Team Disaster: Origins Of Infamy

Summary: From the day they met to the day they made history, snippets in the lives of Konoha's infamous Team Disaster, their nearest and dearest and the devastation and chaos they cause.

Red Dawn

Part 1

The first time Team Disaster officially ran into the Akatsuki and nearly got involved in their plot to conquer the world and force peace on it, Mito and Madara were fifteen, Tobirama was fourteen and Menma had only recently turned three and was, unfortunately, used as bait to get his parents to hand over the Kyuubi's Jinchuriki. Namikaze Minato and his wife Uzumaki Kushina had been left with the horrifying choice they would never make, not in a million years, without regretting it for the rest of their lives. Tsunade had taken one look at the distraught parents and at the determined Mito, not even needing to look at her other two favorite brats to know their opinion on the matter, and she banned all stupidity from happening. Not while she wore the hat.

Instead, she combined Sakumo's team with Minato's and sent them out to meet up with one of Suna's teams since the organization apparently had a temporary hideout near their territory at this time and they were near stable allies at this point. Chiyo, Raza and Yaken had not been eager to be around Team Disaster after the flooding incident with Tobirama or the hurricane Madara and Mito had raised in their desert, but the Ichibi's Jinchuriki understood all too well the necessity of dealing with the Akatsuki, who have been hunting for biju for years. He did not want to end up being their next victim if he can stop it.

Due to emotional duress of the whole situation and how close to home it was, Minato was not actually allowed to lead his team. Instead, Madara was proclaimed temporary leader but the decision calling is ultimately Sakumo's unless they separated. Though no one was all too happy about these arrangements - Minato wanted to go after his son, Kushina nearly committed treason when she heard the Hokage's decision, Team 4 would rather keep an eye on their sensei themselves and Sakumo was honestly unsure whether he can control the forces of nature that were these teenagers after all that he's heard about them - they had no choice but to agree and set off as soon as was humanly possible. There was a child's life on the line, after all.

The Hiraishin jump was not something Sakumo was new to after having spent more than half of his life as friends and once teammates with Minato under Jiraiya-sensei, but it was different with his students. The little Senju-Hatake was scarily quicker in the delivery and the landing was almost imperceptible. Dai, Boruto and Tenton, having never felt a ride through dimensions by being summoned through them, fell over and Tenton even nearly lost her stomach contents when they landed on the border to Suna's territory.

Chiyo, Raza and Yaken of Sunagakure were not all that pleased to see them. They had no sensei with them, but they were all jonin by this time since they had last been seen in Konoha. Sakumo found it ironic how Team 4's lack of new promotions since then seemed to both surprise them and not at all.

After all, the other Kage still sent every year a reminder that they will not participate in any Chuunin Exams if Konoha's Team Disaster would be allowed to participate.

Sakumo had at first thought things might get tense. Dai was in love with the Uzumaki and had a strange bone to pick with the Uchiha, all three of the teens added to his squad were infamous in Suna for many reasons, chief among them that one week long mission that has actually earned them the moniker Team Disaster, the rivalry between the Hyuuga and the Uchiha about their doujutsu was legendary and Madara's temper was as infamous as his mother's. They were a exploding tag waiting to go boom and he had been in reaching range the entire time.

Surprisingly, or maybe not at all, Team 4 didn't pay anyone any attention. They waved off Sakumo's explanation how he will summon one of his wolves or tracking dogs to find little Menma and Tobirama instead crouched down, placing two fingers to the ground and allowing his enormous range to extend even further as he actually concentrated on sensing while Madara and Mito seemed to instinctively move to watch his back and ground him so he can resurface no matter how much he sinks into the chakra around them in the world. Sakumo found himself horrified to look and yet unable to turn his eyes away. Sensors the likes of these three were legendary. And yet, this felt almost intimate, the way one of them allowed the very essence of himself to seep into the world to search for a child they had declared their family years ago. He could not look away, far too fascinated by it all.

He himself had never been that great at sensing chakra, not even the signatures relatively close by.

