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 2
As unyouthful as the Hiraishin was - youthful shinobi should race across the lands to show their youthfulness, their strength and their speed, to exercise their muscles and let their youthful energy shine through - Dai had to admit that, in this one instance where time was of the essence in saving a youth's life, it was extremely convenient. Even if it made him want to throw up the healthy lunch he had had before embarking on this mission. Though, Dai was certain that the landing was so rough and unsophisticated because it had been that vile Uchiha Madara that had transported them all to the marker placed close to their target's location. It would be just like the fiend to enjoy the suffering of others.
The man threw his own brother into ponds and other bodies of water almost as a daily ritual! He was indeed truly most vile.
Dai mourned that it could not have been the delightful, elegant Mito-hime that had escorted them to the heart of their enemies' dwellings instead of the unyouthful Uchiha. Or that it had been her that had accompanied them to it with the fiend instead of the somewhat maybe youthful Tobirama, who only nodded to his unyouthful teammate, bid Sakumo-sensei goodbye and ran off to reach the final anchor.
The fire fiend was indeed as unyouthful as his best friend was youthful. Unlike Hashirama, the fiend Uchiha Madara did not chat with them as they waited for his teammates to reach the other anchors and do their secret chakra code to signal him that they were ready. He kept quiet and stared at the sealed rock sealing the entrance to the cave he led them to with his wicked red eyes, ignoring anyone that tried to get his attention. Very rude and very unyouthful, in Dai's opinion. To this day, he could not understand what a lady the likes of Mito-hime saw in that brute.
He even dressed weird!
"What can you see with your Byakugan, Boruto?" Dai's Aburame kunoichi teammate asked in her quiet voice, drawing Dai's attention away from the rude brute with his back turned to them.
"It's just as they'd said. There's an anchor on the rock, connected to two other, considerably further away anchors and they need to be disassembled at the same time for the cave to be opened."
"As expected of the wonderful, smart and beautiful Mito-hime!" Dai did his best to youthfully ignore the unyouthful snort that come from the single remaining member of Team 4 to his rightfully deserved praises for his beloved.
"Are the other two in your range?" Sakumo-sensei asks as he finished discussing something with their maybe youthful Suna allies - Dai doesn't know them all that well so he can't exactly judge. Not when he had been one of many to have been knocked out by that sleeping genjutsu at the arena during the final stage of the Chuunin Exams. He's heard rumors and Dai did his best not to believe those without evidence he himself saw or experienced in another's company.
"Yes. I don't know the details, but they're well hidden and connect strongly to the ones here."
"Enough chatter," the unyouthful Uchiha Madara suddenly snapped, not even looking over his shoulder as he prepares that ridiculous weapon of his that still mostly outclasses him in size. Dai was honestly surprised by how short the younger teenager still was. The youthful Hashirama already had an two centimeters on him and these two were supposedly each other's perfect match in power and skill. "Mito's in position and Tobirama is ready. Prepare yourselves so we can get this over with. I have better things to do than waste my valuable time here."
How arrogant! Dai had always known that Uchiha Madara was not a man good enough for someone as precious as Mito-hime but he had never expected him to be-
Uchiha Madara moved before he gathered his thoughts properly, taring off the seal on the rock with little flair or hesitation, which was rude as he had only second before warned them to prepare themselves. (He ignored how shinobi should be able to follow orders momentarily hen they're given, especially when it was the order to prepare for battle or up their guard for a fight.) The seal did not retaliate, so Dai could only guess that the overall efforts have been successful, all in all, as the fuinjutsu guarding the cave sizzles out of existence. Uchiha Madara then displays that he is nothing more than a brute when he, without any fanfare, summons a demon from hell, a large blue skeleton that burns with his chakra, and punches the boulder right into the cave beyond, breaking the rock wall around it and making it crumble into the water.
As the dust settles, the despicable, unyouthful Uchiha Madara walks right in with no hesitation in his step. Dai may not have the sensory talents that Team 4 as a whole share, but he does not need it to feel the killing intent spike to such degrees that he finds his knees threatening to shake. He'd heard of this particular trait, usually attributed to the famous Uchiha Dragoness. He had never felt it on his own skin before. He had never imagined such evil chakra might indeed actually reside in Uchiha Madara.
"Well, well, well, un. Look what the cat dragged in, un." An unfamiliar voice says in greeting when they all follow in after the infuriating Uchiha Madara when the dust settles enough for everyone else other than him and Boruto to actually see. Dai looks up to see what must be a girl with blond hair only a year or so older than the rest of them, sans Sakumo-sensei of course, sitting on a rock just behind the crying bundle on the floor that was youthful Menma wrapped up in ropes and cloth to immobilize his movement but at least without the potential to hurt the toddler. Instead of calming Uchiha Madara, the sight of him has the brute's chakra spiking even higher.
