Hey guys apparently I did something right when I wrote the first chapter. I'm going try and make the chapters longer than the first considering that was just a test run to see if people would like the plot. So without further delay chapter 2!
It had been ten years. Ten years since naruto had been banished; there had been a lot of changes in the village of konohagakure. They had announced the truth of naruto being a host to the village not long after his banishment. The konoha 11 had varied feelings. Shikamaru, choji, and kiba were angry he was banished for such a dumb reason and respected him for carrying such a heavy burden. Shino, who was never really attached to naruto, agreed with his father that naruto was a threat and supported him, much to kiba and hinata's annoyance. Hinata was devastated at narutos banishment but over the years she realized she just thought highly of naruto and got over him, but she still missed him. Sasuke was probably the happiest at naruto's banishment, he thought naruto deserved it for stopping him, but he never tried to leave again. Sakura didn't really know what to think, on one hand she was happy sasuke was back and at first was angry naruto had hurt him, but she soon realized she was wrong and grew to Miss Naruto. Ino didn't really care she had never been that close to him, but she like the rest of her team realized the difference in being the fox and the fox being sealed in him, and thus respected him for his hard life. Kakashi was upset because he had failed his sensei and obito. Tsunade almost left the village yet again but with some convincing from jiraiya she stayed hokage. The members of team guy all agreed that naruto did not deserve it, lee and guy even went into the council room shouting about how un-youthfull it was. Neji was angry at the members who banished him, and even almost attacked sasuke, but he became closer to hiashi due to him being against the banishment. Gaara was beyond angry that his first real friend was banished and even nearly killed a civilian that mocked naruto when he was in konoha.
Over the years everyone kept training, kiba made it to head of the tracker division of anbu. Hinata became a jonin and took over as clan head from her father who decided to go into an early retirement. Shino also took over as clan head but still served as a jonin with his own team. Ino became a chunin and Took over from her dad as one of the head interrogators'. Choji and shikamaru both became jonin chouji joining anbu as one tsunade's personal anbu, and shikamaru become genin sensei as well as one of tsunade's war time advisors. Sasuke trained and became a member of danzo's root division when kakashi refused to train him. Sakura trained under tsunade and eventually became a chunin and head of the hospital. Team guy all became jonin and one of the best jonin teams in the village. Asuma and kurenia got married and had a kid who is seven years old. (Born three years after narutos banishment, around where shippuden would have taken place).
Things had been changing in the elemental nations as well. Gaara became the kazekage and has led sunagakure to one of the most prosperous times in the village's history. Alliances were forged as well. Konoha and suna rebuilt there alliance as well as brought takigakure and kusagakure into their alliance. Otogakure led by orochimaru made an alliance with iwagakure and amegakure who had recently came out of their civil war (I may or may not have pein be the leader, I may have hanzo be leader or make an oc be the leader. I'm open for your opinions) shimogakure, kumogakure, and kirigakure had allied themselves with a fourth unknown village. They had been quiet for about five years and no one, not even jiraiya could get spies in the villages. The leaf and sound alliances had high tension between them. Though at the same time both were wary of war due to not knowing how the third alliance would act.
Jiraiya's spy network had shown that akatsuki had been unusually quiet lately. They had stopped going after the jinchuriki and hadn't made a move in a few years. Jiraiya wasn't sure what they were up to, but whatever it was it couldn't be good. Akatsuki wasn't the only one that jiraiya's spy network had lost all leads to, he had lost naruto's trail as well. He had his spy's keep tabs on him for tsunade, and though he wouldn't admit it he was worried about the kid himself. He had been able to keep updated on him for a while, naruto had first went to the land of waves for a few weeks, then he went to the sand village for half a year, though gaara refused to share what happened while naruto was there. And when naruto left the sand village jiraiya's spy network lost his trail and they hadn't found any sign of him since. It was as if he has disappeared off the face of the earth.
