When he was picked up to be the backup of one of the Ino-Shika-Chou trios, Kagami was ecstatic. At his young age, sensei trusted him so much… until he found out he was staying in a house under the strict vigilance of the adults and once the war officially begins, he was returning to the village and staying there. He tried to complain and whined all week when he received a negative… until Danzo and Hiruzen bumped him in the head and told him that at least he was participating. They along with Koharu and Homura were staying at home, helping at the hospital and making equipment maintenance.

"At least you are seeing another world!" complained Saru, with the Shimura nodding behind him. The Uchiha couldn´t believe they were actually together in that. Hell must be frozen, he concluded after that week. After ended his whining festival he was introduced to his team (or babysitters, as he like to say).

"Guys, this is Kagami. He will be your genjutsu backup" introduced him Tobirama. The members of that trio were all adults, so they complained about having to babysit a favorite genin of the Hokage´s brother. The kid blushed but didn´t say anything. After many jokes about his age, they settle down to hear the mission. "After the first missions for information, we determined that there are many potential threats on this land, one of them is SHIELD" he pointed to a drawing of a strange symbol with an eagle. "And another is the Avengers, their maximum warriors. You mission is to infiltrate the Avengers and bring us as much information as you can."

"The Avengers… their members?"

"We only have mayor details. Their leader is Captain America, some kind of Taijutsu expert from their world. His weapon of choice is his shield. And the second in command is Iron Man, he is weapon´s master."

"Another thing"

"Yes, this is your entrance ticket" he threw them a photo. With all the spying they were doing inside national security institutions, stealing some technology was child´s play. "His name is James Rhodes, alias War Machine and he is Iron Man´s right hand man, but also a newcomer to the team. Your mission is to neutralize him while Yamanaka Inoki takes his place and extracts the information."

"I have exactly the jutsu I will use" said the blond. "And this brat can help too."

"How?"

-In the other world-

James Rhodes has just arrived at his apartment after a very hard session of training courtesy of Captain America. He knew that the original Avengers teams was going to split up, in fact Clint and Bruce have already left, but Tony and Thor were going to stay until the new recruits were ready for action. And they training was not getting according to schedule.

"Why did Wanda hit me so hard?" he was rubbing his neck, still feeling where the Scarlet Witch hit him accidentally with a piece of metal. He was so concentrate in that that he didn´t noticed until late that someone else was in the room.

"How are you, mister Rhodes?" asked the voice of a little kid in the darkness. He turned around and saw a twelve years old with red eyes. this was so disturbing that he grabbed his weapon to fire at him. Unfortunately for the Avenger, the genin was using the Zanzō Bunshin no jutsu and he only hit a residual image. In seconds Kagami was in front of him, putting him on a genjutsu and controlling him, lowering his mental defenses at the same time.

"I have to say it, Kagami-kun, you do have talent" commented Inoki, walking in with his team. Shikara and Chouko, who betted with him that the boy wasn´t going to make it, give him some money. "In your faces!"

"You didn´t think he was going to do it either, you lost at rock-paper-scissors" commented the Nara, siting against a wall. "What a troublesome mission."

"Either way… back away, Kagami-kun, it´s my turn" the Yamanaka put his hands on the man´s face and extracted the information he would need to infiltrate the Avengers successfully. Then he put a straw doll on the floor.

"What is that for?"

"I can´t maintain the Shintenshin no Jutsu enough time for this to be a success. In fact no Yamanaka can" informed the blond smiling. "But trapping his soul here, I can keep doing this the time I want. Just see me!"

"Just do it" the Aburame said.

"What a joykiller… Kagami-kun, now release him" as soon as Rhodes was awake, he was trapped inside the doll and Inoki took control of his body. "Look at me, Shika, how do I look?"

"Like a gay man and he is straight! Get into your role already!"

"Aw, come on, I want to enjoy being in another person´s skin while I can" the Yamanaka then calmed down and centered himself. He frowned when he started remembering the information. "The information was wrong, he might be a close friend of Iron Man, but he is a simple trainee in the Avengers… along with some other dangerous people. I see… a Raiton user? More like a Ranton user with a hammer. His name is Thor. And someone with wings… and a mind jutsu expert? Not, something else…"

"Is that person a threat to you?"

