Condition
Hiruzen Sarutobi tried to use Konoha's traditional protection of Chi Yu as leverage, but Chi Yu's words cut him short.
Chi Yu waved a hand. "All right. Back to the point: regarding Naruto — if you refuse to let me adopt him, produce an alternative plan."
Utatane Koharu and Homura Mitokado opened their mouths to speak, but Chi Yu's presence silenced them. "If either of you two old men utter a single word, you won't see tomorrow's sun. I am negotiating with the Hokage, not with you. In my view, if you die, you die."
Koharu and Homura went pale; their lips moved but no sound came.
Hiruzen fell silent to think. After a moment he said, "Naruto will remain in Konoha as an orphan. Neither Danzo nor you are to have contact with him. Do you accept that condition?"
Chi Yu chuckled coldly. "I am to have no contact with Naruto? So the Third will chain me to Konoha, then. You may as well say that Kushina and I should leave the village together — I would not refuse. But hear this: if I learn Danzo has taken Naruto, I will destroy Konoha."
He fixed Hiruzen with a steady look. "The choice to let me go is yours. Will you take it?"
Hiruzen looked back at Chi Yu. He did not want Chi Yu to leave — he wanted the man to remain, for reasons that were not entirely pleasant to admit — but he also knew Konoha needed Chi Yu's deterrent. The memory of the incident years before, when Chi Yu's actions in the Hidden Mist had left that village crippled and its leadership broken, still made other nations cautious. And the three shinobi who had met with the Uzumaki defector suggested Chi Yu might have loyal operatives beyond Konoha's borders. If such a powerful and knowledgeable man left, enemy villages would try to recruit him — an intolerable risk.
"Hirozen," Hiruzen said finally, "I have always hoped we could put aside the past and trust one another. Let the past be the past. Konoha is our home. Don't abandon it for old grudges."
Chi Yu sneered. "Oh? Then why turn my disciple against me? I sense Kakashi in Konoha — in the Anbu. You pulled the fruits from my tree after I raised him."
Hiruzen's voice hardened. "That's not turning him; Kakashi offered his strength willingly to Konoha."
"Two-faced," Chi Yu returned. "If Kakashi freely chose to be your pawn, then consider him no longer my pupil. Tell him never to appear before me again, or I will take back everything I gave him."
He paused, then continued, "If the Third will not let me leave, then so be it: I am not interested in your games. If we live in peace, I am a Konoha shinobi. As for Naruto: handle him as you proposed. I will not interfere. Kushina is my friend; Naruto is her child — I will not let anything happen to him."
"Think carefully if you move against me," Chi Yu added. "I swore to Uzumaki Mito I would never proactively become Konoha's enemy. But if you force my hand, that promise is void."
With that, Chi Yu vanished with the Body Flicker Technique.
Hiruzen's face darkened. The pressure lifted from Koharu and Homura and they urged immediate action. "Hiruzen, we must act against him at once. We cannot allow him to run unchecked."
Hiruzen snapped, "Act? How? Who will act against Chi Yu — you, me?"
Koharu suggested, "Perhaps we can use Kushina Uzumaki and other trusted contacts as leverage—"
Chi Yu, who had supposedly left, reappeared silently before Koharu, expression unreadable, eyes ice-cold. "What did you just say? I didn't quite catch that. Say it again."
Koharu broke into a cold sweat and stammered. Hiruzen hastened to placate him. "Chi Yu! Koharu misspoke. It was nothing."
Chi Yu turned to Hiruzen. "You don't believe I can destroy Konoha. Want me to demonstrate?"
He instantaneously manifested a Susanoo. The spectral warrior erupted around him: first a visible torso and arms, then expanding into a full, towering armored humanoid — the form consolidated into a complete Susanoo. A massive chakra blade materialized at its back.
With a casual motion from the living avatar, the Susanoo's presence battered the Hokage Building; stone and timber collapsed. Hiruzen and Homura were thrown to the ground under falling debris, coughing as the ruin settled.
Within the Susanoo's ribcage, Chi Yu gripped Koharu by the throat. He did not kill her at once; he tightened his hand slowly so she could feel the approach of death.
"Chi Yu! Calm down!" Hiruzen shouted.
"I am calm," Chi Yu replied without heat. "I gave you face, and you waste it."
Hiruzen implored, "I swear, in the name of the Hokage, that no one in Konoha will harm Kushina or any Uzumaki connected to her."
Chi Yu's grip did not ease. Hiruzen compromised, voice low, "All right. On the condition that Naruto is not told of his parentage, I will permit you limited contact with him — but only after you report to me."
At this, Chi Yu loosened his hold. He had intended to kill Koharu no matter what, but Hiruzen's concession — allowing supervised contact with Naruto — made him relent. He released her, dispelled the Susanoo, and threw Koharu onto the rubble.
"Remember your word," he said.
Chi Yu vanished again. Koharu lay clutching her throat, trembling. Hiruzen and Homura breathed shakily, the temple of Konoha's government now a ruin around them.
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