Prologue
For Danzo Shimura third Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village It seemed that all of his problems solved themselves. The first time this happened was when he became Hokage, when his childhood rival Hiruzen Sarutobi had been critically injured and wouldn't recover for years leaving no obstacles for Danzo to become the Hokage and start to bring about his ideal Konoha. The second time this would occur was with Sarutobi's apprentices the legendary Sannin. Orochimaru had been the easiest to deal with as it had been near effortless for Danzo to manipulate Orochimaru into becoming his right hand man and give all of his skills to Danzo's cause. Sure Danzo knew Orochimaru coveted Danzo's Position of Hokage and his schemes to kill him, but so long as Orochimaru gave the results of his experiments to Danzo he didn't care what dreams of power his second in command had. The second of the Sannin Tsunade had been more problematic as she vocally protested Danzo's near complete control of everything in the Hidden Leaf, but with the death of her boyfriend and brother she had simply done Danzo's work for him and left. All he had to do was declare her a missing-nin and he knew Tsunade could never hinder his plans again. The last of the Sannin Jiraya had been the longest lived but most simplistic of problems to solve. As soon as the toad sage had finished training Danzo's biggest problem he too had left the village and Danzo declared him a Missing-nin. But those three weren't the only hindrances to Danzo's quest for power, the leader of the Hidden Rain Hanzo of the Salamander a former ally to Danzo had learned too much about Danzo's secrets so Danzo used a simple but brutal plan. He sent Orochimaru with his mentor Hiruzen to assassinate Hanzo. In reality though Danzo was killing two birds with one stone here as he gave Orochimaru the secret order to kill Hiruzen once he was exhausted from fighting Hanzo which was preformed flawlessly instantly removing two of Danzo's greatest Adversaries. With Hanzo out of the way Danzo used the cover of the second shinobi world war to destroy the hidden rain and claim its' territory for his own. After the fall of the rain village Danzo enjoyed a relatively easy period in his life until Jiraya's damned apprentice Minato had started his own team. Minato and his team had caused Danzo no end of grief and paranoia; while Minato never did anything against the Hokage he was gaining too much popularity and power and was rapidly becoming a threat to Danzo's seat of power as many saw the yellow flash as worthy of the title of Hokage. Minato's team had not started out so troublesome, as Rin was too quiet to ever speak out against Danzo, Obito too weak, and as for Kakashi, he was the one who had become more the largest threat. As Danzo sat in his long-held office he couldn't help but break his emotionless façade and grimace as he reminisced on what a disappointment Kakashi had turned out to be. Danzo had planned to bring Kakashi under his wing as soon as he became a Jonin. Unfortunately for Danzo the foolish rock-nin had started the third shinobi world war and Kakashi had rapidly slipped from Danzo's grasp. Early in the war Kakashi's teammate Rin was killed in an ambush by the rock-ninja and after that Kakashi changed. To this day Danzo knew he should have sent someone to bring Kakashi around to his point of view, but he had failed and Kakashi after spending the war fighting alongside that moron of an Uchiha had become a fervent believer in Minato's damned will of fire. With his status as the son of the white fang he could easily gather followers and cause Danzo problems. But having only three true threats to your regime wasn't bad Danzo thought and he had heard unclear reports that Minato had just defeated the Kyubii and he and his wife were dead. Again Danzo lowered his poker face to show a bit of emotion and released a small smile. He figured something like this would happen as soon as he heard the Kyubii had attacked and now with Minato out of the way Kakashi and Obito would lose their threat value; as they were not big enough of heroes themselves to endanger Danzo's rule. Yes for Danzo life sure did seem good in fact he was considering drinking a little sake in celebration. Something he hadn't done in 50 years. Little did Danzo know that this night would birth the problem that would make all of his other problems pale in comparison. Yes little did he know that as he sat celebrating quietly the end of Minato that the seeds that would grow into the elderly mans greatest enemy were being planted right now by the man Danzo was celebrating the death of and one boy prodigy that Danzo had never seen as a threat.
Authors note: this is my first attempt at writing fanfiction and hopefully I'll get better as this story goes on. Next chapter we'll get introduced to our main characters and they'll be a lot less exposition. Anyway read and review.