"This mischivious cat really needs to be taught a lesson!" The Third Hokage smoked his pipe, his fingers clenching abit.
Just now, after scanning around outskirts of village using Telescope technique through his crystal ball, for anti-espionage reasons ofcourse!
And he soon noticed Gekko Hayate and Yugao Uzuki trying to survive against this giant tiger coming out of the forest.
As he was seeing through the telescope technique, It was difficult for him to notice it was a transformation immediately. Therefore, even he was initially startled. And considered sending an Anbu to save the kids.
It took him around two seconds to figure out from some clues that this giant tiger was not a tiger at all, but someone else disguised by transformation jutsu.
Its purpose is not to kill, it is purely to play around, it seems.
'That damn naughty cat!'
"Sir, urgent report from the border." At this time, an ANBU ninja appeared directly in the office, holding an encrypted scroll in his hand.
"Give it to me." The Third Hokage immediately took it and opened it... Above were the reports of their transaction regarding the Sunagakure Village. Konoha asked for valuable resources such as Copper, Iron, and Explosive Tags.
(E/N: Sunagakure village does have some people proficient Fuinjutsu, otherwise Gaara's seal wouldn't have lasted that long, despite how flawed it was. And while their explosive tags wouldn't be High Quality one's, one of the intended purpose for that demand is to cripple the aggressiveness of Suna ninjas over medium to long term. And obviously the Explosive Tags would be verified by Konoha's fuinjutsu masters too.)
Although Sunagakure Village agreed to the demands, there has been no response for a sometime now, and the ninjas of Sunagakure Village within the Land of Wind have been mobilized quite frequently recently. What's the purpose of mobilizing ninjas at such higher frequency and volume?
"Sandaime-sama, should we..."
"Let Shikaku and his team go and report to me from there. It's best to find out whether Sunagakure Village is actually searching for the traitorous ninja Sasori or preparing for war. If Sunagakure Village breaks through the border on the pretext of hunting missing ninja Sasori... We might be forced into another war. The other villages would definitely take advantage of this.." Sandaime thought further about it for a moment and then made a decision.
He is quite aware of the current situation. After couple years of recuperation, various countries have gradually recovered their strength. Among them, the Iwagakure and Sunagakure villages have the strongest desire to attack Konoha.
Letting any foreign ninja cross the border without knowing of their actual intentions are malicious is just asking to be killed with borrowed kunai.
"Yes!" The ANBU ninja accepted the order. He wanted to pass the information back to the border immediately, so there was no way to delay for a moment.
Asking the ninja to deliver the message to the border, Sandaime fell into deeper thought. The actions of Sunagakure are quite strange. Shikaku and his team may not be able to resist them, so he will have to send a small team over to provide reinforcements.
There are a lot of manpower available in the village now, but there are only a few who are capable of such a bigger and high risk tasks. Although Orochimaru is good, but with his radical methods...
"Well.., or I should send Minato, with side benefit of dealing with this mischievous cat." Thinking of Takeshi, Sandaime couldn't help but rub his temples.
A while ago, Asuma came home and said that he wanted to train hard. When Hokage asked if anything had happened, it turned out that he was beaten miserably by this black cat and wanted to get stronger. While this is a good thing, but all that kid wanted to train to fight against Takeshi.
He even asked for a jutsu that can burn off cat's fur. The problem is that Asuma has not developed enough proficiency with fire natured chakra. He is not interested in learning how to further increase his proficency with Chakra Blades.
If he focuses on his Wind Nature proficiency he could use wind natured chakra flow using those blades
"Sigh~" This brat has high ambitions and low wisdom. Alas, being a father is so hard. Third Hokage smoked his pipe sadly....
'Points has increased further by more than three hundred. Third Hokage, you are really a great person! ' Takeshi couldn't help but admire.
It is absolutely impossible for Hayate and Yugao to provide another three hundred points in an instant, and the only one who can do it is the Third Hokage who is likely still peeking. 'What a good man!'
