A/N: Oho! Did someone say a new chapter! Well you are right, yes you, I'm talking to you! Here is a new chapter and I know what you're thinking "Rinne-Kami you handsome devil, you said you wouldn't update until November" Well I decided. Screw my one chapter per month rule. I'll start that when I can't be bothered writing so many chapters. Let's begin with the chapter!

This chapter is basically a time skip chapter but so much happens through the years that I had to write in detail.

Disclaimer: STILL Don't own Naruto

"Speech"

'Thought'

Flashback

Jutsu


-1st Year-

"The Uchiha clan are becoming a concerning threat." Koharu spoke seriously to the others in the room, Minato, Homura, Danzō and Hiruzen.

"I don't know what to do." Minato confessed. "We can't let them leave and Hiruzen and I have tried negotiations, but they won't listen." Minato finished.

Just then the door opened. In entered their spy for the Uchiha clan, a double agent, the Uchiha believe he was spying on Konoha for them. Itachi Uchiha, who volunteered to betray his own clansmen. Even his face seemed distressed at the moment.

"Itachi, what have you learned?" Hiruzen asked.

Itachi seemed a little hesitant to tell them. "Father and the elders are planning a Coup d'état on the village in a few months. They-They also want me to play the role of Minato-san's assassin."

The elders were shocked at the revelation. "This is unacceptable!" Koharu yelled in protest. "We can not afford to lose Minato, you hold to much authority over the other Kages!"

"Then you know what must be done." Danzō finally spoke up. "The Uchiha Clan must be eliminated." He proposed dead seriously.

The proposition shocked everyone in the room, especially Itachi.

"Impossible. Just impossible. No one can just walk up and massacre the Uchiha clan. There's a reason behind their feared reputation." Homura stated.

"Yes. Perhaps no one can. But what about an army." Danzō spoke.

"You're willing to allow your ROOT division to commit the act. Do you know what controversy you will cause, the entire village will despise you." Hiruzen spoke, catching on to what Danzō was suggesting.

Itachi dropped into a kneeling position, his head resting on the floor. "Then place the blame on me." Was his own proposition. Eyes widening was his response.

"What are you suggesting Itachi-kun." Hiruzen asked.

"Allow Danzō's ROOT to commit the act, but place the blame on me, I will leave the village." Itachi spoke, downhearted, but serious.

"You're willing to disgrace your own name for the sake of Danzō?" Minato asked confused.

"No, not for Danzō. For the Uchiha Clan, better they be known as being massacred by one of their own most prestigious than eliminated by a bunch of no name pawns." Itachi explained his reasons.

Homura, Danzō and Koharu nodded in approval, leaving Minato and Hiruzen against it. There was no choice.

"Very well." Minato spoke begrudgingly.

"However, I have only one request in return for this." Itachi spoke. It was only fair that he got something in return for disgracing himself and being exiled from the village he grew up in and loved. "Spare Sasuke, he has no idea what's going on, please, spare him." Itachi begged for his younger brother's life. "Just leave him to me, I will make sure he believes my story."

This of course touched most of the council's hearts.

"Of course Itachi, but how do you plan to make him believe you killed off you're own clan?" Hiruzen asked.

Itachi lifted his head, his Sharingan activated, but in a different shape, a three pronged pin wheel was shown instead of the usual three tomoe. The elders instantly knew what this meant, that eye hadn't been seen since the founding of Konoha.

"H-How did you acquire that eye?" Danzō asked, slightly fearful of the young Uchiha now. He knew what that eye could do. It was nothing compared to the Red-haired boy's eyes in Amegakure all those years ago, but this eye was still powerful.

Itachi's eyes seemed solemn as he told them how he retrieved this Mangekyo Sharingan.

Flashback

Itachi drew a kunai and deflected the two that were thrown at him. He had been given a message to meet Shisui here at Nakano river. Shisui was indeed there but it wasn't just to have mindless conversation.

"Shisui, why are you doing this?" Itachi asked, confused that his older brother figure had attempted to kill him.

"The elders told me everything, Itachi!" Shisui shouted. "They told me of how you were planning to betray our clan and tell the village all of our secrets! I won't let you do it!" Shisui finished, his Sharingan now ablaze, he began his technique, the reason he was fear so much. The Body Flicker Technique, Shisui had managed to take a simple D-rank jutsu and turn it into something deadly.

Itachi got on the ready, waiting for any signal of where Shisui was. Shisui appeared momentarily swiping a kunai at Itachi, who blocked or dodged, then disappeared back into thin air again. This continued for a while.

'I may have to activate my Doujutsu' Shisui thought, his mind control technique was like no other, the person under it's influence didn't even know they were being controlled. It's power was on par with Madara Uchiha's controlling techniques.

Shisui teleported to Itachi again, preparing his Doujutsu. He appeared directly in front of Itachi. Itachi in a fit of self preservation lunged his kunai forward.

The squelching sound of flesh being pierced rung through his ears. The kunai had embedded into Shisui's arm, causing him to lose his focus, Itachi capitalised by placing Shisui into a Genjutsu he had know idea what the consequences were going to be.

Shisui had planned to take over Itachi's mind and drown him in the river, Itachi's Genjutsu countered it and place an irremovable Genjutsu on Shisui. He could only watch in horror as Shisui fell over the bridges wall and into the river, he sunk to the bottom, not even trying to swim back to the surface. After a few minutes the air bubbles stop producing. Shisui had drowned. Itachi had inadvertently killed him.

Itachi felt sick. He had just killed the person he considered his older brother. Itachi's eyes stung for a while he had know idea why, he jumped into the river to see his reflection, his Sharingan was shaped like a pinwheel. Was this the Mangekyo Sharingan.