-In konoha-
Sakura wiped her forehead with a towel making sure to get the sweat off. She was finishing her shift up at the hospital and was about to head to the usual meeting spot for their group of friends. They had made a habit of meeting up once a week. As she got out of her hospital cloths and put on her normal ninja gear she looked at herself in the mirror. She had changed over the years and had grown more women like. She kept her hair shoulder length but instead of her old red dress she now wore a red vest with a light pink apron like skirt, black spandex shorts, and black high heeled boots. She also wore a medical pouch and wore her headband in the same spot except it had red cloth instead of blue. (Basically part two clothing). Sakura had trained hard under tsunade and had rose to about jonin level, though due to her being busy at the hospital she never tried to make jonin rank. Many of the villagers thought that sakura was well on her way to surpassing her sensei, though sakura never really cared what the people were saying. As sakura walked to the usual meeting spot, which was the bridge where team seven used to meet she saw that everyone else was already there.
She first noticed ino who had grown to be about 5.3 ft tall; she had longer blond hair tied up in a pony tail and one of the bangs fully covering her right eye. She removed the bandages covering her stomach and replaced her warmers on her arms with fishnet. She also wore fishnet over her knees. She was wearing her usual cloths which were a purple vest type shirt that stops a few inches above her belly button; she wore an open purple skirt over a black skirt. (Again basically just like part two)
Sakura took notice that ino was standing beside choji, the two had been dating for a few months and it was going nicely. Choji had grown and now stood 5 foot 6 inches. He sports a red top with armor on his torso, arms, and upper legs, similar to his father. On the front of his chest armor is the obligatory kanji for "eat". He for black standard ninja pants and black ninja sandals, His brown hair has grown much longer and he also changes his earrings from hoops to the studs that he and the rest of former team ten now wore due to them being a gift from asuma for making chunin. He wore his headband on his forehead instead of as a bandana and it had red cloth instead of blue. (Ok for the most part most will look like part two)
Sakura then noticed kiba who instead of grey now wore a black jacket which was zipped up but now had no good or fur. He had black pants much like naruto's old style pants. His forehead protector had black cloth and was on his forehead and he wore black ninja sandals. He was kneeled down rubbing akamaru's head who had grown to be big enough for kiba to ride on which he did regularly. Standing beside him was hinata who had changed a lot. She now had her hair grown to waist length, the hair strands that framed her face when she was younger was still there and had strait cut bangs that conceal her forehead. She wore lavender and cream zip up sweater with lavender cuffs over a black fishnet collar shirt with navy pants and black heeled sandals. Her headband she still wore around her neck but it had black cloth instead of blue. Hinata's personality was probably the biggest change. She no longer stuttered when speaking and wasn't as shy though she was still not very outspoken. The change in her personality was probably due to her and kiba dating. They had been dating for a few years now; they had grown a lot closer after naruto's banishment. Several of their friends though they may get married soon though they denied it stating they didn't think about things like that yet.
Next sakura looked over to shikamaru who was talking to kiba. Shikamaru hadn't changed much. Besides being noticeably taller he wore a black long sleeve shirt and matching black pants. He wore his jonin vest over his shirt and had green lined mesh from the end of his sleeves to his wish and from the end of his pants down to his black ninja sandals. His forehead protector was in its usual spot except the metal seemed to be put into the shirt somehow. Shikamaru and temari had been dating for a while, though temari was in suna right now, they seemed to be in a stable relationship despite shikamaru saying how troublesome temari was.
Next to shikamaru were the members of team guy. Neji had kept his hair growing reaching down his back. He removed the straps and now had stands of hair framing his face. He now wore traditional hyuga cloths which consisted of a white shirt with loose sleeves, matching colored pants, and a dark grey apron like piece of cloth (best way I could describe his part two cloths). His headband still had black cloth and was on his forehead. Rock lee looks basically the same besides being taller, and now had a jonin vest on farthing him in looking like his sensei. Tenten's clothing had changed a lot. She now sports a long-sleeved white blouse with a high collar and red fastener and edges paired with similar colored puffy pants, with the exposed parts of her legs near the waist covered in bandages. The shuriken holster and the bandage on her right leg is removed and she wears brown fingerless gloves, with her forehead protector having switched to the same color and her shinobi sandals having been replaced by open slippers. Her hair was still in the same style and she now had a large scroll strapped to her back that she stored her weapons in. neji and tenten have been dating for about as long as kiba and hinata which wasn't a big surprise to everyone else who had noticed the two and knew it was just a matter of time.
