After traveling for a few hours the three got to know each other pretty well, Kana was surprised to find out he was the same age as her daughter, only just a few months older. Karin couldn"t stop asking questions mostly about his Star Chakra; Karin loved his Chakra unlike the usual blue or purple color of Star Chakra, his looked like a vast night sky littered with dozens of blue, red, yellow, white, and purple stars. She even said some things that made him blush and Karin"s mother scold her. It took a bit longer than expected but they had finally arrived at Konoha, the guards posted at the gates noticed him flying in while being surrounded by a never before seen Chakra."Who are you?" One of the guards asked, "I"m the grandson of the Hoshikage and I"m here to seek an audience with Konoha"s Hokage." The guard looked surprised, scanned over the boy and his companions, and he a.s.sumed the two red heads behind him were family members or escorts.
The Leaf Ninja then sent a message to the Hokage via carry pigeon, after a few minutes the bird returned and handed the Jonin a piece of paper. Reading it, he turned to the group and smiled, before saying "Please follow me to the Hokage"s mansion."
After being lead to the Hokage"s office Kibo saw an old man with balding grey hair and a pointed beard, on his face were three distinct markings that stretched out from the bottom of his eyes, he sitting behind his desk smoking his pipe, while his hands were furiously rushing through a mountain paper work. It took a few minutes but when he had finally cleared out the pile, he began rubbing the bridge of his nose to relieve his headache.
"So old Jun Hoshi finally had a grand kid; good for him, with such a talented grandson it seems the Village Hidden by the Stars might actually be able to rise up in this era. I look forward to future relations with your clan."
Hearing Kana and Karin were freaking out, he"s the grandson of a Kage, and the Hokage just paid him a complement. "Not all sir; I still have much to learn." The two exchange pleasantries for a while when Kibo said, "Actually the reason I came here was to discuss the future of my clan and Konoha"s future involvement."
Sarutobi gave the first serious look he had throughout this entire conversation "Oh and what have you come to discuss?"
"My clan is in a rather . . . bad situation right now. I come here to ask Hokage to take my people in as citizens of Konoha."
"Do you know what you"re asking?" Sarutobi said with a sad look in his eye.
"Please know that I don"t come here with empty hands." Saying this he pulled out a copy of the Pink Muscle Transformation Cultivation Technique and handed it to him. "This is something my ancestor left behind for my kin, it has been repaired and just about anyone can practice it. Normally to have any success in the technique one has to be able to use Lightning Chakra, but one can have a Raiton specialist apply this technique to another"s body as a subst.i.tute."
Looking over the scroll Sarutobi was impressed on how useful technique it was; Sarutobi looked at him again and nodded his head in an approving manner "From now you clan can be considered part of Konoha members. Giving away an S cla.s.s body technique will get you a large piece of land, and we can take care of your clans first year of expenses."
Kibo smiled, "I heard clans with a Kekkei Genkai can get a little extra." Sarutobi looked at him, "Has the Hoshi clan married into a blood line?"
Kibo shook his head, "No, I"m the first of our new bloodline." The trio"s eyes widened, "You have a?"
Before the Hokage could finish he activated his Tengan and surprised everyone in the room, "This is my Tengan, also known as the Heavenly Eyes." After clarifying his bloodline ability to the fullest, and explaining his village"s circ.u.mstances; the Hokage"s face became stern and resolute.
"No wonder you came to us, I doubt your clan could protect yourselves from dangers for very long, especially considering the condition your village is in now." Placing his hand up, he called out, "Inu!" A grey haired Anbu appeared out from behind the shadows, the signature dog Anbu mask, and familiar figure almost made Kibo shout out "IT"S Kakashi!" but he held himself back.
"Prepare a group of Jonin to help his clan move in beside the vacant land that we cleared out recently, also make it an S rank mission so no information leaks you understand?" Sarutobi commanded as Kakashi bowed before saluting and saying "Yes Hokage Sama!"
With that done, Kakashi disappeared as quickly as he came. Sarutobi then returned his attention to Kibo, "So young Kibo, how old are you?" Because of how well Kibo was built people usually misjudged his age so when he announced that he was four; the Hokage"s eyes bulged "Even Itachi only managed to activate his Sharingan when he turned 6. I don"t know what the requirements are to activate his Do-Jutsu but it must be far easier than the Sharingan and the Byakugan."
The Hokage was more than in a positive mood, due to the Kyuubi attack, the village was suffering from a lack of capable Ninjas, not to mention the accusation against the Uchiha being responsible for the a.s.sault, and losing the trust of some of their most capable Ninjas because of it. The 300 or so Star Shin.o.bi would more than make up for their loss.
