Systematic Shinobi - Chapter 56.2 (Patreon)

The entrance to the Hidden Village In The Mist, if it could really technically be called that, was a port. Unlike Konoha that was completely surrounded by large walls, the Mist Village was technically the entire island.

There was a large circular buildings spread out around the port, and quite a few ships were docked there as well.

It made sense, as a village of the land of water and their territory being an archipelago of islands, that most of their trade and clients would come by ways of sea faring.

A glance with the Shinkugan, was all it took to confirm the contents the buildings at the port, the vast majority of them being storage buildings, which again made sense, one larger spherical building stood out though.

From peering inside it, he could see it was an administrational building of some sort, and he was sure he even saw a mission room quite like the one back in Konoha.

"Konoha shinobi," a man dressed in the dark blue padded Mist chunin gear addressed them as they made land on the port, "You're a long way from home." he stated in leu of greeting, his eyes eyeing the headband tied around Daiki's waist like a belt suspiciously.

'Are we really though?' Daiki resisted the urge to snort. He could be back home in an hour or two easily if he really wanted to gun it back.

Daiki eyed Anko from the corner of his eye, but she didn't say a thing. She only raised an eyebrow at him.

Yeah, he was in charge of this mission in totality it seemed. And honestly, a little bit of thought into her presence on this mission, told him she wasn't just his babysitter and back up.

She was evaluating him and would be reporting his performance back to old man third. Which probably also meant everything he'd done up until now, from his actions taking Kubikiribocho, what he'd told her about it, him killing that missing ninja and of course what he'd do here at the Mist Village.

Honestly, that was fine with him.

Time to turn on that charm.

"That we are my friend," Daiki gave the Mist chunin a winning debonairly handsome smile, "My name is Daiki, Daiki Yurei, you might have heard of me, or you will at least in the future if you haven't yet. I and my beautiful companion are envoys of the Leaf and are here to meet with the Mizukage." he bowed his head ever so slightly respectfully while maintaining eye contact.

Nailed it.

And then he peered straight into the mans mind.

'Fucking leaf hippies, look at this hoity toity rich looking little fucker, probably never worked a hard day in his life.' the man snorted derisively within the safety of his mind.

Isobu snorted.

Daiki just maintained his winning smile, 'If this goes through and sours, he dies first.' he thought.

"I see, then wait here, I will announce your arrival to my superiors." the Mist chunin said aloud, turning away and as he did, Daiki stared straight through his torso and saw him making a single hand seal, though it was not one for moulding chakra.

He left a moment later, leaving both him and Anko on the port, but all around him he could feel eyes on them.

"Anbu." Anko noted, crossing her arms.

Yeah, that would do it. They were pretty well hidden to the naked eye. Too bad for them, he had the Shinkugan.

"Twelve of them." Daiki nodded.

He didn't call his doujutsu the All Seeing Scarlet Eye for no reason after all.

"A standard full platoon then, probably a usual guard for their port." Anko hummed.

That made sense. Them, alongside the multitude of chunin in the dozens spread throughout the port buildings working in the buildings and on guard, meant they had quite a decently large force protecting their port at all times.

His eyes flickered up, peering into the sky above. Where he could see a large thin dome of chakra that encapsulated the entirety of the island. A sensory barrier, just like Konoha's.

It was bigger than Konoha's, yet thinner.

It would cost quite a hefty amount of chakra to maintain such a barrier, and the Mist village weren't well known for their chakra powerhouses beyond the odd one here and there, Kiri was more known for its weapon wielders.

Such a barrier could never sense him if he was trying to hide. And in fact, despite its size, would be a liability in trying to sense someone within populated areas.

That size, from what he could tell with his eyes sacrificed quality for range. He supposed he could understand, they had to monitor the entirety of their territory and a few concessions had to be made.

'Note to self, when I become Hokage I need to see about making sure our barrier corps are up to snuff.' Daiki thought. Perhaps he could look into using the chakra amplification seal once he mastered it himself, to augment the machines the barrier corps used to create, maintain and use the village sensory barrier?

Actually, that brought up the question of what he should do with the Ray Bow once he was done with it. He had no need for it personally. The Marlin Harpoon was going to Tenten of course.

But the Ray Bow, he wasn't sure if he should give it to her. Sure, she was probably the best marksmen in his generation and probably actually one of the best in the village despite her age-

But, with the sheer range of the Ray Bow from his estimates and its versatility, it would make a mean combo with the Byakugan.

Sure the Byakugan was inferior to his Shinkugan, but its range was still far beyond anybody else's when it came to length of sight. And as such, had much more potential with such a weapon for attacking from incredibly long ranges.

So a Hyuuga.

Which meant Hanabi or Hinata.

Hinata was a cool girl and she was doing way better now than her self from the other timeline, and the Ray Bow would really be a big help to her. And she was a good friend.