The only members missing were sasuke who didn't really care about friendships much anymore, and shino. Both had been pushed away for the most part, though shino not as much as sasuke. They group still hung out with shino usually but today was one of those exceptions because today is the ten year anniversary of the day naruto was banished.
As sakura walked up the rest of them noticed her. "Hey sakura you're the last to make it, though I guess it can be expected considering who your sensei is" kiba said jokingly. Sakura shot kiba a look "oh ha, actually I'm late because I was finishing my shift at the hospital," sakura said. "Yeah yeah we know forehead now hurry up" ino said. "Shut in piggy" sakura shot back. Shikamaru spoke up "hey cool it and let's go, geez you're both troublesome". "Everything is troublesome to you shikamaru so what else is new?" kiba said. The group of friends started laughing as they set off to their usual destination on this particular date, ichiraku Raman bar. "So kiba how are things in the anbu?" sakura asked. "Pretty good, finished training a few new members there going into active duty soon. I'm on a vacation though, tsunade's orders. She said I've been working too long so I'm not allowed back for a few days." Kiba replied. Sakura nodded understandingly "yeah, how bout you ino?" Ino sighed" even if I'm head of my particular branch of the interrogation unit ibiki and dad have been putting be through vigorous training. I think they hope I'll take over as head of the entire interrogation unit" ino said. Sakura smiles "well that's good."
When they arrived at ichiraku's they all ordered their usual. Sakura looked down" it's been ten years now." Chouji nodded "yeah I can't believe it's been that long. Things sure aren't the same without him". Shikamaru sighed "as troublesome as it is iv missed naruto." kiba smiled lightly "hey shikamaru, remember when me, you, choji, and naruto used to sneak out of class and go eat snacks?" shikamaru laughed" yeah those were the good ole days". Ino sighed" seriously I don't know how you guys made it so far considering how much ya'll skipped out of class". Choji smiled" hey you can't diss us, being able to get away from a chunin level ninja when your academy students said a lot" kiba nodded" and naruto was even able to get away from anbu and evade them for hours."Kiba said laughing remembering when they had all been chased by anbu for aiding one of naruto's pranks.
Sakura sighed as the food arrived" yeah naruto was good at that" she said as she picked up some chop sticks and began to eat as did the others. Hinata spoke next" I wonder where he is?" sakura looked at her" I don't know. The last jiraiya's spy network saw of him he left suna. But that was eight almost nine years ago. Not trying to sound gloomy or anything but... were not even sure he is alive, I mean jiraiya said it's like he vanished off the face of the earth." Kiba again sighed "don't think like that, I'm sure the idiot's alive. He wouldn't die so soon" kiba said. They ate in silence the rest of the time. Suddenly two anbu appeared "lady hinata, you are needed in the council room" hinata nodded and stood up and disappeared in a puff of smoke with the anbu.
-In the council room-
As hinata appeared and took her seat in the council room tsunade and jiraiya walked into the room. The council was much the same. Hinata was now the hyuga clan head and shine was the aburame clan head. Hana inuzuka, kiba's sister, had taken over as inuzuka clan head when tsume retired. Though when kiba got older and learned more about politics there were rumors hana would give kiba the position due to her not really caring about being on it. Shikaku, choza, and inoichi were likely to retire soon and give the positions over to their kids.
As tsunade walked in and took her seat at the head of the table with jiraiya standing behind her koharu spoke " tsunade why have you called us here today?" koharu and tsunade never got along. This only got worse when tsunade became hokage. Tsunade spoke " we have found out the final village in alliance with the mist and cloud" tsunade stated. The council got quiet then danzo spoke " so who is it?" danzo asked interested in what village allied themselves with. Tsunade sighed knowing that the dumb old bats were about to go crazy " the fourth village is yukigakure". Tsunade stated homaru immediately yelled " what! How is that possible? That village was destroyed years ago!" ( I'm pretty sure I remember it saying somewhere that it was destroyed but if I'm wrong oh well it's a fan fiction) . danzo nodded" yes how exactly is that village back?" he remembered their chakra armor when the village was first around and how it made their ninja formidable.
Jiraiya decided to answer " an unknown outsider seemed to have made a deal with the daimyo and re-foudned the village as a shinobi village. It seems the kiri and kumo have been helping shimo and yuki grow stronger by sending ninja and supplies to help. My spy that managed to get in says they have a decent sized ninja force. It seems that whoever the leader is knows how to make a ninja village, but the spy hasn't been able to find out a name of the leader.". The members of the council were silent.
