Power is something everyone wants to have and gain. What if gaining said power was for the greater good of the world?

Let me tell you a story and set a satire of how power almost caused a war to break out across the entirety of the universe. One powerful trainer was able to not only obtain more power and knowledge but was also able to keep his universe and a bunch of others in one piece and prevent it from being wiped out. A young trainer named Manamitsu Narazo in his younger days trained some of his close friends from the neighboring villages back then with countless memories and sleepless nights training.

 Now it's been a few years since he's seen his old students as he smiled at the thought of them being much stronger than they were that first training day when they were all over the place, hoping to once again test how strong they have grown and improved since then.

As Manamitsu sat at his desk overlooking the mountains of file cases, he sighed as he was reminded of the mess his office was in.

Papers everywhere, shelves unorganized, random socks hiding under misplaced trinkets and trophies and of course a cup of ramen or two. He and his former students were now leaders of their villages, and had to worry about the difficulties of running a huge vilage.

That means no time to train or spar with his students or even some time to himself for his own needs. Not too long after he takes a little ramen break, one of his spies comes busting through the door, sending all of Manamitsu's pieces of paper flying and scattering them everywhere.

 “Sir!” the spy said with a slight nervousness in his voice.

“I've come with a report about one of the nearby villages!”

“Well?” Manamitsu said impatiently and in slight anger, at the fact, that the spy ruined his messily organized papers and made him nearly spill his cup

“Out with it then!”

“Yes sir, it is from the Ember village,” said the spy.

“It seems as if the Ember village leader has obtained a new form of power. He’s said to be able to achieve the highest mode on his tailed beast along with you, my lord.”

“What? impossible! It should have taken him a few months to achieve that!”, “And he just got that thing a week ago!” Manamitsu yelled, pounding his desk angrily and slightly relieved that one of his students had been working hard to try to surpass him and surprising enough it was the one who always pushes himself more then the others. “However, sir, on my way back, I spotted an old man by the big hill who asked me about a quest,” said the spy with a slight nervousness in his voice.

 “What does he have to do with anything?” questioned Manamitsu with his eyebrow raised. The spy leaned in close to his leader and whispered, “The quest giver indicated that he will reward you with that new technique, sir, the one you have been looking for” said the spy going back into position. “I see,” Manamitsu said, leaning back in his chair and started thinking as he spun around, got up, and looked out the window that overlooked his village. “Get the messengers to contact the other village leaders and ask them if they are up for a quest,” Manamitsu said as he put his Hokage cloak on his shoulders and put on his hat both baring the village symbol as he turned around to grin at his spy “We’re going scroll hunting!.” A few hours passed as Manamitsu waited on top of a hill for the other village leaders with the sun bearing down on him. Soon after, the Ember village leader came flying in from a tree and landed right beside his friend honing his Ember Hokage cloak and his hat on his back as well.

 “You called?” asked the Ember leader as he got up beside his friend “Ah, there you are,” said Manamitsu with a slight smirk. “It took you long enough, Komatsu teased Manamitsu.” Komatsu looked at his old trainer in anger “What do you mean I took long enough? I came as fast as possible,” Komatsu yelled, “ I was in the middle of something important when you messaged me!” “Like what?” Manamitsu said as he glanced at his former student, “Learning a new ability to try to take over and overpower me?” As he puts his crosses his arms and raises his eyebrow. Komatsu crossed his arms as well, proud of himself, and said, “That's right, Manamitsu. Wait, how did you know-?”  Just before Komatsu could finish his sentence, the Obelisk village leader arrived walking up the hill a bit exhausted with his cloak and a hat leaning over trying to catch his breath. “Hey, why are you so slow and always late Gonzo?” Komatsu said as he put his hands behind his head and turned away “Oh don't even Komatsu, you've been late before. A simple hello would have been nice,” Gonzo said standing up. “Shut up, fatso. That was a one-time thing,” Komatsu yelled. On the word, fatso, Gonzo’s ear twitched ¨What did you just call me?” Gonzo said as he slowly turned around towards Komatsu, getting up in his face angry “You heard me FATSO” Komatsu yelled back “What are you deaf or something?”

