Me directly saying name of three kids, made Shikaku shocked.
Shikaku: "How do you know?"
"I was observing Ikki, since he entered academy. Mainly because of his lineage and his mentor. His mentor is Tatsumo Sadeki, who is also orphanage director, where Ikki brought up."
Shikaku: "Wind demon (Kaze Akuma)."
"Yes."
Shikaku: "This alone makes him special than anyone else."
"His father is Diaki Hiruma."
Shikaku nearly stumbled.
Shikaku: "He is that kid we were trying find after Nine tails attack."
"Yes. It was first good news i got after Nine tails attack."
Shikaku somewhat calmed down.
"You said they accidentally started training against animals. Why did you said that?"
Shikaku: "Ikki, devised one technique, and Chinatsu's son learned it with Shishui Uchiha. This technique, helps read intent from actions. and animals are basically run on base of their basic instincts, so this technique will help read their attacks."
"Kenbunshoku no Haki"
Shikaku: "So you know about it."
"Yes, i thought its just C rank technique, but this technique has this kind of advantage, i didn't know. I should thank Chinatsu for informing me about this advantage."
Shikaku: "I will talk with him about it. My main issue for keeping this secret is,"
"I know. You don't need to explain. Even i don't want him to know about Ikki. Ikki has major disadvantage against others, so he won't covet about him. So we are safe for now. Let him develop and surprise us some more."
Shikaku nods and leave.
[Flashback end]
I thought I would be able to keep Ikki low for now. But with him getting first rank, I can't hide him from Danzo. Hehe, But i don't think Danzo will even care about him. So there won't be much issue. Lets continue paperwork. This is more than enough remembering the past. And I started leaving my nightmares.
[Third person POV]
Hidden base of ROOT, Danzo is sitting in his office.
Danzo: "That bastard Hiruzen, how can he add supervisor on me? I can't even manipulate funds now and as that Anbu commander keeping strict eyes on root's members and i can't even manipulate them. I now only have around 10 close associates, its good Hiruzen let me keep them, 30 unknown members, whose information I never kept in files. Pity, I only able to get around 6 and half pairs of sharingans from this charade. Its good Fugaku and Hiruzen is only thought that, I killed and destroyed their bodies. Fū."
Fū: "Hai, Danzo sama."
Danzo: "Were you able to find out, who attacked team of Uchiha and wiped them out?"
Fū: "No sir, he came like Ghost and Vanished like ghost. If we didn't their route and found traces of fight, we would have thought they were defected from Village. But situation is saying, some other person is also targeting Uchihas."
Danzo nodded on this.
Danzo: "How's process of insinuating Sadaharu going?"
Sadaharu: "Via process of subtle information transfer to his close associates we were able to make him create a group of Uchihas, who is not happy with How, Higher ups and Fugaku, is handling Uchihas. As he has jealous personality, he has already started to view himself as future Hokage of Konoha."
Danzo smirked.
Danzo: "Pity, he only able to get support of only 50 people. Has this numbers would have been big, it was gonna be easy to wipe out Uchihas. And would have collected enough numbers of their eyes. but Hiruzen already found about me taking action against them and stopped all actions. Sadaharu, Be a good puppet and take Uchihas to ruins."
As Danzo is thinking how to make situation worse for Uchihas, one Anbu came in.
Anbu: "Sir, clan class of academy has completed for this year."
Danzo: "Who is top 3 this year?"
Anbu: "Chikako Nara came third, Hinari Hyuga came second, and Ikki came first. This is their information sir."
Danzo checked information related to all three toppers from clan class. Reading Chikako's file, he knows, he can't touch him. He can't make Shadow demon angry. About Hyuga Hinari, she is from branch family and because of their basic trait they can't become good Anbu ninjas. So Danzo gave up on acquiring Hinari Hyuga also.
Danzo already had eye on getting Ikki in Root. Orphan, normal appreance and already top ranker. But in Ikki's file first page is about his medical history. And soon as he got to know Ikki is cripple on chakra level, he knows as time goes by he will just decline in strength. Max he will achieve in life would be Chunin. Danzo gave up on permanently acquiring Ikki in Root.
Danzo never understood power of Hard Work. If he or Orachimaru, thought that, they would never have gone to route of genetic modification. But when Danzo faces Ikki in future, he would know, even ant can make elephant dance on His tune.
Danzo just read first page and gave up. If he would have read second page, he would be scared Shitless, knowing Kenjutsu initiator of Ikki is 'Wind Demon' himself.