The Ninja Overlord Part 1: Rise of an Overlord!

by The Dark Dragen

Final Arc of this story begins, read as Naruto slowly learns the truth not only about his family and what he is, but also learns what was done to him. But as he learns the truth, the seed of darkness slowly grows and blooms, where Naruto will begin to walk down a dark path. Dark/Naruto... please read and leave feedback.

6. Chapter 6

Author's Note:Before we start the chapter, I would like to ask, as you read this chapter, could you think of a reason for Ino to enter Naruto's mind. I have an idea on how Naruto gets Ino should I decide to do so, but I need a reason for her to enter Naruto's mind. I hope you can help me.

Another thing, I'm sorry for the late update, but my muse to write haven't been there, not only that when the muse is there, the mood to write wasn't. So it has been a long road to get here, so sorry. Now when you get to the end of the chapter, please read to the end, as I have a poll at the end to ask who you would like to see in Naruto's harem.

I'm also after ideas for Orochimaru, he'll be a sort of a mad scientist in this story, doing different experiments and creating new chakra abilities and such. So I would like ideas of what abilities he could create, more the better and other experiments he could do. I'm also thinking he could create some sort of virus that gets out of hand, like the virus from the game Prototype. Where it changes people and with certain people, if the feed of other people and beasts with the virus, they gain new powers. What are your thoughts about this.

So you know, this chapter isn't Beta Read, so please bear with it. But this leads me to ask you this, if you got the time, I'm looking for a Beta Reader/Editor to help to make the story better. If you think you got the time, please let me know.

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Chapter Six.

Naruko Uzumaki - Part 2.

(Deal with a Snake.)

14th of January 1901 - Land of Rice Paddies, Inaho Village:

It has been two weeks since Masato Kyūshū, and his granddaughter Akane Kyūshū, formerly Kazuo and Naruko Uzumaki, left Land of Fire. We find them in a small village known as Inaho Village, which was located in the Land of Rice Paddies. Whilst Land of Rice Paddies wasn't as big as many others, it was one of importance, as it is the main Land that grows the rice was the Elemental Nations, and Inaho Village was one of the farming villages.

And whilst the Land was important to the other Lands for their rice, but to Masato, the Land was close to Land of Fire, and so he could keep a close eye on his grandson. As he had a few people who own him favours, which he would use to get information and such to keep an eye on Naruto.

Now seeing that they were in a new village, and starting up a new life, Masato decided it was time to start his granddaughter's training. So as Akane was setting her room up like she wanted it, Masato called out, "Akane, can you come down here please." But she didn't come down, Masato called up two more times before he called out, "Naruko, please come down here." This seemed to work, as moments later she did come down.

"Yes, grandfather." answered Naruko, as she came into the living room. She now had dark red hair instead of blonde that she was born with, and some of her facial features had been altered. The reason for this was to make sure that no one could find her, Masato done the same, but it was mainly his face.

"First off dear, you need to remember that your name is now Akane, so please remember to answer it when I call you." Masato scolded his granddaughter lightly, he knew it would be hard for her, but she needed to learn if they don't want the Leaf Ninja to find them. "I know it is hard, but you need to get used to it. You're lucky it was just the two of us here, what would happen if we won't alone? We would be caught, and our plans to save your mother and brother would be for nothing."

That scared Naruko, she didn't want to lose her mother and brother, she wanted them back. Some would say that young girls would want their fathers too, but her grandfather told her that it was because of her father that her mother and her newborn baby brother won't be with them now. Sure her father was dead, but she could never forgive him for what he had done, as he could no longer have her mother and brother with her for now. To get them back she would do anything and everything to get them back, even selling her soul to do so. It might be something foolish to think about at her age, but all she could think about was getting her family back.

"I understand grandfather, I'll remember." Akane told her grandfather.

"Good," Masato said with a smile, "now let's start with your training. The first thing I want to teach you is how to create your very own mindscape."

"What's a mindscape grandfather?" asked Akane.

"It's like a building or area to store your memories and feelings, and sort them out another time." explained Akane's grandfather. "It helps in training, so you can learn new things."

"Why will I need to learn this grandfather?" asked Akane.

"Because once you learnt it, I'll be teaching you a jutsu that'll help you in your training even more, but you'll need to learn this to help you." explained the old man, "The jutsu I'm teaching you is something our Clan teach our children to help in becoming a better ninja. The jutsu is called the Shadow Clone Jutsu, a special jutsu that outside our clan a very few can use to its fullest."

"Why is that grandfather?" asked the granddaughter.

"Because most don't have the chakra reserves that our Clan have," explained Masato, "those who try either die from chakra exhaustion as they used too much chakra, or they can only create five or ten Shadow Clones."

"So why do I have to learn this mindscape thing grandfather?" asked Akane.

"Because dear, when you disperse the Shadow Clones, you gain all of the knowledge they've gained," explained the old ninja, "For example, if the Clones trained in taijutsu kata for a few days before dispersing them, you'll learn everything that the Clones did as if you'd spent the last few days learning it. The drawback to this, however, is that gaining too much information at once can be too much for your mind; it can either kill you or shut your brain down for a while, depending how much information you were trying to gain. For this, a mindscape is useful for storing new information, so that you can review them later. Not only that, but if you create say two clones and use them to train for two days and disperse, it would be like you have trained for four days. So, creating more Shadow Clones, means you gain for experience within a short period of time, like creating twelve clones and train for a month, you would get a years' worth of training."

Being only four, she didn't get it all, but little Akane understood enough of what her grandfather told her. Her Clan had the ability to learn many skills in a short time, but it can be dangerous as it put too much information into their minds. To keep their minds safe, they had to learn something called a mindscape where they can store the memories and use them later.

So she asked, "So how do I learn to create this mindscape?"

"Well first I need to teach you how to meditate, and then…" and with that Masato, began to tell his granddaughter what was entailed to create a mindscape. And then begun to teach Akane how to meditate.

o0OoO0o

26th of October 1901 - Land of Rice Paddies, Inaho Village:

It has been about nine months since Masato and Akane moved into Inaho Village, and over the last few months, the two have been fitting into the village. Masato had been renting himself out as a ninja for hire when people found out he used to be a ninja. There was no need of jobs for a former ninja, as it would seem that the village had a secret that only a few knew about.

It seems that the village was an underground hideout for bandits, thieves and other criminals, were either hiding from the law and looking for work, from a guild hidden under the village. And having a ninja in the village was useful for them, as they could get the information they needed for their jobs or do things they couldn't. Masato had no problems in doing these jobs, seeing that he had done much worse in the past.

Because of this, he had to leave his granddaughter with the guild, where their members would look after her. It wasn't something Masato wanted to do, but they needed money to get by on, and so he had to do it. But he gave them a warning that should anything happen to Akane in their care, he would hunt them down one by one and give them a slow painful death and no one would find their bodies. And so, whilst Masato was out of the village, the guild taught her to pick locks, pockets, hunting, tracking and other useful skills that they picked up in their time.

As for Akane, she was still having nightmares of losing her parents and her brother. She would wake up in a cold sweat, wanting her mother. It broke Masato's heart when this happened, which is why he tried everything he could to make her happy. Thankfully though, she had begun to make friends of her own age in the village and been playing with them.

Masato was taking his time with training his granddaughter in creating a mindscape, not only because she was young, or because of losing her family, but because for her mindscape. She needed to create a place where not only did she felt safe, but a place that she knew well so she can create things to store her memories. As of yet, she had yet found a place like this.

So, whilst creating a mindscape taking its time, Masato decide it was time to start teaching her chakra control exercises. Normally he would have waited another year seeing that her chakra was still growing, but the problem was that she wasn't a normal child, thanks to her damn father, she was now a Jinchūriki. So, because she wasn't trained to control her chakra before becoming one, Akane would need to train earlier and harder than she would have before.

Now it was another Saturday afternoon, and Masato was watching his granddaughter meditating. He had her keep doing so, as even without the mindscape, meditation helped to control a person's emotions. Like how over time she might feel the Kyūbi's feelings and could get angry easier than normal because of its hate for her and the rest of the humanity.

Now he pushed a small amount of chakra towards Akane, to let her know that he wanted her as when she was in a meditation state, it was hard to get her out of it.

Feeling the chakra pulse, Akane came out of her meditation state and said, "Yes grandfather?"

"Today, I'm going to start teaching you chakra control exercise." Masato told his granddaughter.

"Grandfather, you said you wouldn't train me until I was eight?" asked the five-year-old.

"That's true, but remember what I told you, after what your father done to you and your brother, both of you need to be trained sooner than normal children." Masato told his granddaughter. He told her his granddaughter the truth about what her father did to her and Naruto, as keeping it from her would just cause more trouble in the long run. But when asked why her father would place the Nine-Tailed Beast in her and her brother, Masato had to admit he wasn't really sure, but he could guess.

He admitted that what Minato did wasn't for them, but for the Hidden Leaf Village, so that they wouldn't be without a Jinchūriki. As if any of the villages learned that the Leaf Village didn't have a Jinchūriki, it would be an open session on the village. As the main reason why, the village wasn't attacked often, was because they feared that the Leaf Village would use their Jinchūriki.

