I sensed enemies approaching they were coming in fast. My team they are all tired except the Hatake who just showed up. This isn't good at all my team is still getting use to working together.

"Orochimaru-san there 13 enemies approaching I sent my team back home to recover. They are all badly injured" Hatake informed me I nodded that's good. We don't want any dead I looked at my team.

"You 5 go home I'll stay here" I ordered all left but the Hatake. I wanted to punch him I don't want any dead on my conscience

"I'm not badly injured nor tired" said the Hatake I can't even order him to leave. He is my elder and is the same rank as me even if we are treated differently.

"Alright but don't die" I responded the hatake smirked.

"Don't die either Konoha needs us" Said the hatake as he took out his weapon. I summoned a couple snakes to kill our enemies.

"Kill any enemy no remorse" I ordered they slithered towards our enemies. I hear screams I smirked.

"4 escaped your snakes and coming right at us" informed the hatake I nodded in understanding. We both waited for our enemies their eyes widen.

"Orochimaru the snake sannin" said one scared blonde haired kunoichi from Iwa.

"Sakumo Hatake The white fang" said a terrified brown haired shinobi. The other two shinobi were shaking. I let out my killer intent a second later Sakumo let out his which, made the enemy sweat.

"I'll take the two talkers" said Hatake I looked at the blonde and brown haired shinobi they carried swords. Close combat which Sakumo is known for.

"Alright" I answered Sakumo sped ahead of me and attacked the shinobi barely blocked. Sakumo attacked with accuracy and skill not like his enemies who relied on their speed. My foes are far range fighters support fighters. Which were a bad matchup for them. I ran towards them since their weakness close range fighting. I took out my trusty kusanagi. And attacked they barely dodged before, they could recover I slashed their necks. I watched them die slowly I turned towards Sakumo who was now cleaning his weapon.

"Let's go home Orochimaru-san" Said Sakumo softly I nodded we headed home which was 1 day away if we walked. But we are ninja, so we cut that by more than half. We rested after running 4 hours straight.

"Hatake-san why-" I said before I was interrupted by the hatake.

"Call me Sakumo" he said cheerfully I nodded his demeanor changed. In battle, he was like a wolf quick efficient and without remorse.

"Alright Sakumo-san why were you there when my team was attacked?" I asked

"Well my mission was to kill this group of people. I did but I saw a mission report saying they'll be ambushing a team of konoha shinobi" Explained Sakumo I nodded makes sense.

"Are you injured?" I asked pointing at the dried up blood on his arm.

"Oh that it's from my actual mission there was more jonin than expected. One was able to cut me nothing major though" Answered Sakumo

"Let me see" I demanded Sakumo nodded and takes of his long sleeved shirt and vest. I see a 4-inch-long cut my eye twitches.

"Sakumo-san it's 4 inches long" I say in a deadpan voice Sakumo just laughs.

"Well it doesn't hurt" Sakumo says lamely I put my hand on top of the wound. And concentrated my chakra to my hand and wait until my chakra turned green. I healed his cut which took a couple minutes since I'm no medical-nin. Tsunade-hime taught me if I didn't learn I couldn't go to missions without her. Maybe I shouldn't have learned. I barely see my real team anymore.

"There don't be stupid and reopen your cut" I say Sakumo smiles brightly like Jiraiya. The two even have similar personalities.

"Thank you Orochimaru-san you're the best" said Sakumo childishly

"So Orochimaru-san was that a new squad you were working with?" asked Sakumo I nodded.

"Same I got a new squad now. But they aren't my team. I miss my original squad" confessed Sakumo while looking directly at my eyes and not even flinching. Which most can't do without being a bit nervous or twitchy.

"I feel the same Jiraiya-baka and Tsunade-hime were my anchors. My teammates and my weird family" I say softly letting my emotions slip. Sakumo looked at me shocked. Maybe cause I showed emotion when I'm supposed to be a cold killer.

"I feel that to my team was my family as well. I feel embarrassed saying it since I would get teased" confessed Sakumo I nodded in understanding.

"Don't tell Jiraiya and Tsunade that I feel like that though" I said Sakumo nodded in understanding.

"They aren't even on my level I can't depend on them" I say tiredly Sakumo got an amused look.

"You know the only people in your generation who would be as strong as you are your old teammates" says Sakumo I groan.

"Exactly I'm too strong apparently the only people who can keep up with me is my old teammates" I complained why am I acting so open?

"How about me?" asked Sakumo I looked at him. Well he is only 2 years my senior. He is more renowned than even me and my old teammates.

"Well you'll be able to keep up with me but no way the elders will pair me up with you. They like you too much to put you with me" I say out loud not realizing what I said. My eyes widen I shouldn't have said that. Sakumo eyes narrowed at me.

