"If the Sand siblings remember that will be good for us but if they don't I want to be as strong as possible to fight Gaara and bring him back"

"Agreed, think Jiraiya-sama and Tsunade-sama will remember?"

"Probably not, but if they do that will be a big help ultimately"

"Naruto, Jiraiya will probably get himself killed again you know that right?"

"Yeah I know, but if it's for a former student of his I don't mind, that helped bring his former student back fully when I finally confronted him"

"Hey Sasuke, think you'll get Itachi back this time?"

"Hopefully, but with his mission most likely not, I know Tsunade was working on it as the Hokage to get him formally recognized as a Konoha shinobi again but I don't know if she succeeded and even if she did it was a moot point by the time of his death because of the fact that the villages were practically one by that time due to how many people shinobi and civilian alike had died for each village"

"You actually have a point there"

"So everyone knows what needs worked on and what doesn't?"

"Yep, hey what about Yamato?"

"He might not remember, but if need be I can transfer memories to him once he comes to temporarily take care of the team"

"Yeah, that's when we got Sai too, stupid move you did Sasuke"

"Hey not my fault the enemy was tricky enough to cause that much damage"

"You have a point there, Danzo was worse considering he was the one who made Sai the way he was initially"

"But we helped him out and he became part of the team, hopefully he remembers us and if he doesn't then we'll simply have to get him to feel emotions again"

"Or I do what Kakashi-sensei will do for Yamato"

"Good point, hurts like crazy but good point"

"By the way Sasuke, should Itachi remember as well if he doesn't already?"

"No, for two reasons, first of all if he regains his memories he might be outed as a spy if he starts to act differently and then there's the fact that I really don't want him remembering his own death"

"Good point, but Kakashi-sensei is definitely getting Obito to remember right?"

"That's the plan Sakura"

"Hey Sasuke, maybe Itachi can remember at a latter time, like when the war starts maybe, that ways he won't be as compromised, especially depending on when we get him to remember"

"I'll think about it"

"For now though you three need to get back to war condition as do I, we'll do team sparring in a bit between the teams but for now it's just us and D-rank missions, even if you guys can do higher classed ones in knowledge you're no longer physically capable, besides I think the Wave mission should be done on time just in case we can make new allies this time with Zabuza and Haku"

"Probably not, but still it will be great to see Inari again and reteach him what he needs to be taught"

"The others will be working towards war conditions too, we also need to look for a second place for everyone once the invasion happens, though if Gaara, Temari and Kankuro remember maybe Sand will stand by us instead of against"

"Not with Orochimaru killing their Kazekage and pretending to be him, remember they won't discover the truth until too late"

"You have a point, well maybe we can give those three at least protection"

"We'll see"

They started the routine of training and missions in the morning and afternoon and place hunting in the evening for everyone without trying to arouse suspicions

"Finding a place for Naruto is hard"

"Not my fault, or my dad's"

"We know, it's stupid civilians who can't tell the difference, according to you the shinobi mainly treated you neutrally correct?"

"For the most part yeah"

"Well, we just have to keep looking and hope for the best, by the way Hinata and Neiji cornered me recently on the way to Ino's"

"Oh?"

"Yeah they said to give the others a heads up on a mission Neiji has that affected the entire clan for two weeks and when the mission happens to not expect her at group sparring during that time"

"Okay, pass that onto the others minus her team?"

"That could work, didn't tell Ino simply because she wasn't in the shop"

"Makes sense"

Time passed and the teams quickly found out that Neiji's mission which affected the whole clan for two weeks was a mission where the team simply cut communication with the village and were declared missing. During the two weeks that Hinata couldn't appear for team sparring Hiashi did his best to keep Hinata from being marked and trying to heal the rift between the two houses because this time the branch house blamed Hiashi for the loss of Neiji not because of the fact that Neiji became a shinobi and loss of life is always a risk but because Hiashi could have kept Neiji away from this mission specifically because of clan issues involving safety

"Okay, Hinata knows that Neiji and his team will come back alive, injured but alive but no one else, she's also being forced to stay in the Hyuga complex until Neiji gets back, Kiba, Shino think you guys can make sure she doesn't fall too far behind and also knows that we need help searching for a place because of stupid civilians?"

"No problem"

"Okay good, now then the Wave mission came after Neiji and the team gets back but not by much so once they get back check up on them and we go from there"

"Makes sense, training like normal tomorrow?"

"Nope, have to fool what families need to be fooled, and also fooling Iruka-sensei and the old man"

"That's right, forgot you had that nickname for the Hokage"

"Okay, we do have missions tomorrow but otherwise our goal is to fool everyone into thinking nothing is wrong, we'll only do so if we get indications that we should reveal hidden truths and even then we're going to have to be careful about what we do reveal so that while we get the village ready we don't start a panic"

"Right"

Finally Team Gai returned and happened to run into Team Asuma due to the mission the team was doing that day, and after Team Gai reported in they simply went to their homes and rested for a few days except Neiji who went to the hospital first, knowing that Team Asuma would quickly spread the word amongst the group that they were alive and relatively okay. When they got to team Kakashi all of them gave out a sigh of relief and went back to training since that was the plan that day. The next day they got all the important details and soon enough it was the Wave mission, they sadly couldn't get Zabuza and Haku as part of their allies but that wasn't their fault. This time around while Haku and Zabuza both survived they left for Kiri to see if they could take down the Kage that had their Demon being controlled which was what started Zabuza on his rogue status in the first place, and if that wasn't the case and their was a knew Kage they would see about pardons or at least seeing if the new Kage would allow them to live long enough to explain their side of the story