Fugaku and Hiashi stood in front of one another, neither man spoke to the other, their wives might get along but they sure as hell didn't.
With them were various members of their clans, they were setting up a room for the two teams to play their little game in, normally neither of them would have bothered to go to this extent for a simple game, but their clans couldn't allow such an event to be treated as it was nothing.
When Heku asked them for help, he asked them as both the White Jaws leader and their student.
He didn't want his friends to get hurt, especially considering what had happened the last time, but the boy pointed out that no matter what they did, their teams were already being watched by the elders of the village.
So they came up with a plan, a simple yet complicated one.
The first phase would be, they would send letters to every clan asking them to allow their teams to use their territories for this game.
Everyone knew that none of those clans would accept, but they didn't have to, after all, they had placed the wrong date for the game on the letters that were delivered.
The next phase of their little plan was to get the entire team to be publicly seen discussing their game, something that went off without any problems.
Finally, the last part of the plan was simply setting up the room and letting the two teams play.
By this time Heku, Mikoto and Hana had already informed the two teams of the real date and what was being set up, so no one would interfere.
Normally a person would ask, why didn't the three clans just allow the children to play their game in their territories, the reason is simple.
Despite the White Jaws' friendly nature with both of their clans, they were still a part of another clan, and both the children and their spirits have an incredible amount of power that could destroy anything in the nearby area.
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They all looked at each other, none of them wore their uniforms because this time they didn't need them, no they just wore their masks and everyday clothes.
If this was going to be a fair game then they would all start the same way, no powers no spirits nothing, t would be as if they were starting from the beginning again, just a bunch of kids having fun.
So they all took out the small pieces of paper that they always carried with them and recalled their spirits.
Up until now, none of them could control their chakra, so they had to use their spirits to help them, now they could only rely on the Mikotos mental training, Hana's physical training, and their teacher's lessons.
The game they're were about to play is a mixture of hide and go seek, with tag.
Everyone hides and everyone looks for each other, when one person from one team touches someone from another team they would flip their masks over and have to stay in place.
Now if someone from their team finds them, then they can flip the mask over and get back in the game, the game ends when one team manages to flip the other team's masks.
It's a game that's can last for hours and non of them expects anyone to win so it's just for fun.
They all looked at each other and began to look into each other's things making sure none of them forgot anything, when everyone was sure that no one was missing anything they all walked outside.
This was just between them, they knew that Mikoto's and Hanas clans would be watching but they didn't care this time because this time it was just a game between friends.
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The third arrived at his office an Ambu had infirmed him that something was happening and he used the orb in his office to look at the village what he found was the Senju clan, along with both the Uchiha clan and Hyuga clan all setting up a barrier.
He was aware that the three clans were preparing themselves to have another competition between their students, but he knew that every other clan had rejected their petition.
He had assumed that they would have given up, but it now seems as if they decided to use the entire leaf except for the other clans' territories for their game.
He watched as the group of children walked out of the Senjuclans territory and stepped into the leaf, as of this moment they weren't a part of the world anymore, they were in a pocket dimension, where they wouldn't affect the world around them.
He watched as the children separated themselves into two different groups before scattering each one counting from twenty, back to one, yet the children weren't the only ones on the move, several Ambu had also entered the barrier, and for whatever reason, they looked as if they intended to interfere with this test.
That wasn't the only thing he noticed.
Why wasn't the entire Senju clan involved, for better or worse both boys and the girls are a part of the Senju clan.
Heku who is Jiraiya's son is a part of Jiraiya's clan, but as of this moment, they were the last two surviving members.
Which meant that Jiraiya had to be present for the game.
"Go and inform both Tsunade and Jiraiya" the third order one of his guards who instantly vanished from his office
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"Lady Tsunade quickly wake up!" Tsunade heard someone knocking at her door, she had just had the strangest dream she dreamed that her brother had been brought back to life.
She opened her eyes she found herself holding onto her, her mind stopped working as she process what she was seeing, her brother was sleeping next to her.
"Lady Tsunade please urry, the game has already started" the woman called out to her
"Game what game?" Tsunade asked the woman
"That's right, the other clan denied David's request, he must have forgotten to tell you"
"Yesterday before the incident" the woman began and Tsunade finally remembered who the woman was, she was one of the maids that worked inside her souse
She quickly made her way to the door and opened it, to her surprise the woman wasn't alone, several Uchiha women were with her all holding different sets of clothes makeup, and hairbrushes.
'what?" Tsunade was about to ask when the group of women pulled her out of the door and pushed her to the bathroom
"They already started," the woman said to her
"Explain or I won't move' Tsunade said to the group and forced them all to stop as she planted her feet firmly on the floor
"When Davids's request was denied to have the rest of the clans become involved, he must have decided to go ahead and perform the games anyway."