But what to do with Shisui, he needed to cover up his death. Using his new Sharingan he forged a suicide note, one in Shisui's handwriting. All he wanted to do was leave the scene, before anyone else came.

Flashback end

"I see. That's unfortunate." Hiruzen spoke. "You really cared for Shisui."

Danzō however was intrigued, this Doujutsu in Shisui's possession was interesting. If he could obtain it, who knows what he could do.

"What will you do Itachi once you leave the village?" Minato asked.

"I have been approached by Madara to join an organization of his." Itachi confessed. The others in the room were shocked, again. Madara was STILL alive. "I'm going to accept his offer, to keep an eye on him. And also, with the free time I will have, I'm going to find out what happened to my best friend."

"You know what happened, he's dead." Koharu pointed out bluntly.

"No, not Shisui. Teihaku, I highly doubt he is dead." Itachi smiled. Minato seemed to smile in return.

"Very well the Uchiha clan massacre will commence immediately, be prepared Itachi." Homura ordered.

-Break-

A seven year old Sasuke sat upright in a hospital bed, last night, his world had been destroyed. By his big brother Itachi. He killed off everyone in their clan.

"To test my capabilities."

"Foolish little brother, if you wish to kill me, hate me, detest me. And yet survive in an unsightly way. Run, run and cling to life."

"Don't worry Itachi, I will kill you!" Sasuke spoke angrily to himself. Just then Kushina Namikaze and the Hokage entered his room. Kushina instantly hugged him, she had been a close friend to his mom's. The Hokage looked sad as well, but not as bad as his tear streaming wife.

"I'm so sorry Sasuke-kun, I can't believe Itachi would do this." Kushina cried. "If you ever need a helping hand come see me okay." She looked at him, as a mother would to their child, it felt quite sickening, where was his own mother to look at him like that. She had been killed by her first born son.

"In fact Sasuke-kun, why don't you come live with us." Kushina asked with a smile on her face. Sasuke filled with rage, he had just lost his parents and this woman was trying to replace them.

He knew the path he would take. A path only large enough for one person. One that needed power and to live in their own loneliness, to fester in it, until they became something more. An Avenger.

"No, thanks." Sasuke replied bluntly. Kushina was taken back slightly, perhaps she had come on to strong too soon. She accepted his decision and after a while of talking to him, she left with the Hokage.

Sasuke sat alone again, thinking about his brother, how he would make him beg for mercy for what he had done. Then finally relieve him of his disgusting life.

-Break-2nd Year-

Teihaku tried warping again. Slowly but surely he was getting the hang of the Hiraishin, he had mastered the Rasengan and his kekkei genkai, that he learned about from Orochimaru, these chakra chains. They allowed him to suppress others chakra and even suppress their movements, one had to be faster than him to dodge, and that never happened.

Teihaku stood much taller. He wore a open torso, black long sleeved shirt. He wore black pants with a dark, burnt orange cloth hanging from halfway up his stomach to his knees. Around his waist was a black rope, holding the cloth up. A sword was sheathed on his back., held by the rope around his waist. A Oto headband tied was tied around his forehead. Being slightly covered by his fringe.(1)

Orochimaru suddenly entered, he was wearing that black cloak with red clouds on it he sometimes wears, but that wasn't important, what was important that in his right hand he held his left hand, which hand been completely severed from his arm.

"Orochimaru-sensei, are you finally going to tell me what the cloak is signifying." Teihaku asked, his eyebrow raised.

Orochimaru chuckled slightly, clearly not concerned about the severed arm. "It shows that I am a member of a group called Akatsuki."

"Akatsuki? Never heard of it." Teihaku responded.

"Of course you wouldn't have Teihaku-kun, they are a very small group, who haven't begun their plans yet. They are composed of S-Class missing-nin from many different Hidden Villages." Orochimaru chuckled.

Teihaku was intrigued. S-class missing-nin gathering, sounds like they were up to something big.

"And which one did that to you? I doubt you just tripped and cut off your arm." Teihaku continued with his questions.

Orochimaru kept on chuckling. "His name is Itachi Uchiha, a young and new member, I wanted his body for the Sharingan, as you can see I failed in obtaining it." Orochimaru lifted up his severed arm. "With this I have officially defected from Akatsuki. I think we should destroy them Teihaku." Orochimaru said with a chuckle.

"Do you believe I am strong enough to beat them Orochimaru-sensei." Teihaku asked, continuing the little back and forth between him and Orochimaru.

"Yes, Teihaku-kun, you are very strong, once you have mastered the Hiraishin you will be unbeatable. Orochimaru spoke again, his chuckling stopping.

Teihaku knew that this was his only chance. "But still, perhaps you could teach me the Immortal Phoenix Rebirth Technique." Teihaku proposed, he wanted that technique.

Orochimaru looked at Teihaku with suspicion. "But why would you want to learn that technique. Your progress has already moved in leaps and bounds. Perhaps I shouldn't have taught you the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu and it's inner workings of memory transference. That really helped you're training." Orochimaru began chuckling again.

Teihaku needed a good answer quick. "Because. With that technique I could definitely preserve my life until you are ready to take my body under your control, it would be a shame if I died after you put all this time into training me."

Orochimaru looked satisfied with the answer. Orochimaru himself couldn't master the technique, that was infuriating to him, so he had to develop his own technique similar to it. His Body Shedding Technique, but that wasn't finished yet, so he would have to wait for someone strong and take over their body before he got his arm back. And if Teihaku learned this technique, once he absorbed Teihaku into himself he would instantly learn the technique, he couldn't possibly lose.

"Very well, Teihaku-kun, I will go get the scroll for you." Orochimaru smiled slyly and left.

