Guren, Land of sound

Guren gathered three students here, she had spent the last month training them through a grueling regiment of hand to hand combat and chakra control. Dosu spoke up saying "Sensei, why is it that you are putting through this horrible training, I doubt any other village is having their academy students do this."

Guren then replied saying "listen, we are a very small village, and due to that we can't field as many shinobi as the land of fire or stone, so Lord Orochimaru has decided to use a strategy of quality over quantity." Zaku then smirked and siad "I get it, since we are small we can't slack off like others."

Guren smiled and said "yeah and besides lord Orochimaru has plans for you, so you better not disappoint."

Kin who up to this point had been quiet spoke up and said "so Sensei, could explain a little more about your Kekkei Genkai Crystal Release."

Guren nodded and said "crystal release unlike Kekkei Genkai can take a lot more chakra since it doesn't naturally appear in clearly nature like earth, wind or water I need to use my chakra with extremely accurate chakra control, this skill in chakra control I've developed allows me to last in battle much longer than many others due to not wasting any chakra." Guren then demonstrated using her chakra to make a crystal in the shape of a kunai and launched it at a tree with speeds which no normal kunai could go."

Guren then told her students "for today's training I would like for Dosu to try improving your hand to hand combat so you will train directly with me, Zaku I would like you to see if you can improve the range of you sound jutsu and Kin can you try to improve on the genjutsu I taught you. Zaku and kin left to do their own things and Dosu began practicing with Guren, Dosu used his sound tools to complement his style which had to do with a lot of stay in the air and making sure they can't make a counterattack, he in addition used his tools to it her in important points.

Guren thought 'this kid shows promise, if I can improve his stamina he could be useful for Lord orochimaru."

their training session went on for this for twenty minutes until it was interrupted by Kabuto coming. Kabuto said "nice to see you training Dosu, maybe one day you'll be worth something." Dosu scoffed at this, he held his tongue knowing the power kabuto had in the sound. Guren then said "Hey Kabuto what are you doing here, don't you know I have to do." Guren hid no distaste as she had nothing to fear due to her standing with Orochimaru. Kabuto sighed and said "Lord Orochimaru wants to see the results of your work, he has a mission for you, he wants you to monitor shipping in the land of water."

Guren then in an angered tone said "hey, these kids aren't ready I just finished getting through chakra control!" Kabuto then smiled and said "regardless you have a job to do unless you want me to just tell Orochimaru your subpar." Guren realized what happened and Kabuto probably suggested this and wanted her to fail so she would lose standing to him with Orochimaru. Guren then said "fine, Dosu gather the other two we are going on a trip."

Kabuto smiled and said "good luck on your trip Guren."

Guren sighed in frustration thinking 'hopefully all of us can come back alive, we will prove kabuto wrong."

Kimimaro Kaguya, Land of Wind Border

Kimimaro sat next to a fire with Jiraiya and Shin. Kimimaro said to Shin "so what exactly are you, what did Orochimaru do to make you"

Shin then looked up and said to kimimaro "Lord Orochimaru created me as a last resort vessel, I was made from Uchiha cells, Uzumaki cells and some of his own."

Jiraiya said "so you kind of his child." Shin then replied "technically yes, however I do not view him as a father, I would much rather take the clan I have the most cells from, the uchiha clan." Shin then activated his three tomoe sharingan

Kimimaro asked in response to this "so you've mastered the sharingan, have you awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan?"

Shin flinched at that and said "y-yes I have and my mangekyou abilities in my right eye I can use Benzaiten, a jutsu that allows me to take control of any ninja weapon or tool, I also have in my left eye Bishamonten and that allows me to transports me or others to a specific location, with this jutsu I must be in close proximity to the person I want to transport and I must clearly know where I want to go, this can eat up chakra quickly so I try to use it as a last resort."

Jiriaya laughed when he was done talking and told the two of them and said "Well this is quite the team I am building here, one of the last kaguya's and a Orochimaru's uchiha experiment, now the two of you get to sleep, I will take the first watch."

