Naruto Nine Tail's Resurrection: Demigod Wars

Chapter 1 New Allies

For over three hours a smoke and dust cloud rose over the forest and could be seen for miles. There once was a large hole in the ground that was big enough to show the bones of a huge creature that had died long ago and anyone foolish enough to wander near it would find a venus fly trap rising out of the ground under their feet to consume them. It was the hidden base of the Akatsuki where they kept the Gedo Mazo statue and held their private meetings. And standing by the edge of the rising clouds were Kurama in human form and his four paths looking back and forth then up and down sweeping the area for any sign of his two opponents. Their glowing eyes looked in every direction including down past the giant broken pieces of earth and stone deep into the ground looking for a trace of the Akatsuki woman. But his eyes just saw tiny traces of chakra scattered about with the broken body parts of the orange haired man named Pain.

Relaxing his eyes the two rings of sharingan tomeo's stopped spinning in his purple eyes and he sent a mental command to the body of the Third Hokage. The Jigokudou path walked over to his other two destroyed paths and summons the King of Hell who roars out sending two tongues with hands at the ends stretching out until they grab a hold of Sasuke and Tayuya's broken bodies. The tongues pull them back into the demons mouth and he chews using his resurrection power to spit out two fully healed paths.

Once all seven stood together Kurama took one more look around and behind him before he turned towards the tree line and started sprinting with his paths of destruction following in a v formation behind him. "Now its on to the other villages! The rest of the tailed beasts are there and the Akatsuki are looking for them. If I'm lucky I'll run into a pair of them while I am hunting the jinchuriki and take care of two birds with one stone. The more Akatsuki I kill the less there is to both threaten me and take away the Gedo statue. I need to spend time with that statue and figure out how I can control it. After all, it was once the the Ten Tails and learning more about it will not only give me a place to store the Tailed beasts chakra but give me more control over all their accumulated power. Then I will be reborn, as a god! And... I will have to find him. But now is different than back then, I have eyes that can block and counter your Jutsu, Madara Uchiha!"

Kurama kept running through the forest leaving the destruction he created behind when he teleported inside the hidden base. When he appeared standing ontop of the Gedo statue looking down at Pain and Konan he demanded they tell him where to find the man with the spiral orange mask who called himself Madara Uchiha. Instead of answering Pain sent an Almighty push right at Kurama's human body but the attack was destroyed when Sasuke stepped forward using the Tendou power and sent an Push right back. The attacks created a large dust cloud that obscured everyones vision which the two Akatsuki partners used to attack Kurama and his Paths of Destruction.

In the end all that they could do against them was take out two of Kurama's paths when Sasuke and Tayuya landed on sheets of paper disguised as dirt that turned into paper shuriken. Pain was doing well before Kurama's demon path stabbed a knife hand up to the wrist into Pains gut and when Kankuro left his hand there and jumped away the bomb his hand tranformed into exploded sending pieces of the Rinnegan user everywhere. Konan saw this and looked on her teammates broken body looking sad before huge paper wings erupted out of her back and she sent a tornado of swirling sharp paper at Kurama.

But her attacks stopped suddenly when Ino appeared behind her and used her human path ability to reach into her paper body and grab a hold of her chakra and tear out the girls soul. The paper then fell away from her body like falling snow until the floor was littered with small white sheets. Kurama then bellowed a roar of triumph and began exploring the Akatsuki's hideout looking for secrets and more people to kill. Then after turning down another hallway Kurama smelled a scent he recognized.

At the end of the hallway he found the source of the scent was leaking past a huge boulder that according to his enhanced vision blocked the entrance to a large cavern. Using his Tendou power himself Kurama blasted the boulder away with a Shinra Tesai and stepped into the huge room taking a deep breath in through his nose. His eyes go wide and he looks over to the side of the wall and see's something that proves what he was smelling. On the wall hanging by hooks were cloaks and ninja weapons but one stood out amongst all the rest. It was the Uchiha battle fan that was used exclusively by Madara who's scent filled this room.

Tearing the battle fan off the wall and sealing it away in the scroll at his hip he walks out of the Akatsuki's hideout meeting up with the rest of his paths and used Kankuro his demon path to throw him high into the air above the giant opening in the ground. And using more chakra than was necessary he sent an Almighty Push down on top of the hideout crushing the underground tunnels and rooms into the ground and sending clouds of smoke and dust into the air. Then after looking twice to make sure he left no enemies alive he and his paths took off running through the forest. "It may be prudent of me to find my own hideout so that I may keep the Gedo Mazo hidden from the world. And as soon as that is done it is on to the hunt for my brothers!"

Back at the remains of the Akatsuki hideout the cloud of smoke and dust began to settle and the huge rocks and dirt lay still. Until a small shaking could be heard all over the broken landscape. Stones and pebbles shifted as tiny pieces of paper began slowly pushing their way up and out of the ground to gradually begin reforming into a panting Konan.

She had recognized the human path attack when Ino appeared behind her so she folded her self into sheets of paper falling off her body before Ino reached in and stole the chakra left behind keeping her paper visage together. It was only a mater of time to spread her chakra out into each piece of remaining paper until she could begin digging herself out of the ground. When the last of her body folded into place she fell forwards onto her hands and knees trying to catch her breath from the massive chakra loss. "Yahiko...Im sorry!"

"He's not the one you should be apologizing to!"

Shock makes her head snap up with her eyes wide and she turns slowly around to look up at the mysterious figure of Madara Uchiha materializing behind her out of the small eye sized vortex in his spiral mask. When his teleportation technique was done his one sharingan eye blazed from behind his orange mask down on her as he stood in a wide stance with his arms crossed disaprovingly across his chest.

"It was Naruto Uzumaki. He appeared after using a teleportation jutsu and he defeated us." Konan stayed low to the ground looking up at him waiting to see if he took his wrath out on her.

"Hoho, really?! A thirteen year old genin just took out the Akatsuki's two most powerful members did he. And this Pain was destroyed, what a shame. I know what the old corpse meant to the two of you. Is it going to be a problem that I am going to have to take care of myself?"

Konan shook her head and lifted her right palm out towards the broken rocks making them shudder like from a small quake. And after a few more seconds pieces of what could easily be seen as body parts were lifted out of the ground while wrapped in white paper and floated slowly over to the blue haired woman. "As you well know, Nagato can use his power to resurrect this body and place his Tendou power within. All is not lost."

