It was an early day, but that didn't stop Konohamaru. Every day since Naruto first met him, he's been training as hard as he could, no breaks and no stopping, unless it was to sleep. Right now though, he was laying on the ground, black eyes as sweat rolled from his forehead.
"Oh come on, get up. Now." Naruto said as he stood a few feet away cracking his knuckles.
"Y-yes Sensei." Konohamaru a good up and held up his fist and stared down his opponent before disappearing in a flash, dirt flying from the ground as he pushed off it.
Naruto tracked his movements watching him zip left to right, and watched him pull out two shurikens. Konohamaru threw them straight at Naruto. Naruto raised his eyebrow as he looked closer and then saw the shuriken Konohamaru hid in the shadow of one of the first two he threw.
"Smart, but predictable," Naruto said jumping out of the way and lifting his leg dodging the third shuriken. Konohamaru smirked and pulled his fingers causing a string to become visible in the air, the shuriken swung as they were now heading back toward Naruto.
Naruto tilted his head left and right before smacking the last one away. When he looked back at Konohamaru he was holding his hand as a blue sphere grew inside of his hand. Naruto smiled as he too formed one in his hand, but much bigger.
Konohamaru saw Naruto's Rasengan and charged quicker, as Konohamaru then reached Naruto and thrusted his Rasengan towards Narutos abdomen. Konohamaru poofed into smoke as Konohamaru was now behind Naruto aiming for his back.
Naruto caught his wrist and then brought his knee up connecting it to his stomach before dropping him, he then brought his foot up before bringing it down, but Konohamaru rolled out of the way as he aimed for Narutos knee trying to punch it, but Naruto sidestepped and then brought his leg up smacking it into his face sending him flying and landing a little away.
"Enough." Naruto said as he turned around. "We will continue tomorrow." Naruto said as he walked away. Konohamaru sighed as he laid on the ground breathing heavily.
Naruto walked away, he waved away a fly that flew around his head as he looked at the sunset, the sun getting lower by the minute. Then he remembered the conversation that he and Tsunade had.
-Flashback-
Naruto sent Konohamaru off as he walked back towards Tsunade's office. He entered it and now found it empty, except for the person he was there to meet.
"Where is Jiraiya?" Naruto asked.
"On a special assignment. Sit please." Tsunade said pointing to the chair in front of her. Naruto did as she said, then looked around her office. It hasn't changed much since the last time he was there.
"What did you want to talk about?" Naruto asked.
"Well, peace between our villages would be a nice start." Tsunade slid a piece of paper towards him. It was a treaty with a couple of rules and statements, nothing special. Naruto signed his name on an empty spot for it, Tsunade smiled and put them away.
"What have you've been doing all these years?" Tsunade asked.
"Nothing but training." Naruto answered.
"Yes, Jiraiya has not kept me updated mostly on that, may I ask what type of training?" Tsunade asked.
"You wanna know if I can use The Nine Tails, don't you?" Naruto asked upfront.
"Straight to it then, yes I do." Tsunade responded.
"Just one tail for now, but it'll increase in due time." Naruto answered. They talked for a while longer before it ended and Naruto left, as he stepped out the door he was met with another man's eyes or eye.
"Will you come with me?" Danzo asked as he stepped forward
"No." Naruto began to walk away, but Danzo stepped in his way.
"It will be very beneficial to you and your village." Danzo said.
"You looking to lose that other eye, move." Naruto said stepping to the side. Danzo stepped in front of Naruto again.
"Just hear me out." Danzo said again. Naruto rolled his eyes.
"You have five minutes." Naruto said as he stood still. Danzo smiled.
"Follow me." Danzo said. Naruto reluctantly followed him as they began walking down the hallway. Danzo and Naruto walked before he abruptly stopped at a wall, he looked around before he put his hand in the wall causing a seal to reveal as the wall opened.
Danzo continued in as Naruto followed, they were in a large room, it was dark, but Naruto could sense the people watching him. They were good, but not good enough. Danzo stopped as he noticed Narutos eyes staring at his hidden Anbu.
"Do not worry, this is not a trap, I would just like to discuss something with you." Danzo said as he went up a couple of steps and then sat on his knees on a mat on the floor.
"What would that be?" Naruto asked in response.
"I heard you were recently in a battle with two Akatsuki members." Danzo said as he closed his eye.
"Yeah. So what?" Naruto looked up again, staring into a pair of eyes in the dark.
"One of them was Itachi Uchiha correct?" Danzo asked.
"Whatever this is, hurry up. I have a student to attend to." Naruto said as he began to walk away.
"Did you notice anything weird about his behavior?" Danzo asked. Naruto stopped at these words. He thought back to what Itachi did, he told Naruto what they were doing and when they were doing it.
"Yes, I guess I did." Naruto turned back around. Danzo had a slight smile.
"Shame what he did, murdering the Uchiha clan. Not to mention what he did to his little brother. Sasuke even turned to Orochimaru because of it." Danzo said as a shadow jumped behind him. The shadow bowed before holding out a cup of tea.
Naruto's fist tightened at the mention of the Uchihas name, he wasn't a fan of both of them. "Well get to your point." Naruto said with a hint of annoyance in his voice. Danzo sipped his tea
"Yea I guess I will. Many people wonder why Itachi, one of the most prodigious children of this village went crazy and murdered his clan, many people have come up with reasons, but do you really want to know why?" Danzo said as he sipped his tea again.
Naruto raised an eyebrow. "So he didn't just go crazy and kill them?" Naruto asked. Danzo laughed eerily.
"No, the reason he murdered his clan was because of The Third Hokage. Hiruzen Sarutobi." Danzo said looking Naruto in the eye. Naruto laughed.
"He may not be the greatest, but I doubt he would make a kid kill his entire clan." Naruto said as he stopped laughing.
"No? The Uchiha clan were arguably one of the strongest clans alive, up there with the Senju and Uzumaki's." Danzo said. "I was there, I told him not to do it, but he didn't listen, not only did adults die but children as well." Danzo said.
"Yeah, why should I believe you?" Naruto asked.
"Why shouldn't you? This village is plagued with secrets and lies. I simply want to return it to its former glory, by becoming Hokage." Danzo said.
"Why should I help you do that?" Naruto asked.
"What has this village ever done for you? You were hated, beaten, and cursed at a young age. Sarutobi did nothing to help you, I couldn't as I was under orders not to, many people were." Danzo finished. Naruto looked down at the floor and thought.
"Come on, think about it. When you found Tsunade she was an alcoholic and a gambler. You were beaten and cursed while Hiruzen was in charge, even though he promised your parents he would take care of you." Danzo added into his argument.
Naruto froze at the mention of his parents, his fists tightened as he scraped his teeth together. "I'll check into this, if you're lying, I'll kill you," Naruto said before disappearing.
"Is he gone?" Danzo asked the shadow behind him.
"Yes, Danzo-Sama." The shadow replied. Danzo smiled, as he loved when a plan came together.