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Finishing his tale about his ancestors, the three-man-team; Gokudera, Jiro and Rei heard screams some km away from where they were, right now the three-man-team are on the 2nd floor of the Fog troupe's hideout in order to search for Naruto and Tsuna who're kidnapped.

The team started to follow to the source of the screams and the explosions it's coming from. The voice sounds familiar, Rei ought to notice this until a sudden shadow of a certain ninja pass by, the scream is clearer now, two figure appear chasing the man from behind, taken by surprise it's Tsuna and Naruto! Gokudera energetically calls out, "Juudaime!"

Tsuna recognizing his friend's voice stopped on his tracks, "Gokudera-kun! Rei-kun! Hurry there's no time! We have to chase after Naruto kun!"

The three-man-team joined up with Tsuna. Rei asked, "Tsuna, what's Naruto chasing after?"

Tsuna replied, "I don't know, when Naruto-kun saw his face he just chased him directly."

Jiro speak his mind, "Someone Naruto knows?"

Tsuna replied, "Maybe. Maybe not…because Naruto-kun cries when he saw his face."

Gokudera spoke, "That Naruto is…?"

Rei thought, "Someone Naruto knew very well that he ended up crying…who…?"

Tsuna spotted Naruto, "There! He's going to the top!"

Gokudera suggested, "Juudaime, won't it be faster if you use your Hyper mode?"

Tsuna shook his head, "I can't use my powers, I can't even light up my flame."

Rei surprised asked, "How come?!"

Gokudera follows, "There's no way Juudaime can't light up his flame!"

Tsuna replied, "Maybe it's because of that strange purple pillar. Naruto kun and I maybe casted by a restraining jutsu, Naruto-kun even have difficulties on making a shadow clone, well he manage to make one and asked it to collect Nature energy or something…"

Rei and Jiro look at each other thinking of the same thing, Jiro speoke, "Naruto is using his Sage mode…Rei, I got a bad feeling…let's pick up the pace."

Rei nodded in agreement.

The three-man-team picks up their pace thus, manage to catch up with Naruto on the peak of the rock mountain. Strangely, a crater formed on the mountain's peak, does climate change effect this much erosion?

Naruto suddenly shouted, "Why?! Why are you here?! You're not supposed to be here!"

The mysterious man in coat answered, "You don't need to know, Naruto."

Naruto shouted his lungs out, "I need to know!"

In that instance when the mysterious man speaks, a prickling-kind of feeling stabbed Rei's heart; he wasn't supposed to be here in the borders of Sunagakure and Konohagakure. His voice is nostalgic, tears broke out of his eyes, this voice…not mistaken.

Naruto and I know this arrogant voice the best…

Naruto shouted, "Why are you here…"

Both of us thought in that moment, "It's him."

Naruto's voice choked, "I always wanted to meet you…for the second time…"

"Not mistaken, it's him…"

Jiro grasped the situation, "Don't tell me…"

Naruto shouted with his quivered voice, "SASUKE!"

The man opened his hood; it's the face that Naruto and I recognized well. He's the member of Team 7, Uchiha Sasuke!

However something doesn't feel right…

Sasuke spoke, "Does this face and voice remind you of that time? Naruto?"

With mixed feeling of anger, sadness and happiness, Naruto talked, "Sasuke…"

Jiro felt strange, "Something doesn't seem right…"

Sasuke smirked, suddenly lunged on Naruto with a kunai, "Just kidding~"

Naruto surprised, "Sa-Sasuke?"

Rei comes to his senses, "Naruto! Counter!"

Naruto was prepared to counter but his feelings of seeing his best friend again held him back, "I…can't…"

Rei stepped up, "STUPID!" Rei took out his kunai countering Sasuke. "This guy…is…but…" hesitated for a moment, Sasuke attacks with his katana.

Jiro shouted, "REI!" instinctively to Jiro's voice, Rei barely dodged his katana covered by his lightning element.

A mysterious voice heard from the distance, "Nice, Sasuke kun."

