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Mito opened her eyes, she only managed to look to her left then to her right. Suddenly her vision got shaky, she felt dizzy, her hands started to tremble. And before she could register what was happening she had fall down on floor. Sje was unconscious. Minato was the only one that saw that happen however he felt unconscious as he tried to catch her too. With two soft thuds everyones attention fell on duo. The medical ninjas rushed to check what was wrong, Kushina was the next to go unconscious. Only little Naruto was crying. Asuma noticed the look in his father's eyes as he said his last goodbyes. It was one of relif did Mito forgive him. He hoped that his father would leave without regret. The problem arouse. Minato was in chakra exhaustion, as both Mito and Kushina. Lord third was dead. So who would lead tge forces now.
Shikaku spoke :" make sure that nobody eneters village after we get there. Only Kakashi can come in. We going towards the hospital. Since the baby is young it is best to held him there too."
A shinobi asked :" what about the barrier, how will we exit."
Shikaku answered :" the barrier is down, since Mito herself was holding it. "
Suddenly next to shinobi forces there were 3 puffs. The summons didn't have enough chakra to stay in this realm. From the reports of medical ninja, Minato and Kushina were in extreme chakra exhaustion and would need at least few weeks to get better. However Mito was in deep chakra exhaustion coma, it was worse than her previous one and they couldn't say anything about it.
Kakashi had run his fastest as he could, when he was halfway there he suddenly heard a puff. The slug was no longer there he cursed, what happened. It couldn't be anything good. And now his time would be running quickly. When he finally got to village gates the anbu were already stationed there, the village security was increase and it seemed like they were waiting for him. The anbu took Shisui and disappeared while the other anbu took Kakashi to jonin gathering. Kakashi didn't know what was happening. However it didn't seem good if Shikaku was calling for this meeting. Shikaku looked at him and asked him :" what did you find."
Kakashi answered :" i found wounded Shisui. He was laying in the small cave and a slug was healing him."
Shikaku nodded :" no one else was there right."
Kakashi shaked his head in negative.
Shikaku nodded as he spoke to everyone :" currently we are in difucult situation, as lord third has died, current Hokage is suffering from chakra exhaustion and is in hospital. I am the one who is in charge until Hokage - sama recovers. Since we are vulnerable now, i would suggest a complete lock down, since civilians think it was earthquake, we will pretend to be rebuilding our homes. There are some damages from impact but it shouldn't take that long. "
Every jonin nodded in understanding. However Kakashi froze if every jonin shinobi was here, where was Mito.
When everyone left he stayed there with Shikaku :" what is troubling you Kakashi. "
Kakashi asked :" what happened to Mito. "
Shikaku had a sad look on his face :" she is alive, but in coma. She overused her chakra."
Kakashi nodded his head as he rushed out of the room. He had rushed to hospital as soon as possible.
What happened before Kakashi had entered the meeting was that various shinobi reported how they fought Shisui and that he was enemy. The described how he looked and that even Minato had fought him. So Shikaku had to ordered that Shisui is taken to I&T, he would get cured there. Ans when he would wake up he would be investigated. Shikaku had lots of things to worry for now.
Tsunade didn't expected to have so much work in night shift, usually it was calm, however just as she thought that she could snooze for half of hour, suddenly shinobi and tons o them rushed through the hallway. Almost waking every patient. She was about to yell at them, however when she saw those three medical Ninja she sent with Kushina she stopped. She knew that something had happened when suddenly there was earthquake and that sinester energy, she hoped everything would be alright, she wasn't expert about jinchuriki so she thought that Kushina had just been possessed by it. She's didn't think taht beast managed to break free.
Now seeing that Minato, Mito and Kushina were all out. And by looks of Mito unfinished healed injuries she was in huge trouble. Kushina looked lot better, and Minato was in middle of two. What made her curious was the crying of the child in anbus hand. She made everyone move according to her plan.
