Several days later...
Lin Chuan heard in the village that a battle between the Sannin had broken out in Tanzaku Town. Not long afterward, Jiraiya and Tsunade returned to the village, and Tsunade took over as the Fifth Hokage to handle its affairs.
In the Hokage's office, Jiraiya saw Tsunade buried in paperwork and smiled. "They're already arranging your inauguration. If you're short on people, I have someone to recommend-"
"Who?" Tsunade finished the document and looked up at the gloating Jiraiya. If she had known being Hokage was this exhausting, she would never have come back.
"Chuan. His full name is Chiba Lin Chuan. He's a genius. I demonstrated the Rasengan once, and he learned it." Every time Jiraiya brought this up, he couldn't help marveling. Geniuses lived in a different world from the rest of them.
"That certainly makes him a genius. Much faster than that idiot Naruto." Tsunade hadn't expected to hear about a genius in the village just after returning. It was a pleasant surprise.
"Unfortunately, the Third said he had some psychological issues." Jiraiya handed Tsunade Lin Chuan's ninja file. Everything from the Ninja Academy to the Chunin Ninja Exams was recorded there, even how three members of Root had failed to bring him back despite fighting him together.
"This kid?" The instant Tsunade saw Lin Chuan's photograph, she recognized him as the ANBU who had sought her help in Tanzaku Town. She hadn't expected him to have escaped Danzo's Root. No wonder he had psychological issues.
Then she saw the several missions Lin Chuan had completed in ANBU: infiltrating the Grass Ninja at nine, bringing back S-Rank Secret intelligence, killing more than thirty Grass Ninja in retaliation, and taking an S-Rank mission as his very first assignment after graduating as a Genin. Then there