Once Orochimaru left Teihaku smiled deviously in return. Everything was going according to plan.

-Break-

Orochimaru looked at his stump of an arm, it had been three months since he lost it. Now he was getting sick of looking at it, he needed to find someone strong and take control of their body, but not Teihaku, it was not yet time for him. And Kimimaro was too young.

Orochimaru was brought out of his train of thought by the feeling of impending doom. Instinctively he moved out the way. Where he standing Teihaku came crashing down, a Rasengan in his hand, going to where his head was previously located. What had interested Orochimaru was that Teihaku had his old Akatsuki cloak and his severed hand in his free arm.

"Teihaku. What is the meaning of this." Orochimaru tried to sound calm, but small amounts of his fear traced into his voice. With only one arm he was no match for Teihaku now.

"I have learned all I can from you now, Orochimaru-sensei." Teihaku stated bluntly, his Killing intent reeking the air. "And with only one arm, you are useless to me now. You will only regain that arm when you take over someone else's body, that's why I'll kill you now."

Teihaku charged at Orochimaru with a flurry of punches and kicks, always aiming at Orochimaru's left side. A few connected, that was all Teihaku needed.

Orochimaru watched as his student attacked him. With a red flash he disappeared. So he had mastered his father's technique. Orochimaru felt a powerful kick connect to his head, sending him backwards, before he could react Teihaku stood over him, his sword unsheathed and pointing to Orochimaru's throat.

"I marked you sensei, no matter how you react, I will teleport and strike you down." Teihaku explained.

"This is how you thank me for making you strong!" Orochimaru shouted. The nerve of this boy to try and kill him after Orochimaru taught him everything he knows.

"No. This is vengeance for placing memory seals on me." Teihaku spoke bluntly, shocking Orochimaru. "Yes, I know. It wasn't hard to figure out actually. I remembered nothing of my past, but I distinctly remember you being Orochimaru-sensei. It was obvious that you had done that otherwise I wouldn't have known who you were either." Teihaku finished, sheathing his sword and backing away from Orochimaru. "Now, I am going to find this Akatsuki and I'm going to join them, to find out what they plan to do with this world." Teihaku had finished with his former sensei. He had begun to walk off when Orochimaru stopped him.

"Aren't you forgetting something, Teihaku-kun." Orochimaru asked.

Teihaku looked back towards his former sensei, now quite bored.

"You forgot to kill me, Teihaku-kun." Orochimaru spoke again.

Teihaku turned back around and walked away. "No. I'm letting you live this one time as my thanks for making me strong."

Orochimaru laughed to himself, there was no way he could stop Teihaku from leaving and there was certainly no way he could kill him. He laughed at the irony of Teihaku's nobility and of how foolish he is. Eventually Orochimaru would have his arm back, then he would get Itachi's younger brother's body, the one Itachi spared. And finally he would have Teihaku's body. Making himself immortal. In time. For now Orochimaru laughed.

-Break-3rd Year-

"Mission complete dad." Naruto spoke as he entered the Hokage's office. He had just returned from a solo B-Class mission. He had begged to be able to take it, then it wasn't even that hard. The bandits were all bark no bite. Especially when he pulled out 250 Shadow Clones.

"Well done, Naruto." Minato grinned at his son, who didn't respond. "Oh, you're mom wants you to go pick up Mito after school." While that was the case, it was also to make Naruto meet children his own age, he would only ever converse with Itachi. Who had now left, leaving Naruto without anyone to call a friend.

Naruto sighed, another attempt for him to make friends, if it wasn't his dad it was his mom or his sister.

"I can't those bandits made me realise how weak I am, I need to put more training in." Naruto lied. And left his father's office before he could reply.

Naruto noted that, now that Itachi had left he had no one. Not that he was complaining. But massacring his own entire clan. That didn't sound anything like the Itachi he knew. He admitted to himself that he missed Itachi terribly. Itachi was the only person Naruto could fully trust. Naruto believed that when he was with Itachi, that that was what it felt like to be hanging around with a big brother.

This thought turned his attention to another thought that frequently plagued his mind. He often wondered what Mito felt about him, if she considered him to be a good older brother, he didn't know why and he told himself that he didn't care but the thought always recurred.

He brushed the thought away and continue to his secret training spot, away from the other villagers where he could train in peace.

-Break-3rd Year-

Teihaku stood in front of the leader of Akatsuki, it took a while to find him, but walking around wearing the Akatsuki cloak attracted the attention of a member called Zetsu. Who took him to the leader.

The leader was a man with deathly pale skin. Bright spiky orange hair was at the top of his head. With an Ame headband tied around his head, with a large gash going through it, signifying his defection from it. Weird, because he was still currently in Amegakure. His ears had six black piercings and a black bar going through each of them. His nose had three black piercings going down the bridge of it and under his bottom lip was another piercing at each end. He wore the Akatsuki cloak as well so not mush else could be seen.

But the guys eyes. Teihaku had never seen anything like them. They were a complete purple colour with a black pupil, yet there were concentric circles leading from his pupil around his eyes, making a ripple like pattern.

"So I have a question for you." The man said in a deep dead voice. "Why are you wearing my organization's cloak?" Killing intent reeked off his body. Teihaku tried to seem unfazed, but it was very potent.

"I took this cloak from my master, Orochimaru. I want to take his place in the organization." Teihaku answered as he threw Orochimaru's severed arm on the ground in front of the leader. The leader seemed fixated on the ring on the little finger.

"Is Orochimaru dead?" The leader asked again.

"No, I spared him out of gratitude for making me strong, but if it's his death that you require in order for mean to join, then consider it done." Teihaku offered.

"No, Orochimaru will die in time. But why do you want to join Akatsuki?" The leader asked again.

