53. The Fifth Hokage- Shimura Danzo

"You should not show that book so openly in public, Ero-sennin. Some people might jump you," Yukio chuckled after saying that.

"Ahem, that wouldn't happen," Jiraiya said while clearing his throat and making the brush disappear.

"Anyway, you don't want an autograph?" Jiraiya tried to change the topic before the conversation turned to him peeping on the beautiful women of Konoha.

"I am good. Not like it makes any difference. I could always see you when I wanted to. You are not really a 'celebrity' in my eyes, nor do I have any intention of collecting it like some people would want to, like Miyuki and Kakashi."

"Makes sense."

"Anyway, how is your research going for your next book?" Yukio brought up the topic as being exactly the one that Jiraiya wanted to avoid.

'This brat, I bet he did that intentionally,' Jiraiya thought while looking around to find anybody hearing their conversation or looking at him with hostility.

"Actually, I am also curious. From what exactly do you get inspiration to write smut? Is it just looking at a naked woman bathing?" Miyuki asked with an innocent tone and a loud voice.

Yukio had closed the ears of Naruto and Sasuke even before Miyuki spoke the first word.

Jiraiya had panic written on his face as he had noticed that a few Female Jounins were nearby. He had seen them before more than once, so he didn't want to attract attention.

Seeing that they hadn't reacted yet, Jiraiya for now assumed that they hadn't heard Miyuki's voice.

Despite being more than a few hundred meters away from their position, Jiraiya knew that they were Jounins and could hear her words if they were actively enhancing their hearing.

Ninja males nearby were startled by Miyuki's words and looked at Jiraiya in embarrassment.

There were a lot of people in Konoha who would rather keep their 'hobby' a secret, to preserve their image.

Not everybody is as shameless as people at the top, who can ask for other party's resources even if they were the perpetrators in a conflict and act like nothing was wrong with that.

"Brat..." Jiraiya's mind raced, whether to run now or not.

"Hehe, just kidding," Miyuki said unapologetically.

Jiraiya looked at her with a blank look on his face for a few seconds.

"Old man, do you watch people having sex?" Yukio asked normally while still in his position of covering the kids' ears and then putting them in a visual genjutsu as they tried to lip-read their conversation.

"I..." Jiraiya was speechless at Yukio's question.

"That actually is an interesting question. I don't think just peeping on women is the only way you research, right?" Miyuki said in a teasing tone.

"I will use my right to stay silent."

Miyuki wanted to say something, but she was interrupted by the Third Hokage appearing on top of the tower.

Mob gathered around and cheered him, as they were excited about what the Hokage was going to say, as it had been a long while since he had made a public announcement himself.

"I have heard that Kakashi pulled a stunt on the old man by firing a jutsu at him?" Yukio stood up and then asked the little kids who were pouting at him.

"Yeah, he almost gave a heart attack to the man," Miyuki giggled.

"Well, the jutsu he used was so strong, you should have seen it," Naruto chimed in, forgetting his earlier grievance.

"Hehe, I have seen it already," Miyuki grinned.

"Maybe I should also do it," Yukio said while stretching his hand.

"How about no," Miyuki held his hand and disrupted the chakra that was gathering on his hand.

"Why?" Yukio asked, almost pouting.

"Well, today is a special day, lol," Miyuki almost wanted to join him.

Third Hokage was finally done with giving out pleasantries and then went straight to the point.

"Today, I have gathered you all to announce to you one of the new changes the village is going to have: That is the Fifth Hokage," Hiruzen said, and as expected, there was silence.

No, it was a deadly silence to be more precise.

They had known that a new Hokage would be appointed just after the Nine-Tails incident, but the Third Hokage had taken his reign back.

They had thought that it would be temporary till a new ninja was selected who was capable and suitable for the role, but no choice had been made and people waited if there would be a change or not.

They didn't expect that a new Hokage's appointment would be dropped at them without any prior notice, out of the blue.

