Hey this is Arson Uzumaki here with the second chapter. Thanks for the reviews and favorites guys and gals those help me get motivated to write another chapter. So the last chapter stopped with a flashback. That is where this chapter starts. Some of the people who were gender bent will have been born female and not changed like in the flashbacks. Once again I own nothing but the plot and I do not profit from this. Rated M for Lemons, Violence and Language, so I don't want to hear no complaints because I put up a Warning.
Night time was silent in Konohagakure, most of the citizens and shinobi had gone to bed. However some ninja who chose to or were unfortunate enough to get assigned, a night shift were still active. This night one group of six ninja was jumping through the village at a fast pace. Each of them wore black flak jackets with green uniforms under. Additionally they had no headbands. One of the six was carrying a young unconscious purple haired girl.
The young girl was none other than eighteen year old Anko Mitarashi. Anko Mitarashi was well known in the Leaf Village as the apprentice to a traitor. Most saw her as a slut because of her like of both the male and female sex. Most people had also heard about the curse seal and had started to spread rumors about her. One rumor said that on nights when the moon was out she would transform and eat people's children. Many other rumors went on about her in this fashion. Of course none of them were true. The outright hatred for her was so intense that there had even been attempts on her life.
Her being carried in the one of the six ninja's arms was not a result of one those attempts. No this was the result of a foreign legion kidnapping. It had all started when Anko had been walking home after a rough mission involving killing the head of a crime ring. As she approached her apartment, she saw a figure hiding in the shadows of her apartment complex. Anko reached for a kunai that was hidden in the sleeves of her oversized trench coat. When Anko was a few steps away the figure slowly walked out of the shadows revealing herself.
The woman was of medium height, being an inch shorter than Anko herself with pure white hair that fell to her bottom. She was skinny but not overly thin, having small curves around her breast and hips. Her breast were petite B cups. Her face was pale, along with the rest of her skin. The woman's face was oval shaped. Her eyebrows were thin and covered by mascara. Those were accompanied by curly eyelashes. Finally hidden under those lashes were deep ocean blue orbs. Under those eyes were succulent lips painted with red lipstick. Those lips were curved into a wicked smirk. To top it she was wearing a tight shirt that cut off above her stomach. Under she had on matching shorts that showed much of her legs skin.
Anko's hand dropped to her side. This was her friend, part time lover, and Daimyo of Numa no Kuni. Her name Chichiatsu. Chichi for short. Anko had been assigned to protect Chichi as part of her security detail while she was traveling, during that time the kunoichi and daimyo had bonded and decided to start a friend's with benefits agreement.
Anko was in front of the Chichi before she could blink, questioning her about anything and everything.
"What are you doing here here?!"
"Where is your security team? If there slacking off I swear I'll kill them."
"I knew you couldn't resist my sexy charm for much longer. How about you and I play doctor?
Anko rambled on animatedly for a minute while chichi just smiled. Had this have been a regular night with Anko assigned to protect her Chichi might have taken her up on her offer. 'It's a shame I have to do this to such a nice girl. But if I don't Orochimaru will be furious!' Chichi thought. With blinding speed Chichi jabbed her thumb between Anko's neck and shoulder blade paralyzing her.
Anko's face turned to shock as her body slumped to the ground. Anko could only ask one question before she lost consciousness, "Why?"
As soon as Anko had lost consciousness a group of six ninjas appeared. The leader of the group stepped forward. He was tall, being bigger than Chichi and Anko combined. His hair was blood red and was thick like a lion's mane. His body was very muscular. The scariest thing was his eyes, they were an eerie amethyst. The leader's name was Hotoko Tsugiyama.
"Good job lady Chichiatsu, with this we can move ahead with plan faster", Hotoko said showing no emotion. Chichi turned her head to the sky with a sorrowful look and did not reply she wished to forget all the measures she had to take to prepare for her betrayal of Anko. Hotoko didn't seem to care and ordered one of his men to grab Anko.
Once the ninja had her securely in his arms Hotoko turned to face Chichi. "My lady", he said grabbing her attention, "there is a carriage waiting at the west entrance. Go there and return home, we will meet up with you in a week."
Chichi nodded and body-flickered away with one final thought, 'I honestly am sorry Anko, if we hadn't both been kunoichi with different loyalties, we could had had something special. At least Lord Orochimaru has given his word that he will not harm you.'
