Naruto: Systematic Shinobi

In the end, Lee outright ended up crying himself to sleep in Daiki's arms. Despite the brave face he'd put on and how he tried to shoulder on regardless, it really, truly had been weighing on the older boys mind heavily.

And Daiki would not hold it against him. Despite his unfortunate position being all his own fault and the height of stupidity, the dam had simply broken when Daiki made his promise to heal the older boy and the emotions he'd been holding back had surged out all at once and overwhelmed him.

Once he'd conked out, Daiki had simply put him back into his bed and left via the window he'd entered.

Which led him to now, walking through the streets of Konoha, back towards his home, 'The question is, how the hell do I deliver on that promise now?' he mused.

He really did have a bad habit of talking big without being one hundred percent capable of backing it up.

Sure, he could deliver on his half of things and keep Lee alive during the operation to remove the bone shards from his spine, and even fix it up good and proper afterwards so he didn't even need to go through a long recovery time like he did in the other timeline.

The problem was-

'How the fuck am I going to convince Tsunade to come back here?' he wondered. He highly doubted she'd return over a threat of being branded a nuke nin.

Nor would he go that far anyway. Tsunade was the greatest medical ninja in the entire world, the strongest woman in the world barring Kaguya who didn't really count, and a high tier S-class combatant.

Turning her against the village, was stupidity and he needed all the help he could get in the future.

'Maybe…Naruto?' he wondered, cupping his chin. It had worked in the other timeline, but there was extenuating circumstances that allowed him to bring her back in that world.

He couldn't be sure at all that would work here.

Especially since, if he had his way, Orochimaru wasn't going to be walking away after the invasion with something as little as two soul munched arms.

For one, he wasn't going to let the old man get to the point where he'd have to use the Reaper Death Seal. Even if he had to trap Orochimaru in the Four Red Yang Formation and spam Bijuudama after Bijuudama until he was sure he erased the snake man from existence.

Old man Sarutobi might not have wanted to get his youth back, but Daiki for sure wasn't going to let him croak that easily.

'Oh also, note to self, check out the Uzumaki mask temple and release Minato's soul from the Shinigami's stomach.' he paused as he remembered.

Though that of course would have to wait until after the invasion, so he didn't need to worry about Mr. Flash By grinding his innards to pulp with a Rasengan.

"Daiki!" a familiar voice calling his name broke him from his thoughts and the muscular looked over his shoulder to find a familiar pink haired, green eyed girl jogging up to him.

"Yo," he greeted Sakura as she reached him, "What's up green eyed lady?"

"…Is that a jealousy quip?" was the first thing she asked, giving him a frown and searching look.

"No?" Daiki tilted his head to the side, confused him, "Why, are you jealous of something I should know about? You just have green eyes, don't tell me you forgot about that?"

"Oh…" Sakura blinked, and then laughed, "It's just you have this habit of making stupid quips and little digs like that, especially when you're around Kakashi-sensei so I thought you were being you know…you."

"I am so not that bad." he denied.

"You kinda are."

'You kinda are.'

Both Sakura and Isobu replied at the same time.

….Damn, was he?

He coughed, "Fine whatever, I wasn't doing it now though," he waved it off, "So, what's up?"

"I should be asking you that," Sakura rolled those emerald greens of hers, "I've not seen you since the end of the preliminaries. Honestly, I've not seen Naruto or Sasuke-kun or Kakashi-sensei either. I mean, I know they're training, but I kinda expected to see them around y'know? I was on my way to visit Lee when I saw you jumping out of his window so I decided to catch you."

'…Seriously Kakashi?' Daiki deadpanned inwardly. Did that idiot seriously disappear on the girl and leave her with nothing to do? Sure, she wasn't in the final rounds, but come on, it was literally a full month where she was left with nothing to do, not even missions since she was allowed to take any herself yet being a kunoichi under Kakashi's command.

What if she was an orphan like him? How was she supposed to make ends meat to get by? That dude needed a kick up the ass.

"Sasuke and Kakashi are up in the mountains behind the training grounds," he replied out loud with, at least that was where he remembered they were training. He then turned, eyes searching and pointed in the direction of where he left a certain busty blonde, "Naruto, is somewhere around….there."

Sakura blinked, "…How'd you know that?" she wondered.

Daiki grinned, pointing at his eyes, "These eyes baby. Amongst other things like seeing chakra and through solid objects and such, I can also see up to ten miles away."

"Oh…" she made a small 'o' shape with her mouth, before stepping forward to look deeper into their eyes, "They're pretty. Kinda like Sasuke-kun's Sharingan, but a gentler colour and doesn't have the little comma things. And actually, I was meaning to ask about them, how did you get them? Are you from a clan or something I don't know about? Do you have a blooodline?"

No, he-

'Actually, you kind of do,' Isobu interrupted him before he could get to replying, 'Putting aside this status screen of yours, which I can't confirm is one or not, you do have abilities that will pass on through your blood. For one, your chakra is naturally much more potent, not just from my influence, but because of multiple different chakra's in your Heavenly Star Seal. Not to mention, my Coral Style, are full on a part of you now, even if I was taken out of you, you'd still have it. I'm fairly certain that will pass on to your children as well.'

