Chapter One…
"Okay, so if this is ganna work we have to trust each other. Everyone got that!?" Tsunade called from her post which was situated in front of everyone on a slightly elevated platform to everyone else. Due to unfortunate circumstances all shinobi were forced ( at least they all agreed) to join sides and fight the opposing side. So far the alliance consisted of Konoha , Mist , The Akatsuki , Sound and Sand. The leaders of all the groups stood by Tsunade's side, all equally as high up. It was finally time for the vote on which leader should lead the entire group over all. Some leaders more adamant to be in control than others. Madara stood tall not wanting anyone but himself to be in control, The Mizukage did the same, she thought she was most deserving to be in the lead. Tsunade knew she could only trust herself and refused to let her village down by not being the top leader. The other two leaders how ever, Gaara and Orochimaru did not care and hung around at the back, Gaara sitting on a sand cloud he made for himself and Orochimaru lazily leaning against a wall, they were sharing a conversation about something Tsunade didn't bother listen to. Why Orochimaru and Gaara felt they had no need to become leader Tsunade didn't know, it seemed as if they already trusted the other teams enough not to need to be in control… but what ever it was it was up to them.
"Hey! Are you coming or not! Sound! Sand!" The Mizukage barked over, the two almost un-human like leaders let there eyes slip to her.
"You continue with out us, the Leader is quite clear." Orochimaru called back, Gaara nodded in agreement. The Mizukage scoffed at them.
"By that I assume you mean me!" She replied cockily.
"No, Tsunade-Hime will be leader… after all she has the biggest village and therefore most votes." Orochimaru said letting his golden eyes move away from the Mizukage.
"Wha- What… we can not vote like this then!" She complained.
"As Gaara and I here first mentioned in our earlier meeting, I recall you telling us to be silent whilst agreeing to these terms." Orochimaru replied back , a satisfied smile on his face. The arrogant woman deserved it and he knew Tsunade would not betray them… at least if she was anything like her old self he knew.
"Your loss Mizukage." Gaara said as he let his green eyes meet the snakes as he tried to resume their earlier conversation.
"I thought we'd do it differently this is cheating!" She yelled.
"Well yes it is but you said it was fine… so now it is all fair game. Your argument is futile Mizukage, sit down before your people get worried." Orochimaru stated.
"My people! My people are brave! They fear nothing and if even the slightest bit of fear enters them they ignore it! They show no emotion unless necessary! Unlike your ignorant bunch! My people hide sadness, fear, anger and even happiness until after the war! That is the type of village who should lead!" She yelled back at him, Orochimaru sighed and glanced up at her.
"Then you are setting a rather bad example throwing this fit, if the Mizukage can not even stay calm in this situation I doubt her people can. Now why not just sit down, we have nothing to say to you." Orochimaru said, his smile had faded as he got bored and fed up with the anger being shot his way by the woman.
"Get to the stands! We will do this properly." She said her voice trying to be calmer.
"Leave us be Mizukage we have spoken." Gaara said he was also getting irritated by the woman.
"What kind of leaders give up before starting!" She said back.
"We have not given up, there is simply no need for us to be leader. In fact a leader at all is a bad idea in itself. Why put one Village above another. All we have created is a divide in our people." Orochimaru said back.
"Exactly we do not need a leader. So you carry on." Gaara said.
"A leader is actually needed if your to blind to see it the-" The Mizukage was cut short.
"Then please enlighten us on the use of one. We are not deciding anything doing this. Sand will still follow Gaara above all, Sound will listen to me and Mist will listen to no other leader but you… no matter who is so called leader over all leaders. It's just a vote that leads to nothing. If you where chosen as the leader above all of us what would the point be. If I got up and left Sound would come with me whether you as leader liked it or not. This is pointless, continue if you must but we will not bother in something meaningless." Orochimaru said his voice held irritation in it.
"… I suppose but imagine you win, what joy your village will have! What pride!" She said back, she would not give up her point.
"I will not march my armies into unnecessary battles just for pride and joy of victory." Gaara said.
"But this is different there is no cost in loosing." She replied.
"The joy and pride your village would have had in winning will change to anger and humiliation, your people might act on it. We have informed our villages of how futile this was and they have not gotten caught up in it. Notice how your group and Konoha are in such chaos over a title well we have none of that. Now leave us." Gaara said .
"That is not-" The Mizukage was cut of by a hiss like voice.