When Chichi had disappeared Hotoko did a quick head count. Seeing that everyone and the hostage were accounted for he took off in a sprint. The other five ninjas soon followed suite leaving an empty street corner.
Meanwhile in the Hokage tower Hiruzen Sarutobi sat in his chair doing paperwork. He was unaware of what was happening in the village. Hiruzen however was not unaware of the presence that was lurking behind him, one that the Anbu in the room had failed to detect. "You can stop hiding Jiraiya, I know that your behind me", Hiruzen said without even glancing up from his paperwork. The air behind the Sandaime distorted and there stood Jiraiya with a smirk.
The two Anbu in the room were surprised and wondered how he had got past them. However they both remembered this was the legendary Toad Sanin Jiraiya. If anybody could sneak past them it would be him.
"Looks like you haven't lost your skill yet Sensei", Jiraiya said with his smirk still present. Hiruzen snorted and replied," I give it another ten years and I won't be able to tell my head from my ass".
They shared a laugh and relaxed for only a moment. As soon as they had sobered from their laughter Sarutobi asked a question.
"What brings you here so early Jiraiya? As I recall the time for bikinis is a few more months away', the old man finished with a blush to his cheeks and a perverted grin. It was well known fact what the focus of Jiraiya's 'research' was and where it was put to the most use. There was reason why the Icha-Icha series usually came out during the summer and spring.
"Oh I wish I was here for that, my research would be great. Alas I'm here on business because my spy network picked something up. While usually I would have sent a letter I thought it was time I pop back in to Konoha", Jiraiya finished with a sigh and a serious frown.
Hiruzen raised an eyebrow, what could the news be? Hiruzen motioned for Jiraiya to continue with a wave of his hand.
"Just recently I was in Numa no kuni (Land of Swamps) and I had heard word about how a ninja from Konoha who brought someone important back to the palace. I didn't think anything of it until you told me to check the political situation of Numa no kuni. That is where I discovered three things. First is that the royal family of that country has been feuding over who's next for succession of the ruler. This lead to them slaughtering each other. The man who was supposed to take over, Lord Sora had a stroke and died. They searched far and wide but couldn't find anyone who was even a distant cousin of the royal family. I also asked them about the girl named Chichiatsu from your letter, the supposed daughter of the previous Lord, Nobuhama. Sensei... Nobuhama didn't have any daughters." he finished with a serious frown.
Sarutobi was shocked, doing something like lying to Hokage was something that only most Kages would do. He was also shocked that such a thing as the royal family killing each other failed to reach their ears. Storing that information away for later he motioned for Jiraiya to continue. Jiraiya shifted uncomfortably, as if he would regret telling Sarutobi the next thing. "After that I had my spy team do some digging and they found that the true successor is a guy named Hyo Wanijima. There came more news about Hyo. Chichiatsu is his younger sister. The most shocking thing is that this guy was placed in as a puppet for ... Orochimaru, "he explained with regret at the end. Sarutobi sighed rubbing his temples. Why did shit always have to get so complicated? Sarutobi remembered the words that had been used by his Sensei and his older brother. Sarutobi repeated those exact words: "I'm getting to old for this shit."
"Yeah well the shitty news doesn't end there. My spies picked up on a conversation Hyo was having with Orochimaru via messenger hawks. Apparently sometime this month there is supposed to be a black ops mission carried out by a select team of Jonin from Kusagakure (Village hidden in the Grass) inside the leaf village", Jiraiya said. Sarutobi focused in when Jiraiya said Kusa. It was no surprise that they would take a chance to deal a blow to the leaf village. During the third war Iwa had invaded their land and used it as a port to fight with Konoha. What most people don't know is that Kusa came close to coming back to power until Konoha stepped in and put a stop to that. For that they hold a grudge on the same level as with Iwa. The thing that concerned Sarutobi was the mission. 'What they possibly have planned?', Hiruzen thought. As if reading his thought Jiraiya said, "The mission is to kidnap Anko Mitarashi."
Now Sarutobi was really concerned. "What does Orochimaru want with Anko? I know she was his former student but after abandoning her in the land of sea and giving her the curse mark I don't see her running to him with open arms." the hokage said with anger." I'm not sure either but I think I know why Kusa wants her. You rember her mother Yuri Mitarashi was a ninja from Kusa. She was known as "Kusa's Green Fury". Her tactics helped Kusa fight back against Iwa during the last war. Then we caught her and it was discovered she was pregnant. Minato had pity on her and asked you to let her stay here. Then she officialy retired as a ninja.", Jiraiya stopped so that Sarutobi could absorb it all.