Huh.

'Cool,' Daiki grinned, filing that tid-bit away for later, "Well, I'm not part of a clan, but I do have a bloodline. These eyes aren't part of it though. I killed a guy with these out on a mission and took them for myself."

"You mean…those aren't your own eyes?" Sakura gave him an odd look.

"Yup," Daiki confirmed with a nod, shamelessly, "Plucked them right out of his skull and them used the Mystical Palm Jutsu to implant them in my own after plucking my own out.

"….Ew," Sakura wrinkled her nose in disgust, "You seriously plucked out your own eyes to implant the eyes of someone you killed?"

"I mean, when you say it like that, you make it sound like a bad thing," Daiki pointed out, before adding, "Besides, I don't see you saying anything about Kakashi running around with another dudes Sharingan in one of his eye sockets."

"Kakashi-sensei doesn't brag about murdering someone and stealing their eyes." Sakura deadpanned back.

"What can I say, I'm just built different from that scrub," Daiki gave her a shit eating grin, "Besides, it was hardly murder. He was part of a duo that was enslaving and murdering civilians for kicks."

Saying it like that and telling himself that, helped him sleep better at night. Not that he actually needed all that much sleep now.

But still.

"…It's still gross though," Sakura shook her head, "Anyway, now that you've brought it up again, I was wondering if you could maybe give me some pointers on learning the Mystical Palm Jutsu?"

Hmm, right, she had shown an interest in it, hadn't she?

"Sure," Daiki shrugged, the quicker he got her started on things, the stronger she'd become in the future, "It'll have to be now though. I'm heading out for a mission first thing tomorrow morning."

"Okay that should be…." Sakura began replying only to pause, "A mission? Now? With the third round coming up? Where to?"

"Yup and the Mist Village." Daiki nodded, confirming.

"The Mist Village, now? Why are they sending a genin there? and will you even be back in time?" Sakura gaped at him.

He noticed quite a few people stopping to stare because of how loud her voice got there, so he put his hand on her shoulder, "Let's take this somewhere a bit more private."

"Alright." Sakura agreed and he made a single hand sign, before disappearing in a blur with a Body Flicker, taking the girl along with him.

They appeared not long later, at his home away from home. The origin and birth place of the one true grind.

Training Ground 69.

"The Body Flicker sure is handy," Sakura mused, "Do you think you could teach me it as well?"

"Shouldn't be too hard," Daiki shrugged, "Though it won't be much help in a fight for you. Without the Sharingan or reflexes the Yondaime Hokage, the tunnel vision will be killer."

"Ah…still, it's pretty good for getting around," Sakura hummed and followed him into the training ground, she paused though at the sign designating the training ground number, "You know…now that I know what you're like, I'm not at all surprised you chose this training ground." she looked over her shoulder at him to give him a deadpan look.

He smirked and looked down, staring blatantly at her ass stretching out those skin tight spats of hers.

Sakura snorted and gave him a dry look, "Yeah, that's about right," she nodded, and continued on, making her way into the actual training ground, this time though, there was a definite wiggle in her walk, "So, what's the deal with your mission? Why'd you have to bring me here to talk about it?"

Peeling his eyes off of her ass, Daiki shrugged, "Well, we needed to come to a training ground anyway for me to teach you," he replied, "That is unless you want to use the training spot I have at my place."

Sakura snorted, "No I know better than to go home with you," she turned to him, "I get a feeling there would be a whole lot less training going on there."

"Not really," he shrugged, "I might push things a bit, but you already know I'm not gonna force anything."

Sakura grinned at him, "Who said anything about you forcing it?" she teased, making him blink at the implications, "So, mission?"

"I'll be gone for at least a week, maybe two," Daiki shrugged, "I'm heading there to open up talks about the Hidden Mist Village allying with us."

"…You what?" Sakura goggled, "Why are they sending you? You're just a genin. Sure, in a completely different league from the rest of us Genin, but shouldn't a higher up be doing this kind of thing?"

"I am a higher up," Daiki shrugged, feeling no need to hide it, "I mean, it was already pretty blatant I'm just in the chunin exams for us to show off right?"

"…You did mention something like that…" Sakura's brows furrowed, "So does that mean, you've already been picked to be promoted to Chunin after the exams?"

"Jonin actually." he corrected her.

Her eyes widened, "A jonin, like Kakashi-sensei?" she gasped.

"Something like that," Daiki confirmed with a nod, "Not to mention, I'm next in line to be Hokage."

Sakura blinked, before bursting out laughing, "Hahahahaha!" great peels of amusement erupted from her lips, and lasted a good twenty or so seconds, before she managed to manage it down to just some small chuckles, wiping a tear of amusement from eye, "Oh, that was a good one. You as Hokage."

In response, Daiki said nothing, merely smiling at her, not at all bothered.

Slowly, the grin on her lips dropped and her eyes widened as realisation set in, as always, she was quick on the up take and his lack of reply said more than enough to her.

"….Oh god you weren't kidding," she gaped, staring at him in almost horror, "You, as the Hokage….how?"

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