Answers to reviewers questions or statements:
Mr Deadsmile: No because Bū is awesome.
treyalexander63917: It's possible, not really familiar with those anime but I'll give them a look.
What: I could possibly do a crossover between the two later down the road. Yes Naruto will have a harem but it'll only be three women, Tayuya, Karin and Kushina but it won't be very important to the overall plot. This is a Pītā story first and Naruto is like number ten on the most important characters that'll be in this story.
Great Saiyaman54: It'll crop up over the course of the story, mainly in Pītā's actions. That hero complex carrying bastard can never really resist the urge to save people…
Guest 47: It'll be the first of many that we'll see of Pītā's life before he came to Konoha.
Lilthug: I was a fan of both, though I kinda preferred the dub because reading those subtitles got annoying at times.
CRUDEN: Frail?! The woman once rammed a building sized sword into the mouth of a several hundred-foot giant snake, that ain't frail! But it could work, I mean the possibility for her to still be young without the need to use a Genjutsu is there given who her grandparents are, a powerful Uzumaki and possibly the most powerful Senju to ever live, their combined blood in her family lineage could have potentially have been passed down to her, but by the time that little tidbit about Uzumaki's living long lives was revealed, Tsunade was already well established and they couldn't just suddenly say, oh yeah she's not really old physically thanks to her family lineage. I'll give the anime/manga another look, it's been a long time since I've last checked it out.
Axcel Uzumaki: Not sure.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel or Naruto characters seen, mentioned or used.
Pītā let out a tired sigh as he sat at a small table in a small but well known Dango shop in the heart of Konoha. The reason he was here and not somewhere else more important like his soft comfortable bed was because earlier Anko had sent a snake with a message for him to read.
Hey, I need your help so drop what your doing and get your ass over to my favorite dango shop, so you can help, you cute but creepy ass spider boy!
Pītā rolled his eyes at that "Classy Anko, real classy…"
And so, he reluctantly went to the Dango shop and waited… and waited… and waited. He'd been sitting there for almost a good hour before he finally made out Anko's chakra signature approaching at a very slow, almost Nara level pace. Pītā's brow twitched as he sat there and waited for her to come into eye sight, likely sporting that cheeky grin of hers. Finally, he spotted the admittedly attractive Tokubetsu Jōnin approaching him with, he guessed it, a cheeky grin on her face. She was clad in a fitted mesh body suit that covered her from her neck to her and was still tight enough on her figure to show she wasn't wearing anything else underneath it. Over that was her typical tan overcoat, a dark orange mini skirt that was held up by a dark blue belt and pale gray shin guards that reached down to her dark blue sandals. And resting in between her mesh covered breasts was a small pendant that looked like a snake fang of some sort.
"Heeeey Pītā, glad to see you made it" she said with a smirk as she sat across from him and without ceremony helped herself to his sixth plate of Dango.
"One hour, ten minutes, and forty-seven seconds" Pītā hissed with narrowed eyes.
"Huh?" Anko said as she chewed on a mouthful of Dango.
"That's how long I've been sitting here, waiting for you to show up for a meeting you set" Pītā said with twitching brow.
"Oh…" Anko said as she stopped her chewing for a moment before she shrugged "Got held up, sorry"
"Held up? By what?" Pītā asked with curiosity.
"On how I should wear my hair to this date. I decided to go with my typical but sexy short spiky pony tail" Anko said with a snicker, causing Pītā to scowl at her.
"This isn't a date!" he said with his arms waving in a frantic way, a tic mark already forming on his head.
"You say tomato, I say make me red as a tomato with that tongue of yours, lover boy" Anko said with a wink thrown towards the blushing Pītā, she always did love how easy he could get riled up with her.
Pītā let out an exasperated sigh at this as he held his head in his hands and rubbed his brow "Anko, if you called me here to flirt, badly I might add, then I'm gon-"
"Oh cool your horses" Anko said with an eye roll "I was just having a little bit of fun, you do know what fun is right?"
"Your sense of fun and mine differ greatly" Pītā deadpanned.
"Eh, maybe" Anko agreed with a giggle as she took a bite of another Dango "So, how've you been? Haven't heard from you in a few weeks, was beginning to think you bit the dust"
"Nice to know that you automatically think I'm dead when I don't talk to you more than four times a week" Pītā said with a shake of his head "But to answer your question, I'm fine. Been discharged from ANBU, so I'm now just a regular Jōnin, at least until my request to be a sensei for a Genin team is approved"
"You, you want to be a Jōnin sensei?" Anko said with a raised brow, that was new. Until now, she's never seen any hints of the man wanting to be a teacher of any sort outside offering the occasional advice.
