The Hokage's Will by Airheaded dude

Chapter Two: Starting All Over, Ascension

The Hokage's Will

Chapter Two: Starting All Over, Ascension

Two days after Pain's attack on Konoha, the village had begun rebuilding itself from scratch once again. Kakashi, as the acting Hokage for Naruto as the blonde polishes himself enough for his position, had sent emissaries to Nami (Wave) and Haru (Spring).

Currently, the ones assigned for the mission to Wave, looked up at the gigantic sign that had greeted them at the entrance of the gigantic bridge.

"Well I'll be a monkey's uncle." Konohamaru muttered, Udon then said, "Technically, you're a monkey summoner not an uncle."

Konohamaru glared daggers at his snot dripping teammate and said, "It was an expression, jackass!"

Indeed, after training hard under Ebisu's watch, Konohamaru, after learning of Naruto's summons, earned the right to sign the contract with the Monkey summons. Although not as monstrous as Naruto's Toad summons, the monkeys were strong. The monkeys excelled in close to mid range combat. Konohamaru had to learn how to handle a Bo staff. His first summon, happened to be the son of Monkey King, Enma. A young Monkey in training that could transform into a three quartered staff. And although he could have used that against Pain in their fight, he wasn't very skilled in using Goku at the moment, which was a pre-requisite in earning the right to use Enma. Much to his never ending frustration about it, Konohamaru persevered, if only to catch up to Naruto who could summon the boss frog, Gamabunta, in battle.

Moegi merely stared up at the name of the bridge and seemed awed with their Bozu.

"The Great Naruto Bridge… Wow… I can't believe they named a bridge to the bozu. Hey, Konohamaru-kun, how do you think Naruto-oyabun has gone far?"

Konohamaru shrugged, "Don't know really, if he fought that freaky Pain guy and won, he's gotten so much stronger. I wish I could have seen their fight closer!"

"Speaking of oyabun, I haven't seen him in the past few days… Where do you think he went?" Udon asked, Konohamaru huffed and bonked Udon's head lightly

"Training, of course! He's of to do more epic things! Like saving a princess…"

"He's done that." Moegi cut off, Konohamaru's eyes bugged out and said, "What!?"

Udon replied, "You haven't heard Konohamaru-kun? Bozu was in a movie, a few years ago. She saved Fujikaze Yukie, the actress, who turned out to be a real life princess."

Ebisu, who fixed his shades grew somewhat turning into a green eyed monster because of the rumoured ending of the said film, nodded and said, "It's true, Konohamaru-kun. Naruto-kun did save Koyuki-hime."

Konohamaru shouted, "You've got to be kidding me! Oyabun already did that!?"

All three of his travelling companions nodded at the same time.

Ebisu then said, "I'm worried about the rumours spreading about… They say that the council has already assigned a new Hokage, when Tsunade-sama is still alive but critically injured. I'm afraid Danzo-sama has taken over the seat of power. Tsunade-sama was the only blockade that Danzo had for the title, but Kakashi-san said that we need to disperse the rumours, the new Hokage is not Danzo but the details were hush-hush."

Konohamaru looked on raising his left eyebrow in doubt, "Nah, I won't believe that, I bet it's the boss who became Hokage!"

Ebisu laughed at that remark, "Konohamaru-kun, while indeed Naruto-kun has shown great potential and that fight with Pain has indeed shown that Naruto-kun has improved, he is still far too young to become Hokage, for one, he still needs experience in leading, the rumours said he hasn't lead a team before, so I doubt he's eligible at the moment."