Hiroto is astounded by the animal that has arrived, a crocodile, it's a smaller, sleeker crocodile with dark green scales and bright orange eyes.
"Huh, where am I?" said the newly summoned animal in a female voice confirming its gender, she checked out her new surroundings and found Hiroto standing a few feet away from her.
"You must be the new summoner, my name is Kaimana" the chakra animal introduced herself and asked "What is your name?" eagerly.
Hiroto had a smile on his face seeing his eager summon and answered "Hello my name is Uzumaki Hiroto and I'm a Konoha chūnin".
"Uzumaki huh? That's why he has red hair and he is a ninja of Konoha so father's details match. Just one more thing to confirm" Kaimana thought and asked, "Did you summon me after using a scroll?".
Hiroto nodded and before he could ask the reason he heard the green crocodile mutter "All the details match, I should follow father's instructions" and started making hand-signs, Hiroto recognized the handsigns as reverse Summoning jutsu handsigns, he said "Sto..." but before he could complete the word he disappeared along with his summon.
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Itachi and Anko are watching their friend from a distance, after a big puff of smoke appeared they watched patiently to see the smoke clear and a crocodile appeared conversing with its summoner.
Itachi and Anko felt happy for Hiroto as he finally got his own summon animal, they started walking toward Hiroto to congratulate him but he disappeared quickly along with his summon, and they noticed a panicked expression on the face of the chūnin.
Itachi and Anko rushed at their friend hoping to save him but he disappeared before they could reach him. They shared a look of concern.
"Do you anything about these crocodile summons?" Anko asked but Itachi shook his head in denial. A few seconds passed by in silence, then Itachi suggested "Why don't we go look for sensei? He might know something". Anko agreed with the suggestion and soon both of them made their way toward the Nara clan compound.
Itachi and Anko are quickly allowed entry into the Nara clan compound as the guards are already familiar with the students of their clan head.
"Sensei"
"SENSEIII" both of them called out as Anko already opened the door.
"Ah... Can't a person sleep in peace?" a young voice is heard in the voice and soon Shikakmaru raised his house to look at the newly arrived guests. "Where is Sensei?" Anko rushed at him and asked... Shikamaru noticed the tense atmosphere so he answered them without any shitty remarks "He left for the Hokage office" and before he could ask why they're are anxious he was met with the sound of the door closing.
"Who are the guests Shika?" Yoshino asked her son. "Itachi-san and Anko" he answered and went back to sleep. Yoshino hurled a spatula in her son's direction and in the house of the Nara clan head Shikakmaru is experiencing a cursing concert.
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Hokage office
Hizuren sent word to Shikaku to come, so as per his command Shikaku arrived in his office.
After greeting each other the third Hokage motioned for Shikaku to take a seat, "Here is the reason I wanted to meet you Shikaku" Hizuren said and pushed a small book across the table.
Shikaku picked up the book and opened it, he heard the monkey summoner say "Check the latest additions ", so he followed the Hokage's instructions and only the sounds of pages are heard in the room.
Shikaku browsed through it and found two new latest additions 'his students' Uchiha Itachi and Uzumaki Hiroto. Shikaku raised his head to look at Hokage but found nothing odd as this is common among all elemental nations that a genius will get his entry in the book and based on how early they made it into the book other nations pay special attention to these candidates, as both Itachi and Hiroto entered the eyes of all nations before the age of 8 they need to be careful of assassination attempts.
"Check the details and bounty, Shikaku" Hizuren said.
Shikaku browsed through Itachi's page first he found his skills and jutsus which he used in chūnin exams and deductions based on that, he also found the names of Fugaku and Mikoto as the former is quite renowned in the ninja world while the latter has also made her name back in the day. The Nara clan head also found bounty issued by all nations ranging from 300,000 to 700,000, next he started checking out Hiroto's entry which is similar to Itachi in skills and jutsus section he found Rasengan mentioned in it but no FTG jutsu. He moved his eyes down to see Uzumaki Hiroko and Namikaze Mizuko in the parents' section, he then started seeing the bounty section.
Shikaku suddenly paused and checked out the parents names on Hiroto's page and his eyes widened at the lastname of his student's mother. He took a few moments and thought of the repercussions the name 'Namikaze' carries, just Hiroto father's name is enough to send a horde of enemies add the Namikaze name to the fray and you get elemental nations monitoring every move of his. Shikaku thought hard as only a select few knew his real parents and even fewer knew about his mother so he started eliminating the ones who wouldn't say it out or the ones who gain nothing from this, soon he zeroed in on a home.
Shikaku's eyes slowly lost their nonchalance and he looked seriously at the book he found the bounty starting from 600,000 from Mist village to 5,000,000 from Iwa with Sand and Cloud villages offering 3,000,000, seeing the money he came to the conclusion that Cloud and Iwa no doubt places high bounty because of the 'Namikaze' relation which will attract a whole another group of rogue ninjas and bounty hunters.
"Hokage-sama is this for real?" Shikaku asked not bothering to hide his displeasure. Hizuren stayed silent as he knew the Nara clan head figured out the leak, so he lowered his head in shame as he hadn't imagined his former teammate to sink this low.
"Hokage-sama you wanted me to be Hiroto's teacher so that his prejudice toward the village doesn't turn to hate. I will tell you this Lord Hokage, he will protect the village from all external threats and internal. I won't hesitate even for a second if he needs my help in cleansing the village of filth" Shikaku said.
Hizuren now had a headache, he can't do anything now as the issue got out of his hands already.
Hizuren wanted to say something but was interrupted by a few voices and soon Itachi and Anko entered he saw his secretary standing there with an apologetic look, and he signaled for her that it was ok and excused her.
Itachi and Anko greeted the Hokage as a formality and turned to their sensei.
"Sensei Hiroto vanished" Anko said causing both the older ones in the room to panic.