AN; Alright. Lemme tell you a little about the story. This takes place at the same time as Naruto is happening. In the same universe and everything. While everything is happening, we join Iwagarkure. We learn of Deidara. The Rokubi jinchuurinki. And the secrets hidden deep without Iwagarkures greatest minds.

This story focus' mainly on the genin. The two female genins bonds. The male genins only friend. And the mysterious history of the strange jounin.

Enjoy! Oh. And please, been harsh if you have criticism. I like that. )

Legal Stuff: I don't own Naruto blah blah blah. I'm not Kishi or anything. I don't claim to own Naruto. But I do claim to own the 4 custom characters I have. And any custom jutsu (mainly the doujutsu) But, feel free to use 'em. As long as I'm alerted (I like seeing stuff of my own creation)

The Beginning

Konohagarkure exists rather far from the Iwagarkure. Practically a week long trip, maybe even longer from one to the other. It was rare for these two village to deal with each other. But even Hidden Rock knew of the plight Konoha was having with Sasuke, Orochimaru, and Akatsuki. In fact, Hidden Rock had it's own problems with these people. Many of their ninja defected to Orochimaru when he promised them exactly what they wanted. And they had of course lost one of their greatest artists, and a rather strong ninja to Akatsuki, let alone their own Jinchuurinki.

I'm getting a little ahead of myself, first I should share with you the history of Iwagarkure, and where exactly we are in the story.

As many know, before the hidden village, or even many of the countries appeared, this world was in constant war-fare. Various smaller villages hired powerful clans to fight for them, to destroy any who opposed their might. With the ambitions to absorb other villages, and expand their range of power, this constantly resulted in the more powerful villages going head to head in war. The clans of course, would do this without problems, they were powerful enough to fight, and when they no longer wished to fight, could stop whenever they wanted. As long as they received proper payment, many of these clans could probably have fought until the ends of the earth. Among them were the Senju, Uchiha, Hyuuga, and most importantly, for the aspect of this story, The Sayya.

The Sayya were a powerful genjutsu clan, with a doujutsu known as the Hokugan. It's power in genjutsu was unrivaled, even by the sharingan. Infact, many believe the Uchiha developed the genjutsu countering abilities to be able to stand on par with the Sayya. They were a powerful clan, whose power could have grown to be the deadlist in all of the world. They aspired to be so as well, they enjoyed the fighting aspect of their lives, they loved using their Hokugan's power, and they loved to kill.

Sadly, the Sayya soon grew tired of war, they could not gain what they desired through constantly fighting, any one who made progress in power, would soon be slaughtered, their own ambitions were soon working against them. And being powerful was no longer an advantage, when everyone desired to have them killed. So, in a five-year span, they made alliances with three small villages in the north-western point of the maps. Together, they formed Tsuchi no Tuni, or, the Stone Country.

Soon, the remaining villages and the other mighty clans followed this example, and formed various countries. But it was not until Hirashima Senju, of the Fire Country, that the Hidden Villages were formed. This was around 50 years after the Sayya had made Tsuchi no Tuni, and had since grown rapidly in population and power (though the Sayya no long ran the country). Hirashima offered peace, he would send many of his own ninja, to assist Tsuchi no Kuni in making it's own hidden village, in exchange for a promise of peace.

Not only did he give them the assistance, but once the hidden village was formed, he offered them any of the Bijuu he had under his control. The current leader, and the Daimyo agreed to take the Rokubi no Raijuu, also known as the 6 tailed beast of lightning. They desired this beast to show that they had so much power that they could conquer the beast that had an elemental supremacy over most of their own ninja. Hirashima saw this as an advantage, had war ever break out between the two, they're own his ability to control bijuu and their containers would serve as ace in his sleeve. So, he gave them the Raijuu, and an alliance was formed.