Madara tensed his arms making his shoulder armor clank a little before he said, "Oh right sure, all we've lost is a base that has remained hidden for close to a hundred years while our plans and our secrecy are forced into the open by one of our enemies. But you managed to save a corpse from being flattened, I guess you expect me to be proud?!"

"Please I..."

"DON'T!" His command was so loud and firm that Konan felt as if she had to fight for her life all over again. "What you will do is return to Ame and give back your partners broken toy and wait there for my instructions. Your incompetence has thrown a monkey wrench into best laid plans that have been slowly building for decades and now I must get involved before the chosen time. NOW GO!"

Konan nodded her head and started turning herself into thousands of small paper butterflies and began flying away with the broken Pain floating behind her.

Once she was gone and the masked ninja was alone he raised a hand up to his forehead and shook his head back and forth. "Of all the things that could have happened. A boy not only gains the Rinnegan not implanted in his skull but also ruins everything we have worked for these many years. How does it look down there Zetsu?"

A quiet rustling in the ground next to his feet draws his eye down to watch the green outer venus fly trap shell of Zetsu rise out of the ground and open its spikes wide to reveal his half black and white face. The rumbling voice of black Zetsu speaks up first saying, "More than half of the Zetsu clones we have been slowly growing were crushed while the tree fueled by the Mazo was strong enough to keep parts of the underground chamber from collapsing on them."

White Zetsu pulled his side of his face into a smile and says with humor in his voice, "Not so bad when you come to think of it."

Black Zetsu's harsher voice growls back, "SHUT UP! We have spent years growing those clones and they still had three more years to reach maturity. Even if we started now we wouldn't have as many as we calculated we needed for our plans to work in the time alloted. And there is another problem that may make the army we've been growing completely useless."

The masked man walks forwards and then suddenly sinks down into the ground like it suddenly turned to water. Zetsu follows his chakra down through the broken ground into the large cavern where they both originally met years ago and moved around the rubble until they found the tree roots where they connected with the Gedo Mazo and looked up at them.

Zetsu rises out of the wall next to the masked man and quietly waits for him to speak.

"The problem is that Naruto Uzumaki can summon the Gedo statue and separate it from the tree we grew from the First Hokage's body that is fueling our clone army. And without it they will wither and die under ground."

Both of them remain silent after that and just stand there staring at the destruction around them and thinking about how this changes their plans and what steps they needed to take next. Then the masked man turns around and looks at the wall that contained specialized ninja weapons and picks up the ones he was looking for off of the ground. The battle fan was gone but his razor chains with the wrist shackles were still there and he deposits them into his pack.

"Obito! Where are you going?" Black Zetsu's voice echo's out in the chamber and the masked Uchiha turns around sharply to answer.

"Don't use that name. From now on since I will be stepping into the Akatsuki call me Tobi! And there is only one course of action available to us now. After the Akatsuki assemble and I give them their new orders I will be going out on the hunt, and I will take down the nine tails brat myself!"

Back in the Land of fire it had only been a couple of days since the destruction of the Leaf Village but much had happened.

In the land of Fire word spread as fast as a firestorm through a forest that the Village Hidden in the Leaves had not only been attacked, but it had been completely wiped out. All of the villages twenty plus thousand citizens and ninja only six thousand survived. Luckily for the shinobi of the Leaf most of their powerful Jonin's had been out on missions and were able to return home to help with rescue attempts.

The Fourth Hokage Tsunade had survived and was working hard on saving and healing every person she could and by the third day of nonstop healing she was exhausted. In fact most of the ninja were exhausted as they worked to help anyone they could while trying to build makeshift homes behind the great stone faces that were half buried by the ruble of their once great home.

But after the third day things got much worse.

The rumors had spread throughout fire country of the destruction of the leaf and spies from ninja villages had rushed home to give the great news. Two old enemies of the Leaf sprang into action immediately and assembled their ninja into invading armies.

And on the fifth day after the destruction of the leaf, just as villagers and children began to think hopefully for the future is when the villages of Stone and Cloud attacked. Over a thousand of the leaf died before Tsunade gave the order to retreat out of the land of fire and everyone walked away from their home with tears in their eyes as the two rival ninja villages fought each other over the territory remains of the worlds first Hidden Village. As they marched some people dropped to their knees refusing to walk anymore and said that death was preferable which was quickly beginning to be the survivors concensus of moral. Tsunade had heard enough and personally walked back to smack some sense into her people before ordering Kakashi and several anbu to go back to the village and bring the black obsidian memorial stone that held every k.i.a. ninja's name. Kakashi was all to willing to go back for the stone and returned in just five hours.

Tsunade called for everyones attention as she stood on top of the black shiny stone and yelled, "KONOHA! LISTEN TO ME! And yes, I did not speak wrong when I call you all Konoha. You are the survivors of our home, we are the village and as long as we live our village lives. The foundations of our home are rooted in the ninja way, and to be ninja means that WE ARE SURVIVORS. We will endure and live on carrying our customs and our families into the future and one day, one glorious day we will return to our home AND TAKE BACK WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY OURS. BUT IF WE ARE TO DO THIS WE MUST SURVIVE, YOU MUST STAY ALIVE AND FIGHT WITH ME! I cannot do this by myself, I need you, all of you! So no matter what hardships we must face and no matter how far we must go we must stay together. Because the world knew and will know again, THAT IF YOU CROSS A LEAF SHINOBI THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY!"

Jiraiya had watched the villagers while they all cheered as they pumped their fists into the sky at the Hokage's words and followed her to the hidden base of their newest ally which was going to become the new Village Hidden in Leafs Shadow. The new ally was one that they had many reasons to distrust since her past actions spoke of the darkness she was now capable of.

Sakura Haruno who was once a Leaf genin on Team Sharingan with Sasuke and Nine Tails Naruto and her abilities with her jutsu inherited sharingan had caught the attention of the Leaf's number on villian; Orochimaru. He ordered her to be kidnaped and brought to him after his failed attempt to destroy Konoha in order to possess her body and finally grant him the revered sharingan. But because of a seal placed on Sakura the possession jutsu was altered to mirror the seal which allowed the Nine Tailed fox to mix his soul to Naruto's human one. The result was Sakura absorbing Orochimaru's chakra, jutsu knowlede, talent and memory making her into a new being that seemed to be more Sakura dominent but just as ruthless as a white snake.

