Naruto: Eroninja

Blast from the Past: Toka Senju(Part II)

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Chapter 52: Blast from the Past: Part Deux: Toka Senju Part II

Whack!

"Dammit," Toka said as she tossed the hammer she was unaccustomed to using away after hitting her index finger instead of the nail she had been aiming for. Shaking the abused digit, she sucked on it as she once more cursed the descendant that was making her perform such menial tasks.

The person working alongside her seemed amused at her annoyance as he said, "Well it looks like we might be needing to rehang another piece of drywall."

Toka looked at him to see what he was talking about, and following his gaze cursed once more as she saw the handle of her hammer sticking out of one of the wall segments they had recently finished putting up. "I'm so sorry," she quickly apologized as she gingerly tried to pull it free.

"Don't worry about it," Naruto said inspecting the damage, "We should be able to get away with adding some compound to the hole. It's actually not as bad as it first looked and with a little paint no one will even notice."

Toka dropped the hammer she had extracted to the ground as Naruto moved to get the plaster he planned to plug the hole with. He stopped though as she said, "How can you stand being hired for such stupid tasks? I've heard the tales of your prowess in battle and seen it in our spares. Can you honestly say that you are alright with remaining a genin for such foolish reasons as to not upset the other so called shinobi villages? In my age you would be at the very least a commander of troops by now."

Naruto shrugged as he began mixing the plaster with some water. "Who can say how I would have turned out if I lived in your day," he replied as he began to mix it. "After all, chances are I wouldn't have made it to the current milestone I'm approaching of eighteen years of age, especially when I look back at how foolish I was when first starting out." He chuckled as he thought about some of his misadventures as a genin where if not for his teammates and sensei things could have gone rather poorly for him. "Plus to be honest, I'm not sure I see the correlation between being strong and being a leader of other shinobi. Up to now, most of my battles have tended to be one on one fights. Even when I fought Nagato as he attacked the village it was more along the lines of me doing my own thing while the village's defenders did theirs."

"You raise some valid points. But still, how can you be so accepting of tasks better suited to peasants then trained warriors?" Toka asked, once more fuming at her Great Grandniece making her a genin as well.

Naruto smiled back at her as he answered while applying the plaster, "If you had seen me when I was first starting out you and I would be part of the same choir. I thought D-ranked missions were a waste of time for the shinobi that was going to be the next Hokage. After a while I even managed to convince the Old Man...I mean the Third Hokage to give us a higher ranked mission. He relented and although it started out as a C-ranked one it quickly became A-ranked due to a famous and dangerous shinobi being involved. It wasn't till then that I realized just how dangerous being a shinobi actually could be."

Toka partially understood where Naruto was coming from, but quickly pointed out, "That may be fine for a shinobi just starting on the path, but I have been in countless conflicts. I do not see the point in wasting my and your talents by having us build fences and repair homes."

Naruto inspected his handiwork before grabbing a piece of sand paper to smooth out the quick drying plaster as he replied to Toka by informing her of something that Mito had said about her husband's love for Konoha. "I guess a reason for Tsunade's wasting your talents as you put it, is to help build some appreciation for your cousin's legacy into you. I have it on good authority that after founding the village and despite being elected as Hokage. The First could often be found taking part in the actual construction of the village." Naruo blew the dust away before feeling the spot to insure that the plaster had been blended in sufficiently as he added, "I can appreciate that actually. Helping the people of the village build and maintain their homes, or with the tasks they need completed helps install a sense of worth in the community that is Konoha. Even if they were people like me, who were too foolish to see it at the time."