"Do what you must, we are not stopping you. We ask for nothing more than you to leave us alone." Orochimaru said his voice meant he was done, the Mizukage took it as a good time to leave the two leaders alone, their un-human eyes watched her as she went back to her stand.
"The votes are in!" an announcer called, he opened up a little paper. "And the leader above all is… Tsunade from the hidden leaf village!" He exclaimed. Tsunade stood up waving out to her village that now consisted of a whole lot more faces. She identified some people, Kakashi stood on a tree his book in hand, Sakura was waving franticly, Shikimaru smiled sitting down on a bench… Naruto bounced up and down with excitement his voice clearly distinguishable above all others in the crowd.
"What place was I!?" the Mizukage demanded.
"..um… third…" The announcer said.
"What! Who else beat me!" She snapped.
"Gaara of the sand…"
"Seems as if my village is bigger than yours." Gaara said as he walked past her, Orochimaru followed behind him talking to Kabuto who had come up to meet Orochimaru as soon as it ended. Madara glared although being behind his mask made it un-see able.
"Thank you! Thank you all! I swear I will not let you down, whether from Konoha, sand, Sound, Mist or the Akatsuki!" Tsunade called to them.
"HEY! WHY'd YA PUT US LAST HMM!?" a familiar voice called, a furious looking blonde glared up. He flicked his fringe out his eyes.
"You just had more people!" Deidara yelled up.
"Quiet Deidara!" Madara said as he walked of to go to the bottom floor where everyone else was. No one but Tsunade was allowed on the ledge now.
"Any problems must be reported to a second in command! That consists of for sand… Temari, and for Konoha… Shikaku, for Myst Gale, for Sound… Kabuto and lastly the Akatsuki is Itachi. Right-"
"Put us last again!" Deidara could be heard.
"As I was saying, when you complain to them they will give the problem to the head, in Sand that is Gaara in Sound Orochimaru, in Konoha it is still Shikaku, in Myst the Mizukage… and the Akatsuki is Madara."
"The nerve!" Deidara yelled again.
"If the problem is serious enough they will give it to me. All agreed, now go settle yourselves!" Tsunade concluded, she looked around the crowd as they dispersed. She noticed Deidara going of his head over something to Itachi. The Uchiha gave a displeased look and sighed, leading the angered blonde else where.
"This is stupid! It was unfair, this was no way in choosing!" The Mizukage fumed to gale, he nodded in agreement.
"Yes Ma'am, it was unreasonable." He replied.
"Something must be done. I will talk to Madara see what he thinks, if all the leaders agree it was unfair then there will be a re-vote!" The Mizukage said. She walked straight towards the direction Madara had been seen.
"Madara! What do you think of this… it was unfair. Agree to this and we shall have a re vote with more fair methods." The Mizukage said to the masked man.
"I agree, but what is your and my word? Tsunade will not change." Madara replied back.
"No, but if you, me, Gaara and Orochimaru all say it was unfair she will have to listen!" The Mizukage said, Madara nodded, his red eyes met hers.
"Okay, and I suppose you have a way to get the snake and demon to agree?" Madara asked.
"I want you to speak to Orochimaru, I'll take Gaara." She replied.
"What? Why must I get the hard one? It was your plan." Madara said, not looking forward to trying to get the stubborn snake to agree.
"Well, for one he used to be in your organisation. He knows you better. And lastly he hates me."
"He hates me just as much, and he doesn't know me more than just a liar." Madara argued.
"Well, you have a better shot, just try." She said, she left Madara with no other option as she turned of and headed for the Sand leader. Madara sighed and looked toward the Sound people. He walked around looking for Orochimaru. He got fed up after a while and asked a random Sound shinobi for assistance.
"You, where is Orochimaru?" Madara asked, the man shot him a look.
"Don't know." He said briefly. The manner and disrespect angered the Akatsuki leader. He walked over to get closer to the rude sound shinobi.
"You ought to get more respect Shinobi!" Madara said his sharigan piercing the man. Before the nightmare enclosed the sound shinobi the man let out a scream. As if answering his call a voice cut Madara's sharigan nightmare and gave enough time for the man to escape unharmed.
"Madara, What do you think you are doing?" Orochimaru said as he came over, the rude sound shinobi from before ran to stand by his leaders side.
"Your people should learn respect." Madara said.
"I recall one of your people yelling about being last on the list during the last meeting." Orochimaru said back referring to Deidara's out burst.
