Chapter 2:

Uchiha Itachi was returning from his solo mission. It was simple: take the cargo on a faraway island and come back. It took him two days to get to ordered location on a ship and now he was on his way back. Itachi was in his cabin, laying on a bad and thinking about everything.

Times were tough for young Uchiha.

ANBU duties and constant missions (usually, outside of the village), not to mention the dark work he did for Danzo and his long-term mission where he had to spy on his own clan (after Shisui's death -year ago- things only got harder for him). Speaking of his clan: things were going to hell. He was trying his best, but there was not much he could do without Shisui's Mangekyō.

Using his own Mangekyō was greatly damaging to his body and vision, if things went on like they were now, revolt would be unavoidable, which meant he would have to go with Danzo's plan. 'NO. There has to be another way.' But to his dismay, there was none. Stress and pressure was getting to him. The only good thing was that his little brother was happy and his village was safe...for now at least.

Young shinobi rarely spent much time with his little brother who adored him, his precious light in this dark and gloomy world. 'Sasuke, I'll keep you secure.' Thought he of him.

Itachi was about to fall asleep when whole ship shook violently. Thinking that ship was probably under attack, shinobi swiftly stood up and went on a deck where he was met with the most unusual sight.

The water around them was pitch black, like it was an oil instead of a water. Dark clouds were covering the sky, not even one light of sun was visible anywhere, but that was not the worst of it. In front of a ship, not too far away, was a gigantic black tower the top of which was shining brightly in unnatural blue light, it stood there in its dark glory high and mighty with no visible windows or gates.

Young ANBU commander, like everyone else on the ship, was left speechless -not something that happened often-, but he was a shinobi who was crafted to expect the unexpected. Itachi quickly regained himself from shock and started thinking furiously. 'There was not anything like this on a horizon before I went in my cabin and I checked with sharingan. Perhaps, a genjutsu?'

He doubted that it was that but did it anyway. ''Kai!'' As Itachi expected nothing happened. Then he activated his sharingan, still nothing. Now, shinobi was sure that it was not a genjutsu -since dispelling genjutsu did not work and sharingan could see thru illusions-. He looked around and spotted a still shocked captain of the ship -a man in his fifties with white hair and beard-.

Scared sailor saw him as well and exclaimed. ''Shinobi-sama, thank Kami you are here, I'm getting too old for this.''

''What happened?''

''I don't know. One minute we were sailing safely, no storm, good wind, when suddenly whole ship shook as if we crashed into something. Then, what you see around us appeared.'' Said frightened captain.

Shinobi nodded at his answer and was about to ask more questions, but he suddenly felt as if he was being watched. He started looking around for his watcher, but everyone's attention was on the tower, sky or water. That meant only one thing: the watcher was outside, possibly in the tower. Young Uchiha was looking at the light on the top of the tower, as if saying: I know that you are watching.

Suddenly one of the sailors shouted. ''Look! there is something in the water.'' Pointed his finger at the territory near the mysterious tower.

Itachi looked in the direction sailor has pointed at and saw as something came out of the black water. With his activated sharingan, Itachi got a better look, his eyes widened at what he saw. Hovering on top of the black water was a humanoid creature made out of -as far as he could tell- gray stone, it had legs and hands, but also wings. Some would mistake it for an angel if it were not for the wicked looking sword it held, not to mention the scary looking stone armor, and two little shining green lights in a place where its eyes should be.

The head of the creature was covered in a weird looking helmet from which the said lights shone. It was quite terrifying.

Itachi was getting ready for a fight when he noticed that more of those things were coming out of the water. Those other creatures were the same as the first one, except some of them held different kind of weapons. (spears, some bows, and so on.)

Alarmed, he looked around. 'We are surrounded!' thought he inwardly. For now, none of those things were moving, as if expecting orders from someone.

Young ANBU commander evaluated the situation they were in. He looked at the creatures. 'It's bad. There are too many of them, not to mention the fact that supposed enemy's combat power is unknown, if things come to fight; I won't be able to defend sailors or the ship.' He thought grimly but did not let his expression change.

The sailors began to panic. Shouts of:

''DEMONS!''

''GHOSTS!''

''WE ALL ARE GOING TO DIE!''

''I DON'T WANT TO DIE!''

were heard.

People started backing away from the water all the while shaking from fear.

Captain looked quite panicked himself, but he none the less managed to order them in high voice. ''Calm yourselves!''