These thought lay heavy on Jiraiya's mind and he played out those memories in his head as he walked down the dimly lit underground tunnels that seemed to stretch on forever. It took another day for them to finally reach rice country and after walking past what felt like thousandth rice patty they found the thick and dark forest which was the first marker to the underground base. And after feeling like they were getting lost in the woods Sakura appeared standing in a misty clearing holding a lantern up for them to follow. She showed them the entrances to the underground base and began directing people to the available rooms.

As Jiraiya walked he mentally checked off the numbers and names he was counting as he peeked in on families or ninja settling into their new homes. Nothing was ideal and each room had the scarcest amenities and their wasn't enough rooms for everyone as some people had to cram with six to eight people in each. Even ninja and civilians lined the long halls as they set up camp where ever they could find space.

And after doing his rounds and accounting for everyone Jiraiya headed back towards the new headquarters which had also turned into the medical ward for Tsunade to work. He turns the last corner and pushes open the wide double doors that had carved snakes on either side and steps in and has to stifle a surprised happy yell and chuckle at seeing Tsunade changing Anko's bandages off of her bare chest.

The room next echoes with the sound of Jiraiya's scared squeal and the thud of a Kunai after Anko see's what he was looking at and throws the weapon without a second thought. Tsunade just finishes her work and shakes her head at Jiraiya waving her hand at him to follow her out of the room.

"You know Jiraiya I would think that after all the punishment your face and body has taken for your perverted habits that you would have changed by now. But now with all of us living so closely I cant afford more stress on my people due to your pervertedness, so be professional or get out!"

Jiraiya just smiles and keeps his ever positive attitude in place and responds casually, "I know that, you can expect all business from now on. I just was surprised is all and besides, you're going to want your people to be getting a little perverted here and there since we have lost so many of us. Got to replenish the ranks right, myahahahahahohaOW!"

Tsunade punched him mid laugh but not one of her hard punches, just enough to make Jiraiya smack his head into the wall so his skull would ache on both sides.

When he recovered and was again walking besides her they continued talking with Tsunade saying, "Five thousand, two hundred, and thirty nine people left Jiraiya, and the remains of the village are being fought over by two packs of vultures. What would the old man say about a failure this big?"

Jiraiya folded his arms looking up in deep thought. "He would probably tell a story about the First or Second Hokages and how they triumphed over hardships, but this is unprecedented Tsunade. None of the Hokage with all their wisdom and experience could have done better in your situation."

Shaking her head is how she responds since his words don't lift the sad look from her eyes as she fakes a smile and says hello to villagers they pass sitting in the hallway. "No, we all felt something wrong Jiraiya. We all saw and heard the darkness in Naru..I mean the Fox boy. We knew there was something wrong with him and we ignored it, just as the Third had done. And knowing him he must felt something and did nothing because he was hoping for the best."

Jiraiya stopped walking so that Tsunade would stop too and turn to look at his serious face. "The Nine Tailed Fox demon is an immortal spirit that was constantly trying to break the cages we constructed to keep him sealed. Truthfully we were very lucky that the fox never gained control over the other jinchuriki, but they already had strong wills to begin with. A baby would never have had the sense of mind to fight off an intruding spirit, but we and I trusted in the jutsu of Minato too much. Every Jutsu he invented involving sealing was just simply a work of art that surpassed even my own understanding of sealing jutsu. There probably was never any doubt in old Sarutobi's mind that the fox was taken care of and as the teacher he was believed in the chance of good coming out of the darkness. In order to believe in good in this world we do have to allow the chance for it to cultivate but the lesson of Naruto teaches us to never drop our guard in that kind circumstance again."

Tsunade doesn't say anything for a moment as she looks at Jiraiya out of the corner of her eye and nods politely to another group of villagers sitting around a small heater in the wall. Once they pass the people she says, "You mean like the situation we find ourselves in now. You don't have to warn me about the danger since I was the one who didn't want to come here in the beginning. Sakura thinks like Orochimaru now and as such will only think about what benefits her. And after hearing all the rumors of experimentation I need you and the other jonin to stay vigilant and make sure we notice the moment people start to go missing."

"Yeah, I understand. I assume you haven't had a chance to really wander around this place yet have you?" Seeing the negative response in her eyes he continues. "There are labs down here in lower levels that stink of old blood and anguished death. Each of them appear to have not had any experiments done on any new people recently and all the living experiments seemed to have been either terminated or put to work for our pale pink and black haired girl. So yeah I'll keep my eyes open for any foul play but the signs point to Sakura only reviewing and working on Orochimaru's accumulated data. There are entire rooms that have jutsu script and theories that are not only ground breaking but terrifying too. The other thing we are going to need to be diligent on is keeping our remaining forces from being seduced by the forbidden and dark knowledge that is kept in this place."

Tsunade stopped walking and worked this over in her mind. "With so many of us morally broken this would be the opportunity for some of our ninja to start thinking of revenge and lead them down a dark path. Orochimaru turned after gaining all the power he desired and if the same happens to the remaining leaf ninja then we will cease being what we once were. That will be the death of the Leaf."

Jiraiya turns the rest of the way around and takes a step to put a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Tsunade! We have lost what we once were and no speech of duty and keeping what we lost alive is going to inspire them. We have to change even if just a little. I say that we embrace this new name of the Village Hidden in Leaf's Shadow as the course our ninja lives will take from now on. We are not planning on staying here just as you promised your people on the long march to this place. After that speech our people will expect we get retribution and that we work to reclaiming our home. I urged that we all come here because I believe this place will give us that chance to attack from the shadows and disrupt the invading forces enough until their campaign becomes too expensive to maintain. If any jutsu here is to be used we should be open with them and tell them the consequences of using this knowledge but give them the clear and true goal of reclaiming our home with the honor your Grandfather the First Hokage inspired into each leaf ninja for decades to come. We need to ignite the will of fire in them to give them the compass to stay way we have alway been."

Tsunade's eyes had a little wonder in them but she clenches them closed and chuckles lightly to herself. "You know, after hearing all that I really think you should have been chosen for Hokage over me."