These kids had ranges that covered countries.

"I can't find Menma, or any disturbance in the natural flow of chakra in the world that would indicate shinobi are amiss," his distant relative said after a minute or two. "For all intents and purposes, there are no Uzumaki besides Mito anywhere near us except in Uzushiogakure."

"That's near us?" Boruto asked in a very perplexed tone of voice that the jonin very much understood. Uzushiogakure was in the completely opposite direction, across Hi no Kuni and Mizu no Kuni and across a sea that separated them. The older Hatake was definitely used to Minato's incredible range as a sensor, but had he had it at this age? Had he been so proficient with his abilities back then? Sakumo couldn't remember. He, Minato and Fugaku, a rare team that had no kunoichi in it, had been an exceptionally strong and talented bunch of genin, the best in their generation. He was used to mold breakers in his everyday life. This, though, this was entirely different. Minato's genin were ... monsters.

"Though, I am picking up a rather interesting lack of chakra in the Land of Rivers that I would usually associate with warding seals. Someone's trying to hide there."

Mito wordlessly took out a map from a seal tattooed on her wrist, handing it down to her youngest teammate. "Do you think you can give us a location?"

Madara snorted and Tobirama looked near insulted. "Of course I can. Though I must say that the barrier is very well done. There are three grounding points. My guess would be that we'd have to deactivate all three to get the wards down. Whether the wards are protective instead of just for stealth purposes, I can't determine without either of us seeing them." He wordlessly accepted the map and took out a graphic pen seemingly out of nowhere. He made three circles, one noticeably larger than the other two. "My guess is that this is the place being guarded. The wards don't feel like anything usually used for protecting hidden villages' secret hideouts, though I can't really say for Uzushio."

The Uchiha was leaning over his shoulder to look at the map. "That's right alongside one of the larger rivers in the country. There's a cave somewhere around that one," he said as he tapped at the largest circle. "It would be safe to say that those bastards are hiding there."

"Hm, and it is definitely Uzu's fuinjutsu work," the redhead commented, eyes closed, a contemplative frown of concentration on her face as she stretched out her senses in that direction. "Tobirama is right to suspect that the seal is for more than hiding purposes. I can feel the connections between the three anchors. Don't we have markers near all three spots?"

"I definitely have one near that cave," Madara straightened up, already unsealing his by now trademark weapon with a small puff. "And I think you had one on the anchor we will dub anchor number two."

"Sensei has one a bit further from the remaining anchor, but you know my speed. It would take me about fifteen to twenty minutes to get there."

"That's all great," Yaken of Suna drawled in an annoyed voice, an eyebrow twitching at being so completely ignored in the plan making no matter how efficient the youngest team present was. "Except for one problem: how do you plan on taking out all three anchors at potentially the same time when they're so far we can't communicate with each other. And where exactly do we all come in?"

"Usually, you wouldn't, as we don't really need assistance for missions like these. Hokage-sama was just being overly cautious," the Uchiha said casually. "Except these bastards have expressed an interest in not only the biju but also those who can potentially control them so we had to get backup if we wanted to be part of the mission."

Sakumo knew that everyone else besides himself and the three youngest teens was confused by his comment and tried not to think about that chilling October night three years ago. He also tried extra hard not to contemplate the meaning behind Madara's words about 'those who can potentially control biju', as it was a known fact within their village's walls that there was no 'potentially' where Madara was concerned. He's done it twice before already. Raza must have felt it on his own skin, even if he probably doesn't remember it during the 'Konoha Crush' as some people had dubbed it two years ago.

"As for the communication 'problem'," the redhead kunoichi said with wry amusement at the 'problem' part. "We don't have it. All three of us are sensors whose range reaches all five Elemental Nations. We've developed a silent, undetectable and incomprehensible for anyone else way of communication by flaring our chakra in a coded language we made up ourselves. As we are the ones that will be dealing with the anchors, you needn't worry yourselves about the timing."

