Assassins Creed System - Chapter 6 Meeting Sandaime Hokage

I was shocked as I expected as least some people to have had the time affinity at one point however apparently the time affinity was something which was exclusive for the Otsutsuki in this world.

Taking down the seals sensei sternly says to us that it was time to meet the hokage and that we were to be on the best of behaviour. Minato had yet to say anything as he was too shocked that his friend had such a legendary affinity as although he had the speace affinity it wasn’t so rare that it was impossible for him to have it however the time affinity should be impossible to have unless you are a pure Otsutsuki. And before you say well shouldn’t Hamura not have had the time affinity then? He only got it later in his life as his byakugan which was inherited from his mother mutated when he was meditating on the moon thinking of the frailty of time which mutated the byakugan into the tenseigan.

Walking along silently towards the hokage tower I broke the ice by asking sensei if the time affinity was the reason he didn’t have any basic elemental affinity. Ruminating on my question for a bit he has said that it would be the first case that someone on the elemental nations had been born without a basic element however it was also the first that a non-Otsotsuki was born with the time affintity which makes it a possibility that the time element is so dominant that unless you have no basic or advanced affinity it won’t manifest. If born with just the space affinity which was equal to the time affinity appears ok which means that although the time affinity won’t manifest with a lower element than it it will still manifest with an equal or higher element.

Reaching the hokage doors me and Minato stifle our breaths as we can feel the dominating aura radiating from the building, especially at the top where the hokage resides. Gathering ourselves we follow sensei in who contiues up to the receptionist to let her know that thye have an appointment. Checking the schedule she does indeed see that they are scheduled, she motions them to begin going up.

Reaching the doors of the hokage’s office sensei knocks on the door waiting on the command to enter.

After a minute of waiting we finally hear the hokage call us to enter, walking in I notice the massive pile of papers stacked all over the place which the hokage is doing his best to finish. Looking up from the paper he had just finished the hoage takes a smoke of his pipe and then lets the smoke out of his mouth as he puts the paper away and then seals the paperwork away for the moment. Sighing to himself about the difficulties of his life he watches us as we arrive at his desk. Sensei and Minato greet the hokage by bending down on one knee and saying “Hokage” however I will never bend to anyone I would rather die so I just nod my head down and acknowledge his status by announcing “Hokage”.

~Sarutobi Hiruzen’s POV~

I sealed the paperwork I had finished into one seal while I sealed the other paperwork yet to be finshed into another seal, finishing that I sigh about my life as hokage, I am so busy I barely get to spend time with my wife anymore ‘Haiz’.

Taking a smoke out of my pipe I look at them as they approach my desk. Nagoko Yugaro (the jounin sensei) and the young Minato do the standard greeting when people see me in here however the other young man, Altair, remained unbending and only put his head down and acknowledged my status.

Musing to myself I decide to give him a little test to see just how ‘unbending’ he is. It was just as I had finished musing that I felt the anbu start to direct killing intent towards the young man I just wave them away with my hand as although I wanted to test the young man I didn’t want to scar him as what would I do if the killing intent stopped such a young prodigy from fulfilling his potential.

~Altair’s POV~

After I had put my head down I suddenly feel eyes on me and I feel the urge to look around however I may not want to bend my knee to the man but his strength demanded respect. The eyes began to bore through me and I could feel something trying to make its way towards me, my heart started pulsating once I felt, what I now knew was killing intent, and I could feel the adrenaline start pumping through my body as my eyes started to glow the longer the killing intent lingered on me which luckily for me went unnoticed as I had my head bent down.

Thankfully though the hokage waved, who I assumed to be the anbu, off and stopped the killing intent although the killing intent scared me at first as I had never been in a situation where I had felt someones pure intention to kill me however something in my blood became excited and pushed me to thirst for fighting and breaking the person behind the killing intent. Although I felt that urge I quickly controlled it.

“Rise” Sandaime stated so that we could raise our heads.

Raising my head I could see that he had an amused expression however he quickly hid that expression as he quickly acted as if he had been offended.

“What made you think you didn’t need to kneel to me, boy?” He icily asked expecting for an answer.

“I bend to no one, although I respect you and your strength I will still not bend to you” I replied steely.

