At the southern gate of Konaha, a silver haired man wearing the standard Jonin vest and a short sword was leaning against the security office wall. He was observing the people coming into Konaha through the southern gate with a gentle smile.
Suddenly a blonde haired man arrived next to the silver haired one and said "Kirito Namikaze, reporting for duty!"
The silver haired one just nodded at Kirito and said "You packed everything?"
Chuckling, Kirito said "Don't worry Sakumo, I have sealed three day's worth of food for our team. All you guys need to do is pay me for it."
Sakumo with a deadpan face said "You should have just opened a restaurant."
"When I retire from Shinobi life, I'll start a restaurant. And you will be my major supplier." Kirito said with a shrug.
"That's what? Forty years in the future?" Sakumo asked with a smile and continued "By that time I would hand over clan business to my children."
Cocking an eye brow, Kirito said "You're not even married yet and you're thinking about children? Tell me the truth, you have a bunch of illegitimate children running around right?"
Sakumo's eye's went wide and holding onto Kirito's collars, Sakumo said alarmed "What the heck Kirito?! You know me since the academy days! Why would you say something like that!"
Smirking at the flustered Sakumo, Kirito said "Well then, as your best friend, I'm asking you to get married and make babies! My child will be born by next year and I want your child to be friends with mine."
"I'm not some playmate making factory!" Frustrated Sakumo raised his hands in the air and continued "And I'll only marry after I'm thirty."
"Suit yourself." Kirito said with a smile while thinking 'Well, form the memories I know that your son will be my son's student so there's that.'
"Say, Sakumo. Can you teach me lightning release transformation?" Kirito asked after a few moments of silence between them.
Sakumo raised an eye brow and asked "Don't you have Earth and Wind nature?"
"I do. And you have Lightning and Earth. If you teach me Lightning Nature Transformation then I'll teach you Wind Nature Transformation. How about it? A deal?" Kirito asked with a smile.
Chuckling, Sakumo said "Sure, I'll teach you. It will boost our team's strength so why not."
Right after he said that, four Shinobi's appeared next to Kirito and Sakumo. And one of them, a brown haired teenager said "Is the Captain and Vice-Captain bickering again?"
Shaking his head, Sakumo said "Nope, just chatting. You guys packed everything, right?"
"Yes Captain!" The four replied.
"Even the ryo for my food?" Kirito asked with a wicked smile.
"Yes Vice-Captain!" The four replied with more enthusiasm than before and thought the same thing 'A thousand ryo for three meals a day for three days is not bad.'
"Alright, let's head out!" Sakumo said and disappeared from the gate, followed by Kirito and the rest.
When they were some distance away from the village, Sakumo addressed his team "The mission is in the Land of Grass. There was sightings of Iwa Shinobi near the borders, our mission is to capture one and eliminate the rest." Sakumo let his team digest the mission details and continued "Like usual, Shin and Hima will follow my lead, Kiyoko and Daichi will follow Kirito's lead. Kirito's team will be capturing Iwa Shinobi alive."
"Yes Captain." They said in unison and kept on running over tree branches in silence, as Shin, a brown haired teenage boy and Hima a dark haired teenage girl followed Sakumo, Kiyoko, a dark haired girl with a mole near her lip, and Daichi, a strong looking teenager followed Kirito.
On their way to the Land of Grass, they camped out in the woods, avoided the bandits, had homely food cooked by Kirito and Mina. Within a day and half, they reached the border between Land of Earth and Land of Grass.
As per Sakumo's order, they separated into two teams of three and went in different directions. They started their search for the Iwa Shinobi, turning every stone and grass at the border, stealthily as possible.
Since Kirito and Sakumo were experts in using Earth Release, they were able to burrow the ground if they find something off. Due to that, Sakumo was able to eliminate the Iwa Shinobi he found with his teammates. On the other hand, Kirito, inspired by the Seismic Sense of Toph and Extrasensory Perception, he was able to sense more than the Iwa Shinobi. 'This isn't right? Why is a Root Shinobi hiding even below those Iwa Shinobi? Is this an ambush for me? Or for Sakumo's team? Is this the reason why I was not present in the Manga and Minato lived as an orphan?' To make sure it's a Root Shinobi, he used his Seismic Sense again while adding Extrasensory Perception. With that, he felt the chakra from the tongue of the Shinobi hiding under the underground bunker of Iwa Shinobi.
'Is Danzo trying to kill our team? Or is it because he have some doubts about my lineage and want to do experiments? But, shouldn't he refrain from attacking someone like me? Agh.... Whatever, I'm not dying in the hands of enemy Shinobi or allied ones and I'm seriously not going to be an experiment subject. I promised Mina that I'll be coming back for her and our kid, I'm not going to break that promise.'
Taking a deep breath, he told his teammates "Kiyoko, Daichi, you know the drill. Snatch one, and bury the rest."
"Hai!" Kiyoko and Daichi said in unison and took action at the same time.
"Earth Release: Hiding Like A Mole Technique."
Thanks to Sakumo and Kirito, their team knew how to use Earth Release Jutsu, because it's the most available one after Wind Release.
A few seconds later, they both came back from the ground with two knocked out Iwa Shinobi with them. Without any delay, Kirito used hands signs and slammed his hand's on the ground and thought 'Earth Release: Earth Collapse Technique!'
*Boom!*
With a loud boom, the earth collapsed with jagged spikes forming where the Shinobi's were standing. That included the Root Shinobi Kirito found using his sensory technique.
Nodding his head in satisfaction, he told his teammates "Let's move out."
On their way to the meeting point with the rest, Kirito thought with a sly smirk 'Did Danzo think that the grandson of his sensei is a slouch in his sensory department? Poor bastard, he won't even know what hit him if he tries anything like this again.'