AN: Wow! I did not think this story would do this well! Thanks to everybody who reviewed, favorited, and alerted this story. You guys make we want to right more! Thank you!
I didn't change very much except to add some details to the history part. Because the Shinobi Alliance Arc is giving out many historical details, I ended up making a timeline for myself. All I can say is that shinobi politics is complicated.
Now on to the story!
Chapter 2
Skeletons In Konoha's Closet
Naruto woke up to the glorious smell of miso ramen and frowned in confusion when he saw it. There was never ramen in the hospital. To find it right in front of him instead of the usual hospital food meant that something was wrong. He looked up to find Jiraiya, Tsunade, Kakashi, Shizune and Iruka looking at him. "What's wrong? Why are you all here and why is there ramen in the hospital?"
At that, Tsunade threw herself around him in a hug and started crying. Jiraiya looked at the floor while Kakashi closed his one eye. Both Iruka and Shizune had tears in their eyes.
"Baa- Baa-chan? " Naruto stuttered. Tsunade never acted like this.
"Naruto," she cried on his shoulder, "I'm so sorry. The advisers got the Daimyou to sign an order to have you ba- banished."
Naruto froze. "They- they banished me? Even after I brought Sasuke back? Why?" He looked at the people around him. "Why would they do that?"
"Because they never liked you and were always trying to stop you from being a shinobi." It was Kakashi who answered. "They couldn't stop that from happening so they probably have been looking for an excuse to banish you for awhile. They were finally able to come up with a legitimate reason this time around."
Naruto sighed. "Is the reason why they were able to banish me because I used the fox's powers?"
Tsunade sadly nodded before hugging Naruto again.
He looked up at her again. "Is Sasuke awake yet?"
Tsunade gulped. "No, the soonest he will wake up is tomorrow afternoon. As it is, whatever his testimony is won't change anything now."
Naruto looked at Tsunade with tears in his eyes. "Sasuke's testimony wouldn't be able to change anything?"
Tsunade shook her head. "Not when the Daimyou signed it. I'm so sorry, Naruto." She put his arms around him and began massaging his back.
"When do I have to leave?" Naruto asked her, wanting to get the information over with as soon as possible.
"Five days," Tsunade cried. She put her arms around him and began massaging his back.
Naruto silently cried into her shoulder. No sooner does someone give me a place to belong here, I loose everything I've worked so hard to gain with no hope of ever being able to get it back. Why can't I be seen as who I am and not for the fox I hold just for once? The only thought he had that was able to bring him some degree of comfort, was that Sasuke would never stand for yet another member of his family to be taken from him. At that, he fell into an uneasy sleep.
Sasuke woke up to find Danzou glaring at him. "Get dressed. Then meet me out in the hall," Danzou ordered as he left the room. Sasuke sighed and wondered yet again what he had go himself into. Having no other options, he got dressed and went out into the hall. Danzou was waiting for him. "Follow me," Danzou said and walked down the hall. Sasuke and four of Danzou's Ne operatives followed him.
The six of them left the hospital and made their way to the Hokage Building. The entire time nobody noticed them. When they got to the Hokage Building, they didn't go through the front entrance. Instead, they went through a side entrance in the back of the building.
From there, they went through many corridors that Sasuke had never seen until they came to an empty hallway. Here they stopped and Danzou cut his finger and wiped the blood across a knothole in the wall. A door opened and he went in, leaving Sasuke alone in the hall. A few minuets later Danzou came out and said to Sasuke, "This is the place where we keep the records of the unofficial missions Konoha carries out and the true history of Konoha. The story you will tell of your fight at the Valley of the End is laid out on the table. Read it and memorize it. You have all the time you need and will be alone; the room is sealed to so that only one person be in it at a time for security reasons. Do you understand?" Sasuke nodded and went in the door which closed and locked itself from the inside behind him.
On the table in front of Sasuke was the 'true' falsified report of the Valley of the End. He read it and almost cried at the wrongness of it. According to it, he and Naruto had battled it out normally until Naruto had run out of chakra. When that happened, he began channeling the Kyuubi's chakra. As time went on, he lost control of the bijuu's chakra and Sasuke was forced to use a chidori on him so that the Kyuubi would not be able to kill him. Once Naruto had been knocked out, Sasuke had brought him back to Konoha. It was as detailed as a real fight would have been. Sasuke gritted his teeth in anger and leaned against one of the filing cabinets that lined the walls to begin memorizing the report.