Hearing this, Akane asked her grandfather if her mother went along with this, and did her father really loved them. As from what she heard how Jinchūriki were normally treated, she had to wonder why her father would do this to them. Masato told Akane that her mother most likely was against the idea, as she knew what it was like to be a Jinchūriki and knew the risks of making someone so young a Jinchūriki would be and so she wouldn't agree to it. As the child's chakra would be all over the place and depending on when the Tail Beast was sealed within them, could make the child mad.

Masato explained to Akane, that it was better for someone to become a Jinchūriki willing, and once they had some decent chakra control beforehand. As the extra chakra from the Tail Beasts could make things worse if they didn't have some control beforehand. And if the Beast was sealed at a young age, and it wasn't done right, the child could go mad with the Beast trying to take control of the Jinchūriki. It was rare for this to happen, seeing that the seals were normally done by masters, but it can happen.

So the grandfather told the granddaughter that her mother wouldn't want this for her children, and so wouldn't willingly allow them to become Jinchūriki at such a young age. And especially not when they didn't agree to become one like she did. She would more than willing to have Kyūbi sealed back into her and die, which would allow it to disappear for a few years before reappearing somewhere else.

As for her father, Masato admitted that yes, he did love her and Naruto, but as Hokage, he put the village over them. He knew the risks of what might happen to his children, but Masato believed that having a Jinchūriki in the village was better than having the Tailed Beast gone for a few years, who might not even bother them again as long as they didn't bother it. Like most Tailed Beasts, Masato knew that unless they were bothered first, the Nine-Tails would not attack a village first. It would more than be happy to be left alone. So, whatever the reason, he decided that to split Kyūbi soul into two, as it was too powerful to place them in one person, and place the souls into her and Naruto.

When Akane heard this, she wasn't heard what to think about it. Sure, she was upset about being a Jinchūriki, and that she and her brother's life will be harder than it meant to. She was glad that she had her grandfather there for her, but her brother had no one. She promised herself that she would do whatever it took to become stronger so that the day she and her brother reunite, she could protect him. And should he have a troubled life, do whatever it took to make him happy, and make those who hurt him pay.

"So what are you going to teach me grandfather?" asked the young girl.

"Uzumaki Leaf Floating Exercise." Masato informed Akane, "Now Uzumaki Leaf Floating Exercise is different to the Leaf Floating Exercise. Now normally when you do the Leaf Floating Exercise, the teachers would have it so that you had to use enough chakra to float a leaf on your forehead. But the Uzumaki Leaf Floating Exercise would have you first float a leaf over the palm of their hand and making it spin clockwise, and once you have done that, you would have to spin it anti-clockwise. And once you mastered that, you would have to do so on your other hand. However, for you though dear, you'll need to take an advanced version of this exercise."

"What do you mean grandfather?" asked the young blonde girl.

"Because you have larger than normal reserves, even for an Uzumaki, you'll need to do more to control your chakra." explained the elderly man, "Now, as you know our Clan have more chakra than anyone else in the Elemental Nations, but from time to time, we'll have children who'll have even more chakra than a normal Uzumaki would have. I am one of them. And because of this, I had to do an advanced version of the Uzumaki Leaf Floating Exercise, to get better control of my chakra. For this, I would have to spin a leaf on my finger, and once I have done that, I would have to do it on the next finger. I would have to keep on doing so until I could do so on all of my fingers, and it's something I want you to do. And once you are done with this, I can start teaching you some jutsu."

And with that, Masato began to teach his granddaughter the Uzumaki Leaf Floating Exercise.

o0OoO0o

25th of March 1904 - Land of Rice Paddies, Inaho Village:

It has been about two and a half years since Masato started Akane on her chakra control exercise. Akane had hoped that she would be able to get some progress in the first exercises in a week or so, but she didn't take into account her age and how much chakra she had. In fact, it took a month before his granddaughter could keep the leaf on the palm of her right hand for more than a few minutes, and it took until the end of the second month before she could keep the leaf spinning clockwise for the same amount of time. It took Akane over a year before she could do this for both of her hands.

Masato smiled as he remembered that Akane wanted to learn more, but he wouldn't allow it. Yes, he wanted her to learn as much as possible, as soon as possible, but he realized in doing so he would be rubbing her, her childhood. Sure, he wanted revenge on those who wrong them, but he didn't have to drag into it too soon, her mother would never forgive him if he did.

He knew that once she becomes a full-time kunoichi, her childhood at the age of twelve, she would no longer be a child but an adult. At which point would be the time to bring her into his scheme for revenge. For now, he would allow her time to be a child and have fun with her friends. In fact, he was thinking about sending her to another Land, she could attend one of the Ninja Academy in one of the Hidden Villages, as this Land didn't have a Hidden Village.

Sure, he could home-school Akane, but he wanted her to gain her own allies and friends, as he wouldn't always be there for her. So, this is why he wanted to go to a Hidden Village, to gain allies who'll help her to protect herself and Naruto and help them repay those who done them wrong.

Seeing that Akane was going to become a kunoichi, Masato asked his granddaughter what she believed a ninja was. He asked her as he wanted her to know the truth about what being a ninja was, not the fairy tale version that some Hidden Villages give the children. As suspected, she thought that ninjas were heroes, and save people and such. So, Masato told his granddaughter the truth, the only people who think them as a hero were the village that they live in. And that was only when they helped in a war or won a big battle or done something to be seen as a hero in the village.

For the rest of the world, they were, assassins, terrorists, and mercenaries… mainly hired hands to do any job as long as the pay was right. That the Ninja World was there to keep the peace in the normal world, by doing the dirty work for others to keep those with power safe and naive about the going on's in the real world. What they didn't know, would keep them from seeing how the world really was. A ninja was someone who did a lot of bad things so that they kept the peace for the rest of the world.

To the rest of the world, they were the bad guys most of the time, and give the normal people more reason to hate them. When Akane asked for the other reason that people hated the Ninja World, so he would tell them that it was because of their power and the wars that they sometimes have because of said power. The grandfather admitted that he could see their point about hating a ninja, but what the normal person didn't know that without them, the world would be a more dangerous place.

As the Ninja World were the ones keep track and teach those who can wield chakra, and should they go, rogue, it would be up to them to deal with the Rogue Ninja. As there won't many normal people who could deal with a ninja, and so ninja would deal with their own. Not only that, but Masato and many others feared that without a Ninja Village, those with the ability to wield chakra would find another way to do so, and there would be nobody would have the skills nor the resources to deal with those who go rogue, or at least that's what they believe.

Masato knew that Akane wasn't sure about this, she told him so, but over the following weeks, as they talk about it, she came to agree with him. During their talks with his granddaughter, Akane agreed that without the Ninja Villages to do the dirty work of the normal world, the world could be in chaos.

Now whilst he wanted his granddaughter to have a childhood, he did teach her and kenjutsu, throwing her weapons the right way, and to build her mindscape. It was about two months ago that Akane was able to create her mindscape, which was of their local forest, the one that she had been playing in for the last few years. Over the years she gained a few friends, where she played hide and seek among other games within the forest. She enjoyed it, and so decided to create her mindscape around it.

Kazuo was proud of his granddaughter, being able to create such a good mindscape at her age. Normally it would take years to create such a place, as people start off small and make it bigger over time, but Akane started off big. And thanks to a jutsu that he learned from the Yamanaka Clan, he was able to look around Akane's mindscape.

Viewing the forest mindscape, Masato saw that the only difference was that in the centre was a huge tree, with an underground tunnel. At the end of the tunnel, was the imprisoned Yin Nine-Tails, angry at what happened to it. So, Masato told his granddaughter that until she was stronger, she shouldn't try talking to it just yet. As not only because it hating her, but Kyūbi would try and trick her in releasing it from its prison. Which Akane agreed to do so and worked on her mindscape.

But once she was strong enough, show that she could be trusted, and she wouldn't use it as a weapon, but at the same time she would be weary what the fox said and do to help her, she should try and become a partner with it. When Akane asked her grandfather why she should try to become a partner to the beast when he told her not to trust it fully, Masato told her that because of its hatred towards humans, and not liking being caged up, it would always try and escape. Which could kill her if that happened and would go to her brother to kill him to get its other half? Not only that, but the Nine-Tails could physically hurt her should she use its chakra without the partnership. So because of this, as Akane worked on her mindscape, she would try and talk with Kyūbi.

So, the following months, the grandfather helped his granddaughter to build her mindscape more, places to store her memories and feelings. Akane wanted to create her mindscape to be like a forest village, where people, or in this case her memories, lived within the trees. So, they were planning to create wooden bridges to get from one tree to another, and then create huts to store her memories, or have homes built within the trees to store memories there too. But for some memories that Akane wanted to forget, or keep from others from seeing them, they created tunnels under the trees, where seals were there to block people from entering.

It was slow going, and Akane was working on a tunnel to keep her bad memories away, she that she wouldn't have any more nightmares about her mother and brother. And thankfully it seemed to be working, as, over the two months, she was slowly getting fewer nightmares. It would be a while longer before she would stop having nightmares, but they hope soon that part or Akane's life will be over.

Learning that his granddaughter now had a decent chakra control and was beginning to create a good mindscape, as soon as Akane created a few places to put her memories in where she can get to them, Masato was going to teach her the Shadow Clone Jutsu.