"You'll be what you were sent to be: our backup," Tobirama starts finishing up. "Madara will be the one taking the main one and you will be there to watch his back until Mito and I can come back. You are all skilled shinobi. I trust none of you will get in the way or endanger either our comrades or our target."

"Sakumo-sensei is the one in charge. Why? Because he has the most experience. You should leave the strategizing to him. Why?" Tenton pushes her dark glasses up a little higher on her nose. "Because he is the White Fang. His experience and reputation are well earned."

"And we can do much more to help!" Insisted Dai passionately. "It is not youthful for you to try and shoulder all of these responsibilities by yourself. It is in the spirit of youth that you let your comrades assist you and-"

"We can do this our way or we can just leave you guys here and go on our own. We'll only get stuck with iryo-nin duty at the hospital for a few weeks as punishment," Madara offered the ultimatum with a casual shrug and Sakumo ignored how incredulous his own students looked at that tidbit of information or how the Suna siblings looked downright shocked. It was undoubtedly true that no one would be crazy enough to restrict or not utilize the skill and power of these three kids if they were fully aware of their potential. Even when they couldn't leave village walls, they would have something to do to earn their salaries and from what he'd seen the last time these full trained medic ninjas had been 'punished' at the hospital, they took a great amount of joy in intimidating fools into being more careful out on their missions lest they land themselves in one of their medical bays.

No one really wants to test their tempers when injured. They were the second comings of the Uchiha Dragoness, the Red Hot Habanero and Lightning Claw. Having met and grown to know all three women at some point in his life, Sakumo could understand why everyone would be frightened of Uchiha Ryukyu-sama's eldest son, Uzumaki Kushina-san's niece and his distant cousin's second eldest son. It would not be pretty.

"The plan is sound and the logic behind it is solid," the jonin sensei cut in before Team Disaster could potentially traumatize his team and their allies. They kind of operate on a no nonsense, overkill level, so it's best to get straight to the chase and deal with the mission as soon as they can. He'd heard a lot about his old teammate's genin from said teammate. Why weren't these kids promoted in the field again? They were already in the ANBU books, registered under flee on sight orders. "I believe we should utilize it. It will certainly cut down on the search and travel time. Not to mention it gives us the element of surprise since the Hiraishin can't be predicted or intercepted. Just make sure that you return to us as soon as the anchors are down, Tobirama, Mito."

"Of course," the two complied easily and Sakumo was reminded why these teens were banned from all sorts of mass-promotion exams while Senju Hashirama, who was in many ways even more dangerous and powerful than them, wasn't. Hashirama was cheerful and smiled and goofed around, even on missions. Sakumo had had one with his team and knew from experience.

Team Disaster operated on practicality, efficiency and were far more serious. They focused on the mission with scary intensity while never forgetting about their comrades, going as far as to take on entire shinobi villages to get them back. In some ways, they were even ruthless to their enemies and they shared their knowledge between them so they were equals in all that they can be. They were strong, they were skilled, they were focused and they didn't mess around. (Except if they decide to test out something new against a particularly annoying enemy. Yes, he'd heard about what happened with the Gold and Silver brothers of Kumogakure. You can't blame him for eyeing Senju Tobirama's weapons pouch warily.)

"If everyone's in agreement, we should head out," the long haired Uchiha grumbled out. "I want to get Menma back from those bastards as soon as possible while potentially killing them all. With Amaterasu. Preferably, I mean. Any killing would be good."

Sakumo tried not to sweatdrop. Or fidget uneasily. It probably shouldn't surprise him that Madara was eager to eradicate these people from the face of the earth. He'd been the one to interrogate the shinobi who had attacked Konoha months ago and killed his brothers, father and friends. He'd been the first one to know the name Akatsuki and to know they were involved. He's the one that will have to restrain himself from outright obliterating them all before they might get some more intell from them.

"Then we're ready," Sakumo said before any more comments or complaints could be dropped at the risk of Madara's patience snapping.

It's best to just get this over with how Team Disaster sees fit.

Otherwise, chaos might ensue.