After a while, he shifted to sitting on the floor. As he did so he saw what was written of the filing cabinet in front of him. There were two dates. The first date was more than a hundred years old. Connected by a line to the first date, was the date of the Uchiha Massacre. Underneath the two dates was a title: The History of the Uchiha Clan. What secrets are kept in here? Sasuke thought as he reached over and opened the drawer.
Inside the drawer, there were five main files with the titles Shodai, Nindaime, Sandaime, Yondaime and Sandaime again. Inside of them were many smaller files. The file that grabbed Sasuke's attention the most was the first file in the drawer. It was labeled, Operation: Blind Eye. The date on it was the date of the Uchiha Massacre. What is this? Sasuke felt something lurch in the pit of his stomach. He pulled the file out and gasped at what he saw. It was the mission Itachi had received the night of the massacre.
Operation: Blind Eye
Commissioned By: Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzou, Mitokado Homura, Utatne Koharu
Agent: 012110 Uchiha Itachi
Mission Orders: Complete nullification of the the threat of the Uchiha Clan.
Mission Report: Entire clan nullified except for one Uchiha Sasuke.
Status: Failed
A chill went through Sasuke when he read it. He quickly looked through the rest of the mission file, his sharingan subconsciously activating. Inside the file were two more pieces of paper. One was a record written by the Sandaime Hokage of Itachi begging him for Sasuke's protection from the advisers after the mission. The other was a record written by Danzou of Itachi threatening him that should he as so much touch Sasuke, Itachi would tell everything he knew about Konoha to its enemies. What is going on here? Sasuke thought. Itachi was ordered to kill off the clan? Why? In desperation he read through all five files with sharingan enhanced speed. What he read horrified him.
The files started with the founding of Konoha over a century ago when a clan called Senju and the Uchiha clan made a truce with Hi no Kuni to create Konoha. Throughout the time of the Shodai, the Uchiha clan remained loyal to the village, even going so far as to turn in their leader, Uchiha Madara, who wanted a rebellion. Due to the past tension between the Senju and the Uchiha and the fact that a Senju was made Shodai, many people in Konoha's government distrusted them. When the Nindaime came to power in the middle of the First Secret War, he showed his trust in the Uchiha by forming the Konoha Military Police. So far nothing's wrong, Sasuke thought.
Unfortunately for the Uchiha, once the Nindaime died and the Sandaime was instated, the position was used to distance the Uchiha from the village government and ANBU were ordered to keep the clan under surveillance. Rumors began to circulate that there was an Uchiha rebellion underway. Sasuke wondered how the Sandaime could have let something like that happen. When the Yondaime came to power, it seemed like Uchiha would finally get a break. Under the Yondaime, the ANBU surveillance was called off and any talk of a rebellion stopped. Sasuke's opinion of the Yondaime only grew at this.
It seemed as if everything was going fine until the Kyuubi attack and the Yondaime's death. Instantly the Uchiha were under suspicion. It didn't help that it was a proven fact the sharingan was one of the few methods that could control a bijuu. Because of the attack, it was suspected the Uchiha were plotting a rebellion. The ANBU surveillance was started again, only this time it was worse because it was "recommended" to the clan that they should all live in the same corner of the village for safety reasons. Sasuke gritted his teeth when he saw that the "recommendation" was clearly an order. The Sandaime didn't think such precautions were necessary, but he agreed to them once it was established that the Uchiha, wanting more of the freedom the Yondaime had given them, were indeed launching a coup. A spy was planted in the Uchiha to keep the village informed about the Uchiha's plans. Sasuke's heart clenched when he saw that the orders had been given to Itachi and he remember that his father had asked Itachi to do the exact same thing for the Uchiha against the village. So who's side was he really on?
He got his answer when he was he information gleaned from Itachi's spying. Sasuke saw why he had never known anything about the coup. In the first place, he was too young. Secondly, his father had been the leader of the coup. I couldn't be trusted to keep my mouth shut. The other thing he noticed was what the Uchiha had wanted to gain from the coup. Initially, they wanted the freedoms they had and were going to have under the Yondaime, but when it became clear the the current government would not listen to them, they decided take out the people they thought were responsible for their situation; the Hokage, his two advisers and Danzou.
The one thing Sasuke didn't get was why Itachi had chosen the village over his clan. While Sasuke understood that his clan might have been going to far in the coup, it wasn't like they didn't have a reason; there were plenty of reports that stated the Uchiha were the only clan in the village that had this kind of treatment by Konoha's government. Sasuke could understand the desire to be treated the same way as everybody else. After all, that desire had shaped Naruto into the person he had become. It wasn't like the Uchiha hadn't looked into alternatives either. In fact, it seemed from the documents they had used the coup as a last resort.
