Extended Summary- The Shinobi have been attacked by a new threat, they have been attacked by a society that has long forgotten jutsu and chakara. The new society focused on harnessing their chakara and have developed it to an extent of invincibility. As the saying goes, you can't bring a knife to a gun fight and so the ninja where captured by the New threat and are now unable to fight back. Their chakara is sealed and they are treated like a sub-human species. There is little hope for the ninja race, that is unless teo legendary shinobi can find a way to beat the system. Kakoro, Kakaoro, Kakshi x Orochimaru.
After a three year long war the shinobi army was taken down and defeated. There had been nothing but chaos for the duration of that time, none of the shinobi villages had been willing to form an alliance with each other and the result was devastating.
What ever the new threat was, they relied solely on technology and had left ninjutsu behind. The scattered ninja fought hard but were nothing against the cruel grip of the new force. Mist was the first to fall, followed closely by Sand and then Sound, the Akatsuki fell next and soon after Cloud was taken as well. Konoha and rock were last while the other villages fell just before them.
By the time people were willing to form an alliance it was already to late, the devices the new threats had were impossible to beat no matter how fast the ninja. Few ninja went missing, they had either escaped or been killed instead of captured. Madara Uchiha and Sasuke Uchiha were two ninja that had disappeared.
Once captured they were used or forced to do what ever the new threat needed. It was mostly trivial, and ninjutsu was almost completely banned; the only ninjutsu that was not stripped from them was the jutsu that the new threat needed. The ninja were often switched around, and got new jobs almost every month, it was done so that no ninja found a way to break away from the mundane routine. The security was strict and all shinobi were kept on a short leash, even chunin level and under were watched.
At this point in time, Kakashi had been grouped with six other ninja to do a job he didn't quite understand… a form of amusement for the new threat he supposed. He was stuck with Kisame, Shikamaru, Konan, Sasori, Deidara and Orochimaru. Kisame and Orochimaru had been forced to transform, and were now in the shape of a large white serpent and a greyish blue shark, Kisame still resembled a human though to an extent. Konan was given her wings and the ability to make her paper ornaments. Deidara's hands were free to craft his explosive models, and had been handed a bag of his clay. Shikamaru was allowed to move his shadow around freely, allowing for him to grab and control someone again and Sasori was given his puppet back. Kakashi had been given his dogs… what ever that meant. Although the team had good jutsu's at their disposal again it was futile to even fight. Any jutsu they used as an attack would be taken away quickly, and they would likely not be able to even scratch one of the new threats. Kisame was in a large tank filled with water and Orochimaru the same just with sand instead. The snake and shark took it as an insult to their humanity, the shark was banging at the glass while the snake merely ignored everyone and everything as he coiled into a tight bundle his head resting on the floor. If anyone approached the tank he'd hiss a warning… no one had gotten any closer to find out the rest.
The other ninja who were human were merely kept in cages of metal that despite their jutsu's would not break.
"What is our job?" Kakashi asked Shikamaru, Kakashi had been the last one to enter the cage and he hoped the others had been here long enough to tell him what was expected of him.
"It's some sort of amusement. Out there is a ring, and surrounding it is a stand with enough room for thousands. People fill up the stands and we go out and entertain them… " Shikamaru said glumly leaning on the bars.
"Don't bother attack the audience… there's an invisible barrier… my birds didn't even reach a Km near them." Deidara said, Kakashi sighed.
"How do we entertain them?" Kakashi asked.
"You do whatever the guy tells you, there is a NW that instructs what you do. I use my shadow to control a NW instructor, and that apparently amuses the audience since they can't understand how I'm doing it. They are easily amused… I don't know what you're going to do with those dogs but they brought you here for a reason." Shikamaru said. Kakashi glanced at Kisame.
"How do you get onto stage like that?" He asked noticing the lack of legs replaced by a sharp shark tail.
"The tank is on wheels." Kisame said swimming to the side of the tank nearer to Kakashi and leaning out to look at his dogs. Pukken looked back at him.
"How is a half shark man amusing?" Pukken asked.
"I dunno, guess it's the fact that they have never seen it before." Kisame said.
"They have Konan to do origami and fly, which amuses them greatly, Sasori does puppetry, Deidara makes his clay model and blows them up near the audience at a safe distance. Kisame just has to swim around the tank and swim to or through what ever the NW says, I do my shadows and Orochimaru is the dangerous aspect that the crowd always enjoys… much like when people bring lions and bears on stage… the danger of a large animal always thrills the crowd." Shikamaru explained, "Perhaps your dogs will do some act?"
"How demeaning? Is this really a circus for the NW?" Kakashi said annoyed, his last job had at least some relevance.
