Konoha Plans Recapture Mission

With so much new construction and expansion going on in Konoha, workers from outside the village were also being hired to help in the project, including an old man named Gennou. Shortly after meeting each other at Ichiraku, Naruto and Gennou became close. Unfortunately, it turned out that Gennou was in fact and a legendary ninja from Kagerogakure who was infamous as a strategist. One night, Gennou finally began his plan against Konoha and stole several building blueprints on Konoha. After being cornered by the ANBU, Gennou decided to end things by blowing himself up. Later after Tsunade sent every available ninja above Genin (except Shikamaru) on a mission to secure the Fire Country border from a possible attack that Gennou spoke of, presumably from the Hidden Waterfall Village, Tsunade assembled Naruto and the other Genin to aid Shikamaru in locating the stolen blueprints. Naruto was horrified to find out the kind man he grew attached to was actually an enemy of the village.

Later, Naruto was taken in for question from the ANBU as he possibly would be the best lead to discovering Gennou's plans. Unfortunately even with hypnosis the ANBU were unable to gather any useful information beyond that Gennou was nice to Naruto because he reminded Gennou of his grandson. Later, questions about Gennou's supposed death came up. It was then discovered that Gennou faked his death with a fake corpse. It was also discovered that the Hidden Waterfall village had nothing to do Gennou, meaning Gennou tricked Konoha into making itself almost completely unprotected.

The group's search for Gennou soon took them to the Academy, where it was discovered that an enormous chain of paper bombs were planted started from it, and leading all over the village. The group then immediately went to work safely removing the paper bombs. Thanks to help from Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane, it was discovered that Gennou had actually planted most of the paper bombs were planted over 30 years ago. This meant Gennou came to the village once before. It was then learned that 30 years ago, Gennou's village was at war with Konoha. In the end, Konoha was able to destroy the village with a sneak attack. Two days later, however, another rival village came and destroyed the remnants of the village. Meanwhile Naruto remembered that whenever he ate ramen with Gennou, he would be frequently looking at the Hokage Monument. This prompted Naruto to go investigate. Inside, he found Gennou was indeed alive and planted several paper bombs inside the monument. Gennou revealed that the paper bombs all over the village were just another decoy. Gennou's real goal was to cause a rock slide from the Hokage Monument to destroy the village.

Fortunately, group arrived in time after Shikamaru correctly deduced Gennou's true goal and disarmed Gennou's main means to triggering the bombs. Not willing to give up, Gennou summoned a giant bird to activate the paper bombs manually from the monument of the Third Hokage. Fortunately with his friends help, Naruto was able to stop the bird with his Rasengan. Later, Gennou died as it was discovered that he was incredibly ill. It was also revealed his grandson was actually his son, and after getting to know Naruto, decided instead of revenge to have one last fun "game". He did so by tampering with several of his paper bombs to at most leave a few weak cracks in the Hokage Monument. After learning the truth, Naruto realized that the village has to be prepared for real enemies who desire the village's destruction, decided more than ever to train hard.

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