Kimimaro, now slightly annoyed by the comment, answered "yes master Jiraiya."

Shin who was also very irritated said "well if you two insist I will go to sleep."

The two then went to sleep before their journey in the desert

Sanaito Kaguya, land of fire

Sanaito and Kahyo were relaxing in one of the many forests in the land of fire.

Kahyo asked Sanaito "so where are we headed." Sanaito sighed and told her "my spies have told me that Jiraiya is in the land of wind so that is where we are headed."

Kahyo sighed and said "man this is starting to feel like a wild goose chase."

Sanaito who was now starting to get annoyed asked her "Kahyo if this is so annoying why did you come here."

Kahyo responded "well I was kinda told to and anyway I haven't exactly gotten a chance to prove myself to you and lady Mei."

Sanaito then asked Kahyo "aren't you from the land of waves, why did you come to the land of water." Kahyo responded "that's not completely true, I was born in the land of water and I got married there and had a kid, however after the purges began a mob tried to kill us and my husband got in the way and the killed him so I basically grabbed my son and whatever I could carry and left, however things didn't exactly improve in the land of waves, some shipping magnate has been taking over, everything is overpriced due to that and food is scarce, someone tried to stand up before I left but he was killed of his troubles, so when I heard about revolution in my homeland I decided to join the fight." After she said this Sanaito put up his hand signaling here to get quiet ."

Sanaito signaled that someone else was here." After he said that eight shinobi in anbu gear came out of the trees.

After they came out Sanaito moved to action, he pointed his fingers three of them shooting the bones from his fingers shooting them at their heads causing them to go through their brains killing them. After Sanaito easily defeated their comrades two of the five jumped back, they then went after kahyo. Kahyo in response to this created ice senbon out of the condensation in the air shooting into the pressure points of one of them causing him to go limp.

After this the second one tried to kill Kahyo with a kunai, however Kahyo quickly took out one and deflected the attack.

Kahyo then made hand signs and shot water out of her mouth, however when the water got close to the anbu it transformed into ice and slices of it pinned him down.

After this Kahyo took out two kunai with explosive tags and used them on the injured shinobi.

Meanwhile Sanaito fought the three remaining anbu, one of the anbu took out a sword and Sanaito and him began a kenjutsu duel which only lasted for a short amount of time because they were interrupted by another anbu who was aburame. Sanaito realizing the threat of this aburame and pulled spine bones and pulled him in to kill him with a kunai."

The sword wielding anbu attacked him and got killed with a quick slice.

The last anbu went underground and tried to grab Sanaito's feet, however Sanato jumped out of the way when he came above ground and stabbed him with a bone and with a kick shattered his mask. Before the fight could continue Kahyo came and hit his chakra points with senbon causing him to go limp. Sanaito said to the now limp anbu "I know you can hear me and talk, tell me what was your mission and who sent you here."

The anbu laughed and said "I'm pretty sure you know my mission and I can't tell you anything anyway." The anbu then showed his tongue which had a curse mark.

Sanaito said "what a pity." Sanaito then sent one of his bones through the man's skull.

Kahyo asked "why did you do that." Sanaito said "he had a curse mark so we couldn't get anything, this does tell us something Danzo is after us so we will have to move up our times table ."

Naruto,leaf Village

Naruto was walking around the village center when Hinata came running up to him saying "Naruto, where have you been I haven't seen you in a while."

Naruto then said "sorry, I was doing something for the last few days with Sasuke, see I was-" Naruto was then interrupted by the voice of a Hyuga child, someone who looked slightly older than them. The Hyuga said "Lady Hinata, you shouldn't be talking to a no clan like him." This annoyed Naruto who yelled "Hey who are you calling a no clan, 'm of the Uzumaki clan of whirlpool, and I will rebuild it." the Hyuga smiled and said "oh really, you claim to be of the Uzumaki clan, even if you are it doesn't matter, for they were destroyed at the destruction of whirlpool and that is their fate any attempt to change that would be useless." Naruto realized he couldn't win with this kid and began to leave, when he did this Hinata began following him saying "wait Naruto, don't be mad at Neji, he has been this way since his father died."