"If you want you can stay here until your clan arrives, or you can head out and join the Jonin tomorrow." Sarutobi stated.
"I think I should leave with the group; that way my clan knows everything went well." Kibo looked to Kana and Karin, before stating "And now that this topic is over, I was hoping you take care of these two." Kibo pointed Karin and Kana; he completely explained their circ.u.mstance, while also telling the Hokage about their potential towards Medical Nin-Jutsu.
"I see no problem allowing them to become citizens, since you two came with a recommendation of a future clan leader, your first year of taxes will be waned. Once you complete your medical training we will employ you full time. Since you have no home one of the apartments in the lower sector will be given to you to live in for 1 year without rent. Are these terms acceptable?"
Kana and Karin nodded their heads up and down, "Thank you Hokage-Sama!" The two shouted making Sarutobi laugh. Waving his hand a Ninja appeared and led the two ladies towards their new living arrangements, but not before Karin gave Kibo a hug and kissed him on the cheek. "I"m gonna make you my husband some day!" She boldly declared before her mom dragged her off while apologizing.
Kibo"s face was beet red, he had never been kissed by a girl that wasn"t his mother; not in this life or the last. The Hokage teased him a bit by raising his pinky finger and waging it, before offering him a tour guide to help him find his hotel. Kibo thanked him while accepting, for the next few hours he was led around by an Anbu member wearing a monkey shaped mask. He was taken to all the best tourist locations and some the best food and drink products their village had to offer. When the Anbu member finally left, he heard an all too familiar voice saying "Hey old man! Give me the usual."
Kibo heard Teuchi"s voice answer the boy"s request "One bowl of Miso Pork Ramen; coming right up!" The smell of the food drifted to his nose and made him salivate, "MAN! Ichiraku"s Ramen is no joke! This smells delicious!" Not wanting to wait any longer he stepped inside to see a small blond kid wearing a blue and orange jump suit, his face had the traditional Uzumaki whisker markings on his face, and he was grinning like a fool as he was chowing down heavily on the bowl of ramen in front of him like it was the last meal on the planet. Taking his seat he looked to Naruto and asked "You seem like a regular what do you recommend?"
Naruto almost choked on his food, after jabbing his lungs a few times and downing a gla.s.s of water, he looked around and said pointing to himself "Are you talking to me?" Seeing his reaction Kibo sighed while thinking "Naruto is almost four years old and the village has already begun to ostracize the young Jinchuuriki." He could only continue to sigh in his heart as he replied "I don"t see anyone else here; my mom said I can"t spend all my money on junk food so I can only eat here once right now. So what do you recommend?" Naruto seemed really happy, other than the Hokage, Iruka, and the people at Ichiraku Ramen, Kibo was the first person to treat him kindly.
Naruto pointed to his bowl and said, "I"ve tried all the flavors here, and they"re all good; but the best in my opinion is the Miso Pork Bowl. The flavor of pork and miso mixed to the perfect consistency make the mouth water in antic.i.p.ation." Naruto went on, and on about the glory of ramen for a few minutes when he noticed that he was rambling on, he rubbed the back of his head in embarra.s.sment before saying "Sorry I tend to get a pa.s.sionate when it comes to ramen."
Kibo laughed and held his hand out, "No problem, it"s not a bad thing to have something you"re pa.s.sionate about. People like you tend to put all of their efforts into themselves and their ideals. You know what? I wanna be your friend. My names Kibo Hoshi what"s yours? "
"Fr. . friend?" Some tears started to form in Naruto"s eyes as he quickly wiped them away with his sleeve. Afterwards he put a innocent grin on his face and shook Kibo"s hand "My name"s Naruto Uzumaki and I"m gonna be Hokage someday, so making friends with me now is a really wise choice!"
"Well then future Hokage, were friends now!" Kibo said laughing.
Naruto seemed surprised by his actions, and said "You"re not gonna laugh at me, and say it"s a silly dream?"
Kibo looked to him with a smile on his face, as his order finally arrived as he twisted off his chop sticks and said, "Why would I laugh at someone who has a similar dream as me? After all when I grow up I"m going to become the next Hoshikage, and make my village a power that can rival Konohagakure!" Kibo explained that why his clan had to abandon the Hoshikage name currently; and then why he would be joining Konoha until he could realize that dream.
Naruto applauded Kibo and said, "Than I guess our village will have a great relationship seeing as us two Kages" will the best of friends."