"No" decided the Yamanaka. "She is still experimenting with his habilities, there is no way she can discover me. What worries me is the other mind expert, someone called the Vision"

"The Vision?"

"Apparently the most powerful member between them" he smiled. "I´m looking forwards my introduction to the Avengers team"

-The next day-

"Welcome to intensive training… again" said Steve, walking in front of them in a very tight shirt. Inoki have to restrain himself a lot. Those abs could have any male or female drooling, more a blatantly gay man with a good eye.

"Inoki, center" he told himself in his mind and went along with the others, trying to imitate the common movements Rhodes used in his daily live. Tony Stark appeared in that moment and walked towards the captain, talking with him a bit.

"Don´t you think Rory is a bit strange? He never uses common tactics in this exercise" commented the billionaire, frowning a bit. The shinobi inside War Machine´s head did so too, this way he was never getting the information he needed! And Inori-sama would scold him! He made a risky move and simulate a malfunction on his armor. Stark and Rogers got closer to catch the man. Once they had he placed a hand in the back of their necks. Bingo.

"Are you alright?" asked the captain.

"Yes, it´s just something in my flying system" he excused himself. "Can you take a look at it? Since Hammer tried to copy you to make this, I don´t trust it enough."

"Sure, give it to me and take a break, I will be in the lab" the playboy answered and took the armor to take a look. Natasha walked towards the training ground to continue with the torture for the newies when.

"You know, Widow, I´ve always been impressed by your shots. Can you show me how you do it?"

"Maybe another time" she answered, raising her eyebrow. He gave up and walked away. The female went towards her friends. "Something is off with that man. His behavior almost seemed not real"

"Yes?" Stark and Steve frowned. They didn´t like this, maybe they should ask Fury about the newer developments in his fight against HYDRA.

"I´m back" announced Inoki to his friends once he closed the apartment door. They were all serious, as if something bad had happened. "What?"

"Surprise" Itama appeared with a set of binoculars around his neck. "I came to receive the information you collected. What did you find until now?" Inoki wrote a complete report with the information extracted from both Captain America and Iron Man, but his failure to do the same with the Widow made the higher up frown. "According to you, she is their mayor information source, no? And she is a trained spy" he nodded. "Then this can´t finish until you manage to give us a complete report of her."

"It´s hard! I think she already suspects me!"

"Stop whining! You are a shinobi!" ordered the Senju. "Another thing to add?"

"Yes, this" he showed the younger ninja a photo of Captain America shirtless during one of their trainings. His eyes went wide, what a...

"Ajajá… what a nice set of abs!" said Itama in a dreamy voice, drooling at the eye candy he was given.

"Itama-sama!"

"Okay, okay, I´m just enjoying the view, nothing to be worried about" and he left.

"Itama-sama is strange, no?" said the young Uchiha.

"Just because a little kid like you can´t enjoy a perfectly good man yet it doesn't mean the rest of the world contains himself."

"I´m not a little kid!"

"Then why don´t you have a girlfriend? Or a boyfriend if you prefer?" Kagami blushed deeply, not looking at the other male in the eye. "Oww, how pretty! I think our little one likes someone! Tell me, tell me, who is the lucky one?"

"I don´t like anyone!"

"Oh, but I can see you do, care to tell me?" Inoki sat down in front of the Uchiha. "Is it Homura? No, your face tells me everything and he is just… ugh, I won´t like him either" he waved his hand. "Oh, is it Hiruzen? Little Saru can be quite handsome" another negative. "Yes, he is straight too, I wouldn´t recommend him. Is it… no! you can´t like Danzo!" Kagami blushed even more. "Ohhhh, so the little tyke is…"

"Concentrate, Ino!" said Shikara, bumping him in the head. "Stop pestering the kid and prepare yourself for tomorrow, that you are going to have to convince that black widow chick that you are indeed that guy over there in the scarecrow"

"I know, I know… but just in case be ready to flee immediately, okay?"