Teihaku looked at the ground. "I have no recollection of my past, no family or friends that I know of to seek out and be with. Because of that I have no idea what I should do with my future. Orochimaru spoke about this organization being a group of dangerous S-class missing nin. Whatever it is you're planning, it will shake the very foundations of this world, and I want in." Teihaku finished, looking at the leader in the eyes.

The leader seemed to be about to respond when the sound of hands clapping resounded behind them. A man, with short, spiky black hair and an orange mask, one with only one eye hole, with a design of a swirl going around it stood there. Teihaku didn't even notice him enter. Who was this man?

"A touching speech." The man spoke, calm and slightly amused. "Come Pain, give him a chance of joining, I'm sure he could make a powerful member."

Madara under his mask was grinning. So Orochimaru had the Yondaime Hokage's missing son all these years, that slippery snake. He instantly recognized that Uzumaki trademark red hair, it was the same as his mother's Kushina. And his eyes had the same affect that his father's, Minato Namikaze had. The fact that he wanted to join an organization that would eventually hunt down and kill his younger brother was all to amusing. But he didn't seem to have any knowledge of that, could Orochimaru had blocked his memories.

"Madara." The leader, Pain answered. "What would you suggest would be a good challenge to test his mettle?"

Madara thought for a moment. "There is a pawn in Kirigakure that I no longer have any use for. Dispose of him Teihaku, and you will take Orochimaru's place in the organization." Madara offered, the situation was amusing to him still.

"Done." Teihaku replied quickly. "Who is he?"

Madara chuckled deeper and louder. "The Mizukage." Madara spoke, his eye gleamed through his mask. Teihaku's eyes widened. "Yagura is a perfect Jinchuuriki, he will be harder to catch and extract the beast from him. Your objective is to infiltrate Kiri and extract the Sanbi from Yagura, if you can not do that capture him and bring him back here. Is that understood?"

Teihaku nodded. "Consider it done." He threw a kunai with a tag that Madara instantly recognized at the wall, which embedded into it and with that he left to complete his assignment.

When he left Madara chuckled again. This was too perfect, with this he could test if Teihaku had his mother's special chakra and extract the beast from Yagura, making it easier to capture later on, and if he didn't he could still capture Yagura's body and bring him back, that being the first beast they catch. If Yagura kills Teihaku, then one less threat to worry about and better Teihaku dies than a fully fledged member of Akatsuki. And finally Teihaku's attack will no doubt start a war with Konoha, with Teihaku's sudden reappearance and attacking the Mizukage. No matter what way Madara couldn't lose.

"Was it wise to send him?" Pain asked, miniscule amounts of concern was evident in his voice.

Madara laughed it off. "Concerned about an Uzumaki relative are you Nagato?(2) Well don't be, Teihaku will succeed. It's in his blood to do great things." Madara finished with one last dark chuckle.

-Break-

Teihaku looked at the Mizukage's mansion, infiltrating Kirigakure had been easy. The fools were so blinded by their pride of their mist that they didn't even set up any barriers, he had snuck around every nook and cranny possible and was undetected by anyone.

But that ended the easy part. The Mizukage probably wasn't name Mizukage for nothing, adding to the fact that he was a perfect Jinchuuriki, he had full control. He wouldn't go down easy.

'But it still might be fun' Teihaku thought with a smile as he entered the mansion through a top window.

Teihaku found the Mizukage fast asleep in his bed. A dangerous mistake. Teihaku crept quietly into his room, now he had to figure out how to extract the beast from him.

Out of nowhere the Mizukage's eyes snapped open. So that was it, he could probably sense people in his sleep. Teihaku wasted no time and grabbed the Mizukage, with a swift activation of his jutsu, he teleported himself and the Mizukage out of the room, out of the mansion, and out of Kirigakure.

-Break-

Teihaku landed several hundred metres away from Kiri, a good 850 metres away from the village. To the Hiraishin tag he set up before infiltrating the village. Now the Mizukage couldn't call for any reinforcements. He was alone, a one on one fight.

Yagura looked at him, his emotionless face had broken slightly, into one of annoyance. "That was the Yondaime Hokage's technique. Who are you?"

"Oh, so the Yondaime Hokage and I share a technique? Then he's next on my list of people to kill. For now, you're number one." Teihaku replied with an evil smile.

"You didn't answer me." Yagura spoke, he was without his staff, but no matter, he could handle this boy. "Who are you?"

"You're executioner." Was his response. Teihaku charged at the Mizukage. He placed his hands into a hand seal. "Lightning Release: Wave of Inspiration!" Teihaku shouted, large amounts of electricity conducted into Teihaku's hands, with a push he shot it at Yagura, who evaded the attack.

'So he has the Lightning affinity, and the headband has a symbol of a music note, I've never heard of the village before.' Yagura thought to himself. "Boy it is common courtesy to tell someone your name, I shall start. My name is Yagura, Yondaime Mizukage of Kirigakure." Yagura spoke out as if a jutsu hadn't just been launched at him.

Teihaku grunted under his breath. "Well Yagura. I am Teihaku. I have come to end your life."

"Teihaku. What village do you hail from?" Yagura asked yet another question.

"Otogakure." Teihaku answered bluntly.

"Otogakure. I've never heard of it. And the slash going through the headband signifies that you are no longer affiliated with that village." Yagura pointed out.

Teihaku nodded, was this guy stalling for time.

'I don't know how the boy has acquired Minato's technique, but my objective for this fight should be to not let him touch me.' Yagura thought. "One last thing-"

"NO MORE QUESTIONS!" Teihaku yelled in anger. Flying through several hand seals he activated one of his most powerful jutsu. "Lightning Release: Ferocious Ocean Splitter!"