Sailors heeded their captain's words and stopped. Captain continued: ''I know that you are afraid; I'm afraid as well, but don't panic. Those... things are not attacking,'' for now part was left unsaid. ''and if they do,'' He pointed at Itachi. ''shinobi-sama will help us.''

Itachi didn't know how to act. His mission was over, and the safety of the crew was not any of his problems, but he also didn't want to leave all the people to die. He looked around once more. 'Tch... the black sea has no end, at least not as far as I can see.'

Deciding that just standing there wasn't going to help anything he created five shadow clones. The clones got out of the ship and walked on water, they took circular defense positions around the ship. That strategy helped to calm down the people on aboard a little.

One of the clones tasted the black water, after which he gave a nod to original on the deck. 'So, whatever it is; it's not poisonous and tastes like a normal water.' Thought Itachi.

Now, he had to wait. Itachi already know whoever commanded those creatures would either attack them of talk to them. He hoped that it was the latter. His crimson eyes were looking at everything. Interestingly, he had yet to sense or see any chakra outside of ship.

Young shinobi was right because, suddenly, someone appeared in the air near the tower and slowly flew in their direction.

It was a person, a male who wasn't made of stone. He wore a long black robe, his head was covered by hoodie that threw the veil of shadow over his face, but the most striking thing was the green reptilian like eyes that shone in the said shadow.

The figure stopped near the clones and after minute of silence the voice with strange accent spoke. ''Hello, my name is Harry.''

[Before all that. Inside the black tower.]

Harry was standing in front of a large silver mirror. 'Lets' hope it works.' thought he and spoke the words. 'Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, show me the most sarcastic of them all.''

Runes appeared on the mirror, shining in a gold light, and after a minute, the image of Severus Snape appeared in all his glory. He looked at Harry and scoffed ''So, you survived. Oh, joy.''

Harry rolled his eyes. ''It's good to see you as well, Severus.''

Snape looked at area behind Harry, it looked like a library, the towers of books stood everywhere. The room itself was big, potions master assumed it was young wizards study room. ''I take it that the experiment of yours was a success?'' he inquired.

Harry sighed. ''Not completely. You see, my theory was correct, different worlds do exist, but my method of travel didn't bring me where I wanted to be.''

Older wizard was intrigued. 'If not in Albion...' ''Then where are you?''

Harry shook his head ''I don't know. I regained consciousness two hours ago, my core was completely drained, and I had to drink a few vials of dragon blood to speed up my recovery.''

After jumping thru veil Harry was exhausted, channeling colossal amount of wild magic with an elder wand was no easy feat. Especially, when the latter was near impossible for him to control.

'Wise choice.' thought potion master. The dragon blood was like oil was for muggles, valuable and usable in many ways. Snape had to admit that the boy (well, men. He is 28) was a genius in magic, back in the school, he expected Harry to be a dick like his father, but younger wizard was just full of surprises. He had to admit that Harry was stronger wizard then James or Lily could ever dream to be in their own time. Scratch that, only ones that (he knew of) could rival Harry's powers were Dumbledore and the late Voldemort.

So, here he was. The loyal member of Harrys inner circle.

His promise to Lily was complete (since dark lord's death), and yet, he still stayed by Harrys side. Even under the thousand bites of Cruciatus curse, potion master would never admit that he liked his position. The wizarding world was always divided in two parts (in politically, in beliefs, spells etc. etc.) light and dark. Each side had a ridiculous (dark ages version) views, and no matter which side held the upper hand, the things would always stay the same; no progress. You either worked for one or the other.

Before joining green eyed wizards side; he never even dared to think about the third side. Now, he could say that he was happy. Sure, their leader (Harry) was weird (fetish for dark arts snakes and he could swear that Harry sometimes talked to himself), but he was not a crazy monster who treated his people like minions and punished them with death (if one was lucky enough) whenever he felt like it or a manipulative old bastard who would ruin your life if things didn't go his way. Besides, he had worst, after all, he did work for both: Dumbledore and Voldemort at the same time. And let me tell you; none of them were treats.

Potion master's thoughts were interrupted by Harry's question. ''How are things we planned?''

He smirked and summoned Daily Prophet in his hand. With great smugness, he began his report. ''It has been four days since your (cough, cough) execution, and what the people are calling now: The Ministry Massacre. The culprit, former minister of magic, has been sentenced to death by the remaining wizengamot. I must admit that fully wiping her memories was a good idea. They thought she was insane.

