the last student The Child Arc

chapter 43

Later with kagura

*we see that she had reached the hokage tower and was inside walking the hallways to the hokage office. In her hand was a small bag with hard caramel candy, as she kept glancing around the place. The walls held a small phantom nostalgia about them, seeing as she dashed through them dozens of time, when she was an anbu of this village. But that was a long time ago. Kagura made it to the secretary and walked up to her, mura looked up, seeing the tall, slender woman looking down at her.*

Kagura: Hello. I got this letter from your hokage about a meeting?

Mura: Ah, yes. Mrs. Kagura. Please take a seat. He'll be with me in a moment.

*mura said with a small smile. Kagura gave a short nod as she sat down on the waiting sofa next to mura's desk. Kagura took a deep breath to calm herself down. If she's nervous, Minato would be able to sense that. She needed to present herself as confident.*

Kagura: ok, thank you.

Kagura: "Man, this is weird. Being back here."

*kagura thought as she recalled her last day in this village, how she walked through this halls furious that tsunade rejected her. Outraged that she refused to teach her. Her! She was blind. Kagura now knew it. Tsunade wasn't just blind. She was jealous of kagura's potential. So she tried to extinguish her light. While kagura was busy in her mind that warped everything to make her seem like she was in the right, she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked and it was the secretary again. Giving her a professional smile towards kagura.*

Mura: Mrs. Kagura, the hokage will see you now.

Kagura: Oh. Uh. Thank you.

*kagura said softly. As she got up and took a deep breath. She put on a confident expression on her face as she walked through the large doors of the hokage office and marched inside. She completely froze when she didn't see the 4th hokage, but the 3rd hokage doing the paperwork. Hiruzen placed his pencil down and looked up at kagura. Giving her a small smile, as he waved at kagura to sit down on the chair, in front of his desk.*

Hiruzen: Ah. Mrs. Kagura. Welcome, welcome. Please have a seat

Kagura: Thank you.

*kagura said slowly. As she sat down more confused than ever, since why was the 3rd hokage back in this office, where  was the 4th hokage at, she couldn't think straight, so on autopilot she placed the small bag with hard caramel candy inside on the table. Hiruzen looked at it and then at kagura.*

Kagura: a present. For inviting me back into the village I was born in.

Hiruzen: Of course. Thank you, I do love this type of candy. It's my favorite

* hiruzen said as he opened the bag and ate one of the candy, grabbing a few of them and setting them aside to give to Naruto later, when he came to visit him. Kagura allowed these few moments of the 3rd hokage being distracted to get her thoughts in order. When she did, she leaned back on her chair and started to act more relaxed. Giving a fake air of neutrality, even if inside her mind. It was a bit of a jungle of confusing thoughts.*

Kagura: Gotta say, I was surprised to get a letter from the hokage himself. Though I was expecting Minato, not you. I'm not saying it to offend, just a reality

Hiruzen: Well, you've been gone for a long while, but Minato is dead. And I'm back in charge.

*hiruzen said casually, it's been such a long time since the attack that people have stopped talking about it with such emotions, now it was more of a footnote. But for someone who wasn't there like kagura? It was completely shocking that someone managed to kill the 4th hokage. She couldn't help but speak in shock, but still letting a bit of her snarkiness escape her words.*