Acknowledgement

While two great villages were being crushed and smashed to oblivion, three remaining great villages were about to witness a thrilling battle without any knowledge of the threat.

A unique three way battle between Garra, Naruto and Fu, One tail Shukaku vs Nine tail Kurama vs Seven tail Chomei.

" This is such a bad idea, why did I listen to you Mizuki. "

Complained Tsunade as she sat on the main chair with Rasa and Yagura on her left and right.

" Because you don't have any ideas of your own, give up your undeserved position. "

Mei commented from behind Yagura, which Yagura promptly ignored, he had attempted to correct her before, but it was quite obvious there was something much more personal going on here.

It's better to keep his head out of this mess.

* Clench *

" What did you say?! "

" I said you are old, give it up. "

Now, Mei told Tsunade to give up her position as Hokage or give up something else, that's only for Tsunade to understand.

" Why you - "

" It's about to start, should I strengthen the barrier? "

Mizuki cut Tsunade off mid sentence, she was getting too excited, not a good image to showcase before the crowd, she did not care about such things, so he had to, someone has to make sure Konoha is seen as the strongest.

A war was incoming, only the strongest could lead, and he would be the one leading, both Konoha and the Ninja world.

" Hmm, you do that, do you need my help? My yin seal has plenty of chakra to spare. "

Mizuki shook his head with a smile, no, he was good, he was reaching Kurama levels of chakra about now, that's full kurama not the divided stuff Naruto had.

* Siwsh *

With a swish, Mizuki landed on the battlefield and all three genin turned to look at him with smiles of different emotions.

Naruto was giving his signature grin, Gaara was giving a small smile, one he had developed after Mizuki had told him about his mother's chakra, which was always there to protect him.

And Fu was so desperate to make friends, her entire day would be made if someone as much as called her name, she was the female Naruto without the unreasonable blessings of being an alien god, hence her nameless death.

" Alright, all three of you are the top candidates this time around, first of all I must congratulate Naruto for defeating Neji, that was an amazing show of Taijutsu prowess. "

Saying which Mizuki clapped and all the audience clapped with him, he was a big shot, his words held value and just like that, under Mizuki's control, Naruto got his first ever recognition.

Something which he always longed for, was now available to him.

' They are clapping for me..! '

Thought Naruto as he looked around everywhere, circling on his spot stumblingly, trying to take in all this, everything he ever desired, he had now achieved, all that remained was becoming the Hokage now.

But he was in no hurry, when granny Tsunade came to power, his lineage was revealed, and his treatment had undergone an earthshaking change immediately.

So he was still aiming for Hokage, as that was his dream, just not as desperately as he was at the beginning, he would let Mizuki take charge first.

As Naruto was done taking his share of glory in, Mizuki turned to Gaara.

" And now Gaara, you showed an ungodly amount of skill against Rock lee, the power and control you possess is unimaginable for many, wonderful job! "

Again a thunderous applause was heard as Rasa clenched his fist and regretted his decision to use Gaara as a tool so roughly, don't get him wrong, he would still do it, but he would have used a softer approach.

A little time with the blue spectre and Gaara was almost a changed man, even Shukaku didn't make things difficult for Gaara anymore, he didn't know what the spectre did but it was working.

" Thank you, sensei. "

Said Gaara as he bowed to Mizuki, he had gotten a thorough understanding about his life from Mizuki, his mother and understanding about Shukaku as well, he considered Mizuki his life mentor.

" Don't mention it. "

Mizuki waved away Gaara with a smile and turned to Fu, who he kept at last to build up her anticipation.

" And now Fu, hailing from the hidden waterfall, fought against the legendary Uchiha clan's sole heir, the owner of Mangekyou Sharingan and the current patriarch in power, and she won a spectacular victory! "

The thundering cheers almost made Fu see stars, she was so incredibly happy, she was being acknowledged, and she was being looked at without hate, this was the best day of her life!

" Yeeeah!! "

Cheered Fu ad she jumped high, which only increased the applause coming from the audience and caused the other two to also wave and cheer at the same time.

Seeing others also cheering for her, Fu looked at Naruto, and found Naruto was also looking at her, they both then awkwardly smiled as they rubbed their hair.

" Hey, wanna be friends!? "

Fu said first, getting rid of her awkwardness, Naruto smiled back as well at her very familiar enthusiasm.

" You betcha! I am Naruto Uzumaki! "

" I am Fu! You are my first friend! Hey wanna go eat after this battle! "

Fu said a little hopefully, go which Naruto responded with enough passion for both of them.

" Hell yeah! I know of this ramen place, it's the best place in the whole world! "

Fu's eyes glittered at that as she exclaimed

" Really! "

Seeing Naruto and Fu completely ignoring the now laughing crowd and happily talking their heart out, Mizuki shook his head, but he was happy too, he could see it now, Naruto had come out of the depression caused by his teammate's timely demise.

Seeing how similiar these two were, Mizuki had no doubt, they would be the best of pals soon enough, he would have let the neglected genin talk, but they had to try and kill each other first, it was the Chunin exams after all, so he had to sadly break them apart for now.

" While your enthusiasm brings hope to the alliance between leaf and Waterfall, we shouldn't lose track of what's important right? So are you all ready? "

Gaara nodded first, he was feeling pretty unnecessary standing between Fu and Naruto and wanted to just leave now, Fu and Naruto also understood their position and immediately became excited again.

Who didn't want to win?

" Alright, so instead of you three slowly transforming as time goes by, we have decided to start right at the top. "

Turning on his Mangekyou Sharingan, Mizuki looked at the three.

" I'll release each of your beast, you will still remain in control, so fight at your strongest! "

And get ready to face a war, we can't have you slowly master power anymore, thought Mizuki as he looked at all three and his Sharingan spun.

* Grooooowl *

Three terrifying howls were emitted as four shadow clone Mizuki's created a gigantic barrier for their fight.

On the Kage seat Rasa folded his hands.

' So easy to control, damn, no matter, he was still a sand Shinobi before, this fight would show the power of Konoha and waterfall as much as it would show sand's, even if Gaara isn't here anymore. '

Thought Rasa, he was thinking of how to leak his relationship with Gaara, him being his father would certainly bring sand benifits, Rasa just had to capitalise on that.

" By the way, I'll be announcing Gaara has joined Senju soon enough. "

Tsunade looked at Rasa and said with a smile, almost as if she knew what he was thinking, no way she would let this obvious plus on Konoha and Senju clan be lost to sand.

' Damn! '

Cursed Rasa inwardly but only nodded outwardly, sand was going to remain under leaf for a long time wasn't it.