The Shopkeeper of Konoha

Hiruzen literally had to duck with his head down in order to save his skin. 

"You dare attack a Hokage?" Hiruzen suddenly seemed to get angry that Kisuke and Uraha would even dare to hurt him. 

"We would dare to kill you if you hurt our family. Konoha is good, and I would give my life away to protect the village, but not for a moment think that you alone represent Konoha just because you are the Hokage. You are sitting in that position because Tobirama-sama gave away the position to you, not because the people chose you. You are in the position because you are powerful, and because the decisions you have taken have prospered Konoha. Do you really believe your position would be smooth if we had lost the war or if the 4th Hokage didn't contribute significantly? Don't delude yourself thinking you can represent all of Konoha." Aoto said. 

Hiruzen stopped when he heard Aoto gave him a reality check. He didn't have words to say back because he knew he had failed to manipulate Aoto and bring him under his reigns. The whole situation had backfired on him at a massive scale and he had lost the trust of Aoto. He was ashamed and also angry that someone would be bold enough to hurt him, and he wanted to retaliate. But for some reason his age old instinct were telling not to make moves or he really might die in the hands of these two. 

Especially the woman. He felt like she had come out from a sea of corpses while she herself was responsible for the corpses that was beneath her feet. Her eyes which was the only thing visible. wasn't able to give her any emotions. Hiruzen knew who she was because it didn't take a lot of math of calculate who she could be. 

The woman who was now a senior doctor in the Konoha hospital and from the reports he had heard, this woman was so good that she could easily become the head doctor of the hospital. The reports suggested that she might have the same healing jutsus as the level of Princess Tsunade. 

This elated Hiruzen but now looking at the same woman he felt goosebumps. And the same went for Kisuke. He met him multiple times and felt like he was happy go lucky guy. Didn't know he was so cruel when it was required. 

"You all should leave. We will talk about this later." Hiruzen suppressed his anger. He knew that both of them needed immediate medical help or else the situation might turn dire. Aoto nodded and opened a portal and then the three of them, including the cat walked through before the portal closed. Aoto didn't care if he was angry or if he wanted to take some kind of revenge later.

Aoto wasn't some Uchiha clan who could be just brushed off. If they did something to him, he would push back harder. He wasn't some believer of taking the high road, and though the hatred cycle needed to end as Naruto in the future would put it but Konoha needed to get rid of the current tumor that was infesting. 

Aoto was back in the library where Unohana went and healed Naruto who seemed to be awake by now. It didn't much time to get rid of the bruises. 

"I am sorry.." Naruto as he finally woke up, he looked mentally exhausted and someone who was also physically tired. But even on this he had tears in his eyes as he apologized. 

"What are you sorry for?" Aoto asked he took him and hugged him. 

Naruto broke down on the chest of Aoto as he could feel the hot tears wetting his shirt. Aoto really felt sad and his hatred for the higher levels of Konoha went more deep than ever seeing how Naruto felt. 

"I.. I as a ninja.. I as a sorcerer.. Couldn't get away from them.. They tied me up and I couldn't defend myself." Naruto said between his tears, his voice breaking. 

"Naruto, you were brave enough to handle some old men and get out fine. You just got bruises and you are very young Naruto. One day for sure, you will be more powerful than them, you will be better than them and the people who hurt you today, have already paid for their mistakes." Aoto said. This made Naruto cry a bit more. 

Everyone came around and gave a family hug. Torune was also there so he too came and hugged him. He had a vague idea of what had happened as Corazon said someone had kidnapped him, but he didn't know whom, he just knew that after Aoto came everyone went and retrieved him back. 

Aoto assured him that he did fine and was a brave young boy. Later due to exhaustion he slowly drifted to sleep as Aoto took him to his room and laid him down on the bed. He seemed to smile a bit after being laid down. Maybe because he felt protected and loved after some time. 

Aoto closed the door and asked Torune to go back to sleep and Shikuro took him away. After some time Shikuro came back and he had a grave face as he came back. They didn't hear what Aoto had to say to Hiruzen so they waited his response.

Aoto told everything and they finally got the idea of what had happened. They were livid by the blatant manipulation done to Aoto. 

"I have to say this old man is at least 10 steps ahead of thinking than our old man." Kisuke said.

"The kind of character that will make up a good television series." Zimmer said. Normally Zimmer was busy with his work but today he was at home, since it was a 'family' emergency. He joked and in normal times people would have laughed but today it could only bore out a smile as Zimmer tried to turn down the tension. 

"I don't think he will be very welcoming to you of what had happened." Corazon said. 

"No.. He wouldn't dare to touch us after what had happened." Aoto said.