18 Man this is Hard (1/2)

Ha that's what she said. I mean what?

Oh yeah, after help out the Kunai to me neck he let me start moving and smiled before turning to the crowd and giving a big thumbs up. The Hokage then turns and looks at me, ”By the way, they have no clue what this fight was about at all, they figured it was solely for their entertainment. ” He gives me a deep grin. What a cheeky bastard.

I look at him and give him a grin, ”So does this mean I have the ability to be Hokage then?” since he wanted to go easy on me why should I not be hard on him. ”I really felt as if the Hokage would be much stronger. Twas a pity the fight ended so soon.” He would've kicked my ass several times over if he was being serious, he barely used any Jutsu, and when he used them it was something that he knew I could escape. I wanted to be cheeky though.

I think he just wanted to entertain the people and reassure them that their Hokage is strong enough to fight against someone as terrifying as me(even though they have no clue who I am) and come out on top with the only thing making him lose is the time. I mean teleportation is pretty terrifying honestly, and being able to fight against it is impressive. I wonder how scared they'd be if they know how much I could slow time.

I can't know for sure though but, I am willing to bet that there are even more reasons he let me win this way. Or he's just a chuunibyou (A/N: 8th grade syndrome for those that don't know)and wanted to be in a badass tournament fight only to barely win or barely lose.

I swear to God if Sarutobi is a closet chuuni I'm done.

I start following the Hokage out of the door that leads to the waiting room I was in previously. Once we get in there we see several Anbu, Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru. After I enter the Hokage smiles and speaks to everyone, ”The plan worked everyone, after seeing how carefree we were and then thinking that I could only do that much they are assaulting the leaf with its force being led by Hanzo. Also Joseph, sorry for not keying you in on the plan but honestly, I needed you to go all out on me to make it more believable. Good last move though, you just need to work on making your reactions faster and disrupting the opponent more.”

...heh? This was all a ploy? I mean I figured he was acting for the sake of the citizens, but wait he was doing it to throw the enemies off and make them attack us? I look at him in shock before asking, ”Wait what? I mean I figured it was all a show for the people to help them relax but you were using it to get an enemy to attack? Also you're going and teaching me while talking about war?”

He chuckles at me, ”Not just one Joe. All of them. Every single village has allied against us, that's why I was busy for so long. Now we are going to take this chance to defeat them all at the same time, and if we are unable to then we shall just defeat some of the strongest powers. Also of course I am teaching you, we are all eternal students.” This man... what else does he have planned ?

He then turns around and looks at Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru before speaking to them, ”Alright, we have a week of preparation, and you three and Joe are going to fight Hanzo when he gets here since I know he'll be leading. Normally I'd help defend the village but I need to pretend like I'm not Just exhausted and injured, but weak. So I will be leading the troops in secrecy until the best time. Joseph, mind taking me to my office?” He looked at me for the last part so I nodded and flashed him over to his office.

”You have a week to prepare, you shouldn't have even had that month but it was by luck and your ridiculousness that you have this time. Use this period to get stronger as I don't feel we can fend off attacks from everyone, even if I went all out. We are all simply too weak against everyone” I nod to Sarutobi's worry and start walking away, before I get far though he talks to me once more, ”Also I wasn't kidding about approving you with that fight to be Hokage, with that strength you can't do it so make your Mark in this war.”

I turn towards him and nod, I know exactly what I have to do to get stronger, I will start getting my sage mode! This boost in power should be exactly what I need to get the edge on my opponents!

I flash away from the Hokage and go to the Dragons mountain, soon after arriving the dragon who seems to be the leader appeared before me and speaks, ”Is your work done now?”

I nod and respond to the massive dragon, ”Yes it is, however I have yet another time limit of a week to get stronger so I will be devoting myself wholly(A/N: I googled this to sure this was right. It is.) to the training.” The dragon looks at me and raises an eyebrow, or well what I will assume is the dragon version of an eyebrow. Eyescale?

He then thinks after pondering for a bit, ”Well I know of a method to train you in nature chakra quickly however based on your clones it is clear you have been automatically taking in nature chakra, you just need to further enhance it. So this method may be perfect for you actually. It can be dangerous, but you may be able to attain sage mode in less than an hour if you use all your clones, what do you think?” He looks at me and smirks, agh I am getting anime character syndrome where I want to get stronger fast.

”Are there any side effects to it?” This sounds too good to be true and based on life, it probably is.