Thinking about all this, over and over again, Masato cursed Minato for what his son-in-law had done to him and his family. Because of Minato, he and his granddaughter had to leave the Land of Fire, his daughter was in a state of animated stasis, where thanks to the seals he used she'll never age until she was taken out of it. Not only that, but his grandson was without his family.

And it was all because of the Banishment Jutsu that was placed on him, thanks to his goddamn son-in-law. He was the one who told the Third Hokage to put it on him when he, so to keep Naruto in the village and away from his family. Now one would think that as a Seal Master, he would able to undo the Banishment Jutsu, especially one he helped to create. But the thing was, it would seem that to make sure that a seasoned Seal Master couldn't undo it and allowing the banished ninja back into his banished village, Minato altered the seal formula after they were done with it.

Now, the only person who could undo the seal, was the same person who cast it onto the ninja, as only his chakra signatures could undo the seal. Should anyone else try and undo the seal, the person who has it on them would only have a few months to a year to live before they died. Which is why Masato didn't remove it just yet, he had to train his granddaughter, so that she could protect her mother and brother, where he could not. It's not that he didn't want to, but he had a plan to save his daughter and bring her back to her children. But for that to happen, he had to give up his life to do so. But reuniting his daughter with her children, he would die happily know that he could do that for them.

Now over the last two and a half years, he had been doing many missions, many of them was to defeat strange bug like creatures. They won't like any creatures that he faced before, as when they were killed, chakra orbs drop from them, it was very strange. The orbs could be red, brown, blue, green or yellow, it was unlike anything that Masato ever seen before, it was like the creatures were made from pure chakra.

Masato thought it was impossible, as the only creatures he knew that were made from pure chakra, were the Tailed Beasts. But they were impossible to kill, as once someone defeats them, they would disappear for a few years before reappearing again with a new body. They never once drop chakra orbs before, and people didn't know what they were or why it was happening, many were researching them to find out. It was just lucky that they won't too powerful, but they gather in swarms and used elemental attacks.

Now it was a Sunday afternoon, whilst Akane was playing with her friends in the forest, Masato was taking a walk around the village. It was something he often does when he had free time, as people knew he was a ninja and was training Akane, but he wasn't willing to get too close to others.

When asked why he just told them the truth, he had too many people who were close to him, betrayed him, and so didn't want to risk getting close to anyone and have it happening again. The people there didn't blame him really, as they knew that as a ninja that can happen, so all they could do was pity him, not that Masato cared what they thought about him. He was happy as he was, the only thing that would make him happier would be getting his family back together and then he could die happy.

Now as he was thinking about the past and how to train his granddaughter, Masato sensed that he was being followed. So he began to walk out of the village, to see if he was being followed or his mind was playing tricks on him. As he left the village and turned a corner where he could be out of few for a few seconds, he used the Substitution Jutsu and the Shadow Clone Jutsu so that if he was being followed, he would see who it was.

Sure enough, as his clone was walking to the forest, he saw that someone was following his clones as he kept out of sight. The person following his clone was a man who had very pale skin, golden eyes with slitted pupils, purple markings around his, Masato would say this person looked like a snake. He had pronounced cheekbones and straight waist-length black hair with some locks covering and framing his face or to his shoulders. He was wearing plain grey garbs with a black polo and pants underneath, a thick purple rope belt tied in a large knot behind his back, blue tomoe-shaped earrings, and shinobi sandals with bandages around his calves. At one point as he followed the person following his clone, he opened his mouth to show that he had fang-like teeth.

There was only one person he knew who was like that and only met a few times in passing: Orochimaru. From what he knew of the man, he was one of the three of the villages legendary Snake Summon Sannin, who had a life-ambition to learn all of the world's secrets. And to do this, he was seeking immortality so that he might live all of the lives necessary to accomplish his task. Masato knew that this man would like nothing more to get his hands on some of his Clans blood, seeing that they were well known to live for a long time, so would want to test their blood to see if he could do the same.

Last Masato heard of the Sannin, he escaped the Hidden Leaf Village a few months ago, rather than be persecuted for his crimes against the Villages. It would seem that Orochimaru was caught red-handed performing unethical experiments on his fellow citizens for the sake of immortality and power. He didn't seem to care who he crosses to seek immortality and to learn the secrets of the world, he would go as far as use children for his experiments. It was this reason why Kyūshū knew he couldn't trust Orochimaru, as he would be more than willing to hurt and experiment on his granddaughter to get to her blood.

The only reason he wasn't thinking about killing him, was that he wanted to know why he would be following him for. What did the Snake Summoner want from him from all people, the Sannin would know that he would more than likely kill him than talk to him? So, interested what the Sannin wanted, the moment that they entered the forest, he jumped down from the tree and places a kunai on his neck, and demanded to know, "What are you doing following me?"

"Greetings Lord Uzumaki, it has been a while." Orochimaru respectfully greeted the Seal Master, "Or should I call you Masato Kyūshū now?"

"What do you want Orochimaru?" the former Uzumaki asked in shocked, before demanding, "Why are you following me? Better yet how did you know who I am and how did you know where to find me?" He asked as he realized that he called him Lord Uzumaki, before going with Masato Kyūshū. He kept a low profile and even changed his looks so as not to raise suspicion.

"I know that you were here as I had someone looking for you since you left the Leaf Village." explained the Snake Summoner, as he felt the point of Masato's kunai went a bit deeper into his neck. Not enough to draw blood, but enough to warn him not to do anything foolish. "It took me a while, but me a few years, but I finally found you. Imagine my surprise that you were hiding out near my main base of operations."

"And how were you able to find me?" asked Masato, as his kunai drew blood, as he was getting annoyed with the other man.

"It wasn't easy, I can tell you that." Orochimaru admitted, fighting the will to fight because of what Kazuo was doing, anyone else he would have killed them by now. But the Snake Summoner needed the man, that and he was a damn Uzumaki, a powerful one at that. No sane ninja would take on a fully trained Uzumaki without a small army, check that, a huge army, and even then, there would be big loses within the army. "I never thought that you would be living in the village nearby. They only found you last month as you got sloppy."

"What do you mean by that?" Masato asked with a hint of warning, as he pushed his blade into the other man's neck a bit more.

"One of my men spotted you in the Land of Fire, near the Hidden Leaf Village." explained Orochimaru, "And they kept back so you don't notice you and followed you back here and sure you change your look."

'I messed up.' Masato acknowledges his mistake to himself. He went to Land of Fire a month ago to see how Naruto was doing. He knew a few people that he still trusted, who informed him that his grandson was in an orphanage and was being treated well. That no one knew who he was, just an orphan from the attacks, and was named an Uzumaki as they didn't know who his birth parents were.

Whilst Masato didn't like the idea of his grandson not knowing who his parents were for when he gets old, he was glad, as his parents did have enemies and knew that without someone protecting him, he would be open to attacks. So it was better that he didn't know who they were, he just hoped the asshole of the Third Hokage would train Naruto when he was old enough, so he could learn about his family.

"So, if you knew where I was for a month, why didn't you come sooner?" Masato asked suspiciously.

"I wasn't informed about it until recently as I was busy and couldn't be connected," explained Orochimaru, "but once I learned you were here, I came for you."

"So, what do you want from me?" the old man enquired to the Snake Summoner.

"Your help," was the simple reply from the Sannin, "I want your help to take over the Land of Rice Paddies and build my very own Hidden Village."

"And why would you want to take over the Land for and create your own Hidden Village?" asked Masato, "So that you can experiment on them? Why would I do that?"

"Well I can do it myself, I admit that, but I think it would go off much easier if I had your help." Orochimaru informed Masato, "You are after all one of the last reminding known Uzumaki within the Elemental Nations, so with you by my side it would be easier to take control of the Land without any bloodshed." Now, this got Masato thinking, but still, people getting experimented on, was something he wasn't into. Sure, to get a better life, it sometimes has to happen, some might see it as good and some would see it bad, depending on how the experiments were done. But for, he had no real reason to take part in them himself, that was until what was said next.

"Now whilst there will be experiments being done, for my own needs, there's another reason why I want to take over Land of Rice Paddies." the Snake Summoner informed Masato, "I want to destroy the Hidden Leaf Village," this peeked the former Uzumaki's interest, "I won't get into my reasons for wanting to destroy, to you they could be just pity reasons. But I thought you could help me so that you could get your grandson back."

Now, this really got Masato's attention, he had his own plans to destroy the Hidden Leaf Village himself, once he got his grandson back. But he knew it would take a long time to do, first, he would have to train his granddaughter, find people to help him and then he would have to train his grandson. And another problem is how Naruto will react to this, would he be fine with it, or would he fight to defend the village. He really would need to send someone to keep a closer eye on his grandson, so that he knew what was going on.

But still, this was Orochimaru he was dealing with, so had to ask, "Why should I trust you?"

"You can't and shouldn't." Orochimaru admitted without hesitation, seeing that in doing so would ruin any chance of working with the man. He was an Uzumaki and the former Uzukage of his Hidden Clan, so lying to him would ruin everything he hoped to do. "But as shinobi, we shouldn't trust other shinobi, as lies and deception are part of a shinobi life, so it would be foolish to trust other shinobi. But I can say that until the Leaf Village is destroyed, I won't try and hurt you or your granddaughter. But after the Village is destroyed, anything goes. Fair enough?"

