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 3

Hyuuga Boruto had never given much thought to the infamous Team 4 - or Team Disaster, as more and more often their official designation was as time passed - not even when everyone had expected or dreaded their participation in the Chuunin Exams three years ago. He knew about them, of course, as everyone did by that time. They were a genin team of three prodigies from three most powerful clans in Konoha - even if it was galling to admit that the Hyuuga could fall short, even when there were only a coupe of Uzumaki actually living in Konoha and not Uzushio - that drew back their ancestry to the village's creators and all three of them are often regarded as the 'second comings' of some truly terrifying women.

He'd met them all, at some point, either in passing or during their Academy days, but he was two years older than Uzumaki Mito and Uchiha Madara and three years older than Senju Tobirama, so it had also just been in passing in the hallways. He remembers them well enough, though. They stood out with their appearances and personalities and the whole school knew about their talent. The whole village knew about their talent.

Still, Boruto had not given them all that much thought until he found himself assigned to the same mission as them for the first time. He'd gone to different missions with Team Sakumo paired with other teams before, but Team Disaster almost never got paired with other teams, usually being utilized for what many might consider suicide missions since they tended to fill in each other's weak spots to the point that there weren't any. He'd heard about their first 'big' mission, about the circumstances in which a bunch of kids had found themselves in while fighting poison and running from enemies twice their age and experience. That had set the precinct for them and so they were rarely sent out with other teams.

This time, they got backup just because no one actually knew what these Akatsuki guys were capable of and Hokage-sama didn't want to put them through unnecessary risk when they can't even have their sensei there and had a personal vendetta against the organization. It was a perfect chance to observe them and Boruto would be lying if he said he wasn't a bit intimidated by how Uchiha, Uzumaki and Senju seemed to perfectly in sync with each other almost the entire time he had seen them together. They'd come up with a plant between them rather swiftly and had executed the first part of it without a hitch. Boruto didn't have the luxury of time to use his Byakugan to gaze into the distance to check out how Uzumaki and Senju were faring against their opponents, since the two here were rather powerful and skilled and Dai was getting too enthusiastic and making a mess already, but he did have the time to observe Uchiha Madara even as he started daring in and out, between the puppets Sasori was manipulating to cut off their strings so at least they weren't at such a huge numerical disadvantage.

Even as he focused on the chakra strings connecting the puppets to Sasori, Boruto found it near impossible to ignore Uchiha's chakra. He was younger and shorter and less experienced by all rights, but his chakra network burned brightly, an overwhelming amount of chakra under breathtaking control. The part of him that blazed the brightest was, of course, his eyes but ever since he turned to Boruto with this new plan, the glow from those two points were blinding. Boruto will be honest and say he always underestimated the amount of chakra the Sharingan required and had even considered the Uchiha's doujutsu less taxing. They, after all, couldn't see through everything and just copied jutsus and were immune to genjutsu, right?

Then an injured Senju Tobirama appeared mid taijutsu/shurikenjutsu battle between Uchiha and that Deidera guy right at Uchiha's side and Deidera saw it and utilized it and then there was a huge chakra giant there, smashing the blond into the ground with an unrelenting fist and Boruto felt like he had gone blind. Raza saved him at the last second before Sasori could get rid of the annoyance that kept sabotaging his puppets. Boruto found he had to completely deactivate his Byakugan and even suppress as much of his chakra as he dared before he could open his eyes and not feel like he was dying again.

Uchiha was definitely the center of attention still, hidden behind the rib cage of a behemoth of chakra that swatted away the attacking puppets even as the Uchiha himself berated his injured teammate and seemed to be focused on healing him. Senju took it silently. His chakra was considerably depleted but his injuries were minor from what Boruto could make out. Uchiha was probably going overkill in this but the chakra warrior was crushing the puppets beyond reparation, so Boruto had no objections.