“Oh, really now. I beg to differ” He stated once again as he began to release the pressure that he usually kept within himself.

Gradually increasing the pressure as time went on, surprising for him I could resist up to the end level of mid genin level pressure which shocked him as he could feel that I hadn’t even broken through past the first gate.

At first I was okay with the pressure however once it crossed into the high genin realm pressure I began to feel the strain however I could deal with it. Eventually more time passed and he eventually increased the pressure to low chunin pressure. My head began lowering because of the pressure but my back was straight along with my legs as if I was a sword stabbing towards the heavens threatening to slash them apart. Once he increased it to mid chunin pressure I felt my chakra in my body beginning to condense at a faster rate, it was then that it hit me that I could use this chance to break to the x4 density for my chakra. Quickly focusing myself I start cultivating my chakra, at first no one noticed however as my cultivation continued I began to glow blue as the density of chakra around me was very high. My chakra was increasing at an alarming rate even with me having to condense the new chakra coming in. The number that I was stuck at 48 was quickly passed.

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As soon as I broke through to one chakra unit with four times the density I felt my chakra channels widen and being strengthened along with my body however along with my chakra density increasing so was the pressure which just skyrocketed the collection and densation of my chakra. Now the pressure was at low jounin.

5,6,7,8,9,10…

My chakra was collecting faster than I thought it ever could and I began to revel in this feeling which I knew would be rare in occurence as I don’t believe the hokage will be my personal cultivating helper. The pressure was now at high jounin and my back was beginning to creak as I denied the hokage the pleasure of making my back bend as my primal instinct for freedom overruled the pain I felt. My chakra once again gained a boost which directly boosted it to 42.

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The moment that I broke thorugh to 5x the density of normal chakra I could feel both my spirit and body going through a metamorphises.

To the others it appeared as if the chakra around me had turned into a cocoon and was quickly becoming brighter the more chakra I gathered. Quickly sealing the area and killing the root member that he had sensed from the beginning but had given Danzo the benfit of the doubt however this was too sensitve to let out from this room which he would make sure his anbu guards understood very well as unlike his future self in the time of the Naruto anime/manga he was more decisive as the time behind the desk hadn’t yet dulled him from the sharp blade he used to be on the battlefield. In fact he was regaining his sharpness because of the second shinobi war as he had to go to some battlefields and support the troops to ensure their morale and their safety.

Noticing the trend of it getting faster the more pressure he uses he began to quicken his rate of pressure release. Low kage pressure… mid kage pressure. He outputted the maximum pressure he could exert right now as he had not yet had the time to grow and further his chakra he was not as high as high kage yet however he could still give them a run for their money thanks to his self created five elements arts.

Brightening in a supreme brilliance the chakra I had gathered was finally done with it’s metamorphises. Although the sandaime hokage had used his pressure it didn’t condense his chakra anymore as it only increased by 37 whilst the rest of the pressure was used to complete the metamorphises.

Dissipating from existence the cocoon of chakra revealed the ‘new’ me. My clothes were slightly torn from the pressure and changes to my body. I also stunk a little as my body had expunged a lot of impurities that were present within my mortal body. Looking around as I adjusted to the changes I felt as not only had I qualitively changed in both mind and body.

Looking at me and realising that I had expunged my impurities the hokage quickly uses a water jutsu to soak me and then collect the impurites and then he used a fire jutsu to burn the water with the impurities, then he used a wind jutsu to clear the mist that had been created.

“Now you have some explaining to do” The hokage looked sternly at me.

“*Sigh* Alright, instead of just breaking through past my gates I have been collecting and condensing my chakra to make it more powerful than regular chakra, before you placed your pressure on me my chakra was three times as powerful as normal chakra which meant that I could match someone with high genin level chakra however the disadvantages are that it takes longer to refill your chakra and that although it is more powerful than regular chakra it is still the same amount afterall therefore I have to make sure that every fight is short.” I quickly explained to the hokage as I didn’t really see any important reason why it should be kept from the hokage.

After finishing my explanation he assumed a thinking pose whilst he was internally thinking ‘why the hell couldn’t we come up with that but a three year old could’. Breaking from his thoughts he looks back at me and then suddenly asks something that surprises all of us, even the anbu.