Also, professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore resigned from his position as a Supreme Mugwump and Chief Warlock. We are doing as you instructed, a rumor here, a rumor there, and the old fool is paranoid. He thinks that the jack of blades is everywhere. My spies told me that the closest company he has within the order of phoenix is the mad-eye moody''

''Ouch!''

''Tell me about it.'' Agreed potion master. 'Paranoia + greater paranoia is not a good thing' ''Anyway, he's withdrawing from almost any official positions (except headmaster of Hogwarts) to better focus himself and the order on fighting none existing threat. We will stay out of his way and let him chase his own tail, all the while filling the vacuum of power left behind by him and resent events.

The rest is going as you predicted. Now, on how the rest of the Anarchists are doing:

Draco is now head of the family, he's spreading our influence and is very happy with his family sword which appeared in his vault out of nowhere. Ms. Lovegood and Mr. Lingbottom are well too. The twins are doing great, they send their regards, by the way. Barty, is still the same, worshiping you all day. Me and my wife are doing fine, she writes, I brew, and we share many nights of passion.''

Harry shuddered at the last one. ''I really didn't need to know the last part.''

''Not satisfied with my report? maybe I should give you a more detailed one, especially on me and my wife?''

Harry still could not believe that she and Snape ended up together. The duo was certainly...dynamic. ''...That's...really not necessary.''

Potion masters smirk became larger. ''Oh, I insist.''

Harry shuddered once more and added firmly. ''No need.''

Snape shrugged, smirk still on his face. ''Your loss.''

Harry sighed. ''Looks like you have nothing major to report. Well, then I...'' He was cut off by the felling of alarms triggering. ''It seems we have a company.''

Snape looked surprised. ''How?'' he asked, ''your tower is protected by everything magical world can offer.''

''I don't know. It's possible that not all defenses are up, yet. It is a new place, after all.''

Older wizard considered it. ''It's plausible.'' He agreed.

Harry waved his hand and another mirror appeared. It showed everything outside of tower. Carefully looking at the mirror, Harry frowned. ''A ship?'' he asked out loud. ''Good, then it means that there is a civilization nearby.''

''They could be hostile.'' Snape reminded.

'True''agreed Harry 'I need more info.' He thought.

Young wizard zoomed mirror on aboard of the ship, there, he could see a panicked group of sailors looking around in confusion and fear, but in that crowd, he saw someone that immediately got his attention, it was a dark-haired boy. He wore strange cloths that looked like uniform and the very way young teen absorbed the situation around them showed that he was not a normal human. His eyes were crimson, that intrigued Harry very much. Even a fool could tell that those eyes were different, powerful, enthralling. Harry's inner researcher was screaming at him to get more data.

Suddenly, as if feeling that he was being watched, the boy started looking around. His crimson eyes settled on Harry, as if telling him that he knew about his watcher.

A strange smile creeped on Harrys face as he examined those eyes closer. They were redder than blood with three black spots stationed in circle. The moment was ruined when the stranger broke the gaze to see the Golems that were coming out of the water (one of the defense mechanisms was activated).

Then, red eyed stranger made five other people from the smoke that appeared out of nowhere. They all looked exactly like the first teen, Harry would have mistaken them for twins if he hadn't seen their...creation?

And when those five clones started walking on the water, Harry was left speechless. But not thoughtless, in fact, his mind was filled with many thoughts. 'This world has equivalent power to magic. I want to see it, know it, compare it to my own magic...is it even called magic here?'

Potion master looked at Harry's expression and sighed. ''I know that look, it's a look you have when you are really interested into something, last time that happened: you made us watch that muggle TV show -Game of Thrones- for a whole year.''

''Come now, Severus. I know you liked it. After all, it isn't me who has a Peter Dinklage's -Face- tattoo on his back.'' Said Harry with a triumphant smile.

Elder wizard didn't answer Harry's comment and decided to change the subject. ''You are going down there, aren't you?''

Younger wizard was already putting hood on his head. ''Yep,'' answered he happily ''there is a whole new world out there for me, a vacation I never had with whole magical world on my back or after my back with a dagger. Different people, culture and who knows what. I say: my kind of world.''

Snape raised an eyebrow at his excitement, it was rare to see him like this, almost childishly happy, 'but the emptiness in his heart will always haunt him.' Thought he sadly. The walls that Harry had around him prevented everyone, even among Anarchists, from being too close to him. Potion master didn't know what younger wizard went thru before coming to Hogwarts, nor did he know if he wanted to know, but he hoped that maybe someone would be able to...'No, Harry knows better, it's his life. I can only wish him to be happy.'