"As you say"

-Another day passes-

Apparently that mission wasn´t going to be something easy, as Natasha avoided any contact with him after their little chat yesterday. That same morning Stark returned him the armor, saying that he didn´t find something strange with it and tried to distract him with a history about how he had used it to save him when he was kidnapped by some terrorists. He cut the billionaire, saying that he saved himself from that. The genius seemed to be somehow relived that he knew that and went back to his lab to talk with the captain. After some training he found himself in the same room as the Widow again.

"You know, Rhodes, you are improving a lot. Maybe now I can teach you how to shoot" she said, making him gesture.

"Of course, Widow…"

"Or that would I say if you weren´t an imposter" she turned around with her weapon in hand. Instantly Iron Man and Captain America entered too. Inoki frowned, where did he screwed up? "Surprised? We almost believed you were Rory, but he never misses a time to tell Tony how stupid his mistakes are. If you were the real War Machine after correcting Stark you would have added some snide remark about how he out himself in trouble."

"Oh, clever, a detail I never give enough importance to" he smiled, then stretched. "Well, shoot me… or better shoot him."

"Stop lying and tell us where the real Rory is" ordered Stark, worried for his friend.

"I´m not lying, James Rhodes is here somewhere" he pointed to his head. "My specialty is invading other people´s bodies and pose as them"

"He is telling the truth" said Natasha, changing her bullets quickly. "Try not to kill him"

"I know" said Iron Man and, lowering his power levels, he shoot a blast. The Yamanaka moved with ease and he others joined the fight, but it was so messy that they didn´t noticed he was sneaking towards the Black Widow. Finally he put his hand on the back of her head and all her information passed to him.

"It´s ready, kai!" Inoki returned to his body. He blinked and then got up, a little weak. "We have no time, we need to leave."

"Impossible, the portal opens in two hours"

"We don´t have time! The Avengers are coming!" that moment somehow said team irrupted into the room. They were not happy about that. "Damn!"

"Uchiha, cover us!" ordered the Nara, calculating quickly the best strategies and their probabilities against them. "Inoki, you in the back, try to recover. Chouko, you are the frontal" the Akimichi nodded. "I will take the medium and Uchiha… cover us"

"Understood" Kagami´s eyes turned red. They had a short fight with the Avengers, slowly retreating until they managed to disappear through the portal.

"What was that?" asked Steve.

"Toubles"

-Back in Konoha-

"Welcome back" said Tobirama when they arrived, panting. "Let me guess, they found you" the nodded. "Well, you can be happy that you are not the only team that didn´t make it, another managed too to fail their mission…"

"Who says we didn´t complete it?" Inoko grabbed a scroll and a brush. "We made it, I have all the information we need to begin a full blown offensive."

"That´s great, I will take this immediately to Hokage-sama" he did and in a few hours the army of Konoha was putting on their armors and putting their sharpened kunai in their pouches. Hashirama was not the exception, he was going to the front lines again to fight those incredibly strong oponents that had his son. He was about to grab his sword when…

"Hashirama…" Madara was there, with the weapon in his hand and a very strange look on his face. It was obvious that he sharpened it for him.

"Madara, don´t…"

"Shhhh, I won´t" he kissed the brunette. "I just want to say that I love you, please come back to me in one piece… and bring our child with you"

"Don´t worry, I will" he got out of the house with his pregnant husband behind him. He was walking when he noticed his brother´s students whining about not being able to participate in the war. Foolish children, it was better that way. He smiled and advanced towards them, making the children shut up for some moments.

"Hokage-sama…"

"Saru, Koharu, Homura, Danzo, Kagami, Torifu" he addressed the children. "I´m going to give you a very important mission, please protect Madara and he village while we are not here, the enemy could attack any second and not just one enemy."

"Hai, Hokage-sama!" the genin asked, matter of duty, feeling more important. He smiled and reunited with the army after one last look. The kids were forming a circle around his partner, as if they were his escort. Yes, he was leaving Konoha in the right hands.