She made sure that child was okay first, she ordered that it would be put on incubator. As she then went to see Mito as she was the one with biggest issues. She knew immediately that only thing she could do is help heal her wounds and slowly increase her chakra, however that wouldn't be enough to wake her. She then ordered the IV and ordered for medical ninjas to start healing the young girl. She then went to Minato, she felt relif as she could do more fpr man, he would be fine in week time and he could probably make a full recovery in 2 weeks. Kushina seemed same as Minato, she was mostly exhausted from birth, Tsunade presumed, she knew that Kushina would be fime after sleep. She however would be weak for a while. At least child will have his mother.
Tsunade then was stopped by a anbu who said that there was one more patient and that after that Shikaku wanted to talk with her.. The anbu gestured for her to follow him. They went straight to I & T, Tsunade was confused when she stood in front of Shisui who was clearly injured and close to death, but why was the boy here. She however didn't hesitate to heal the boy for a second. She made sure he was in condition to survive the night for now. His injuries were the ones that healed slowly, and she also saw signs of poison. However she couldn't do anything about that now. She would need to come back, soon.
As Tsunade went to Hokage's tower where Shikaku waited for her in Hokage's office his head covered with his hands. As he sat on Hokage's chair. Tsunade didn't expect that. Shikaku looked up as he saw the woman enter. He looked like something run over him. Shikaku looked at her as he spoke :" i am sure that you realize how big mess we are in."
Tsunade however shake her head :" i am sorry, but i was in hospital and i don't know what exactly happened."
Shikaku then looked sader :" i am sorry, for what i am about to tell you is very sad."
Tsunade nodded seriously, as Shikaku never ever talk with her like this.
Shikaku hesitated to speak for a moment :" kyuubi broke out. "
Tsunade stood there frozen. She didn't expect that, she spoke shocked :" what. "
Shikaku nodded :" apparently there was enemy that attacked after Kushina had given birth. From what i heard from Uzumaki couple, Minato saved the child and brought him to them, however they only heard from him later when he come to get baby, but i will tell you why he had gone back for child later. So the enemy managed to put Kushina and kyubi under genjutsu. The kyubi broke out and, Mito was the one that suggested that Minato would run after the enemy while she fought kyubi. I am assuming that happened from reports i got. I am also assuming that Mito couldn't go after enemy herself, because same thing could happen to her. So after Minato stopped chasing the enemy and returned, Mito was still fighting the kyubi, and they eventually managed to stop his movements, with help of Kushina's chains. Mito went to break the genjutsu on kyubi, Minato went to get Naruto to seal half beast into the child. The second part went back into Kushina, and that is reason she is alive. The sad thing is that to split kyubi in two, Lord third had to die using a demon summoning sealing art. So i want express my condolences to you. The funeral will be in few days, when family decides. So i wish that you inform Jiraiya. ".
Tsunade had started to cry,:" Sensei is dead. "
Shikaku didn't do anything. He just stared down at his hands. He didn't like seeing people like this. Tsunade sat down on sofa. She was remembering everything that man done for her, for them, and in this very office. The happy moments, the sad ones, the harsh ones the gentle ones, tje funny ones the teasing ones. The arguments they had, the stupid things she had done. She eventually wrote a message for Jiraiya. It wasn't long only saying, sensei died. She couldn't write everything else she didn't come to terms with it yet. She knew that she wouldn't really have time to get it over as the other people she cared as much as she cared for sensei were in hospital.
Kakashi wanted to visit them but the gourds didn't allow visitors. They situation was that bad. They said that best thing for now would be that Kakashi sleeps for few hours and that then he would be allowed to visit or he would get crucial informations about their conditions. The gourds also said that him being here doesn't do good to anyone. He couldn't help anyone and only could cause troubles, by collapsing because of lack of sleep. Kakashi however didn't listen, until Tsunade had returned. Tsunade repeated what gourds already told hin as she added :" You are already wasting my time telling you to go back to sleep. I can only say to you that all of them are alive. Kushina and Minato will be fine in few weeks and Mito is unknown. Shisui is on verge of dieing so i have to treat him soon."
With that she glared at Kakashi as gestured that ge should leave.