The jutsu began. Yagura watched in some fascination, the boy looked like he began storing chakra in his body, sparks off lightning flew off his body. Teihaku roared and a massive bolt of lightning shot out of his body. Moving at incredibly high speeds towards Yagura. Who startled as he was, managing to dodge by a hair.

'Remarkable.' Yagura noted. Up until now he had not been taking the boy seriously, even with the Hiraishin. And that jutsu looked like it took massive amounts of chakra. But this Teihaku didn't even seem fazed.

Yagura had no more time to think as he was drawn into a Taijutsu brawl by Teihaku, who had managed to close the gap between them in a fraction of a second. The boy was fast yes, but his attacks were predictable. He was constantly aiming for the 8 vital points on the body. Yet the boy wasn't slowing his attacks and Yagura knew he couldn't dodge forever. With one powerful jump he cleared a new distance between him and Teihaku, he went through a series of his own hand seals. Lucky they were standing on water, his preferred battle field. "Water Release: Multiple Water Fang Bullets." Yagura spoke calmly as he thrust his hands onto the water's surface.

Teihaku looked around, nothing had happened yet. Suddenly spinning spikes of pressurized water came hurling at him from all directions. The tables had turned, Yagura now had him on the run. He dodged all of them, however some just grazed him, but these "grazes" were still enough to leaving long cuts on his body. Teihaku looked around, for some kind of opening. He looked to the water. The floating log with his Hiraishin tag had been knocked around and had landed ever so comfortably at Yagura's feet, who was too preoccupied with his Jutsu too notice. Teihaku took this chance. "Hiraishin."

Yagura felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, followed by the coppery taste of blood in his mouth. He looked down and saw Teihaku kneeling, his sword unsheathed going through his stomach. He looked further below him. The log with the tag, he hadn't noticed that it was at his feet. Yagura closed his eyes. "It appears I underestimated you." He spoke and began to cough up blood. "Now it appears I have no choice."

Yagura knew the landscape between here and Kirigakure, there were no major obstructions. His eyes widened, his sclera a dark red colour. His iris changing from a bland purple to power blood red eyes. Chakra began to leak out of his body, three tails of chakra appeared behind him. With a roar he sent Teihaku flying backwards allowing him to complete his transformation.

-Break-

The shinobi watched in horrid fascination as the Sanbi erupted into existence.

"Check if Mizukage-sama is still here!" A Jonin ordered. "If not, we move to the Sanbi's location!" Was his last order.

-Break-

Teihaku looked at the Three-tailed beast. 'So it's a giant Turtle.' Teihaku thought skeptically. 'I definitely have the advantage, it appears the hare will win this race.'

The Sanbi roared ferociously and ran at Teihaku, catching him off guard. It's speed was incredible. 'And no doubt it's appearance alerted Kiri. I have to finish this soon.'

Teihaku took off, the Sanbi hot on his trail. He needed a distraction to come in and attack. 'Wait. The log.' Teihaku conjured up a plan. He changed his direction quickly and moved towards the log with his tag on it. With one swoop he picked it up and with another powerful throw threw it at the Sanbi. "Now or never to try my new Jutsu." Teihaku spoke to no one. He redrew his sword. 'Focus.' Teihaku concentrated. 'Change the shape to fit around the sword.' Spinning chakra etched it's way out of Teihaku's hand, up the hilt of the sword, up the blade and to the tip. He had done it. Now to think of a name.

He turned to look at the Sanbi just in time to see his plan work. The Sanbi had been so focused following him that it allowed the log to hit it in the face. Teihaku used his Hiraishin, to deliver his last attack.

Yagura, from inside the Sanbi had been following Teihaku's movements intently. The boy would die here. With a red flash Teihaku was in front of the Sanbi's eye. His sword glowing with spinning chakra. What was he planning to do?

"Justice Rasengan!" Teihaku shouted as he thrust the sword into the Sanbi's right eye. He needed a better name for the jutsu, but at least it worked. The sword carved into the Sanbi's eye. A roar of pain escaped it. An Teihaku capitalised on it's pain. He sheathed his sword and activated his kekkei genkai.

Chakra chains shot out of his body and wrapped around the Sanbi's body. With massive amounts of willpower Teihaku subdued the Sanbi's struggling and began suppressing it's influence over Yagura. Slowly but surely the Sanbi's size shrank until Yagura's human body was present, the chains wrapped around him, with one entering his body into his stomach.

Teihaku wheezed from exhaustion, he had used the jutsu on humans and those monsters that Orochimaru create, but he could never had begun to understand the magnitude of sheer power that that took to suppress and subdue a tailed beast. But unfortunately his job wasn't done yet. He panted as he shot two more chains into Yagura's body. He began pulling them all back out. Pulling something out with them.

Yagura's world erupted in pain as the seal on the left side of his ribcage was yanked open. These chains of chakra were hindering his movements, he could do nothing as the Sanbi was pulled out of his body. What was worse was that the Sanbi seemed to be trying to escape at this moment as well. Seeing an opportunity to leave it's human bonds.

With a mighty roar the Sanbi was pulled out of Yagura's body. Teihaku's job was done. He released all the chains and they dispersed, a great weight lifted from his shoulders. He watched Yagura's body falling into the water, floating. He hadn't moved yet. But Teihaku's attention was turned back to the now free Three-tailed Giant Turtle. Which hadn't made a move yet.

The Sanbi looked down at Teihaku, with it's one good eye. The boy was powerful, he had damaged his right eye, possibly permanently. He suppressed it's influence over Yagura, a perfect Jinchuuriki. And then he released it from Yagura's body. The Sanbi knew that this boy was dangerous and with its injury it couldn't continue in any fights. It did the one thing it could think of before being by captured by anyone else. It fled.

