Change of Plans:

(the next day)

it was early morning and the sun is rising shining the whole village with orange hue, we find our mc meditating on top of third hokage's head.

(mc pov )

initially i just wanted to allow how things happen and was just concentrating on my own strength. that was my only focus, but then what? even though there are some deviations from the time line of canon, there are still things which are happening almost on the same direction.

nine tails attack has happened, and obito is presumed dead along with kakashi having sharingan. even with minato and his family he still is suffering cause i saw him some times spending time at the KIA stone stelle. is it alright to have him suffer like that?

itachi may still die due to having his decease, jiraya may die, i dint see asuma but what about him and kurenai. there is also haku and many other unfortunate people who will have to die. i know that kaguya's resurrection has to happen what with having the otsutsuki clans threat which will be out in open and the formation of shinobi.

but how can i protect everyone just by having stay passive. but i degrees, i am already making leaf passively stronger, but is that enough..

what about orochimaru, who was also making experiments, the uchiha massacre may appear even without danzo.. what with obito being part of the massacre, if not for danzo someone else can be controlled by obito and zetsu. can i have the lives of more than a thousand on my conscience.

with that i stood up, a plan already forming in my head and slowly said 'well, i was never one for subtlety anyways. guess i have to increase my strength more quickly at the same time help these guys out. and did i not want impossible odds, it seems to present itself'.

with that, i felt a weight release from my shoulders and felt more free, i felt something click inside me and my conquerors haki roared in approval. i guess this is just what i needed for the next step.

and then a strange smile appeared on my face ' guess i am going the harem route. that would be interesting too' with that i jumped from the hokage monument and went to my training with hiruzen.

(sarutobi training ground)

i appeared infront of hiruzen who was waiting for me in the usual place smoking.

hiruzen: you are late by an hour brat, what were you doing?

i just stared hard at him and started the first step of my plan. i bent on one knee before him who is looking confused and made my request.

'master, i wish to accelerate my training and need your permission to become a genin.'

hiruzen looked at me deeply and slowly replied back - you are already progressing nicely for your age. remember you are not even five years old, if you recklessly push forward it would be counter productive.

i thought about that issue. even though i am willing to, my young body does not have the capability to keep up with hardcore training. i need to atleast enter puberty for my body to adapt to such a training.

'master, i have an idea about how to overcome this hurdle, but for that i need to be part of real life and death battles and only then can i stimulate my body'.

hiruzen looked speculatively at me and asked - did you find a method to speed up your body growth. i will tell you that using external means will have adverse effects and shorten your life. but i know you are more intelligent than that so i will consider it. but the news of you being my apprentice already made it throughout the elemental nations, and orochimaru is also looking for you, so you will have to complete a trail by fire i will set up in which you may die. do you still want to go through this.

i nodded my head firmly.

hiruzen signed- tell me the truth, what brought this on.

i thought about it a bit and answered- 'master, i cannot give the whole explanation but i will point you in the right direction'

he nodded his head in understanding telling me to continue.

'you know about my power of sensing right? and that i have editic memory? i can even remember my dead mother just after my birth too.' looking at him i continued.

'when i was five months old, the village was attacked by kyuubi, i had felt its aura, its chakra and its hate, hell i even remember seeing it'

i think he was catching on where i was going, looking at his eyes going wider.

'natsume and mito have similar presence which i sense, the only way is if nine tails is sealed inside them'

that took away his breath as a pressure erupted from him but i bore it down and continued

'furthermore, the kyuubi appeared out of no where as if it was summoned, the only one who i found in the history where kyuubi was mentioned is in the legendary fight which made valley of the end. only one person was recorded to have a contract to sunmon kyuubi'

here he gave a tired sign, but i continued 'if its madara uchiha, from the records you collected which has information on his and first hokage's battle prowess, i dont believe he cannot take on the whole village after the first hokage's death in first shinobi war, so the only reason is he was not able to act'

here he gained a thoughtful look, and again nodded for me to contiue what i found.

'from there i can hypothesize that he was critically injured, but then the question is who was the uchiha who attacked 4 years ago? i believe madara was alive through some means and found a successor for whatever originally made him betray the leaf village and passed on the kyuubi contract to his successor'

i took a deep breath and continued- ' their is something missing from the information i gathered as in their is no record of kyuubi between the time of valley of the end and till four years ago, trying to find leads on where exactly the kyuubi was summoned from i took my attention to its history and last sightings and where it came from.'

now he was listening intently to what i was saying but i had a better idea.

'from here it would take some time to explain so i would ask you to gather the people from the yesterday nights meeting where i can explain about this in detail'

here he smirked in amusement - so you found out about that huh'.. then he thought about what was said yesterday and paled slightly.

'yes i heard everything and decided somethings' i said with a creepy smile.

'i would like to prepare for this meeting and gather more information' i said seriously to which he nodded his head.

i went to my room and meditated while thinking about what will happen after today.