He gained 1,400 points in total in just couple minutes, but he felt a little sorry for Hayate. This incident terrified the two of them, especially Hayate. He quietly went out from the forest, not intending to follow the Hayate nor Yugao.
These two were training to be ninjas, especially the black hearted one's like Hayate. They might be hiding somewhere, waiting to see ambush this innocent kitten. Therefore, Takeshi took a small detour.
He found Yugao halfway along the way. The girl was hiding in the bushes. If his cat's vision hadn't been amazing, he wouldn't have been able to find her.
'As for Hayate... I don't know where he was hiding.' Takeshi laughed in his heart, and then sneakily returned back to Konoha, looking back at the two people from time to time.
'Farewell, you can keep hiding.' He happily returned to the village. This trip was very fruitful. He had earned back all the points he had spent eating special cat food and buying the Eight Inner Gates - Gate of Opening.
Now it has more than four thousand points. However, the high-end ninjutsu that he wanted was still far away, so Takeshi thought about it. Today's gacha prize pool includes the Mangekyō Sharingan...
Although the other nineteen prizes are rubbish, what if today was his lucky day? After struggling along the way, He finally gave up that line of thought.
In broad daylight, do more and dream less. The Takeshi returned to Konoha, squatting at the top of the street and looking around, looking for someone who might help him to gain points.
'Um?' That's Asuma! This good lad, we haven't met for so long, I missed you...' As soon as he stood up preparing to rush towards Asuma, a voice suddenly came from behind: "Don't bother him, if you try to tease Asuma again, this guy will be ruined."
"Meow?" He didn't have to turn around, he could tell it's Kakashi just by smelling the dog scent.
"Do you know how he is spending all this time after that match? He is hiding at home every day and practicing Fire Release. Finally, he has made some progress recently. You should stop harassing him." Kakashi sighed softly.
Kakashi felt pity for Asuma. He is strong genin, but he couldn't handle this vengeful Takeshi. He only suffered all various of torture during Academy under this cat, and now he is still suffering after graduating.
Takeshi felt embarrassed after hearing this. 'No wonder I haven't found Asuma recently. He is hiding at home to train his proficiency of Fire Natured chakra, but would this Fire Release even work against me?"
Takeshi cannot be blamed for discriminating against fire release ninjutsu. In fact, the performance of Fire Release in Naruto was not that good. For cooking it was okay, but the effect on evenly matched opponents seems to inconsequential.
'If you have that time, you might as well train Wind Release and Chakra flow more, or learn Summoning Jutsu. Isn't the Monkey King Enma strong? This is really stupid.'
Takeshi shook his head, but he had no intention of messing with Asuma for now. After all, he was not a evil cat. It was better to be noble when the opponent was so miserable.
But then he thought that Kakashi's behaviour was strange. This guy didn't used spend his time in the village before their team formed, as he was constantly training or on missions, and now he had time to pay attention to Asuma?
Kakashi glanced over with a dull look. Although he didn't know what the cat was thinking, he could tell that this cat wasn't thinking of anything good about him, so he kneeled down and stared at the Takeshi for a moment and then said coldly: "I just happened to meet Kurenai and chatted with her for couple minutes."
"I didn't ask, meow~..." Takeshi jumped downwards, preparing to leave the street and find another place to collect points.
However, as soon as he jumped into street, he noticed that the smell of dogs here was very strong. He could vaguely smell Kakashi, Haimaru, and Inuzuka Hana.
He hesitated for a moment, then started stepping towards a door at the edge of road, after looking around, he stretched out his paws and used the Partial Multi-size Jutsu to extend and enlarge his front paws, and then slowly peeked through the door.
The smell of dog became more intense. Soon sounds of dogs barking came from the house, then several dogs and a big black dog ran out of the inner room. Followed by four dogs from the Kakashi's pack.
'I have come to a dog kennel!'
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