Chuckling a little himself he points a thumb at his head and speaks in his loud obnoxious voice. "Well you know, they did come to me first to offering the position. Buuuuuut, with how busy I am there is no way I could sit down long enough to handle all these peoples problems along with my own. And besides Tsunade, you and I both know that you were the right choice for Hokage. I was never suited for the job and with you the people of Konoha have a much better chance of pulling through than with me holding the reins."

Looking down the corner of Tsunade's mouth pulls up in a smile and strength returns to her eyes when she looks up again. "Speaking of Sakura, have you seen her lately? It feels like its been a day in a half since the last time I had to listen to Orochimaru's voice coming out of a teenage girls mouth."

"I haven't seen her all day as well but then again there seem to be many hidden levels and rooms all over the place here so she could be just around the corner."

Both of the sannin's backs straighten when they feel the cold twinge of someone's chakra and then they hear, "My..old..friends, speak of the Devil and she shall appear." The voice was very soft and sweet sounding but had a hard edge with a slight hiss to it that reminded both of them of the greeting they heard many times decades ago.

They turn down towards the dark intersection of hallways and see the pale skinned Sakura step out around the corner half illuminated and half covered in shadow. She still wore her red dress like she used to back in the leaf village but now she continued to wear the purple corded belt tied in a huge bow at her back that Orochimaru liked to wear. She even had his blue curved earing's on and his purple lines ran just over her eyes and ran down the side of her nose just like their old teammates. She looked like Orochimaru had really been born a girl and was trapped at age thirteen forever.

Tsunade breaks the silence first. "How long were you standing there?"

Sakura laughs to herself in a very Orochimaru like way and speaks with a very chiding tone. "Hmmn long enough Tsunade! But not that long really, I was just looking for the two of you so that we can talk before you address your shinobi of the new direction the rekindling of the will of fire takes us in. So follow me, I know a place where we can be private and comfortable."

Without waiting for a response she turns into the shadowed corridor and walks away expecting the others to follow. And both Tsunade and Jiraiya share a look that tells them that they were both thinking the same thing. "She acts and talks to us just the way Orochimaru used to do, how annoying to relive this again."

Following Sakura they walked until they curved down the end of that hall to find a hidden wall panel leading to stairs down below. After walking down to the lower level and turning towards a opening leading to a large cavern Tsunade gets a strange feeling from this place and asks, "Where are you leading us?"

Sakura stops right at the arch leading to the cavern and says, "If we are going to be allies then I must divulge to you this places darkest secrets." She holds out her hand gesturing to the both of them to enter.

Jiraiya frowns down at her and leads the way into the huge space and walks along the edge that lead to another arched doorway on the other side that had an iron door blocking the way. But it wasn't until Tsunade gasped next to him did he look down into the almost arena shaped cavern that he saw the hundreds of other small arched doorways with iron bars all along the walls leading down in this pit. Then noises started to reach their ears of things moving and arms and faces pressing outside of the bars to yell and spit curses at the observers.

"A prison?!" Jiraiya was speaking through clenched teeth but doesn't get a chance to say what he wanted to next because Sakura interrupts.

"No! Its more of a holding pen! Each and every person you see down there have been Orochimaru's experiments on one jutsu or another. He used most of them to further his research into the curse mark he attempted to implant on Sasuke which had amazing mutagenic properties. Not only did the jutsu increase the strength of these people but it turned them into the creatures Orochimaru attempted to merge them with. As a result many of the beings you hear calling for your blood now have been so grotesquely changed that their minds have been torn apart making them no different than mad beasts. Of course some of them are more stable than others and were even ninja who for some reason or another ran away from their home villages to start a life of free enterprise. As you can see they have all been continually cared for and are no longer being made to suffer. But if you both are as sharp as the memories I now have of you tell me you are then you know the problem we face with the moral dilemma of keeping them here."

Tsundade and Jiraiya both wanted to yell right away that the right decision would be to free these poor people, but the knowledge each of these creatures had of this place was dangerous.

"I would also like to point out that most of these prisoners were actual criminals at one point as well. Murderers, bandits, rapists and every other kind of scum were picked up since transients were the easiest to abduct. And at this point since Orochimaru never kept records of these peoples past we wont have a reliable way of determining if any of them would be trustworthy to let loose. And besides, with the powers they have received they would be too dangerous to let loose on the unsuspecting world while even some of them no longer have the ability to maintain human form."

Tsunade crosses her arms and turns her head to look down at the howling beings. "What would you suggest then?"

Sakura smiles and turns away again motioning for them to follow her out the way they came. And once they were past the stone archway again she waved her hand through a one handed hand sign and an iron bared gate drops to seal the prison behind them. They follow Sakura back up the stairs to the end of the hall where another door adorned with stone snakes opens as if alerted to Sakura's presence revealing a warmly lit wooden study with plush leather chairs and a teenage blonde girl putting glasses of water down. Of course there was one large chair that was made of leather and was almost big enough to be called a throne sitting on a pedestal so that you had to look up at her. Seeing this Tsunade stayed standing while Sakura got comfortable in the chair.

The blonde girl with fine cracks running along her skin and black ringed blue eyes turned to Sakura and said with a very unpleasant tone of vioce, "Will that be all Sakura, can I go now?"

A sad look can be seen in Sakura's eyes before she responds. "Yes Ino you can leave. Oh and I think I saw Shikamaru over in the east wing. You should really say hi."

Ino puts her hands on her hips and says, "Is that a order master? I don't know since I can't feel the kunai you shoved in my head pushing me to do it. If im really free to go then Im free for the rest of the night so don't come calling for me." She turns around fast making her ponytail whish around behind her as she stormed out of the room walking fast down the hall way heading east.

"Their's no reason for us to be unpleasant Tsunade, have a seat."

Tsunade took a couple of stiff steps forwards and let a small amount of fury to register in her eyes as she said, "You listen to me! You are directly responsible for killing my apprentice Shizune with that black fire of yours so there is definitely reason to be unpleasant. And with the situation my people are in and the new knowledge of over a hundred tortured monsters lurking below them DEFINITELY MAKES THIS A GOOD REASON TO BE UNPLEASANT!"