Teihaku watched the Sanbi speed away. He counted his blessing, the way the Sanbi was staring him down was like it wanted to continue the battle. Something Teihaku couldn't accomplish.

"Mizukage-sama!" Teihaku was brought out of his thoughts by the voice of a man, followed by several sets of footsteps. He turned to see many Kiri shinobi, looking at him with fear.

"Give him a proper burial." Teihaku ordered the shinobi. "One befitting an elite shinobi."

"Wh-Who a-are y-you?" The Jonin managed to stammer out.

"I am Teihaku." Was all Teihaku said. All he knew was that he needed to get away before the Kiri shinobi decided to avenge their fallen leader. With the last remaining ounce of his chakra he flashed away. Back to the tag he set in Pain's office.

-Break-

Madara and Pain were waiting in Pain's office when Teihaku suddenly appeared in a flash at the kunai he placed in the wall. He was battered and bruised and panting. "Mission accomplished." He said between pants.

Madara was a little skeptical at first, he knew Teihaku would succeed, but this was faster than he expected. Zetsu wriggled his way out of the ground and opened his Venus fly trap like appendage. He nodded at Madara. "I've recorded the whole thing as you asked Tobi. Yagura is indeed dead. The Sanbi was extracted and is currently residing in the lake south west of Kirigakure."

Madara looked at Teihaku. From what his eye showed, he was very pleased. "Well done, Teihaku!" Madara applauded. "That was remarkably quick."

"Thank you, although using my kekkei genkai takes a lot of energy out of me. I'm not used to using it on a regular basis." Teihaku wheezed out, using the wall as a support.

"No matter, no matter." Madara shook Teihaku's doubts off. "You've completed you're mission, as you promised, you have proven that you are worthy to join Akatsuki." Madara spoke as he pulled out a kunai and Orochimaru's severed hand. With one swipe he cut the little finger, dropping the rest of the hand and sliding the ring off, he threw the ring at Teihaku who caught it. "With this you are an official member of Akatsuki."

Teihaku studied the ring closely. It was a silver colour. But it had a small slate blue circle on it, in the middle was the kanji symbol for void. "Thank you." Teihaku smiled as he continued looking at the ring.

"Akatsuki members usually work in pairs. However unfortunately I already have someone planned to take Orochimaru's old partner and no one else is available, so for now you will work alone." Madara spoke.

"That's fine with me." Teihaku exclaimed. "Right now I need some rest."

"Very well. Konan show him to a room." Pain ordered.

The blue-haired woman that was silent throughout the entire time grabbed Teihaku and pulled him out the room. This was the first time Teihaku actually saw her face, but he was too exhausted to look closely at her.

-Break-4th Year-

A 10 year old Mito sat in her seat in the academy, bored out of her mind. Iruka was currently just babbling about shinobi techniques this and ways for concealment that. Honestly, why she couldn't take the test earlier she would never know.

She wasn't the only one who was thinking this. Sasuke Uchiha sat by himself in the room, ignoring the drooling dreamy eyed fan girls never taking their eyes off him. Five years. He would have to endure five years of the academy, he was currently on his fourth. His brother was allowed to take the exam after one year, was he really five time weaker than his brother. His eyes narrowed, that was impossible, he was catching up fast, soon he would be stronger. His eyes shifted to Mito on the other side of the room. Her brother didn't even enter the academy and he became a Chunin and that was six years ago, was her brother really that strong. Sasuke hoped that he would be on Mito's team, for the chance of meeting her brother and testing his strength against her brother's.

"Now can anyone tell me about the Bijuu?" Iruka asked the class. Mito's ears perked up, this could be interesting. Sakura Haruno, the class brainiac and ms. I-think-I'm-so-beautiful's hand shot up. Really, she was quite useless overall, except for her smarts.

"Sensei." Sakura begged for Iruka to ask her. He nodded, signaling his approval for her to continue. "The tailed beasts are a collection of sentiental chakra, there are nine overall. The tailed beast go back to when the Shodaime Hokage had all of them under control. To level out the power of the 5 villages he offered two out to Sunagakure, Kumogakure, Kirigakure and Iwagakure. Keeping the Kyuubi for Konoha. The Ichibi and the Hachibi went to Kumogakure, the Nibi and the Nanabi went to Sunagakure, the Sanbi and the Rokubi went to Kirigakure and the Yonbi and Gobi went to Iwagakure. However because the Ichibi would suit Suna's environment better a trade was initiated between Kumo and Suna, swapping the Ichibi and Nibi. Then the Nanabi escaped Suna and fled, I think it's now owned by Takigakure." Sakura finished. Mito had listened intently, so there might be eight others who were just like Naruto.

"Yes well well done for that answer Sakura." Iruka said, Sakura smiled. "But if what you say is true, then where is the Kyuubi, why don't we see it around Konoha?" Iruka asked, he looked slightly at Mito, no doubt she would know he answer. No one else seemed to know.

Mito looked down, it was probably not best to say that the Kyuubi was sealed inside a person, especially her brother, no one in her class seemed to know about that, if they did they would probably be scared of Naruto and her for being his sister. Mito decided that Naruto didn't need that kind of attention.

-Break-

Naruto himself was currently taking a nap. He had been training hard all day, to work his sealing jutsu, which he was beginning to excel in, his mom and dad were both masters at sealing, so they gave him a lot of tips.

Naruto was beginning to sweat hard, tossing and turning in his sleep. Anyone watching him would swear he was having one hell of a bad dream.

*-Break-*

Naruto looked around at the surroundings, it was a multitude of moving colours, different shades of Yellow and Purple swaying around, like the waves of the sea. He looked down, he felt the ground underneath him, but he couldn't see it with his eyes. His shadow wasn't visible either, but light was all around him. When he finally looked back up he saw he wasn't alone.