Meanwhile: Harry was ready to meet strangers. 'Wait,' he stopped 'there might be a language barrier between us.' Young wizard activated runes behind his ears (one rune symbol behind each ear) by pushing his magic in them. Then he did the same thing to the rune on his tongue (It was something he learned during his days as unspeakable, the runs on his ears enabled him to hear as rune on his tongue allowed him to speak on almost any language, quite handy if you asked him. But translation runes were still faulty).

When magic took effect, he turned to Snape. ''I'll contact you later.''

Snape nodded. ''Have fun and... be careful.''

Before disappearing in a cloud of black smoke Harry said. ''Be careful? have you met me?''

Potion master looked thoughtful. He shook his head and murmured to himself. ''Yes, I have.'' After which he closed the connection.

Now, outside of the tower. Young wizard was floating in the air and thinking 'How should I approach them? hmm, lets introduce myself, first.'

He slowly floated near one of the crimson eyed strangers and when he was close enough, he did so. ''Hello, my name is Harry.''

-A deafening silence-

People aboard had only one question in their heads. 'WHAT!'

Harry felt a sudden pressure on his mind shields, it was nothing big, almost as if someone was trying to use Legilimens on a subconscious level. He looked at original red eyed man on the ship, Harry could tell he was confused at something. 'Subconscious Legilimens? enough to cause minor illusions, but not enough to read minds or influence thoughts, at least on me. No, it is not a Legilimens, but it's similar.' Young wizard had a feeling that those eyes had more power then they showed, but now was neither time nor place for that.

Itachi was more than confused, 'This man Can. Not. Exist.' His eyes were no Byakugan, but he had more than enough experience to distinguish and see chakra of people, and this

stranger had none. Stranger's chakra, if he had any, was without color or presence. That disturbed shinobi, in fact, this whole situation was strange. He had many questions and... stranger was looking at him straight in the eyes, Itachi was thinking about using his eyes on him, but decided against it. 'Creatures might become hostile and attack.' He reasoned with himself.

Others just watched as two of them stared at each other in silence, too afraid to speak or move. shinobi decided to speak first. ''Greetings, Hari-san. my name is Itachi.'' No point in hiding his real name, delivery mission was an official one. ''Where are we?''

Harry blinked, ''Oh yes, this place is my home. I would like know how you got here.''

Itachi's narrowed his eyes, but other than that his face showed no emotion. ''We don't know, we were sailing in the sea when we suddenly ended up here.''

Harry nodded, ''I see.'' and took off his hood. The people gasped, -except Itachi who contained his surprise-. ''What's up with them?'' asked Harry as if taking the notice of other sailors for the first time.

'It cannot be!' Young shinobi smiled politely to hide his surprise and pointed at creatures around them.

Understanding flashed thru Harry's eyes as he looked around. He laughed awkwardly ''Forgot about those, sorry.''

Young shinobi watched as creatures went back in the mysterious black water. He didn't let his guard down. ''What are they?'' he asked.

Harry looked at him in the eyes once again, -the temptation to use his Mangekyō was still there- ''Golems.'' answered he, but the meaning of the word was unknown to Itachi. He had many questions that needed answers and was about to ask more when one of the sailors yelled: ''SHINOBI-SAMA, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! THE DEMON IS ATTACKING, DON'T FALL FOR IT'S LIES!''

Murmurs of agreement went thru the crowd.

Shinobi had an urge to groan. Those idiots were being hostile, did they not see at how much disadvantage they were? if Harry wanted to attack; he would have done so already.

'Shinobi? what does this word mean?' thought Harry.

It was not a first time someone has called him that (demon, monster, abomination, freak), he proceeded to talk to Itachi as if others hadn't existed and the outburst didn't happen. ''Itachi, was it?'' He called.

Shinobi paid no mind to informality and nodded.

''I would like to ask you to take me to nearest continent.''

Itachi too ignored the coming protest of sailors.

The request was most unusual. 'The nearest continent? but elemental country's continent is the only one.'' thought itachi. He stared at Harry for a minute, as if trying to figure out if he was serious or not. ''I'm not the captain so I can't decide that.'' Said he apologetically

''Then who is?''

Shinobi pointed at the sweating captain. ''He is.''

Captain was trembling with fear -not to mention sweating like a turkey on a thanksgiving-. ''I… I a-am?'' He coughed to calm his shaking voice. ''I mean: I am.''

Harry had the to stop himself from giving a sarcastic remark. ''I would like to buy a place on your ship.''