Sakura looked into her eyes not flinching or batting an eyelash and just sits with a slight smile tugging the corners of her mouth in amusement. "Tsunade, Tsunade! First off, that fire was first only directed and burning to death that demon Naruto. Using his new powers he knocked the flames off his body and onto your apprentice. So it wasn't really me who killed her but Naruto, so don't we now feel the fool for not letting me kill him. And lets discuss your people and the prisoners downstairs. With Orochimaru's servants either dead or now serving me they continue to operate this base as well as several others, others which have prisons of their very own by the way." This statement made Jiraiya stand up out of frustration and Tsunade turn away with a couple steps towards one of the workbenches as Sakura continued. "If any chance exists to rehabilitate these people I think would be best left to the leaf ninja and Jiraiya. After all your so well known for showing compassion to people changing enemies to friends and applying the salve to the emotional wounds of the disfortunate. Any such action taken on my part would just be seen as a sign of weekness from their capture which would tell them their is an opening to attack and escape. But the others who are far beyond living a normal life, well I want those to be kept for the times when we need a sacrifice!"

Tsunade was listening while staring at a mummified hand wearing a silver ring with a jewel in the center on a work bench when her eyes turned steely again and she turns to look at Sakura out the corner of her eyes. "What filth are you talking about? These poor souls have gone through enough pain, I will not stand by while you use whats left of their lives to help you gain power!"

Sakura sat up a little straighter and leaned towards the older sannin and said, "Believe it or not but I am not Orochimaru. I have no interest in killing people for some personal enjoyment. It sicken's me and makes my lunch sit uneasy just thinking of the memories I have of witnessing the pain and horror these people have endured. But there are some who can serve a purpose that will help us achieve our goals. And there is one such jutsu which can make their sacrifices worthwhile to the both of you and all the rest of your ragtag villagers. But before I tell you what I am eluding to I think we should bring in the other new ally that we have both gained recently since this new revelation was his idea.

Jiraiya and Tsunade both turned to look Sakura square in the eye and to also get the layout of the room around them incase Sakura had something sinister hiding behind her vague speech.

"Kukuhaha, both of you relax, and when I say that I really mean it. This person has come to us after learning about the destruction of the leaf and has put himself in great peril in order to help you. But at first both of you would think that attacking him would be the appropriate response but it isn't. So as I have said, relax and allow him to speak before you make any judgments or reclaiming the leaf may be impossible.

Once both Jiraiya and Tsunade relaxed their stances Sakura looked over their shoulder at the door behind them and says, "Come in!"

The stone double doors open at the same speed as before and both Jiraiya and Tsunade turn around and both gasp a quick breath at the same time when they see the dark visage of Itachi Uchiha standing in the doorway saying, "Greetings."

Out in the forest bordering Fire country with Rain country sat Kurama Naruto with his paths of Destruction sealed away inside his scroll at his hip. While running he continued to marvel at the power he felt coursing through him from awakening the next level of his eyes, but then he suddenly felt an all too familiar human sensation as hunger makes his stomach rumble. Smelling the scents of the forest his nose led him to a roaming small herd of wild boar's which he descended upon like a hungry monster. He easily killed the large beasts with his claws and even used a kunai he created from the black obsidian that his new powers seemed to be easily able to make at will from the earth. And after carving up the beasts he began eating one of them raw but decided instead to use a fire jutsu to create a cooking fire and ate the last three after giving each of them a good roast.

And as he sat there staring up at the clouds and letting his fast metabolism burn through the meat he began to feel a little drowsy like he could just curl up and take a nap on the mat of moss and twigs he was laying on. But then his sharp ears picked up a sound that would have been nearly impossible to hear normally. The light tapping of multiple ninja sandals moving through the trees behind him was getting closer and closer.

Up in the trees the twelve squads of Cloud ninja ran following their captain to back up their forces which were currently holding their ground in the remains of Konoha. The fighting had become very fierce between the Cloud and Rock ninja and both sides wanted to establish the first base there to send a message to the world that their ninja village and country had officially expanded their territory. And not only that, but take part of the credit for wiping out the Leaf ninja from the face of the earth.

So that is why these ninja were so important to the mission given to them by their Raikage. Their kage had even made Yugito the host of the Two Tails Demon Cat their captain who had just like Killer B created quite the reputation for being unbeatable. And with her leading them despite some of their prejudices the thirty six ninja thought they couldn't be stopped and victory was all but assured.

Which is why they were moving so fast through the forest towards the battle, ready for a fight. But the all of a sudden Yugito stopped putting up her fist ordering everyone to do the same. When she heard everyone stop running she sent hand signs behind her back silently signaling the ninja to spread out in flanking positions around the clearing she was indicating. Once everyone was in position they could all see why they stopped suddenly.

In the very small clearing below them looked like a small massacre with blood all over the trees and ground with the left over pieces of boar here and there. It looked to many of the chunin at first that it was just another attack in the wild where some predator took great pleasure in the kill. But after another few seconds they understood just as the jonin and Yugito did that this was the work of ninja when they saw the skewered and cooked pieces that were still left over besides the dark burn spot on the tree that could have only been made with fire jutsu.

Every ninja kept a close eye on their surroundings as well as the captain waiting for the command to attack or maneuver, but Yugito was staring down at the clearing in deep contemplation as she sniffed at the air.

"I sense something very wrong here and Matatabi's chakra is getting agitated as well. I can here you whispering be careful Matatabi, but even you don't know what we are dealing with. I can smell him here, and not only that I can feel his oppressive and dark chakra. Better take care of this in one shot!" Yugito connected with the Nibi and pulled enough chakra to use one of her most devastating attacks and sent the hand signal that her squads should hold their ground and wait.

Then springing high and fast in the air she seemed to vanish and reappear in the sky above the bloody spot in the forest and went through rapid hand signs. She then made a triangle with her fingers above her head and thundered out her techniques name at the top of her lungs. "LIGHTNING STYLE, THUNDER BALL JUTSU!"

Between her hands a ball of blue white electricity grew and then exploded around her hands creating a sphere of lightning that sent small bolts dancing around the orb before she swung the ball down screaming out as she did then sends a huge bolt of lightning to wipe out the spot she was aiming for out of existence.

