Ch. 62
3.pov
The day in Konoha was peaceful it was quiet. Civilans were confused by how city looked empty. Uchiha military police which was on patrol usually would have teams of two or three people but today you could see only one member of the elite forces on very large grounds patroling. Teams of genin were also confused and so were their Sensei. They trained as usual but they could feel something was unusual and it bugged everyone. Thankfully nothing major happened. Minato was the first one to notice that Hokage wasn't in his office he asked the secretary about that and she answered :" it is confidential information, I know that he won't be in Konoha today and that is all."
Minato could feel lack of shinobi everywhere he went that day and it was unusual because he didn't know that he could recognize shinobi on the streets. What was more concerning was that Mito wasn't anywhere that Kakashi, Genma and Shisui looked. But they couldn't find anything or anybody who knew.
Minato decided to use his last option when it was around 5.pm when his team was finished with all of d-ranked missions he tooked for them yesterday. Hokage was generous yesterday and gave a five d-rank missions. Minato did find it weird that he did that but now Minato thought it like Hokage wanted to divert their attention elsewhere. Minato summoned a frog summon. The frog who was annoyed with being summoned two times in the day begun to yell before the smoke cleared :" I thought we had a deal Jiraiya, only once a day. It is already the second time you did this." as the smoke cleaned the frog shouted up as it saw team 7 staring at him, it nervously smiled. Minato asked sweatly knowing that this frog was battle type :" What do you mean second time. "
The frog gulped down and said:" don't mind me. Yesterday Mito managed to summon me two time and I didn't notice that that was yesterday."
Minato glared at the frog sayimg:" You are laying to me. Tell me where sensei is."
The frog was ready to dissappear. However Minato puted paralysis seal on him which allowed him to speak.
The frog answered:" Jiraiya is northeast of here. "
Minato frowned the frog wasn't cooperating meaning something was there he wasn't allowed to know. He had to ask :" what is he doing there."
Frog confidently lied :" they are training Mito in special way."
Minato stopped for second wondering if that could be true. But were so many shinobi needed for special kind of training weren't those kept a secret and besides he knew Kushina never got any. Minato couldn't dissmis it completely but he knew there was something hidden. The frog after that didn't spoke a word when Kakashi asked what kind of training. Minato wondered if the frog was keeping the secret about Mito being the jinchuriki or he didn't think that much ahead when he lied. Minato was merciful and leted frog go.
The Hokage and rest of the forces entered the Konoha from 10.pm to 1.am. Some teams which carried the injured moved out earlier and traveled longer so they came to Konoha around 10.pm. While some of the forces waited for root anbu to wake up and move out because they weren't enough people to carry root members. Hokage team was one of the last that headed towards Konoha. Mito was still sleeping but this time she was carried by Jiraiya. The forces were going to enter Konoha in different time so that it would look less suspicious.
When Hokage finally entered the village he was glad nothing changed. They headed straight to Hokage office. We're Mito was laid on the cauch and mission final report was read. Hokage was surprised by how many shinobi were injured over 70% had mild injuries however it the situation on dead was lot better besides Danzo only two root were killed. Hokage knew he had to organize this force now he also knew he had to organize the attack on Iwa forces he really needed one extra right hand. Mito was one solution but she didn't have experience he could also look for someone capable but most of the people were on the front line. He was getting to old for Hokage hat. He knew he could lean on Orochimaru and Jiraiya but they couldn't be all the time inside of village. Jiraiya was leaving in few days to see what kind is going on outside of Konoha.
Mito slowly lifted her head when the report was finished and everyone in the room stopped talking seeing that Hokage was in deep thought. Nobody noticed her walking up. So she didn't want to startle anyone so he didn't made any kind of noise. She could feel how troubled Hokage was, but she didn't know everything that went through his head. She could guess some things but not all. She reached slowly for water on the table next to the couch. Only did then Uchiha clan head noticed she was awake. He looked at her carefully he noticed she was trying to keep silent and not disturb Hokage thoughts. She looked too mature in that moment. He heard that Shisui liked this girl, he immediately knew why, she was obviously different from everyone else she was special in every kind of way. He smiled at her and she almost choked on the water she drank.
That caught attention of the everyone except Hokage who was still in deep thought. Fugaku was still there and looked at the shocked face of Mito and then to his uncle. He immediately knew what was going on his uncle mind. He heard too about Shisui confession from Mikoto who learned that from Kushina who learned that from team 7. He also knew that she had two others running after her. Well everyone knew from the upper clan part Kushina being social butterfly she told everyone about her cousin and her life she was gossip queen.
Hokage had finally had enough of thinking and he was finally awere of his surroundings. He felt like he didn't know something like he was left out of something. He coughed and gathered everybody attention. Mito walked towards Hokage. He was confused by her movement however she didn't stop. She only said:" have you found solution or do you need advice."
Hokage was shocked by bluntness he had to answer directly too:" Advice would be helpful."
Mito said :" I have only one question. Is civilian council as important as shinobi council. Does it need to have so much power. As I saw sometimes your decision were stopped by them but they decisions weren't anyhow realeted to them. " Mito was looking outside of the window.
Hokage was wondering if Mito knew what troubled him.
Jiraiya and Orochimaru were confused by how she bluntly said civilan council wasn't as important as shinobi council. They didn't think she was cool blooded. Jiraiya didn't like that while Orochimaru was impressed by that. Uchiha clan said :" indeed we are military village Hokage as military leader should have absolutely rule over the village."
The clan heads all nodded. Hokage wondered how they would manage to do that. But Mito said:" we won't need to change anything about them, we will just make a new law where it would be stated that civilan wouldn't be allowed in shinobi materes unless it was directly connected with honor of village."