Akame's Shadow Clone went to the academy, only to see Hiruzen smoking in his office.
She threw her special long and non-edged kunai straight at him, covered in lightning chakra.
Hiruzen barely managed to dodged, and the special kunai got stuck in the wall.
It didn't pierce the wall. Afterall, it is made of Hashirama™ strong wood just like Hokage Office.
She reminded herself to also add steel on every side of the walls to prevent White Zetsu from spying.
Anyway, Hiruzen coughed, and threw away his cigar into the trashbin.
"What brings you here, Hokage-sama?"
"You are smoking? In the academy?"
"Ahem! I am sorry. I won't repeat this."
"Your 1 year salary will be cut. And write an apology letter and display it on the notice board."
"Yes. I am sorry."
Hiruzen quickly accepted the punishment.
Even Tobirama-sensei punched him when he smoked. And since he, Hamura and Akame were a team, she will always put him under genjutsu whenever she caught him smoking in secret.
And this time, he almost died. Akame would probably have done an 'oopsie'. There was killing intent in that attack, nothing holding back.
Akame sat down on a chair, and looked through the reports of all the children in the academy.
Perhaps due to her and her mother's interference, many things have changed.
Like, Tsunade and Nawaki being born earlier. Due to the founding of Konoha being early.
And First Ninja War also ending early. In the original timeline, probably the war was still ongoing after Tobirama-sensei's death. That's why Hiruzen must have sent back the Sage if Six Paths' treasures to Kumo.
She had decimated the entire Land of Lightning, so everyone in the country at that time protected their children and everyone else mostly died.
And Kinkaku and Ginkaku forces along with other Jonins that had come back to Kumo after Kumo's surrender were wiped out by Tobirama-sensei.
Well, if that was the case, she could only sigh. Being afraid of consequences of war is one thing. And revealing your fear to the enemies is other thing. Hiruzen should have not bowed down under pressure.
Anyway, from the reports, it seemed that Hiruzen is doing a good job as the Principal of the ninja academy.
D-rank missions inside the village are handled nicely.
And the general knowledge about politics, business, finance, and engineering are added as side subjects as she had wished.
Smartphones are still a long way to go. But in some years, electricity should be invented.
DC(Direct Electricity) is already in the Fire capital, but it is very expensive. And though she knows that AC(Alternating Current) is used in households and is less expensive, she doesn't know HOW to make it.
But, she frowned as she saw the list of her students.
Tsunade and Nawaki have been born earlier. But probably by just a year.
Sakumo, Tsunade and Might Duy are in the same class. 6 year old. Class 2.
Her fourth student, Orochimaru is 5 years old. Class 1.
Jiraiya and the Chimera Jutsu guy are also in his class.
Hiruzen said, "You must have recognised Orochimaru's talent, placing him with seniors."
Well, she simply didn't care about 2-3 year difference. Afterall, the final teams will be finalized on graduation. Right now the jonins are just to give them simple guidance whenever they have time.
"How are your students?"
Hiruzen's team has Dan, Jiraiya, Uchiha Indra and Hyuga Hikari.
"Dan is the best amongst them. Indra and Hikari aren't also far behind. Jiraiya... is special, but I am sure that he will come around as he grows up.
Though, Hikari seems stressed."
Fucking Main Family.
"I have suspended the son of an Hyuga elder for a year. He is in class 1, but will need to have readmission next year.
These guys are a headache.
Anyway, make sure that Hikari isn't in any trouble. Ask her to tell if anything happens. I have given the Hyuga clan a firm warning.
And, Jiraiya huh... Is that guy a pervert?"
"*Cough* *Cough* No, well, yes. But I think he just has some bad influence from the older guys in the orphanage!"
"Don't rely on him to just magically 'GROW UP'. Bad behaviour should not be tolerated and immediately be corrected.
Being a little mischievous is fine, but there are boundaries."
"Yes."
"Correct that behaviour before he reaches puberty."
"Yes."
"Alright. I don't want to cause a commotion in the Academy. I just want to introduce myself to my team, I will visit every kid some another day."
"I will call them here."
Hiruzen went and returned with the kids.
Tsunade, Sakumo, Duy and Orochimaru.
Tsunade was just like she saw her last time. Brash and spolied.
Sakumo was nothing like Kakashi. He seemed more like Academy Minato, but clearly introverted.
Orochimaru was smallest among the group. Quite cute.
But she couldn't even recognise Duy if not for his thick eyebrows. He was scared of her. Hiding behind Sakumo.
There was no Youthful energy.