The bolt did hit sending bolts dancing through the forest burning black chunks out of the tree's and obliterating the remaining pig corpses. The ninja looking on couldn't believe the amount of chakra being used by their captain and felt sorry for whoever was hiding down there since the technique hits and kills so fast that your alive wondering whats going to happen one moment and the next your toast.

But a strange sound came buzzing to their ears just as loud as the crackling electricity still being channeled down. And when they all looked closer they could see at the point of impact a small arc of white light absorbing the lightning. When Yugito's jutsu was done everyone saw the bolt dissappear down a the forest floor and a then a pair of hands appear out of nowhere as small blue bolts of electricity crackled around Kurama Naruto until his invisibility jutsu completely wore off.

His glowing purple eyes looked up at Yugito where she landed in a crouch on a tree limb and he smiled showing sharp teeth and raising his demon chakra to send a clear message to the Cloud jinchuriki. "Well well, it looks as though at the beginning of my hunt the prey comes to me first. How convenient of you Matatabi."

Murmurs could be heard from the ninja in the trees as they talk amongst themselves that not only had this stranger survived one of the Cloud Villages most devastating attacks but also seemed to know that their leader was a jinchuriki from a glance.

Yugito stands up and clenches her fists yelling down, "WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?! WHICH VILLAGE ARE YOU FROM?!"

A momentary look of surprise could be seen in the purple rippled eyes of Kurama and instead of answering he just laughs evilly and changes tactics. "Now I am curious to know something. Your all Cloud ninja and I haven't had the chance to fight one of you yet so I don't know how you people think. And in the Leaf village there were very few things in the world which could cause a squad Captain total torment than watching the people who's lives you've sworn to watch over and protect die in front of you!" Kurama paused for effect and picked up angry outbursts from some of the ninja saying "he's a leaf nin" or "he wants revenge" which made him smile as he continued. "So tell me Captain, will it hurt your heart if everyone of these people who have put their trust in you would die before your very eyes. Would you cry before I kill you just like the leaf nin did before I killed them."

No one spoke after that. Each cloud ninja couldn't believe what they just heard. The rumors going around that sparked the invasion plans by their Raikage were that the leaf village had been destroyed by their jinchuriki; the mad Demon of the Leaf and host of the Nine Tailed Fox. And each of them knew that they were now facing someone who wiped out an entire village single handedly.

Then Yugito and everyone else heard a loud threatening bark and the scream of three cloud chunin being grabbed by two clones of the evil looking blonde in shiny black armor. And everyone heard the evil laughter of those clones as they jumped high into the air spinning around so that their comrades could see their frightened eyes right before they exploded using the exploding clone jutsu. The explosion was so close that all the ninja that sprang forwards to help their friends got spattered by the hot gore and blood of the doomed ninja. Some were so shocked all they could do is stand still while slightly shaking but Yugito snarled like an angry cat and turned to look down at the laughing blonde who looked right back at her.

"So tell me Matatabi, does it hurt yet."

Yugito was flexing to spring down to kill him but another sound catches her attention and she looks up in time to see an invisible claw suddenly explode out of the chest of another of her forces covered in that ninja's blood. Then another clone appears next to another cloud ninja and drives a shiny black kunai through his eye. More clones appear and some explode. Others get claws driven through and out the other sides of their bodies removing organs with big gushes of blood. The few ninja she was close enough to try and help only ended up dieing right in front of her and the clone would smile and laugh at her before poofing away in a cloud of smoke.

Soon all thirty six ninja died horribly and Yugito screamed out both a pained sorrowful scream as well as the angry roar of a blood thirsty warrior. She twisted her body around a tree branch and used it as a spring board to launch herself at the spiky haired blonde. She came rushing through the air so fast normal ninja would say she disappeared but to Kurama Naruto's evolved Rinnesharingan she moved in slow motion when he focused his eyes. She was charging her demon chakra as she went and sending lightning dancing around her body and twisted her hips putting her body into a rapid spin. And in the last second all the lightning condensed around her leg and she began bringing down and incredibly powerful axe kick as she yelled her jutsu's name. "HEAVENS LIGHTNING LARIAT!"

She flexed all her might behind her kick aimed for Kurama's forehead and normally it would not only have cut him in half straight down the middle but the full sweep of her kick would have arced the lightning cutting a deep trench out of the earth. It was because of this technique is why the Raikage wanted to send her into battle against the Stone ninja's. This technique is known to pass through stone like butter. But when her foot comes down on her target Kurama's hands clasp together and actually catch her foot that was super charged with lightning chakra.

She could feel her technique sizzling against his palms as she tried with all her might to press down harder with her leg and finish off this fellow demon. But soon she began feeling a drain on her chakra and her control over her technique was slipping until her leg stopped glowing as the hot white blue lighting seemed to be sucked into the blondes palms. When her technique had all but faded she found herself still in the air with her foot being held by the heel and ankle by the smiling demon flashing her his sharp teeth.

"Pathetic," is all she hears before Kurama suddenly plunges his claws into the flesh of her ankle and twists his body around until he was swinging Yugito around like a bat and sends her forehead crashing through a two foot wide tree.

The hit sent stars flashing through her eyes and the pain rang like a huge copper bell in her skull that also felt like fire. And then she feels it again as Kurama spins around to send her head crashing through the side of another tree leaving a head sized gouge in the bark right before doing it a third time. Seeing how dazed and close to unconsciousness she was he twisted around one more time putting her rag doll of a body into a high spin then let go of her foot to jump spin sending a side kick into her stomack making her go flying backwards crashing spine first through a tree.

She hits the ground rolling for another seven yards before she comes to a sliding stop in the dirt. She was barely conscious as she tried to get back up and could only understand that she needed to protect herself and feel the Nibi trying to heal her. Then a sound reaches her ears and she lifts her head up to see Kurama landing out of a jump slamming his palm on the ground yelling something. Then the ground behind him suddenly rose upwards sending trees and huge stones flying everywhere as a huge evil looking monster pushes himself up out of the ground to roar out like some prehistoric creature loud enough to make the clouds above dissappear. Then the last words she heard were Kurama Naruto's yelling out, "SOUL EATER SEALING JUTSU!"

The monster's mouth opened wide and a huge snaking mass of blue chakra came rushing at her and swept her off the ground like a tsunami and began dragging the Nibi and her soul into the Gedo Mazo's gapping maw.

