Chapter 7!

Deals, Memories and Traitors!

Naruto was currently sitting in a waiting-room inside the Mizukage-tower in Kiri-gakure. It was now roughly two years after the first Shinobi World War and things had been rather calm on his end.

The five Shodaime Kage were all deceased now due to the Kazekages death during his fight against Shukaku.

Right now he was in another meeting with Kiri-gakures elder-council to bribe them to pick his choice for the Nidaime Mizukage. Namely Gengetsu Hozuki, the current Clan-head of the Hozuki-clan. This had actually been one of Kurozetsus plans not his own.

By having Gengetsu be chosen instead of Byakurens former right hand he would plant a small seed of hatred inside the man who would later start to opress and demonize the Bloodline-users. Naruto was sure most of that hatred was amplified due to the fact that he would be the only assistant of the Shodaime Kage who would not be Nidaime, which would be an embarassement the man would never escape.

Naruto perked up when the Elder-council arrived and slowly filled the room. He only knew the names of two of the members: a old and powerful ninja of the warring clans era called Saizo and a rather young Genji. The old man was still part of the elder council in Mei Terumis reign so Naruto had met him a few times.

„We have had quite a few discussions about your candidate for the place of Mizukage and while we agree that Gengetsu is a good choice, we would like to know why you decided to support him, Menma-san."

naruto once again hidden under his merchant-disguise had decided to introduce himself as Menma, an old joke from his trip into the alternate world. At the words of Saizo he put on a friendly but serious expression.

„Well Saizo-sama, i decided to support Gengetsu-san because he seemed to be the best choice for Mizukage. He is also a relative good person as a ruler given his rather peaceful reign over the Hozuki-clan. I think he will become a good Mizukage."

At Narutos words most of the council nodded in agreement. The only exception was Genji who while not opposing his words still looked at him with suspicion. Saizo merely gave a small nod to accept his words before he turned to his fellow councilors.

„Very well, then i hereby announce Gengetsu Hozuki as the new Nidaime Mizukage! The meeting is over."

With this the councilors left the room but not before both Saizo and Genji gave Naruto a searching look.

Naruto though waited until he had left Kiri-gakure before he let out a small chuckle and teleported away.

As Naruto arrived in the Kamui-dimension he sat himself down on the platform to meditate. While doing this he recalled the events that led to him traveling back in time.

It had all started after he and his team sealed away Kaguya. He and Sasuke fought each other and it was only thanks to Narutos skills that he defeated the Uchiha. Afterwards Sasuke had rejoined Konoha but started traveling around until the incident with Toneri Otsutsuki (making a mental note to off the bastard later). Then nothing had happened until that debacle with Shin Uchiha and his clones, it was then that he started to suspect that something was going on.

But it was only after the whole incident with those Otsutsuki brothers and his son Boruto that everything started going down.

Apparently Sasuke had while he did his duty as Hokage, traveled around and recruited an army. A new army of Shirozetsu, Team Taka, Orochimaru, Kabuto, Shins clones along with countless small time criminals like Mizuki, Amachi or the demon brothers. The most grave insult had been that he somehow converted Boruto into his spy.

The resulting war was a bloodbath. Countless of Narutos friends had fought in it and fallen. The only remaining ones he had currently sealed in stasis-scrolls here in the Kamui-dimension. Those being Sarada Uchiha, Himawari Uzumaki and Mirai Sarutobi.

When the war was over Naruto started to work on the timetravel-jutsu with Kurama but that caused another confrontation between him against Hagoromo and Asura. The Chakra-ghosts tried to prevent his timetravel first with words than with violence. Naruto had been outgunned until he used the same Chakra-tug ability he first used against Kurama to literally drain Asuras Chakra and Life. With the new power he managed to defeat Hagoromo and was for the first time in his life his own person.

As it turned out from a few scattered memories of Asura. Hagoromo along with his sons merely staged their deaths and the succession-fight. They removed themselves from their bodies and then Hagoromo would, using his connection to the chakra inside all humans slowly manipulate people to shape the history. He also placed Indras and Asuras Ghosts inside new hosts so they could manipulate his descendants further. This continued until Naruto destroyed the spirits, something he would need to repeat in this timeline, he was quite pissed that his actions had been nothing more than the manipulations of both Kaguya and Hagoromo. It turned out that Kurozetsu was the only being not connected to Hagoromos Chakra.

The reason was simple. To use Chakra a child would be injected by his teacher with a small bit of the teachers chakra to open their pathways. This continued backwards in history until it reached Hagoromo who had implanted his chakra in his followers to „spread Ninshu". Kurozetsu on the other hand was directly connected to Kaguya and the goddess would never dirty herself by connecting to humans the way Hagoromo had. With Kurozetsu dead Kaguya was out of the game unless someone was stupid enough to actually free the bitch.

Narutos masterplan had several goals but his main-goal was to utterly remove the Otsutsuki-clan from existence. He already had quietly removed Hagoromos connection to all the Akatsuki-members to prevent his presence from leaking out to the fake God.

He also planned to eliminate Sasuke and his parasite Indra as soon as he could. Both were an annoyance that he would need to deal with. Though he would need to wait until Itachi was dead with killing him. Naruto was still pissed off that Asura manipulated him into a creepy fan-boy of the Uchiha.

Naruto gave a somewhat creepy chuckle while daydreaming about his enemies demise.

„So, do we have an agreement?"

Kakuzu was looking calmly at the two people he was currently meeting inside a cave in Lightning-country. Standing in front of him were the famous „Gold and Silver Brothers" Ginkaku and Kinkaku.

„Yeah, when the Nidaime Hokage comes to negotiate with the Raikage we assasinate him and in exchange we are promised places inside your Organisation for your revolution."

Kinkaku and Ginkaku grinned sadistically at Ginkakus words. Kakuzu was forced to surpress an eye-roll, those brothers were powerful but his leader had already told him that they would likely die in their mission and therefore he was not to tell them anything to important.

„That is correct. Just make sure that the Peace-treaty never takes place and then you will join Akatsuki. Though just in case you die we would like some blood-samples, we plan to aquire Tobiramas Edo-tensei down the road and will summon you then during the war."

The brothers both grinned at the mention of a war and didn´t hesitate in cutting themselves with Kunai before filling the vials Kakuzu gave them with blood. Kakuzu merely pocketed the vials before slowly leaving the cave.

He quickly traveled to the nearest town where he met his partner Fuka. Seeing her smile seductively he again thanked his lucky stars. He and the Uzumaki-kunoichi were in a steady relationship for almost two years now. He still needed to surpress a grin from that one memory when Naruto walked in on them getting it on and almost getting a stroke. While not the way he wanted to introduce his friend to his relationship it still was the most amusing way.

Kakuzu would always be thankful to his blond-haired leader for his deeds. The man freed him, helped him get revenge and accidently introduced him to the love of his life.

For Naruto he would go through hell and back to repay him.