As Ryuzaki made his way towards the forest without thinking much of the situation. But the ninjas who were watching the perimeter were thinking different things.
As the village was attacked, Hiruzen ordered the ninjas to watch the perimeter of the village carefully and put a lockdown on the village.
But because of Ryuzaki who wasn't thinking of the consequences of leaving the village right now, made the ninjas think that he may be a spy. Even if he did know he wouldn't care much.
As a result the ninjas made a decision of taking him in. But before that the ninjas have to report back as the kid was wearing Uchiha crest.
Right now Uchihas are to be kept under surveillance as they are the suspect and without any orders from third hokage they cannot explicitly take a Uchiha as prisoner.
The ninjas were a team of 6 chunin and 1 jonin. The leader looked at the way Ryuzaki was going and said "Kotaro you will inform the third hokage of the situation and meet me in this place again. Others will follow me."
"Yes" Kotaro who was a chunin left the team getting his order. And others started following Ryuzaki.
Ryuzaki who is still not proficient in controlling his powers didn't know that he was being followed. As such he made his way until he found a nice little stream and a cave to stay in, started making his camp there.
The team of ninjas who were following him watched from a distance standing in tree branch.
They observed him for some time but all they saw was, him meditating.
So, the leader divided the team again and told them "Keep him in surveillance Misako and Shinji. Others will continue checking village perimeter."
"Yes " they said in unison and left to do their job.
The jonin made his way to meet up with the Kotaro in their previous spot. Kotaro was fast as he got back to the spot and waited calmly to relay the message.
Meeting up with Kotaro, jonin asked him "What did third hokage say?"
"Third hokage said for now just to watch him and try to determine who he is meeting up with. When you have enough evidence catch him immediately and bring him back to base." Kotaro said without missing a single beat.
Jonin nodded his head "Hokage must also want to catch the middle man. Anyway you continue to watch the perimeter."
Both of left with as swift motion to continue their duty. Jonin leader made his way to Ryuzaki as he also had to watch him not to make any mistake in the mission.
Reaching the lake where Ryuzaki made the base for himself Jonin grouped up with Misako and Shinji. He left them here is because Misako and Shinji are sensory type ninja, with their help it won't be a problem to keep a tab on Uchiha kid.
" So, what is the situation?" asked the jonin whle looking in the direction of Ryuzaki.
"Nothing, he hasn't moved from his spot and nobody came to contact him also." said Misako while Shinji still looking at Ryuzaki's direction.
"Okay then be prepared to stay here for a while. Because our mission is to get him and his acquaintance."
" Yes" Discussing their plan they made their preparation to wait in ambush.
In the hokage office Hiruzen was thinking < If that kid is really the spy then there will not much for discussion and the Uchiha will be not be under suspicion anymore. Now then the time has come to announce the death of Minato.>
Walking out of the office he made his way towards the town square where people are waiting for him. He made the ninjas gather villagers to announce as taking to much time to announce will cause more unrest and right now people need to focus their anger on someone else that has to be the Kyubi for now.
Standing in front of the villagers Hiruzen said "This is a time where we should stay united and focused even if the village was destroyed by the Kyubi. The kyubi made us homeless, he killed our loved ones. Even if the Kyubi was powerful we didn't back down from the fight, we fought with our lives on the line to protect our people and our village. At the end he was defeated by our fourth hokage MInato Namikaze and his wife Kushina Uzumaki. But while defeating Kyubi they also died at the hands of Kyubi. They sacrificed themselves so that our village can once again rise from our darkest time in history. So, I want all the people to have hope and help us in making this village prosper again."
The villagers started to shout the names of Minato and Kushina as they started to cheer up from their sadness and roared with whatever they got.
Seeing that his speech made the work he didn't need to continue more on rubbish talk Hiruzen smiled and started to talk again "Tomorrow I am making the funeral of fourth hokage and his wife along with all the people who died in the destruction. So, I am asking you all to join the funeral as we pay our respect to the heroes who died for us and the unfortunate people who couldn't escape the calamity."
With that the people started to disperse and focus more on building their village anew. Hiruzen walking down the road looked at the people doing their job enthusiastically with renew vigour.
< Looks like village problem is settled but the ninjas problem is just starting to come out on surface. After the funeral I have to call the council meeting quick and resolve the problems. > thinking to himself he made his way to Naruto.
Danzo is sitting in the base of root and thinking of how to become hokage while looking at the papers containing information of Jinchuriki and the Kyubi attack. He was plotting his way to take advantage of the situation but the thought of Hiruzen getting in his way is causing his plan to be on hold.
So, he was also waiting for the meeting when he got report of Hiruzen's speech. Hearing the report from root ninja made him change some of his plans causing him headache. < Looks like the meeting will not go the way I want, I have to meet with my old comrades. > thinking that he made his way to meet them.