Sakumo-sensei at least saw an opening in Sasori being so thoroughly focused on surviving the raging giant. One second the Hatake was protecting Namikaze-Uzumaki Menma and the next he Shunshined behind the redheaded puppeteer, his White Light Chakra Sabre through the redhead's heart. Boruto already knew that the man was not exactly human anymore, for any given value of the word. He had the same constitution as the puppets: no chakra pathway, no organs, only a container for his 'heart', the 'battery' for his chakra that somehow remained bound to this form. A stroke of genius to reach immortality.

Boruto still only found it sickening.

The puppets all dropped to the ground as soon as the redhead stopped moving. His death was swift and silent, instantaneous almost. There was no proper organ to try and fight for its continued function. In the end, Sasori had ensured his death to be as swift as one can manage. Perhaps that, if nothing else, is for the best.

His partner was still somehow alive, despite the power behind the punch that giant must have delivered. Deidera had not been happy - or sane - when he saw his companion was well and truly dead. In the end, they owed Uchiha a great debt, for he had protected them from a grand explosion that had nearly made them 'go out with a BANG'. That chakra giant he was generating was a powerful trick.

"Madara!" Uzumaki Mito shouted when she arrived moments after the cave stopped collapsing in on them around said chakra giant. Uchiha and Senju had went from Madara supporting the younger to Tobirama now holding up a barely conscious fifteen year old with some serious chakra exhaustion crippling his body. "Madara, release the Susanoo, damn it! Let me in!"

"We're safe now. You can let go." Uchiha did after Senju's reassurances, though it might simply be that he had passed out as he was certainly not moving by the time Uzumaki dropped down to her knees next to her teammates. Boruto took note how she, too, looked considerably worse for wear than when they had last seen her with her clothing cut up in places but there seemed to be no visible wounds. Some of the holes in her clothes had some blood splashed here and there, indicating that there had been injuries but Team 4 seemed to be living up to their reputation and status as Tsunade-sama's iryo-jutsu students as it was all obviously healed. Both Senju and Uzumaki were considerably dirtier than the group that had went with Uchiha so Boruto wondered what the hell had happened to the other two thirds of Team Disaster. "The idiot overdid it. He'll probably have migraines for weeks. We need to see if there's a way to stop the whole bursting of eye capillaries problem, too, or else he really will go blind soon enough."

"At least he's not injured. Take off his hitai-ate. I'm unsealing his Byakugo to replenish his chakra. His reserves are too low for my liking."

"I'm not an expert," Chiyo said as she made her way over to the three of them and the Hyuuga could see how obviously she tried not to flinch when chakra chains and a sword made of lightning were immediately thrust in her face. "Not in Tsunade-sama's seal, at least, but I am a medic who had done some research on that medical innovation. Isn't it meant for desperate measures and mass healing?"

"If it is needed to heal lethal injuries, it is completely unsealed. If it is for minor injuries or just replenishing chakra reserves, only 20% of the seal is unsealed and used to remedy that which endangers the bearers life and health," Uzumaki said coolly even as she and her remaining conscious teammate withdrew their weapons. The chakra chains remained up, though, and it wasn't even all that surprising.

Boruto also had to refrain from using his doujutsu when looking at them. What was up with these people and how overwhelmingly packed with chakra their jutsus were?!

"Surely a few food pills will do the job just as well," suggested Yaken even as he rocked young Menma in his arms to keep him calm.

"Madara's chakra is far too depleted for us to do that safely. He needs his own chakra and it's not as if he can't regenerate the amount we release back into the Byakugo seal in a matter of months," Senju waved them off before creating a clone and going straight for Yaken, the Kage Bunshin taking the bawling toddler and gently, slowly but steadily calming the boy down until he was asleep. The clone brought Menma over to the original and Senju ran a medical check over the child's body before grunting in relief at apparently finding nothing wrong.

Uzumaki had by that point already unsealed Uchiha's Byakugo seal - Boruto had only ever seen Sandaime-sama's, never on any of her apprentices - geometrical lines running down Madara's face but not disappearing past the high collar of his robes. It would seem that the seal was indeed not fully activated.

"What kept up you two?" Sakumo-sensei asked after he made sure their two opponents were indeed dead. Though, since Deidera pretty much blew himself up - that was a bit overkill, wasn't it? Were they lovers or something? - there probably wasn't much left to find. Not when the entire cave had suffered quite a bit of damage in the explosion.

