("Hatake Sword Techniques." Grinned Alexander.)
"Waaaaaaaahhhhhhh Waaaaaaaahhhhhh Waaaaaaahhhhhh." The wailes of a baby rang around the grey hospital room.
"Shhhhhh….Shhhhhhh…. Shhhh." Rocking the baby back and forth Alexander wiped the sweat off his brow and sighed.
"I didn't think this was going to be this challenging." huffed Alexander, placing the crying Naruto Uzumaki on the white bed sheets.
Grabbing the milk bottle, Alexander raised Naruto's tiny head gently placed the milk bottle to his lips, and watched Naruto greedily drink.
"Screw you Hiruzen."
(Flashback)
Opening the officer door Alexander took a deep breath and stepped into the Hokage Office. Looking around Alexander was slightly mesmerized. The large desk in the front, the large carpet that seemingly covered everything, two large fans in the corners of the room, and of course the 4 portraits of Hokage on the right wall.
Growing up watching Naruto it was surreal to walk into the Iconic office that had held so much importance. The paint job was exquisite the strong scent of vanilla, tobacco & cinnamon attacked Alexander's nostrils through the cloth mask and seemingly relaxed his mind. The steady flow of winds that came from the open windows and the two massive fans created a comfortable atmosphere.
At the epicenter of it, stood a man behind the great desk of the Hokage. White and red robes a comically large hat, and a smoking pipe lay on the side of his mouth.
"Kakashi…my boy…I'm glad you're here." Hiruzen took the smoking pipe out of his mouth and huffed smoke out his nose, before taking a seat.
"Lord 3rd, I'm at your request." Said Alexander taking a knee.
Alexander had little respect for "The Professor," as a person for a Myriad of reasons but he knew the importance of keeping up appearances as Kakashi had previously shown a great deal of respect towards Hiruzen. On top of the amount of strength oozing off of Hiruzen, Alexander didn't want to disrupt such a relationship.
"Feel free to sit, my boy." Waved Hiruzen beckoning Alexander over.
"Yessir…" Quickly getting up, Alexander walked steadily over to the desk and took a seat.
"....."
"Kakashi…I've called you here for three reasons." Pausing a bit, Hiruzen took another puff from his pipe.
"Unfortunately the time I promised you will have to be shortened." Looking up at Alexander, Hiruzen's facial expression hardened.
"As you know, well…as we all know Konoha is currently in its weakest state…We've lost dozens of elite ninjas from the nine-tails attack."
"Although we've tried to keep this information from spreading…we live in a world of ninjas. It's impossible to keep secrets for long."
"The other great nations are arming themselves and rushing their spies over to our villages as we speak. "
"As the Hokage, I won't let any horrors befall this village…Konoha needs a strong and swift response to show we're still one of the great powers of this world."
Hiruzen's face softened, as he took off the kage hat. "Kakashi…I don't know how much longer I'll be in this seat."
"Unfortunately Minato passed the way he did…as his remaining student, I have great expectations for you." Smilied Hiruzen.
"Yes…Lord third." Replied Alexander, putting a face of determination
"Great!!!" Smiled Hiruzen and with a clap two scrolls appeared.
"In five days an ambassador of the land of snow will arrive at Konoha. This mission was personally put forward by the fire daimyo on behalf of the snow daimyo."
Alexander's eyes widened a bit, as a seed of knowledge began to bloom in his mind.
"The daimyo of snow believes that his country is under threat of rebellion and has requested a secret escort mission to bring his daughter out of the country and towards the land of Iron."
"The rebels have heavy ties to another of the 5 great nations, so we can only send one ninja, this mission will not show up on your record and as far as everyone is concerned you were never there." Said Hiruzen handing over the scroll.
"Yes, Lord third." Repeated Alexander.
"Once completing this mission, your rank will be raised. You'll become an Anbu captain and assigned your squad, here's your certification." Hiruzen proceeded to hand over the second scroll.
Shocked a bit Alexander stammered. "Are you sure about this…Lord third?"
"Yes…yes I am." hummed Hiruzen.
"Minato saw potential in you, and so do I."
"You'll make a splendid Anbu captain."
"With everything you've gone through as a person and a ninja, you deserve this more than anybody."