"What's keeping from you breaking this deal?" the former Uzumaki asked the other man, "As you said, as a shinobi, lies, and deception are part of who we are."

"Normally nothing," admitted the pale-skinned man, "but with who you are, well I'm willing to keep my side of things as long as you're willing to help me. I don't want a man like yourself on my bad side unless I have to."

"So, if I help you, what do I get out of it?" asked Masato, happy to see that his and his clan's reputation made someone like Orochimaru think twice about betraying him.

"Other than my help to destroy the Leaf Village?" asked the Sannin with a blank look, "As long as it's possible, I'm willing to give what you want as long as you help me too. Give and take sort of deal."

Masato had to think about this, part of him wondered if he should tell Orochimaru where to go, but he was thinking. As much as he disliked the man, the Snake Summoner could be useful to his own needs. Orochimaru is known to be a mad scientist and done research and experiments, and maybe Kazuo might be able to get his hands on the research or the results on the experiments. They could help him rebuild his Clan. So, as he removed the blade from Orochimaru's neck, he held out his hand and said, "In that case, let's talk."

Orochimaru sighed in relief as the blade was removed from his neck, and as he turned around he saw Masato's hand out for him to take. And when the other man said let's talk, Orochimaru smiled and took the offered hand and said, "Yes let's talk."

And so the two left the forest and went to Masato's home, where the two would talk about the future. And in doing so would change the outcome of the future. This would be trouble for the Third Hokage in the future.

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10th of December 1908 - Land of Sound, Hidden Sound Village:

It has been over four years since Masato and Orochimaru talked, and over that time a lot had changed. For one the Land that once known as Land of Rice, was now known as Land of Sound, and the Village that was Inaho Village was now a Hidden Village known as the Hidden Sound Village. The reason for this was that Masato was able to help Orochimaru convince the Daimyō of the former Land of Rice Fields, to allow Orochimaru start up his own village, and change the Lands name.

In a bid to gain power and increase his status, the then Daimyō of the Land of Rice Fields agreed to this. Not only that, but with the deaths of so many of their ninja clans been killed off during the Third Ninja War. It was pointless seeing that they were facing the Land of Fire, but the Daimyō at the time had to pick a side in the Third Ninja War and they decided to side with Land of Earth instead of staying natural.

When those who wanted to become a ninja heard about the new Hidden Village, they all wanted to join it, to become stronger and get back at Land of Fire who they blame for the deaths of their loved ones and other reasons. They also wanted to join this new Hidden Village, to rebuild their clan.

Whilst on the outside, apart for no one knowing who the Village Leader was as he always wear a mask, everything looks all above board, it wasn't. Both Orochimaru and Masato were taking the role of Village Leader, Masato would be the Village Leader when Orochimaru wasn't in the village, to make it seem nothing was wrong.

The truth was that Orochimaru was using the Hidden Village to collect ninja for his experiments, so he could use them for his quest to learn all known techniques and discover new techniques. Okay, that wasn't one hundred percent true, Masato was helping in some of experiments. As Orochimaru was on a personal mission of sorts, he had joined a group known as Akatsuki.

These Akatsuki were an underground elite criminal organisation, existed outside the usual system of hidden villages. Only a few people knowing about them, normally you only knew them if they seeked you out. The only other way you would knew them were rumours from those who survived an attack from them. From what Orochimaru was able to find out about them, over the course of several decades, Akatsuki took different forms and was led by different individuals. And although they were viewed as either subversives or criminals, they all seek to make the world a better place through their own means. Orochimaru found out that each Akatsuki tends to have multiple lairs across the Elemental Nation, inaccessible either due to their remoteness or the various security measures that protect them.

Orochimaru informed him that the Akatsuki was lead by someone named Pain, and all his members were powerful Rogue Ninja. At the moment with him and Pain, there was Nine members and Pain was looking for a replacement tenth member, as the last tenth member was killed in a mission. Pain wanted ten members at all time, so they could work in pairs so that they would never work alone and don't get ambushed as easy.

They have a simple three-step objective: the first step was to obtain enough money to support their organisation. The second step was to provide mercenary services to the villages, being way cheaper than any of the Hidden Villages. They were use the money gathered in the first step to offset costs. It was their hope to make the countries increasingly dependent on Akatsuki's services, corner the entire market for shinobi missions, and eventually put all of the shinobi villages out of business because they can't compete with Akatsuki's prices. The last step was that once all other major shinobi forces have dissolved, Pain hoped they would be able to quickly conquer all the countries in the Elemental Nations before going for the rest of the world.

Whilst the plan might be simple, Orochimaru found out that Pain believed that if the plan was too over complicate, too many things could go wrong. So it was better to keep things as simple as possible. Masato had to had to admit that this Pain person had some sense, he knew if many plans that were over complicate that failed, and yet simple plans seemed to do better.

But from what Orochimaru informed him in his latest report got Masato worried. As the Snake Summoner learnt recently that the Akatsuki were planning to use the Tailed Beasts in their plans, so they could quickly start and then quell wars, thereby speeding up the process. Masato wasn't sure how they were going to control the Tailed Beasts, but Orochimaru informed him that they were given rings to do so. What the rings did, Orochimaru wasn't sure yet, he had to wait to capture their first Jinchūriki. At hearing this, Masato asked Orochimaru to return to the village so he could check the ring to see how the Akatsuki were planning to use the rings to control the Tailed Beasts.

Now one would wonder why someone like Masato would be willing to work with someone like Orochimaru, someone who was willing to experiment on people just to learn about their abilities and to create new ones, all to become immortal and learn everything that he could. A person who didn't care who he hurt, and who he had to walk over to get it. Now the reason Masato would work with such a person, was that the deal that the two set up had Orochimaru helping him to rebuild the Uzumaki Clan and make them even stronger than before.

And at any other time, Masato wouldn't even considered joining forces with the Snake Summon. But with the loss of his Clan and being forced away from his daughter and his grandson, he would have made a deal with a Mazoku to regain what he lost. And dealing with Orochimaru, it felt like he was dealing with a Mazoku at times, but to regain what was lost to him, he would bare and deal with it. It didn't mean that he didn't have plans to deal with the pale skinned man, it was matter of timing before he could set his plans into work.

Now as for rebuilding the Uzumaki Clan, it came about when he and Orochimaru were negotiating about joining forces. At first Masato had no intention of joining forces with the pale skinned man, but when Orochimaru said he was willing to help to rebuild the Uzumaki Clan with his experiments. Make it so that more Uzumaki would be born, and that they would be stronger than before, so that it would be even harder to kill in the future.

The problem at the start of it all, was that neither of them trusted the other not to turn on each other. But over the years, Masato was slowly able to gain some trust with Orochimaru, as he was able to help to create the pale man's Hidden Village much sooner. Orochimaru believed that it would be a few more years before he was able to create the village. He also showed he was willing to do whatever it took to rebuild the Uzumaki Clan, he let his morals go, as he knew that they would get in the way with working with Orochimaru.

The main experiments that Orochimaru had him doing were about Bloodline Limits or simply Bloodlines, to see if they could transfer them to another person. Normally Bloodlines passed down genetically within specific clans, but Orochimaru wanted to give everyone who could pay a Bloodline of their choice, as he knew his own personal research needed founding. And a good way to get money, was to sell people Bloodlines that were rare on the black-market.

For example, Orochimaru had a few prisoners from the Yuki Clan, who were all but wrapped out during a Bloodline Purge in the Land if Water many years ago. The Yuki Clan had an Ice Release Bloodline, which allowed them to control ice attacks. He also had a few people with other rare Bloodlines and was trying to make it so that he could give who won't from the Clans the ability to use them.

At the moment there, both he and Masato were having problems transferring them into other people. Although Masato suspected that they needed to find someone who had similar Elemental Nature. For example, Ice Release could be connected to Wind and Water Release, but even though someone could have these two releases, it might be near impossible to combine the two to get Ice Release. It would be one in a thousand chance for them to be able to.

But Masato believed that should he find someone with Wind and Water Natures, he could give them the ability to do Ice Release. But the problem is that it is rare for people to have more than one nature, as unless they were born with having more than one nature, they would have to train hard to do so. And because it took a lot of training, and take years, if ever to get another nature, not many would try and gain another. So, it would take some time before he could test his suspicions.

But should he find a way to give people these Bloodlines, he knew that he and Orochimaru sold them to people on the black-market. As he knew that if they won't careful, those who were against them selling Bloodlines could track it back to them and stop them. He knew a few Village would be against them and would be glad to see dead so that they wouldn't be able to sell them again. They knew that they would have to be careful as to who they sell to. For now, they would sell them to their allies, even then they would be careful. As the less trusted allies of Orochimaru could turn on them and create many problems for them. So, they would have to be careful should he be able to do this.

Now when he wasn't helping running the new Hidden Village, helping with the experiments or looking for their Clan Members that stayed in the Elemental Nations, Masato was training his granddaughter. Sure, there was a Ninja Academy in the village, but Masato wanted to train his granddaughter personally too, as he could teach her things that the teachers here could not.

Akane was now twelve-year-old and a Genin for the Sound Village.