"Hoshigaki Kisame," Senju replied, eyes flashing with irritation even as he put away Uchiha's signature weapon.

"Biwa Juzo," Uzumaki said in just as clipped a tone. "It would seem that our infamy for always going out together has created a false sense of security in ambushing us when we are on our own."

"Yes, Hoshigaki seemed to be under much the same impression. Also, he seemed to have thought that just because he can merge with the Samehada to boost his own healing factor and chakra reserves that he is apparently a better suiton user then me." An assumption that probably even lesser suiton users would make, especially a man as infamous and as huge as Kisame of the Hoshigaki Clan from Kirigakure. The man's hailed as the Tailless Tailed Beast, for god's sake!

"You used Sage Mode?" Grunted Uzumaki as she finally stopped forcing the Byakugo to feed Uchiha's chakra pathways with chakra. Boruto could see that her stunt had worked. Uchiha's chakra was at much more acceptable levels. He was not yet the inferno levels he usually is, but he was also at least no longer stuck on dying embers, either. A healthy bonfire, for now. "How did it feel? How different is it? Did you use any new jutsu or did you just utilize the greater speed and agility it provided you?"

"I made it rain and nearly turned Hoshigaki into stone when he tried absorbing my chakra since he isn't a sage and had no way to control the natural energy," Tobirama said casually as though surviving a battle against the Monster of the Hidden Mist was something that happened every day. Then again, given what team he was part of ...

"You have Sage Mode? Like Hashirama?" Tenton asked curiously.

"What happened to Biwa and Hoshigaki?" Raza asked not a second later, obviously more interested in how safe they were at their current location and how long that status was going to last.

"Escaped," both of the younger teens replied before Senju continued, answering Tenton's question. "And no, not like Anija. Anija's Sage Mode comes from his mokuton. I, on the other hand, made a contract with snow leopards and they taught me. Are we done here? I'd rather we get Menma back to his parents, report to Hokage-sama and have her berate Madara again once he wakes up for pushing himself too far. Which time will this one make it?"

"Unimportant. I agree with Tobirama's assessment. If you need a lift back to Suna, I can take you," Mito offered, ignoring how Dai immediately started a poem about how wonderful she was. Boruto sort of thought his teammate to be pathetic in his desperation to get her attention. Dai should for once listen to some gossip. Everyone knew Uzumaki and Senju Hashirama were dating. Or at least courting, if nothing else.

"Considering the situation, being as close to Suna would be much appreciated to prevent anything from happening to Raza," Chiyo said like it hurt her to make the concession. Then again, Team Disaster had faced off against her at the infancy of their infamy and had left Suna an island in the middle of a huge ocean and some storms. If rumors are true, anyway.

Uzumaki nodded, told the Suna trio to hold on to her and each other and they vanished in a flash of light.

"Wha?" Uchiha chose that moment to awaken, looking wildly around as though he had sensed Uzumaki's departure - which, considering he was a damn good sensor, he might have - before Senju drew his attention to himself.

"Relax, Madara. Rest. Everyone is fine. The mission is over. We're heading home soon. Try to get some sleep. You've overdone it again by trying for a perfect Susanoo to keep us safe from the blast. Mito unsealed some of your stored chakra from the Byakugo but you still need plenty of rest."

"Menma-"

"Is fine," the Kage Bunshin Senju replied, dipping a little so Uchiha could see the sleeping toddler better.

"Oh." And just like that, he was unconscious again, the white haired teen watching over him shaking his head at his ridiculousness.

"Ridiculous, unreasonable Uchiha."

A flash and an amused chortle. "Aren't they all always like that?" The redheaded kunoichi scanned their party before gesturing for them all to cluster together so she and Senju may Hiraishin them back to Konoha. Not Boruto's favorite form of transportation, but it sure as hell beat running back home after this jarring experience. "If we're all ready?"