Naruto tried to calm down saying " well I guess I can understand that but that doesn't mean I forgive him for saying that about my clan."

Hinata asked Naruto "so are you really from the Uzumaki clan." Naruto responded "yeah, I don't ever lie." Hinata then said "well, because I heard they all died at whirlpool." Naruto then said "well not all of them, anyway I've got something I have to do." Hinata asked Naruto "and what would that be"

Naruto said "I have to talk to the hokage."

Kakashi Hatake,land of fire

Kakashi was waiting for Tenzo in one of the many forests of the land of Fire, Tenzo returned from recon and told Kakashi "We might have some trouble up ahead, two Shinobi are up ahead." Kakashi asked Tenzo "Friend or foe." Tenzo said "I believe they are foe, they both have hidden mist headbands, however with the civil war going on there we cannot know for sure, however I suspect rebel."

Kakashi then asked "why do you suspect that" Tenzo responded "one is a Kaguya" Kakashi then said "I thought they were all dead" Tenzo then said "me too, guess some slipped through the cracks."

Kakashi said "Well we better deal with them, however we should be careful in case they could be allies."

Kakashi and Tenzo approached the two, this showed as Tenzo said a Kaguya and a young woman, they both had mist headbands. Tenzo went for the woman and Kakashi went for the Kaguya.

Kakashi jumped from one of the trees and with a Chidori Kakashi tried to slice through the Kaguya's heart. However the Kaguya moved out of the way before Kakashi could hit him with the Chidori.

The kaguya then said "so you must be Kakashi Hatake, based on your method of attack." Kakashi surprised said in response "well, you know my name can I know yours."

The Kaguya then said "my name is Sanaito and are you or are you not with Shimura."

Tenzo then said "Danzo, no we are not." Sanaito then said "good then we have no need to fight, I'm from the rebellion in the mist, we have a message for Jiraiya of the Sannin and you can assist us in delivering it." Tenzo then said "why would we help you with that."

Sanaito responded "if you kill us it could give Orochimaru of the Sannin greater power in the land of water and any alliance would be impossible."

Kakashi then said "what does this have to do with Orochimaru." Sanaito responded "that I cannot tell you, my higher ups said that is only for the eyes of Jiraiya."

Kakashi then said "fine." Everyone then put away their weapons and Kakashi said "my latest reports said Jiraiya is heading for the land of wind so we better start heading there." Sanaito nodded and the four started their journey for the land of wind.

Naruto Uzumaki, Land of fire, Hokage Tower

Naruto walked into the Hokage office, Hiruzen stared at him, Naruto said "Old man, I have a question for you." Hiruzen then looked up from his pipe and said "what is it Naruto." Naruto then looked Hiruzen in his eyes and said "who were my parents."

Hiruzen then looked Naruto in his eyes and said "Naruto, I wanted to to tell you this when you're older but I guess now is a good time as any, your parents were Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze, for the time being I cannot divulge much about them, however one thing I can tell you for sure your parents loved you and if they could be here they would."

After Hiruzen said thisNaruto began to cry and said to Hiruzen "why didn't you tell me this before." Hiruzen responded " this is a S class secret, if it got out you are the child of Minato Namikaze his enemies would come and try to kill you or try to kidnap you." After this Naruto just cried, he cried because he wished he could have known his parents but happy he knew who they are now."

After Naruto finished crying he went home, however there was one more surprise for Naruto in his home, as he opened the door he saw a creature that wore a black cloak and had completely white skin and seemed to be plant-like in appearance. The creature then said "Master had told me that once you had the eyes I should approach you."

Naruto then said "who are you." The creature gave a smile and said "call me Zetsu"

Dosu Kinatu,land of water

Dosu walked through the halls of one of the sound village's outposts in the border islands in the land of water. Guren stood on a balcony in one of the towers with Dosu.

Dosu asked his teacher "so master, what should we expect, it is clear this place should be expecting an attack so who will it be?"

Guren then laughed and said "well technically it could be anyone but I expect realistically it will either be the rebels or it will be Konoha's spymaster Jiraiya."

