Chapter 56.1- One Thousand Hands
Added 2025-05-28 21:27:37 +0000 UTC“Call up the reserves. Reduce the age of Graduation for the Academy from twelve to eight. Every child above the age of eight within the academy shall be effective immediately be made a genin and drafted into the Konoha military. They are to assemble within this very building by 0600 hours tomorrow so I may address them. Every able bodied jounin is to be returned to the village. Halt all missions— even the sensitive ones Hiruzen had approved beforehand. Cancel all contracts. We will eat the costs, but better we have a village that is a little poorer than one that is destroyed. Remind the clans of their promise to submit lists of all personnel not officially included in the Konoha military but who are capable of combat and their most recent internal combat assessments— focus on then Uchiha, Hyuga, and Aburame. Have the anbu monitor the process to make sure we get some honesty out of them. Now, clear the rest of my schedule for today. I’ll be at the Uzumaki Clan Compound” I’ll be going to see my Grandmother because this was way more stressful than I had imagined, were the words I thought but did not say.
The meeting that had essentially made me the interim Hokage had taken place only yesterday and since then, my life had been a flurry of activity. I did not have to move into the Hokage mansion— one didn’t exist yet, so I got to live at home, but that was my only anchor in the storm I’d been tossed into. Danzo had written everything he had ever done in code. A code that no one but the paranoid bastard seemed able to understand so getting a good picture of the village’s situation had taken longer than expected. It had taken most of today, and even then it was difficult to tell what exactly I was yet to become aware of. I’d figured out finances— that had been hell, ad where most of our shinobi were— the sad part was that the answer to that question was ‘in the ground’.