Only a few seconds passed, and Gonzo charged at Komatsu, yelling “I'm not fat!” The two started fighting just like a bunch of kids over a toy they have to share. Manamitsu sat and watched this all happen and unfold in silence, shaking his head while saying, “ Well, hello to you too, Gonzo” Manamitsu said with a sigh “Good grief, why are you guys always like this?, Cut it out, you two” but they didn't listen to Manamitsu and kept right on fighting sooner or later one of them will think to start to using jutsus and things really would get more chaotic. Growing annoyed and tired of waiting for them, he yelled, “Enough!” as a sound wave came and knocked both Gonzo and Komatsu back. Then two got up and looked at each other in silence and shock and then back to Manamitsu “ Jeez you two act just like little kids who are rivals…” Manamitsu said as he turned around and headed for the mountain towards the old man as his cloak flowed in the wind as he chuckled slightly “We are not rivals!” the two yelled as they quickly glared at each other before following behind Manamitsu. 

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Minutes later as they were climbing the mountain, they finally reached the old man.  He said: “Hello travelers, I have a great reward if you accept this dangerous quest.”   He slowly reached into his pocket, grabbed a scroll, and handed it to them.

  Komatsu asked in sarcasm as he grabbed the scroll to look at it “Is this the so called dangerous mission?!” he said as he looked at the old man “Looks like one of those missions we would assign to a Genin to do,”  Gonzo said as he looked over Komatsu’s shoulder to look at it “I assure you it's not a kid mission,” said Manamitsu annoyed “The mission is to just take care of a rogue ninja and his buddies that have been causing a few problems for the old man that's all”. “ So a kid’s mission, '' Komatsu said with his eyebrow raised, “ugh fine if you think it's a baby’s mission it was taken out of context.” Manamitsu said with a slight bit of annoyance.  “I'm going to have to go with Manamitsu here. We don't even know what the reward could be, something crazy for all we know'' said Gonzo “I highly doubt that but whatever…” Komatsu said as the trio accepted the mission and headed off.  A few minutes later, the trio went to the top of a cliff and sat down to rest for the night. Manamitsu was sleeping up in a tree as Komatsu and Gonzo stayed up. “Gonzo do you notice something off about Manamitsu?” Komatsu said as he looked up at him “the ambiance is off” “no, not at all, he seems normal to me,” said Gonzo. “ I have a bad feeling about him like he's planning something… there's no way he would call us over to do this stupid mission he could do on his own better yet ask one of his own people to do it!,” Komatsu said as he laid down to look at the stars. “Oh, don't think like that, Komatsu I think the sun might have gotten to you, besides it could just be a way of him trying to get us to hang out again now get some rest,” Gonzo said sleepily “I know I certainly will,” he said, letting out a yawn. In the morning, the trio wakes up and starts their journey to find and defeat the rogue boss the old man wanted them to take care of “where is this rogue boss anyway it's taking forever to find him,” said Gonzo with his hands behind his head. “You idiot, the boss isn't just going to show himself, did you completely forget we’re shinobies?!,” Komatsu said but then at that moment, Manamitsu heard some rustling in the trees ``Hush you two I think we're being watched,” Manamitsu said as he readied himself trying to scope out the enemies location “There,” Komatsu said as he threw a couple of ninja stars in several directions. Just then the sound of metal was heard as the ninja stars were all deflected and hit the ground. “It seems that we've been spotted boys,” said an ominous voice from the trees ``I count about three people,” Manamitsu whispered to his friends “one on each side of us” “how very observant of you Manamitsu of the Dunes village,” said another voice “what are the three great village leaders doing this far outside of their walls? It would be a shame if they got assassinated right here and now” said a rogue ninja hopping out of a tree and landing a few feet away from Manamitsu. “We’re here on behalf of the old man's mission of taking care of you guys,” said Gonzo as he got into his fighting stance, “said you were giving him a hard time” “is that so Gonzo of the Obelisk village,” said another rogue ninja that had a scar on his face landing a few feet away from Gonzo. “Yeah! we’re here to shut down your operation and defeat your leader,” said Komatsu as he got into his fighting stance. “Sorry, hun we can't let that happen,” said a female rogue ninja as she also jumped down a few feet from Komatsu. “I don't think the boss will appreciate you ruining all his hard work”. “Your boss won't like it, oh well that's too bad”, Komatsu said, being sarcastic. “Will your boss go crying because we ruined his little plan?”  