"Yeah… tell me about it." Deidara said back.
"My last job was at least decent." Kakashi groaned.
"Mine to… I had to demolish buildings with my explosions! It was a blast." Deidara said, missing his own pun, "What did you guys do?"
"I helped NW soldiers conduct plans on making more efficient raids of the last shinobi." Shikamaru said.
"I helped capture shinobi." Sasori said.
"I had to set up and help in the hospitals." Konan said softly.
"I helped NW's cross the ocean safely… apparently they aren't so good at navigating the oceans yet." Kisame laughed recalling old memories. Deidara looked over to the snake who had been ignoring the entire conversation contemplating what he should do to the NW who dared make a show out of him.
"What?" Orochimaru hissed when everyone's gaze fell on him.
"What did you do before this?" Deidara asked, he, the snake and the Nara had all been in the show for the same amount of time, they had arrived just after Kisame, Konan and Sasori. They'd been transported together so they had some how grown a small bond, Deidara didn't fear the snakes hisses any longer since he knew the Sannin wouldn't harm him… or at least he assumed since he had pushed boundaries before and had left bite free.
"I helped them discover things in their labs… but only for a short while as I sabotaged every experiment and they started noticing…" Orochimaru said.
"Hope people got hurt." Shikamaru said, despite being naturally peaceful the Nara… and every other ninja who existed had developed a hatred towards the NW, NW was what the Shinobi had called the new threats. The name came from the logo that was on every one of their jackets. All of the new threats had the same NW sign on a part of their clothing.
"Show usually starts at seven, we go on between eight and ten." Deidara said. Kakashi nodded and looked around for a clock, there wasn't one.
"Yeah… we don't have a clock… but we can tell every hour as a guard comes in to check on us. We know it's night because the show starts… or if there isn't a show that night it goes pitch black and they turn the lights off…" Deidara informed him.
"How long will we be stuck with this crappy job for?" Kakashi said.
"We don't know… it's usually a month of the same job then they switch but Konan, Kisame and Sasori have been here for a month and one week. Orochimaru, Deidara and I have been here a week… we've only done two shows." Shikamaru said.
"Someone is coming." Orochimaru said, as the snake said about a minute later someone entered the cell. The NW wore a fake smile on his face and he checked all the cages were secure. He had a gun in his one pocket and small device that when activated would cause which ever shinobi stepped out of line to loose all jutsu and chakara, as well as send an electrical surge through out their body which would only stop when the button was clicked again. After checking the cages he turned to face them all with his big fake smile, he then spoke in a fake kind voice.
"The show begins in an hour, prepare yourselves, and remember any disobedience is not taken lightly. Although I'm sure none of my shinobi would dare harm me." He said and then exited the room as if he was a part of a show.
"I don't need jutsu to kill him… just need to snap his head o-" Orochimaru was cut off.
"None of that, they'll still electrocute, shoot and capture you. You might be able to hurt him but think of the consequences." Shikamaru reminded the snake. Between Shikamaru the Sannin and Deidara, Shikamaru found himself constantly reminding the two rogue ninja that violence would only hurt themselves. They were both hot headed to say the least, Deidara displayed his hot headed ways to the world and couldn't be missed by miles, while Orochimaru acted more like a snake in his nature, appearing calm and polite at all times, until the final straw where he'd lash out like a cobra, deadly venom ending the person who dared tick him off. Luckily Shikamaru had been with the two of them for long enough to develop some sort of a weird friendship and they both listened to the Narawhen he calmed the easily provoked rogues down. Kakashi sighed and tried to look out the crack of the door to see how big the audience was. He had no luck since his angle didn't allow for it. He then turned back to the group.
"Is the NW who looks after us nice?" Kakashi asked, from what he had seen from his last job, not all NW's were bad. They just supported a bad cause.
"He's fake, he puts on a false nice act when people are around or right before a show, but when no one is around he's a typical NW." Orochimaru replied, from that Kakashi could gather that the Sannin had only run into horrible NW's as he used the word typical NW to refer to the instructor being terrible.
"Sounds like the place to be, I've gotta tell you." Kakashi said sarcastically. This was not his idea of life, a few years ago he was freely running around, doing missions and fighting for his beliefs. He was doing things he wanted to… be them small like reading his favourite book or be them big like saving his village, he wanted to return to those days of freedom. He was pretty sure so did the rest of the ninja that stood beside him… and most likely every other captured shinobi for that matter.
The door opened again, the bright light from the stage shining in the badly lighted room.
"It begins." Shikamaru said.
Just a short introduction! Hope you enjoyed! R&R please.