What was clear, was that after the advisers had burned their bridge to the Uchiha, they decided to clean up their own mess in the easiest, if bloodiest, way possible, all without having to take the blame for any of it at the expense of Itachi's life and future. Now his brother's unusual behavior before the massacre made much more sense. How could he stand to be a double agent between two opposing parties when he held loyalty to both? No wonder his relationship with Tou-san and the clan was strained.
Sasuke looked again at the file on the Uchiha massacre and thought back to his meeting with Itachi in Tanzaku Gai. I don't know why Itachi let me live when he was ordered to kill every Uchiha, but he didn't try to "correct" the mistake either when we met. If anything, he made sure all of his attacks wouldn't have a chance of killing me. He even made my well-being a security issue as well so that Danzou and the advisers couldn't finish the job. Anaki, you were the perfect shinobi, why did you fail your last mission? Sasuke thought about both his recent experience with the Itachi who worked with Akatsuki and the relationship he had with the old Itachi he knew before the Uchiha massacre. Did you care about me so much you couldn't kill me? It was the last clear thought he had before he fell prey to the conflicting emotions within him and blacked out.
They really need to get better security in here. Mitarashi Anko thought as she snooped through the unofficial missions and history Konoha was responsible for. Not that I'd tell anyone. I wouldn't be able to do this if they found out. Not that the room had bad security, it was one of the best guarded rooms in the village after all, but it you had certain resources available to you and you knew how to use them correctly, getting in was easy. Not that animal summons were easy to come across and summons that were bigger than you were even harder to find. Probably why there's that loophole anyway. Who in their right minds would walk inside a giant snake and then ask them to reverse summon themselves to a different location and expect to get out of it alive? Oh right, me, the psycho who was trained by the evil genius who betrayed the Leaf even if she can't remember being his student.
Said person was why Anko was in the room in the first place. Most of her own missions were filed there and she was always wanting more time to see if there was any of her and Orochimaru's history filled away in there. Unfortunately, she was never legally allowed time to go through it, that would undermine the purpose of the room altogether. So Anko was reduced to sneaking into the room on what little free time she had.
Today's run had been much more promising than others had been. She had found the report of when Orochimaru had officially been put out of the village and was very surprised to find that the date was after the time she had been abandoned by him. Well that explains why the Sandime made me an hunter-nin; he didn't want Orochimaru to find out I was still alive. What in the? Anko stiffened in alarm. Coming from somewhere inside the room, a lone chakra signature spiked. It wasn't so much that anyone was in the room that spooked her; that had happened before and she had never been found out. What spooked her was that the chakra signature was tainted with Orochimaru's chakra just like her's was. The only way anyone could get chakra like that was to have one of Orochimaru's curse seals on them and the only other person Anko knew who had one in Konoha was Uchiha Sasuke. What is he doing in here? She quickly made a copy of the report and zeroed in on Sasuke's chakra against her judgment.
What she found shocked her. He was slumped over on the floor, his hand clamped over his curse seal, his unconscious face streaked with tears and full of pain. Next to him, a drawer of a filling cabinet was open and empty. Scattered on the floor around him were different files that looked like they had been hurriedly read through. Anko assumed that the files were from the drawer. Set further away from him was a separate file that definitely didn't go with the rest of them.
She carefully picked her way through the paper on the floor to get to Sasuke and winced at how his chakra was fluctuating. We're lucky the walls have seals that block out all the chakra coming from this room. Carefully, she removed his hand from his shoulder and caught a glimpse of his curse seal. Her eyes widened. It was changing. The seal started out looking like her curse seal, three tomoe swirling around each other, with a ring of blood around the tomoe, the seal Kakashi put about it to keep the curse seal in check. Slowly the ends of the tomoe glowed and lengthened until they touched the ring around them. When they did, the ring glowed the same color of the tomoe for an instant, before both seals reverted back to their usual black and Sasuke's chakra stopped fluctuating.