He said as he put his hands up to his eyes, and began to fake cry.  “You'll pay for making fun of our boss Komatsu of the Ember village!” The ninja yelled, “ no one makes fun of our boss and gets away with it alive.” Manamitsu chuckled as he prepared himself in his own fighting stance and said “Bring it on then,” he said with a smirk as everyone began to transform to get ready to fight. After a few blows from each side, then the final one from Manamitsu the rogue ninjas were defeated “Ha! that was almost too easy,” said Komatsu stretching “Don't get too cocky Komatsu we still have the boss to worry about remember?” Gonzo said as he turned to Komatsu ``Yeah yeah whatever let's just hurry up and find this clown,” Komatsu said as he put his hands behind his head “come on let’s rationalize how we move towards the open field,” Gonzo said as he pointed to a trail that leads out into the open. “I have a feeling the boss might be around here somewhere in that direction,” he said “Why would we want to reveal ourselves and go out into an open field he could have traps around here ya know,” said Manamitsu “but I guess we can try it there's no telling how stupid this guy is…,” he said shrugging his shoulders. The trio then proceeded to follow the path to the seemingly open field then as soon as Gonzo stepped right into the center of the field it triggered a set of paper bombs all around the field “It's a trap, fall back before you're turned to dust! Komatsu yelled, falling back. As the smoke clears from the paper bombs there is a faint sight of three ninjas alive but badly damaged, as the smoke clears one ninja leaps out from the smoke and starts attacking Manamitsu, In a flurry of punches and kicks as the ninja knocks Manamitsu into a wall causing minimum damage, Grunting in pain Manamitsu gets up and transforms into his tailed beast form and lunged at the ninja, right before he could attack Gonzo whistled and summoned his flaming motorcycle and hoped on while creating a chain in his hand and began swinging it in a circular motion harming the ninja greatly and defeated them, “Heh guess ya beat me to them” Manamitsu said as he de-transformed, “Good thing I have this thing otherwise we would have wasted our energy on light problems'' said Gonzo as he hops off the bike and releases it for next use. “Thanks for buying me time to gather up my chi!¨, Komatsu said as he got out of his charging stance, “Thanks for helping" said Gonzo and Manamitsu sarcastically as they then started to gather up their chi. “Alright we're setting up camp here it's getting late,” says Komatsu, after the 3 leaders finish setting up camp Manamitsu starts preparing some beef from a wild cow he killed for them while Gonzo and Komatsu start sparring, “ Yo Gonzo, Komatsu the beef is ready you two had to have worked up an appetite after all that fighting,” said Manamitsu with 2 steaks in his hands as he passed them to his friends as they all sat down and began to eat and heal up. “ ̈Hey guys I'm kinda doubting that this mission is what this old man says it is, think about it, we have been breezing through this mission with no complications and no sort of challenge at all?'' said Gonzo looking at them, “I have to agree with Gonzo here, this is a cakewalk,” says Komatsu with a bored look, “Who cares if it's easy that just means a free scroll for us”, Monomitsu says as he gets up and goes to sleep in a nearby tree as the others shrugged their doubts off and do the same. On the next day, the 3 leaders head off to their new location; they all feel a grim presence near a forest with powerful evil energy; they almost feel scared. But regardless they headed through the forest with full chi and energy, will they defeat this evil presence, fate will decide that.