But…Hanabi was his apprentice, his student, his shoulder loli minion of epic doom. And she was younger, so her fighting style had more room for things to be added in compared to Hinata who was turning fifteen soon, a full year or so older than him.

'Actually, it's my birthday soon.' Daiki blinked and realised. He'd completely forgotten. In fact, it was Naruto's birthday tomorrow, October tenth and then his was November first.

He'd be turning fourteen in three weeks, a little after the Chunin exams ended.

…Neat.

If he became Hokage after the chunin exams, and after he became fourteen, would that make him the youngest kage ever?

Old man Sarutobi became Hokage when he was like sixteen or seventeen. And Gaara of course hadn't become the Kazekage in this timeline yet. And he didn't even know if he would really.

Well, whatever it didn't really matter right now. And he could think later on just who would be better to give the Ray Bow to going forward. Besides, he could probably make one if he wanted in the future once he had mastered the seals inscribed within.

Better even considering his plans when it came to chakra ore. Which really brought up the question just why the Marlin Harpoon and Ray Bow weren't made of chakra ore to begin with, because there should be no problem doing so.

But whatever.

"Look alive kid, looks like a big shot is coming out to get us." Anko said, nudging him on the shoulder.

"I know, I saw him or rather them." Daiki shrugged. His mind might be wandering, but his eyes weren't.

Two people were making a beeline towards them. Chakra capacity wise, they both stood a head above anyone else in the port, including the hidden Anbu.

One of them had nearly as much chakra as Anko, while the other had a little bit below.

The stronger of the two chakra capacity wise was a man of average height and slim build, dressed in a blue kimono like outfit, with dark blue hair and a single eye patch over one of his eyes, while the other was a younger man, a bit shorter than Daiki himself with a lean build, light blue hair and rectangular glasses, twin hilts jutting from a bandage encased item atop his back.

'Ao and Chojuro, huh?' Daiki mused inwardly. The two hands of the Mizukage, more or less from what he knew and the chosen guards Mei had during the Five Kage Summit in the other timeline.

One a wielder of a stolen Byakugan, the other the only remaining loyal member of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen Of The Mist and the wielder of Hiramekarei, the Great Twin Blades.

Daiki's eyes were on Chojuro as the two approached, or rather he peered straight through the older boy and was examining the blades atop his back.

To his disappoint, while like the Kiba Blades and Kubikiribocho they were engraved with many seals within, it wasn't any seals he hadn't already seen before.

In fact, it was the same chakra amplification seal within the Ray Bow, and a similar, yet inferior chakra shaping seal that allowed the Ray Bow to manifest chakra as energy physical arrows.

…Which actually put it below the Ray Bow in terms of seal work.

'Well, that sucks.' Daiki clicked his tongue. But he supposed, not everything was going to be a way for him to improve.

It also once again highlighted the fact that another of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen's weapons, were definitely of Uzumaki make.

And that would be incredibly useful going forward with these negotiations. After all, as Naruto was apart of Konoha and Konoha was the only ally of the Uzumaki, they were the ones with a real claim to the blades.

It most certainly wouldn't amount to much, beyond a chance to levy some allegations if it came to it. But it was a little bit more leverage to use if he so needed.

Negotiations he was assuming, were a lot like a fight. Whoever had the bigger muscles, or in this case the more leverage, won.

Moments later the pair arrived in front of Daiki and Anko, "Envoys of the Leaf Village, welcome to the Village Hidden In The Mist." Ao greeted them, his singular eye momentarily narrowing ever so slightly as he took in Daiki's form.

"H-hello, I am Chojuro and this is Ao, w-we will be escorting you to Mizukage-sama." Chojuro nervously added as a greeting.

"A pleasure," Daiki gave them his infamous debonairly handsome smile that made babies smile, rainbows form and even reformed the most evil and heinous of all bad guys, "I am Daiki Yurei, and this is my bodyguard Anko." he introduced himself and the woman who was accompanying him.

He saw Chojuro's eyes widen ever so slightly at his reply, and could practically read his mind without even using the Shinkugan, 'So young!'

Ao's mouth twitched a bit downwards, but he stopped it immediately from forming the frown or perhaps scowl it was destined to become upon descent.

Him being sent by old man third when it was obviously so young, probably rankled him. After all, he was a 'back in my day' boomer kind of guy from what he remembered.

Which usually and hilariously tended to make him trigger Mei Terumi's christmas cake age related trauma and piss her off.

"…I didn't expect the envoy of Konoha to be so…young." Ao literally floundered for a moment trying to word his statement in a way that wasn't outright insulting because of his age.

Heh.

"Well you know us Konoha guys," Daiki shrugged, winning smile still spread across his face, "We're well known for our young absurdly powerful and incredibly virile and handsome prodigies, we're just built different."

"I…see…" Ao replied, looking like he just bit into a lemon.