6 yrs after the Kyubbi is sealed in Naruto's body
Black feathers float down as four Anbu Black Ops officers and their commander suddenly appeared at the sight.
"Wow," said an officer, with a monkey mask on, as he and the others took in the devastation that lay at their feet. "No wonder the village reeks," he said as he placed a hand over his nose forgetting he already had a mask covering it.
"Judging by this body," said another officer, with a rooster mask on, that was kneeling beside a nearby corpse, "they've been rotting for at least a couple of days which means they've been decaying for-"
"Far to long to go unnoticed," finished the commander.
"With this many dead in this scorching weather and the warm breezes that come from this area, it's amazing that-" started an officer with a pig mask on.
"-even as close to the border as we are we should have gotten a whiff of this before this morning," finished the last member of the squad.
About fifty bodies lay decomposing in the mid summer's heat. All of them appeared to be shinobi of either chuunin or jounin level. Shinobi they were but from what village Anbu couldn't tell for all the hitai-ates were blank.
"This gets odder by the minute," said the Anbu officer with the rooster mask as he found another blank hitai-ate.
"Fifty half shinned skeleton laid here and not one villager came to Konohagakure and mentioned the rotting smell this country had," replied the Anbu officer with the monkey mask.
"Maybe they didn't want to be rude?"
"Perhaps…" he said unbelieving
"No identifications, no reason for being here, no clue to who or what killed them," said rooster mask.
"Exactly," replied monkey mask. "The only thing we know it that they died quickly. Not a single kunai knife or shuriken was used."
"Commander!" yelled a call from one of their comrades across the field. Monkey mask and rooster mask appeared themselves at their comrade's side along with the commander and pig mask.
"What is it Yumi?" asked the commander when they all were present.
Slowly Yumi stood up and faced them, a child in her arms.
'?!'
'Yep, things just keep getting weirder,' thought the monkey mask
'What's a child doing here?' was the others' thought.
The child was about eight years old.
"Is she alive?" asked the commander
"Hai," answered Yumi, "Alive and unscratched, sir."
'?'
"But the blood-" started the pig mask
"Isn't her's," finished Yumi
"Unmarked," repeated the commander in disbelief
"Hai, sir," replied Yumi, "unmarked and unconscious."
The commander looked up as if he suddenly awakened from a trance, "Kenshin, Akita, Kenta"
"Hai," they answered
"Continue searching amongst the corpses and surrounding area for any leads to what happened here as well as more survivors."
"Hai," the three answered as they scat.
"Yumi"
"Hai"
"Take the girl to Konoha Hospital and stay with her."
"Hai," replied Yumi as she vanished.
"As for myself," muttered the commander, "Hokage-sama needs to be informed about this." Then he too disappeared.
Although Anbu searched till nightfall for answers none could be found. If anything more questions seemed to appear.
The following morning when Anbu woke up the only thing left at the scene of the massacre was a single bloody blank hitai-ate.
The bodies, the blood, the stench was all gone without a trance as if it was never there to begin with.
The incident became top-secret unknown to anyone except the five Anbu and the Third Hokage. The girl turned out to have no memory and went to live with a shinobi family from one of the most powerful clans of Konohagakure. Two years later that clan was destroyed supposedly leaving one sole survivor, Sasuke Uchiha.
Except her body was never found.