41 The war is over (2/2)
I sigh and look around the room before making eye contact with Olivier, who is scowling at me, I raise my eyebrow and look at her, ”What? Did I do something wrong?”
She scoffed, ”All you men are pigs, you summon 2 women who are eerily similar in appearance to, not just me, but Tsunade as well. Have you no morals?” Wait, hold up? These are random summons? It's not my fault!
I try to defend myself, ”I don't control who I get to summon. I actually got lucky when I got you, Esdeath, Alucard, Ezio, and Darkness since much, much, MUCH, worse summons exist! Like, you are an expert Swordswoman and general, Alucard is, well Alucard and broken as shit, Ezio is a master assassin, perhaps even grandmaster, Darkness is a very good crusader which makes her good at taking blows from enemies. As for esdeath she is an expert swordswoman, general, and... Huh.” I pause and grab my chin.
Esdeath smiles and laughs a bit while Olivier scoffs, ”See what I mean now? Not only do you get woman similar in appearance to me, but apparently one that is similar in skills to me? This can only make me believe that we are your type as Alucard told me it is.” Oh god she's been talking to Alucard, this can only mean bad things...
I sigh, ”Well I would be lying if I said you both weren't similar, however Esdeath does have insane powers that let her, well. Esdeath you want to show them?” I look to the blue haired woman who is already lounging on the couch.
She looks at me for a moment before answering and turning her head back, ”Nope. Bothersome, you can do it.” Fine. Fine, okay, fine.
I sigh and look back at Olivier, ”She has powers that let her not just summon Ice from mid air, but also manipulate it to her will.” From the side I see esdeath give me a thumbs up. Glad to know I got your powers right...
Olivier looks at me and sighs before sitting down. Guess I wore her down enough? Well whatever. I shake my head and turn my head towards the front door which someone just knocked on. After opening it I saw that it was an Anbu at the door, ”The Hokage wishes to see you sir.” I sigh and wave him off.
I teleport to the Hokage's office and knock on his door, entering when he gives the permission to enter. Once I enter I see that Tsunade is there, along with Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and a couple other people I genuinely have no clue as to who they are.
I raise my eyebrow at the Hokage who is smiling with his eyes closed and leaning back at his desk. Seeing that nobody is going to say anything I go and take the free seat between Tsunade and Jiraiya, and wait for someone to say something.
Almost immediately after I sit down the Hokage leans forward and opens his eyes, ”So glad to see that everyone is here, but first things first, Tsunade, have you been enjoying your cooking lessons with Joseph~?” He smirks and starts chuckling seeing that Tsunade got so red from his comment.
After he finally calmed down and Tsunade finally stopped blushing he coughs and looks to the two people, ”Now, you 4 may be wondering who these 2 people are, they are representatives of the Daimyo, and are here to confirm something for me.”
In response to Sarutobi the man on the left stands up, ”Affirmative sir Hokage. 1st, you wished to choose one of these 4 to be your successor?” He nods to this, then the man looks over to the 4 of us, ”And Sir Jiraiya, you don't wish to be Hokage?” Jiraiya nods, ”Lady Tsunade, you do not wish to be Hokage either?” She nods her head as well.
He then looks to Orochimaru, ”Due to the crimes you had committed you are unable to become Hokage Orochimaru, however I do think that if you continue on your same path you will be able to redeem yourself eventually.” After seeing Orochimaru's nod the man looks back to the Hokage, ”This leaves the last candidate, upon our last correspondence you stated that you wished to test him first, what are the results?”
The Hokage nods before speaking, ”Well, the leaf was being invaded by an army so I decided to let him try to end the war, and gave him free reins to do what he wished. As for my report on it, well he exceeded my expectations greatly. To prove that I have 3 things here that I wish to show you.” He pulls out 3 pieces of paper, one of which is the contract that was signed yesterday by that girl two.
After handing the paper to the man, the Hokage continued, ”The first thing is the contract, which summarized, means that Amegakure and it's lands are now part of the land of fire. There is also a possibility of 2 more lands joining us in similar methods, there are envoys being sent to handle that, and if all else fails to seek due justice for attempted assassination of him while conducting peace talks.”
He then pauses to let the shock sink in as the second man speaks up, ”So what are the other 2 documents?”
The Hokage gives a toothy grin, ”Well both of them are apologies from other Kage, one from the Raikage, and the other from the Kazekage. The Raikage wished to express thanks and sorrow for listening to the rumors that were being spread then amplified by the other nations moving. The second is what matters though, apparently he beat the Kazekage in a friendly sparring match as the Kazekage's letter thanks him for the match and displays sorrow for believing the rumors that were spread as well.” The man dropped both letters, but more importantly why didn't I get those? I mean they seemed like they were addressed to me, right?
I sigh and rub my temples, this man and his plots.
The 1st man finally finishes reading the contract and speaks up, ”It is true, we shall act on this later however and wish you well on your endeavors in the other two lands. Seeing these accomplishments and seeing that you approve of him greatly so, we see no issues with him being Hokage. We shall announce to the Daimyo everything and expect no resistance to him replacing your position as Hokage.” The men then bow and quickly run out of the door to, what I assume is, report to their boss.
I look at the Hokage and raise my eyebrow, ”Wait, so you were being serious? I thought that you just wanted to tempt me with being Hokage and not really give it to me, or do something else and plot some more?”
He chuckles a bit, ”Haha, Joseph you are exactly what I need as a Hokage. Do you know why Danzo was going to betray the leaf? I do. He always told me that I was too soft, but the reason I was made Hokage was because I was extremely smart, but that is nothing if I can't back up what I think, which is why I want to stop being Hokage while I still can, I won't be able to be useful always. I gave you many tests, and you used wits to go and handle them, and while you were in a disturbed mental state not only did you keep yourself going, but you were able to stop a war of disturbing proportion against us. Then, your final test, was how you would deal with your enemies and those that wronged you. If you were going to just let them go from a simple apology I wouldn't have let you be Hokage yet, and if you were to go and rub it into their faces or be hostile I would tell you off and let you relax more.” He sighs and takes a breath before continuing.
”Joseph, you did exactly what I think is needed from a Hokage now, I know that from seeing how you handled the apology, you were honest and direct with her, yet you didn't let her or her people see you as weak or benevolent, yet you also didn't condemn them. I feel you can be an amazing leader one day Joseph. You are still growing, but you have amazing potential and so long as you don't give up I have a lot of faith in you. This is all just based on what you have shown me, but I can only imagine what ideas you have that you can apply to our world based on things from your old one.” He chuckles a bit and I sigh, he's not wrong, I do have a few ideas of what to do.
He then stands up and walks towards me, ”So Joseph, will you do me the honor of being the 4th Hokage?” He reaches his hand out towards me.
I reach my hand out and grab onto his, he then pulls me up and I smile, ”Sure, why not. I'll do my best.” He then laughs as he pats my back with his free hand, then Tsunade comes from up behind me and jumps onto my back. Jiraiya walks up and pats me on the shoulder while Orochimaru stands off to the side and nods with a small smile on his face. I'm going to have to do right by them for putting so much faith in me. Let's hope I can pull this off!
(A/N: Not done with Naruto world yet but will be soon so don't worry! I already have a bit of an idea what to do for the next few chapters and am planning on wrapping this arc of the story up soon!
Also, there will be one of those characters reading the comments next time with a special guest star! Ezio! I know I can do a girl, but I feel it'd be fun to do Ezio before that, next one will have a female guest star though, so leave him and the MC some comments~!
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