Dai is not entirely clear as to why he had not sustained the demon he had summoned to make an entrance into the cave, as he was of the opinion that it would have been more useful at the moment than not. (No good shinobi revealed all of their tricks if they can help it.) Perhaps it was too taxing?
"Release the kid and I will kill you only a little," the brute says illogically and the blond girl laughs. Her hair shifts out of her face to reveals strange looking device on her left eye.
"Did you hear that, Sasori-danna, un? What a cute brat, un. Do you honestly think you stand a chance against us, un? Your Sharingan will have no affect on me, un. I've trained myself to resist your clan's genjutsu specifically, un," the blond brags of her impressive feat but Uchiha Madara, the arrogant fiend, does not appear to be impressed.
"Then I guess it's a good thing I intend to beat you into the grave with my gunbai and not genjutsu."
"Now, now!" Dai cannot help but scold, scowling at his temporary teammate. "Enemy or not, nukenin or not, that is no way to treat a lady, Uchiha Madara!"
"LADY, UN!?" The blond shrieks and the strange, hunched person that looks sort of unyouthful and rather ... unappealing snorts. "I am not a lady, un! I am a man, un! How dare you mock me like this, un! I'll kill you for this insult, un! With a bang!"
"Way to set off the explosion, Maito," Chiyo the Puppeteer yelled over the racket caused by several explosions that they all escaped the brunt of because Uchiha Madara had thrown up his gunbai to absorb them before they reached them. The youngest currently present then took off, batting away any further attacks with futon attacks of his own or using his fire to melt the clay bombs that the blond not-lady seems to be continuously throwing at them. Chiyo was the second one to break away from their group while Raza took the liberty to create one of his sand shields to protect them from the few stray explosives that Uchiha Madara did not manage to prevent from passing him by. "I guess the time to face you head on has finally come, Sasori-ojiisama."
"Perhaps. Let us see, granddaughter, how much you have improved since last time."
"We should get the child. Why? Because Uchiha is busy," Tenton suggested and immediately made her youthful way over towards the toddler, DAi dashing after her in case his teammate needed assistance. Only for a couple of puppets to get in their way unexpectedly and it was only thanks to the chakra strings of Chiyo that they managed to avoid being sliced in half by one of their kamas.
"I don't think so," Sasori of the Akatsuki, Suna's most skilled puppeteer ever, the once leader of their puppet brigade before he defected after killing the Nidaime Kazekage, said coldly. "The child is a bargaining chip. And while Uchiha Madara would be a good trade off or even little Raza over there, the Akatsuki has clearly made our demands. Namikaze-Uzumaki Menma for the Kyuubi's Jinchuriki. And yet you've arrived without it."
"We will never give you Mito-hime, for she is beautiful and you are unworthy of her!" Dai yelled, reaching down towards his leg warmers to unclasp the weighs there for maximum speed. Only to be once again yanked out of the way by the strings still attached to him when an explosion got to close and nearly blew him up.
Then a wall of sand rose around him and Tenton, Raza coming to stand in front of them. "Stay out of the way. You are outclassed here." And, as if to prove his point, the blond nukenin from Iwa made a huge teddy bear looking clay explosive that was sent at Uchiha Madara and anyone else unfortunate to be too close to him. Boruto protected himself with that complicated Hyuuga technique of his while Raza cast sand around the rest of them who were just close enough.
Uchiha Madara, in an unexpected show of youthfulness and good creed, dove for youthful Menma, throwing and using a Hiraishin marked kunai to appear in front of the toddler and shield him with his body and his gunai as the explosion went off. When Sasori went after him while he was still shielding the babe, a couple of ninneko jumped out of his unruly hair, seeming to have appeared out of nowhere, attacking the hunched form with far too sharp claws that cute through materials that sounded suspiciously like wood and metal rather than skin, meat and bone. The brute whirled around as soon as the explosion faded a little and breathed several dragon shaped fireballs at where the ninneko were still tearing into Sasori, setting the area on fire and making something jump out of the smoke and flames.
"Sasori-danna, un!"
"Focus on your own fight, brat," came a much different sounding voice as the miraculously alive puppeteer came back into view, only this time looking like a young man only several years older than the Suna siblings. "I can handle myself. Though I must commend you, Uchiha Madara," the redhead said as Uchiha Madara reappeared on their side, Menma nursed in his arms and already removed from his bindings. "I had not even noticed you summon your cats. I was under the impression Uchiha preferred birds."
"You will rue the day you meet my actual summon," Uchiha Madara stated arrogantly, nose high in the air even as he rocked the child in his arms to keep the sobbing boy calm. "Shishi and Izumi simply allow me to call upon them from Sora-Ku should I need assistance."