Sarutobi thought for a minute. 'Anko is Yuri's daughter and has her talent. If they coud persuade her to join them ,their shinobi might become a little stronger as result of training from a top class ninja. On the other hand if they succeed and take her without us finding any evidence then they could blackmail Yuri and have her rejoin them.' , Hiruzen thought while trying to understand ther motive./em/ppem"Well the first thing we need to do is- "He was interuppted by the door being flung open . In ran Kotetsu Hagane with a shout of, "Hokage-sama, A sensor did a sweep of the village and detected five enemy ninjas and Orochimaru!"
A twin cry of : "WHAT?" from Jiraya and Sarutobi was there response. Sarutobi responded first, " Where did you sense them at?!", he all but screamed. Kotetsu all most cried at seeing the angry face of the hokage. Trying not to stutter Kotetsu said: "We detected them near the cemetery". Sarutobi turned to the silent Anbu in the corner and began barking orders.
"You two go to the Anbu headquarters and get Kakashi and Tenzo!", he shouted. With two salutes they body-flickered away as fast as they could. Turning back to Kotetsu he continued with his orders."Kotetsu tell whoever is on guard duty to close the gates no one gets in or out!", he shouted. Kotetsu disappeared liked the two Anbu. Sarutobi turned to Jiraiya and the two locked eyes. They both shared a nod and jumped out the balcony from the office. Sarutobi and Jiraiya then did a body flicker and were gone.
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Neji Hyuga was sure that he was going to get in trouble with the Hygua clan for what he was about to do. Neji was sneaking of to the cemetery to mourn his father. A practice he did a few times a year. While most people would not have a problem with such a thing, the Hyuga hyuga clan with its system of Main family and Branch family,has many other laws and rules. One is that all Hyuga must live at the mansion or close to it. This law was altered slightly during the era of the Nindaime. The law was the same for non-shinobi of the Hyuga clan. However for Hyuga Shinobi, it was changed so that any clan members above the rank of Jonin did not have to live at the Hyuga mansion or near it. The only problem was most branch members only made it to Jonin because of threats of what might happen if they tried for Anbu. Yes many of the main house and the elders were in agreement that the branch family were weak compare to them. This was true because of the second's law which prevented Hyuga from using anything but Gentle Fist an basic supplementary techniques. Even some of the techniques from the Gentle Fist , they were banned from knowing. It didn't help Neji that he was the son of the former branch house leader or the fact that he was secretly studying the the banned techniques of the Gentle Fist. Because of his status as a branch family member he was often framed for things he did not do. As such members of the main branch loved torturing him with the clan's Juinjutsu. For these reasons he was sure he would get into trouble. Neji walked into the section made for clan burials.
Neji saw a figure standing in the grass. 'Must be here to show his respects', Neji thought. Just as Neji had found his father's grave he noticed that there were more people in the cemetery. Up near the Will of Fire sculpture was three boys and a man. From what Neji could see the man was very pale.
Near the sculpture sat three boys Shikamaru Nara ,Kiba Inzuka ,and Naruto Uzumaki . Kiba had wanted to play a prank because he had heard Ami, Fuki and kasumi, female bullies at the academy, would be there. Kiba decide he would dress up and scare them. He decided that he should not do the task by himself. With that in mind he snuck out of his home and convinced his two friends into coming. Naruto had been enthusiastic about however was less than thrilled but came along regardless. At the moment the three boys were entertained by a pale man. The man had told them that they should find somewhere else to play because the cemetery was a place to respect the dead. Kiba and Naruto had gotten mad when he had refereed to them as children. Of course they had gotten there revenge by calling him names like, constipation face, pedo man, and freak. Shikamaru was trying to tell his friends that the guy they were laughing at was probably a shinobi.
'How troublesome', shikamaru thought.
Suddenly six ninjas appeared in front of the pale man. "Lord Orochimaru we have brought the girl.", Hotoko said. The conversation that was happening between the two genin and Orochimaru had ceased as soon as the ninja came. Kiba and Shikamaru both stood frozen. Both of them knew of Orochimaru's reputation. Naruto on the other hand was excited over seeing ninjas come. He turned to the pale man and rudely asked, "Hey pedo-jisan are you a kage? I bet you are, right. Which one are you?" Naruto asked excitedly.
