SNATCH!
Kushina Uzumaki frowned at the paper. Sure enough, there was a lot of things scribbled on there that had NOT been there when she'd written it.
Toltiir grinned, not an especially evil grin, but one that could cause concern nonetheless. "Oh, that is SO granted."
He could get flamboyant and over-the-top with something like that. Which suited him just fine.
Hiruzen Sarutobi knew it the moment it happened. A chakra surge that was sufficient to cause him to black out and only shakily get to his feet several minutes later.
"Hokage-sama, it's the same everywhere," said a chunin he didn't recognize who helped him to his chair. "Every jonin and special jonin collapsed at the same time. Even a few of the more experienced chunin experienced the symptoms."
The Third Hokage considered the chunin briefly. "Do you mean to say that the more powerful the ninja, the more disabled they were by this whatever-it-was?"
"Yes, Hokage-sama," said the chunin.
"I don't recognize you," said the Hokage.
"Tetsuo, sir," said the chunin. "I'm a file clerk, third class. I was one of the least affected."
"Ah," said the Hokage. A paperwork specialist, but one who had the presence of mind to observe events and come to some initial conclusions. Whereas he himself still felt as if he had tried to best Tsunade in a drinking contest the night before. "You have some conclusions?"
"Sir," said the file clerk, third class. "The more accomplished the ninja, the greater their chakra reserves and control, the longer they were unconscious following the event. Those with minimal chakra, such as myself, were mostly unaffected. To that end, I put out orders in your name that village entries were to be watched by recovering genin in case this was a prelude to an attack. It seemed unlikely, but..."
Hiruzen Sarutobi settled back into his chair, taking his hat off in order to rub his head. "Tea. I think I'll need some. What else?"
"There has been no sign of attack, so I sent a request for those medical staff not affected to check conditions of those affected and administer treatment where applicable," said Tetsuo. "I understand that I have overstepped my boundaries, Hokage-sama, and I submit myself for punishment as you deem fit."
"Tea first," said the Hokage, who was thinking of punishing this file clerk by promoting him. "Anything else?"
"No, Hokage-sama," said Tetsuo, bowing again for what seemed like the twelfth time during this conversation. "Further information is still being accumulated."
"Good, now get me that tea, and bring the whole pot not just a cup," said the Hokage. "Then go and accumulate that information so I can find out what that was as soon as possible."
"Let's see," said Toltiir, shifting his form from the usual cat to something a little more in keeping with the ninja village motif. He'd already pulled enough power to do this properly together, carefully shaping it so that it didn't disrupt local space/time too much. Though the more sensitive users of chakra would have felt the surge.
Now, where to put the Namikaze/Uzumaki compound? It had to be fairly nice, he was doing a quality job here. Something "splashy" if he had the term right. These were not the sneak-up-behind-someone-in-the-middle-of-the-night sort of ninja after all. They'd started out that way, but were currently more along the line of ninja-mages. Heck, he could set up a Hogwarts style Academy and it would only require minor tweaking for this group and setting.
Hmmmm. What would be best?
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