This story was adopted from cpotaylor he is getting ready to go back to war all of you who read this keep him in your prayers.

'I know all about the arranged marriage since my parents told me all about it when I was little, but why do I have to follow him somewhere tonight?' thought Tenten as she followed Sanosuke down the streets of Konoha to where ever he was leading her to.

"Where are you leading me, Sanosuke?" asked Tenten after a few more minutes of walking down the streets without a goal seemingly in mind.

"We are going to go the Hokage, as I have to speak to her about getting somebody to clean up all of the drunken villager's bodies that I killed." Sanosuke told her as he walked down the street towards the Hokage's office.

As Tenten walked behind Sanosuke she decided to find out a little more about him, since she knew almost nothing about him except for how strong he was compared to most shinobi. "Umm, Sanosuke what exactly have you been doing during the years that you were gone that you could not be here in the village?"

"Now is as just a good time as any to tell you why I left twelve years ago when my little brother still needed me to be there. It all started when I had reached the rank of Sennin just after I turned seven years old." Sanosuke told her as he continued to walk down the empty street.

Flashback: 12 years ago just before Naruto's first birthday.

A seven-year-old Sanosuke ran up to his clan's manor to tell his grandmother of the good news that had happened that day. As the young ninja ran up the walkway he began to notice that something was oddly wrong and he couldn't help but feel an impending sense of doom that permeated heavily in the air. When he reached the Uzumaki clan manor the sharp metallic scent of freshly spilled blood assaulted his nose, and the sounds of battle reached his ears. Unconsciously he began to run faster towards his home as he feared the worst had happened and that his family was being attacked.

When he made it inside the manor grounds what he saw shocked him to his very core. What he saw was that his entire family had been slaughtered by a group of people in black cloaks with red clouds stitched on them attacking and killing everybody in sight. As Sanosuke watched in horror he realized that these people wanted to abduct his little brother because of the demon within him, and his horror began to turn into rage as decided to step in and try to help put a stop to all of the senseless killing in front of him. Just as he was about to run in he saw something that caused something inside of him to snap like a twig. What he saw was his favorite uncle Uzumaki Tatsuya, the person that had taught him how to fight with a zanpukto get struck down by a member of the group that was attacking his family. Sanosuke's eyes then slowly began to gain the characteristics of the Youkigan as he drew his sword from its sheath and began to run at the group attacking his family.

When Sanosuke was within 30 yards two members of the group noticed him and began to attack. As the two men were way underestimating him, he was able to easily able to defeat them. Now that the other members had seen what he capable of, they were not taking any chances that may get them killed or captured. As the fighting dragged on, Sanosuke was beginning to tire out and was hoping that help would come soon. Because he was beginning to tire out, Sanosuke was making more obvious and bigger mistakes and the attackers were taking advantage of his growing weakness allowing them to land more hits on him with their jutsu' and weapons.

Laying on the ground tired and beaten, as Sanosuke was accepting the fact that he was going to die, he saw a poof of smoke appear in front of him and heard these words as the world around him faded to black. "Kuchiyose no jutsu: Enma!"

A few hours later, Sanosuke woke up in the hospital with a pounding headache and saw that the Hokage was in his room watching over him to make sure he was ok. He then asked if anybody in his family was ok.

"Sanosuke, your grandmother Tsunade-chan had left early this morning just after I promoted you to the rank of Sennin, also your little brother Naruto is currently being watched by the hyuga's in their home as Hiashi was a good friend of your father, but unfortunately all of your other family members were killed. Your uncle Tatsuya told me that he wanted me to give you his zanpukto the Dragon Fang just before he died." the Third Hokage answered to Sanosuke's question about the status of his family. After hearing this Sanosuke went back to sleep so that he could rest and regain his energy.

The next morning Sanosuke left the village in search of the group known as the Akatsuki that had attacked his clan. As he walked away into the mist a few of the Hyugas and Uchihas watched him walk away with tears in their eyes.

End flashback.

"So that's what happened so long and the reason that you left." said Tenten as they reached the Hokage's office building and walked through the door to speak with the Hokage. As they walked into her office Tenten heard Sanosuke say something she would never have expected someone to say to Tsunade.

"So you finally decided to get some paperwork done, old hag?" said Sanosuke as he caught a volume of Icha Icha Paradise on the forehead that Tsunade had thrown at him. 'Hmm, the new volume of the pervert's book is out. Maybe I'll read it when I have a bit of free time.' thought Sanosuke as he put the book in one of his pockets.

"Shut up, Sanosuke I'm getting a report from one of your informants about the Akatsuki's latest movements and plans." said Tsunade as she pointed to a figure in front of her.

"What is he doing here? I thought he was a s-class criminal." asked Tenten as she pointed at Uchiha Itachi as he stood calmly in front of them.

"I am Sanosuke's informant about the Akatsuki and I never killed my clan, that was Orochimaru that killed them." explained Itachi as he sat down.

"So Itachi what do you have to report to us that it is so important that you had to come here immediately after you found out about it?" asked Sanosuke as he took off his zanpukto and leaned it against the wall as he sat down on one of the cushions in the office next to the wall, with Naruto lying on the ground still out cold next to him.

"Hokage-sama, Sanosuke-sama the Akatsuki are beginning to make their way to the village from their headquarters at this moment. At the pace they are going at, it should take them approximately 5 months to get here." said Itachi as he sat down.

"So in others words, they will be here during the Chuunin exams?" asked Tsunade as she shot a grim glance at the unconscious Naruto laying next to Sanosuke in front of her as she began to lose a bit of her cheeriness.