Hotoko's men and both of Naruto friends made faces of alarm at his blatant disrespect of one of the Sannin. Hotoko's face was expressionless as usual. Orochimaru would loo perfectly calm if it wasn't for a vein popping out on his forehead."Yes Naruto-kun I am a kage. My village is called the sound village. You can join it if you want Naruto-kun.", Orochimaru replied. Before Naruto could reply a low grunt could be heard. Everyone turned their eyes to the girl in the hands of Hotoko's this point the Neji and the other boy had walked over to see what the commotion was. Neji instantly realized the situation. The shinobi had kidnapped this girl and brought her to the man in front of him. Neji also understood the man in front of him was Orochimaru.'If only I had more time I could call the elders, Neji thought.
"Orochimaru-sama I fear I must also deliver bad news", Hotoko stated. Orochimaru raised a thin eyebrow. "Oh what's that Tsugiyama-chan?" he asked mockingly.
Hotoko remained silent but reached into a pouch on the back of his pants and pulled something out. He gave the object a twirl and hurled it towards Orochimaru. A whistle like sound was heard as a disc was flying towards its target Orochimaru's throat. Orochimaru ducked and it flew over his head."Lord Wanijima has ordered us to bring back the girl and your dead corpse." the Kusa ninja said with a sneer. Hotoko retracted his arm and the disc flew back to his hand. He caught it with his thumb and fore finger on the non-bladed chuckled from his crouched position.
"That was mean Hotoko, now I'll have to punish you", the snake Sanin said. The others watched in horror as Orochimaru regurgitated the Kusangi sword./em/ppem"Aniku keep the girl safe. The rest of you with me we'll finish this snake." Hotoko commanded over his now named akinu tightened his grip on the the girl. The other four shinobi took up positions on both sides of their leader. They all charged forward. As soon as his comrades charged Aniku lost interest in the battle. His comrades were some of Kusa's best they would kill Orochimaru and be on their way. It was at this moment Anko chose to wake up and try to stab him. Aniku jumped back. Akinu wondered how the girl was still able to move. Anko was standing with pure force of will however most of her body still would not respond to her brains signals. Her knees wobbled wanting to fall over right there. Akinu instead of risking a hand to hand confrontation thought it better to aim a kunai at her leg. 'It's hard for her to stand already. If I hit her in the leg she will fall over. Then I can swoop in and restrain her, he thought. He aimed then let the kunai fly. The one thing he did not predict was Naruto jumping in front of Anko at the last second. Blood flew and the boy let out a scream as the kunai hit a few spaces to the right of his four other boys could only watch as Naruto got hit. During the silence Orochimaru body flickered over from the four mangled bodies he had that exact moment Sarutobi, Jiraiy,and Kakashi with Tenzo appeared in the cemetery. A red glow from where the kunai had pierced Naruto stopped everyone's next words. The red light continued to grow before shooting out in a wave covering everything in the cemetery.
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In the Hokage's office Danzo was looking over reports and paperwork left by Sarutobi. He had just finished memorizing and put all the paper back in there correct positions neatly. Danzo found that none of Sarutobi's paperwork would be beneficial to to Root however a ghost of a smile flickered across his face because he knew this would mean hours of annoying paperwork for his old he was walking towards the door he turned to look out the window and admire the village he fights hard to protect. A flash of red illuminates the eastern part of Konoha for a brief second before fading. 'What was that? Red... it must be the Kyuubi boy' Danzo thought. "Fu, Torune I want both of you to go to eastern part of the village and see what you can make of this situation. Stay in the shadows. Reportem back when done" Danzo said to seemingly no one. There was a whisper of "Hai Danzo-sama" and the two agents were off. Danzo decided it was best to become scarce and left Sarutobi's office and headed back to his home.
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Sarutobi awoke with a groan. 'Am I alive? Well I feel like Hanzo and Tsunade decided to use me as a punching bag, so I guess that answers that' the old hokage thought./em/ppemLooking up Sarutobi saw the white walls of the hospital, a place he had not been in personally for years. Turning his head he saw a female doctor walk in to the room. "Hello Hokage-sama. How are you feeling?" she asked with an interested look. Sarutobi mumbled a weak 'fine'. Then he remembered the events that happened before and inquired about them."Anbu arrived here with you and nine others. They all had been knocked out. We tried using chakra to heal some of their scratches and wounds and the body kept absorbing them. Anbu also reported that they had to use gloves because the other patients were so hot. The oddest thing came when there temperature dropped. Their bodies started going through physical changes" the doctor explained. Sarutobi was actually surprised that the Kyubbi's chakra didn't kill them. However he wasn't one to look a gifted horse in the mouth. He was however still curious about what types of changes had happened. He motioned for the doctor to continue."Well Jiraiya has de-aged to about his 20s. Miss Mitarashi's chakra level has increased amazingly in an hour. But the most shocking thing is how the genders of so many of your group has been swapped." she said still in shock.