Tsunade then spoke" that's not the only reason I called you here. We need to go into a state of war preparation. Our scouts say that iwa,ame,and Oto forces have been gathering and building entrenchments. It seems they are preparing to attack. I would like to send out more border patrol teams and strengthen out outpost's defense because an attack is coming." Danzo tapped his chin "a wise decision, iwa has held a grudge against us since the last ninja war. It is not surprising the tsuchikage jumped on the chance to get back at us. Jiraiya what about kumo and kiri?" Jiraiya sighed "I still haven't been able to get a spy in either village. And frankly I think we should be more worried about sending ninja out, tsunade I think you should bring your apprentice back into active duty" hinata nodded" I agree, if we do get attacked I myself will also return to active duty. I've been bored since taking over as clan head anyways. I'm sure father won't mind taking over again" tsunade nodded "ok meeting adjourned"
-Shimogakure-
The fourth raikage was walking down the halls of the leader tower in shimogakure. He wasn't very patient man, however he was a good leader and would do what was best for his village. The raikage was a strong man with dark skin a large muscle builds and slicked back white hair. He had a few wrinkles and a small mustache and beard. He reached his destination, the room where the leaders f the villages were suppose to meet. He walked through the doors which led to what was normal the shimogakure council room, though unlike the konoha council this council was just for advising the hokage, and civilian affairs.
The fifth mizukage was already there as well. The mizukage, Mei Terumi, is a slender woman in her thirties. She has ankle-length, auburn hair styled into a herringbone pattern at the back, a top-knot tied with a dark-blue band, and with four bangs at the front. Two bangs are short, with one covering her right eye, and two are long, crossing each other on her chest, just below her chin. Her eyes are light green.
She dresses in a long-sleeved dark-blue dress that falls just below the knees. It seems to be closed at the front with a zip and is kept open on the front-right side from the waist down. The dress only covers up to the upper part of her upper arms and the underside of her breasts. Underneath, she wears a mesh shirt that covers more of her upper body than her dress, but stops short of covering her shoulders and still leaves a sizable cleavage. She also wears shorts in the same color as her dress and, underneath those, mesh leggings reaching down over her knees. Around her waist, she wears a belt with a pouch attached to the back on the left. Furthermore, she wears high-heeled sandals and shin-guards reaching up over her knees. She also wears dark nail polish and is usually shown with dark-blue lipstick.
Setting beside her was the leader of shimogakure. He was a tall man about 22 years old with light brown hair that was about medium length and came down to his eyes. He had green eyes and tan skin and a bored expression on his face. He was wearing a long sleeved white shirt with a grey stripe down the sleeves and an open grey vest that looked like a konoha jonin vest without the neck guards. He had a pair of grey ninja pants, and grey ninja sandals on. His shuriken holster was on his right leg and his ninja pouch on his right side.
The leader of shimogakure's name was raigo yuki. He sat up at the sight of the raikage "welcome lord raikage, now that you are here all we lack is the leader of yukigakure" suddenly the door opened again. A man of about 6 foot 2 inches walked in. he had dark brown semi spiky hair (imagine zeref from fairy tail's hair google it if you don't know) he had fierce blue eyes. He had a scar running vertically from just above his right eye to his cheek bone below his right eye.
He was wearing a dark grey coat (same style as naruto's when fighting pein) over a black long sleeve shirt. He had black ninja pants on (like part 2 kiba's style pants) and standard black ninja sandals. He had darn grey metal arm guards on both arms and had his headband tied on his forehead with black cloth. On the headband was the yukigakure symbol. On his left arm was a second headband with the kiri symbol on it with blood red cloth.
Strapped to his side were two katana style swords that were in black sheaths with blood red wrapping on the handles. On his right leg was his shuriken holster and his ninja gear pouch was on his right side.
The man walked in and sat down in a seat " the yukikage apologized but he cannot be here today, so he sent me in his stead" mei smiled "hello there kaza nice to see you again" kaza bowed to the mizukage " lord mizukage, a pleasure to meet you as always, how are things in kiri?" the man now known as kaza asked. Mei continued her smile " things are good as they have been, we are stronger now than we were before the kekkei genkia purging. Thanks to this alliance" the mizukage stated.