Meanwhile Shikaku was worried, what if Shisui was traitor, even though he had so much prof that that wasn't possible, buthe couldn't prove to civilian council and without Hokage the civilan council is stronger. They will probably push to choose new Hokage, but Shikaku couldn't really think about that now. If what he had learned if last few months was correct. The things that he learned from Mito. The long forget research he found in Minato's basement. The story he asked Mito about. When she answered that it was truth. Now there is something that he needed to remember. What was the special ability of that creature that Mito called Black Zetsu.
His head hurt, he hoped he wasn't overthinking it. He found a cup of tea and slowly drank it, it was warm, and calming, it cleared his thoughts for a second. There was a image that made him remember. The one part of tea was darker due to shadow of his head. He remembered the ability to take over any body, and use its ability as their own, well there were tricks to it to. But what matters is that body would be covered by black supstance. And Shisui's was like that. However this only made him sure ut wasn't Shisui, but he couldn't possibly go with this theory and expect civilians to believe him. He knew that they were screwed, but as long as they managed to stall, and make sure nobody notices Hokage's absence. However Hokage was absent for week already and that would be hard to do.
Actually it was so hard that, early next morning when shinobi had started to repair the streets from "earthquake", people wondered why Hokage didn't announce this or lord third, but rather it was Shikaku. The rumors started spreading that Hokage was on vacation. However when news spread that Lord third died to protect the village. The civilans started to want to meet with Hokage to show their condolence, after doing so to family. However they could not. Shikaku was so unlucky that civilan council requested immediate meeting. And Nara couldn't really say no because he used a earthquake as emergency to close village, and civilian council was doing the same to call a meeting. Shikaku had called the meeting, but had sent a note to every clan head to possibly delay as long as possible. However it didn't work. They managed to delay for a day. But that was it.
On the meeting, the Hokage didn't show and civilian council knew why. They had ears everywhere. And shinobi didn't stop talking about what had actually happened on the earthquake day. Civilans pushed through as they went to say that Shisui should be punished and with him the whole clan of Uchiha. Also they requested that someone else takes a role of momentarily Hokage. Iy was visible that many of civilan council didn't think like that but they were obviously pressured from other civilian power hungry people.
However shinobi council tried their best to stale the decisions, but they knew that by failing to keep biju in seal was something that broke the trust that civilans had in them. What was more since momentary Hokage wasn't chosen he didn't have any rights to make decisions. So relatively civilians were right in that aspect. Well there wasn't any kind of decision on the meting. But civilians had decided to not have any business with Uchiha clan from now on and that anyone who had business with Uchiha clan would be also punished with same thing.
Uchitel clan wasn't glad that something like this happened. They weren't even understanding what exactly happened, why had Shisui done this. Only after Shikaku explained his theory. Did they know how to behave, what to think what to do.
Kushina was the only one that was awake she was exhausted tho. And Tsunade carefully told her what was situation with others. Kushina had accepted the informations calmly, Tsunade then brought Naruto to her. Kushina teased the boy by saying :" you are going to be a troublemaker, i already see it in you."
Kushina had spent next few hours taking care of child. Tsunade made sure that when she saw that Kushina was too tired she would take Naruto to his room. Kakashi had visited and the dou had talked, Kakashi smiled at little Naruto. Kushina had told him that everything was going to be fine as everyone was strong.
Tsunade was most worried for Mito and Shisui. Mito as she couldn't do much, and Shisui because there was so much she had to do to make the boy recover, especially since the poison was just discovered and the antidote was in making. Luckily Orochimaru had been then one on it as he noticed the similarly between this poison and the poison that they saw in Inzunaka dogs.
The antidote was expect in few days.
Jiraiya was on his way back, however she knew that once he was back he would leave immediately, because he was like that. He would be there for few days, and then he would grieve on his travels. She had done same. The funeral was in few days. She still couldn't believe in it. But she had known for long time that it would be like this. Her hands would shake here and there however she couldn't stop healing especially since so many of her precious people needed her care.