To say the scene was tense for those first few moments as the door opened to reveal Itachi Uchiha standing there would have been an understatement. Both Sannin knew the face and history of the one who massacred the entire Uchiha clan down to every man woman child and elderly. None survived and it was one of the most atrocious acts talked about in the ninja world. Not only that but according to the intel each of them had on Itachi he was a member of the Akatsuki which ran with S class criminals who's histories were just as filled with blood and crime.

Tsunade's fists could be heard cracking as she tensed them for a fight and even Jiraiya's chakra spiked up rapidly for a fight.

"I thought I told you two to RELAX. Don't make me send you to a quiet corner for three days in my tsukoyomi so that you can understand the meaning of the word."

Itachi's face while cold seems to take on a humorous glint then he says, "So...Sakura, you even have learned the Mangekyo sharingan's special powers all on your own. Im impressed."

Sakura leans back in her chair making herself comfortable before she replies with a slight purr in her voice. "Of course old partner, after all with the memories of Orochimaru I also have his amazing ability to figure out a jutsu very quickly. Besides, as you know the sharingan makes everything easier wouldn't you agree?"

Itachi doesn't answer and didn't even take his eyes off Jiraiya and Tsunade during the exchange and instead speaks to them. "Madame Hokage, Lord Jiraiya, it is good to see you both again." Then Itachi began to move and the Sannin tensed but then he did something that surprised them both. Itachi lowered himself down to his knees sitting there before leaning forwards with hands on the ground bowing to them both and exposing his body to multiple kill angles before saying, "I am here for your service, my life is yours to do as you please."

He remained this way not moving as both Sannin kept their eyes locked on the Uchiha but watched each other out of their peripheral vision reading each others postures to get a clue what the other was thinking. And both of them were thinking, "What the fuck is this?!"

Sakura's laughter could be heard behind them. "Oh this is grand, I wish I had a camera. Hahaha, let me help you both understand what is going on here with a simple explanation which may take some faith on your part. The Uchiha massacre was a mission given to Itachi in order to usurp a coup detat that the Uchiha were planing on the Leaf Leadership."

Utter silence.

Until Jiraiya started laughing.

Quiet at first, but got louder and louder and louder until her had to wipe a tear from the corner of his left eye.

Tsunade snorted once. "I agree with Jiraiya, that is ridiculous. The third Hokage would have never agreed to that."

Sakura got up out of her chair and walked over to look the two sannin standing just to the left of Itachi. "Well you do know sensei after all. Your right he did oppose the massacre and pushed over and over again for diplomatic gifts to be given in order to appease the Uchiha into going back to being loyal Leaf ninja. But politics are always difficult with old buzzards hovering around. Danzo and those other two worthless council members were pushing Sarutobi for years on one particular subject. The incarceration of Naruto Uzumaki into the Anbu corps so that his mind and powers could be molded for village use. But Sarutobi never budged on that subject and lost allot of favor and control of the Village Council. Then hard evidence of the coup came in from a trusted Anbu operative and captain that every Uchiha was standing together with this decision. It was Itachi himself that gave up this information to the elders and Kage then after the council heard Sarutobi begin to talk about peace they were in an uproar that their Hokage ignored important and real threats to villagers. So then Danzo said that he would be willing to to vote in favor of the Hokage's decision to send a peace offering to Uchiha, just so long as Sarutobi agreed to give him Naruto so that the village had a weapon to use if the Uchiha did attack. He felt cornered and he then asked if Itachi was capable of carrying out this mission alone or even if it could be done. After all, only a sharingan can defeat a sharingan. But of course even with Itachi's amazing abilities his sharingan alone couldn't beat so many others but he knew of a way and a power that could. The mangekyo sharingan which is born of the murder of your best friend or precious person. Just as I learned." Sakura looked off to the left towards the wall of her study like she was looking past it into the long hallways with a sad look. "But after accepting this mission and after killing his best friend and then every member of his family, there was one left. Sasuke. The last and only survivor of the Uchiha, and I thank him for my sake that he just couldn't bring himself to kill his little brother. And just before he left the village he came back to guarantee his young brothers safety by promising to infiltrate an organization that leaf spies had heard about from stolen Stone Village documents. The Akatsuki. As you both know Orochimaru and Itachi were part of this organization which we both have relevant information on their activities and goals. And the number on goal of the Akatsuki, why don't you tell them Itachi."

Lifting his head his dark eyes looked at the Sannin Itachi said, "the defeat and submission of jinchuriki and the killing of them by drawing out the Demons within."

This gave Tsunade and Jiraiya a completely different reaction and both of them took an excited step forwards.

"So in other words I know in theory how to hunt down and kill jinchuriki and seal away the demons into and eternal prison. But not only that I have intel on the Akatusuki that you need to hear."

"Itachi!" Sakura interupted getting everyones annoyed eyes looking at her. "I only like seeing weak men kneel. I planned this meeting in this room for a reason. Now every relax and take a damn chair!"

Sakura walked back to her large raised chair and plopped herself down and watched Tsunade and Jiraiya back off slowly to allow Itachi to stand up. When every one was sitting in their chair in their small circle Sakura gestured to Itachi. "Go ahead and tell them, and its a real juicy story too."

All eyes turned on Itachi and he began. "When I accepted the mission and killed my clan I had the help of two other Uchiha to do it before I left to join the Akatsuki. The first was my best friend Shisui and the second was Madara Uchiha." He paused just long enough to see that information work through Jiraiya and Tsunade's brains and continued just in time to stop Jiraiya from yelling out a rant. "You see, during my time in the Anbu had given me ample opportunities to leave the village going on private missions. One was to investigate alleged ninja activities related to the Stone Village documents about the Akatuski. And while investigating a lead on the whereabouts of the location of their operation is when I first came into contact with two of them. One was an immortal that didn't die after receiving massive damage from me, his partner on the other hand wasn't so lucky and I killed him easily. The one I would later know as Kakuzu ran away with his bounty and eluded me. I traveled back to the village and when I was almost home is where I first met Madara. It was like he materialized out of nowhere and stood before me blocking my path. He said I cost him a valuable resource and that he wanted to know what I planned on making up for that. Since I knew the history of Madara Uchiha I assumed he would be interested in the possible future fate of our clan which caught his attention. In the end offering him the chance to help me kill every last member of our clan served his purposes directly since his goals in that attack were two fold. After all im sure that since you both were high ranking ninja in the village knew the truth kept secret in the leaf village after that night; that every uchiha corpse had their eyes removed. Madara took them for his own purposes, and before any of this happened right when I offered this to him is when he told me I was to take the place of the one I killed in the Akatsuki. My fate was sealed which I informed the Hokage before I left and just before leaving the Third told me I was capable of making the ultimate sacrifice for my village and that he knew I would continue to work subvertly for my homes benefit. While working for the Akatsuki we had very little meetings other than accepting missions and collecting jutsu. And after years of service I never saw Madara Uchiha again but I knew he had to be in the shadows pulling the strings of our leader, Pain. A man who had the Rinnegan."