Over the last four years, when she wasn't at the Sound's Academy, he was teaching her things that his own father taught him, things that ninja today would never think about learning. Learning are to be a ninja of old, a ninja that didn't have chakra. Most forget that nowadays, there were ninja who were able track chakra signatures, like the Byakugan and people who were sensor types. If they learnt how to hide their chakra, and use skills that doesn't use chakra, a ninja could never be found.

Today, ninja was about wanting the flashy jutsu and techniques. Most can recognize the value of good martial arts or illusions, while everyone is impressed with proper seals, even if only the upper level ninja usually touch on the study of them. But most people, when you ask about tools, can think of only one or two basic ones, the kunai, or a sword, or wire.

Masato knew this was a mistake. Just as bad and just as deadly as underestimating any other school of ninja arts. As a ninja tool was anything a ninja could land their hands on, like a stick. Most would think it to be unimpressive, cheap, and looks unimportant. You could get thousands of them for the price of one kunai. But people wouldn't think of them as a weapon, but what they didn't realize was that with a sharpened stick, the person would dead as if they'd stabbed someone with a flashier weapon.

Masato explained to Akane that most ninja rely on one trick. That just about everyone in the ninja world grabs hold of one tool, be it a weapon, chain, puppets, jutsu or anything else they can think of, and spends their lives dedicated to perfecting that. That to Masato was a weakness, as everything could be countered as long as you know how.

If a ninja devotes too much time to study of one art, they are vulnerable to those who've studied ways around that art. There are techniques no sword can block, Bloodlines that could find any concealed puppet master, chains can be turned against you and wires cut. Masato knew lots of good ninja that have died being too loyal to one idea, as although people won't admit it, everything has a counter, be it tools and jutsu, it is only matter of finding the counter.

They were ninja, and as such they fight dirty to win. So, whatever the counter be, they had to use dirty tricks, and be flexible, train a bit in every weapon that they could. Masato told his granddaughter that she shouldn't be too dedicated in the weapon that she trained in or some guy could come along to turn that skill back on her.

For an example, if she meets someone who can beat any swordsman, don't BE a swordsman when she fight him, resort to other tricks instead. Use the sword, but also use knives, needles, special moves and chakra powers. Use wires, chains and all that, just don't depend on them. She should be ready to change tactics to better suit her situation and using the right tool for the situation would be useful.

Say she needed someone captured. Wires could do her work for her better than most flashy techniques. Someone is better than her in martial arts? Use a puppet to draw him in, glue them to the floor so they can't touch her. Or blow their knees out from under them. Explosive tags are the solution to so many problems, and a decent placement of one can equalize a lot of weakness in other areas. Masato told Akane that she shouldn't be afraid to use the environment against an enemy. In fact, she should go out of her way to CREATE environments that favour her over her enemy. It'll pay off in the long run.

When Akane wasn't in the Academy, Masato was teaching her the different tools that a ninja could use. Not only that, but he taught his granddaughter how to climb up a without chakra, how to swim and other skills that that don't need chakra. If there was a time where she had to hide her signature and don't use chakra to escape, or go undetected, she would be fine and able to do her job. It helped that with Akane creating a great mindscape, he was able to teach her how to make Shadow Clones, which helped with her training.

Apart for that, he helped with training Akane to face the Nine-Tails, as it was important that she gets the Chakra Beast to work with her. As she would need its power to protect her brother and mother, which something she was already willing to do anyhow. Anyway, as the years went by, she was able to meet the Tailed Beast within her. Masato remembered the time when it happened, a fearful Akane cried as it didn't go as she hoped.

But he told her that it would take time, as Kyūbi had years of hatred and mistrust for humans, as it saw the human race as a plague. They hated each other, killed and used each other, and believed that it is better if they were all gone - it didn't help that humans wanted to use its power. With that and that the First Hokage captured it and its kind and sold them off to other village, and over the years was sealed into people so that the Hidden Leaf Village use its powers when they needed it. If that wasn't bad enough, thanks to her father, its soul was split into two, so it was no surprise that Kyūbi was mistrustful and disliked her. It would take time to change its mind, and it wouldn't happen overnight.

However, over the following year, Masato was amazed to learn that Akane and Kyūbi seemed to get better alone from what his granddaughter told him. She didn't tell him everything, but from what she did tell him was that it started off with her giving the Tailed Beast a hut within her tree village she was creating in her mindscape, that and they were talking a lot. Masato was worried what changed, but as far as he could tell, nothing seemed to be wrong, so he didn't want to push it.

And with the rest of the years, he begun to teach Akane how to deal with two of the greatest threats she might face when returning to the Leaf Village: The Hyūga and the Uchiha Clan, both of them had Bloodline known as Dōjutsu, the Byakugan and the Sharingan: two of the three Great Dōjutsu, the last one being Rinnegan, which said to be extinct.

Now the Hyūga's had the Byakugan, which allowed the Clan a near 360º diameter field of vision, with one blind spot at the back of the neck above the first thoracic vertebra. The range of this vision varies between users and can be improved with training.

Its vision can penetrate through any solid objects or obstructions, and likewise remains unaffected by blinding interferences, though certain barriers may distort the Byakugan's perception. The damn eyes were also able to follow high-speed movements, which allows the wielder to analyse their opponent's actions, and allows the user to predict and better react to them. The Byakugan is able to magnify and lock onto small targets and seeing infrared to detect a target through their body heat.

The Byakugan was also able to see chakra to a higher degree than the Sharingan, such as identifying where a person's chakra signature originates from - which makes them a great danger. The eyes were able to discern certain types of clones from the real person. The only clones they seemed to have problems with is Shadow Clones, as long as the chakra within the clones were shared fairly.

The Byakugan ability to see chakra is acute enough to see the chakra pathway system and the three hundred and sixty-one tenketsu that run along it. The Hyūga have devised a fighting style known as the Gentle Fist to take advantage of this ability, wherein they strike an opponent's tenketsu to either seal or forcibly open them, thus giving the user complete control over their opponent's chakra. Which can be a pain in a fight. The Byakugan can also decipher whether or not genjutsu is being used on either the wielder or others. Rumours have it that the Byakugan can also be used to extend the range of genjutsu

So Masato taught his granddaughter how to fight against the Gentle Fist and the eyes: the eyes would be easy enough, just have to blind them. But he knew that is she they lost the ability to use chakra, then she would have problems, so he taught her how to fight without chakra better than anyone else. But without chakra, it would be difficult.

But then again, Masato heard of something that some of the samurai use to help fight against ninja, something called ki. It was meant to be effective, so it could be useful to know. When he wasn't teaching his granddaughter, Minato was searching out a samurai, or someone else who could use Ki, and see if they could help to teach him and Akane.

Then there was the Sharingan, whilst it couldn't see chakra to the degree that the Byakugan, Sharingan eyes are more problematic. Now these eyes granted the wielder two broad of abilities, the first was the Eye of Insight and the other was the Eye of Hypnotism.

Now the Eye of Insight would allow the user to see chakra, giving it colour in order to distinguish it by its composition and source, it can it can see chakra through some (but not all) obstructions and detect irregularities in a person's chakra flow, such as those caused by genjutsu influence.

These eyes can also grant incredible clarity of perception, enabling them to read lips or mimic something like pencil movements. In combat, this allows them to see fast-moving objects and, once fully developed, offers some amount of predictive capabilities: they can anticipate an opponent's next move based on the slightest muscle tension in their body and act accordingly to dodge or intercept. They can also read the enemy's hand seals to give them an insight of the performed technique's nature, regardless of the speed of performance, so long as the hands are not physically hidden from view. Although a Sharingan user can see these things, they also need the physical ability to actually act on the visual information. Not only that, it was said that with enough prowess they could see people's memories with this eye, as long as they had eye contact.

The last ability that the Eye of Insight had was to allow the user is able to copy almost any jutsu they see, memorising ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu with near-perfect accuracy. They can then either perform that jutsu or modify it to suit their needs. Again, Sharingan users need the prerequisite abilities before they can mimic a jutsu they have seen, and for that reason they cannot, for example, reproduce Kekkei Genkai abilities they do not have or nature transformations they haven't learned to perform.

Now as for the Eye of Hypnotism, the user can perform what is generically called Genjutsu: Sharingan, meaning that they don't need hand signals for normal genjutsu. Now whilst there are various manifestations and purposes of the ability, the better known one is to, through eye contact, suggest thoughts and actions to a target, forcing them to divulge information or act in a particular way, potentially without the target's awareness.

In extreme cases, the Sharingan user can take complete control of the target's body, forcing them to do exactly as the controller wishes; this control is visually indicated by the Sharingan's design appearing in the target's eye. Multiple targets can be taken control of in this way, though the more divided the user's attention is, problem was it would be easier for targets to escape this control.

Now whilst not an ability per se, the Sharingan user can appear as if they are able to 'see the future.' First, the user must perfectly mimic every move their opponent makes and possibly their thoughts and words through careful observation. Then, they suggest an action to the opponent such as hand seals for a technique that the opponent and Sharingan user already know and copy that. With these things done, the user can complete the action even before the opponent does, possibly using the Sharingan's genjutsu to confuse or delay them.

There were rumours that Sharingan users can do other skills, but none was confirmed. And although the abilities are not literally restricted to certain eyes, for the powers to be used to their full potential, both eyes would be needed.