"Yes I also intend to leave a branch of Shin.o.bi here, and maybe make an exchange to have a clan from Konoha take up residence in Hoshigakure." Kibo added. When Naruto asked why, Kibo explained that it was a show of trust. If he trusted Konoha with the lives of his clansmen, then Hoshigakure would respond in kind.
"Wow you"re so smart Kibo!" Naruto praised, "Of course, being a Kage is a lot of responsibility the smarter you are the easier time you"ll have managing the village. I don"t want to be stuck behind desk doing paperwork during my whole reign as the Hoshikage. So I hit the book"s early, Mom said that the earlier you begin gaining knowledge the easier it is to learn the knowledge; but you can"t give up half way, no matter how many times you fail, you need to pick yourself back up and try again."
"I see!" Naruto placed his hand on his chin and looked to Teuchi and asked "Hey old man! Where"s the library at?" Being surprised by Naruto taking the initiative to learn Teuchi smiled and told Naruto the directions. After Naruto finished slurping down the rest of his broth he paid for his meal and took off; but not before saying one last thing to Kibo "If you want to hang out again you can find me at this address." He threw a crumbled up receipt with his home address written on it, and like that Kibo caught it learning where Naruto lived.
With a wave good bye Kibo finished his meal and stood up from his seat to pay.
"It"s on the house!" Teuchi said with a smile on his face, "Why?" Kibo looked to him awkwardly because he most likely knew the reason why. Teuchi had a somber look on his face as he explained Naruto"s situation minus the Kyuubi "That boy doesn"t have any friends his age, I"d like to ask you to take care of him." Kibo laughed as he took out the money to pay and placed it on the counter.
"Old man I would have done so even without your kind gesture, Naruto"s my friend as well; I don"t care what other people say about him. I"ll judge him by his actions not by his origins!" Heading out Teuchi chuckled looking at the bills laid out, "What a nice kid, he even left a tip."
As he was walking around he noticed some dissatisfied looks on being tossed at the Uchiha clan members, thinking deeply he came up with an idea, one that might subvert the Uchiha tragedy. Kibo thought that since one is rewarded for doing good things in the afterlife, and then figured it"d be best to stock up on Karmic Point"s just in case he died again, plus he liked helping people, it was a win, win situation for him. "Might as well do what I can, I think I can help a lot of people in this world, that in turn will have many ripple effects that would give me even greater karmic points." He returned to the Hokage"s mansion and walked inside; he was greeted by the receptionist, after informing her that he wish to speak to the Hokage, he was told to wait a while. After sitting in the hallway for a good thirty minutes the receptionist greeted again him and allowed him to enter.
"So little Kibo, I hear you wish to speak to me about something?" Sarutobi asked while taking a puff of his pipe.
"Yes it"s about the Uchiha; why are they not in their usual land. Grandpa told me that they were the village"s law enforcement officers, shouldn"t they live in the central part of the village?"
The Hokage sighed as he blew out his smoke while saying "You"re awfully attentive to such things at your young age, I can understand if you were a genius and were a bit smarter; but the way you think is far too mature."
Kibo was afraid he"d been found out when he cleverly came up with an excuse, "My mom say"s I"m a genius not seen for centuries. Because I was born with a photographic memory, I learned to read when I was two; and during my last 2 years I"ve read over 10,000 books and scrolls gathered by my clan. Most of the books were on how to run a village and various other bits of information about the Shin.o.bi world; I even managed to decode my ancestor"s technique. That Pink Muscle Transformation Technique I gave you is the only technique of the 1st Hoshikage besides our Clan"s main technique that could be recovered."
The Hokage turned his head to the shadows and said a single name "Yamanaka?"
A tall older man stepped out from the shadows and spoke, "He hasn"t told a single lie sir." The Hokage sighed in relief, "Well now that we got that out of the way, I hope you don"t mind Inoichi"s presence." After bowing to Ino"s dad Kibo responded "Not at all sir, I can understand your suspicions, but I wish you to know, that I mean Konoha no harm, and only wish for its future well being to be prosperous and grand."
Sarutobi looked at Inoichi again as the Sensor Ninja nodded his head Sarutobi finally relaxed enough to trust this kid. "You would learn once your clan"s adjusted to living here anyway; the reason the Uchiha"s are being discriminated against right now has to do with the Kyuubi attack. The Nine Tailed Fox was being controlled by a Sharingan so many of the Elder"s suspect the Uchiha that have lived here for generations; a foolish thing fracturing our built up trust. Armed with this our Anbu Elder Danzo has finally managed to sway the rest of the council, and I was out voted for their stopping relocation."