"Especially because you've kept a clear head at the end of it all. You've surprised me with more than just strength and talent but like your father your intelligence is second to none, rest his soul."
Standing up, Hiruzen came around the desk and put his hand on Alexander's shoulders guiding him towards the Hokage paintings.
"You want to know something, Kakashi?"
Hiruzen didn't even wait for Kakashi's response and continued talking. "The most common thing about every kage here is sacrifice and selflessness."
"The first Hokage, 'Hashirama Senju' was ready to sacrifice himself for the sake of peace between the two warring clans Senju and Uchiha."
"The second Hokage 'Tobirama Senju' sacrificed himself during the war for my sake and my teammates. He's the reason I'm standing here today."
"The fourth Hokage sacrificed his life to save the village from utter destruction…"
"...."
"I've sacrificed a lot in my lifetime.....whether good or bad."
"And I'm sure the day will come when I have to lay down my life for this village as my predecessors have done."
A chill ran down Alexander's spine as he knew just how true that statement was.
"You've sacrificed yourself and your morals plenty of times for this village at such a young age, I have a great deal of respect for you Kakashi."
"I have full faith in your capabilities…you won't fail."
"I know you won't." Alexander nodded his head a bit shaken.
Walking back to his desk Hiruzen left Alexander still.
"There's also something you'd like to know Kushina did give birth. She birthed a baby boy, his name is Naruto. Naruto Uzumaki."
"You're free to see him anytime you want. He's currently being taken care of in the northern Konoha hospital.
"Uhh….yes. Thank your lord third for your words of confidence." Alexander quickly took control of himself.
"I won't fail you." bowed Alexander.
With another puff of his pipe, Hiruzen smiled and then waved. "You're free to go to Kakashi, I have great expectations."
With that, Alexander turned around and opened the door office, and with one last look, he closed the door. His heart pumping he didn't entirely check where he was going and almost ran into somebody.
Looking up he saw two people who were the definition of a nightmare.
"Lord Danzo and Lord Orochimaru, sorry for getting your way bowed Alexander. His previously beating heart skipping multiple beats.
"White Fang's boy huh."Came the gruff voice of Danzo.
"You're free to go…let's go Orochimaru." The two figures continue walking seemingly towards Hiruzen's office.
"Those were some massive chakra reserves." Thought Alexander sweating a bit.
Getting up from his bow. Alexander looked back only to see one of Orochimaru's eyes making contact with his as he walked away before smiling and facing forward again.
(Flashback End)
It had been 4 days since Alexander had talked to Hiruzen. During that time he'd develop a routine of sorts. Every morning he'd have his spars and races with Guy leaving him exhausted but with every spar, Alexander felt more in tune with his body practicing and slowly interweaving multiple forms of taijutsu. Guy heavily approved as Alexander started to use Tenketsu style, with boxing from the real world, academy taijutsu, and even Guy's strong fist style all at once. Guy also became very curious about boxing and asked Kakashi to teach him the basics.
Using shadow clones Alexander exponentially grew in his mastery of seals. Creating his own seal that limited the flow of chakra to his sharingan eye. When Alexander performed the seal on one of his shadow clones something interesting happened. The eye didn't close or turn off, rather the tomoe in his Sharingan eye decreased to two. Leaving him with a one tomoe sharingan.
The heavy drain Alexander felt even when the eye was recovered was severely reduced, as Alexander felt a significant boost to his physical abilities and chakra pool.
Alexander also had clones whose sole reason was to scour Kakashi's mind and attempt to master every jutsu in his catalog, so he could become more familiar with them. Alexander had come to love and master Body flicker, transformation, substitution, and the regular clone jutsu.
Alexander had gone through the 20 E-Rank Non-Elemental Jutsu and practiced them all. A majority of them were non-combative jutsu that had helped with survival. Things such as camping, skinning, filtering all things taught in the academy and anbu.
Alexander had gone through the 10 genjutsu had in his arsenal using them on his own shadow clones before experiencing them after they were dispelled. Genjutsu that messed with taste, hearing, mental clarity, eyesight, etc. Unfortunately, Kakashi had learned zero powerful or semi-useful Sharingan genjutsu but what he could do was amplify the strength of his current arsenal of genjutsu through the Sharingan.
