1The Beginnings of Hell

(8:00 am Konoha gates)

As the morning hits its peak and the villagers begin the daily routines of cooking and cleaning and opening stores, while children head off to the academy, twelve people prepare themselves for the worst.

"Neji, come on!" Tenten shouted, "we're wasting time, hurry up, you too Lee!"

"You're right, Tenten, I'm sorry," apologize Lee

"Don't bother, even Jiraiya isn't there yet, wait, there are people there," Neji explained, "Four of them, five now."

"Can you see who, but I suppose we'll find out when we get there," sighed Tenten.

The three sped up the pace and made it to the gates, Rock Lee, orange bands concealed heavy weights he used to train and contain his power, a green body suit, and his forehead protector around his waist like a belt, thick fuzzy so called "platonic" eyebrows and a mushroom haircut, Tenten, a perky little girl with dark toned pants, a sleeveless pink shirt, almond eyes, she carried summoning scrolls that she can use to summon different weapons, and Hyuuga Neji, the genius of the Hyuuga clan, clad in dark colored shorts, a pale jacked with short sleeves, long brown hair tied in the back, a cap that's sides flowed down the side of his head, and his forehead protector covering the cursed seal of the branch family of the Hyuuga clan. They came to a halt as they saw the five people waiting for them at the gates.

"Yo," said the first, shorts the same color as Neji's, a green vest and a dark colored long sleeve shirt under it, and a mask that covered his entire face below his eyes. He had his forehead protector covering his left eye, but you could tell he was smiling. He had long wild gray hair that stood up.

"Hello," said the only female there, clad in a white and black dress, a black mesh undershirt, neck length black hair, and brilliant crimson eyes.

"'Lo," said the third, dressed nearly the same as the first had a cigaret in his mouth, an "Honest Abe" beard, and short black hair.

"WHOA! My Students!" cried the last, wearing exactly the same clothes as Rock Lee, but with a vest like the first and third.

"Yes, Gai-Sensei" Lee cried in return

The others looked at the two awkwardly, even Neji and Tenten, who then shrugged it off, as they were used to it by now.

"I won't let you down Gai-Sensei, I'll complete my mission one hundred percent and more!" Lee confirmed to his overbearing teacher.

"I know you will, Kakashi, Kurenai, Asuma, were are yours?"

"They're coming," Kakashi told him

Soon enough, the others were arriving. Hinata, Kiba, and Shino gathered around Kurenai, Shikamaru, Chouji and Ino went to A, and Sakura went to Kakashi. Naruto however looked at Jiraiya, then looked at Kakashi. He started getting impatient and cried out.

"Come on! We're running out of time dammit! Lets go!"

"Naruto, calm down," Kakashi told him

"Kakashi, he's right, there's no more time to wasting here, we've got to leave, now," Jiraiya told him, "hey, everyone, lets go, no more time, while its true you might not be coming home alive we've still got a mission."

"Right, lets go find Sasuke," Sakura responded

"I swear I'm gonna kill Orochimaru," Naruto told everyone.

"Tch, don't get your hopes up kid, its probably not gonna be that easy," Jiraiya told him

"I don't care, remember the damn training I went through, if its all for nothing, then I don't know what my life is for," he glared at Jiraiya, looked him dead in the eyes and pointed at Sakura who tensed up when she noticed, "if I can't do it, then I'll make myself able to, and you know why?"

Jiraiya looked intently at him and understood perfectly, but thought it better to let him express himself so he put on a look of confusion.

"I won't move for me, but for her, I made a promise, a promise I haven't been able to keep up to this point but I swear by all the stars in the heavens I'll do whatever it takes to bring Sasuke back!"

"Naruto, you're loud, idiotic, and troublesome, now shut up and lets go," Shikamaru told him, "even if you get hot-headed at anything any of us say, talking to us is just going to slow us down, we've little over two days and you're killing time, I might not care about Sasuke personally, or even as a comrade, but this mission is about us, Orochimaru wants to crush us, so I've every intention of stopping him,"

Naruto looked at him seriously, then gathered up a face of terror

"HE'S RIGHT, LETS GO!"

And the twelve quickly made haste to start the hunt. After about five minutes all of them were outside the gates, leaving Kakashi, Kurenai and Asuma standing there alone. Kakashi looked a little dumbfounded at first, at how immature Naruto still was, then shrugged it off and began reading his Flirting Paradise. Kurenai and Asuma looked at each other, then began walking away talking.

"Well, it begins," Tsunade said.

"Yea, hope I see those kids again soon," Kakashi replied