"The two teams are already in the barrier, look" the woman pointed at the group of Uchiha and Hyuga clan members maintaining the barrier.
The group began to walk and as they reached the bath Tsunade found Shizune was already in it, with a group of women brushing her hair and mixing it with scented oils.
Tsunade didn't even have a chance to greet her apprentice when the group began to forcefully remove her clothes and began to make her presentable.
When they were done both Tsunade and Shizune found themselves looking at all of the orphans, as well as all of the people that worked on the farmland standing at the clan entrance watching the images of the kids either randomly walking around or trying to hid from someone that wasn't there.
It was quite the sight on the left was the Hyuga clan who proudly wore their clan's flam emblem on their backs.
While on the right were the Uchiha clan who proudly displayed their paper fans symbol for everyone to see, yet between them stood everyone tat served her and her family, dressed in their black clothes and wearing their white coats.
Tsunade sd Shizune walked up to an empty spot and found Jiraiya was already there but he wasn't alone. both Mikoto and Hana were seated with their husbands watching the game being played.
"An Ambu arrived at my house and told me about this, but when I got here, a group of Hyuga women forced me to put on better clothes," Jiraiya said to them as they looked at the way he was dressed.
Tsunade and Shizune sat down next to him and began to watch the game, from the corner of her eye Tsunade could see her brother looking at her, but stayed in his place alongside the rest of the children.
Unlike everyone else, he was wearing his uniform from the time when he died, but he wore a white trenchcoat and a mask that someone must have given him, so he could blend in.
As they watched Tsunade noticed that David was about to make contact with someone, but it wasn't a member of the other team no this was a member of the Ambu corp
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"What are you doing here?" David asked the Ambu a the man stared at him
David dint even have time to process what was happening when Innocenious flew out of nowhere and pulled him back, David found himself staring at several Kunai stuck to the ground where he was standing just seconds ago.
Ana smiled she managed to make it this long without being found, normally when they play tag she's the first one that gets caught, but that wasn't the case this time.
Her smile quickly vanished as she found herself looking at a woman dressed in a strange uniform.
"What's going on?"
"Is the game over?" she asked the woman who immediately charged at her
"Lilli!" Ana screamed in fear as she put her hands up and tried to use them as some form of protection
Lilli spouted from the ground and charged at the woman.
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"What's going on?" Tsunade asked Mikoto and Hana who looked just as confused as she was
"Someone is taking advantage of the game to target them' Fugaku answered her
"Bring the barrier down" Fugaku orderd
"We cant"
"As long as the barrier is up, both the Ambu and the kids are trapped inside, our best option is to send guards in and capture the assassins before they can get away" Hiashi answered Fugaku
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"So they finally decided to do it," David said as he looked at the masked man in front of him
He couldn't see the man's face other than this military-like vest and cat mask, there was nothing that made the man stand out.
"Roar!" Innocentius screamed in pain before vanishing
"We know your weakness, now you don't have your spirit to protect you," The man said to David as he showed him a piece of paper
David smirked. "To bad for you, he wasn't my only trick," David said to the man as he reached into his pocket
The ninja quickly moved and was forced to dodge a long katana that was being held by an old man dressed in the same clothes that the Senju clan now wore.
"Lilli!" Ana screamed in horror as Lilli was being dragged into a piece of paper that the woman held in her hands
Before Lilli was stolen from her, she reached into her pocket and found one of the paper dolls Heku had given her
She gasped for air as she held on to the doll with both hands and called for someone anyone to help her.
Her eyes widened in terror when she found the woman's eyes looking at her, as she was about to stave her, with her dagger, but the woman was quickly blown away by a flood of flower petals.
"Get away from my master," a man said to the woman
as he held Ana in his hands
"Lilli?" Ana said to the man who just smiled warmly at her
"No, but I know her," the man said to Ana before returning his attention to the woman
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The third and the rest of the council arrived at the Senju clan's territory and watched as the events unfolded, they knew that the kids had developed several new techniques but to be able to summon human spirits like these.
"What's the meaning of this?" Tsunade demanded the moment she saw them
"I don't know" the third answered his old student
"Everyone can you hear me," David said with his eyes cloths
"It looks like they finally decided to kill us, they stole Innocentious from me, so its better if you guys call someone else to help from now on," David said to everyone in the game
"Okay then games over" Mark aid
'No, they're just new players, it's not our fault if they die" Heku answered Mark
'I need your help" Heku said as he took out a paper doll and showed it to an Ambu that was watching him from a nearby building
"So its war" Sonia said as she summoned a large man with spiky hair