Alexander had made more of an effort to understand Kakashi and started reading Make Out Paradise and he had to say, Jiraya and Kakashi were two cultured bastards.
Alexander's kenjutsu or swordsmanship had the biggest boon of all his training in the past four days though. Practicing Chakra flow Alexander had begun to become extremely proficient in adding chakra to his blades and increasing their effectiveness. Similar to what the swordsman of the land of Iron or Asuma Sarutobi did. Alexander started to incase his weapons in sharp condensed chakra while practicing his anbu kenjutsu against shadow clones. On top of the "Hatake Sword Techniques," Alexander was becoming a problem with the sword.
"The Hatake Sword Techniques," scroll had relieved Alexander to a wealth of swordsmanship. The plethora of inventive ways Sakumo Hatake used his chakra to achieve his sword techniques was criminally broken, and complex. The baseline of all that power came in the first step and that was the "Sword Dance."
The best way of comparing the "Hatake Sword Dance Technique," was Hinokami kagura from the "Demon Slayer," Anime. Through a series of complex footwork and chakra, Sakuma could essentially dance around his opponents and seemingly Instantly teleport to their position, through a technique called "Shunpo."
And that was only the start, Sakuma was such a genius through the usage of chakra and a sword he had found a way to implement; elemental chakra, seals, chakra poison, a technique similar to Hyuga chakra shutting abilities, plus something akin to a Susanoo into swordsmanship. Alexander now knew exactly why the man was considered stronger than the sannin, and why the scroll had been so hidden. The question now was how could one man who held so much power die so easily.
To Alexander, it made no sense. Scowering Kakashi's mind Alexander found out that Kakashi had felt the same way too and had gone in-depth to try and figure out any foul play about his father's apparent suicide but ultimately found none, but Alexander was still not convinced.
"The Hatake Sword technique," was still not the most notable thing to happen to him though as two other subjects took its place. The mission to the land of snow, and of course 'Naruto Namikaze Uzumaki.
Alexander had realized something: the mission to the land of snow, had opened up a rabbit hole of possibilities. The Land of the Snow mission was an event that happened in the series, the catch being it was in a movieb a non-canon movie at that. Alexander remembered seeing that movie after his first watch of the original series and growing to love it.
Team 7 was tasked with protecting a famous movie actress whose true identity was the Princess of the Land of Snow. Blah Blah Blah. But the importance of this was the fact that if this world was allowing filler into its canon that changed the entire landscape of the story. There were plenty of power-ups, Alexander could get his hands on that weren't in the main series. That also probably meant other events that happened in the Naruto films could happen, Naruto going to prison, fighting prophesied demons, fighting Hiruko, the 0 tails, and the sky village attacking Leaf could all potentially come to pass which meant the world just got way scarier.
And if that wasn't enough Alexander had now met Naruto Uzumaki, which was a moment of surrealness for him. Meeting the main character of the story felt reinvigorating and a bit scary. Seeing how vulnerable baby Naruto was shook him to his core as he vowed to protect the little ball of sunshine. For his future benefit, for the fact that he liked Naruto as a character, and also for Kakashi and the world itself.
Alexander knew his existence itself had already somewhat changed the Naruto world. Depending on how much the butterfly effect interacted with the world Alexander could have already changed the future entirely.
Although Alexander was banking on his future knowledge so he would be changing any major future events unless they benefited him and the world to some degree.
Looking back at Naruto, Alexander was shocked as Naruto damn near gulped the entire bottle of formula down. Seeing that he tugged the bottle out of the gigging boy and decided to go get more. Making somebfaces to entertain Naruto for a bit he quickly left the room and went towards the closet fridge Alexander found and opened a bottle of formula. Filling the baby bottle, Alexander closed the lid and went to return the formula bottle only to hear loud noises from Naruto's room.
Quickly Alexander's body flickered to the room only to see the room empty and Naruto unharmed, looking around Alexander saw an opened window.
"Huh?" Scrunching his eyebrows Alexander walked over to the window and took a peek only to see the normal civilians walking around.
Hearing giggling from Naruto, Alexander quickly closed the window and locked it before heading over to Naruto curiously. There on Naruto's chest was a piece of paper and in between Naruto's baby fingers was a rubbery Toad toy.
Jason's eyes lit up before he let out a laugh.
"It seems Jiraya's back."