Rei recognized this voice in his head, but it's impossible…there's no way it will be. A figure appears behind Sasuke; Akatsuki coat, red hair…

Jiro couldn't believe what he saw, "Impossible!"

Gokudera asked, "Impossible? He's an enemy, right…?"

Tsuna asked,"What do you mean, Jiro-san?"

Jiro explained, "Rei must've told you about Akatsuki, right? That black coat with red clouds is their trademark…Rei told you that right now Akatsuki which have originally 9 members are now left with only two; The one in mask and Zetsu…the others should've been dead."

Gokudera understood quickly, "You mean-! The Akatsuki members who're in front of us now were supposed to be dead?"

Rei replied, "I remember it clearly, Sakura, Lady Chiyo and I should've killed him back at that time…one of Akatsuki member, Red-sand Sasori and Kakashi sensei should've killed Deidara with his Mangekyou Sharingan."

Sasori smirked, "Your expression right now…it's like you guys are seeing ghost you know…right, Sasuke-kun?"

Deidara continued, "Sasori, now's not the time to play, we just get used to this new body."

Naruto shouted, "There's no way Sasuke would join Akatsuki!"

Sasori replied, "Well, kyuubi-kun, who's in front of you now that's wearing the same coat as me?"

Naruto, "NO! IT won't be…I won't believe it!"

Rei shouted, "Naruto! Get a grip! The Sasuke in front of you is not the Sasuke you know!"

Tears rolled down from the blonde's eyes, "No…Sasuke…there's no way Sasuke would join Akatsuki…"

Jiro whispered, "Rei…it's not good, somehow…Naruto's mind is affected by the fake Sasuke…"

Rei replied, "Is it Illusion…?"

Jiro replies, "If this is an Illusion…it's too real to be called Illusion…"

Rei's eyes widened, "There's only one shinobi who can create this strong illusion, if it's really an illusion…"

Jiro replied, "You're not suspecting…"

Sasori yawns irritated, "Enough with the boring chit chat and let's play~"

Rei realized, "Wait…Sasori isn't like this…his behavior is different, the Sasori I know would be calmer…"

Sasori smiled, "If you don't want to attack me, I'll attack first!"

Sasori skillfully moves his fingers, making Sasuke attack us with one of his fire element technique. Rei and Jiro who felt the sudden killer aura make Rei throws down smoke bombs while Jiro opened a teleport scroll, their behaviors are different but the two definitely understand that Sasori's strength and skills are much more powerful than the first time Rei and Jiro fight him.


Inside the rock mountain, Kakashi, recognizing this power, like Rei and his team, Kakashi's team were engaged in a fight with him, the older brother of Sasuke and also a member of Akatsuki, Uchiha Itachi along with the member who's killed by Shikamaru's and the one who killed the son of the 3rd Hokage, Sarutobi Asuma, it's none other than Hidan.

Kakashi startled, "Uchiha Itachi…Hidan…"

Hibari is taken aback when he saw Kakashi's face, it's like he's looking at ghosts…

Itachi smirked, "Who should I kill first, I wonder…my hand is itching right now…"

Hidan replied, "Woah! Itachi! Calm down could you? We'll get the chance to fight them eventually, so, right now, hold your itchiness. The boss will be happy just seeing their surprised face, those damn Konooha ninjas."

Hibari somehow felt agitated, "Kakashi, could I bite them to death? They're pissing me off…"

Kakashi stopped Hibari, sighed, "Calm your head, Hibari…they're not easy opponents…I've fought an Akatsuki member before especially Itachi, if you fight him, don't look into his eyes…"

Kakashi continued, "Right now, in our state, we can't fight them…and I can feel it that they're stronger than before. If you rush in and fight, you'll just die."

Nervousness piled up inside Kakashi and Hibari. For Hibari, it's the first time he felt this kind of different pressure than when he fought against Millefiore in the future world. Hibari knows what Kakashi said is correct, in their exhausted state after fighting enemies before, he knows that things will turn out bad, however he doesn't waver. He believed in his own power that he can beat these guys, experiencing this strong presence of an enemy makes him a bit nervous as well, at the same time he got experience.