Kaza nodded "its good to hear things are going well in my old home" raikage spoke up" sorry to interrupt but I need to be back to kumo soon, so why did the yukikage call this meeting" kaza nodded" yes let's get to business." Kaza remained silent before speaking" war is coming, our scouts and spies indicate the the villages of iwagakure, otogakure, and amegakure are moving their forces around to the borders of their enemies of kusa, suna, taki, and konoha"
The raikage sighed" we knew this was coming; orochimaru can't remain quiet for long. But I fail to see how this includes us" the mizukage nodded " yes how exactly does this concern us? We currently have more strength than the other two alliances weather they know it or not, and they don't even know of yuki"
Kaza interrupted " actually that's not entirely true, we recently discovered a spy in out village. He was dealt with quickly but he got off a message to the toad sage jiraiya. Konoha now knows of our existence, however we don't think they know of ours or shimo's strength. And as for how this concern's us you all know what war does, it will only be a matter of time before one of them decide to attack, more than likely it will be shimo due to it being a smaller nation on the mainland plus it has some recourses they could use in the war. The yukikage wants to know what you think we should do about it" kaza said
Raigo frowned" that could be a problem, I think it would be best if we increase our border protection. But we would have to do it quietly so they won't be able to detect it and see it as us mobilizing for war" both the mizukage and raikage agreed" kaza nodded "ok the yukikage said he can send eight squads of anbu to help. He fears that war cannot be adverted though and has asked that each of us prepare for the storm that is coming."
Mei nodded " ok I will send several squads of anbu as well to help with the defense" . The raikage nodded as well "I will send a few anbu squads and jonin squads. I will also start preparations for border defense. I suggest that the rest do the same" all of the leaders and kaza nodded "
Kaza then spoke again" the yukikage thanks you for your assistance, he said that he can never repay you for all he assistance you have given him and the rest of yukigakure, and yuki no kuni itself." Mei smiles "no it is him I should be thanking, he helped me and kirigakure" the raikage nodded as well "yes he has done much for all of us. It's the least we could have done to help him."
Kaza nodded "ok well I must get back to yuki, threes no telling what the yukikage is getting himself into." Kaza disappeared in a swirl of wind and the other two kage's disappeared as well.
Ok guys that are it for chapter two. I know some of you wanted me to not put a time skip in it but I was half way done when I read that. Plus I feel it's the best thing to do for this story. I know in the beginning it sounds similar to other storied you may have read but that'll change soon. Ad set, also I made this chapter longer, but I still didn't reach my 5k word minimum I had set for myself, but I'll try and get there eventually. Also there will be a lot of oc's in this story so I'm sorry if I get them mixed up sometimes.
Name: raigo yuki
Age:22
Hair color: light brown
Eye color: green
Village: shimogakure (hidden frost village)
Rank: village leader
Kekkei genkai: ice style
Nature chakra: wind and water
Bio:
Raigo's mother was part of the yuki clan of kirigakure. She left the village during the kekkei genkai purging. She fled to the land of frost were she gave birth and they lived in shimogakure together. At the age of twelve he graduated the academy and became a chunin at age fourteen. He trained in his clan's arts from scrolls he got from kiri when shimo joined the alliance. He left the village for a year and when he returned became a jonin and five years later at the age of 20 became leader of shimo.
He is known for being a quick thinker and remaining calm in battle, he uses whatever advantage he can and also uses many water, and wind style jutsu.
Name: kaza kuroshi
Age: 22
Rank: jonin and second in command of yuki forces
Eye color: blue
Hair color: dark brown
Village: yukigakure
Kekkei genkia: unknown
Chakra types: wind lightning and water
Bio: kaza was originally a kiri ninja, his clan was murdered during the purging. At the age of eleven he was made genin and at age twelve chunin. Afterwards he was sent on a long term mission returned to the village a few years later asking permission to transfer village affililiation. He became second in command of yukigakure's ninja forces and is one of the strongest ninja in the village. In his time away from kiri it is presumed he was traveling with the yukikage. He is known for his tactics in fighting and ability to fight both an offensive and defensive fights.
