From the cocoon, a pristine black butterfly emerged. It was about the size of Chojusen's hand, and was emitting terrifying pulses of energy. As it came into the view of everyone in the training grounds, it started to flap its wings and hover over to Chojusen's side.
With the butterfly now perched on his left shoulder, Chojusen was looked at with wonder by everyone in attendance. However, before they could ask any questions, the training grounds were swarmed by several high ranking ninja.
Minato was the first to arrive, he was after all in possession of teleportation seals that were spread out all over the village. Minato looked at Chojusen and the butterfly on his shoulder and said "What is going on here?"
Chojusen knew he was in an irredeemable situation. He knew that if he said anything, his voice would be immediately recognized by Minato and his cover would be blown. Trying to minimize the damage as much as possible, Chojusen "discreetly" used his Space Locking Skill on Minato to stop him from saying anything unnecessary and said "We can talk in your office."
Minato was beyond shocked. Just like Chojusen predicted, he immediately connected his voice with the one of the person that helped him four years ago; the fact that space froze his body, was also a pretty big clue... However, Minato wasn't some novice ninja, he was the Hokage. Minato knew not to ask too many things in front of Chojusen's friends and after he was free from Chojusen's Space Locking, he said "Follow me back the Tower."
Karin already knew a bit about Chojusen's power, so she wasn't as shocked as Ino and Sakura. But the two girls in question were speechless at how this situation developed. They clearly saw everything happen, from Chojusen "summoning" the cocoon, to the Hokage taking Chojusen away.
As Chojusen and Minato were walking back to the Hokage Tower, they were approached by countless ninjas that stared at the butterfly on Chojusen's shoulder with a bit of fear. They were wondering how so much Chakra could be emanating from such a small butterfly. But seeing that it didn't do anything, the ninjas switched their attention to Chojusen.
Chojusen was walking as if he couldn't feel the energy of his butterfly companion and tried his best to ignore the gazes that came his way. Eventually Chojusen and Minato reached the Hokage Tower. Minato told the hidden Anbu to leave the room, and used several seals to hide the conversation he was about to have with Chojusen.
As Minato was about to say something, Chojusen said "I think you missed one." then Chojusen pointed at one of the corners of the room and an Anbu member fell into view, paralyzed and unable to do anything. This Anbu member felt that he would be interrogated if he were caught, so using his will, he activated a curse mark on his tongue to commit suicide.
Minato looked at the Anbu's corpse and upon seeing the curse mark he said "Root? It seems Danzo is getting bolder every passing day..."
Minato ignored the corpse and looked a Chojusen, waiting for him to explain himself. Chojusen look right back at the Hokage and said "Well, what do you want to know?"
"Well for starters, why don't you explain what that butterfly is?"
Chojusen didn't really know much about his new partner, so he just used butterfly summoning to ask one of the butterfly clan elders. He had grown used to summoning Hochoyoshi, so Chojusen picked him to explain what was happening.
As Hochoyoshi was summoned before Chojusen and Minato, the first thing he did was not talk to either one of them. Instead he looked at the butterfly on Chojusen's shoulder with boundless excitement, and said "Queen!"
Chojusen didn't expect this outburst, he also didn't know what a Queen represented, so he said "What?"
Hochoyoshi ignored his question and asked one himself, he said "Did the queen come from your companion cocoon?"
Chojusen still unsure of what a Queen was, replied "Yes?"
When Hochoyoshi heard this, the two antenna on its head started jiggling around with boundless excitement, and he started laughing maniacally. Through his laughter, he could be heard saying "A Butterfly Sage with a Queen as his partner… HAHAHAHA, the Butterfly Clan will be unstoppable in the not so distant future..."
The more Hochoyoshi spoke, the more confused Chojusen became, so he asked "What is a Queen, exactly?"
"A Queen is the butterfly clan's goddess! Only one will hatch every dozen or so years. At least that should have been the case, if it was around the time your first ancestor was around. In the current era, there hasn't been a Queen for the past hundred and fifty years!
You don't know just how important this is to the Butterfly Clan! Not only do we have another Sage, our Sage is in a complete partnership with the new Queen."
As Chojusen and Hochoyoshi were talking, Minato heard a few key terms and couldn't help but ask "What's this about being a Sage and the Butterfly Clan?"
