Cherry Blossoms | A Naruto FanFic

Chapter Twelve: The Talk

With a cloud of smoke, Kakashi Hatake, the legendary copy cat ninja appeared in the middle of the office of the Sandaime Hokage.

The 'Professor' of the Shinobi World looked up to see his strongest joūnin in his office, "Ah, Kakashi~kun…ready to report on your team, " Hiruzen Sarutobi asked.

Kakashi nodded his head and Hiruzen made a hand gesture for him to start, over the next ten minutes.

Kakashi explained all that happened from yesterday and today, throughout that explanation, Hiruzen merely stayed calm and smoked his pipe while Kakashi ranted.

Once Kakashi finished, Hiruzen let out a large hit of his pipe and started to chuckle. Eventually Hiruzen calmed down and looked at Kakashi.

" He's better than what I expected, to think he uses subtle genjutsu traps, and explosion tags with a hidden seal under it. He's truly a genius that Minato and Kushina could be proud of, " Hiruzen said while looking at the picture of Minato in the office.

Kakashi smiled and nodded his head, " However, I've never heard of a technique called 'Shikai' before. Well 'Shikai' means initial release, I wouldn't be surprised if he had a second release or a final release. I've also known that the sword he carries around him was special, I guess I know at least one of the reasons why it's special, " Hiruzen said while rubbing his chin, Kakashi nodded his head agreeing with his leader since or did make sense.

" Well, Naruto~kun has mid to high kage level speeds with low to mid joūnin strength, along with that, he's a level eight fuinjutsu master and a master tactician. I'll say he's currently a low kage level opponent, " Hiruzen summed up, Kakashi nodded his head agreeing with his leaders assessment.

" Could you tell me all that Naruto, Natsumi, and Sasuke know so I can better help them in their training? " Kakashi asked, Hiruzen smirked and motioned for Kakashi to sit down with the scarecrow following his leader's motion.

" I've been watching Natsumi~chan and Naruto~kun since their birth. I can confidently say that Naruto~kun is more like his father with bits of his mother and Natsumi~chan is the opposite of Naruto~kun, being more like her mother with bits of her father, " Hiruzen explained, pulling back his chair to lay down with Kakashi getting comfortable.

As of right now, they were not superior talking to his subordinate, but old friends through circumstances talking about the next generation and their future guiding them.

" Naruto~kun is the most irregular case I've ever seen. His physical appearance and actual age doesn't match up at all. As of right now, he looks to be about eighteen years old, but is actually thirteen years old. I've studied this phenomenon for two years before I've received the answer, " Hiruzen said, but stopped to add dramatic effect and to hit his pipe.

" The ungodly amounts of pure raw power cannot handle his little body, so his body come up with a solution by rapidly aging him up by physical appearance and even his vocal cords, " Hiruzen explained, Kakashi's eyes widened, never in his life has he ever thought that someone with so such power that their body cannot handle it would exist, but he was proven worry once again.

" As of my knowledge, Naruto possesses all of the five elements, but is only at the beginning stages of the process. He's a master swordsman who can defeat multiple anbu at a time, master tactician. However, it's his aura that interests me greatly. It's completely overwhelming and fear-inducing, but I've found out if you're not strong enough to be around him, you literally subjugate to his will, " Hiruzen explained all he knows about Naruto.

Kakashi whistled, " That's impressive, what about the other ones? " Kakashi said, referring to Natsumi and Sasuke.

" Natsumi is a goofy but good-hearted young girl, she's clear like her mother with her father's appearance. However, this doesn't make her weak at all. She is an expert at taijutsu and has a high battle IQ for her age. I believe she will have a wind, water, or lighting affinity in the future or maybe all of them. She definitely has high potential, especially since she has the Kyūbi inside of her, "

" Sasuke is a good boy at heart. He's scared and traumatized from the Uchiha massacre, unfortunately he drowns those feelings with hatred for his sister. Fortunately, Naruto knocked some sense into him and started to downgrade his Uchiha pride, inferior and superior complex, and nearly erased the term 'Uchiha Elite' from Sasuke's mind. He's good a long way to go, but I believe with the help of Natsumi and Naruto, he can become someone like Kagami Uchiha, or even surpass my old man with his name, "

Hiruzen explained, Kakashi was silent the entire explaininion. " How smart would you say Naruto is, " Kakashi asked, Hiruzen smiled remembering how smart his grandson figure is.

" To put it in basic terms, at age four, Naruto could have replaced me as a hokage with his knowledge and wisdom. At a young age, he figured out that his little sister is the Kyūbi Jinchuuriki, at age six, he figured out who his parents are, at age eight he meet up with Jiraiya and Gamabunta in the forest and learned fuinjutsu off of Jiraiya and then me after he surpassed the fuinjutsu scroll that Jiraiya left that was supposed to last for five years in three weeks. He's smart, but he subconsciously limits himself to be at a closer level to his little sister. He says that he'll remove the limiter when he's sure that his little sister could handle himself, " Hiruzen explained, Kakashi once and whistled.

" Let's say if he didn't have this limiter, where would he be? " Kakashi asked, Hiruzen organized his thoughts for a second before answering.

" In my seat, with my hat, in my robes, and probably doing this kami awful paper- no, knowing him I'll probably would've found a solution to paperwork. In terms of power, he'll be far beyond the level of the kages, " Hiruzen answered with such confidence that it actually surprised Kakashi.

" Wait! You said that Naruto made contact with Jiraiya, does he still have contact with him?! " Kakashi asked fastly, Hiruzen nodded his head.

" When Jiraiya sends reports to me, he also sends one to Naruto. We both believe that Naruto would be the Godaime or Rokudaime Hokage in the future. With Natsumi being the Rokudaime or Nanadaime Hokage, that's why Naruto has so much information about the outside world that most do, " Hiruzen explained, at this point Kakashi started to cry anime tears.

" Please I beg of you, tell Naruto to write a letter to Jiraiya~sama when the next Icha Icha book would be released, " Kakashi asked while on his knees quite literally begging to Hiruzen.

" Don't worry Kakashi~kun, the next book will be released in a couple of months, " Hiruzen replied with anime tears coming out of his eyes.

Kakashi stood up and wiped the tears from his eyes, " Sorry Hokage~sama, I have to go and celebrate with my adorable little genin, " Kakashi announced while opening the door to the hokage office.

Before he closed the door, Hiruzen spoke up. " If you're serious about training Sasuke, Naruto, and Natsumi. I recommend to slowly deconstruct the complies of Sasuke and make him start thinking about things more clearly instead of hatred and violence, make the learning experience for Natsumi fun and encouraging with competition of others. With Naruto, be very direct with him and teach him things step by step with extreme detail, and with that, I promise you that this generation of Team seven will be the strongest out of all of them before, " Hiruzen explained, Kakashi smiled and nodded his head.

Kakashi closed the Sandaime Hokage's door, with the half ram seal he disappeared into a cloud of smoke.

" Good Luck Kakashi, because your going to ready it, "