Unknown location
A lone figure, cloaked in white, walked down narrow corridors of black stone, the hallways unlit if only for lanterns of brilliant white metal, with cotton candy blue light streaming through their glass. The figure continued silently until he came upon a doorway of marble white, inside sat a Blond haired boy, who could not be older than 16. His face is pale white, with eyes of similar hue, and brown horns extending from the top of his head. Garbed in fine white silk and sitting on a throne of wood, he sat with his face propped on his hand, his elbow resting on the arm of the throne. A smile graced his features as he saw the figure approach from the hallway, a sinister gleam in his eyes.
"It's already time is it? To become God?"
Outside the rebel base camp
Negi watched as tayuya entered the camp, his eyes zeroing in on her chakra with a singular focus. The camp itself was set just on the ports of the village to the villages east. The perimeter was guarded securely by an array of ninjas, but most notably, of those assembled 7 stood out among the rest. Standing guard with swords of all shapes and sizes, the 7 ninja were infamous for their battle prowess. These were the 7 swordsmen of the hidden mist, and no one alive could face all 7 by themselves. These 7 had allied themselves with Mei terume in direct opposition to the mizukage. Among them were Kisime Hoshigaki, Zabuza momochi, Jinin Akebino, Mangetsu Hozuki, Kushimaru Kuriarare, Jinpachi Munashi, and Raiga Kurosuki. Tayuya went past them easily enough without so much as a glance, her presence in the camp well known by this point. News of an uzumaki had spread like wildfire, igniting the morale of the rebellion. The uzumaki were a well known ally of kiri in days long since past and their presence here would be most welcome had the tyrannical rule of the mizukage not tainted the village.
"Alright I can see the rebellion leader, Tayuya's confronting her now." Negi spoke quietly, careful not to draw the attention of the highly trained jonin patrolling the outside of the wall around the camp.
"Good. Do you know where she'll lead her?"Sasuke asked, wanting to wait near the ambush location.
"She said she'd lead her to the left-most of the warehouses near the base camp. Do you want to head there now?" Negi informed.
"Yeah, let's go." Sasuke quickly moved from the building they perched on to watch the engagement. His focus zeroing on the warehouse in question, His speed doubling, and then tripling to move past the guards without notice. The swordsmen, confident no one would dare approach their camp with such feircesome shinobi on display.
"Hey did you see somethin'?" Zabuza asked no one in particular. Zabuza wore a white face mask that resembled bandages, his kirigakure headband hanging loosely on his forehead. His chest wear consisted of a black muscle shirt and matching black pants. The outfit finished with black shinobi sandals and more bandages hanging loosely on his neck. He wields kubikiribocho, a sword that rebuilt and sharpened itself from the blood of its victims.
"Oh lighten up zabuza, it's not like anyones actually tryna get in there. Come on, have a drink with us." Kisame answered. Kisame could be most accurately described as a blue skinned fish-person(fish-man if you will). With gills on his cheeks and razor sharp teeth his form was quite intimidating. His outfit was the same as zabuzas sans the bandages. He wielded samehada, a sword that drains the chakra from its victims for every strike.
"Hey if you saw somethin', I want first dibs. I want to hear em' squeal, hahaha." Kushimara said sadistically, his maniacal laughter echoing in the open air. Kushimaru wore an Anbu's mask and had messy, golden hair that looked sorta like a bush. He too shared Zabuza's outfit with bandages on his neck. He wields nuibari, a needle-like long sword that was able to stitch its victims together with lethal precision.
"Hey, if anyone's getting first dibs, it'll be me you hericidal psycho!" Jinpachi yelled in response. Jinpachi had bandages covering the top of his head, right over where his headband rested. His hair is brown in colour, and wore an eyepatch over his left eye. Following the theme of the 3 before he changed the flow by adding a brown overcoat on his uniform. He wielded shibuki, the blast sword, capable of delivering high intensity explosions upon striking.
"Who are you calling crazy, baldy?" Kushimaru yelled back.
"I'm not bald! It's just a bandage dumbass!" Jinpachi insulted right back.
"Enough both of you. Leave it be. It was probably just zabuza's nerves. We've been on the lookout for 3 days straight. We're all itching for some action." This level headed man was mangetsu. He had white hair and he too wore the uniform of the seven swordsmen. However he added some colour with peach colored pants and a brown belt. This man was capable of wielding all 7 swords but was partial to the hiramekarei, a sword capable of storing chakra inside it and then releasing that stored chakra to create any weapon the creator can imagine.
