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.
Here We Go Again
It was understandable, really, that people were caught off guard by it when it finally occurred. It had been almost a year without such or even a remotely similar incident so their old annoyances and grievances were forgotten in the face of this new sort of 'd even grown complacent in it since there had not even been a reason for such an occurrence since Team Disaster hadn't been apart since Kusagakure grew bold and stupid enough to kidnap one of its members.
Really, they had thought their problems regarding that had been solved when Senju Tobirama spent an entire two months away and had no adverse affects on himself or his mental health while he had been with his snow leopard summons. And since Uzumaki Mito had never been hit as hard as the youngest and strongest sensor on their team and had only made chaos with him when he drew her into his crazy plans and experiments, Konohagakure had truly gotten far too used to peace and quiet in their village even when Uchiha Madara left on solo missions. (Not that that happened often, especially not since he lost his brothers and father, since everyone feared he might just go off to hunt down the rest who were even remotely involved in their deaths.)
So, really, they were so completely used to that peace and quiet beyond the usual experiments that they were so completely taken off guard when the first major explosion hit not fifteen days since Madara left the village.
Apparently they had forgotten that when Kusagakure had been foolish enough to kidnap Tobirama, they had sealed his chakra away and to seal a sensor was a fate crueler than death.
Truly, it was bound to happen that Tobirama would feel off kilter and overwhelmed the first time Madara wasn't within his immediate sensing distance. They should have seen it coming. They really, really should. In the end, that first time around, Tsunade paid for assigning that month long mission to Madara with so many severe headaches that she was truly tempted to give the hat to her favorite Uchiha brat as soon as the teen stepped foot back into the village.
Unfortunately, of course, Tobirama got to him first and even Mito had seemed frazzled at that point.
Tsunade resolved to not have a repeat of that happen again.
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A few weeks later, she had no choice but to allow it.
Not when Ryujin-sama himself descended from the heavens above and demanded both of his summoners' presence in the animal dimension given there were some disputes over whether or not his territory should fall under his own domain there or if it should be categorized as belonging to the Ryuchi Cave and he needed Madara's and Ryukyu's backup in this. Really, mother and eldest son left in seconds on Ryujin-sama's head to settle the dispute before the dragon decides to just kill the White Snake Sage for even daring to suggest that he should be subservient to a bunch of no-leg ground crawlers, stalling only long enough to distribute their duties between Hikaku, Kagami, Izuna and a few other higher ranked Uchiha so the clan won't fall apart in their absence before they were off.
Hikaku had honestly thought they wouldn't stay longer than a few days before remembering just who were the most prominent and powerful snake summoners and groaned as he realized he'd be acting as Clan Head with his other selected relatives possibly for a few weeks at the very least.
Ryukyu-sama placed in the same space as Orochimaru of the Sannin after he had made allusions to wanting her son's body? Yeah, the Ryuchi Cave was as good as demolished already if those two meet.
Of course, no one else had the same epiphany as Hikaku, at least not that early on. They, too, thought that the Uchiha mother-son pair's battle prowess, if nothing else, will discourage a few snakes from angering two temperamental, fiery, spiteful Uchiha, especially ones with a reputation like Ryukyu and Madara, but they were proven wrong yet again as days passed and, once again, about fifteen days in, chaos was unleashed on Konoha.
This time in the form of yellow jackets because, apparently, Tobirama had managed to convince several Aburame to indulge him and give him some larva of said insects so he can try to develop a way for their more rare bugs to repopulate sooner instead of going extinct. Like the Baikochu, which, of course, had them all but thrusting said larva in his face. And Tobirama being Tobirama did find a way, though most of the village was uncertain whether they approved or were rather unhappy with him about it. The Aburame as a whole certainly were delighted, even as they, too, suffered from the stings of the yellow black bugs.
Madara, who nearly suffered the same fate upon his return, was not nearly as happy, which he displayed in allowing smoke to linger around himself like a shield and wouldn't let a red-skinned Tobirama in until the situation was finally put under control two weeks after his return from his twenty seven day trip.
(Apparently, his temperament had been what had ended the dispute when he'd formed the Susanoo and threatened to White Snake Sage that he will tear out his spine through his anal opening if the snakes kept persisting and Ryukyu had been in full agreement to do the same to Orochimaru the second she'd spotted him upon entering the debate on the first hour of the first day.)