Hell, the closest thing to a actual full on student he had was Itachi Uchiha… which didn't end to well give the boy eventually snapped and went on a rampage.
Pītā nodded at her surprise "Yeah, why? You don't think I'd make a good teacher?"
"Ehh it's not that, just…" Anko tried to find the right words before she shrugged and thought 'to hell with it' and decided to say what was on her mind "You're not what I would call mentally sound"
At this, Pītā's eyes narrowed "I beg your pardon?"
"I mean for starters, senseis are supposed to be fairly sociable, and your… not sociable" Anko said with a shrug.
"I'm sociable!" Pītā said with a scowl as he folded his arms across his chest.
Anko responded by giving her friend a very dry look "Pītā, your friends are me, Guy and Kakashi… we're amongst the most socially challenged individuals in this village. The fact you hang out with us isn't because you've 'broken down our walls and got to know the real us' or some shit like that, it's because we are literally the only people you can hang around with because we're just like you!"
"That's not…" Pītā began before eh thought it over for a moment and his shoulders slumped "Not inaccurate"
Anko nodded at that "Plus, you'd likely scar any Genin you do get with your..."
Pītā looked back up at Anko with narrowed eyes when she trialed off and adverted her gaze from him "With my what?"
"With your…" Anko gestured to him "Well, your habit of going over board in a fight"
Pītā quirked his head to the side "Huh?"
Anko sighed as she pinched the ridge of her nose "Pītā, when it comes to fighting, you reveal in it"
And that was putting it lightly. About a year ago, during her six-month stint with ANBU, Anko had been placed on a squad with Pītā, allowing her to get a front row seat to how Pītā handles himself. For the most part, he acted with that typical calm, distant mentality that most ANBU work with but still maintains that sort of odd light heartedness you don't find often in their ranks… but when it came to fighting, when it came to killing the enemy, Pītā becomes an almost different person. Most ANBU in Konoha try to end a fight as quickly and as cleanly as possible, but Pītā, he doesn't go for the kill, not right off the bat, no he almost seems to toy with his opponents, he cripples them by either going for an arm or a leg, usually the latter and then afterwards hits them with more painful, but non-lethal hits to wear them out for when he finally does goes in for the kill.
'He'd make one hell of a Kiri nin, that's for sure' Anko thought as her mind drifted towards the 'Bloody mist village'.
Pītā for the most part blinked at Anko after what she said "I reveal in it?"
"Yeah" Anko said with a nod as she rested her elbows on the table.
Pītā was silent for a moment as he seemed to retreat into his thoughts, likely trying to find evidence of Anko's claim before he blinked "Huh… guess it's good I got out of ANBU then"
"Yeah, plus Ibiki was getting tired of you bringing back prisoners that round up dying only half an hour into his interrogations because of blood loss" Anko snickered at her friend's grunt before her face became a bit more mischievous as she had her foot brush against Pītā's under the table "Sooooo meet anyone lately?"
Pītā blushed a little at that "W-Why do you want to know?"
"No reason" Anko said with a wave of her hand.
"…" Pītā stared at Anko as she kept rubbing her foot against his before it began to slowly rise higher up his leg, causing him to pull it back before she went any farther.
This caused Anko to grin "Ahh, so you did meet someone"
Pītā's brow furrowed at this "What makes you say that?"
"Well for one, you blushed when I asked, second you never get uncomfortable with me rubbing my foot against yours, or even your leg, unless you've been with someone, usually within the last few days" Anko said with a smirk as she watched Pītā's face contort into surprise "Plus, I can faintly smell a brand of soap on you that's more for women then men, which means you to got to doing the nasty in the shower, her shower to be exact!"
Pītā stared at Anko for several moments in shocked silence before he spoke "You got all of that, from just smelling me and rubbing your foot against me?"
"Well that and I've known you for years and you have that weird air about you all guys seem to get when they get a much needed lay" Anko said with a grin "So, who's the lucky lady?"
"Why should I tell you?" Pītā said with annoyance "It's none of your business"
"And that is where your wrong my cute little nerd!" Anko said as she reached across the table and patted Pītā's hand with her own "After all, I have to make sure she's good for you since when it comes to women, you tend to make some pretty shitty choices"
"Really, name one" Pītā said with annoyance at being told he has bad taste in women.