Sailor avoided eye contact and started murmuring. ''Well... there is no place...and...''

Young wizard raised a hand and bearded captain stopped his rambling. A black medium sized bag materialized in Harry's hand. ''Will this be enough?'' said he while handed it to one of the clones. Itachi watched carefully at the bag that appeared out of nowhere, as if expecting it to blow up.

After getting approving nod from the original, clone jumped on the ship and gave a bag to the captain.

Harry was startled by physical agility that clone showed, he wondered if the original (Itachi) was the same.

Harry's surprise didn't escape from Itachi's attention.

The captain took -as Itachi's clone noted- the heavy bag with great hesitation, but he could not handle the weight and dropped it, bag opened and generous amount of gold coins rolled aboard the ship in different directions.

''...''

Sailors were left speechless.

They looked between gold and wizard a few times as greed slowly settled in their eyes.

''I assure you that your coming here was not intentional and that I don't wish to harm you.'' added Harry diplomatically.

''Hari-sama, of course we have a place for you!'' Yelled captain as he and his man started gathering gold coins from the deck.

Harry snorted, 'Too easy.'

Meanwhile, -sweatdropped- Itachi silently watched people who just a second ago were calling this man a demon. The things people do for money.

''Okay, let's go then.'' announced Harry who appeared on deck out of nowhere with a -crack- noise.

That caught Itachi off guard. 'When did he? a Shunshin? I didn't even feel him mold chakra and the way he looks...could it be that he's Orochimaru's son! Lord third will want to know about him.' Theprospect of that was terrifying, hokage's former student was not good news. Itachi hesitantly dispelled his clones.

''Yes, Hari-sama!'' Happily shouted captain who had already gathered all the gold, none of the sailors, even the captain, has asked Harry on how he did that. (They either thought that Harry too was a shinobi or just didn't care anymore). ''Move! we are off course as it is.''

''Yes, captain!'' cheered the crew.

Harry gathered magic around the ship, with a flash of white light everything changed. Whole ship shook as they returned to their previous location, sky and water were blue again, sun shined in the sky and mysterious black tower was nowhere to be seen.

That worried Itachi quite a bit. 'That just now, what was it' he looked at Harry. 'I have to approach him.' That was easier said than done. You see, Itachi was not; What one would call a ''people person''.

Fortunately for him, he didn't have to start a conversation because Harry approached him first. ''I haven't properly introduced myself. My name is Harry Peverell potter, nice to meet you.'' He held a hand out for a handshake.

Uchiha just stared at hand, not knowing what to do. 'And what kind of name is that?'

''...'' -Awkward-

'...Okay, I'm clearly doing doing something wrong' thought Harry as he awkwardly retrieved his hand back.

Shinobi bowed slightly. ''...Uchiha Itachi, nice to meet you as well, Hari-san.''

'I should know more about culture of this world, after all, good manners are important.' Decided young wizard. ''Can I ask you a few questions?''

'Well, he is the captain... nothing I can do about Hari-san coming with us so...' Itachi deactivated his sharingan (no point in wasting chakra) and nodded with a polite smile. ''Of course. I hope you can answer a few of mine as well.''

Harry too nodded. 'What happened to his eyes? they were crimson just a second ago, now, they are as black as night, not to mention that the pressure on my mind shields is gone.' ''Naturally.''

'First of all, I should know where he's from and who's he loyal to.' Though Itachi. ''Hari-san, where are you from?''

There was no need for Harry to lie about that. ''I'm from England, the London to be precise.''

Those names sounded very strange to young uchiha, and he has never heard of this England or London. He narrowed his eyes. ''I have never heard any of those names in elemental countries.'' stated shinobi with a subtext of suspicion.

Harry just chuckled, not noticing or not caring about the subtext. ''Of curse. You see, I'm from a different continent. You probably haven't heard of it at all, not surprising coming from the fact that our society is extremely secretive. By the way, are those 'elemental countries' where we are going right now?''

Normally, he would outright dismiss such answer, but this man wasn't normal. ''...Yes.'' He looked at Harry in the eyes, analyzing his body language. ''Where exactly is your homeland, Hari-san?''

Black haired wizard shook his head. ''I can't tell you that, like I said: my people are very secretive.'' Technically true. ''Besides, no one will be able to find it, the protections to hide us from the outside world are similar to those you just saw in my tower.''

Itachi could understand that. Countries kept secrecy to survive, but to keep the entire continent hidden was...a bit (a lot) dubious. But the protections like in his tower... 'Is it possible?' Thought he to himself.