Things settled, of course, as they always did when Madara was around.
The village was starting to realize they might really end up needing to make the Uchiha Hokage if his teammates continued making this much chaos in his absence. After all, the Hokage almost never left the village.
It was becoming their safest bet.
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The next time it happened, it was surprisingly Mito's fault.
The Uzumaki princess might be a lot more levelheaded than her teammates or even most of her clan mates, considering how the Uzumaki could get - a prime example existed in Konoha itself with Kushina and her young son, after all, and even their Hokage showed signs of where a part of her ancestry comes from - but she was still, at her core, an Uzumaki. That means that, should she ever get bored, it's best for people to start running for their lives. Because, unlike Kushina, her mischief was not obvious, just like her rage, and it took you by surprise.
Also, she was raised among the Uchiha so she had a very special relationship with Spite. Madara and Spite were practically married at this point and it always got him through almost anything. Mito, who had lived like his sister for the past decade, was very well acquainted with her metaphorical 'in-law'.
So, some time after the twelfth day since Madara left on some super secret, extra important mission that he had to genjutsu Hashirama into not telling them about with said Senju brother, by when ten patients in the hospital managed to thoroughly insult her with their leering, she got three marriage proposals from Dai and ten more from random individuals even though everyone knew she and Hashirama were an item and two Hyuuga have managed to question the integrity of her seals and insinuate some very unsavory things about her position on Team 4, about her teammates, her father, her adopted family and her future in-laws, Mito decided that it was time to take a page out of the Uchiha book and use Spite.
Needless to say, it was far too easy to get Izuna in on the action and Menma was an energetic, true Uzumaki child who was looking forward to mischief. Though Mito wondered if auntie Kushina will regret her decision to cover for them once the chaos was unleashed.
Because if there was one thing that taught Konoha a lesson in manners, it was threatening them with a sensory overwhelmed Tobirama while Madara was out on a mission. And if there was one thing that was perfect punishment or an opportunity to make a point, it was unleashing said sensory overwhelmed Tobirama while Madara was out on a mission on the village. And Mito wouldn't regret doing so.
So, mere two hours after the two Hyuuga said some things she won't repeat or think about again - she wants to scare them into submission, not accidentally destroy their beloved home village - she marched into Tobirama's lab with her two minions on her heels and all but yanked the bleary-eyed Senju out of his latest experiments. Somehow, he hadn't yet gotten restless enough to dive into the more explosive or volatile shit yet. Mito was kind of disappointed by that, actually.
One more thing people tended to forget about her was that she was a sensor on the same scale as her teammates and sensei and while she never showed how badly it affected her when Madara wasn't around for Mito and Tobirama to focus on him to drown out the rest of the world, it didn't mean she wasn't affected. It was simply easier for her to control and to be distracted from it given that she had the Kyuubi to talk to her whenever it got too much. Tobirama, though, they suspected, was quite possibly a sensor stronger than Minato-sensei, as he was still so young but matched the man in skill and range. Tobirama was affected by it the worst but Mito was a close second.
If it wasn't like that, she and Madara would have never met, became friends or pseudo-siblings.
And because people tended to forget that, they tended to forget that she could become quite snappish and much more temperamental and infinitely easier to annoy after a certain number of days that her friend wasn't in the village.
So, of course, they didn't see it coming when Mito gave Tobirama some incredibly convenient ideas that matched well with some of his explosive tags research that he was always doing. The first day, Konoha was rocked by explosions.
The second day, Mito introduced Tobirama with a few of Uzushio's forbidden masks, one of which summoned the Shinigami itself, so the whole day most of the jonin and ANBU spent futilely chasing an overly excited and curious Senju all over Konoha while he tried to figure out how the moon mask had the power to transport one to the Moon while Mito cackled in the background as she watched Izuna and Menma trick, sidetrack or trip various high ranking ninja.
And on the third day, Mito helped Tobirama fix up a weaker, limited Edo Tensei, where the reanimated may not have infinite chakra or can stay around forever once summoned, but they didn't require a living sacrifice but were instead managed and sustained by special seals.
Needless to say, Konoha didn't appreciate a zombie invasion.
