A huge amount of chakra was felt like a wave crashing onto the village. The third hokage who was until now spying through his crystal ball hurried and called his personal anbu.
"Bird and Cat, call the second unit! Rat!" They went out the window and could be seen jumping over the roofs at an alarming pace.
A second later, a tall brown haired man appeared behind the hokage."Hai hokage-sama!"
"Retrieve Weasel and tell him to find his team and go!" He flipped his arm in the air to show him out.
"Hai!" Rat bowed and he was gone faster than he arrived.
The hokage sighed and banged his head against the crystal ball in exasperation." Naruto, what have you done this time?"
The anbus were seen by the villagers who felt the disturbance even without being trained in using their chakra. The jonin were directing the chunin to a defensive position in case it was an attack within the village while the genin got ready to get the civilians out of the way in safe grounds. The lights once off were switched on and some went out of their houses to observe the commotion. The clans were getting ready to launch a counter-attack if needed.
Weasel arrived at the scene before the others and tensed immediately. He could not have ever reckoned these legends to ever be seen alive again if this could count as living. The graveyard was not even visible anymore. It felt more like the middle of a forest than anything else. The trees blocked any light from passing and his sharingan detected a copious amount of chakra pulsing in the trees. They were moving and growing. A root encircled his ankle. He instantly burned it.
"I told you I didn't know it was you, dattebayo! What would I want from you old man?!" Naruto was easy to recognize, from his ticks to his obnoxious voice. He wondered if it was not a strategy to get them all to believe he was an idiot when he was or could be smart.
A guy cannot prank the Anbu if he's stupid after all. They're not incompetent. His old clothes begged to differ. Naruto might be the walking definition of boy swinging between genius and moron.
"Oh! Who did you sacrifice to bring us back, little brat!" The second hokage sternly demanded.
"Tobi, he's still a kid. Be more gentle." His brother ushered at him.
"Shut up!" Tobirama growled."You've always been too lenient with these kind of things! Just let me handle it!"
A black little cloud could be seen above Hashirama's head. The air was compressed into a depressive atmosphere.
"Haha..." The forth hokage scratched his cheek and grinned uneasily. That was his son they were trying to interrogate. He could not just let them kill him. He waited for things to unfold. He suddenly tensed."Guys?"
"What?!" Tobirama raised his head and flashed him a murderous glare.
"There're 4 coffins..." The rest was easy to guess.
They all tensed and examined their surroundings. Hashirama deployed his senses and searched for a sixth person in the woods. He did not find the right person. A man with a weasel mask stepped out at the same time as reinforcement joined him. Recognizing them as Anbu he let his guard down just the slightest bit. He still did not know their goals in resurrecting them.
"Shodaime-sama." Weasel bowed. His teammates were still trying to connect the dots and realize that their first hokage was really standing before them.
The wind was silently blowing while the forth missing undead explored this new but familiar territory. The sakura trees were in full bloom but he did not feel as calm as he should have been at the sight. He was restless. The last thing he remembered was being killed by Hashirama while fighting at the valley of the end.
"Oi! I found a big piece! Just how did could it explode?" Dog called out. She turned the big plank and paled.
Sakura turned for the umpteenth time and fell off the bed. She spat her hair out of her mouth and tapped her hand on the nightstand for her hair tie. It was at the tip of her finger but she was too lazy to stand up and take it. In the end she had to. She crawled to her door and took her sandals and headed outside to refresh her mind. She saw the sakura trees and knew where to hide herself. It was ironic how she was only able to hide herself in its leaves and flowers. Cursed pink hair.
She picked the tallest tree and gathered a thin layer of chakra to her feet. She stuck her foot a few times before getting the perfect amount. She jumped and ran to the top. Having the best control paid off and she slouched on a sturdy branch.
"The moon is strangely bright tonight" The third hokage thought as he tried to delay the inevitable. He was getting too old if he could not identify his old masters' chakra.
"Hiruzen! You've gotten so old!" Hashirama grinned and took a seat.
"Shut up brother." Tobirama bonked his head and took the seat beside him.
Naruto winced and rubbed the back of his head like he was the one to receive it but it was just his memories of Iruka catching him. He vaguely wondered the whereabouts of Mizuki-sensei as he had technically fulfilled his mission. Minato was looking at the moon thinking over what happened.
"Hey you. I feel like I've seen you somewhere." Naruto whispered at him. Minato directed his attention to his son.
"Somewhere?" He raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah! This blonde hair and those blue eyes...I'm sure I've seen this coloring before!" His nose wrinkled in concentration.
"Minato." Hiruzen broke their conversation.
"Hai?"
"You didn't listen at all, huh?"
"Hahaha! Sorry."
Hiruzen felt ten years older just by looking at the young forth. He was supposed to be enjoying his retirement for a while. Maybe it was his chance to get away from paperwork.
The last member of the recently resurrected was still missing. The only lead they had was that he was a Uchiha and so it fell onto the clan's responsibility to find and restrain the undead one. Itachi took off his mask to give the news to his father. He wouldn't have his long awaited sleep yet.
Fugaku was alone with his wife for once in a long time. He embraced her and tightened his hold on her. Never would he appear so vulnerable in the presence of another except her. They wouldn't have had 2 children if it was out of duty after all. They would have settled with Itachi and gone on their merry way. Just as he was leaning to kiss her they both heard the door rattle. They jumped and went on as if it never happened.