"As ready as we can ever be," Sakumo-sensei replied for them all and the two nodded and with a flash and the uncomfortable sensation of too fast travel, they arrived at no place else but the Hokage's office, where apparently the parents were anxiously waiting for their child's return. Minato-sensei and Kushina-san both jumped towards the clone, taking the child and praising and thanking the gods, Minato-sensei's team, Team Sakumo, the Hokage ... Sandaime-sama, though, took one look at her favorite team and cursed up a storm when she saw Uchiha's condition.

"Chakra depletion. He tried getting the Susanoo perfect again," Senju immediately reported before the Hokage could ask any questions. Tsunade-sama did not look impressed by that. "He just needs some rest."

"I scanned him for injuries and not even overuse of chakra had any effect on his system that could be dangerous," Uzumaki filled in with her own report. "I had to unseal his Byakugo to replenish his chakra reserves, though, because his had dropped to dangerous levels and needed fast and safe replenishing. It wasn't a significant amount and he'll be able to refill the seal soon enough."

"Bring him to my ward. I expect you two to give me a fully detailed report while I check on the idiot myself to make sure he didn't sustain any serious eye damage. We don't exactly know all that much about the Mangekyo but it would be best to be cautious until we learn Madara's limits."

"Hai, Tsunade-sama," the two awake Team Disaster members said in unison and used Hiraishin to disappear to the hospital, no doubt.

"Anything you would like to report, Sakumo?"

Sakumo-sensei looked grim. "Mito and Tobirama fought Biwa Juzo and Hoshigaki Kisame. Last I heard, they were Kiri's most wanted nukenin, but I still think it would be smart to investigate whether Kiri is in any way dealing with the Akatsuki. The organization seems to definitely be set on capturing Jinchuriki and taking their biju. Both Mito and Raza were threatened at one point, even if it hadn't exactly been direct. We destroyed one of their hideouts in Land of Rivers - I can give you the exact coordinates later, if you wish to send ANBU to investigate the site further - and two of their members are presumably dead. Biwa and Hoshigaki ran off - Minato, may I just say what the fuck!? about your students? Because those kids are monsters - and the other pair, the supposedly dead one, consisted of Sasori of Suna and Deidera of Iwa, one of their bombing squads given his technique. Tobirama also mentioned an Uzumaki at some point but we never ran into anyone. If I may be honest, I don't like where this is going, Tsunade-sama."

Boruto had to agree. Besides a few exceptions like Mito and Kushina-san, Uzumaki usually tend to stay in Uzushiogakure, where people won't use them for their vitality or their fuinjutsu knowledge. If there had, indeed, been an Uzumaki where they found Akatsuki, then it meant that there was even defections from a place that Uzumaki usually preferred to stay in their entire lives. And between Kiri's two of seven Swordsman of the Mist being a part of this organization and dangerous individuals from Suna and Iwa like Sasori and Deidera ... Akatsuki was obviously more powerful than any of them had anticipated.

"I don't like any of this any more than you do, Sakumo. This does not bode well. Do we know if there is any of our own former ninja mingling in their ranks?"

"Rumors said once that Orochimaru had had liaisons with the organization, but whether that is true is another matter entirely," Shisune-san, who was never far from Tsunade-sama's side, answered her boss. "We'd have to ask either Jiraiya-sama or Anko-sama to be sure, as they had kept tabs on him far longer with as much detail than even ANBU units did."

"Call them and ask them. We need to know whether and how much information the Akatsuki has on our village and defenses. I need to call for a meeting with the Elder Council and-" Boruto was not ashamed to say he jumped with how startled he was when the door suddenly banged open. His teammates did the same and even Sakumo-sensei twitched, his hand flying towards his White Light Chakra Saber. It was perfectly normal, given what they had just been through with Deidera throwing bombs at them.

Thankfully, it was only Genma.

Unfortunately, the man looked grief stricken. Heartbroken. Like he was already deep in mourning. It made everyone on edge because they had all been through some shit at this point and none of them were ready for anymore bad news.

Unfortunately, that was all they were going to get.

"An Akatsuki pair snuck into the village. They killed Sarutobi-sama."