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As time slowly went by, days felt like months for Shikaku, Kakashi, Uchiha clan and most of clans. Uchiha clan was slowly getting outcasted by civilans. They were strong enough to make it alive however the atmosphere wasn't right. What was more they needed to act carefully. Other shinobi clans had helped as much as they could, but Fugaku had noticed that Uchiha clan was slowly losing the power in village. Minato wasn't still awake and Kushina was still in hospital. There was no one who could prove Uchiha clans innocents. Tsunade was the busiest person around this time. While Shikaku was just acting like a momentary Hokage until civilian council could bring their candidate.
The funeral of Sarutobi Hiruzen was held peacefully. Every of his students had appeared, every single one citizen had come. The goodbye ceremony was beautiful and sad at same moment. Hiruzens favorite quote was read. The atmosphere was very soothing, and calming. When it was over the village had gone back at it now usual awkward atmosphere. The feeling of uncertainty was larger than will of fire. Well at least ir seemed like that.
The word had even reached Daimyo who had answered that he would visit the village soon. The civilan council then started to search for candidates faster.
Luckily for shinobi council, Minato woke up a day before Daimyo had arrived. He still wasn't allowed to go outside of hospital, but him being awake was enough for most of the village. The awkward atmosphere vanished at those news. Tge lock down Konoha lessened, but there was still more gourds than usual. Even though there wasn't any need because the seals around the village. Minato listened to everything that had happened during his absence. He wasn't satisfied with many things and while he was Hokage he couldn't just order civilians to lift the ban on Uchiha. That was huge problem, and he can't give tham extra power, they would say that he favors them his hands were pretty much tied. And he couldn't think of way to solve so many problems.
So when Daimyo had arrived, the council had met with him and told him recent happenings, Daimyo eventually went to talk with Minato. The talk was long and meaningful. While many people think that work of Daimyo isn't hard that was lie, he needs to be always informed and do his best to protect the nation is in charge. So if his general or Hokage is weak he would need to change it. Since Hokage was in charge of his military forces. However Daimyo had chosen to trust Minato.
Minato was then put in same room with Kushina and little Naruto. Shikaku agreed to give them a week so that Minato get to recover completely and spend some time with Naruto. However on other side Mito didn't show any progress. She was still same her chakra was almost gone. When Tamura and Suzume went to visit her they were frightened when they only felt a drop of her usual chakra storaged. However Tsunade had calmed them down saying that Mito is fine, she will slowly get some progress. Shisui on other hand was slowly getting better. He still didn't wake up but he was slowly gathering his chakra, and signs of poison lessened.
With Naruto there Kushina and Minato could think about happy times, the hid their pain, their worry. Minato and Kushina had agreed that when they got out of hospital that they would live with Uzumaki couple for few first weeks as Minato would have much work. And Kushina would help Tamura and Suzume with creating seals and taking care of children. The amount of visitors they got daily was huge. First there was team 7, then there were Uchiha Mikoto who would visit to talk with them. And many more. However the amount Mito received was much more. Everyone that had known little girl visited. Only Shisui wasn't allowed to get visitors.
When a week passed up, and Kushina Minato and Naruto were discharged. Minato become a leader of village once more. His days and nights were filled with dealing with paperwork. His ideas of solving some problems in village would be written down before he could forgot them. Luckily no other village had noticed how closed they actually were for few weeks. But they did notice their absence for sure. Luckily for Minato, Mito's Root program was big help to him now as he sent them on many missions that were needed to be finished soon, what was more than root second in command offered his help in solving the paperwork for him. The organization had done 180 from what he remembered it. He sighed as he wished for Mito to be here. For everything to not happened. However he know that something like this couldn't be changed.
The village was slowly calming down as life returned to normal just week after Minato took the chair once more. The bad treatment of Uchiha clan still continued, as there was no news about them being innocent. The rumors had started to spread that Hokage didn't trust the Uchiha clan. Which wasn't truth, but rumors had done damage. Hokage was too busy dealing with others things that he didn't even have time for rumors, and everyone knew that. His work time was 24/7 for whole week. He didn't sleep and was finally catching up with his work, he had few hours of enyojing with his family. However that was to short, and most of day he could barely stand up. He was so tired that sometimes he had tp reread simplest papers twice. Eventually Kushina had dragged him home to sleep. He didn't have any strength to resist. He finally had few hours of decent sleep. But Kushina didn't let him go back to work immediately.
So after having his day of in busy week. Minato went back to work filled with energy, not really but compared to previous week certainly, that day he finally managed to catch up with everything. So from then on he would have some free time, for rumors and his family time. He however didn't know that situation of Uchiha had worsen, he wasn't happy when nobody would tell him, but he understood, nobody wanted him to hear more bad news when he was already busy. Minato had to find a solution. He needed to think about it carefully. He came with one solution. He hoped it would work. Well he would see it tomorrow, it is not like he had much choice.
Shisui wasn't waking up and that was slowly starting to worry Tsunade, the boy body was getting healed fast but the state of mind and chakra was unknown. Since chakra wasn't flowing much, which could be concern or could ve normal thing. Depends if the chakra was still fighting the posion and chakra exhaustion. She cleaned her thoughts as she checked his vitals once more. She had to leave him soon. At least tje i&t wasn't to cruel to boy and would give him IV every few hours.
Mito on other hand didn't seem any better. It them few days to notice a slight change in amount of chakra. It had doubled in week, but it was still almost unnoticeable. Since her usual chakra reserves were huge this was almost nothing. And it seemed that the recovery of chakra would take this to long coma. Her injuries were slowly healing thanks to medical ninjutsu. However that was it.