"I'm contracted with the Butterfly Clan, and they taught me how to enter Sage Mode." As Chojusen said this he entered the regular Sage Mode.
Minato also entered Sage Mode and said "Well, that means our village now has three Sages."
Chojusen was not expecting Minato to also be a Sage, and his form was a bit different than Chojusen's so he said "Your Sage Mode is a bit different than mine..."
"Well, the only way to learn how to enter Sage Mode is through a beast clan and I'm contracted to the Toad Clan."
"So your eyes changed to have horizontal pupils because you entered Sage Mode and not because you have an ocular bloodline limit?"
"Right."
Hochoyoshi cut in and said "Boy! What are you doing? You are a member of our Butterfly Clan! As a Butterfly Sage, you can't be so reserved. Show him the Butterfly Sage Mode."
Chojusen would have preferred to stay as low key as possible, but there was no going back. Minato already knew about him having space powers when he was an infant; showing him Butterfly Sage Mode wouldn't really change his situation by much, at the moment.
Chojusen entered Fiendgod Butterfly Sage Mode and stayed stable for a couple seconds before his butterfly companion started resonating with the Black Fiendgod energy. Chojusen's butterfly companion started consuming an absurd amount of his energy, before it began to shine with a black glow.
After it consumed Chojusen's black energy, the butterfly's originally black wings began to blaze with the same black fire-like energy that Chojusen donned, while he was in Fiendgod Butterfly Sage Mode. The butterfly's eyes now had a light of intelligence, and it started trying to use its tiny, infant mouth to speak.
"Mas… ter..."
Hochoyoshi was now beginning to think that he should stay away from Chojusen; if he kept staying by his side, the endless shocks he received might kill him! Just a bit of his energy and the Queen could develop intelligence? Even the greatest Queens in the Butterfly Clan's history took over a week to gain intelligence.
Chojusen turned off Butterfly Sage Mode and told Hochoyoshi to help his companion learn how to speak; it was quite an unreasonable request. Then, he began telling Minato some of his secrets. He didn't mention the system, and only said that he had been born with the capacity of an adult and an innate sense for how to manipulate the elements.
When Chojusen explained up to the part where he took a trip for a year to fight with wild beasts and chakra beasts, he mentioned that to not create suspicion, he left clones behind which would give him all their experiences upon deactivation. Minato thoughtlessly remarked "Well, if you have a clone technique like the Shadow Clone Juts..."
Minato stopped in the middle of his sentence, staring off into space, so Chojusen had to startle him back into the conversation "What about my cloning technique?"
"As I was saying, with your cloning technique, if it is as you say, then you could train much faster by having all your clones train with each other and gain all their experience at the end." He paused in the middle of his sentence, because he realized that he could beat his ultimate enemy with the Shadow Clone Jutsu. He had only thought of this as a potential solution after Chojusen explained how he used his cloning technique in non-combative ways.
Chojusen took Minato's advice about the clone technique to heart, but returned to the conversation's main point "Now then, what are we going to tell my dad when he asks about me?"
"It's up to you to tell him as much as you want, but you should at least tell him about your little butterfly companion and your relationship with the butterfly clan."
"Ok, but how do I tell him about that, without telling him the rest of my power?"
"Actually, I've been meaning to ask you this after listening to your story. Why are you so adamant about keeping your strength a secret?"
"I don't want the people close to me to think that I'm a freak for being so strong. I especially don't want my father or brother to know, as they are the closest people to me."
"Chojusen, look at me. I am the Fourth Hokage and my son is the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. Do you think that either Kushina or I hate our son for being the Nine-Tail's Jinchuriki? Before you came along, he was the closest thing to the freak you described. My point is, to a parent, it doesn't matter what their child is or how strong they are, they will always be seen as their child.
Do you think Choza would abandon you for being powerful? If it's the kindhearted ninja I know, he wouldn't do that, even if you became a real demon. As for your other friends and your brother… I guess you have a point, they might start treating you differently if you tell them now. For them, you should wait until they became a bit older and more mature before telling them."
Once Chojusen and Minato finished their conversation, they let Choza into the room and Chojusen started to tell him the truth.