- Kage -

Deep in the Hidden leaf Forest during a hectic storm a teenage boy could be found running for his life as he was being chased by three Jonin leveled ninjas. He was about ready to collapse and he was too close to chakra exhaustion for his liking, to put it simply he was screwed. The teen was an experiment named Kage Mitsu, or number 454 and he was the first experiment ever to escape from the most dangerous group of ninjas, the Reapers. The Reapers were a newly formed unknown organization and they would like to remain unknown to the world until their plans were completed and ready to be revealed those who did manage to find out who they were never lived long enough to tell someone, with some of the most bloodthirsty ninjas and scientist ever found in all the Elemental Nations it was no surprise that no had ever escaped before, well before now. So it really wasn't a surprise that the moment Kage had escaped he was being tracked and now he's been running for 4 days with a broken arm, several broken ribs and two of his tails were broken too due to one too many close encounters. Yes tails were mentioned, in fact they were the main reason the organization was after him. How he got the tails and they're purpose will be explained later.

Kage has had enough he needed a place to rest and fast or else all this running would've been for nothing and there was no way in hell he was going back to that shit hole of a cell after all he'd gone through to get out. The ninjas just wouldn't give up, he needed a plan and he just wished that the god that had kept him alive thus far would continue till he could figure something out, he was trying to think of something when a sudden barrage of kunai with explosive tags rained down on him before exploding and sending flying into a tree. As he pulled himself up another kunai landed in front of him before exploding sending him flying through the air. The blast was so strong it sent him over a steep hill; only one thought went through his head as he rolled down the embankment worsening and further injuring his already battered body and that was, Shit.

He must have done something right in his crappy life or god, was once again being kind to him because he stopped rolling in front of a cave and the Jonins hadn't shown their faces yet hopefully due to just how little chakra he had left. He used the last of his strength and before the fever took over he pushed himself up and slowly and painfully made his way to the deepest part of the cave praying that they wouldn't find him, finally his body and mind gave up and he collapsed. His mind falling deeper into a Darkness that had become familiar to him

- Team Kakashi-

"Are we there yet!" a blue-eyed teen with spiky blond hair yelled, the two others travelling with him didn't bother to answer him having done so many times before. The three person team had traveled for two whole days and it had rained the ENTIRE time making the three quite irritable and impatient to return home from their mission. The only girl of the group with shoulder length pink hair let out a grown before responding again to the repeated question asked by her annoying teammate "For the last time, Naruto No We Aren't There Yet!"

Naruto not liking the response then grumbled something about getting there faster if they had left earlier. The pink haired girl managed to hear the last of his grumbling causing her thinned out patience to snap, which lead to her beating the crap outta him to shut him up. "Sakura stop hitting me Dammit!" Naruto cried out as he continuously attempted to dodge the fists that were aimed at his face. The third member the ever silent raven of the group known as Sasuke was getting even more pissed off with every second that went by and every shout that escaped the two bickering ninjas, the closer his two 'teammates' were to getting the shit beaten out of them. As he attempted ignoring them once more looking around he noticed a cave in the distance, with that they could get the hell out of this rain and possibly shut the two of them up, because he was on the verge of killing them both.

"Oi" Sasuke called out behind him successfully getting their attention "There's a cave over there, we can use it as a shelter and take a break." Sakura and Naruto stopped their fight to look in the direction Sasuke had pointed, to see the mentioned cave. Sakura then attempted to hug (tackle) Sasuke while screeching something like 'that's my Sasuke-kun' although three years had gone by Sakura really hadn't outgrown her fan girl ways though they were more controlled it was still pretty bad. Sasuke having easily dodged the pink kunoichi started to walk towards the cave with Naruto following and Sakura soon after picking herself up off the ground and brushing off some of the mud that now covered her front.

Once inside the cave Sakura got the feeling something was wrong the air felt heavy around her. "Hey guys, does something feel off to you?" Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other before scanning the cave for anything that could be a potential threat when they didn't feel anything they both said no. Sakura had sensed something almost like chakra slowly leaking into the air around them but it was so heavy it almost felt dark, so she started to go deeper into the cave as the 'chakra' filled air started to feel like it was becoming thicker the deeper in she went, it was still faint. She continued forward until her foot landed on something soft looking down she saw tails, was there animals in here. Following the tails she then saw legs, Human legs and began to worry when she saw the rest she froze eyes wide. Naruto noticed Sakura had stopped looking around and decided to see what she was looking at, "Hey, Sakura is everything alright?" Naruto looked at her and saw that she had gotten pale, moving around her to look at what she had stopped in front of his eyes widen too as he looked down at the figure lying on the floor. Sasuke who'd been watching everything from against the wall since Sakura had started looking around decided to check it out when he noticed Naruto had gone over only to stop too. Wondering what was over there Sasuke pushed off the wall and went to them, reaching them he paused, looking down lying in front of them was a the body of a boy.

The body was of a teen but it was hard to tell he could have been younger. He had pale white skin and was covered with cuts, bruises, burns and what remained of old bandages, his left arm was clearly broken and was swollen, his jet black hair consisted of chin length bangs with longer hair in the back that was matted down with blood from a head injury that couldn't be seen. His face was one of sheer pain; his cheeks tinged red from the high fever wreaking havoc on his small frame. Although the strangest part of the teen was that on his body were three tails attached to his lower back and ears? No not ears you would typically find on humans but ones you would normally find on a wolf, two of the three tails were lying limp on the ground while the third one wrapped itself almost protectively around his small waist, the tails were covered in shaggy fur that was matching his hair in color.

They stared… until Sakura dropped to the ground and started to hurriedly look him over checking for a pulse having snapped out of her surprise. Having found one she quickly got to work putting her medical training that she did under Lady Tsunade to use hoping to be able to do something though due to the state he was in she knew she wouldn't be able to do much, looking up to her two stunned teammates she called out to them "Naruto! Sasuke! I'm going to need your help moving him, Sasuke can you lift him up?" Naruto jumped at the sudden call while Sasuke hid his surprise and moved to pick the smaller boy up "Sasuke be careful not to move his arm to any more than necessary and be careful of any other injuries" Sakura stated calmly after all there wasn't time to panic. Sakura started gathering their dropped belongings while telling Naruto to grab a blanket to wrap the injured male in and to carefully put the tails in a better place. Sasuke simply did as the Pinkette said, the boy was severely injured after all and they were in a cave although he didn't want to go back out into the storm he wasn't stupid they would need to get to the village. "Sakura what exactly are you planning" Naruto looked towards Sakura as he asked after wrapping the blanket around the wolf boy, he was wondering what Sakura planning couldn't they just treat the boy here in the cave. "With the injuries he has I won't be able to treat him here, which means we'll have to get to Konoha so I can treat him properly or better yet get Lady Tsunade to take a look at him if she isn't busy." With those words team seven and the unconscious boy were off through the rain once again but this time moving as fast as they could to get back home to Konoha.