"Well I say if we're all so bored maybe we should go check it out? If it's the wind we leave it, but if someone truly got past us, we are obligated to make them see hell!" Jinin added. Jinin was an older man, with grey hair, done up in a top-knot, and covered a black cap, where his forehead protector rested. He also had a beard and moustache. While wearing the usual uniform, he wore a brown shawl over the muscle shirt. He wielded the kabutowari, a sword that wielded incredible offensive power in the form of physical damage. The sword itself was a single sided axe attached to a large hammer that could be used to break any defence.
"No, we will stay here! Mei told us to stand watch and zabuza remained vigilant. He would know if he truly saw something. Right Zabuza?" Mangetsu said resolutely and with authority.
"Yeah, it was nothing." Zabuza responded. 'That was definitely an uchiha and a hyuuga. But what the hell are they doing here? I can't tell the others. If I play this wrong we could go to war. I hope those brats know what they're doing.' Suddenly feeling eyes on the back of his head Zabuza looked over to see Raiga staring at him with accusation in his eyes. 'He saw them too." Zabuza noted quietly. Raiga wore many layers of bandages underneath a black vest with gold trim. He had green hair and puffy eyebrows. He wore green pants and black gloves and shinobi boots to finish. He wielded the kiba blades, twin short swords that were said to be the sharpest ever created.
Inside the warehouse
Negi watched as tayuya spoke with Mei and watched as the leader of the rebellion seemed to grow frustrated with tayuya. Suddenly she stood from her seat and followed tayuya to the agreed location. As they entered, the duo watched as Mei looked at them shocked. Mei was a beautiful woman with long scarlet flowing hair, a fair face, and a voluptuous body. She wore a blue dress, black stockings, and light, flexible, metal thigh high boots.
"Alright tayuya, what did you want to-" Mei cut herself off as she entered the warehouse, eyeing the 2 konoha shinobi in front of her. Her eyes narrowed
"What are konoha shinobi doing in kirigakure?" she demanded, no small amount of apprehension at their presence.
"I am sasuke uchiha, this is negi hyuga. We are here to end this war, and kirigakure by extension."
In an instant Mei's chakra spiked and the duo took a defensive stance, "what was that boy?!" Mei interrogated, all apprehension gone from her visage.
"It's better for all of us if you do as we say and concede quietly. Afterall you're from kiri, you have no chance against konoha, so lower your guard, or face the consequences." Sasuke said overconfidence absolutely oozing from every word.
Mei was furious, 'who the FUCK did these kids think they were?!'
"I don't know who you think you're talking to, but as you are obviously just children with mouths too big for your stomachs i'll give you 5 seconds to leave here with your balls still intact, as big as they may be." Mei responded warningly. After All these were still children. Overconfident? Yes. but still children. She need not dirty her hands.
"You will submit to your betters or we will force you to your knees!" negi added, following sasuke's lead. 'Not the approach I would have taken, but no point trying to salvage this now.'
Mei launched at the two her speed blurring into the unseeable, a punch raised toward the hyuuga. Quickly negi raised his arms in a block, sasuke's sharingan blazing to life, a jutsu being created, faster than the eye could blink. Quickly mei flipped back as a fireball seared past where she once stood. Negi took the offensive, his taijutsu blurring into action, terume barely keeping up with the gentle fist style when honed to such perfection, as sasuke leaped into the air to provide ninjutsu support. Terume suddenly leaped back again on the back foot, another jutsu, this time a lightning bolt perfectly time as negi took a breather.
"To think children would force me to use this. Feel honoured, young saplings of konoha, this is the end." Mei suddenly launched fiery magma covering the floor as it boiled towards negi's feet.
"Shunshin no jutsu!" suddenly negi teleported to a distant corner of the room and in his place, burning in the magma was a broomstick. Suddenly vapour launched in sasuke's direction, but sasuke had a backup plan, his hands once again blurring with the speed of his hand signs he matched mei's bloodline perfectly.
"Impossible! I've never seen an uchiha capable of this!" Mei wondered not for the first time who these two were.
"You've underestimated konoha, now burn!" Sasuke launched mei's signature magma release towards her. Quickly Mei's hands flurried through hand signs, creating an earth wall to block the magma. However in her moment of shock negi had managed to flank her.
"Hah you're within range of my divination!" Launching forward with his palms, Negi rapidly started hitting tenketsu. Mei unable to move backward with the magma behind and negi's unstoppable taijutsu in front, she had no choice but attempt to block.
