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"They couldn't sneak their active duty ninja outfits past their spouses or had sent them to the laundry." Sarutobi smiled with macabre amusement, "One of them owned a clothing store and was able to get some spandex suits that were surplus out of the storeroom. All of them were, as you suspected, retirees from the ninja forces. Forcibly retired due to PTSD or some other condition, mostly."
What Sarutobi neglected to tell Naruto was that all fourteen of the idiots had also been retired forcibly due to their inability to accept that Naruto was merely the Jinchūriki of the Kyūbi, not the great demon fox itself. They had all been the most outspoken about it in the force and had been nails that stuck out.
Sarutobi, by 'kindly' retiring them 'due to stress' had made a silent point to the other, more quiet members of the forces twelve years ago; Shut up about Naruto being the demon fox because it wasn't true. If you can't, get out or be hammered out.
As he sat and spoke with his surrogate grandson, Yamanaka Inoichi was interviewing the families of the conspirators to see if they had had any inkling of their wayward family member's intentions. Morino Ibiki was 'handling' the interrogation of the 'Spandex Brigade', to use Naruto's amusing nomenclature. Sarutobi expected confessions on his desk by the time he got back to the tower.
'Even if they were mostly out of shape and horribly out of practice, the fact that Naruto-kun was able to hold off fourteen Shinobi at once while breaking a barrier is an incredible feat.' The old man thought proudly, 'I think that a new jutsu scroll would be appropriate here, as I thought it would.'
"I had a stroll through my jutsu library before coming here, Naruto-kun." He said with a smile and pulled out a scroll, "You have markedly improved your skills in the past few months and this incident proves it beyond any shade of doubt. Take this as a reward for making this old man proud of you."
"Thank you Jiji!" Naruto hugged his grandfather figure excitedly, "What jutsu is it?"
"It's a Fūton Jutsu, Fūton: Fūjinheki (Wind Style: Wind Blade Wall)." The Hokage replied, "It compresses the air in front of you into a solid wall of air that blocks incoming attacks. Once you master the basics, you can have it sprout blades to stab anyone who crashes into it. You can even set it up to appear in any location within your line of sight."
"Cool!"
"I had noticed that you had very little in the way of defensive jutsu, so this is a step to rectify that." Sarutobi said with a nod, "Be warned however; this is a B-Rank technique and requires more finesse than your Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. It might take you a while to use even the most basic form, but I am confident you will be able to manage it."
Once the Hokage left, with an admonition to his grandson to get some sleep, Naruto tried to learn the new jutsu…and failed.
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"What the hell?!" Naruto roared.
Meanwhile
Interrogation Cell, ANBU T&I HQ
Yamaguchi Tetsurō whimpered as Morino Ibiki loomed over him. The scarred Tokujō's face smirked down at him as he cracked his knuckles.
"I must thank you for this, Yamaguchi." Ibiki said conversationally, "Idiots like you allow me to keep my skills in good working order for when actual threats need to be discovered. Something I'm betting that you wish you had done."
Tetsurō, regrettably, agreed with him there.
"Now, as I am feeling generous, I will allow you a single chance to tell me everything about your laughable plan to assassinate our Jinchūriki." The scarred man stated, "In other words, we can do this the easy way or the real easy way. Up to you which way we go."
The spandex-clad man debated his option here, weighing pride against being tortured by the most skilled interrogator in the T&I section of ANBU, and came to a conclusion.
"What do you want to know?"
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