Tommorow in the early morning, Minato stood up on the roof of Hokage's tower, the civilans soon noticed that and started to gather around to hear what was happening. It was surely something important. Minato started :" today i wanted to inform you about recent happenings, there was many things that happened. Some of them were good some of them were not, some of them can't be changed and some can."
The civilans were confused. What was he talking about. Minato then continued :" i heard rumors that i don't trust Uchiha clan, yesterday, i also heard that my not denying these rumors is considered my agreeing with them, however i must say that i am to busy of person to talk about rumors that aren't based on truth."
A civilian then yelled :" but Uchiha Shisui is in I&t. Because he is suspicious right. "
Minato smirked, they had fallen into his trap :" that is also not truth, while Shisui is indeed in I&t it was because he knows information about the person that attacked us, however since he is still unconscious will still don't have any informations. Many shinobi had seen him fight against them, but that was actually the enemies special ability. The boy was almost killed because he knew to much as such he is gourded carefully in I&t and not in hospital. So I am righy now denying those rumors of Uchiha clan, and i say that right now Uchiha clan is the one i feel will halp me the most in clearling this situation. "
Minato then left the roof, he knew that this wouldn't completely solve the problem, but he was sure that it would lessen the tension in village and possibly few stores would open their door to Uchiha clan again. He was visited by Fugaku in half of hour, the man deeply bowed and thanked him for help. Minato nodded as he smiled :" it was least i could do, for the village."
The next few weeks went by as they were still filed with few incidents, but village was slowly getting back to normal, there were still many missions that were to be done, but every shinobi was doing their best to complete them as fast as possible. Minato was lucky that root had been so good now. The Village was peaceful but it could be felt that something was missing. The children especially the future hopes of shinobi forces had smiled less. The worry on their faces was clear. Evryone had worried fpr Mito. Everyone had been supportive of Asuma, who managed that to get back to missions after a whole month. The had less time to spend with Mito, whose situation didn't change much.
After a whole month and half Shisui had finally woke up, he was weak and Hokage was the first one that was allowed to speak with the boy, he explained why the boy was actually here and that there was no need to be afraid as Minato knew that he was innocent. Shisui explained what had happened, what he remembered, how those things felt. Inoichi was there too lisenting to every word to gather information. They were both surprised that Shisui was actually targeted and not accidentally picked up. The then realized that Shisui's sharingan the one that Mito spoke years ago was super dangerous in wrong hands. The feared that Shisui would be taken over again. However Shisui spoke :" i am certain that i can win against it next time, my mind had modified itself against such threats, and i have won against him, he wasn't really ready to jump out of me then, but i pushed him out. He had taken a rock and stabbed me with it. After that i don't remember what happened, there was something close by, a animal i think. "
Minato nodded :" it was Mito's summon actually. I don't know how it managed to get there, but i am certain Mito knew that Black Zetsu would try to kill you. "
Minato then explained that Mito was still out and that Uchiha clan was still in complicated situation and that it would be best for him ti be here for few next days, so nobody woyld be suspicious of him. And he still needed time to recover.
Shisui had nodded and was left to his thoughts. His fears about what happened to Mito and others. He knew that there was no excuse for a mistake now. Shisui knew that from now on he would need to get stronger that nobody could use him as means to harm Mito, since this was second time they managed to do it. He prepared himself mentally for his harsh training that was ahead of him. He would find best senseis from Uchiha clan, then he would beg other people too. He would never allow himself to become a shackle to Mito again. He used his time here to analyze things he needed to work on, then to create a schedule. For him good news were that he wouldn't be allowed to go outside of village since everyone thinks that he is danger. He had hoped that Mito would wake up as soon as possible, but from the news he received, he knew that wasn't likely to happen.
The village started to change after that, it was still peaceful but every shinobi now was using their time to improve futher. Seeing such dangerous things. They had come around and respected thise who saved them, giving each a nickname to Mito. They saw hope in her they saw beauty, they saw strength, they saw courage. They started to worship her so the nickname was :" the Red Head Goddess". The nickname was rumored around the village until it became official for Mito, who was not aware of it as she wasn't awake. Kakashi, Genma and Shisui were at first against such nickname, but over the time they had stopped being jealous of it. As they realized that the others didn't see Mito as they did. We they all saw her as beautiful but it was clear that they respected Mito, and knew about Kakashi, Genma and Shisui. The trio wasn't worried at all. The trio actually got a lot closer and got to know each others deepest fears. They all agreed that they needed to get stronger for Mito, she didn't need their protection but, they knew that she needed them to be strong that she did not need to worry. They would visit her regularly. Hearing the news of her slow recovery was frustrating, but it was better than nothing at all.
The other villages noticed slight disappearance of Konoha for few weeks and sent few people to investigate, however when the people got into Konoha everything was already fixed, the people though were trying to find more information. However they didn't get much. Until Minato sent a notice to their allies that there was a breach into thier security and that the enemy successfully escaped, however his goal was not reached. They sent a warning to be careful as the enemy was attacking a jinchuriki. He sent a description and abilities list to them. He knew that many of them would discuss this but actually would only be more cautious and nothing else, but that was enough. He at least hoped.
The reactions were different from every one. Mizukage wasn't to worried as he no longer had any jinchuriki. But he knew that this was serious as he talked about similar things with Mito. Tsuchigake considered this for few minutes and only snorted, if they want to try then they could. Raikage had similar opinion, and Kazekage was super worried as his son was at danger. He made sure shinobi would watching the boy every second for then on. In fact all of his children.