"Well…" Anko said as she cupped in her chin in thought "There was that white-haired girl from Kumo a while back, you know the one in black and could summon cats? She seduced you, then poisoned you and then stole a highly classified document you were meant to take to the Land of Iron"
Pītā's brow twitched at that "That-"
"Didn't stop you from letting her do it to you another seven times" Anko said with a smirk "After the scroll, she then stole your wallet, then your first katana, then your mask… I swear the only thing she didn't steal from you was your heart and even then, I'm not so sure!"
Pītā let out a groan as he slammed his head into the table, causing Anko to snicker as she patted his head "And she was the nicest one, don't even get me started on that one blonde girl from Iwa with the Shōton, I swear she was colder then ice, and boy did she play you like a chump, hell she didn't need to read your mind to know how to wrap you around her finger"
"Okay, I get it…" Pītā grumbled as he glared up at Anko.
"And then there was the girl from Suna, Pakura was it?" the purple haired woman said with a laugh "Man, she burned your ass more times then I care to count, and it wasn't because of that Shakuton she had"
"Anko-" Pītā began only for his friend to list off another woman.
"Then there was that actress, you know the red head? Man talk about a bad influence, I mean she got you into drinking for Kami's sake!" Anko fumed as she crossed her arms across her chest "That should have been me!"
"Okay Anko, you've made your-" Pītā started, his patience wearing thin.
"And then there was me!" Anko said with a wide grin as she pointed to herself "The one that got away and started you on this path of women who you try to replace me with but can never succeeded in doing because I'm a once in a life time kinda gal!"
Pītā rolled his eyes at that "Sure, keep telling yourself that Anko, one day it might sound true… to someone that's blind and deaf"
Anko scowled at the man before she finished off the last of her Dango "So who is it? She a girl from the village or one of the abroad types you seem to attract like metal to a magent?"
Pītā sighed at this "You're not going to let this go, are you?"
"Nope" Anko said as she made a popping sound on the 'P' "And if you don't, then I'll just have to start going around asking random women what it was like to have sex with you. I'm bound to get it right eventually"
Pītā scowled at Anko for several moments before he grumbled out a name, causing Anko to narrow her eyes and lean forward "I'm sorry, who?"
"I said…" Pītā mumbled out the name again, which in turn made Anko scowl as she bonked him on top of the head with a glare.
"I can't hear you, speak up!" she growled out in annoyance, honestly trying to get any information out of Pītā was like trying to convince Asuma to not smoke a cigarette for a whole day!
I said… it was Kurenai" Pītā said as he adverted his gaze.
Anko blinked "Kurenai?"
"Yeah"
"The woman with the red eyes and black hair and dresses in those bandages?" Anko said, her eyes blinking rapidly "That Genjutsu specialist with the amble tits, tight ass, long legs and leads that team of Genin with the Hyūga girl on it?"
"Yeah…" Pītā coughed out.
"Oh…" Anko said as she sat there for a few moments before speaking "Well… was she better then me?"
"Anko!" Pītā whined in exasperation.
"What?" Anko said with a raised brow "I'm just curious"
"That's private information! Unlike you, I don't go into exact detail of my… intimate moments, with women" Pītā said with a blush on his face.
"Alright fiiiine" Anko said with an eye roll "But if I recall correctly, you never seem to mind when I go into detail about going down on another woman"
Pītā growled at her before his eyes narrowed as Anko brought out a scroll from her jacket "What's that?"
"These are some of the traps we've got to go and disable in the Forest of Death, so it can be used by the Genin for the Chūnin exams starting next week" she explained as she opened it up to reveal a map of the training around with a few markings on it, mainly around the tower that laid in the center.
"Why?" Pītā questioned.
"Because a lot of these traps are made for experienced Jōnin, not a bunch of Genin, half of which who can barely find a Kunai if it was held in front of them and it was screaming 'here I am jackass, now use me'" Anko said with a snort "Plus it'd look bad if most of the competing teams ended up dead in just the second stage"
"Fine… but why us?" Pītā asked with a quirked brow.
"Because I volunteered us!" Anko said with a smirk.
"Thanks for letting me know" Pītā deadpanned.
"Your welcome" Anko said as she stood up and stretched her arms over hear head until she heard a 'pop' sound from her back "Now let's go, we need them all disabled and cleared by morning"
Pītā sighed as he stood up, pausing to leave payment for the Dango on the table for the waitress to get before he followed after his whistling friend.