Needless to say, Hashirama was horrified when he and Madara returned that afternoon from their mission - rushed by Madara, because he know these things, has a sixth sense for them, alright? - and had nightmares for years to come about that one reanimated rabbit that seemed to have died of rabbis and had taken the chance to attack him when he gawked at it too long.
Needless to say, Madara found himself saddled with both of his teammates for weeks to come.
(Needless to say, Uzumaki Kushina cackled in delight.)
Needless to say, Mito had her revenge and it had been served corpse-cold.
Needless to say, it seemed more and more likely Konoha will do something drastic to ensure Madara never leaves on solo missions again.
Tsunade will make sure of it.
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The time after which they all but order Tobirama to go back to the snow leopards so he can relearn to be less obsessively dependent on Madara's chakra signature happened not a half year later, a few months before things got heated and then there was no missions, just battle and a mess that needed to be fixed in the aftermath.
Madara had been gone only five days that time and Tobirama had been having a bad day and there was no overwhelming chakra signature to overwhelm his senses and drown out the rest of the chakra around him because Madara had went to the Land of Demons of all places and that whole country had such a bad vibe to it that Tobirama never allowed himself to go even near it with his senses.
Mito was busy with some seal work with Kushina-sama and Minato-sensei had been delegated to babysitting duty since Menma-kun had a cold so he couldn't be left alone for a day or two until his fever drops. His mother and even Ryukyu-sama had been needed to meet with the Hokage for some village matters and the Clan Head Council had been called to discuss it, Izuna was out on a mission, Tuoka was training with her squad and Hikaku was on duty at the Police Station, so Tobirama was left to his own devices.
Or so he thought until Hashirama returned early from his jonin written tests and said he was bored and would like a spar.
So Tobirama got the bright idea that they should compare their Sage Modes since they'd never really done that before, to check how truly similar or different they were. And showing off all of their skills went from aimlessly firing their special senpo attacks to sparing.
And sparing for anyone from the Senju or Uchiha Main House usually meant severe property damage even when it was just a taijutsu spar, let alone when the two competitive Senju brothers went all out with their senjutsu!
Madara, Mito and Minato all actually Hiraishined right to their location to stop them from accidentally destroying Konoha in their zeal and none of them were impressed. Tsunade-sama was even less so, but at least they didn't get punished and at least Madara had managed to finish his mission at the last moment before teleporting back to Konoha. No one doubted that it wouldn't be pretty if the Senju brothers had been allowed to continue as they had completely forgotten themselves.
Though the actual problem came afterwards for Tobirama, as combining his chakra with natural energy in Sage Mode left his senses even more sensitive and the aftermath left him a whimpering mess with his head buried so far in Madara's chest that he was surprised he hadn't actually dug a hole right there when he finally surfaced from his overload two whole days later. Madara looked wrecked by the time Tobirama got his head back together and that had nearly sent the younger Senju brother into a frenzy, thinking Madara was sick or poisoned or injured and hadn't had his injuries healed because the second he stopped touching Tobirama, he had whimpered and screamed as his senses were assaulted with the rest of the world's chakra.
The order to return to the snow leopards hadn't been necessary but Tobirama was never going to tell anyone how much more painful it had been to realize Madara had looked so bad because he had actually gotten literally sick with worry. He'd have preferred to stay and watch over his sick teammate but he knew an intervention was needed.
So he went and he trained with Kaida and the other snow leopards for a month, forcing himself to not search out Madara's chakra signature the second he returned to Konoha. He was a shinobi and he had a reputation that would kill him with this sort of vulnerability. Even if Madara didn't mind, Tobirama minded that he could be so easily taken out of commission if only enough time passed.
Though Madara put a stop to him trying to spend less time in general with the older teen as soon as the Uchiha caught on to it and instead called him an idiot for thinking he had to go that far.
At least the disaster and chaos caused by his experiments due to unrest stopped.
(When he was fifteen, he gave up ever being okay without Madar's chakra there to ground him. After falling into a genjutsu for the first time in his life, losing all sense of reality and self, losing himself in a dream that would have killed him and only waking up because Madara was the one to do it, because he had been the only one who could, he gave up on it.
Why even bother when both he and Madara wanted nothing more but to be close?
Konoha, at that point, enjoyed that one piece of normality after the war they'd fought.
The Fourth War had shaken them all.)