"2, 4, 16, 36, 64, 128, Eight trigrams 128 palms!" Mei fell to the floor, her tenketsu blocked almost entirely and her strength sapped from the fight.
"Quickly sasuke we must move her to a secure location! The 7 swordsmen are almost here!" quickly grabbing mei in her near unconscious state, they lifted her onto sasuke's back.
"Uzumaki, make yourself scarce!" sasuke yelled over his shoulder.
"I still don't take orders from you!" tayuya yelled but acquiesced in spite of her dislike for the uchiha.
Outside with the Swordsmen
As explosions rocked the buildings around the camp, the 7 swordsmen jumped into action there speed blurring the line between human and animal.
"I told you we should have checked it out," yelled Jinin, a grave face on his features.
"Not now, jinin!" Mangetsue yelled in reply.
"And why not?" Kisame jumped in, "You're the one who decided to be leader for the day, it was your call to wait."
"Let's just focus on those brats alright?! Or have you not noticed our commander is currently being ambushed?" zabuza yelled trying to make sure the team didn't fall apart before they got there.
"Momochis right, we cannot fail here!" Raiga yelled for the first time, 'I won't fail the first person to give my life purpose!'. The 7 raced forwards towards the warehouse, but they would arrive too late.
When they arrived the warehouse was burnt down, the magma having crumpled the framework of the building. The rain was doing well to keep the fire isolated however. No sign of enemy shinbi other than footprints, until even those are covered with expert chakra control, as they water walked over the mud so as to leave no sign of their escape.
"DAMNIT! We're too late! Whoever did this could be miles, and we don't even know if she's alive! I wanted to hear them squeal!" Jinpachi yelled in frustration.
"We would have made it if your blind ass hadn't dropped your sword on the way!" kushimaru yelled back trying his best to be more frustrated in some strange competition.
"I told you, somebody caught me in some weird genjutsu for a second, by the time i broke it my sword hand relaxed!" Jinpachi defended. Tayuya snickered as she slinked off down the alley ways to catch up with negi and the asshole.
"Yeah right, well maybe you just didn't wanna save her?" Kushimaru goaded.
"Why you littl-'' Jinpachi began.
"Shut up you idiots! She's not dead, and Jinpachi just hold your sword better next time." zabuza intervened heatedly
"How do you know?" mangetsu questioned.
"If they were trying to kill her they wouldn't have run off with her. Look here, you can see a chakra signature indented in the ground where she fell. And here you can see traces of it heading that way, but a much clearer sign of enemy shinbi footprints heading out the same way, while there's no sign of her moving." zabuza revealed as he read the situation.
"Then they experienced shinobi, and knew what they were doing." Jinin responded.
"Nah, I'd wager they were just kids." Kisame reasoned, "samehada is loving the chakra in this area and some of this stuff is way too bite-size for it to be grown men."
"How the hell do you… y'know what i don't wanna know." kushimaru added in visible disgust for the living sword and his over friendly wielder.
"So how are we gonna find them? It's not like we can just stand around, if yagura finds out about this then we'll be toast." raiga said quietly.
"Kisame, can you track the chakra trail?" Mangetsu asked.
"Easily. They were using a small but traceable amount to hide their tracks. Child's play for samehada.`` Kisame responded proudly.
Konoha
"When that boy gets back, if he gets back, I'm going to kill him myself!" Fugaku yelled as he read the reports from his spies in kiri. After sasuke and negi went missing he immediately sent spies to the hidden mist trying to find where he may have gone. But with news of the rebellion leader missing and sightings of a hyuuga running around in kiri it was not difficult to identify the culprit.
"Find my son, do whatever it takes. Bring him home. He'll be lucky if he lives let alone remain a ninja after this foolishness." Fugaku ordered his anbu captain, "take as large a squad as you deem necessary."
"Yes lord hokage", orochimaru responded with a smirk hidden behind his anbu mask. 'This will be fun, fufufufu.'
A.) A longer chapter for sure but I had a lot of fun writing this one. Lol cliffhangers. Lots of people are reading but have no idea how yall feel about the story. Usually asking for reviews annoys me, but I can kinda see why other authors do it lol. 129 views and not a single review. Oof. anyway don't feel obligated but it'd be much appreciated. Finally got to write a bit of foreshadowing for the main arc of the story, after all this is just character development since sasukes kinda a prick right now. Anywho later yall.