Mezuki woke up to the smell of pancakes. He looked outside his window and then yawned. 'Looks like a nice day.' He got up from his bed and left the room. About five minutes late, after he was done in the bathroom with everything he had to do, Mezuki walked into the dining room. He saw the pancakes on the table. "Cool, blueberry!" He sat down and began to eat. Blueberry pancakes was one of Mezuki's favorite breakfast meals.

Suruya came into the room with a long backpack. "Good morning Boy, I see you began eating before me as always."

Mezuki gobbled down the pancake and then replied, "Sorry Suruya, just want to stuff up before I leave for the hospital. Are those the legs?"

Suruya sat down drank some tea that was already on the table. "Yes, packaged just right so it wouldn't rot. Best be on your way after breakfast."

"Yes mam," He drank some tea, and then continued; "I wonder if Kasumi finished her training yet."

Kasumi was Mezuki's first childhood friend who he met in one of his missions in the land of fire. He was in charge of killing bandits that were of annoyance to the sound four. When he arrived at their hideout, he noticed a young girl tied and blind folded in a cell. He rescued her and finished the mission. Afterwards, he walked her back to her family's house, which was burned down by the bandits with everyone that lived in it dead except for the girl. Mezuki could not bring himself to leave the girl alone there so he decided to bring her back to the sound village to ask Orochimaru if she can stay there, but on the way back, they found a hospital that was in the middle of a forest. Coming to the conclusion that Orochimaru was probably have the girl killed, he told the girl to live at the hospital, and he will come by every so often to check up on the hospital while bringing them some supplies.

Suruya smiled, as Mezuki blushed, "Well, I hope you don't get into any trouble. What is the reason you left that you're going to tell lord Orochimaru."

Whenever Mezuki went to the hospital, he would always come up with an alibi so Orochimaru won't ever get suspicious of his activity. This has been working since Mezuki was ten.

Mezuki laughed at his little white lie, "I went to the lightning country to find and buy some magnetic-tipped kunai because I ran out them during my mission land of snow." Mezuki finished the food.

A month ago, Orochimaru had sent Mezuki to the land of snow with two other common sound ninja to retrieve a lost document. Over there, the squad was ambushed by near a hundred samurai.

"Good, now get going!" Suruya ordered.

"Yes mam!" He went to his room and brought out dark cloak, similar to the one he was wearing when he went to fight Yoku Summuri, and a long black scarf. Mezuki put them on. His entire body was covered, except his face, with the scarf covering only the bottom half of his face. He then put on the backpack with Yoku's legs. "See you later Suruya, I'll be back in three days."

"Whatever boy, just get going before somebody sees you!" She walked into her room and closed the door behind her.

Mezuki left the house and closed the door. He adjusted the backpack so it would be comfortable. `Kasumi…can't wait...` He began jumping on the buildings until he had left the village.

Later that day...

Mezuki saw a thin wire lined up with explosive tags and stopped moving. He knew he wasn't alone in the forest that connected the land of rice paddies and the land of fire. He stopped moving and began to make a sensory scan of his environment. He couldn't detect anybody, so he simply avoided the trap.

As he was jumping through the trees, he noticed many similar traps that he saw earlier. 'I wonder what's going on…' Mezuki continued to avoid the traps until he saw he noticed that the thin wire that the explosive tags were connected to was actually not a wire but a thin spider web. He knew exactly the person, the shinobi, who was capable of creating spider webs. 'Kidōmaru…' Even though he couldn't detect them, Mezuki was sure that not only the spider hybrid Kidōmaru and the rest of the sound four was nearby.

The Sound Four are Orochimaru's elite bodyguards. Each was given a cursed seal by Orochimaru. All four has unique kekkei genkai that makes them a threatening adversary for normal shinobi. Mezuki was quite sure he was not in the category of 'Normal Shinobi. Regardless, he did not want to head to head with Otogakure's top ninja squad, it may lengthen his journey. He wanted to get to the hospital as soon as possible.

Too late, Mezuki accidently tripped an explosive web. 'Damn it!' He quickly got away from the explosion. Smoke filled the air for a short time. When the smoke cleared and he could see again, Mezuki noticed that four, unique ninja surrounded his four ways of escape paths. The boy sighed. He was amazed at their reaction to the explosion to surround the trespasser.