'I wonder if it's too late to go back into ANBU?' Pītā thought as he and Anko made their way towards training ground forty-four.
…
On the other end of the village at one of the local farms, Kurenai, the sensei for Team eight, was leaning against a tree as she watched her students help the elder couple that lived here pick out the various weeds that littered their garden.
Shino was using his control over insects to drive out any harmful parasites that were eating away at the plants while Kiba and Akamaru helped the elder gentleman dig a series of holes for Hinata and the elderly man's wife to plant new plants in. So far, aside from some grumbling from Kiba about how boring this mission was and Akamaru trying to mark his territory in the garden, everything was going great and it seemed that her Genin would be done soon.
'Perhaps I'll take them out to lunch when this is over, they've earned it. And afterwards, I'll work on their training for the upcoming Chūnin exams' she thought with a small smile as she glanced up towards the sky to see it was noon. After a few minutes, Kurenai noticed that her team was done and pushed herself off the tree and began to approach the elderly couple, mentally wincing at the pain lingering in between her legs.
"I take it that everything is satisfactory?" Kurenai asked as her Genin filed in behind her.
"Yes, yes, very good" the elderly man said with a nod.
His wife nodded in agreement though she had a rather unpleasant look on her face "Yes, much better than some of the other teams we've got recently"
"Oh?" Kurenai said with a raised brow "Did something happen?"
The wife looked like she was about to answer before she glanced at Kurenai's students for a moment before she adverted her gaze "Just one of the other 'Genin' ruined my herb garden is all… orange wearing little shit"
Kurenai's eyes narrowed at this "Ah… well I can't say I'm too surprised"
"He did it on purpose, I just know he did" the woman said before she let out a tired sigh "Apologies, I don't mean to babble, I'm sure your team has other things to do. We'll send the payment tonight"
"Thank you…" Kurenai said with a bow before she turned towards her team and nodded at them, signaling for them that it was time to go.
"Finally…" Kiba muttered as Akamaru rested in his head as he turned on his heel and headed for the small farm's gate with Shino and Hinata right behind him.
Kurenai watched them go before she turned towards the elderly couple and spoke in a lower tone "I'll speak with 'the boy's' sensei later about destroying your garden"
"Thank you" the woman said with a nod before she turned and headed back into the house to get clean followed soon by her husband.
The Genjutsu mistress waited a second before she used the body flicker jutsu to catch up to her students.
"Well I must say, you three preformed admirably today" Kurenai said as she appeared before her team with a pleased smile.
"What else would you expect, we're awesome!" Kiba boasted with a wide grin while Shino merely gave a small bow of thanks.
"Thank you, Kurenai-sensei" Hinata said quietly.
"And as a reward, how about lunch, my treat?" Kurenai said which caused the three to nod.
"Ooh, ooh, can we have barbeque this time?" Kiba said as he raised his hand in the air.
Kurenai nodded "Yes Kiba, we can have barbeque this time"
"Whoooo!" Kiba said 'Finally, no more of that shitty Dango!'
…
Forest of Death…
Anko was busy whistling as she deconstructed a complex paper bomb trap before she felt a cold shiver run through her body and her eyes narrowed "What… no, it couldn't have been…"
Pītā stopped in what he was doing and glanced over at Anko "Everything okay?"
"No, everything is not okay Pītā" Anko said as she stood up and glanced off into the distance with a foreboding expression.
"What is it?" Pītā asked nervously, wondering what had her so bothered all of a sudden.
"Some asshole in this village made a slight against Dango, I just know it!" she huffed.
Pītā had to resist the urge to face fault as he stared at his seething friend 'I'm beginning to think Orochimaru left this village because it was filled with people like Anko here…'
…
Kurenai shook her head at her Genin's antics before she gestured for them to follow her "So have you all decided on if you want to do the Chūnin exams this year?"
Kiba, Hinata and Shino all stopped and shared a look with one another before Shino spoke for the group "We've discussed it and we have reached a conclusion"
"And that would be?" Kurenai asked.
"We'll do it!" Kiba said with a laugh "In fact, they might as well give me the jacket because that promotion is as good as mine!"
"Well at least your confident" Kurenai said with a tired grin.
"Man, I can't wait until the Chūnin exams start, it's going to be awesome!" Kiba exclaimed with a feral grin before he glanced towards the rest of his teammates "What about you guys? You ready to kick ass and take names like we're born for it?"
"As I'll ever be…" Shino said in his usual monotone voice.