From across the room, about 10 metres away, stood another boy, he was older than Naruto, about sixteen, it was a face Naruto hadn't seen in a long time. But it wasn't the same face at the same time. The boy's blue eyes were cold and murderous, his longer spiky red hair fell around his head, a fringe covering the headband wrapped around his forehead. The boy's facial features seemed angry and confused. The clothing he was wearing was a long black cloak, that went down to his knees, fastened all the way up to his chin, covering the lower half of his face. The black cloak had red clouds on it in random locations. Naruto admitted to himself that the cloak was very cool.

"Teihaku." Naruto smiled. "I haven't seen you in so long."

The boy's eyes seemed to widen in surprise, his frown never leaving his face. "Who are you?" He asked coldly.

"Teihaku, it's me Naruto." Naruto responded trying to reach out to his older brother.

"Naruto." Teihaku spoke as coldly as before. "Why do you know my name?"

"Because I finally found out who you are." Naruto smiled weakly. Teihaku's eyes widened in shock.

"Well, Naruto. I do not know who I am myself." Teihaku sounded, he seemed to be getting angry.

"You're my big brother Teihaku." Naruto's smile never faltered.

Teihaku didn't seem moved by the proclamation at all. In fact it seemed like he put his guard up even higher.

"Then why have I never heard of you. You're not my brother." Teihaku answered. Naruto felt like he was going to cry, that had hurt deeply.

Just then another figure faded into existence. It was Itachi, standing next to Teihaku, he was wearing the same cloak as Teihaku. He also seemed to be older as well, around Teihaku's age. He looked at Naruto with a little disappointment.

"Itachi. What's going on? Why are you here? And why does Teihaku act like this?" Naruto pleaded for some answers.

Itachi sighed before he started speaking. "Naruto, Teihaku was my best friend." Itachi admitted. "But I hadn't seen him in a long time. I don't know why he acts like this now."

Naruto was even more downhearted than before.

"But perhaps." Itachi began. "Now you could understand how Mito feels, she doesn't even know about Teihaku and her other big brother blames her for something out of her control."

Naruto seemed shocked by Itachi's suggestion. "Wh-What do you mean?"

"What I mean is that you ignore Mito's attempts to be your friend, for something that she took no part in." Itachi explained.

"But I have my reasons." Naruto argued. "All my life I have to deal with the looks of hate that the villagers give me, yet Mito gets everything with ease, while I have to work for even the slightest bit of praise, which everyone then redirects back to Mito and sets her on the path to surpass me. It isn't fair!" Naruto finished shouting, tears leaving his eyes.

"Naruto. Is it?" Teihaku interrupted. "Let me tell you something."

The next thing Naruto knew, he was hoisted into the air by his neck, a hand wrapped around it, Teihaku had moved in a blink of an eye and lifted him up to eye level with him, so he could glare angrily into Naruto's eyes.

"Life isn't fair!" Teihaku spoke his voice changing from the calm cold one, to a rage filled, yet still calm voice. Naruto watched as Teihaku lifted his another hand and balled it into a fist. "Now leave!" Teihaku shouted as he threw a punch directly at Naruto's face.

*-Break-*

Naruto awoke before the punch could hit. That was probably the scariest thing he had ever experienced. His mind instantly began comprehending the ideas behind the dream.

Teihaku had changed incredibly, but he didn't remember who Naruto was, different from the first time Naruto saw him, Teihaku approached him first. Had something happened to Teihaku to forget who Naruto was?

The next was Itachi's appearance. Why had Itachi appeared, he missed Itachi since he left. But that didn't explain why he appeared.

The final thing was Itachi and Teihaku's matching cloaks, what did that signify.

Then it dawned upon Naruto, Itachi's appearance and proclamation that Teihaku was is best friend must have meant that Itachi knew where Teihaku was. The cloaks must signify that they are following the same ideals and paths. So in order to find Teihaku, Naruto must first locate Itachi.

But what Itachi said about Mito, was it true? Is that what Mito felt like around him. Total rejection of an older sibling. Naruto didn't like the feeling that it imposed on him, and he was sure Mito didn't like it either. He knew that he would have to rebuild his broken relationship with his little sister.

-Break-5th year-

The now 12 year old Naruto and Mito were in their garden training, it mainly involve Mito rushing at Naruto with a barrage of Taijutsu and Naruto effortlessly blocking it. A good training routine for Mito as she would know if she was improving by how many times or how close she got to hitting Naruto.

All in all these training sessions were fun for her, while Naruto wasn't the brother she once knew, he didn't totally ignore her existence. He opened up slightly, but never enough to let her in. The were friends again, to Mito's joy, she had her big brother back.

She remembered when they first began to become friends again. She was a little scared when Naruto approached her, she wondered what she could have done wrong. But then he asked her if she wanted to train with him. She realized that Naruto was reaching out to her and she couldn't possibly refuse, she wanted her big brother back.

They had finished their training. They sat down under a shady tree in the garden resting, Mito was panting hard from the training, yet Naruto looked like he didn't even break a sweat.

"Mito." Naruto spoke bluntly.

"Yes Naruto-nii-san." Mito responded curiously, Naruto was never the one to start a conversation.

"You're graduation exam is next week, it will consist of three Jutsu, The Clone Technique, The Replacement Technique and The Body Flicker Technique make sure you know them." Naruto didn't sound concerned, just a heads up tone to his voice.

"Don't worry Naruto-nii-san, I got them down, I'll graduate no problem." Mito spoke with a smile, one Naruto returned slightly.

"That's what I wanted to talk about. I think you should pass the test. But just barely." Naruto now looked her in the eyes.

