Chapter 9 - Granddaughter? (1/2)

”Stop!!” the Third Hokage moved away from his spot and appeared behind Hikaru before taking the Drake Sword away from him to stop him from killing the boy down under him.

Hikaru looks at the Hokage in surprise and ask, ”Hokage-dono, what are you doing here?”

Hiruzen then replied angrily, ”Why are you trying to kill this boy?! What has he done to you?!”

Hikaru then pointed at the group of boys lying on the ground, twitching, and said, ”They tried to kill Naruto, I was only protecting him from them.”

Hiruzen widened his eyes and immediately knew why this happened. His eyes were as cold as ice because he knew, someone had just broken the rule he put on Naruto.

”Hikaru, return to your home for now. I will take care of the rest, ” Hiruzen said with his voice seemingly cold.

Hikaru felt like he was staring at a beast, a huge beast. A colossal gorilla ready to tear through everything. Hikaru didn't notice it but sweat was dripping off his face due to being nervous. But he still did not go away.

Iruka, on the other hand, couldn't move a single muscle because of the aura that the Third Hokage is emitting.

”Iruka, ” Hiruzen called.

His body stiffened as he replied, ”H-hai?”

”Take these group of boys to be interrogated by Ibiki and get answers from them, why did they try to kill Naruto-kun, ” Hiruzen ordered.

”H-hai!” Iruka quickly dragged away all the boys with his arms to take them to Ibiki. And he knew, these boys would have a hard time. If they didn't get enough from Hikaru, because, to be honest, almost all of their limbs are broken and when they wake up, a lot of screaming would occur.

Hiruzen looks at Naruto with his grandfatherly eyes, unlike his previous cold one, and said, ”Naruto, you will come with me, you may get hurt by someone if I don't look after you.”

Hiruzen saw that Naruto was still frightening and he waited for the time to past.

After some time past, Naruto was able to calm down and is able to reply normally. Well, as normal as he could.

Naruto, as if was in some deep conflict, replied, ”No, I'll go with Hikaru.”

Hiruzen seems to be interested when he heard that. This is the first time Naruto decided to with someone she just met.

”Why do you want to go with him, Naruto?” Hiruzen asked curiously.

”I-I don't know, it's just that, when I'm near him, I feel safe, dattebayo, ” Naruto replied with her verbal tic acting up.