Seeing the opportunity, Harry hesitantly asked: ''Since we are on a subject, could you tell me more about the common culture. You see, there is a cultural barrier between us. So, could you teach me some of the costumes of your society for us to better interpret each other?''

Itachi thought about Harry's actions, (the way he acted, talked, etc etc) and decided that he was not lying (as far as he could tell). Not seeing anything bad about Harry knowing a common knowledge, he agreed. ''Of course.''

The next few hours Itachi spent time explaining a bit of everything about his culture to Harry, who was a fantastic listener. Despite how suspicious green eyed stranger was, Itachi found him...entertaining. He himself wanted to know more about this unusual person, it helped him to not think about his many problems. Shinobi didn't trust Harry at all, but it didn't mean he wouldn't enjoy his more than interesting company.

Normally, Itachi was a man of few words, not easily engaged in a conversation, but talking to this stranger who he didn't trust as far as he could throw him, made him dare he say: excited in a positive way. Which was strange since he practically met him a few hours ago. Not to mention that there was a possibility that Harry could be the son of Knoha's most infamous missing-nin. 'Have I finally gone mad?'

''So that's why you called me Harry-san.'' remarked Harry with a smile.

Itachi just nodded.

''I see.''

Harry looked at horizon, the sun was already setting and the view was beautiful, deep blue water was met with a reddish sky as yellow sun was about to set. It was something that Harry always appreciated, the beauty that only mother nature could create.

Realizing that he has been staring at it for a whole two minutes, Harry quickly turned to his new acquaintance. ''Thank you for helping me. Now, I believe I have taken much of your time.''

Itachi remembered that he had to inform lord hokage about Harry. ''Good night.'' Said he, and went in his room to write a report which he would send to his kage by using a summon.

Harry continued his enjoyment with the sunset. He watched as the setting sun cast its golden rays down upon the clouds, turning them bright red; fire red. 'It's beautiful.'

''Yes, it is, master.'' Said Anarchy suddenly.

''...'' -A minute of silence-

'Your awake, good. I was beginning to worry.'

''My apologies, master. I was comatose, just awakened a second ago...by the way where are we?''

Harry sighed. 'Not in Albion, if that's what you are asking. This world is different from both of our worlds. It doesn't mean we failed. My objective was to go to different world, preferably Albion, but this world will do. After all, I already have things that catch my interest here.'

''...I'm happy as long as you are happy and safe.'' His servant stated after a short pause.

Harry chuckled, Anarchy was the most loyal being he had ever met, not even his group back in his world knew about him. Young wizard was very possessive of him, the being that was only his.

He looked at setting sun one more time, watching as it's rays ever so slowly disappeared. ''...I should go to captain, he has yet to show me to my cabin.'' said he to himself as he left the deck.

No dark nobility after his skin, no old man with mental issues, no death eaters, no more of everything that was after him to kill him or worse. No more.

The things that this new world had to offer, he would see them soon, for better or worse.

[Hidden leaf village. Hokage Residence.]

In his office, Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Hokage of the hidden leaf village was fighting his nemesis... the paperwork. He looked at the stack of papers with a distaste, wishing for something to happen, anything, that would help him in avoiding this torture. Old shinobi got what he wished for when one of his ANBU, the tiger, entered the room with a scroll.

The tiger was a male with a brown hair whose face was covered in animal mask of a tiger. ''Lord Hokage, we have a message from the ANBU codenamed Crow, it's an emergency report.''

Sarutobi frowned. He had sent young Uchiha on easy mission, the stress on young boy was too big and elder shinobi wanted to help him by giving him time away from all of it. Kage hoped that nothing bad had happened.

He took the scroll and started reading it.

As he read the context of the message, the color slowly drained from his wrinkled face. ''...That is not possible...'' He whispered to himself and read the scroll one more time, praying that he has somehow misread it, but no such luck.

It was not possible. When? How? Why?

He turned to worried ANBU and ordered hurriedly. ''Get me Inoichi, Now!''

ANBU bowed, ''Yes hokage-sama!'' and quickly went on his way to complete given order.

Now, alone in his room, old memories of his student flashed in his mind. He sighed and shook his head. 'Orochimaru... you fool.' thought he sadly.

[Unknown place, unknown time:]

The figure in shadows was laughing with glee and insanity. ''YeS! ThiNgS aRe pRogReSiNg, SooN, mY LadY, huhuhuhuhuhahahahahahaha!'' The darkness was coming, and death was sure to follow.

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