Chapter 66: CH 66
Sitting in the middle of a heavily wooded area of the Forest of Death, Naruto sat in lotus position with his eyes shut simply thinking and calming himself with the sounds of the woodland area.
It had been right around a week and Naruto had been wondering how he could find out anything about any Minato that was in Konoha without tipping off Jiraiya or Tsunade since apparently it was all one big secret. He figured Jiraiya would eventually tell him, he would just procrastinate endlessly beforehand and that could take months to years. He needed information now, and since he was damn sure that Kakashi was on the take in this little secret against him he wasn't going to him, and he still couldn't find Danzo damn it, not that he was still looking, he had quit trying months ago.
It was obvious that this Minato guy was pretty influential in his day, but Naruto was never taught anything that wasn't truly relevant to challenges he would actually face while he was in Root so that didn't help much. And after his sealing his time in the academy was spent with many teachers refraining from helping or really teaching him so eventually he started cutting classes and not paying attention to Iruka-sen...sei...
Iruka-sensei! That was it! He wasn't old enough to really know anything on the scale of this cover-up and he wasn't close to anyone that was trying to keep it buried, he had enough of the general knowledge in Konoha that he could answer his questions, and he was damnably easy to find at this time of the day. He would either be in class, or if school was out he would be assigning missions at HQ... When did that man find time to train?
Shrugging these thoughts aside Naruto broke from his meditation in the Forest of Death and began to make his way to the Academy to find his old schoolteacher.
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Inside one of the classrooms of the Academy a chunin with a scar across his face turned from the blackboard to face his room full of young students, "Now who can tell me the order of ranking in Konoha's ninja system?"
Near the back Udon's hand shot up as he started to answer with a sniffle, "Iruka-sensei it goes genin, chunin, jounin, kage."
Iruka nodded, "Very good, but what about Anbu?"