He glanced at his son and wished he had locked the door.
"I come bearing news about…."
Mikoto had drowned her son out and let them take care of the nuisance. She had to find the perfect girl for her second son and stop his casanova ways. She absolutely loathed the idea of those harpies taking a hold of his poor son. If it came to the worst she would be going at it Uchiha women style. It was bloody but oh so effective.
The Uchiha night patrol was in for a long night of research.
Sakura felt ready to tear Inner a new one. The world had something against her taking naps outside.
Feels like a cow, coming through,
Fuck are you gonna do,
Oh I guess it's all oveer,
This is the only thing I think you knooow...
Oi! I thought you were gonna sing let it go!
Nope. I don't remember the lyrics. Do you like my remix of Guts over fear? I named it Fat over muscle after you.
You just implied that I'm a cow so don't expect me to thank you!
It' s better than creepy bitch. Don't think I can't see you breaking into his house and get back those cameras.
You're no…
She suddenly felt a huge earthquake. Or was she the only one to feel it? Now that she finally took notice the village seemed too awake. There was a spike of energy just a few moments earlier.
Brat!
Nope I'm cutting you out.
She felt another shake and her grip on the branch loosened. She was thrown off with another one. The stranger was pounding his fists into the tree. It was gonna give out by the sheer force of the punches.
"Who's beating the tree up?!" She complained. She was currently flying in the air in free style and about 3 seconds from hitting the ground.
She was gathering her chakra in front of her to lessen the impact when a hand grabbed her by the waist and swirled her until she felt her tip of her feet touch the ground. She felt an imposing stature against her frail one and looked up.
The man stopped breathing for an instant and his onyx eyes turned to crimson. His eyes transformation did not stop there and the commas of his sharingan went on a mad rampage to catch the other until a new design adorned his eyes.
"Sakura?" A rough voice broke the silence. It took her a moment to understand it came from the strange man still holding her by the waist.
"Nope, mister! My name is..."She brought Inner up to sate on this strange encounter to help her think of a name.
Why don't you call yourself meat? Cow meat.
Why did I even ask you? Return to your stalking.
That's not stalking! That's observing and admiring from afar!
"My name is...Midori." If she had to go further into the cliches so be it. It was better than knowing that this stranger had her name though it was easy to guess.
She emitted panicked spikes of chakra to signal an intruder even though he was an Uchiha because she would remember if a guy took a walk on the streets with a red armour.
A few ninjas replied to her distress call but no one approached. The guy wouldn't let go of her waist and Inner was definitely not helping the matter by thinking of the dango she planned on buying after being placed on a genin team. A new group arrived a few minutes later and Naruto's jumpsuit came into view. How could the thing be neon at night? She felt even more glares on her. She struggled against mister stranger and revealed her face to the newcomer. The silence was broken by gasps.
"Is pink hair that strange?!" She cried out.
"Sakura-chan?" Dumbass. Moron in an orange stick.
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They moved to the hokage office.
"Naruto-kun." His gaze followed the rock she reduced to dust with her bare hands."You're dead." She took his hand and put the remaining dust in his palm." You see this? This is you when I'll be done."
He sweatdropped and took a step back. She didn't even look pissed off. She had this uninterested air on. She wasn't fazed by the strange fixation the men he brought back had on her hair. She slowly swept her braid over her shoulder to pick the tie. The braid softly unraveled to show the biggest senbon he ever saw in his life. It shone a brilliant purple.
"The poison was a present from-well you don't need to know, so my friend gave me a weapon. I always keep it with me." Her eyes gleamed with malice." I hope they get the antidote in time for you because I won't give mine." She cackled.
Oi. You revealed too much.
Oups.
Yeah oups.
Then I can't chase him?
Let me sleep.
Hoho! Now you want to sleep? What about my sleep?
…
I won't let you go. I'm gonna solve some problems here and there and then I will give you all my precious attenti...
Naruto waited for his fatality finshing hit when Sakura stopped moving. She instantly lost balance and was caught by the white haired guy who was being hissed at someone who could pass as an Uchiha.
"Blasted Uchiha! Did you put a genjutsu on her?!" Tobirama snarled.
"Like I would!"The man snapped back.
"Silence!" Hashirama shouted over their voices. They did not continue talking.
"First we have to know what to do with her. She fainted so she has to be out of chakra or..."He was gonna share the rest of his famous theory when Tobirama interjected.
"This bastard has to be responsible." He pointed at the other man.
"You three are the ones who we should be worried about! Let the poor girl go! She was not even supposed to be there!" Hiruzen massaged his temples." Minato, I leave the rest to you. "And with these last words he retired for the night.
"Well, we should all go to sleep and talk tomorrow." No one opposed him.
"Can we even sleep?" Hashirama mumbled pulling on Madara's arm. Tobirama grunted and took the lead.
Naruto skipped happily with the scrolls still in his possession. Sakura was taken by Minato who was by far the safest choice. He grabbed Naruto's collar and took the scrolls without being noticed before directing them to his old house. It should do for now as he was officially dead. A little dust and dirt won't kill them.
Meanwhile,
Mizuki was still waiting for the forbidden scrolls. He was soon apprehended by the T&I for suspicious behavior around the crime scene.