"Suppose so, I wanted to speak to you."
"Well Madara you chose a poor way to call me. Attacking some one in my village barely makes me want to speak with you." Orochimaru said his yellow eyes slipping to the shaken shinobi behind him, Orochimaru sighed.
"You may go." Orochimaru said to the man, the shinobi nodded gratefully and ran.
"Will you listen?" Madara asked.
"Do I have the choice?" Orochimaru said back.
"The Mizukage and I have decided that it was unfair. We wish for your agreement that we should redo it." Madara said, Orochimaru shook his head.
"Madara really… I just explained how pointless this whole leader thing really is to the Mizukage do not tell me you can't see that, do I really have to explain it to you as well." Orochimaru said his golden eyes looking bored from the topic already.
"But we feel Tsunade is the wrong person!" Madara tried to argue.
"And what, you are?" Orochimaru said.
"No maybe not, but the Mizukage-"
"She is worse than you Madara."
"Listen, I would be an ideal leader, I have been in many wars and conquered almost all of them. I know what I am doing when it comes to this." Madara said.
"Can I bring up the point that all your comrades die every time. After every battle you fight your allies end up dead." Orochimaru said back.
"All I'm saying is we want a revote."
"All I'm saying is that it is unnecessary, besides if we were to do one over how is there possibly a fair way in deciding? We have to include the people and considering Konoha will always have more-"
"We won't include the people, the Feudal lords will choose, or we can fight for it." Madara said, he saw the displeased look Orochimaru gave him when he had gotten interrupted.
"The Feudal lord's have disappeared… it is kind of the main reason this happened not to mention if we fought for it you would just win. Being the best leader has nothing to do with strength." Orochimaru replied. Madara sighed… this was harder than he thought.
"So you agree then? We should choose new leaders?" The Mizukage asked Gaara. Gaara nodded at the female.
"No, when you say it like that Tsunade is not fit for being leader you are right but neither are you. So I will have to take chances with-" Gaara got interrupted.
"We could make sure you got to be leader! Anyone but Tsunade. What do you say?" The Mizukage said, Gaara considered it… it would be safer for his village this way… but it would be unfair… plus Orochimaru had been right in saying the leader thing was a bad idea. If he got involved then so would his village…
"It wouldn't be fair… however if I get to be in charge that is fine I will agree." Gaara said finally… not actually knowing why… it seemed like a bad idea…
"Good and I'm sure Madara has already gotten Orochimaru to agree, I'll meet you at Tsunade's office in ten minutes." The Mizukage said bounding of, Madara awaited her outside the gate.
"Well?" She asked.
"Sorry, he refuses…" Madara said.
"What! We only have ten minutes! Gaara thinks we are ganna help him win… but we are not. I just said that so he would help us revote. What are we ganna do now!"
"Doesn't matter, it is three against two, we win anyway." Madara said as him and the Mizukage headed for Tsunade.
"What? It was fair we all agreed!" Tsunade said irritated.
"Well we want a revote. So it has to be done." The Mizukage said both Madara and Gaara at her side, Tsunade scanned them.
"What about Orochimaru? He is not here." Tsunade said.
"He didn't want to revote but it is still majority of us who wants to." The Mizukage said.
"Why did he say no?" Tsunade asked, hoping his answer would be able to back up her refusal to revote.
"He said it was pointless, but that was his opinion." Madara put forth.
"Well as leader I say no revote, why do you not trust me!" Tsunade said back.
"You won unfairly win again and the title is yours!" Madara replied.
"No." The blonde Hokage said.
"You do not have a choice!" Madara replied.
"You said majority wants a revote well majority voted me in! So this is pointless." Tsunade said knowing the Mizukage would be angered at the past being brought up.
"We already said we want to revote fairly, or not even revote just re pick, we can fight for it or do some challenge for it." Madara said.
"Yes, one that does not involve numbers." Gaara put in. Tsunade sighed.
"Listen guys, I just contacted cloud, the Riakage is willing to join as is Stone. If we have not got a leader by tomorrow then they will be in it as well. And quite honestly the Riakage and Tsukage do not seem fit for this…" Tsunade said.
"Sounds fair we will wait till they get here then, they deserve a turn to be leader!" The Mizukage said, she smiled and turned of.
"Wai-"Tsunade was walked out on and left alone in the office she sighed… this could only end badly…