because of their shit that I've yoinked, is a test?" Daiki was not following the logic.

Honestly, he was about ready to try and dispel whatever funky genjutsu he was in. Had he already lost and was in the Infinite Tsukiyomi?

Well that sucked.

"Indeed," Sarutobi's grin was practically reaching shit eating proportions now, "There is no doubt of your strength for the Hokage position, but others are still in question, I would like to see how you approach a situation like this. Thus, I will assign you this S-rank mission to meet with the Mizukage and gain an alliance with the Village Hidden In The Mist."

Daiki just stared blankly at the man.

That was near impossible to be honest. It would be one thing if it was something approached in the original timeline, but here and now? when he had the Kiba blades and Isobu? They weren't going to be happy at all.

"Of course, this is not a mandatory mission," Sarutobi spoke up breaking him from his thoughts before he spiralled into them, "You can choose if you want to partake in it or not."

...He could choose?

'What do I do here?' he bit his lip. The most logical thing to do would be to turn it down, everything was against him here. What could he even do to convince them? 'They were actually loyal to Yagura initially and knew of the Genjutsu, it's how he died if I remember right after it got dispelled. They might be grateful for confirmation and a common enemy might get some begrudging acceptance.'

Begrudging wasn't a good standing point for allies though, it was shaky and liable to end in betrayal.

Granted, there was Kubikiribocho, Zabuza's blade, he knew where it was and could return it to them as a gift as well. And he did know where a few others were, or at least who had them.

But that still didn't seem like a lot, 'Granted, using my story about Raiga trying to use Isobu could work my favour as well since he was a traitor to their village and make it look like me becoming a jinchuuriki was a necessity...'

His mind whirled in circles, all the while the Hokage and his new sensei just watched him in amusement.

Who knew the old man was such a prick?

Fucking Hokage bullshit, he knew it would fuck him over, he just didn't realise how soon it would do so.