Chapter 53: Grandpa, You're grounded!

When Some had returned home, he greeted Hinata and found her looking like she had something to say but seemed reluctant.

"Hinata, If you have something to tell me, you should say it." Oden said, as if there was nothing that could shake him.

"Erm... grandfather-Sama did something... bad..." She whispered.

"What did he do?" Oden asked. Normally, Migoto and Mina stopped informing him of his grandfather's mischievous activities.

They usually threw away complaints they receive as Oden told them that those letters are something called "spam mail" And should be thrown away.

The fact that Hinata told him means that something bad happened while he was away.

Seeing that she seemed reluctant to speak, Oden hurried to his office and found a few letters of complaints.

"To the patriarch of the esteemed, Oden Clan, from the Sarutobi clan.

Oden-Sama, I, Hiruzen Sarutobi have a complaint to you. On the day of xx-xxx-xxx your grandfather, Akai Zaraki arrived at our Clan and challenged me to a competition... of getting the most girls, as he claimed. I declined, but on this day he seemed more rowdy, the cause of it might be that he knew that you left Konoha the day prior. After I declined, anger overtook him as he set my house on fire after I left the district.... He also...no, nevermind, Please, from one Clan head to another one, put a leash on your grandfather!" The letter from the Sarutobi clan said.

Hiruzen kept a formal tone which is unusual for him, meaning that he probably is very unhappy...

Oden picked up another one.

"From Aburame Clan, to Zaraki clan.

If you do not control your elder, Akai Zaraki, we will instigate a rebellion against your clan.

After we refused to teach him how to keep spiders away from his room, he became angry and secretly gave out Icha Icha books to our young teenagers.

They have become addicted and refuse training!!!

Please, keep Akai Zaraki in check, otherwise, we will have to keep your clan in check." The letter said threateningly.

Oden's eyebrow twitched, Aburame Clan was a stoic clan that rarely showed emotion... yet this letter contained so much of it. His grandfather is a master indeed.

Oden picked another one.

"To Oden Zaraki, clan head of Zaraki Clan, from the fifth Hokage, Tsunade Senju.

As the fifth Hokage, I am sending you a bill of charge for the damages Akai Zaraki made on the Hokage monument.

On the xx-xx-xx, Akai Zaraki burned down the house of the Sarutobi clan head, then continued releasing his anger on the Third Hokage's stone face on the Hokage monument, completely destroying it. You will stand for all the costs of rebuilding it. Send xxx,xxx,xxx ryo before the end of the month.

Control your clan member! There are multiple cries of complaints from many clans! There have even been threats of rebellion...." The Hokage wrote, it seemed like she had more to write but couldn't bring herself to do it.

Oden felt his blood boil, that old man always made trouble, and now that he left the village for a little while, his grandfather made even bigger trouble.

"Migoto, where is my grandfather." Oden said with an ice cold voice.

Suddenly Migoto appeared beside Oden.

"Master, he escaped the village long before you arrived...." Migoto informed.

"You know he isn't allowed to leave the village without my consent, what was his excuse for leaving it?" Oden said in an even colder voice.

"He said that...." Migoto couldn't bring himself to say it.

"What did he say." Oden commanded.

" He said that he wanted to travel the land... to find himself and realise who he is on the inside." Migoto said quite awkwardly.

"THAT OLD MAN IS AN ANCIENT RELIC, WHAT DOES HE MEAN FIND HIMSELF?! HE ISN'T A YOUNG FEMALE TEENAGER WHO WANTS TO TRAVEL EUROPE!" Oden shouted in anger.

Migoto was shocked, had never seen Oden lose his temper like that before, his young master was even using pretend words such as Europe.

Migoto's eyes reached the letter from the Hokage that was dropped on the floor, and there he saw a big, very big amount of money that the Hokage was billing the Zaraki clan the damages that Akai Zaraki caused.

Migoto suddenly understood why his clan head lost his temper.

"Master, should I bring back the old master?" Migoto asked, trying to help relieve some of Oden's problems.

"Sigh... I am sorry for losing myself like that, no leave it, When he returns I'll teach him to behave." Oden spoke as if he was talking about his misbehaving son.

"Yes young master!" Migoto said stoicly. But on the inside, he felt the butterflies flap around. It has always been his dream to see the young master teach the old master a good lesson.

Migato had always looked up to Akai Zaraki and served him well, but there's one thing he loves more than serving the Zaraki clan, it's when the Zaraki clan head slaps faces.

The first time he served Akai, he had seen him slap faces on a daily basis, and since then he had become addicted.

"Young master before you handle the old master, please call upon me so that I can mediate between you two in case it would become heated." Migoto said with a tone of respect.

'Rather, so that I can throw fuel into the fire, and make sure the slap resonates throughout the centuries, I can't wait!' Migoto thought to himself.

"....Sure..." Oden said reluctantly, he felt that his old servant had some ulterior motives.

After that, Oden went to handle other matters that had piled up while he was gone.

The day after Oden had returned, the chunin and genin that had gone to retrieve Sasuke returned and went to report to the fifth Hokage.

"And then we were in a dire situation... that's when all our enemies suddenly became decapitated at the same time." Shikamaru reported.

"Decapitated?" Tsuande asked suspiciously, yet she saw all their faces being serious.

"Yes, at first we were confused but it turned out that Oden-sama had caught up to us." Shikamaru further explained.

Tsunade nodded in understanding.

"He then left toward where the fight between Sasuke and Naruto took place..." Shikamaru saidz but he didn't know how to explain the rest.

"Continue." Tsuande said, curious as to what happened after. She had taken a liking to Naruto as he reminded her of her deceased brother.

When they returned, Naruto was unconscious and Tsunade was the doctor that took care of him so she knew that Naruto was in the hospital at the moment.

"Not long after, Oden-sama returned with Naruto and a scroll with a body sealed inside it." Shikamaru said as he handed her the scroll.

Tsunade showed a surprised expression as she didn't think Oden would kill Sasuke.

"I see, then you can leave now!" She said.

"No Hokage-sama, we also came to conclusions as you just did but please unseal the body." Shikamaru said as he saw that she also misunderstood.

Tsunade unsealed the scroll with a frown, understanding that something unexpected must have happened.

When she saw the dead body being released, it took a second for her to understand what she was seeing. But this time, she showed no expression on her face.

The chunin and genin saw their hokage.unsealing the scroll without emotion and when Orochimaru's body was released she just stared at it for a second before telling them that they could leave.

"You finally met your end..." Tsuande whispered. The truth was that Orochimaru was still someone she considered an important person to her, even though they had become enemies.

She sat down on her chair and released a sigh.

"Anbu, release the news that Oden has defeated Orochimaru, the missing S-rank, and hurry towards the Sarutobi clan and give the third the news right away." She said, her sight still on the dead body.

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