Anko stared in shock at the new seal. It looked like a combination of the curse seal and the sealing seal. She wondered what had caused the two seals to join. She doubted it was Orochimaru. He wasn't anywhere in the vicinity and there was no way he would want a barrier between his "gift" and Sasuke. It was possible it was Sasuke. From what she knew of the seal Kakashi used, it depended on the willpower of whoever was sealed with it. It was possible that Sasuke had completely bent the curse seal to his will. If he did, that's the first time somebody's ever done that. If he had , Orochimaru's taint would have been eradicated from his mind. At the same time, it felt as if Sasuke had retained the power the curse seal granted him. After all, Orochimaru's chakra is definitely still a part of him, but it appears Sasuke's willpower now has dominance over the seal. What caused that to happen?
Nothing else was wrong was wrong with Sasuke as far as Anko could see, so she turned to the empty drawer. As soon as she saw the title, she understood why he would go through it. The files on the floor obviously came from it, so she started reading through them as well.
By the time she was finished, Anko barely had control over her own curse seal. How dare they! Instead of fixing a problem of their own making, they take the easy way out, not the best way. It's just like... Anko got out her copy of the report about Orochimaru's abandonment of Konoha she had found and read through it again. ...this. Not to mention the advisers have never trusted me either and never give me any normal missions, only suicide missions hoping I'll get killed on one of them. She covered Sasuke's mouth with her hand and gave him a gentle shake. He woke up immediately.
After the initial panic, he recognized who she was and Anko lowered her hand from his face. "You're that that crazy proctor we had for the second part of the Chuunin Exam, aren't you? What are you doing here?" He said as he looked guiltily at the papers on the floor.
"The same thing you're doing, only I'm doing it without permission." Anko smiled brightly.
Sasuke looked puzzled. "You mean you're not going to tell them I went through all this?"
"Of course not. Why would I tell them that after reading about what they did to your clan? I wouldn't come out of the conversation alive. Not to mention they treat me a lot like the Uchiha clan right after the Nindaime died. They don't trust me at all and have been trying to get me killed by only sending me out on suicide missions. Fortunately, I'm a hunter-nin in ANBU so I can completely ignore them and get away with it."
"Right," said Sasuke, immensely revealed she wasn't going to tell anyone about what he read. "So, what are you doing here? I was told only one person could be in this room at any given moment."
She shrugged. "I have a summon that I can ride in and the seals on the room don't get triggered by summons appearing inside the room. Mostly because most people don't have summons that work like that. Why was I here? I was looking for information on my former Sensei." Who hurt you too.
"Okay, um, why did you come find me?"
Did you not feel your chakra change? "You chakra was fluctuating everywhere and I knew it was yours; it feels like mine."
Sasuke gave a start. "You knew my curse seal changed? Why?"
Anko scowled. "Because Sensei gave me one exactly like yours and my chakra is tainted with his chakra just like yours is." She pulled her collar down and showed him the Curse Seal of Heaven on her neck. "I meant to talk about it with you after the Chuunin Exams. So, why did it change just now?"
Sasuke's eyes widened when he saw it and he gave her the knowing, relieved look that only people who had gone through the same experience could share before he took a breath and began to talk. "You know how when Orochimaru first bites you, you pass out and see a younger version of yourself, who is really Orochimaru, in your head telling you that if you only had more strength you would have been able to succeed at something you failed at in your past?" He looked questionably at Anko who nodded in understanding. "Well, when Orochimaru bit me, I saw him as my seven-year-old self telling me that if I was stronger I would have been able to prevent the death of my clan. He also told me the only way I would be able to avenge them would be by accepting the power I had been offered by him. I accepted the power with open arms because, at the time, I thought the only way to avenge the clan was to kill Itachi."
"What does that have to do with your curse seal changing?"
"After I finished reading the entire file, I blacked out and found myself in my head with Orochimaru as my seven-year-old self in front of me again. He was saying that I could only get the power he offered if I had the goal of killing Itachi. At that, I got mad that he even suggested I do that. I ended up fighting him to get him out of my head and eventually choked him to death. When I did that, my body absorbed him and I was the only one in my head until you woke me up. What?" he asked when he saw Anko's reaction.
"As far as I know, that type of thing's impossible. By the way, I suggest you take a look at your curse seal." Not to mention I'm jealous of you.
Sasuke did and his eyes widened. "I guess Kakashi wasn't kidding when he said the seal kept the curse seal contained and depended on my willpower."
"He definitely wasn't." Anko paused for a moment. "So, what were you doing here? You obviously got in by the real entrance and it probably wasn't to take a look a these files." She gestured at the files all around them.
"So, what were doing here? You obviously got in by the real entrance and it probably wasn't to take a look at these files."
Sasuke sighed at that question. I knew this question was coming. "I was let in here to see and memorize this file." He handed Anko the file he had been reading.