Dosu's eyes widened and he asked "Jiraiya of the Sannin." Guren responded "that's the one, I know what you are thinking, we have no chance." Dosu then quickly said "Master, could you please train me more." Guren was surprised by this as her student had never truly taken an interest in training before. Guren then said "sure, just follow me."

Guren then led her student into an open field made of concrete. Guren demonstrated a summoning jutsu, she summoned a small snake and said "this is a summoning jutsu, it can be very useful, your summon can be used to assist you in battle, forms of jutsu and some animals can even train you in senjutsu." Dosu asked "what is senjutsu?"

Guren then waved her hand and said "a lesson for another time, anyway before you can use summon an animal you must sign a contract, this contract must be signed in your blood." Guren then took out a scroll with a spot to sign. Dosu took out a kunai to make a small cut, however before he could Guren said "remember this will be for the rest of your life so are you sure you want to do this?"

Dosu responded "yes master I do, after all to gain power some things must be sacrificed." Dosu then made a small cut on his finger and wrote his name on the contract. After Dosu did this he attempted to summon a snake but only summoned a snake egg, Dosu was shocked by this. Guren however laughed and said "did you really expect it to work on this first try, no this will probably take a long time to master."

Dosu then asked Guren "are there any tricks I can use to make this go faster or strategies to learn?" Guren chuckled and said "no to learn this it will just take long boring repetition and doing this over and over again so you better get used to this.

Guren expected him to crumble after this but he began to go back to work.

After about an hour of tries Guren asked Dosu "hey kid, why do you work so hard, you don't have to put so much effort into this." Dosu then said "yes I do, if there is anything I have learned nothing is free, I don't think Lord Orochimaru told you this but I was born here in this land of water, I believe my family were probably kekkei Genkai users or we were considered sympathetic or just out of fanatical hysteria, because our home was burned sometime during the purges and I know my parents didn't survive but I did all I know is that sound shinobi Kabuto saved me with his medical-nin but under these bandages are scars from the fire." Dosu then removed the bandages showing the scars, burn scars covered his face and the only things that seemed to remain of a normal child was the black scruffy hair that appeared to be growing back and eyebrows on his face and his ocean blue eyes.

Dosu then continued saying "after that I was sent to Lord Orochimaru and for healing me I allowed Lord Orochimaru to do these experiments on me." Dosu then showed the devices that allow him to use his sound wave jutsu. Dosu then said "after that I met Kin and Zaku and trained with them and I guess that brings us here."

Dosu after that explanation got back to work finally creating a small snake, the exhausted boy then collapsed. Before he could fall to the floor Guren caught him and then carried him to his room. After she put him in his bed and left the room she saw outside the room was Kabuto. Guren glared at him and said "Dosu says you saved him, is that true." Kabuto shrugged and said "maybe, maybe I didn't, what is it to you?"

Guren then said "it's unlike you, you were never the person to help another person for no reason or for no gain of your own."

Kabuto then smiled and said "Guren your words wound me, anyway you should be paying more attention to whether you can keep this base safe, you know what;s at stake if you fail."

Guren then lowered her head and said "yes kabuto I know." Guren knew if she failed the students she cared for would probably be killed by Orochimaru and likely she would get an inglorious death not for being a vessel even just to be discarded for being weak."

Tayuya, Land of sound, southern hideout

Tayuya met up with the rest of the sound four with Jugo. The first one to speak was Sakon who said "hey, who is the new guy." Tayuya responded "he is Kimimaro's replacement." Kidomaru laughed and said "so it's true, he up and abandoned us."

Jugo spoke up saying "he's not gone, he'll come back." Kidomaru then said "sure buddy, anyway since he is gone now does anyone know who will take his place as leader."

Sakon then said "well clearly I should, I am stronger and faster than you guys."

Jirobo then in response spoke up and said "as long as I'm around you won't lead me, anyway Lord Orochimaru chooses the leader."

