After a few weeks, with the help of Kakashi and Minato, Obito was able to pull himself back together. As for Itachi, everything was explained about the Uchiha extermination in full. Obito filled in some of the missing pieces. The plan was to obtain many sharingan and to stop a coup d"etat from the Uchiha. The one thing that bothered me about the whole incident was that not once was the Sandaime informed, warned or even hinted of knowing about what measures were going to be taken. It was a waste of a whole clan, because of the "Uchiha Pride" the peace negotiations never bore fruit. Even the Sandaime never agreed to their mistreatment when they were blamed for the Kyuubi attack. The majority of the decision was made by Danzo. It was stupid to not have killed him sooner. Uchiha Shisui was willing to sacrifice one of his eyes to use Kotoamatsukami, a unique Mangekyo Sharingan technique, to forcibly change the minds of the Uchiha elders to agree to the peace terms, only to be stopped and have his eye plucked out by Danzo. Only when the deed was done was the Sandaime informed. Dissolution of Root did nothing to stop Danzo from his schemes. Despite claiming that all of Danzo"s actions were for the betterment of Konoha, all he did was weaken it. I can tell that all of Danzo"s secret had worn the Sandaime down because he looked as if he aged by many years once he started reading through Danzo"s files from Root. One of my regrets was letting the ma.s.sacre happen. Unless I revealed my strength and figured out a way to not be affected by the Sharingan, there was no way for me to interfere at the time. I may have been strong but not strong enough to kill or even fight Danzo, let alone Itachi. If I can though, I will try to save Itachi, he was one of my favorite characters in the original story. Even though he was basically tricked, Itachi followed through his convictions. Now if only Sasuke wasn"t such an emo, he can become better. As for Obito, although disillusioned, he may have a harder time having Konoha to trust him again.
A few weeks later Konoha held a meeting with the Iwagakure to trade for Deidara. Once Deidara was mentioned, the Sandaime Tsuchikage Onoki and his escorts Kurotsuchi and Akatsuchi, were visibly shaken. Minato, Hiruzen and I were there for Konoha. I just wanted to see their faces as I have yet to fight with the old man only non-impressive shin.o.bi.
Onoki: So you have caught an S-cla.s.s missing-nin, what does that have to do with us?
Minato: Well, considering that the missing-nin is from Iwagakure and a part of the Akatsuki, we thought that there will be valuable information to be extracted from Deidara.
Kurotsuchi: And what?! You want us to just agree with whatever terms you come up with?
Onoki: Kurotsuchi, hold on a bit.
Kurotsuchi: This is bulls.h.i.t and they know it, Jiji (Old man).
Sage: So the fact that all of you were shaken and that the fat guy behind you still hasen"t closed his mouth at the sound of the piece of s.h.i.t"s name, doesn"t mean a thing to you?
Kurotsuchi: Who the h.e.l.l do you think you are? Deidarnii would never lose to the like of you. For all we know, the guy you have could be a fake.
Minato: Then let us bring him in. (Called for an Anbu to bring Deidara in)
Deidara: d.a.m.n, at least treat a prisoner with some respect, un. So you called the old man in to negotiate un.
Sage: Shut the f.u.c.k up. Speak only when spoken to before I get you a c.o.c.kmeat sandwich. (I kicked Deidara down)
Kurotsuchi: You b.a.s.t.a.r.d!
Sage: Oh, I"m sorry, I thought he wasn"t your guy. Why get so angry?
Onoki: Enough! (Looking at Minato and Hiruzen). What do you want?
Hiruzen: Onoki, listen. By trading Deidara back to you we only want to establish peace relations with Iwagakure.
Onoki: And nothing else? Do you expect me to believe that?
Minato: There is more. We need to divulge important information but only if you agree to the peace terms.
Onoki: So, let me get this right. You wanna trade over Deidara AND give us information only if we agree to the peace terms?
Minato: Correct.
Onoki: What are the terms?
Hiruzen: 1 S-cla.s.s, 2 cla.s.s and 3 B-cla.s.s Earth Release Jutsu.
Onoki: Are you trying to bleed us dry? 1 cla.s.s and 3 B-cla.s.s.
Hiruzen: You do realize that he is an S-cla.s.s missing-nin and we haven"t extracted any information from him yet, right? So if you want it brought down the lowest we can go is 1 S-cla.s.s and 3 cla.s.s jutsus.
Kurotsuchi: Jiji, don"t agree just tear them apart and take Deidara back.
Sage: Confidence is great but when you are overconfident I guess you want to die along with Deidara. Old man how about this, all three of you fight me, kill me if you can, if you win take Deidara and the information, no questions asked.
Onoki: And if we lose?
Sage: Hahaha. WHEN you lose, you will get Deidara back but you will hand over 3 S-cla.s.s and 5 cla.s.s jutsus.
Deidara: Challenging the old man while he can still move is a stupid bet, un.
Sage: (While looking at Deidara) I guess a c.o.c.kmeat sandwich will be on your menu tonight, I will go look for one of those gay guys just for you.
Kurotsuchi: Jiji. You have to agree. With just you alone we can kill him.
Onoki: Does he speak for the rest of you?
Hiruzen & Minato: He does.
Onoki: Something is wrong here. To have that much confidence on a young man whose b.a.l.l.s just barely dropped from 2 Hokages is really peculiar.
Sage: I will gag your granddaughter with my b.a.l.l.s. Considering your hesitation you must"ve already squashed your b.a.l.l.s as you sat down and watched the dust come out.
Onoki: (Fuming). You little s.h.i.t!
Sage: Get it right old man, the little s.h.i.t here is you. At least call me leaf s.h.i.t or young s.h.i.t.
Onoki: Fine. Have it your way, we will fight and you will die!
After the agreement Minato and Hiruzen told me to be careful but they knew I would win anyway so they let me provoke Onoki. I tried to hide my smile as best as I could. Kurotsuchi is not bad but she is no Mei, so I left her out of the agreement. Not to mention this is for Konoha not about me getting some strange on the side, I wouldn"t want to tarnish Konoha"s reputation. Onoki, Akatsuchi and Kurotsuchi were escoted out and led to an open training field. As we were walking they were chatting…
Kurotsuchi: If he even survives I might think he would be a good marriage candidate. What do you think Jiji?
Akatsuchi: Don"t say things you don"t mean.
Kurotsuchi: What do you mean? Do you know something?
Akatsuchi: We never have met him before but through intelligence we gathered he should be the Demon of the Leaf.
Onoki & Kurotsuchi: The Demon of the Leaf! HIM!!
Akatsuchi: He fits the description: Black hair, tall, hazel eyes, tan skin, a sharp gaze and the glaring fact that both of you missed, his tail.
Kurotsuchi: (Slapped Akatsuchi on the head) You could"ve spoken up dumba.s.s.
Akatsuchi: It"s not like he was hiding it. Even if I had said something would that have stopped the old man from getting provoked into this deal?
Onoki: Provoked or not, he will die