Dangerous Bond: Clan of Peace

Part 32

The silence was deafening. Team Kakashi stood in a large hall decorated with gold markings on the walls and floors. In front of them stood a large throne with two smaller thrones beside it. In those thrones sat the three leaders of Arashikagure. The largest throne held the Wolf Daimyo himself, Hideo Sarutobi. The other two held Honoka Uchiha and Kazuma Senju, who had joined the two once they arrived.

Beside those thrones stood the other two spearmen of the personal guard, Otegine of the lightning spear with silver and gold colors around his spear, and Nihongo of the fire spear with a dark red and gold around his spear.

Each spear represented the founding clans, created by each of the founding members.

"Kakashi-san" Hideo nodded in greeting.

Kakashi bowed before the Daimyo lord, throwing a glaring glance at his group before they followed the action.

As they straightened, Kakashi noticed Honoka eyeing the two Uchiha with skepticism.

"What brings you here?" Hideo questioned.

"We seek refuge, Daimyo-sama" Kakashi requested.

A moment of silence passed as Hideo thought about his request.

"I'm disappointed in you, Kakashi." Honoka Uchiha took this moment to speak up. It was clear she was an Uchiha with the steel glare constantly set in her features "I personally trained you, did I not? To have you come back with your tail between your legs-"

"It's nothing like that, Honoka-sensei" Kakashi interrupted with a confident stance "Our village thinks we betrayed them. Amongst that, a war is coming. We seed refuge in order to plan and train so that we can protect the village...even if they don't want us to" Kakashi stated, whispering the last part to himself.

Honoka eyed the male with narrowed eyes "Did you betray them?"

Kakashi tensed before sighing "In a way, yes. Just not in the way they think. We assassinated one of the elders. There is substantial proof of corruption within Konoha, most of which linked back to the elder. We also linked his involvement to the Uchiha Massacre and the Snake Sannin, Orochimaru. They were allies" Kakashi explained.

The three leaders before them sat in tense silence as they processed the information so suddenly handed to them.

"This elder, what involvement did he have with the massacre?" Honoka questioned.

Kakashi glanced at Itachi, silently signaling him to step forward.

The older Uchiha stepped forward as eyes shifted to him "It was under Danzo Himura's order that the Uchiha clan be massacred...or the leaf would do it themselves with no survivors. This was an order given to me and one I completed." Itachi's eyes darkened.

The leaders frowned at the information before glancing at Sasuke. They quickly pieced together the two were brothers. Furthermore, Sasuke was only alive because of Itachi's sacrifice.

"Interesting." Hideo muttered as he glanced at Honoka, who glared into the distance.

Hideo then glanced at Kazuma only to see him smiling calmly causing a sweatdrop on Hideo's forehead. The Senju was far too carefree at times.

"Why?" Honoka muttered in question, her eyes downward.

Itachi frowned, bringing eyes to the ground in shame "The Uchiha were planning a coup. We couldn't stop it"

"We?" Honoka lifted her eyes to Itachi only for the Uchiha to further shy away from her gaze.

"Shisui Uchiha and I. He killed himself after Danzo took one of his eyes and placed a target on him" Itachi muttered.