Because of this, these eyes were the most problematic, and the only were to deal with them was either to blind them, or he or Akane would have to fight with their eyes closed.

It was within the last year that Masato taught his granddaughter how to fight blindfolded, so that she could fight if she had to close her eyes or blind herself to fight a Sharingan user. Masato had to admit that if he or Akane had these abilities it would be useful to their needs for the future and wouldn't be such a problem.

Either way, as Masato was thinking about the last few years, he was in an underground lab created by Orochimaru looking at some of the results. Some of the results showed that most of the experiments won't working, whilst others were. The main ones Masato were working on, were Bloodlines that were either rare, like Ice Release, or Bloodlines that seemed to be extinct, like Wood Release.

Orochimaru was working on a personal project, something he was calling Cursed Seal Jutsu. As a Snake Summoner, he could have been able to train with his Summons to be a Snake Sage or a Great Dragon as the Snake Summons calls their Sage Mode, but he was never been able to. The problem was that his body was unable to gather natural energy to be able to become a Sage. Sage Mode would give him great power, opening up new techniques to them and allowing them to power up existing ones with the new sage chakra.

But Orochimaru found a clan who had a passive ability which allows its members to absorb and make use of natural energy without any training in Sage Transformation, which is why Orochimaru was looking into this, to see if he could use it himself, so that he could use natural energy to be able to become a Sage. But at the moment from the results from the test subjects from another village that Orochimaru was using before Masato joined him, the results won't all that good. As everyone who had these Cursed Seals became mindless monsters, so Orochimaru realized it needed more work before he could use it himself.

But as he was looking at the results, he saw Orochimaru came into the lab with his left hand cut off, and his body was stubbed a few dozen times. Upon seeing his partner like this, Masato asked worriedly, seeing he didn't want the man dead, yet, "What happened to you?"

"N, no time," Orochimaru told the urgently, "I need to you to bring me one of the test subjects."

"Why?" Masato asked confused.

"I, I'll tell you later, just get me someone." Orochimaru told him hushly, seeing he was in a hurry.

With that Masato did as Orochimaru wanted and brought a test subject from one of the cells. Most their test subjects were healthy, something both of them wanted, as it helped with their tests and Orochimaru didn't want them unhealthy for some reason. If it wasn't for Masato, Orochimaru would have kidnapped a lot of ninja that came to the village to experiment on, but Masato was able to convince Orochimaru to go only go after those who had above average chakra, rare or unique Bloodlines and abilities. He also convinced Orochimaru not to kill those with rare or unique Bloodlines and abilities, then it could be impossible to find another.

As if too many ninja that came to their village disappeared, people would ask questions that they didn't want people asking. They would get the rest from other villages, ninja that were rouge or didn't have villages for one reason or another, or those who didn't want to join their village but they waited a few weeks before doing anything. Masato also give Orochimaru the idea to breed those with rare or unique Bloodlines and abilities, so that they would have never ending supply of them.

Masato knew what he was doing was wrong, but he didn't care. As all what he was doing was so that he could rebuild his Clan, to make it stronger than ever before, and pay back those who made him go down this route. He made sure that his granddaughter never knew what he was doing with Orochimaru, as he didn't want her to look at him in disgust and hate for what he was doing to others.

Either way though, once Masato got a male test subject, he was shocked to see some shot out of Orochimaru's mouth and maar seconds later, a gigantic white snake composed of smaller white snakes with Orochimaru's face appeared. Here the Snake Summoner swallowed the man whole, and a few minutes later, the snake body dead as the body fell apart. And for the next few hours the body stood still for the next few hours.

When the man moved, Masato was shocked to learn that Orochimaru had taken over the man's body, and here he learn about Orochimaru's Living Corpse Reincarnation Jutsu. Here Orochimaru had to tell Masato about the jutsu and how it worked, that the jutsu allowed him to be immortal, that as long as he uses it, he can never die. But the downside was that every so often he would have to redo the jutsu, he had to use it a few time already. For the last two times, it was three years apart, as the body became too weak for him to keep using, so suspected that it would be the same for other host bodies unless he found a strong host to take his power, or like now he had to redo the jutsu as his body was too damaged.

Masato knew that Orochimaru didn't want him to learn this, but he was there and saw something the Snake Summoner knew he would ask questions about, questions that the former Uzumaki wouldn't stop asking until he got his answers. So Orochimaru told Masato about Living Corpse Reincarnation Jutsu. And when asked about his looks, Orochimaru explained that once he regained his strength from getting a new body, like a snake, he shed his skin and uses chakra to make him look like his old self.

Afterwards though, once Orochimaru thought it, he admitted to Masato that it might have been a good thing that the former Uzumaki found out about his Reincarnation Jutsu. Because as much as he hated to admit it, his jutsu needed a lot of work. The biggest problem is finding a healthy host every three years before recasting the jutsu - as in theory, this would allow me to live forever; the drawback to this is that it'd eventually be a bore. Which is why he had to find a way to stretch the longevity of his hosts.

Which is why he was happy that Masato found out about his jutsu, as being one of the few top specialists in Ninjutsu, the Snake Summoner hoped that together they might find a way so that he would only need a new host every twenty years or so, or when his body is damaged.

Little did Orochimaru realize, that he'd just sealed his fate with Masato. In years to come, he would be an unwilling servant to Masato's Clan, and that he would no longer be a he, but a she.

You see Masato had long been thinking about how to get one over the Snake Summoner for a while now, and Orochimaru had unwittingly given the former Uzumaki the key to do so. In good faith, the Sannin had told the man about the Living Corpse Reincarnation Jutsu, in the hopes he could make it so it last much longer than three years.

Unfortunately for him, Masato had other ideas, knowing that one of the side effects of the Living Corpse Reincarnation Jutsu was that Orochimaru was able to gain and keep any of the abilities that host had. Hypothetically speaking, if Orochimaru gained and kept whatever jutsu the host had, perhaps he could design a new host for the Snake Summoner; one to ensure that whatever host the Snake inhabited would have hidden seals that would prevent him from harming his granddaughter, or any of the remaining members of the Uzumaki Clan.

But Masato knew that for Orochimaru to overlook the new host, and not check for hidden seals, it would be a person that he wanted. A person that Orochimaru wanted more than anything, so that he wouldn't think of checking for seals. And there was only one type of person that would do, someone from the Uzumaki Clan. But that would mean that to control Orochimaru, so that he would hurt or betray his Clan, Masato had to sacrifice one of his Clan to protect the rest of them.

It wasn't something that Masato wanted to do, but to protect the rest of the Clan from Orochimaru and to rebuild the Clan, he had to do it: for the Greater Good of the Uzumaki Clan. It was one of those times where he hated being the Village Leader, being forced to make these kind of decisions to protect and rebuild his Clan.

But that was for him to deal with later, for now he had to find out what happened to Orochimaru. So as the Snake Summoner was resting, Masato asked, "So, what happened to you?"

"I got bloody careless," Orochimaru admitted darkly, "as you know I've been working with Akatsuki. Will a few weeks ago I was shocked and happy to find that Izumi Uchiha had joined the group, not only that but Pain made her my partner, when her old partner who was showing her the ropes was killed."

Hearing this he could only facepalm at hearing this, a damn Uchiha of all people, an Uchiha was the one person that Orochimaru wanted as a host because of their Sharingan. The Sharingan would allow an Uchiha to copy of an fighting style or any jutsu as long as it wasn't a Bloodline jutsu, and this was something Orochimaru wanted, as it would allow him to achieve his dream of learning all jutsu. It was also why he was experimenting with Bloodlines and giving them to people, so that once he was able to perfect the skill to give Bloodlines to other people, he could give the Bloodlines to himself. By doing so, he would be able to learn the Bloodline jutsu.

When facing an Uchiha and being alone with one, Masato knew it was a wet dream come true for Orochimaru. But he also thought that the man had more self-restraint and wouldn't attack one without planning it out. But still, he had a bad feeling that the fool did in fact attacked the Uchiha, so he asked, "Please don't tell me that as soon as you two were alone, you tried to attack her."

"What if I did?" asked Orochimaru, not seeing the problem with that plan, "How many opportunities do you think I would get to get a pair of those eyes? So of course, I took the chance to get them."

"You would have had many more opportunities if you played cool damn it," Masato told the paled man, "I swear, how the hell did you get named Sannin."

"And what do you mean by that remark?" the Sannin hissed, with a hint of warning in his voice.

"You know full well that an Uchiha are masters of Genjutsu thanks to their eyes, and that they only need a second or two to put someone under their Genjutsu." Masato told the Snake Summoner as if he was talking to a student, "You of all people know this, and know that you never face one alone, you always have at least a few people in your group to how many of them you were facing. As if they put you under a Genjutsu, one your partners would be able to free you, as normally an Uchiha can put two people under a Genjutsu at the same time. If you waited and talked to me, we might have a plan where you could have gotten the eyes and you would still be in the Akatsuki. But now they see you as an enemy and would be on guard with you."

"So what?" asked Orochimaru, "I was planning to leave the group soon anyway, as I wasn't getting as much out of them as I would have liked."

