A man in a long blue robe with dark black hair relaxed peacefully in the forest. "I sense another presence, a strong one." A voice rattled in his head. Utakata yawned before jumping up into the nearest tree. A huge bandaged sword chopped through the tree as Kisame revealed to himself to his opponent before he followed up by trying to impale Utaka in the chest. However the six tails jinchuriki encompassed himself in a massive bubble as he floated out of the swords extensive range.
"Water Shark Jutsu." Kisame said running towards Utakata as three water sharks flew towards him, one of them piercing through the bubble protecting him. 'Hiding in mist technique." Kisame called out as Utakata was surrounded by a powerful fog that completely obscured his vision. He responded by releasing chakra packed bubbles in all directions, straining his ears to tell if any of them popped so that he could attack in that direction. Kisame could easily manipulate the water they were made from though and used them to his advantage to initiate the water prison jutsu with unreal speed. Utaka began releasing waves of chakra to break through the jutsu with brute force but Kisame used a Samehada to absorb it all until a limb Utakata was left hanging in the ball of water. Kisame smirked and back up as Utakata's skin paled and bits of it started drooping towards the ground like slime.
Soon enough the youth had become a giant slug much bigger than the forest that contained it, destroying trees that touched it with its highly corrosive skin. "My turn." Kisame's new partner said as they flicked of their hood revealing a malicious smile and tinted glasses. Kabuto consumed his earlier prepared sacrifice as he used the reincarnation jutsu to summon the first Hokage. "As soon as Orachimaru died I accessed his research on this jutsu. Improvement was trivial." Kabuto grinned as the first Hokage summoned four massive wooden pillars that held the beast down, repressing its power immensely. "Sealing time." Kisame laughed as he got ready to watch the young boy truly know the meaning of chakra exhaustion. "What about the other one?" Kisame questioned as he contacted the other Akatsuki members.
"My team will not let you down." Kabuto assured, cackling slightly demonically at the mentrion of them.
Yugito was Calmy meditating at the top of one of the tallest mountains in the land of Stone when she was disturbed by four sets of footsteps. With catlike reflexes she drew two Kunai and prepared to eliminate whoever was coming at her. Four ninja wearing headbands of a village she didn't recognise and long black and red coats charged at her. Yugito's threw the Kunai to distract them whilst her claws extended from her hands and she span round, slashing all four of them as their blood stained the floor. The wounds were deep enough to be fatal but soon enough black lines erupted from the groups shoulders and spread all across their bodies and the deep gashes soon became small cuts.
"You think you're weak attacks can hurt us you piece of trash." Tayuya mocked as she whipped out her flute and started playing a tune. Yugito leapt at her to knock the flute out of her hand but was knocked to the floor by a sticky web Kidomaru released swiftly. As her claws allowed her to rip through the web she found her muscles paralysed as a sickening tune rang through her ears. "Drain her chakra, we need to keep her alive for now." Sakon ordered Jirobo, who grabbed hold of Yugito's arms and began absorbing her massive chakra reserves. Yugito smirked as she called upon the two tails chakra and channeled it into Jirobo's hands. The potent tailed beast chakra quickly filled his body as the massive man stumbled away from her, passing out as the dangerous chakra overloaded his system. Now awakened, Matatabi released Yugito from Tayuya's genjutsu, allowing the jinchuriki to release a firefly hairball. Tayuya ducked it but it turned into a mouse and chased back after the flutist, exploding and disentegrating half her face as it rendered her unconscious.
Suddenly Yugito was pelted by four golden arrows that knocked her off the mountain. Sakon jumped off after her and grabbed her arms whilst wrapping his legs around hers as they fell. Yugito attempted to over power him but a second pair of arms came out of Sakon's chest and began pummelling her to prevent her from wriggling free. As they approached the ground a second pair of legs reached out of Sakon's body and allowed him to stand on the mountain side as Yugito smashed into the ground with enough force to kill a normal person. Upon and Sakon separated and along with Kidomaru and Kimimaro used the Four Black Fogs formation to trap Yugito as they transported her to the Akatsuki base to have her beast removed.
Jiriaya, Tsunade and Danzo argued over his assassination attempt with the elders. "I am clearly the best candidate for Hokage, I was only doing what I had to." Danzo grimaced through clenched teeth.
"You can't trust someone like Danzo to be Hokage." Tsunade argued back, her face red with anger.
"No one else is capable of taking the job." Danzo stated.
"I can do it, I was trained by lord third." Tsunade blurted out as Jiriaya silently cheered. As Danzo looked at the faces of the other elders he knew who they would vote for "Under the circumstances I had no choice." Danzo explained before hobbling off, allowing Tsunade to take up office. "Foo, how's our new recruit doing?" Danzo asked once he got back to the root headquarters. "Neji wasn't initially cooperative but he's learning fast." Foo said causing Danzo to smile, maybe something good could come of this.
"Where am I going now? Will I learn a new super awesome jutsu? Will I become a Chuunin, a Jounin, a Kage?" Naruto enthusiastically cheered when the sage mentioned a trip to a far off land.
"Look, What I'm about to tell you is an s rank secret, understand?" Jiriaya questioned and when he received a nod told Naruto "The s rank ninja that killed your sensei are hunting you down to kill you and take the nine tails. To beat them you'll have to learn to control it before they find you but even I can't teach you that fast enough. They already killed three Jinchuriki and will be coming for the rest of you as well. That's why we're sending you to the mist village, where you'll train under Yagura, the most powerful Jinchuriki alive." Jiriaya mentioned.
"The footprints continue this way, the pair on the right are fakes, they're identical when the earlier footprints show a slight difference in the shape of his feet." Sasuke said, his Sharingan allowing him to follow an almost invisible trail. Team 8 continued on through the dark labrinth of tunnels. Suddenly a lone bug landed on Shino's finger. The Aburame pointed into one of the caves. "I see them!" Hinata exclaimed, "They're hiding to ambush us." Hinata explained quietly. Kurenai prepared a genjutsu and whilst the enemy were distracted team 8 managed to kill all of them, or so they fought. As Kurenai congratulated her team for a job well done thousands of needles punctured her substitution as two Amegakure ninja appeared from the shadows. The second one opened his mouth releasing a chakra dense mist that neither the Byakugan or Sharingan could pierce. Shino's bugs quickly worked on draining the chakra used in the jutsu to evaporate the fog but by the time it was gone his two team mates were missing. The bugs he kept planted on them just incase had died. "Kurenai sensei, where our Sasuke and Hinata?" Shino calmed asked keeping the worry out of his voice.
"They can't have gone that far but it could be dangerous for you to interfere, watch the entrance whilst I try and find them." Kurenai decided as she tied a scroll to the leg of a messenger bird which she sent to get back up as fast as possible.