“Will you, Altiar, become my successor?” Sandaime hokage asked in the most serious tone I had ever heard however I had to politely decline.

Dumbfounded that I had literally just said no to being the future kage however he didn’t give up and asked that I at least give him a reason.

“Hokage, I may become powerful in the future but I will not be suitable to leading a village…” I was about to be interupted by the hokage however I already knew what he had planned to say and interupted him “I know what you are going to say ‘You can be taught the qualities and skills to properly lead, after all, you are still young, very young’. However I know my character best and know that I am to prideful and stubborn to lead a village buuuut I do know someone who is very suitable for the role of hokage”.

“Oh, and who would that be?” he asked bemused that I would offer the kage seat to someone else as being kage is seen as the highest honour of the village.

“He is right beside me, Minato” I quickly say not leaving time for my friend to say anything as I knew that he would be modest and refute what I am about to say.

“Minato is suitable as I know his character second best, if not the best. He is caring, flexible and has potential. Yet while he may be caring he can be strict and crack down when it is the time to do so. He is flexible which means that he can make the best out of what the village has to offer and is more prone to listening to advice from others. Minato also has one of the best potential alongside myself.” Finishing my lengthy introduction of Minato’s good points I notice that he is now looking at me with gratitude as he believes that I gave up being kage for him as I knew that his dream was to be kage.

Satisfied with my explanation he turns to Minato and then asks him if he would like to be his successor. Minato then excitedly agrees and then hokage began going into specifics with Minato about training regimes which would only be taken by his clones as not only does he have a lot of paperwork thanks to the war he also has to occasionally check out the fronts and give the konoha nin reassurance and morale.

Minato asked him a questionn mid way and then another him appeared from a puff of smoke and then he explained that there was a technique called shadow clone jutsu that makes a copy of the user and unlike elemental clone jutsu’s can transfer the memories and experience it has had.

It was at this moment that I chimed in by saying “then why don’t you use these clones to do your work for you since if they sign or meet people they can share the experience at the end of the day. Thunderstruck his jaw fell as he realised that he had been outsmarted by a child yet again however he was not angry as this would help a lot with finishing the paperwork that keeps piling up on his desk.

After this little episode he then continues talking to Minato about details of the training and what he would need to learn about being kage.

Minato and the hokage finished talking they turned and then looked at me, the hokage then asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up to which I answered “anbu commander” which surprised him.

Asking for the reason once again I explain that I wish to be Minato’s shadow as I take a different route from him. I take the road of the shadows while he takes the road of the light and then we meet mid way giving birth to something new which will bring this village to a new high that had never been seen before. Whilst I was exaggerating the future the hokage seemed taken in as I continued.

After that he was satisfied with my answer as he knew that every kage needed someone to handle the darkness that laid behind the light whilst also having said shadow to be loyal to them. He once again sighed within his mind when he thought of Danzo as he was supposed to be his shadow yet the years had only incited his greed for the hokage seat and his resentment towards him for being chosen by the nidaime hokage to be the sandaime hokage instead of him.

*Cough*

Sensei Nagoko coughed lightly reminding us of his presence whilst internally crying that we completely forgot about his existence. The atmosphere then became quite awkard as I was internally thinking ‘he really is a side character, I barely remembered he was here’.

“Ah, yes. You are here to report their affinities, what was the result?” Sandaime hokage asked sensei when I realised that I might just give the old man a heart attack if what he said about my time affinity was right,

Sensei then explained what Minato’s affinities were which he was impressed that Minato had so many of them however what he heard after shocked him so much that his jaw had dropped for the second? third? time tonight. Noting the seriousness of the issue he immediately declared this as a SSS secret which was accessible to only the hokage, not even the councilmen are able to know what the secret is.

Sighing yet again he then tells us that we were free to leave. Sensei quickly tooks us for a bite to eat at ichiraku ramen before taking us back to the orphanage.

Once we were back to the orphanage before splitting up Minato thanked me profusely as although he was a bit upset that I kept such a secret from him he eventually moved past it as I had managed to bag him the title for next hokage. Before we seperated he also told me that from now on that he was to train with the hokage whilst I was to continue my current training.

And this was what I would spend my next few years doing before officially finishing everything I would be taught, which was coincidentally just before the graduation exams for everyone to become genins.