"What? Why?" Mito asked confused.

"Well who is the best person in your class?" Naruto asked, he was sure that Mito told him before, but he never really paid attention.

"Sasuke Uchiha. Why what's that got to do with anything?" Mito asked, still as baffled as ever with her brother's suggestion.

"Everything. Sasuke will no doubt graduate top of the academy right. So if you pass just by a sliver, you will be on his team, with you and him together, you will be able to enter and pass the Chunin exam earlier. Also, Kakashi will without a doubt be his sensei, he is the only one who can train Sasuke on the Sharingan. And you know how strong Kakashi is, he will be a worthy sensei." Naruto finished with his proposition.

Mito contemplated the idea the idea. Kakashi was a strong person, so he would be a good sensei, and he would definitely be Sasuke's sensei with his Sharingan. "I don't know." Mito spoke. "I mean, Sasuke's good looking and all, but he is kinda scary. Always looking like he needs to test himself and looking for challenges, and he's so dark and closed himself off from everyone." At the last sentence Mito stared laughing.

"What's so funny?" Naruto was now the confused one.

"I just described you, Naru-nii." Mito spoke between snorts of laughter. "It's funny cause if you met Sasuke, you and him would probably become the best of friends."

Naruto smiled slightly and pushed his sister, who pushed him in return.

"Okay, I'll do it." Mito said after her laughter died down.

"Good." Naruto replied. "Now there's something else I wanted to show you to. It's a Jutsu I made."

-Break-

Iruka stood looking concerned at Mito, u until now her grades had been excellent, matching Sasuke's but this last test for graduation, she did as bad as Shikamaru! She had just managed to pass by a sliver.

"Mito, how come on this last exam you're grades were awful." Iruka whispered to her. He didn't want to make a scene, if he somehow insinuated that the Yondaime Hokage's daughter was a failure, well he would have hell to pay.

Mito cringed at the question, she had no idea how to answer it. She smiled and scratched the back of her head. "Umm...It must have been the pressure or something." She replied innocently.

Iruka accepted her answer with a little doubt, but shook it off, this WAS her most important test at the academy after all. Her career literally hanged on passing. "Well okay then." Iruka replied. He handed her her Konoha Headband, which she wrapped around her leg.

"Because everyone that has passed is here. I will announce the teams and senseis now." Iruka exclaimed, everyone seemed to shut up and listen intently. Individually everyone was hoping to get on Sasuke's team, for the boys he would be a good training partner, but for the girls, they would be on Sasuke-kun's team!

Iruka went through the first six teams, still Mito's or Sasuke's names hadn't been called.

"Team 7 under the teachings of Kakashi Hatake, Sakura Haruno." Sakura's head popped up in surprise, she was praying to god to allow her on Sasuke-kun's team.

"Sasuke Uchiha." Sakura instantly jumped up cheering, shouting about true love conquering all. All the other girls seemed to groan, even Sasuke groaned, he got in a team with one of the worst fan girls.

"and Mito Namikaze." Sakura continued cheering, she got in a team with her Sasuke-kun and the one of the two girls in the class that didn't have a crush on her Sasuke-kun. The other students complained. The last Uchiha AND the Yondaime's daughter on the same team just wasn't fair. Sasuke on the other hand smirked now, Mito wasn't like the other girls, she actually trained and wasn't useless, plus this way he could finally meet her big brother.

"Silence you little brats and let me finish!" Iruka shouted, his head enlarged several times. Everyone shut up, Iruka coughed and continued.

"Team 8 under the guidance of Kurenai Yuuhi, Hinata Hyuuga, Shino Aburame and Kiba Inuzuka. Team 9 is still currently active so moving on. Team 10 under the tutelage of Asuma Sarutobi, Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara and Choji Akimichi. That's it. Please return tomorrow at 9:00am to meet your senseis, all I have left to say now is good luck with your careers as shinobi and enjoy the rest of the day." Iruka smiled, a tear fell from his eye. The students got up and thanked him for his time teaching them, that just made it worse for Iruka, who ordered them to get out. So they wouldn't see him cry.

Mito and the other children ran outside, Mito looked around and saw her mom waving at her, a smile grew on Mito's face as she ran towards her mom, hugging her once she reached her. "Mom, I passed!" Mito exclaimed. She looked around and saw that her mom was alone. "Where's dad and Naruto." She asked.

"Oh, I'm sorry, honey." Kushina spoke sweetly. "But dad was too busy to come, and Naruto was so delved into his training that he couldn't come either."

"Oh." Was all that Mito could say. It hurt quite a bit, she understood that her dad wouldn't be able to come, but she thought that she and Naruto were close enough now that he would at least come to her graduation. Kushina grabbed her hand and they began walking home, Kushina offering as much ramen as Mito could eat as a treat for graduating.

-Break-

Unaware to all the budding shinobi and their parents, there was someone watching them, more specifically Mito and Kushina.

Naruto sat quite comfortably in a tree, everyone was too excited to notice him. He watched Mito hug their mom and talk for a while before Kushina grabbed her hand and began taking her home. Naruto looked at the Konoha Headband tied around his sister's leg, a smile appeared on his face softly.

"Way to go, Imouto."


A/N: Oho! Did somebody say plot development! I did. The next chapter will be up whenever I feel like writing it. Hahahahaha!

(1) - Basically what Sasuke wears at the beginning of Shippuden, just different colours.

(2) - Oh yes, Madara revealed that Nagato was a member of the Uzumaki clan, a distant relative of Naruto, perhaps?

All in all I am pleased with this chapter, I think the extraction was a little short, but I'll let you guys be the judge. Review please.

Till next time.

Rinne-Kami here saying, stay beautiful.