The screatch of the wooden legs of Jiraiya's chair pulled everyones attention on him standing up looking like he'd seen a ghost. "Wha-what are you saying, how did he have.. what was his name? What did he look like?!"

"The one we usually only referred to as Leader was almost always a mystery since many of the Akatusuki's early meetings were only through chakra projections that showed shadow images of the member. But I first met Pain with his purple eyes with rings on a joint mission taking down a nation in the west. He wore many black piercings all over his face and had bright spiky orange hair, but the most interesting thing about him was that he had five others with him each with their own rinnegan and piercings instead of his usual companion that I could tell was a woman from her outline." Itachi had to pause because Jiraiya was making sounds like he was having a heart attack.

"N-no-no..It can't ...no."

Tsunade was tired hearing him so she stood up and hammer fisted him in the heart and threw him in the chair saying, "SHUT UP!"

After a couple of more years we were all summoned to a hideout leading into a vast system of caverns under ground where we were shown a huge seemingly living thing made of stone. We called it the Gedo Statue and it was to be used in the sealing of tailed beasts so that their chakra could be contained for further use later on. Our original explanation for doing this was that since there were nine tailed beasts and nine of us who didn't have chakra equaling that of the demons, not like my old partner Kisame. But again the mystery of Madara told me that was probably just what Pain was told their use was for. Our leader would go on long tirades of the use of the Tailed beast energy to attack every nation placing them all on equal levels by devastating populations and ninja villages so that all ninja matters would be dominated by the Akatusuki. And Pain would finally achieve his self proclaimed title of a God ruling over this world."

Tsunade turned her head to look at Sakura and asks, "Remember our fight? That huge thing he summoned that took away Kabuto's soul!"

Sakura nodded her head affirmative. "And since then I haven't been able to summon his soul back to this world. It is unfortunate really since he was such an excellent lab assistant, he could be left for hours alone doing research and have all the basic experimentation data ready for the building blocks of bigger jutsu. But Itachi get to the good part already, since ive heard all this already im getting bored."

Itachi closes his eyes for a moment before continuing. "We needed a few more years before we began the process of taking out the jinchuriki and stealing the tailed beasts for our selves. We were just beginning to practice the sealing jutsu to control the Mazo and training for capturing jinchuriki when the Statue suddenly disappeared. Pain summoned it right back where it belonged and got very angry telling us to take missions elsewhere. It was the Nine Tails inside Naruto Uzumaki that summoned it using his new Rinnegan which made Pain keep guard over the Statue since then. And after he destroyed the leaf he apparently appeared in our secret base and defeated our leader then stole the Gedo Statue. And now with Konoha in ruins and my brother dead I feel there is no other recourse but to return to you now and do all I can to aid in reclaiming the Village."

Tsunade leaned in and looked Itachi dead in the eyes. "So, if your words are genuine then what do you suggest we do. We have lost a great deal of our forces."

"Your new cooperation with Sakura allows for an opportunity that you and I cannot ignore. With Sakura you have the power of the Impure world resurrection and an army of mutated humans with their minds lost in madness capable to be used for an ultimate trump card. By returning to the village and gaining samples of the warriors you have lost they can easily be resurrected as un killable warriors all to willing to help reclaim their home. And I will be honest that I asked if she had tried to bring my brother back this way and for some reason she isn't able to. Either that means Sasuke's soul was devoured by the Gedo like Kabuto's was or the Kyubi used a power of the Rinnegan I have seen before. The summoning of the Demon King of the Underworld who takes souls to hell and once there only the king may let them go. And not just that but the Rinnegan seems to have the ability to bring a person who had died back to life again as well. And I bring this up because I know from personal experience that the Leaf had two Rinnegan users. Where is Hinata Hyuga?"

Tsunade looks over at Jiraiya who was looking at the ground with a sour face and he told everyone what happened the last time he saw her. "When the village was destroyed she was feeling an uncontrollable rage that wanted vengeance and I couldn't stop her from chasing after Naruto. She hasn't returned since then and Kakashi couldn't wait any more so he sent his hounds out looking for her. They brought back her bloody jacket."

Itachi looks down at the ground before looking up sharply at Sakura and asks, "What was that I just felt in your chakra?!"

Sakura got all eyes on her and she appeared to be holding herself back from a fit of giggles that ended up sounding like a mischievous chuckle. "Well Itachi, as observant as ever. Yes I know about Hinata's fate since I took that jacket when no one was looking so I could take a sample from it. Hehehehe."

Tsunade stood up looking Sakura square in the golden eyes and asks, "What have you done!"

Sakura just keeps smiling in that way that just made her look exactly like Orochimaru to Tsunade. "Well I didn't show you and Jiraiya the prison for no reason. My dear sweat girl, wont you please come in!?"

Everyone got to their feet and turned around to look for the small sounds of foot steps coming around the edge of the doorway. She was covered in shadow but after taking a few more steps forwards the candle light illuminated Hinata Hyuga and everyone could seer her sorrowful purple eyes look at each of them. She seamed to be perfectly healthy except for the cracks in her skin that made her pale white skin seem to be sculpted out of fine porcelain.

Behind them Sakura said, "Behold! The Village Hidden in Leafs Shadow's trump card and most valuable tool.

So here is chapter 1, I hope you guys like how Im getting started with this story. Someone said in a review that this story could have gone for ten or more chapters and I agree but I always envisioned writing it out as a sequel mostly to increase speculation and heighten your reaction to the story. So next time more plans unfold and the missions begin.