This plan came without fault, Iwagarkure no Sato had time on their hands, and grew to be possibly the most powerful village in the world, and the Rokubi no Raijuu was passed down through the ninja every generation. The hidden village soon went back on their treaty, they knew of Hirashimas plans, but with his death, the 2nd Ninja war broke out, and they were quickly closing in on the front. But even with Hirashima dead, they did not expect the Yellow Flash to be a problem. Simple enough to say, he was. They're ambitions failed, and the Hidden Rock had lost the alliance they had formed with soon to be one of the most powerful villages in the world. They were second, maybe third to Hidden Sand, but they were no longer the strongest.

Recently the Bijuu was passed on once again, and unlike most of the villages, they revered the Jinchuurinki as gods. Treated with the upmost respect and love, it was known Iwa enjoyed having it's very own power house, and obviously wanted to keep it in control, and within their bounds. But this Jinchuurinki was special, it befriended one of the famed Sayya. (Who since their loss of power within the village, were not known for making loving and lifelong friendship). This is how we get into the story. The ties between a Sayya boy. His teammates. The Jinchuurinkis. Akatsuki. And Team 7, it's self.

The stone disk flew through the air, it collided with the face of the man against the wall. But instead of breaking his face, it melted against his neck. Holding him against the wall, several other disks followed, each out melting against him, holding all his arms and legs to the wall. A young boy, maybe 13 or 14 years of age followed up against them, jumping into the air, his foot joined with the mans stomach, and he gasped for breath.

The boy backed up, his eyes looked strange, the pupils where incredibly wide, and the center was gone, but instead filled with a strange mixture of blue and green, that seemed to be constantly moving. He stared at the man against the wall, he stood their pinned, but nothing was holding him back.

"Heh, Kai." The boy spoke calmly, holding a hand forward. They man fell on the floor, breathing deeply

"Tai-Fen-san, that was pathetic. I've trained my life in ninjutsu. So my upper body strength is lacking. But any moderate taijutsu user could have broken out of that with easy."

"Yes sempai." He responded, bowing his head at the old man in front of him. His eyes swirled once again, and he hit his foot against the ground. Water launched up from around his feet, bonding his legs together, then reaching up to pull his arms down too. The nin fell to the ground, and the student, evidently named Tai-Fen, jumped into the air, his feet meeting with the older ninjas back. He coughed, letting out a loud heave, and Tai-Fen was quick to duck down, sending a foot under the old man, launching him into the air.

"Stop!" The old man shouted, incapable of moving due to the genjutsu bounds on his mind. Tai-Fen obeyed "Kai!" he shouted, releasing the elder ninja. Allowing him to land safely. "That was good. Enough for today, we've been practicing since five this morning. Maybe you should go relax.", Tai-Fen, who didn't seem to enjoy the aspect of not being allowed to train, simply being his sensei was old, nodded in agreement, and walked away.

"And maybe you should calm down a little too." The old ninja said in resentment, "Sometimes I think agreeing to train that boy was a mistake." He muttered under his breath, walking in the opposing direction.

Towards the Ninja Academy

In the north-eastern most point of the village.

Tai-Fen walked, hands in pocket, his eyes had returned to a normal brown color. Sayya Tai-Fen, was very simple in appearance, his long black hair was held back in a pony tail. He wore a black tank top, under his plan black long sleeved jacket. He wore black ninja pants, and wore no kunai holsters around either legs. He had a pretty average build he was definitely toned, and was rather light, standing at 5'6", weighing 117 pounds. His ponytail swayed side to side as he walked, he was walking slowly towards the Ninja Academy. Having trained all day, he had forgotten he was supposed to be meeting his new team today.

He had graduated the academy about 4 days ago, third in his class. His powerful Hokugan was probably the reasoning behind that. He was in no hurry though, it was noon, and he was supposed to be at the meting at 12:30. He pushed open the doors, wandering down the halls with an absent mind. As he entered the room, he was immediately greeted by a loud shout.