"What do you mean?" question Sakumo I sighed now I have to tell him.

"The elders hate my guts as I'm no good in their eyes. I'm just a cold-hearted human. Who is more like a snake than a human, I can't even count the times they tried to kill me by sending me to suicide missions" I explained Sakumo was shocked by this. Anger filled his eyes he was visibly shaken up

"What!" he hissed out

"Yea I noticed after a while since they barely let me rest in between missions. All which were S rank's or high A rank's" I explained I felt the temperature around us drop.

"They shouldn't be treating anyone like that. All you have done is been loyal to konoha. Does your sensei know?" asked Sakumo angrily I shook my head.

"He knows I'm being sent out for missions. But I'm pretty sure he is being told I'm asking for them" I answered Sakumo eyes narrow.

"Why haven't you talked to him" he asked I sighed why does he care so much.

"Everytime I ask to speak to sensei they don't let me through" I explained Sakumo gets up from his seat.

"Let's go" he said I stand up and follow him, what's he doing? We made it to konoha we were both welcomed by the gatekeepers. My new squad came with looks of joy when they saw me which, shocked me a bit okay it shocked me a lot.

"Kaze Medori Haru Jun Nobu are you all ok?" I asked they nodded and looked at me like they have something to say.

"I'm sorry" said Medori the only female in my team. She is usually timid and usually the only level-headed person in battle.

"We all are" said Haru our team medical-nin. Haru was following Tsunade-hime example. Haru wants to be a front line fighter, but also wants to help his fellow shinobi in battle.

"We weren't paying attention to our surroundings. We aren't strong enough to be by your side" said Nobu as he clenched his fist. Nobu was my team genjutsu master. Nobu was also very good in kenjutsu which he combines with his genjutsu. A scary ability if only he wasn't easily angered and baited.

"You protected us the whole time you took many hits for us" continued Kaze sadly he was very good with ninjutsu and taijutsu. He is a perfect front line fighter. Sneaky unpredictable and deadly, but he has a flaw he sometimes holds back. Since he has a loving and caring personality so it's hard for him to kill.

"We are useless we promise to be more useful in the future. We will become stronger" ended Jun a smile formed on my lips. Jun had lots of stamina and is very fast. His speed can only be rivaled by very few. His specialty bukijutsu any weapon on his hands are deadly. Flaw he depends too much on his speed and bukijutsu. He need to learn a bit more ninjutsu and genjutsu.

"That will be a nice but remember we are humans still we make mistakes" I say they smiled brightly and left. Sakumo looked at me with a smile.

"I don't think you are a cold monster everyone makes you out to be" he says softly then he grabbed my hand which made me flinch. I hate being touched but I let him guide me. He was headed to the Hokage tower. We entered and Sakumo is a clan head, so he was allowed to enter without a appointment. We opened the door to sensei office.

"Orochi-kun Sakumo-san what bring you to my office" sensei says cheerfully but I could see the tiredness in his persona.

"You seem tired sensei the war too much for you?" I joked which shocked Sakumo what I'm open around sensei.

"Haha I missed having you around Orochi-kun" said sensei gleefully.

"Hokage-sama you need to control your old teammates" said Sakumo angrily I was shocked so was sensei.

"What do you mean?" asked Sensei confused and sat straighter than before. Losing his relaxed carefree posture.

"Koharu and Homura have been forcing Orochimaru-san to take mission after mission. Leaving him little to no break. They instructed people to not let Orochimaru-san come to your office" revealed Sakumo sensei eyes narrowed with anger his fist clenched.

"They keep giving him suicide missions hoping Orochimaru-san dies" continued Sakumo regret and pure hatred flashed through sensei eyes.

"I'm sorry Orochi-kun I failed you, but I'm going to correct this soon" said my sensei

"I don't doubt it" I say softly Sakumo smiles at me which made me feel warm inside. I don't know why though that never happened before.

"Now that's that corrected I have a request Hokage-sama" said Sakumo sensei looked at him and nods,

"I request that my squad merged with Orochimaru squad. I feel like are squads combined can be successful. Orochimaru needs someone who can cover his back. And none of his current squad can compare in power. I can, so we'll be able to cover each other" explained Sakumo my eyes widen in shock.

"Done but you'll be in charge of many sketchy missions but you'll have longer down time to heal and train. Your team may be changed a bit" said sensei Sakumo put his arm around my neck. I still flinched but I let him. He did too much for me to not let him. My sensei smiled when I let him touch me.

"Sakumo-san if anything happens to Orochi-kun in your charge you are a dead man" said hokage I chuckled at Sakumo terrified face.