Hope for Light

Chapter 6: Mirror 「鏡」

Chapter 6: Mirror

If it hadn't been for Naruto, who he took care of since she was a babe, he wouldn't even consider this option.

She suggested for Uchiha Shisui to become his successor.

(Hiruzen wanted to see his sensei's, the Nidaime, grave to see if he was rolling after Naruto dropped the figurative bomb. His mentor wasn't shy at admitting his rather biased opinion about the Uchiha, and he proved it by giving them the authority to manage the Police Force all by themselves; something Hiruzen could see that it was one main factor as to why the Uchiha was being prejudiced against. He himself was influenced, along with his teammates and Danzou, who had greatly idolized the man.)

Naruto didn't know this, but just being a Jinchuuriki, her words held power. In addition to that, he raised her since she was a babe. Of course, he held an attachment to her, and he treated her like she was his grand-daughter.

He had always known that Naruto was out-spoken like her mother was but he thought she at least took after her father a little bit when he saw that Naruto was more thoughtful than her mother was. But he had found out that day, to his utter dismay, that she used words as her mother used hers.

Which meant, they used theirs carelessly.

"Make Minato the Yondaime and I will stay in Konoha until the war ends!'

Kushina had said that sentence, hadn't she? When Kushina wanted to join the war again for the first time in two years, simply because one of her husband's students was killed in action. He refused, of course, and it resulted in Minato having the backing of a Jinchuuriki to become Hokage.

Orochimaru didn't have it. Minato did.

Hiruzen chose the one who was trusted by the Jinchuuriki.

(Albeit, it was not that simple. Orochimaru proved to be not fit to be Hokage when he turned reclusive, and he had developed a somewhat disturbingly ambiguous moral when he had not been looking).

When he thought of Uchiha Shisui, he also thought of Uchiha Kagami, who was the only Uchiha in the Nidaime's Guard Platoon back in the First Great Ninja War.

Not many know of this, but Kagami was his close friend. Kagami was even in his council, which only contains his old teammates now before he died at 25 years of age.

Now that he knew what Danzou was capable of, it might be possible that Danzou stole Kagami's eye/eyes because Kagami's death was when he did a mission with Danzou. The despicable man always kept an eye on Kagami's descendants, including Shisui. That might be how Danzou knew that Kagami's bloodline had strong Sharingan.

Once Shisui dropped the 'Kotoamatsukami' bomb on him and his advisors, it was just a matter of time before Danzou tried to grab it, itching to have the power himself. No matter how morbid it was, many people were thankful that Danzou had finally met his demise.

If he were honest, himself included.

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"Hokage?!" Jiraiya glanced over to his side. "This brat?" He pointed at the sheepish Shisui who was standing beside Hiruzen. "Why?" Jiraiya asked, almost desperately.

Hiruzen sighed tiredly. "Jiraiya, surely you understand I can't keep this job any longer, right?"

"But that doesn't mean you can dump the job to an Uchiha brat!" Jiraiya narrowed his eyes. "If you are that desperate, you can make Tsunade the Godaime since she's in the village! Or, or, Minato's brat Kakashi! Or your own son! Anyone, even Gai!"

Shisui scratched the back of his head, "Errr, Jiraiya-sama, are you that opposed at the idea of me being the Godaime?" Jiraiya answered with a deep frown etched on his face. "I'll take that as a yes." Shisui was thankful he was not near the man when Jiraiya shot a glare at him, the man is intimidating with that height.