"Hey Tai-Fen!" a short, girl shouted. She was rather petite, with a small bust, and a thin waste, and standing a only 4'9", it was surprising how loud she was.

"Hey." He said, falling into a chair near the front of the room. His voice was very calm, almost sleepy.

"Your kinda late man! You had us worried you weren't even gonna show! I don't think our jounin woulda been happy if you didn't even show!"

"I'm here ain't I?" He responded, closing his eyes. She glared at him, holding a fist up in his face.

"You getting smart wit me kid??" She shouted at him, his eyes filled with fire. "Hey, hey. Ameyu, calm down." A small girl sitting in one of the seats piped up. The feisty girl, apparently named Ameyu, nodded at her, and walked back up to sit next to her. They sat and began talking to each other, laughing every once in a while. Twelve thirty struck, and the doors slid open. They all went silent, and looked at the jounin before them.

Standing at around 6feet and a few inches, he weighed about 200 pounds. A large black jacket, with a hood reaching over his head concealed his body. Glasses covered his eyes, and under the jacket you could see he wore fishnet. The jounin looked at his three stoudents, and then bowed to them. "I am Omio Waikyoku, I will be your no sensei. You will refer to me as Waikyoku-sensei. Understood?" They all nodded, standing to bow at him in return. "Come. I have something for you three to do." They nodded, jumping over their respective desks to follow their sensei.

He led them to the back of the academy, onto a training ground. "You three will fight. The victor will be my apprentice. I have no desire to lead three students", the three looked at each other, and without a word, Tai-Fen activated his Hokugan. The two girls looked at each other.

"Hold on Tai-Fen. You really expect us three to fight for your apprenticeship Waikyoku-sensei?" Ameyu asked, in comlete surprise he would ask for such a thing.

"Yes. And if you do not. Nami shall die." He said in a gruff voice, pointing a kunai at the other girl, evidently named Nami. This was shocking for Ameyu, and she reached for her head, her brown eyes filled with anger, she pulled three senbon out of the bun her hair was held in, resulting it to partially come apart.

"Sorry but no. No one threatens Nami's life." She said, her eyes filled with the intent to rotect Nami to the death, her or Waikyoku's. He laughed at her, as if she was joking. "You really think I'm scared of you little Ameyu-baka?" She glared at him, flicking her wrist, a senbon flew from her fingers, grazing his cheek.

"It seems your not." He released the kunai, it flying towards Nami, but before she could move, a senbon collided with it. Sending both in the opposite direction. "I told you. NO ONE threatens Nami-sans life!" She aid, seething through her teeth. Tai-Fen turned towards the jounin with his eyes active.

"Sorry, but Waikyoku-sensei, if you meet either, or both of them, in combat. I will be forced to join them. Though I have no close bonds with them yet. They are my teammates. And I must fight alongside them."

The jounin laughed, nodding, lifting two fingers, as if to tell them to come forward, "Very well. Let this begin." The three looked at each other, and nodded. Tai-Fen's eyes spun, his black pony-tail swaying side to side in the wind. Ameyu slipped the other two senbon back into her bun. Her brown eyes sparkled with ambition, the red shirt she wore was concealed under a pink jacket that she slowly zipped up. She wore black pants, and her kunai holster rested on her right thigh, she lifted her hnds, two large rocks lifting from the ground next to hair. "Doton: Rifuto" ((Earth Release: Lift))

Nami looked at the two team mate infront of her, and with an uneasy look, reached for her back, pulling out two Sai's. She was a busty young girl, and was more likely to become an object of affection then her tom-boyish fiend Ameyu. She had long blonde hair, which hung free behind her head, only the end tied together, to keep it from going all over the place. She had bright green eyes, that were only complimented by the light blue shirt she wore, ad the darker blue shorts she wore, with bandages wrapped around her rather revealed thighs, standing around 5'1", she was rather petite, and wore high heels similar to that of Tsunades.