After she read through it, Anko looked up and asked, "So, what really happened?"
Sasuke told her everything that happened at the Valley of the End, but watered what he and Naruto had talked about down to generalities. There is no way I am betraying his trust in me. Not after what I did to him. He did tell her that Naruto had showed him a better way to get revenge on Itachi in such a way that he wouldn't have to pursue killing Itachi as his sole goal in life, but would instead benefit him a whole lot more in the process. "...He's the only reason I didn't go to Orochimaru, and now they're throwing him out," he concluded.
Anko nodded. "What are you going to do about it?"
Sasuke looked up at her. "What do you mean?"
"Well," Anko sighed, "from the way you're acting I don't think you're ever going to be comfortable again with taking orders from Konoha. The only problem with that is the only way to not take orders from them is to leave Konoha. You could stop being a shinobi, but that would raise questions you wouldn't want to answer." She smiled at Sasuke.
Now that you mention it, Sasuke thought, she does have a point. Leaving would be convent. I wouldn't have to live with the fact Naruto's banishment was made on my testimony, I could ask Itachi why he didn't kill me and Danzou couldn't seal my chakra even if wanted to. Sasuke smirked at the thought.
Of course, if Danzou did do that, he'd have an international security leak to deal with, courtesy of Itachi. Also, Naruto is now a member of my family and they're making him leave Konoha, Itachi is a nuke-nin and the advisers ordered the massacre of my entire family including me. It seems the advisers really don't want my family around here. In fact, it seems like the only reason then do want me here is so that they can still say Konoha has the sharingan.
Since that's the case, I'm not staying here; I'd rather be a nuke-nin and be my own person than be a Konoha-nin and be controlled by people who don't care about me. It'll be a good way to get revenge on the advisers and complete Itachi's last mission. They'll have the satisfaction that the Uchiha will never again try to take Konoha over, but at the cost that another hidden village might get their most precious bloodline. This is going to be fun. Naruto must feel like this when he plans one of his pranks. That thought caused Sasuke to laugh.
He turned to Anko, "What were you saying about leaving Konoha?"
Anko had a grin on her face that reminded Sasuke so much of Orochimaru, he shivered. "Nothing," she said. "It's just that I'm leaving even if you aren't. The advisers don't like me very much and if they found out I knew about this, they'd kill me without a thought. Fortunately, I'm a hunter-nin so I know exactly how they search for nuke-nin. I'm thinking we could team up because without me, you probably wouldn't make it one day out of Konoha without getting caught. With me, you'll at least survive long enough to learn how to keep them off your trail without my help."
Sasuke thought about that. The experience of a hunter-nin would be invaluable. "That's not a bad idea," he said. "You wouldn't happen to know a way to get all these files out of here so I can take them with me when we leave." They're the only proof I have Konoha actually called for the Uchiha massacre.
"I've got better," said Anko as she took a scroll out of her pocket and unsealed a bunch of blank paper from it. "I know a jutsu that'll make a perfect copy of the documents. That way we can leave a full drawer with all the files in it. Just not the original files." She got work copying the files.
Sasuke had an evil grin on his face. "If that's true, I'm going to leave a message in there that the originals are with me and the reason I abandoned Konoha is because they didn't deserve my loyalty after they gave the orders for my family to be killed, blamed my nee-san for their own crime, and banished my adoptive brother, Naruto."
Anko looked up startled. "Naruto's your brother?"
Sasuke nodded. "After he showed me a better way to get revenge at the Valley of the End, I realized how alike we truly were and did a jutsu that made him my brother in blood. He'll eventually get the sharingan and now has an affinity for katon jutsu along with whatever affinity he had before. It's a genetic change to, so he'll pass it on to whatever kids he'll have."
Anko whistled. "Whatever you do, don't let advisers know a jutsu like that exists, or Orochimaru for that matter. They'll force you to do it on everyone who they think deserves it."
Sasuke laughed. "Don't worry. They'll never find out. I'm clearing out the Uchiha district of anything useful and sealing it up so no one can get in unless you have Uchiha blood."
Anko nodded and looked up at him from the floor." Okay, I'm done. What's next?"
"We put everything back and add my note to them." Anko started putting the files back in order, while Sasuke wrote his note out. He added it to the file that contained Itachi's last mission orders before closing the drawer with a satisfying click. Sasuke turned back to Anko. "Can you seal all the files into a scroll and leave the scroll at the Uchiha district?"