After he said this almost on cue Orochimaru came through the door, Orochimaru said "now congratulations on you achieving your goals, now to address our problem Jugo is going to replace Kimimaro on the sound four in addition I assure you he is capable after all his kekkei genkai is what your curse marks are based off, now who will take command in the absence of Kimimaro will be tayuya."

This choice shocked everyone, especially Tayuya. Tayuya thought 'why would he choose me, I am no stronger than the other why?' Kidomaru then addressed the question asking "Lord Orochimaru, not to question your choices but why did you give her the leadership position." Orochimaru then gave a smile and said " it is quite obvious her potential is greater and she can control Jugo, no matter you all should be preparing for you journey you five will be retrieving a kekkei Genkai user in the land of wind, prepare yourselves for this journey."

Shin Uchiha, Land of wind

Shin walked through the streets of this city in the land of wind with Kimimaro and Jiraiya. Shin saw as this city had seemed to have a large amount of people homeless and just living on the streets. Shin asked Jiriaya "why are so many on the streets, why isn't anyone doing anything, why do they treat this like this in normal." Kimimaro the spoke up saying "because it is, in places like this far away from the capitol they aren't helped, especially in the land of wind where most population centers are separated by large amounts of desert between different cities."

Jiraiya then spoke up and said "while it is different for different nations this isn't uncommon, with the land of water separating islands causing problems, the land of earth is separated by mountains and lightning has a similar problem to earth."

Shin then asked Jiraiya "what about the land of fire?"

Jiraiya then responded "the land of fire has less of those problems and more just a problem of leadership as the daimyo is incompetent and doens't implament meaningful reform to help the countryside." Jiraiya then sighed and said "now let's get to the mission at hand, Shin and Kimimaro I want you to search and see if you can find this girl with the scorch release, apparently she has green and orange hair." Kimimaro then jokes "so she is like Pakura?" Jiriaya then chuckled and said "yes just like Pakura, now let's go"

After Jiraiya said this the three of them separated and Shin decided to go on top of the buildings, Shin watched trying to see if he could identify them from the roof. While Shin was doing this he felt a strike to the back of his head, Shin saw a girl described exactly like he was supposed to find. The girl said "hey if you are going to watch someone go find somewhere else. Shin, who didn't know what to do, said "hey, you're the one I'm supposed to find." After he said this the girl said "oh, you're the one Kabuto sent." after she said this Shin panicked and cast a genjutsu and grabbed her before she fell to the ground. As SHin sighed with relief Kimimaro appeared behind him and said "what are you doing." SHin jumped back and said "Kimimaro, this is the girl isn't she." Kimimaro looked and said "well she does look the part, how do you know for sure." Shin then replied "she mentioned Kabuto sending someone to get her." Kimimaro after hearing that Kimimaro got quite cold and said "Shin we have to get her to Jiraiya."

Shin then asked "what's the rush." Kimimaro responded "the Sound Four are coming."

Naruto, land of fire

Naruto sat across the room from the creature that called itself Zetsu and Naruto said "what are you Zetsu." Zetsu then laughed and said "well, I don't exactly know, however I know who you are Naruto Uchiha." Naruto then said "what do you mean, I am an Uzumaki." Zetsu responded "not exactly, your mother was indeed an Uzumaki, however her father was Izuna Uchiha brother of Madara Uchiha, I was sent to protect you and reveal myself once you gained your sharingan."

Naruto after hearing this rushed over and saw indeed he had the Sharingan, after seeing this Naruto asked Zetsu "what should I do now?" Zetsu responded "technically you can do anything however I wouldn't say you should openly show it to anything as there are those who would probably distrust you more and some would attempt to steal them from you." Naruto asked Zetsu then "so what would you suggest."

Zetsu responded " I would suggest you keep them secret until you are stronger so that those who are against you won't be able to steal them."

Naruto then asked Zetsu "so what will you do?"

Zetsu then said "nothing or everything, if you ask I will do anything I will train you, teach you or leave and never return, I am at your command." Naruto then said "well I am going to bed so just do what you normally do."

Zetsu responded "yes master." Zetsu then disappeared through the floor as Naruto got ready for bed.