It took everything that Masato had to not to kill the other man, of all the things that he could have said, he had to say that. So darkly, and letting out some killing intent out, he said, "Have you forgotten that one of the reasons why you were still with them, was to find out what their plans were for the Tailed Beasts. Seeing that my grandchildren's lives are at risk here, I would have liked that information before you decided to leave them."

This was the first time Orochimaru felt Masato ever let out a killing intent, and he could understand why there used to be an unspoken rule that in the past everyone followed: never fuck with an Uzumaki. At first Orochimaru thought it was because of their ability in Ninjutsu and Fūinjutsu, but feeling Masato's killing intent, he knew that it was more than that. The killing intent of it was unlike anything that he felt before, the pressure of the chakra pushing down him realized there were more to the Uzumaki than people thought. If he was a normal shinobi, he would have passed out from the pressure of the chakra.

But before he could say anything, the former Uzumaki said, "One of these days, your infatuation with the Sharingan, will lead you into trouble if you're not careful." Then he shook his head, knowing that it might do no good, seeing that Orochimaru was so infatuated with those damn eyes, but had to say something about it. So changing the subject for now, Masato asked, "So did Izumi tell you why she joined the Akatsuki?"

"Not really no, she was shady about it when I tried to bring it up." the Snake Summoner informed the other man, "But from my spy in the Leaf Village, it would seem that she destroyed her own Clan apart for her own sister Satsuki and a few children that were hidden during the attack."

"Was she working alone?" Masato asked the Sannin, interested at this, as he doubted that she could have destroyed her own Clan alone.

"From what my spy able to find out she did." the pale skin man asked, "Why do you ask?"

"Because I find it unlikely that she destroyed her own Clan on her own," the red head let Orochimaru know his thoughts, "she might have been a prodigy, but do you really think that someone of her age is able to go against a Clan of powerful Sharingan Users by herself? I don't think so, she might be able to take a few by surprise, but once the sound of fighting starts, no she would have problems. Which means she had some sort of help. It would have to be someone powerful though, and not affected by the Clans eyes, which is very few."

Orochimaru had to admit that he didn't consider this and begun to wonder who it could be. The only one he could think of was Pain, he was powerful and wasn't affected by the Sharingan, but defeating the Uchiha Clan wasn't on his top property of things to do. His main property at the moment is gaining the funds for Akatsuki and finding the Tailed Beasts and taking them out of their hosts. The question was if Masato was right and Izumi had help, who the hell was helping her.

Orochimaru knew that he wouldn't be able to defeat the Uchiha Clan by himself, and without a lot of training, and he was considered as one of strongest of the ninja in the Leaf Village. But for a two-man team to do what many would have problems with, the second person would have to be super strong and someone he didn't want to face until he got stronger himself.

"You're right, someone must have helped her, but I have no idea who." the Snake Summoner admitted, "Whoever it is though, I wouldn't want to meet them, as they would have to be someone very powerful to be able to destroy most of the Uchiha Clan."

This got the two men thinking, they knew of no ninja who was strong enough to defeat the Uchiha Clan with Izumi. They knew no living ninja with the skill or abilities to do so, and this worried them. They knew that this person whoever it was, could be a problem for them, and so they needed to change their plans accordingly. They needed to create ninja with power to defend themselves with ease, otherwise they could be defeated as it was nothing. Orochimaru was somewhat giddy at the thought, as it meant more experimentation on people to make them stronger and more powerful, which meant later on meant he could become more power.

"Who helped her isn't the question right now, the question is why did she destroy her own Clan for?" asked the older man, "It's not like she woke up one day and thought that it was a good day to do so, she had to have a reason to do so. Did your spy learn anything about it?"

"It would seem that the Uchiha Clan was planning a coup d'état," explained the Snake Sannin, "and because she didn't want another war, she wanted to stop this before it happened. When ordered to destroy the Clan, it seemed that she was all too happy to do so. But for one reason or another, a few of them survived, her mom and sister being among them."

"And the old man was okay with this?" asked Masato, not mention the name of the old man as both of them knew who he was. "That action seems to be out of character for him, it would be his very last resort, having a Clan wrapped out."

"You're right my old sense didn't have anything to do with the destination of the Clan," admitted Orochimaru, "he is too soft hearted about things, from what I heard he was planning to start up peace talks the Uchiha Clan."

"Hmm." scoffed Kyūshū, he knew that the reason that the Uchiha Clan wouldn't have thought about planning a coup d'état if it wasn't for the second Hokage: Tobirama Senju. He always hated the Clan, even before the Leaf Village was founded, all because of the war that his and their Clans were in, and believed they were a threat and always will be.

From what his father told him, Tobirama said that the Uchiha Clan had what he called the Curse of Hatred. As whilst they are greatly devoted to love and friendship, but yet they tend to conceal their more affectionate traits. As when the object of their affection is lost, an Uchiha's love can instantaneously turn into hatred, leaving them more inclined to do anything and everything in their power to achieve their goals and show their own superiority, regardless of the consequences and repercussions of their actions.

Masato remember that his father said that this so called the Curse of Hatred load of bull, as everyone is able full into hate if they lose someone they loved. But it doesn't mean that it would happen to them all. Sure to activate the Sharingan they need to experiences something painful, like a lose of someone they cared for, but that didn't mean they would lose themselves in that hate.

The only reason that people distrust the Uchiha Clan was because of Madara. It was said that the man deciphered something from a Stone Tablet that had been in the Uchiha's possession for generations, some sort of history of the shinobi: of the endless cycle of failed peace and the destiny of battle between Uchiha and Senju, but also a means of unity for the world.

With this knowledge, Madara decided Konoha was a failed experiment. He tried to convince his own clan and even Hashirama of the same conclusion, but none would hear him. Madara chose to abandon the village, returning with the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox under his control to challenge Hashirama. They fought to exhaustion, and from the carnage of their battle the Valley of the End was formed. In the end, Madara was killed by Hashirama.

Whilst the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, tried to make it so that the Uchiha Clan won't treated badly, his brother could never trust them. Years later his brother died, not before making his brother as the next Hokage, and after his death Tobirama done many good things for the village, like created such institutions as the Academy, the Anbu, and the Chūnin Exams. Which were largely successful, enough that other villages adopted the same organisations.

The problem was with the Uchiha, because of Madara, where most of their freedom were restricted, although Tobirama covered it well enough, so that others didn't realize it. And if they did realize it, for their hatred for Madara, they turned a blind eye to it all. But to make it so that they seemed to be treated fairly, the Second Hokage created the Konoha Military Police Force for the Uchiha to run, so that publicly, it would be a sign of trust, but primarily so that the Uchiha could focus their energies into something beneficial. Others, however, would come to see this as a way to marginalise the clan.

And over the years, once he became the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi did very little to change things, but to keep things status quo. For what reason Masato could never figure out, for someone who wanted peace in the world and believed in this Will of Fire, he did little for the Uchiha Clan. He allowed his advisors persuade him to look the other way, or whilst he won't admit it, not even to himself, he too agreed that he couldn't trust them at times.

He had to wonder why the Uchiha Clan never left the Leaf Village after all these years, as he knew that a small group after Madara attacked the village, left and was hiding somewhere in the Elemental Nation, he wondered why the rest of them didn't leave. The only thing he could think of was it had to something to do with their pride, it wouldn't allow them to leave. As it was their Clan who helped to found the Village in the first place, so it would be like a great insult if they left.

With a sigh Masato asked, "So if not Hiruzen, does your spy know who ordered the attack?"

"Yes, he suspects who did, and you won't like it." Orochimaru warned the man, "It was my old friend Danzō Shimura, it would seem that he either ordered Izumi to kill her can or manipulated her to do so somehow."

"That bastard," hissed Masato at this news, "and what is the Hokage planning to do with the man?"

"Other than disbanding the foundation and ordering Danzō to disband his ROOT group, he isn't doing nothing other taking his power away to do things." explained the paled skinned man.

"That's all, that's fucking all he is going to do to the man!?" the former Uzumaki shouted out in anger, "What the fuck will it take to give Danzō the death penalty? During the war I can understand his actions, I would have done the same, but afterwards, if I was the Hokage I would have put the man to death for what he has done. Apart for helping you, which is I can't say much seeing I'm doing the same, he tried to have the Third Hokage assassinated, which Hiruzen let it go as long as Danzō protected the village. He sabotaged important missions. Then he let it be known that my grandson was the Nine Tails Jinchūriki, which was meant to be an S-Class secret, and now he ordered the massacre of the Uchiha Clan. I wouldn't be surprised if he was behind the massacre of my Clan. What does it take to kill the bastard?"

The Snake Summoner knew that Masato had a point, and if it wasn't for the fact that he was an useful ally, he would have killed Danzō long time ago instead of helping him. And he too wouldn't put it past the one eyed frake to behind the massacre of the Uzumaki Clan, as they were the most powerful Clan out there and so a threat to Danzō plans and so had to go. If he was behind it or not, that's another matter at hand.

"You do know that each village has someone who does the dirty work, so that their leader can claim they didn't know what is going on." Orochimaru pointed out, "And for the Leaf Village, Danzō is that person, so which is why Hiruzen gives him some leeway, that and he see Danzō as a brother."