Sarutobi sat completely straight up scaring the doctor. "What, are you serious?" Sarutobi asked with doctor nodded. "Yes we did a scan of their bodies with our chakra and found that a foreign chakra was making changes to their bodies. We tried using a jutsu to flush it out but the foreign chakra just absorbed ours and still continued to make changes. Some of the patients are still changing but you, Naruto and, Anko are the only ones who are completely stable. Surprisingly you have not changed at all, well physically." the doctor concluded.
An hour later after Sarutobi was done being tested he was allowed to check on the other patients. Sarutobi asked Naruto about what happened he scrunched his face trying to remember. For some reason it seemed he could not recall anything about today. After making sure Naruto was comfortable the Hokage returned to his office and began writing an report on what Night would come to change the future greatly.
End Flashback
That is a wrap. Yeah this chapter was killer because of the length. I was going make it simpler but too many ideas popped into my head and I had to put it somewhere or lose it. Since you guys and gals have been giving me lots of reviews and likes I'm giving you guys a treat after I note a few things. The character Chichiatsu is not an OC. This character was mentioned by Anko but never seen. The Narutopedia wiki also says that this person was the daimyo of a country called land of swamps. I used this and my own creativeness and I got the lady who knocked Anko out and the OC Hyo Wanijima. I'm not sure if the place I described on the body can knock you out but I'll just have it so it does in here. The thing about the Hyuga and the Nindaime I made up but it does help to explain why you don't see Hyugas in the anbu. You also never see Hyugas using anything other than Gentle Fist, Hinata is the exception because hers is a variant of the gentle fist. As for the OC Yuri Mitarashi, that was sort of the influence of some other fictions where Anko's from a clan in Kusa. Yes Orochimaru was at the event deal with it. I gave Danzo some screen time because he and ROOT will play a role in this fiction. Yes people I know that Naruto was not the main thing of this flashback but I wanted to do something different. Now with stuff out the way here is the treat:
Danzo appeared in the forest. Two ROOT agents were hiding in the bushes waiting for someone to foolishly attack their master./em/ppemA chuckle caught their attention. Turning around they found a man with an orange mask behind them. "You guys really suck at this! You must be beginners." the masked man laughed. The Root members were about to execute him until their master's voiced called out: "Tobi stop messing around with my agents and let us be done with our business."The masked man now identified as Tobi jumped out the bushes and within mere inches of Danto himself. "Hey Danzo-san. How have you been today? Have you been a good boy?" Tobi asked with a hyper voice."MY behavior and what I do should be of no concern to you. Now hurry up before I lose my patience." Danzo said with a cold voice."Well usually you would be right however tonight you are wrong. I'm coming to wonder if you have made any other blunders I should know about." He replied with an equally cold voice. Danzo didn't flinch at the change to a cold tone of voice but he was getting annoyed by Tobi skipping around the direct subject of their meeting. He was a busy man and could not spend time answering stupid questions. He also was annoyed when Tobi made the notion that he Danzo Shimura had made a mistake."Stop playing around. What BLUNNDER are you talking about? My records are clean and missions end in success when ROOT is inolved. Now either state what this is about or I'm leaving." he replied."One of my contacts in Suna told me that someone killed by your group root is still alive. While I would love to see you get embarrassed over it this person could set back our plans months or even a year." Tobi said almost laughing at Danzo's frown. Danzo was surprised but he did well in not showing it. He wanted answers. Who could set their plans back? How could they be alive if he had sent ROOT his best operatives to kill this person? All his questions when Tobi pulled out a picture of the person from his sleeves. In the picture was a woman with long silver hair, wearing typical jonin attire and an Iwa forehead protector. The woman's head was bandaged befitting her posture in a hospital bed within the picture. To anyone else this might look like some random jonin but Danzo knew better. This was a person he would not forget. the picture was 'Nanigashi' aka Nono Yakushi.
That was a preview for what will happen in one of the next chapters. I won't tell you which one. Please keep the comments coming because I love it. The next chapter will sort of get back the present. Please R&R and I will see you guys next time.