One of the shinobi had two heads with white hair similar to Mezuki but a little longer. Mezuki recognize them has Sakon and Ukon, and where the leader of the group. The two heads had no distinctly different, with only Sakon wearing a red beaded necklace. They were standing in left of Mezuki.

Behind him stood tall a huge fattened man with orange hair that was almost completely bald except for some hair on the side of his head and a Mohawk. Mezuki knew him as Jirōbō. He was the strongest looking among the rest of the sound four, but the boy knew he was actually the weakest among them.

Standing to the right of him, was a shinobi who had four arms and black hair. He was the shinobi that had set the traps of explosive tags earlier…Kidōmaru. Kidōmaru was the only sound four member to actually wear the Hidden Sound village's unique forehead protector.

Directly in front of Mezuki was a girl shinobi with long, red, untamed hair and black eyes. She wore a head band and hat and had an angered expression on her face. Mezuki once had a childish crush on her back when he was still eight years old when he saw her training with the rest of the sound four, but that was a long time ago when she wasn't so angry all the time. Her name was Tayuya. She was equipped with a flute. Although Mezuki never memorized the flute's noise rhythm, he knew it was used to command her Doki, which at this time, was nowhere to be seen.

Kidōmaru was the first to talk, and with a mocking voice, he said, "Looky here; a kid pulled off one of my traps. Possibly a spy, or scout, from the hidden leaf don't ya think Sakon?" His voice irritated Mezuki.

Sakon replied in a more serious tone of voice, "I doubt it. He is small and weak looking and he doesn't even have a village head band."

Ukon quickly interrupted his brother, as he normally does. "We should just kill him. You know that just in case factor. If we get caught, our mission will fail.

'Mission, what mission? Lord Orochimaru never told me about a mission in the fire country.' The boy was dumbfounded. His lord, his father, has never told him about a mission in the land of fire. Has he been hiding out on his apprentice, was all that Mezuki thought about.

"I really don't want to kill a kid; it's not honorable. But if it is necessary to assure that this mission is complete, just hurry up." Sakon gave in to his brother's will.

Jirōbō cracked his knuckles and neck. Now Mezuki was sure that the battle he did not want to fight is about to take place. The big man started making hand seals, but the boy didn't pay attention to them, he was thinking on how this battle might turn out. "Doton: Sōdaina ishi no tebukuro! (Earth Release: Magnificent Stone Gloves)" Parts of the ground began to rise up and cover his arms. Jirōbō charged at Mezuki. "Sweet Dreams kid!" He swung at Mezuki's head, which the boy dodged easily by ducking.

Mezuki then kneed Jirōbō in the stomach, knocking out his air. The man stumbled to the ground, trying to regain his breathe. Mezuki jumped up onto a tree, and began to think of his best possible offense. 'Now how am i going to get away? I can't run; so i have other options but to battle it out here. I can't kill them because they are Orochimaru's bodyguards, but at the same time, they are trying to kill me. Damn this is annoying.'

Sakon appeared from behind Mezuki with a kunai and went into a pose in attempting to stab the boy. He jumped away from the twins. "I see that you are a good runner, but you won't survive long with just that."

'He's right, I won't. But I can't allow them to see my jutsu. I can't risk them seeing my chakra natures, they might report back to lord Orochimaru.' He fixed his mask just in case they recognized him from the village. He wasn't too worried about them recognizing him because most sound ninja did not even know who he was. Orochimaru made sure of this. Mezuki was his little secret. Whenever the boy made conversation's with the other ninja in Otogakure, he made sure that he was using a transformation technique.

All of a sudden, one of Tayuya's Doki came from above Mezuki and smacked in down into the ground. 'Now they show up.' When Mezuki tried to get up, he noticed something had bound him to the ground. When he analyzed it, it was spider webbing. He was now stuck to the ground, surrounded by Otogakure's most feared team.

An angered Jirōbō got up, coming back to his senses. "I'll make you wish you had never done that; you worthless trash!" He picked up a nearby boulder, and hurled it at the bounded Mezuki. The unmovable kid could only stare at the object of his death with his eyes wide open.