Kibo appeared to be thinking really hard, when he shouted "I got it." The two elders looked at him, curious as to what he would say. "You have around 300 new residents moving in to Konoha, use us as a pretense to sway the other Elder"s minds. For instance you could say the Uchiha need to return to their position to watch over the new clan until we can be trusted."
"Not a bad idea, but what if they don"t bite!" Kibo tapped his foot on the floor acting like he was irritated, while trying to answer his question "Then state it as a probationary period for the Uchiha, hire someone from their clans who is loyal to Konoha to act as watchers. If you appeal to the Elders" in this manner there"s no way they can refuse, any back lip from that point on is just simple insubordination; that you as the Hokage have every right to overturn."
The Hokage stoked his beard as he laughed "Not a bad plan! Yamanaka inform the Elders" that their being summoned for a meeting tomorrow." The Hokage looked back towards Kibo "Is there anything else?"
Kibo bowed once more to the Hokage and smiled "That is all I wanted to talk about. Thank you for your time."
"No need for such thanks, you may have inadvertently helped this village overcome quite the troublesome incident." The Hokage responded with happiness in his voice.
Just as Kibo was leaving he added "Oh! Hokage you should inform the head of the Uchiha clan yourself, this is too big of a responsibility to hand off to some subordinate; it will also build greater trust as the Uchiha clan leader will know that you still believe in them."
The Hokage nodded once more "I"ll make sure I do that." As he left Sarutobi sighed, "That Jun is one lucky grandfather, I can only hope my future grandson will be just as good."
Kibo would have laughed if he heard him say that, and maybe pitied him a bit.
After running all around Konoha he finally arrived at his hotel, walking inside he quickly paid for a room and headed off to sleep, "G.o.d I"m tired I"ve been moving up and about all day." He let out a tiring yawn as he collapsed into his soft bed pa.s.sing out.
As he slept he felt his spirit wander, he appeared in a seemingly infinite s.p.a.ce of soft gra.s.s fields with ponds and forests, above him was a night lit sky full of star cl.u.s.ters that stretched on out as far as he could see, when he thought he was dreaming a chilling voice rumbled through out his consciousness. Kibo"s eye"s moved to the epicenter of the noise when he shouted mentally.
"System am . . . Am I dreaming?" After a bit of waiting a chime was heard throughout his soul.
"Thanks to the Host absorbing the star spirit and nurturing it with star chakra it has revived as a Ma.s.s of Chakra similar to that of a Bijuu. Its soul and consciousness has already begun to repair its self; an estimated two minutes remain until full revival."
"Wait I thought there were only nine tailed beast and the tenth being the true last beast?" Kibo exclaimed with worry.
"You forget Host, the Ten Tailed Beast came from a higher plane, there are many others like the chakra beasts" throughout the cosmos; as a matter of fact 10 tails isn"t the limit. There are many powerful beasts and monsters that roam these cosmos, they go by many names, Beast of Chaos, Star Beast, Tailed Beast, but the fact remains they are all Immortal beings."
Before he could ask and be surprised further, an intense burst of Chakra began forming into an azure blue serpentine shape. A loud and mighty roar echoed though out his mindscape when he saw a super ma.s.sive dragon with twin antlers each with nine branches sprouting from the ivory, the beast"s beak had two long whiskers that floated in front below its nostrils giving off a majestic look. Its soft scales looked like they were expertly forged with cobalt steel, the beast had two ma.s.sive muscular hind legs and overpowering arms with talons flexed shaking the s.p.a.ce around him, it looked at Kibo curiously as it let out a steam of air from its nostrils.
"Dragon!" Kibo shouted shouting at the super ma.s.sive beast before him, when the Azure Dragon let out a snort, the gust was so powerful that it nearly sent Kibo flying. If this weren"t his Beast"s Star Chamber he would have already died.
"I . . . am I still alive?" A sophisticated yet ancient voice echoed throughout Kibo"s mind, the dragon"s starry emerald eyes looked at himself then at Kibo, "It appears I have lost my true body, even my soul should have vanished by know, if not for you absorbing my fang and nurturing me here in this strange place; I fear I wouldn"t exist at all let alone as a Chakra Soul Ma.s.s." The dragon"s face moved near Kibo, "You have my thanks young humanoid mortal, as one of the only remaining Heavenly Star Dragons you have saved my existence."
The Dragon then seemed to be bowing to Kibo, "As you have saved my life, on my Honor as a Sacred Beast; this one"s life now belongs to you."