134 Finding a new lead

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Hiruzen was enjoying his retirement peacefully inside his house, and his son Asuma even ended up adopting a kid, the same kid that used to be the pseudo-Jinchuriki of Kurama. So finding himself free, Hiruzen decided to help Asuma take care of this kid especially since he's got his hands full doing various missions and won't be able to take care of this kid properly.

But as he was watching Sora playing around while thinking that he was actually training. An Anbu that worked for Fugaku suddenly approached him to no surprise for Hiruzen who already sensed his presence but he was surprised by what the Anbu said next "Third Hokage-sama, the fifth Hokage wants you in his office right away, he says the situation is urgent!"

Little Sora looked curiously at Hiruzen whose eyes widened when he heard that there was something urgent as he thought 'Could it be… Is he finally going to make a move against those spies?', feeling curious, Hiruzen turned to this Anbu guard and said "Do you have any idea what caused this urgency?"

The Anbu guard shook his head helplessly as he responded "Unfortunately I don't know anything about it, the only thing I know is that this happened after that little kid Bakorio visited the fifth Hokage, anyways I need to go inform Tsunade-sama now, please excuse me…"

Hiruzen nodded at the Anbu and was sure now that this matter was about the spies 'Even Tsunade's getting called, maybe Bakorio brought new information, hopefully we could solve this matter as soon as possible…' thought Hiruzen before he turned to look at Sora and said with a warm smile "Sora-chan, I need to go visit a friend and I will be back soon, don't cause trouble okay?"

Sora looked at him innocently and nodded prompting Hiruzen to rub his head a little before he flickered away towards the Hokage's office…

Meanwhile, the Anbu left towards his next destination which was the Senju compound where Tsunade was currently living with her apprentice Shizune. After she stayed in Konoha for a while, she couldn't just sit around and do nothing so she took on the job as the head of Konoha's hospital and she goes there from time to time when there are situations like Mukai's son that are hard to treat…

And as she was relaxing in her backyard while having her morning drink… She sensed an Anbu enter the Senju's compound but he seemed hesitant of approaching her directly and if she knew his thought she would have smashed a hole in the floor using his head

'Should I really call this terrifying monster…' Thought the Anbu in worry remembering the recent disaster that fell on the Sarutobi compound when this monster paid them a visit but he was soon interrupted from his stupid thoughts when Tsunade suddenly appeared in front of him startling him awake…

"What are you doing here? Did that brat Fugaku send you?" Asked Tsunade with her hands crossed under her chest causing it to appear like it's about to explode…

"Y-yes lady Tsunade, the fifth Hokage-sama ordered me to call you and the third Hokage-sama for an urgent meeting…" said the Anbu nervously fearing that he might get punched into oblivion if she gets mad…

Meanwhile, Tsunade was thinking 'Only I and that old bastard were invited to this meeting? What could be so urgent to even make that guy Fugaku so worried?'

So, after contemplating for a while, she waved for the Anbu to leave before she left to the Hokage' office,, curious to see what would be worthy to interrupt her drink…

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For some reason, after Bakorio's casual visit to Fugaku to inform him that he was going to leave for a while to find Jiraiya. He suddenly found himself dragged into the same mess he dumped on them and right now, the previously empty office with Fugaku sitting alone inside of it now had 4 people and a fox in it…

Tsunade and Hiruzen kept looking curiously at Kurama sitting lazily on Bakorio's shoulder from the moment they entered, but after the silence kept building up for a while, Tsunade finally decided to break it and said "Bakorio, where did you get this fox?"

"hmm? This guy? I encounter a merchant that sells cheap foxes and I decided to get him as pet" Replied Bakorio with a smirk on his face prompting Kurama to suddenly open his eyes wide at him and growl "You little brat, who are you calling a cheap fox? Do you want to get eaten?"

Tsunade was having a bad feeling about this fox and the great amount of chakra it seemed to be suppressing, and not only her, but Hiruzen was the same because the moment he heard Kurama talk, he suddenly took two steps back and said with a stutter "T-T-This is the nine tails!"

Tsunade mouth opened wide as she looked at the cute one-tailed fox growling angrily on Bakorio's shoulder and finding it hard to believe or even process what Hiruzen just said, but Bakorio's next words fell like a thunderclap on both of their ears

"Yes that's right, and his name is Kurama, stop calling him a nine-tailed fox" replied Bakorio as if he was telling them something obvious, and seeing that Fugaku had no reaction regarding this matter made them realize that he probably already knew about this.

And just as Hiruzen was about to ask more about this. Bakorio suddenly interrupted saying "I know you have many questions but you can ask Fugaku about them later, you were called here regarding the matter of the spies and I have some suspicions regarding the last unknown spy"

Hiruzen did his best to hold himself back as he kept staring warily at Kurama who ignored him completely while Tsunade was intrigued by hearing this matter regarding spies so she asked Bakorio "Bakorio what do you mean by spies? You mean spies from other hidden villages?"

Bakorio shook his head and with a helpless look said " I wish it was that simple Tsunade, but this matter is far more complicated… here's what's bothering us…"

And so Bakorio started to explain to her and Hiruzen about the suspicion he reached thanks to Kurama's words and the minor knowledge he had from his previous world regarding a zero tail and hearing what he said made them completely forget about Kurama…

"And this is why I called you both, to ask you if you have any knowledge regarding such a forbidden Jutsu existing in Konoha or any of the other hidden villages since you are from the Senju clan and must have all their knowledge especially that of your second grandfather, as for you Hiruzen, you are the longest-ruling Hokage of Konoha and you are even hailed as the professor thanks to all your knowledge about various Jutsu, so please try to use that knowledge of yours to the best of your abilities right now…" Finished Bakorio his explanation causing Tsunade and Hiruzen to both fall into contemplation…

And after some silence, Tsunade was the first to speak and Fugaku and Bakorio immediately focused on her "I remember my seconder grandfather doing some research regarding the tailed beast and trying to find a way to add the attributes of their chakra to his own, making him in return gain various Kekkei Genkai if he ever achieved such a feat. However, there was no mention of an artificial tailed beast, at least not that I remember…"

'What the hell, That guy Tobirama is really ambitious, maybe if he didn't die young he would have actually achieved such a thing and the level of power he would attain at that point is simply unimaginable!' Thought Bakorio in admiration for the genius and innovation of Tobirama!

But just as she reached this point, Hiruzen suddenly let out a sigh and said "Who would have thought… someone would actually be stupid enough to open the gates for such a disaster…"

Fugaku's eyes immediately narrowed as he said "Hiruzen, please elaborate more" and he actually even got Kurama intrigued by his words as everyone in the room focused their attention on him…

"One day, I had the privilege of going on a mission along with the first and second Hokages, We received the news that someone was causing huge terror and going so far as to hold people as slaves, creating a lot of misery throughout the land of fire…" At this point, everyone couldn't believe that someone would actually have the nerves to provoke the land of fire when they were at their peak with both Hashirama and Tobirama alive. But Hiruzen's next worlds shocked them…

"But once we arrived, we found that we weren't going to deal with a human… The cause of that terror was a beast and it actually fed on the terror it caused to grow stronger…"

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