Chapter 1: Capture

(Konohagakure...)

Tsunade sat in her chair, half-sleep with a hand supporting her head. She had been working all day, non-stop with papers needing to be signed or accepted. The Chunin Exams started tomorrow and she needed to be there. She sighed and stood up. "I guess I'll finish this tomorrow," she said to herself.

"It's very lazy of a Kage to leave work unfinished," a man with a deep voice said. Tsunade spun around, flipping over her desk towards the door. "Huh, Tsunade?" The Hokage found him crawling on the window like a lizard. His body superheated, melting the glass. He fell inside Tsunade's office. He stood. He wore a black cloak, hood covering his eyes. The man sported a beard that ended in a point. He weaved a series of hand signs. Tsunade readied herself for the attack.

"Fire Style: Flaming Whirlwind!" A column of fire shot out of his mouth and split into three raging whirlwinds of flame. The fire tornadoes traveled to Tsunade quickly in small office. Tsunade lifted her leg and smashed through the floor to escape the fire. Tsunade ran to the door and moved down the hallway. A couple ninjas walked down. They saw the Hokage running towards them. She stopped and commanded them, "Gather any available ninjas in this building immediately to assist me! I am under attack!"

"Yes ma'am!" the two ninjas saluted before running down the hall, away from Tsunade who ran the opposite way. Tsunade went back in the direction of the man. She passed a row of windows and saw the her assailant waiting for her on the glass. He melted the glass again. Before he hit the ground, Tsunade punched him in his side. He flew straight out of the building. Tsunade jumped out the window, grabbed the man's body and piledrived him into the ground. The ground erupted in an explosion of dust and debris. Tsunade stood up. She gasped. The man used a substitution jutsu.

"Fire Style: Great Holocaust Bomb." Tsunade looked up. She found herself underneath a tremendous ball of fire, shaped like a teardrop. The heat was intense. Sweat dripped down her body in streams, her eyes darting across the ball of fire in fear. Even with her Creation Rebirth jutsu, she wouldn't be able to survive that. The bomb of fire dropped onto her. It dispersed after a few seconds. It left Tsunade with second degree burns, unconscious, lying on scorched ground. The man walked up to the Hokage. "I cant kill you...yet." Before he could grab her,

"Lady Hokage!" Several ANBU shouted, running up to the man. They threw kunai at him. The man deflected them with ease. He weaved a couple hand signs. "Secret Art: Heaven's Lovely Gate." Light swirled in front of him, forming a portal. "Sorry, but I can't stay," the man said, taking Tsunade in his arms. He stepped into the portal, disappearing.

(Kumogakure…)

"Liger Bomb!" Ay shouted, slamming his cloaked female opponent into the ground, shattering it in the process. The woman melted into a puddle of mud.

I would have died if it wasn't for my mud clone, the woman thought, attacking the Raikage with several kicks to his back. Ay fell forward. The cloaked woman weaved several hand signs. "Secret Art: Heaven's Lovely Gate." The Raikage' attempted to flee but he was caught. The portal sucked him in and he disappeared. The cloaked female jumped inside before any of the ninjas who arrived could attack her.

(Kirigakure…)

Mei spun out of the way, spewing acid mist from her mouth. Her opponent backed away, not wanting to get burned again. She was fighting a tall, thin man who wore a mask instead of a cloak. He wielded an ax that vibrated with chakra. The rooftop had several holes in it, all made by Mei. They were still melting. The two ninjas stared at each other. Mei weaved her hand signs. "Water Style: Water Trumpet!" She launched a jet of water towards her attacker. He swung his ax with one hand, splitting the water jutsu in half. With the other, he held up a hand sign. Lightning surged all around his body, onto the axe and made a line down the water jutsu.

Mei screamed. The lightning electrocuted her. She fell into a portal and disappeared.

(Iwagakure…)

"Search the village!" Kurotsuchi commanded. "The man who kidnapped my grandfather must be found at all costs!"

(Sunagakure…)

"I don't have time to play games, here,"the cloaked woman laughed in a perky voice. "I have to capture you!"

"I won't allow that," Gaara replied, raising his hand. The woman's clones were devoured by Gaara's sand. The ones who survived ran along the column of Gaara's sand, infusing their feet with chakra to run across it faster. The woman clones make it to Gaara's ultimate defense. He closes it. Spikes form on the shell and impale the woman's face. The hologram clone glitches away. The clones, from the air, surround the sphere of sand. All of them are dispatched by the sand spikes. Gaara's third eye examined the scene. The woman was no where to be found.

Inside the ultimate defense, Gaara doesn't let down his guard. She was around somewhere. But where?

"Ooooh, that's cool!" The woman exclaimed, phasing through the sand. Gaara's eyes widened. "I was looking for a weak spot but I didn't think there would be one! I don't have any water style jutsu to counter you either! Ooooh, you're so strong, Kazekage! It makes me shiver!" Gaara made an opening in the sphere. He caught himself on a platform of his own sand. The sphere crumbled away with the woman inside. She weaved a series of hand signs. "Wind Style: Air Raid Parade!" Huge gusts of wind lifted the woman in the air. She rode them like a surfboard, riding across the sky as if she were in the ocean, riding the waves. Gaara made an attempt to chase her with the sand but he was bombarded by a maelstrom of air bullets. The woman changed her hand sign. The bullet got bigger. Gaara shot tot he ground on the final bullet. His sand armor cracked, some of it fell off. The woman landed on the ground. "Secret Art: Heaven's Lovely Gate." Gaara's body sunk into the portal. The woman jumped in after, closing the portal behind her.

(Somewhere unknown…)

"The five Kages of the great Hidden Villages are all here." A dark skinned man said, steeping into the light. Onoki and Ay, the two Kage who were still conscious, saw the man step into the light while his followers hid in the shadow. He wore a purple and white outfit that consisted of a dark purple jacket-vest over a long sleeved white shirt that fell over his hands, concealing them. The cuffs of the shirt were wide. He wore black pants and sandals. His skin was dark brown, with a mini-afro and a beard trimmed to trail the line of the jaw. What surprised Ay and Onoki the most was the ripple pattern in his eyes—he possessed the Rinnegan.

"What do you want from us!" Ay spat.

"It's not what I want from you, but it's not time for me to explain yet," the man said. "But my name is Kin Yobi." He roundhouse kicked Ay in the face. "You will cease talking from now on."

"So what do we do now, Yobi?" The thin man asked.

"We await the Divergence, but for now, we hold the Kages for ransom."

"Yes, my lord."