Nijiri shocked speak up, "They're…revived…?"


Outside the Fog troupe's hideout, the support team; Neji, Kikyo, Yamamoto and Reborn yet face another member of Akatsuki, the one who had 5 hearts who's killed by Naruto, Kakuzu and the member who was killed recently by Killer Bee, Kisame and the leader of Akatsuki, Pain. Neji couldn't believe his eyes; they were supposed to be dead…

Neji was surprised, "How can the dead Akatsuki member right now appear in front of us…is Orochimaru…no…not possible…"

Kikyo lands beside Neji, "Orochimaru couldn't be the mastermind, he was killed by Sasuke, it's impossible if it's Orochimaru…"

Reborn asked, "Neji, what's the meaning of this? Didn't you say that on two members of Akatsuki are left?"

Neji replied, "Sorry, Reborn-san, I was surprised and confused as well, I don't know what's going on right now."

Kikyo replied, "Fighting them is not a good choice either, those bandits did a good job on making us used up our chakra. Not to mention, Rei is in his limit on maintaining us and distributed his chakra among me, Nijiri, Gou and the combat squad that help us."

Yamamoto speoke, "Things are becoming difficult…"

Reborn replied, "Basically, the best choice for now is to retreat."

Neji nodded in agreement, "After Rei fire the sign. The teleport scrolls need to be activated at the same time or else the teleport will fail."

Reborn asked, "How about Shikamaru and Gou?"

Neji replied, "Shikamaru and Gou will be fine, they're not idiots." Reborn grinned.


In the peak, as the smoke covers the whole peak, Rei prepared a bomb kunai and throw it to the sky, creating a huge explosion sound, this is one of Shikamaru's plans, a sign of 'retreating' if the mission is too dangerous to be continued, it's also a form of communication saying to teleport back to the village.

Naruto's state of mind right now is messed up; it's rare to see Naruto in this state like he did before when he failed to stop Sasuke from going to Orochimaru's side also when he heard the news of Jiraiya's death who Naruto thought like his own family although they're not blood related…

Other teams also…with their confused state on this mystery, and with Naruto's condition, the teams couldn't continue the mission further or they'll be just rushing to their deaths. The safe way right now is to go back to the village, investigate the mysteries behind this Akatsuki incident and also the cross-purple mark that the boss of the Fog troupe casted on Naruto and Tsuna.

The teams, thinking of the same thing, like trained, the teams opened the teleport scrolls at the same time, leaving the Akatsuki members stunned on the sudden action.


The team arrived at Konoha's gate at almost at the same time, in the secret hideout, the sudden incident passes like a storm, it's just around 4 weeks after Tsuna and his friends arrive in this era. For what purpose does this someone revived the whole Akatsuki? Itachi and Pain, whose actual name is Nagato have trusted Naruto to change this world's future. Itachi trusted Naruto to prevent Sasuke went into the wrong path.

If the person who revived Akatsuki use them to capture Naruto for his kyuubi and Killer Bee for Hachibi, the village isn't safe anymore, right now, the 5th is in comma state, the village army's strength also decreased because of Pain's invasion and the village just started to be rebuilt even though it's halfway done.

Rei realized that the village isn't safe, especially with Danzo's ANBU scattered around the village, if Gaara is still out for the meeting, it's not possible to get support from Sunagakure. We won't have time to meet Raikage and prevent him to kill Sasuke, if they met…Raikage will immediately kill Sasuke because that Danzo bastard pull out the contract that Sasuke is a shinobi from Hidden Leaf.

The situation couldn't be anymore worse.

The only safe place is there…and none other…things will get busier, we have to take action immediately before it's too late…


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The mystery is getting deeper for the team, who's the mysterious sender, not to mention the boss of the Fog Troupe and the mysterious person behind the revival of Akatsuki. Just where is the safest place in this era? Can the team face this crisis?

Keep on reading!