So, it was reasonable for them to be shocked.

Soon, people started cheering.

"Woah, a new Hokage. I mean, it was weird that out of all Hokages, only Jiji was the old-looking one, but still, it feels surreal," Naruto said.

"Do you even know what 'surreal' means?" Sasuke teased the blonde boy.

"Hmph, I know, but I will not tell you," Naruto said while scoffing.

In reality, he didn't know. Otherwise, he would have said what it meant directly, to remove the smirk from the other boy's face.

"That is really a surprise," Itachi muttered.

"So, who's the new one?" Yumi didn't really care much about who was taking charge of the village or not, as to her it just seemed like a bothersome position that required being in line with the wishes of multiple people.

Which, naturally, is bothersome and time-consuming, let alone irritating, when you come to know that old farts at the top are the most shameless people and dealing with them on a regular basis is too much.

She could already see herself resigning within a week... after killing all the council members.

Itachi shivered suddenly and looked at Yumi with a confused gaze, as the latter was releasing bloodlust suddenly.

However, Yumi quickly hid that before other people noticed it, luckily, only some kids, a perverted sage, and two S-ranks were near her and were unfazed by her bloodlust.

The former was due to not being aware of noticing it as it was just for a brief moment, while the latter was for obvious reasons.

Looking at Itachi's gaze, she said, "I was thinking of what will happen if I become the Hokage for a week."

Itachi's confused gaze turned to understanding, then to a deadpan.

"Hehe, can't even take care of other people without killing them, such a brute you are," Yukio verbally poked Yumi.

"Hmph, you didn't teach me how to do that."

"You were too innocent back then to directly teach you, so I thought to indirectly give you some subtle hints and tricks in that direction, but you rarely picked it up," Yukio shrugged.

"Can't really see those 'subtle hints' when most of the time I am exhausted or in constant danger of dying."

"Fair," Yukio said and didn't continue the argument.

Despite teaching her personally very few times, he might have gone a bit too hard on her, especially later on.

"I will now announce the Fifth Hokage," Hiruzen spoke again after a long pause.

People's cheer increased as they thought that Hiruzen had just called them to announce that a selection would be made and they were called today to be told that. They didn't expect the Hokage to already be decided.

This was different than last time, as it was announced before only that the Fourth Hokage would be selected and on a separate date, Minato was appointed as the Fourth Hokage.

Which was not that long ago either, around seven years ago.

"Who do you think the Fifth Hokage would be?" Naruto asked.

He always liked the Hokage title and wanted to be the strongest ninja around.

Living with three Ninjas, two of them being considered two of the strongest ninjas and most of the people with whom he had interacted being - the Uchiha clan head's family and Kakashi, all of them coming in that category had birthed that idea and fueled it.

"Hmm, I am also curious," Sasuke thought while looking at the top of the Hokage tower.

"Is it Tsunade-sama?" Itachi suddenly asked.

He had initially thought that it would be Jiraiya, but if it was the case, Jiraiya wouldn't be standing with them.

"No, like she would return to the village for this," Jiraiya shook his head while wondering if he should make a visit to his old teammate as it had been a while since he had made one.

"Who knows, maybe you should try to 'convince' her properly," Miyuki said in a playful tone.

Jiraiya choked on his saliva.

Yukio chuckled at that.

"What... I am not even going to bother pointing out what is wrong with that joke," Jiraiya really wanted to be anywhere other than here.

"Tch, Skill Issue," Yumi said.

Jiraiya glared at Yumi, the latter removing her gaze away and whistling away.

She moved behind Miyuki just in case the pervert did something.

She would have normally hidden behind Yukio, but the latter would have thrown her at the pervert.

Hiruzen finally spoke up, attracting everyone's attention.

"The Fifth Hokage is the man who had done a lot for Konoha... Shimura Danzo."

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A/n- Lol, were you expecting this? 

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