It's funny how the world works when you are growing up, your entire world is just going to school, either doing or not doing things with other people and trying not to get your parents mad at you.

Then as you grow up the world you lived in, seems to get farther and farther away until it looks like something that was nothing more than a memory someone else had.

Mark looked at the students in his class they were just kids and so was he.

Just like David he stopped for the first time in a long time and gave himself time to think.

And he found that he was a selfish person, from the outside he looked like a loyal follower, but the truth was that he was anything but that.

When everyone was taken away, he went to the only place he knew that would have so many things going on that he couldn't have the luxury to think about anything besides work.

So he did just that, he placed David in front of him and used him to not have to think, and by doing so he ignored how his actions affected everyone around him,

To him everyone else was just there, they didn't matter.

Then Ana forced her way in and he was forced to look away from David for a brief moment, and now he was forced to look away and found Shizune looking at him next to Ana.

He didn't care about her after all he didn't know anything about her and yet for the first time in a long time he found that he couldn't put anything in front of him anymore.

Then his friends that were taken away were there and the world that was once dark and alone wasn't so dark anymore.

Mark thought about his past self the actions he had taken, he thought about a lot of things including what he knew about this world and he realized they hadn't changed a single thing.

Naruto was still wearing his usual clothes, and being a menace to society.

The changes that did happen had already happened, and the changes that did occur because of them were insignificant in the great scheme of things.

Mark walked into David's room and found David awake looking at the ceiling.

He noticed that Innocentius was using his fire to keep a shadow that was coming out of Naruto away from everyone and everything.

"How many?" Mark began to ask but David stopped him before he could finish

"Every night" David answered Mark

"Sow what are you planing?" he said to David

"Nothing" David answered him

'I want the truth" Mark said to David

"I'm not planing anything, what I mean is that's my plan"

"You see the village has a balance of power, one that will slowly be affected as Tsunade bring back her clan"

"Hell its already affected, you've seen the police around here they've been running around a lot more than usual," David said to Mark who caught Flare striking at one of the shadows that was aiming for his leg

"So then why did you make us use the stick?" Mark asked David as he noticed one of the kids moving on his bed

"Its pointless to have something and not use it" David answered Mark before he completely fell asleep

So that was your plan, Mark thought to himself as he walked back to his room.

David's plan was that he didn't have a plan at all, he just let the smell of cheese fill the room, and all he had to do after that was see how many rats he could catch as they ran to get the cheese that didn't exist.

He didn't know what David was planning to do after that but wasn't that exactly what he had told Tsunade, his actions would depend on what she chose to do.

Mark couldn't help but allow himself to have a predatory grin, this was going to blow up on David's face.

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Tsunade walked in front of her father and grandfather she grinned as she barely controls the excitement she felt as she opened the doors.

In front of them were both the Uzumaki and Senju clans revived, each clan wore their traditional clothes for this occasion, but amongst them was another group, people who wore black cloths with white coats and masks that covered the bottom halves of their faces.

These were the people that fell under David's control, amongst them were men and women that were Uzumaki and Senju but had married outside of their clans and joined David's or Marks branch families.

There were even some Uchiha and Hyuga clan members amongst them, Tsunade knew her father and grandfather had immediately noticed this and she watched how both her grandfather and father took in the sight before them.

For a long time, everything she knew was gone, the constant wars and infighting had taken their toll and her entire clan suffered for it.

She had seen how the people she knew vanished one by one and soon only her and her brother were left.

Then her brother died and then the man she loved.

"Come on!" she said to her father and grandfather as she led them to a nearby building.

It was there that she taught everyone that had enough talent to lea the skills of the medical-nin.

Tsunade felt her father's hands around her as he hugged her and congratulated her.

She wanted to see her lost love again, but bringing him back now would not only insult David and everyone else, but it was something that she would share with Shizune.

"David," Tsunade said to her husband, it had been years since she first married him, and now he looked great.

Their marriage was filled with its fair share of problems but they had grown to care for each other.

"I know what I have to do," David said to her with a voice so cold it might as well have been ice

She watched how the dead began to rise as they burned everyone and everything around them, her father and grandfather moved to stop David but they were surrounded by not just David's clan but everyone else's.

"What are you doing!?" Tsunade said to the White Jaws, as she watched in horror as the kids she had watched grow into adults summoned their beasts and turned everything to dust.

She stood alone inside a crater.

Tsunade woke covered in sweat, she had to make sure David understand he couldn't keep doing this.

Whatever he had done must have affected him and his friends because even if the kids weren't aware of it, she was and so was everyone else.

Anyone that had paid any attention to the way David did things would know that he had done something, he must have the timing was to perfect, her mind turned to the dream that was quickly fading away.

She hadn't dreamt about anything in a while, for whatever reason she wasn't able to dream when she fell asleep drunk.

She was tempted to drink anything as long as it got her drunk and she could get some form of peace, but she knew that she couldn't do that, not this time.

Tsunade looked at the ceiling and for a brief moment she was tempted to turn on the light, but she didn't want to wake Tonton, so she laid there in the dark with only her thoughts to accompany her.

She knew that both David and Mark knew of a way to bring back the dead, their dreams had revealed that to her, and judging by the different ways they went about using that technique, they knew more than one way of doing it.

She remembered her childhood friends some of them got married and tried to leave the life of a ninja behind, others never got the chance to retire, then she remembered her mother, her brother, her husband, and her father.

Could she bring them all back?

No, she had to focus she couldn't allow herself to feel hope because having hope only lead to disappointment.

Tsunade opened the drawer next to her bed and turned on the light and she immediately felt Tonton move as he was about to wake up but managed to stay asleep.

She had picked it up before the kids had woken up and she didn't want to risk any of them using it for whatever reason so she took it with her.

As she looked at the stick she noticed that despite it being painted blue and red there wasn't anything special about it, except for a bunch of poorly drawn figures.

Tsunade felt her eyes widen as she saw something she silently cursed herself for not noticing before.

Of course, he would have a fail-safe.

When everyone watched both boys use the same spot but for different purposes, the Ambu immediately searched and destroyed any seals they could find.

The moment they did, those that destroyed the seal received basic hand seals and nothing more, but everyone knew that there was the chance that they had only received the bare minimum of information due to destroying the seals.

Now she knew their suspicions were right.

Tsunade let out a breath she couldn't treat that David like he was a boy, no she would have to treat him as the head of a clan, and even if he ended up despising her she had to make it clear that he couldn't keep doing things like this.

As she looked at the stick David's face came to mind, then it switched to the image of a young Orochimaru, without thinking Tsunade threw the stick away and cried.

Her ex-teammate, her ex-friend wasn't the monster he now is, no he was a bit of an oddball, but he always wanted the best for the people around him.

Tsunade covered her mouth so no one could hear her cry.