"I can understand that," admitted the red head, "but to go against your village for your own gain like the ass Danzō as been doing, that's what I can't stand. Especially ordering the massacre of a whole Clan, if things got that bad, than you would need to look at why before doing so, as killing a Clan should be the last resort."

The Snake Sannin had to admit that the old man in front of him was right, after talking to him over the years, ordering the massacre of a whole Clan was stupid, especially if it was a Clan like the Uchiha Clan. They had a unique Bloodlines, and once gone, they could never return unless they had groups who were in hiding before the massacre.

Of course, that was on the condition the village wanted the clan to be rebuilt and with how things went down, that seemed unlikely unless the village knew where to find them. Seeing how they had to find them first. Then again, they might want to slaughter them too, seeing that they didn't trust the Uchiha Clan in their own village, it would be unlikely they would trust an Uchiha outside the village any more than the one in the village.

But Orochimaru also knew that Masato was worried about his grandson, and what Danzō could do to him. Whilst he had no family ties or feelings, he could understand in a way, if one of his experiments got into Danzō's hand, he would be worried about what the man would do to it.

But there was nothing they could do for Naruto right now, as neither of them could enter the village to help the young Jinchūriki. Nor could he have his spy remove the boy from the village either, as that would blow his spy's cover. But maybe he could have his spy help in the shadows, so not to blow their cover. Only time would tell.

Either way, Orochimaru said, "I know you hate the man, but at the moment we can very little about him. Whilst you might not like it, I need him alive, he is a useful ally and I need him alive for a while longer. As you have told me many times before, if we do anything before we are ready, everything that we have done so far would be for nothing. But once we're ready to move, you and Akane can do whatever you like to him."

As much as the former Uzumaki hated to admit it, the Snake Summoner was right, they needed the asshole Danzō alive for now. Not only was he Orochimaru's ally and so useful there, he too was powerful in his own right and had his ROOT members backing him. Like the man would ever give them up, even if the Hokage told him to do so. But that's not all, he also had his own allies, powerful ones at that, and until they were dealt with, they couldn't touch him, or they would have world of problems to deal with.

"Fine he stays alive for now." Masato agreed with a long face, "But the moment that we are ready though, he is mine to deal with as I like, and you won't get in my way with it."

"That's fine with me, as he would be no longer be any use to me by that time." admitted Orochimaru.

And with that Masato left to rest, so he could recover his strength for now, as he would need it. And whilst the Snake Summoner was resting, the elderly man would be training, so that he could let his pent-up anger out. And as the days and years to come, they would have a lot to do, to rebuild and recreate the Uzumaki Clan. In doing so, they would alter their world in ways no one believed possible.

To be Continued!

Author's Note - PLEASE READ TO THE END: Before I start the notes, please read to the end as there's a poll that I want you all to vote for, it's about the pairings for this story. As in who should be in Naruto's Harem. Now here ends the next chapter of The Ninja Overlord, I hope you enjoyed the chapter and that you'll take a few minutes to leave some feedback to what you thought of it.

Once again, I'm sorry for the late update, but as I said at the start, my muse and the mood to write haven't been with me with this chapter. It took me longer than I wanted to, but don't think I haven't done any work on this story, because I have. I have two chapters about Naruto done, which I only have to edit before I post them.

So you know, I wasn't planning to post it just yet, but the story was getting out of hand, I was planning to end the chapter with explaining Akane's past and meeting Naruto. But the problem is that the story was getting over 20k words for this chapter and didn't seem to be stopping any time soon. So, I decided to tell Akane's story in the next chapter, which is half way done now. If there's anything you want to add in Akane's story, please let me know and I'll see if I can add them.

As I told you before, I'm somewhat bashing the villagers and ninja in the Hidden Leaf Village, not really bashing but highlighting on their worse qualities more. In the last chapter I also said I'll be going to bash three possible four people that more than the others, but in the following chapters I'll be giving you my reasons why I'm doing so. In the last two chapters, I give you my reasons why I was planning to print the Third Hokage and Kakashi in a bad light, if you haven't read it please go back and do and let me know what you think, in this chapter it'll be Jiraiya. He is the last person that I', sure to bash in this story. (Remember, they aren't going to become bad guy or evil, just their worse qualities are going to be highlighted more.)

Now whilst Jiraiya is one of my favourite characters, Jiraiya knew who Naruto's father was, and about the Nine Tails. Now I can understand about not telling Naruto's father because of the fucking law saying that those who knew about it could talk about it.

I know some of you might say that Jiraiya didn't know that Naruto was born, or alive, I have to say bullshit there. Apart for him checking the seal when they first meet, Minato sent a Key Toad to Jiraiya with the key to the seal of the Nine Tails, so he would have known that Naruto was born and alive. But yet he done nothing to see him and check up on him. Some say that he had a spy network to look after, once again I have to bullshit. Sure, he had a network to look after, but he could have taken time off to check on his godson, leaving someone else to look after the network for a short while.

But when they first meet, and Jiraiya was trying to get Naruto to use the Nine Tails power, he wasn't giving Naruto the important information that the young boy needed. Jiraiya knew that Naruto didn't know that the red chakra was the Nine Tails, and that it was because of Naruto being in danger, and feeling strong emotions that allowed the boy to use the Nine Tails Chakra. Instead of telling Naruto what he needed to know and so help him, Jiraiya was dancing around the issue and lie to Naruto about it and make things harder for the boy. Jiraiya should have found a way for Naruto use strong emotions instead, making it easier for Naruto.

Not only that, but during this time when Jiraiya was trying to teach him to use the Nine Tails chakra, he was teaching him the Summoning Jutsu. But the thing is that he knew that without the Nine Tails chakra, he was unable to use it at the time as he wasn't powerful enough. So instead teaching the Summoning Jutsu, Jiraiya could have teach Naruto some other decent jutsu for the Chūnin Exams. But at the end of it all, to allow Naruto to get hold of the Nine Tails Chakra, and Summon a Toad, he pushed Naruto off a mountain. It was only by luck that it worked, otherwise he would have ended up dead.

Not only that, but during the time skip at the end of part one of Naruto, he didn't do much to help him. Sure, he taught the basics, something that should have been taught to Naruto at school, made it so he used the Shadow Clones more efficiently, and made Naruto think about making Rasengan his own. But other than that, he done fuck all during the time skip. The time skip was about three years, and other than teaching him the basics, about fighting and telling Naruto to make Rasengan his own, he done nothing.

Some might say that's enough, but what about learning new Jutsu, giving Naruto new weapons to fight his enemies. Naruto is in a world where people have powerful powers, so Naruto would need new Jutsu to fight those who are after him. Also, Jiraiya KNEW that the Akatsuki was after Naruto, and was more powerful than Naruto at that time, but yet he done nothing to give the boy the tools he would need to fight against them. And if he and the others wanted to protect Naruto, the best way to do so is to train the boy, not hide him or hold him back like they seem to do.

But during both training times, he was more willing to pip on women in the baths, or other open areas where he could find them naked, instead of training Naruto. He didn't really care about training Naruto if it got in the way of his so-called research, he prefers piping than anything else which is why he wouldn't train Naruto in anything else. Or that's my thoughts at the very least. If he wanted to peep on the girls and not train Naruto personally, he is meant to be powerful, so he could have created Shadow Clones to train Naruto and go and do whatever he wanted,

Either way, once again thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed the chapter, and I hope you can leave some feedback, as it would help me. Now for you who want to know who is in Naruto's harem so far, they are the following:

Harem List:

Hinata Hyūga

Naruko Uzumaki

Kushina Uzumaki

Karin Uzumaki

Female Kurama

Female Haku

Female Sasuke Uchiha

Female Gaara

But I'm planning to add for, and I would like you thoughts who you would like to add, those to Vote for are as follows. You can pick up to six of them. I haven't decided how many will be added, but the top lot will be added. You can vote here on or my profile or both:

Sakura Haruno

Sarada Uchiha (Dimensional Time Travel)

Himawari Uzumaki (Dimensional Time Travel)

Konan

Temari Sabaku

Tsunade

Ino Yamanaka

Tenten

Anko Mitarashi

Mei Terumi

Kaguya

Kurenai Yuhi

Tayuya

Anko Mitarashi

Fū (One of the few who might end up in the main harem anyway, haven't decided.)

Yugito Nii

Hanabi Hyūga (Adding this one for any of you want sisterly love - smirks.)

Moegi Kazamatsuri (Adding this one for the hell of it.)

Karui

Kurotsuchi

Rin Nohara

Shizune

Female Itachi Uchiha (One of the few who might end up in the main harem anyway, haven't decided.)

Guren (One of the few who might end up in the main harem anyway, haven't decided.)

Tsume Inuzuka (One of the few who might end up in the main harem anyway, haven't decided.)

Hana Inuzuka (If here mother gets in so will she, and if she gets in so will her mother, for some mother/daughter fun)

Shizuka (One of the few who might end up in the main harem anyway, haven't decided. But it it would be easy to fit in if I did, seeing that if she is defeated in battle, she would have to marry Naruto.)

Samui

Yūgao Uzuki

Mikoto Uchiha

Pakura

Yakumo Kurama

Fūka

Kin Tsuchi

Ayame

Mabui

Sasame

Hokuto

Kotohime

Kagerō

Suiren

Yukimi

Koyuki

Amaru