"I'm… I'm still not so s-sure Kurenai-sensei" Hinata said nervously.
"Oh, and why is that?" Kurenai asked with some worry.
"W-Well it's just… the Chūnin exams have a thirty percent fatality rate" Hinata said nervously "A-And we haven't been on many missions where the chance of death is that high. A-And some of the other contestants might be… eager to increase that rate"
"Don't worry, I have faith that you'll do well, all of you" she said with a smile towards the three.
"Yeah, I'll be Chūnin in no time!" Kiba said with a toothy grin before it became more devious as he rubbed his hands together "And then I can order Naruto around all I want because I'm higher ranked, and he has to listen to me… kukukuku…"
'I wonder if it'd be too much to ask Kiba to odder that orange wearing monster to walk into a fire and stay in there until he's dead' Kurenai thought before she patted Kiba on the shoulder "Well, unless… Naruto… Chūnin makes too, or worse he does, and you don't. Then you'll have to listen to him"
"Pfft like that'd happen" Kiba said with a wave of his hand while Akamaru barked in agreement.
"K-Kiba-kun…" Hinata said as she poked her fingers together "Y-You shouldn't underestimate N-Naruto-kun so much… h-he may surprise you"
"I'll believe that when I see it, till then, he'll always be an idiot that got by on luck, pure and simple" Kiba scoffed while Shino shook his head at his teammate's arrogance.
'He really needs to get that under control…' the more silent and reserved Genin of the team thought as he followed his team with a sigh.
…
"Well, that's the last one" Pītā said as he wiped some sweat from his brow as he placed he last of the paper bombs in a specialized container for storage until they were needed again.
Anko nodded as she gathered up the last of the wire and placed it in a sealing scroll "Good. I'll let Hokage-sama know-"
She stopped when suddenly an ANBU appeared before her and Pītā.
'Tenzō…' Pītā thought as he recognized the man, even though his face was covered.
Deep within Pītā's mind, a dark hiss echoed through the darkest corners of his mindscape 'Oh great… that thing'
'Behave' Pītā growled before he nodded towards the kneeling ANBU "There something you need?"
"I apologize, but Hokage-sama wishes to speak with you, Pītā-san" Tenzō replied calmly.
Pītā hummed at that before he glanced at Anko "I'll also let Hokage-sama we're done prepairing the for-"
He didn't get a chance to continue as Anko had suddenly vanished in a body flicker, leaving the two men standing there in the middle of the Forest of Death. Tenzō glanced at his former ANBU comrade before he chuckled "You should have seen that coming"
"Yeah…" Pītā sighed with slumped shoulders before he glanced at Tenzō "any clue as to why the Hokage wants to meet with me?"
Tenzō replied with a shake of his head "I was not made aware other than that he wishes to speak with you"
Pītā nodded at that before he tossed the container he was holding towards the only man left alive to anyone's knowledge that could use the legendary Mokuton style of the long deceased Shodai Hokage, Hashirama Senju "Here, take care of this before me and be careful"
"What is it?" Tenzō asked as he glanced down at the container.
"Paper bombs" Pītā chuckled as the man gaped at him from behind his mask.
"And you just threw it at me like it was a box of feathers?!" he said as he very carefully secured his grip on the dangerous cargo.
"Relax, I deactivated them before I put them in there" Pītā waved off the man's concerns as he turned to leave before he stopped for a moment "Well, most of them anyhow…"
"But-" Tenzō began before Pītā was gone in a body flicker that left a few strings of web flowing to the ground.
He glanced back down at the container in his hands before he sighed "Why me?"
…
Pītā landed in a crouch at the entrance of the Hokage mansion before he straightened himself up and calmly made his way inside the structure. He passed by a few shinobi of varying ranks and a few members of Konoha's more bureaucratic side such as secretaries, ministers, and the like.
Including a few members of the council, the civilian side to be exact.
Pītā gave one of them a simple nod "Councilor…"
The man, a rather elderly person who was a little on the large side, went to nod in greeting before he saw it was Pītā and narrowed his eyes at the man.
"Shinobi-san" he said with an edge in his tone.
'Guess he's one of the guys that doesn't like me' Pītā thought with a chuckle as he passed the man and his companions and continued on his way to the Hokage's office.
It didn't take long to reach the man's door and Pītā raised a hand to knock when suddenly the door opened and another ANBU walked out, this one obviously a woman with purple hair and her face obscured by a cat mask.
