"What is it?" He immediately asked after seeing me.
"...well, the 3 children that are attending the academy complained that it's boring. They're different from the other kids, they've seen and experienced a 'not so good' life outside. It's not easy to make them loyal to the village so I kindly suggest transferring them to the 2nd year." I said before he replied. I continued.
"and right now, they'll only listen to me.." this time, he thought for a bit before replying.
"Sure, they can attend the 2nd year class starting tomorrow. Just make sure that they won't be a threat to Konoha," He said.
"As long as you don't do something they won't like, they'll stay obediently." which is impossible as I plan to tell them about Danzo.
I'm thinking of living outside of Konoha once the kids are strong enough, I'd probably build a village in a pocket dimension. I don't like living under someone else's rule.
Cleaning up the village's parasites can be my payment for letting us live here and taking Naruto and Sasuke. As for Airi and Aika, they don't care about them.
"Anything else?" he asked
"uhh yeah, I want to take all the bandit extermination missions 10 kilometers around the village," I said.
"Those missions are not available for a genin, I let you take the last mission for chunin considering your strength but taking them all will cause a big movement," he explained..but I want it.
"then. I want to apply to be a chunin" I immediately said.
"Sighh, if you do that. Danzo will certainly investigate you," he replied.
"I'm sure he already did, he's monitoring Naruto and a bunch of orphans with an Uchiha, specifically the son of the Patriarch suddenly started living and playing with him. He wouldn't be Danzo if he didn't become suspicious of it. You might hide the proof that I adopted Naruto but the information like me being a Genin or me officially adopting the others are probably known to him." I reasoned, Danzo? fuck him. If hiding will hinder me from earning money, then who cares about hiding my ability!
As long as it was not above chunin, I could handle it and if he deployed an above chunin root, I'd just cause a big movement for the Hokage to notice.
Besides, I'll know their movement in advance from the map. Chunin can also help me train my combat ability.
I'll let this old Hokage handle that mummy while I earn money.
"You can take the chunin test, it just so happens that the next chunin test will happen next month, but there is a problem" Hiruzen
"Teammates? I know it. You can only take the chunin exam with a 3 man team, right?" I said
"Yes, so.." I cut him off
" Just take some good genin who want to take the exam but don't have or lack a teammate," I said
"I'll check it later, Do you still want to take those missions?" He asked
"Yeah, I don't care if you make my name anonymous or reveal it. When I finish all of the missions, I'm only reporting to you," I said
"Don't worry about that, I'm the Hokage..No one will complain even if I take all the missions, probably some questions but they won't object. I'm the only one who'll know about you." He said confidently.
"Except for Danzo and those 2 elders," I said, his confidence deflated as fast as it appeared.
"Sigh, Danzo will probably question me about you," He said tiredly.
"Like...I'm an unstable element?" I guessed
Hiruzen's eyes suddenly dilated and then realizing his reaction, he forcefully calmed himself.
"How do you know about that?!" He said calmly, hiding his turbulent emotions..truly the Hokage!
"It's obvious, he seems to be the type who treasures Konoha..unknown variable to him is not good," I said
"You're right, he's not that bad," He said but what I said next stomped him.
"and when I say Konoha, I only meant the land..not the people. To him, even if he kills all the Konoha Powers, it's fine as long as the land is still there and he can rule it"
"He won't be that bad" He defended, he knows that he's bad but not 'how bad'.
I just shrugged my shoulders and continued the original topic.
"About the missions," I said
"Come here tomorrow morning, I still need to compile it" He replied.
"Sure!" I have the feeling that he already forgot that I am a kid, or maybe he just stopped treating me like one. After all, even Itachi or Kakashi was brought to a battlefield when they were 5.
I went outside the same way I entered, through the window. I, of course, didn't forget to check the map for any root hiding.
After arriving at the apartment, I checked the kids again and it looked like my guess was right. Naruto continued his practice.
I entered his room again. I looked at him and crossed my arms, I just stared without saying anything.
"I thought you were asleep already" He said, sheepishly.
I didn't answer and just stared.
"Fine, I'll sleep..who knows that you'll check the rooms again," he whispered while cleaning the papers and pen on the floor. Living with me, creating a mess is forbidden so he already got accustomed to cleaning his mess.
"I didn't check all the room, I just felt that you definitely won't listen to me," I said then went outside without waiting for his answer.
I went back to my room and continued my training, using an ordinary paper and an ordinary pen I bought outside when we shopped for Airi and Aika's things.
The schedule was followed as listed the next day.
I cooked for their breakfast and lunch. As they left for school and training, I went to the Hokage to take my mission scrolls.
I spent my day hunting bandits from the nearest going farther. I managed to clean 7 bandit strongholds, which I spent most of the time traveling.
The fight was fairly easy as they were non-ninjas, I used the map to determine if there were some escapees and used clones to catch them.
I gave no mercy and killed everyone except for those truly guilty and only steal, murderers for amusement don't have a chance.
I bought something from the shop that can detect people who deserve to die based on my morals from kilometers around me, the color will change based on their sin. The darker the color, the more of a sinner they are. The order is white, yellow, orange, red, blood red, and black.
Of course, I didn't spare or kill them easily. I bought another item. Memory loop torture for 3 coins.
I put them under it, the intensity is based on their color. 1 year inside is a minute outside.
One kind of torture can last 3 days inside, no matter what happens..even if they only have their head remaining..they will stay alive without losing the senses of their body. (ex. skin peeling, getting butchered, cutting meat from their body then feeding it to them).