She shuffled their heads and lead them to an empty training ground.
"Hey hey Akame nee-san~ can you lend me some pocket money?"
Akame's eyebrows twitched at Tsunade's pestering.
She has just told Hiruzen to correct Jiraiya's behaviour, so she should correct Tsunade's behaviour as well.
"We will gamble later without money, okay?"
"Without money? How is that possible?"
"I will teach you."
"OKAY!"
Then, they all reached the training ground.
"Alright. Let's introduce ourselves. I will go first.
I am Uchiha Akame, the third Hokage. I like music, I don't really have any preference for food, and well, my favourite colour is red.
My previous dream was becoming Hokage, which I have achieved.
So, my next dream is to develop Konoha and the people to the best of my ability.
Now, introduce yourselves in any order."
"I am going first! I am Senju Tsunade! I like a lot of food, gambling, and well, I have a dream to become the best medical ninja in the world."
Understandable. Afterall, the invincible First Hokage, her grandfather, died to a mysterious chakra illness.
Her mother has theorised that it might have happened due to exposure of tailed beast chakra from the 8 tailed beasts he captured and dragged all the way to an unknown place in the Land of Fire. So he may have been suffering from an illness like Naruto from the novels.
Wood Style absorbs Chakra. Especially tailed beast chakra.
Her other theory was that having a Sharingan may fix things. She offered one to him, but he refused.
She didn't really remember the place mentioned in the novels, and though Tobirama-sensei went to the other continent to investigate for a cure, First Hokage died abruptly and he had to return. And then, First Ninja War started.
She will start looking for whatever the cure was soon enough.
Back to introductions, Sakumo introduced himself.
"I am Hatake Sakumo. I like swords. And though my clan was a Samurai, I would like to be a honourable ninja."
Hatake clan was a clan of Samurais in Land of Lightning. After the formation of Ninja Villages, Samurai's were kicked out. So all the Samurais banded together and settled in the only uninhabited place on the continent.
While most Samurais stubbornly remained there and didn't want to join the dishonourable ninja villages, Hatake clan joined Konoha. And Konoha sent food to the uninhabitable lands to support the Samurais along with the Daimyos who had been protected by them until then.
Until large amounts of chakra metal ores were discovered. And the highest quality ones, the ores of chakra iron.
Since then, the land is now called Land of Iron. And through trade with every country, the Samurais can now fully support themselves.
Many of Hatake Clan went to the Land of Iron years ago, but some of them remained. And that included Sakumo's family.
An honorable ninja. Meaning some sorr of combination of ninja and samurai.
Good.
Next was Duy.
"I..am Might Duy. I don't know why I was chosen as Hokage's student despite being not able to mould chakra even now, but... I will prove to everyone that Hokage-sama wasn't wrong!"
Oh...was he bullied by other children because of jealousy?
Akame realised that there are consequences of actions she takes that she may not even realise until its front of her.
She put her hand on his head and ruffled his hair.
"Don't put yourself down. I chose you because you have one of the largest potential in the entirety of Konoha. But, you also have to work harder than everyone else.
Don't be depressed. Work hard with the Power of YOUTH!"
...
It became awkward, Akame got embarased, but Might Duy struck a thumbs up pose, and while crying, shouted, "YOUTH!"
Well, atleast he doesn't seem that depressed now. She will ask his homeroom teacher some questions after this.
Then, she turned to Orochimaru.
"I am Orochimaru. My mother is from Ryuchi cave, but I don't like Ryuchi as a surname. I don't perticular like or dislike anything. And I don't have a dream."
While this may seem like the introduction of a depressed person, Orochimaru is not depressed.
He genuinely doesn't like or dislike anything. Atleast he thinks so.
He certainly didn't like the loud YOUTH that Might Duy shouted.
"It's okay to not have a dream. Life is all about journey. Goals, dreams, likes, dislikes all change over time. Since you are the youngest, let's start with you. Ask me anything."
Akame didn't really have any problem if Orochimaru wanted to achieve eternal life. Even experimenting on humans, as long as they are prisoners on death row or foreigner ninjas.
Since ninjas kill foreign ninjas, taking over the bodies of a foreign ninja is also acceptable to her. It just should not harm anyone from the village, or innocent kids.
And now that she thought about it, his mother is one of her ANBU. So, Snake is an actual snake from Ryuchi cave? Transformed as human?
That's interesting. She would like to know who was daring enough to bang a snake lady, and how did Tobirama-sensei recruit her.
Anyway, now its time for the first lesson of her students.