She came to a sudden halt at the sight of Pītā, clearly not expecting to see him here. The purple haired kunoichi stared at Pītā before she quickly closed the door all the while a bemused Hiruzen watched with a lit pipe in his hands.
"Uh hey Yūgao" Pītā said with a small nod.
She glanced up at Pītā, her expression hidden behind her mask before she returned a small nod of her own "Pītā-san…"
Pītā rubbed his hands as he stared at the shorter woman for a moment before he spoke "So, how's Hayate?"
"Fine, thank you" Yūgao replied as she folded her arms across her chest.
The two stood there for a moment in what could only be described as awkward silence before Pītā gestured towards the Hokage's office "Is he free?"
"Wha- oh yes, he's free to meet with you now" Yūgao said as she stood aside to allow Pītā to enter.
The Robuki Jinchūriki nodded in thanks before he glanced at his former squad mate "Uh see you around I guess?"
Yūgao nodded before she disappeared with a Karton Shunshin, leaving Pītā alone in the hallway before he turned and entered the Hokage's office.
"You wished to speak with me Hokage-sama?" Pītā asked as he closed the door and approached the busy man's desk.
"Yes, I do" Hiruzen said with a small chuckle "And I'm afraid that this conversation won't be as pleasant as the one you had with young Yūgao will be"
"Huraaay…" Pītā said with a sigh.
Hiruzen chuckled again before his face became more somber as he put out his pipe and placed it in a drawer and leaned his elbows on his desk and looked at Pītā with narrowed eyes "Tell me Pītā, what do you know of Uzushiogakure?"
Pītā quirked a brow at that "Uhhh why?"
"Just curious is all" Hiruzen said with a simple shrug.
Pītā stared at the elderly man before him for a moment, trying to figure out why he wanted to know what Pītā knew of the long-destroyed village, which wasn't much to be honest aside from what he's heard and read in back in Kiri "Well, I know they used to be a small shinobi village in the Land of Whirlpools, around the size of Taki"
"About, many a few blocks smaller" Hiruzen nodded with a distant expression on his face "They were Konoha's first ally and closest after the villages were established at the end of the 'Warring State Periods'"
Pītā nodded "Yeah, something about them being super close to the Senju, right?"
"Indeed, they village was ruled by the Uzumaki clan, who were distant relatives to the Senju. The wife of Hashirama was in fact an Uzumaki, Mito" Sarutobi stated with a nod towards the picture of the first Hokage of Konoha "They also specialized in Fūinjutsu and were both feared and respected because of it"
"Yeah, I heard that was why they were wiped out before the start of the Third Great Shinobi world war" Pītā said.
"By the combined might of Kiri and several lesser nations that it annexed during the Second Shinobi World War" Hirzuen said with a blank look thrown towards Pītā.
"Well to be fair, Mōryō and its Ghost army that did most of the damage during his rampage across the continent, Kiri just swooped in and finished off what was left" Pītā pointed out.
"Indeed, it took a demon with an army of near unbeatable stone soldiers and one of the five great shinobi villages to destroy them in the end" Hiruzen said with a sigh "And so, the Uzumaki clan was believed to have been destroyed… until recently"
"What do you mean?" Pītā said with surprise.
"It appears that someone, or multiple someone's have resettled in the ruins of Uzushiogakure and have built it back up into a shinobi village once again" Hiruzen said.
"But… but how the hell did they manage that?" Pītā asked as he rubbed the back of his head "I mean setting up a new shinobi village can't be very hard to miss, especially one right next door to the Land of Fire"
"You'd be surprised how quick and easy it is" Hiruzen said with a grim chuckle before his face sobered "And I fear that this new Uzushiogakure will be far from friendly as it once was, to us at least"
"What makes you say that?"
"Because Pītā, I only found out about this new Uzushiogakure from a priority message from an ANBU squad that I dispatched to investigate reports of people and ships heading for the Land of Whirpools…" Hiruzen said with a frown "And we both know what a priority message means went it's sent from ANBU"
'It means the team's dead and somehow, I don't see ANBU being the ones that started that fight' Pītā thought with a frown "What uh, what did the message say?"
"Something I never once dreamed of in my worse nightmares" Hiruzen said with a look that Pītā thought was the closest the man ever got to terrified.
"And that would be?" Pītā said nervously.
"They have aligned themselves with Orochimaru" Hiruzen said in a quiet voice that Pītā struggled to hear, causing his eyes to widen when the words registered in his mind.
"…"
"…"
"Well… shit"
…
And done.
Next chapter, the Chūnin exams begin…