"Sure. Where do you want me to hide it?" Anko sealed all the original files in a scroll.
Sasuke didn't even have to think. "In the main temple of the Nakano shrine, on the far right side, under the seventh tatami mat, is my clan's secret meeting place. Just add it to the pile of scrolls stored there."
Anko nodded before carefully asking, "Are you going to tell anyone else about this?"
Am I going to tell anyone else about this? Sasuke hadn't really thought about it, but... ...she did say she would go with me when I said I was going to Orochimaru. She didn't betray me then, she won't betray me now. Besides, it wouldn't be fair for her to remain here alone without her teammates, when me and Naruto are going to be together... Yeah, Sakura's definitely coming. Kakashi-sensei... he'd be sympathetic towards me because of the sharingan he has... I never learned how he got that... I feel like I need to learn that before I go... One more thing on my to-do list... but he's also completely loyal to Konoha; he might turn me in for all he talks about teamwork. Maybe, but only if I'm completely sure he won't betray me. I'm definitely discussing it with Anko before I tell him. "Definitely Sakura, me and Naruto's other teammate; maybe Kakashi, our jounin sensei."
"Are you sure they can be trusted? I don't know Sakura, but I know for a fact Kakashi would have a hard time abandoning the village he's sacrificed so much for." Anko bit her lip.
"Sakura won't tell; she even offered to go with me to Orochimaru." Anko's eyes widened at that. "Kakashi, I don't know yet. I need to talk with you in a more convenient setting before I decide. We should get out of here."
"Yeah, I guess I'll meet you and Sakura at the Uchiha mansion the night you get released from the hospital." Sasuke nodded in agreement. "In the meantime, I'll be getting ready to go rouge."
Sasuke raised an eyebrow at her. "What do you mean?"
Anko laughed. "I've got access to all kinds of stuff you can't imagine because I'm a hunter-nin. If I'm going rouge, I might as well go all out and take as much as I can with me."
Sasuke laughed with her. "I'll see you later then?"
"Definitely." Anko bit her thumb, swiped it across a tattoo on her left forearm that Sasuke recognized as the same summoning tattoo Orochimaru had, and left a trail of blood across it before snapping her bloody fingers. "Kuchiyose no jutsu," she said and a giant blue snake slid out of an aisle. It was so big that when it opened its mouth, Anko walked right in. The snake closed its mouth and slid back into the aisle.
When Sasuke looked down the aisle, it was empty. So that was what she meant when she said the room wasn't sealed against summons because not very many people had access to a summons they could fit into. She wasn't kidding about Orochimaru being her sensei either; the only person she could get the summon from is him. What else did she learn from him... Now the only thing left to do, was to get out of the hospital without alerting Danzou he knew something he definitely wasn't supposed to.
Sasuke picked up the much offending report he was supposed to have memorized and placed it back on the table in front of the door. He turned back to the place the Uchiha file was and noted with relief, that it looked exactly the same as when he first got there. He gave a quick nod of thanks to it before he opened the door and stepped out of the room and into the hall.
"You finished?" Danzou asked.
Sasuke nodded. It was taking all of his concentration not to show the man in front of him any outward sign that he knew exactly what he had contributed to his clan's massacre. Fortunately, he was escorted back to the hospital without any further questioning.
Once he got back to his room, Danzou ordered him to never tell anyone what had happened and told Sasuke that if he did as he was told, he would probably never have to see Danzou again. Once he left, Sasuke sighed with relief that he hadn't been found out and went back to sleep.
"Where is he?" the man asked, his voice dangerously soft. "Where is Sasuke-kun?"
"He's not here," the young man answered, his voice betrayed the fear he felt. "In fact, I've heard he will never come here willingly again."
"What?" There was a heavy, displeased silence.
"It's said he was coming here until he met up with Uzumaki who somehow convinced him to return to Konoha."
"I see." There was silence. "In that case, prepare a body for me. We can do nothing until I get my ability to do jutsu back."
AN: I got the impression that Danzou underestimates anyone who follows the Sandaime's way of thinking or who don't kill their emotions and that he's used to working with Ne shinobi who won't disobey him.
About the record room. The room is designed so that the only enterence is the door. The room "knows" when a person is inside of it and won't let anyone else in until that person leaves. Obviously, whoever designed the seals that keep people from getting in by other means left a loophole, either by accedent or on purpose. A lot more will be said on this when sealing is introduced.
There is probably three more chapters untill we leave Konoha.
Thanks for reading!