Dai did not understand the difference. His turtle summons allowed him to call upon them at any time. What was the difference between that and Uchiha Madara's cats? Why does he claim them as not his summons, but rather shinobi partners? Was it more like the Inuzuka's dogs that way? Normal animals that know how to use chakra but live on this earth instead of the animal dimension? Dai had never actually been all that curious outside of the realms of taijutsu and the opening of the Eight Gates.
"Don't ignore me, Uchiha bastard, un!" The blond not-lady bomber shouted and proceeded to attack the brute without a care for the youthful life in his arms but Chiyo sacrificed one of her dolls youthfully to protect him before Sakumo-sensei took hold of the two youngest and dragged them out of the line of fire.
"We got this. Find out what happened to your teammates. Hadn't they said they'd be back as soon as they deactivated the other anchors? They should have gotten back by now if they can sense the marker on you like they should be," their dearest sensei suggested, much to the apparent amusement of the blond not-lady.
"Better give up on them now, un! There is no way either of those brats survived Kisame-danna and Juzo-danna, yeah! They're not some of the best Swordsman of the Mist for nothing, un."
"Stop revealing our secrets, Deidara, you idiotic brat," Sasori said in a somewhat snappish, totally unyouthful voice.
"It's not like it matters, un! They'll be dead in a minute anyway." The blond took out a huge lump of clay with an eager grin on his face, one blue eye staring unerringly at Uchiha Madara. Seeing as the fiend, as unlikable as he may be, now had to be protected for the sake of the babe in his arms, Dai took it into his own hands and rushed at the blond since no one seemed to be paying him any attention at the moment, which was rude but extremely useful. "Hey! Get away from me, you color-challenged freak, un! What are you wearing!? That outfit is an affront to my artistic soul, un!"
Not that he seemed to be able to do anything about it because the Maito Clan's secret green training jumpsuits allowed for the maximum range of movement and absolute speed of the body, which Dai youthfully utilized to get in close while dodging the hastily thrown bombs, engaging the blond not-lady Deidera in a taijutsu duel. He laughed and counted out loud the amount of clay bombs that he knocked out of the blond's hands, not really hearing his comrades' protests as the bombs flew willy nilly around the cave, endangering both them and Sasori. It only stopped when Uchiha Madara showed his petty jealousy yet again by suddenly appearing between Dai and his opponent, kicking Deidera into the stomach hard enough to bury him a bit into the wall a considerable distance away before making them appear back behind the protective sand walls Raza had erected to keep everyone safe from the explosions.
"Uchiha Madara, what is the mean-"
"Shut the fuck up or I am going to give you a repeat trip into the nose of the Hokage Mountain from here!" The brutish fiend snapped with enough aggression in his voice that Dai actually didn't doubt his ability to do it for even a second. "Are you out of your goddamned mind!? You nearly killed us if Raza didn't have such fast reflexes! Nearly two thirds of those bombs could have decimated us!" Dai took note of a surprising lack of toddler in Uchiha Madara's arms. Young, youthful Menma was instead being shushed by Yaken instead, who had mostly been covering everyone since the fight started with his giant tessan from the lighter projectiles. "We had a child with us!"
"That is no way to thank someone for saving your life-"
"If I wanted someone to play hero for me, I would have asked Sakumo-sensei!" The youngest teen present snapped before turning away from Dai when he childishly lost control of his doujutsu. Dai saw his eyes turn that demonic, blood-curling red just before it was out of his range. It was truly a bad sign of Uchiha Madara's temperament and another sign of why Mito-hime truly shouldn't be so infatuated by this demonish overgrown child. Dai had never seen Boruto lose control of his Byakugan before. Or Hitoni and he seemed to dislike Uchiha Madara's character as much as Dai does. "Hyuuga, my Sharingan can make out the chakra strings so your Byakugan should be able to see them clearly. Do you think you can cut through them before the bastard can take out any more dangerous shit? I trust Chiyo can keep him occupied enough. Leave the bomb-happy blond to me. The rest of you either cover everyone else's back and keep Menma safe or wait outside for Mito and Tobirama, in case they had really ran into trouble they can't handle. I checked with them and they were too busy to go into detail but they seemed to be doing fine. Still, better safe than sorry."
"You don't have to take all of this on your own, Madara," Sakumo-sensei approached the brute but Uchiha Madara just shook his head.
"I'm not. I'm trusting you to watch my back in my teammates stead, so don't make me actually have to do everything on my own. We need to take this shit hole down and deal with those two menaces before they realize we aren't even giving it our all and actually get serious. I'd rather not find out what the Nidaime Kazekage's magnet release is like."
"What?!" The Suna siblings all yell youthfully, even if they sound rather shocked.
Uchiha Madara rudely does not answer their question. "You with me, Hyuuga?"
"Bring it, Uchiha," Boruto answers in a somewhat youthful voice, sounding almost eager for the first time since Dai's met him years ago.
Dai is mighty confused, even if he jumps into the fray as well as he can.