When I got to shore I travelled west until I reached Sunagakure. The hot, dry climate was a dramatic change from the cool, humid air of Kirigakure. This was what I wanted, something different, no reminders of what I'd had in Kirigakure and something that would mark the start of the rest of my life. Within a few weeks I had met another ninja whom I desired to train under. It was before she trained me that I had captured her jutsu, which was how I had convinced Pakura that she had to train me. One Scorch style user to another.
By the time I was nine I was an honorary Sunagakure chuunin, it took an appeal to the Kazekage to allow him to let me keep my Kirigakure hitai-ate and allow me to display both, however I did succeed. Overtime his intentions became clear, he had only welcomed me into his village for the same purpose as the Mizukage had. Unlike my mother however, I had some advantages to the situation.
Before they would start testing on me they wanted me to take the actual chuunin exams, which I wouldn't qualify for until I was eleven, and then wanted my fuuinjutsu to develop more. This was what they wanted to study, granted, it wouldn't be as taxing or dangerous as what my mother went through I still would not stand for it. After all they were still liable to change their mind and decide that, like my mother, they wanted to study my biological structure to find out exactly what makes Uzumaki chakra the ultimate lifeforce. In the meantime, as they plotted my future, I plotted my way out of their village when the time was right.
At age eleven I took the chuunin exams held in Iwagakure and was promoted to official Sunagakure Chuunin. It was shortly after these exams that Pakura-sensei was killed on a mission, which gave me the greatest idea for how I would disappear from the village. For the next two years I spent nearly all of my time in my apartment working on my newest fuuinjutsu that would completely seal a person away without damage to them. Shortly after I turned thirteen I could tell that the Sunagakure council was getting ancy and waiting for just the right moment to spring the idea of experiments on me. Fortunately I was graced with a mission in which my team ended up engaging with Sound ninja. During the ensuing battle I left a clone to fight for me and snuck away to prepare my ultimate get away. I got my hands on a corpse long before this mission and had tailored it to be my exact double in physical and biological matters. Unsealing this corpse I cast a basic disillusionment on my comrades and the enemy and placed the corpse where my clone had been. I released the disillusionment before sealing away my body and presence in a tree. This effectively gave the impression to Sunagakure that I was killed in action, and assured that they would never come looking for me just like the Mist ninja never came to assassinate me on terms of being a rogue-nin.
What felt like days later I unsealed myself from the tree. I felt no presence anywhere close, and was confident that I could make an escape into the Land of Fire. I was as of yet unaware that I had made miscalculations in the jutsu, and that I was now headed into potentially dangerous territory.