Chapter 95.5- One Thousand Hands

XXXXXXX- THREE MONTHS SINCE THE ATTACK ON KONOHA

We had finally broken ground on the new tower. It had taken a while to secure all right families and their reallocations, but that had not been the real delay. The real delay had come from the fact that more or less every single shinobi under my aegis considered it to be a terrible idea. Some felt then wise course of action would be increasing the security around the tower to prevent an attack like Chiyo’s from happening again. So it went without saying that they viewed moving the tower as foolish. If I weren’t their Kage, they might even have said so to my face.

Instead, Shika was the one they went to with their grievances, hoping she could talk some sense into me. The other faction opposed to he move weren’t concerned about safety. They were the ones whose opinions I could safely ignore with little consequence. They did not want to move closer to the civilians because they felt the civilians were beneath them. They did not want to have t move through the civilian district to get access to their Kage. Well, If they bothered me less because of a change of location, then that was a blessing as far as I was concerned.

But the tower wasn’t my objective today. No, I was waiting at Training Ground 7 for a particular group of people. A group that were becoming concerningly close to running late. Well, running late for my standards which meant that it was already seven minutes before the time we were supposed to meet and they still hadn’t arrived.

Most of them I amended as the first dropped out of the treeline and raced until she was knelt right in front of me.

“Hokage-sama” Mikoto Uchiha spoke.

“Rise” I replied.

“Is there a reason the others want to test my patience today?” I asked her.

“I haven’t seen them in a day, Hokage-sama. The last time I did so, Minato was helping Kushina with a jutsu” She sai. I nodded. Alright then.

MInato was the next to arrive, arriving exactly four minutes before we were supposed to meet, and Kushina arrived last, a minute late.

“It seems we must revisit one of our earliest lessons” I said when all three of them arranged themselves in a straight line before me.

“Which lesson, sensei?” Minato asked, ever the adorable ball of sunshine. Oh, that wasn’t going to be lasting very long this time.

“The importance of punctuality. It seems like you all have a tendency to forget it, so I’ll be beating it into you. You know, to prevent future forgetfulness.” I said, watching Kushina groan, Mikoto take a step back and Minato take his stance. At least they were quick on the uptake.

“Defend yourselves” I said, crashing through Minato’s guard like a train and sending him flying through the treeline.