The Iron Monkey, a top tiered guild only matched by two other guilds; Fairy Tail and Phantom Lord. The Iron Monkey is stationed in a small town hidden in a large forest called Konohagakure No Sato. Currently the guild leader, Sarutobi Hiruzen was sitting at his desk going over the guild's finances, the guild was broke thanks to some of members of his guild. Mostly his pupils fault.
His first student, Senju Tsunade. Granddaughter of the villages founder. Her exploits around the country were legendary. The most popular was when she was participating in the Grand Magic games where she fought a wizard Saint named Jura and three other S-Ranked mages and won. She broke through her enemies guard with a very unpredictable Taijutsu stance and healed herself whenever she got injured until the others tired out. Shortly after she was dubbed as one of Fiore's strongest women.
His second and personal favorites, Orochimaru. When it came to him Hiruzen felt nothing but pride. The young man was just recently brought into the Wizard Saints. He was not only strong but he was a genius. He was known for coming up with a cure for an illness called, Magical Overflow.
Then at last there was Jiraiya, the Toad sage was strong and kind. Couldn't be swayed in any way. He hadn't achieved any kind of recognition other than mastering a lost art of summonings. Though he did have a major job when it came to the country's protection, he ran a spy network in the surrounding countries. Thus he ever rarely came home.
Tsunade, she made a bet with a girl named Ultear. Though no one knew what the bet was. It was obvious that she lost and had to cash out quite a bit of money. Hiruzen sighed 'This is why I can't have nice things'
Orochimaru, his experiments blew up three whole blocks in the capital. The experiments he was working with, know one knows.
And then Jiraiya... Hiruzen just looked at the bill and sat the folder down, not even wanting to know the reason.
Hiruzen then began to go through his other paperwork but was interrupted when someone burst through the door. Asuma Sarutobi, his son stood in front of him panting heavily, as is he has been running for a while. "Tou-san!" He said in a frantic voice.
"What is wrong, Sochi?"
"A village was destroyed. Several hundred miles away. They say that it was a black dragon." Dread filled the elderly guild master. That actually wasn't so far away and if the dragon attacked his village, the villagers would parish.
"Evacuate the village immediately. We need to prepare for a possible attack." Hiruzen ordered his son. Hiruzen once caught a glimpse of a black dragon nearly forty years ago. He couldn't be sure that it was the same one but the one he saw, it's raw power was overwhelming.
"Yes father."
Night Time:
Unfortunately, Hiruzen's hunch that the dragon would come came true. He could fill the power that he felt all those years ago fast approaching.
Stranding at the highest point of his village, Hiruzen stood ready. Dressed in his old battle armour, propped against his prized Adamantine staff.
Mustering a significant amount of magic, five large magic circles appeared in the air and shot out each element in rapid speed. Earth, wind, fire, water, lightning hit the dragon and made an explosion on impact. From the smoke the dragon emerged unscathed emitting an angry roar.
"Figures." He muttered and rushed across the rooftops. Hiruzen kept an eye on the large beast whose attention was now on him. The dragon the began to build up energy and shot the newly formed orb at the man, but Hiruzen dodged the attack and it struck in the area behind him. The force of the attack sent gusts of winds and debri towards him and continued to dodge.
"Fire Magic: Intelligent Hard Work!" Hiruzen sent the large fire attack at the beast and same as before, the Black Dragon came out unscathed. Musterting up all the strength and energy he could, the Adamantine Staff transformed. Its size could match the dragons and he went on the defensive once again and lifted the staff over and brought it down onto the dragon. Only rather the dragon had caught the staff with its teeth and pulled the staff away and threw it into the distance and out of reach.
'Damn' Hiruzen thought in his mind. He was the a former 'God of Ishgar' had the title as 'The Professor' and still he could only come up with limited strategies to deal with the dragon, but there was only one that could actually put an end to the beast itself. It would cost him his life as well, but he had to try. Not just for himself, but for the rest of Fiore and most of all his old friend Makarov who had fallen victim to this same beast only five years ago.
"Earth Magic: Multi Earth Dragon!" several dragons made from the earth shot forward and began to strike and attempting to bind the dragon. With more magic being put into the the attack it hindered the dragon only a moment but it was all that he needed. With said beast distracted by the attack Hiruzen managed to make it upwards to the only remaining high standing building. Being as old as he was, he had grown weak and with these attacks, but he could do this last one.
"Death Magic: Reaper Death Seal!" an ominous figure had been conjured behind Hiruzen and its arm stretched out and went into the dragon and began to clutch at its soul. It then began to build up another ball of energy in panic, much quicker than before and launched it at Hiruzen. Though it was too late for the dragon.
"Seal!"
Two Years Later
It was that time of year again! The Grand Magic Games were being held in the capital of Crocus and guilds from all around the country as well as its civilians coming to spectate. There was one guild whose core members had rumored to come back to life. It was said that they had been killed fighting the same dragon that Sarutobi Hiruzen gave his life to kill. The now dubbed 'Most Powerful God of Ishgar' as well as 'The Professor', and 'The Hero' had his own celebration purely dedicated to him on his birthday as well as in the GMG.
The Iron Monkey since then had become official guild in the capital, but were not as large as they once were. The master now was Fiores Strongest Women, Tsunade Senju. She sat at her large circular desk looking at some information of the growing dark guild, Akatsuki. There was no accurate information on the group, thus making it really hard to do anything. Sighing she rubbed her temples and took a drink of sake. The King, the Akatsuki, and now the GMG were among her problems. The King himself this year was openly rooting for the Iron Monkey, thus he commanded that her guild win.
Naruto Uzumaki, the apprentice of Jiraiya is participating. As well as her own, Sakura Haruno and Orochimarus own, Sasuke Uchiha. The other two members had not been decided and the GMG started tonight at midnight.
"Everybody! Listen up!" her voice boomed throughout the guild catching everybody's attention. "Two more members are needed to participate in this years games," everybody then suddenly began to beg the guild leader to let them participate. Quickly she got angry and punched the desk splintering it in half causing everybody to go quiet. "The two people participating shall be," She paused and looked around the room. 'They all have so much to prove' but she could only choose two. "Haku!" the young, feminine boy looked shocked and bowed and began to profusely thank her. "Now but not least, Itachi Uchiha!"