A/N: Hey guys, it's your friendly neighbourhood author here! So yeah sorry for the lack of updating it's just hard for me when I got work up to my eyeballs. Anyway expect another long gap as I'm gonna be writing a couple chapters ahead before updating again. Anyway R&R and enjoy reading!

It was late at night when Sasuke wandered out of the karaoke bar Killer Bee had dragged him to after hearing about the Log. It was surprisingly easy to turn him onto the path of the Log, of course once he had seen the li-… "Would it be see the light or see the bark?" Sasuke pondered. Shrugging he moved on eager to find another soul to convert. He was trying to avoid bars as converting the drunk was easy and didn't last long as by the time they were sober they would have probably forgotten their conversion and the whole task would have been pointless.

He had been wandering for goodness knows how long when he finally came across a group of people who weren't completely inebriated. The group looked vaguely familiar when he realised this was the team that the girl -Karui was her name?- Chouji seemed to have a large infatuation for, was part of. He walked over to them and prepared his possible conversion tactics. Of course as he arrived he had barely had the chance to say anything when he an argument broke out.

"Jeez Karui, if you keep getting into fights and getting us chucked out of bars we can end up pissing off Raikage-sama, then he would end up banishing us from the village, which would enrage Bee-sensei because he lost his students and then he would go on a rampage with Gyuki-sama, destroying kumo in the process…" A blonde haired, dark skinned man rambled before promptly getting cut off by getting whacked round the head. It loosely reminded him of his genin days with Sakura and Naruto.

"Shut up Omoi! Even after getting to Jonin you still are way too pessimistic! And it's not my fault we got chucked out! That lech shouldn't have commented on my boobs!" She yelled, turning to the third member of their party, a blonde haired women with a chest that looked more cumbersome than anything "Aren't I right Samui? Back me up here!"

Said woman just shook her head and sighed "Karui, stop hitting Omoi. And whilst that pervert was wrong you shouldn't have broken his nose!" She reprimanded. Karui just looked away quite annoyed but removed her fist from Omoi's skull.

"Tch, you wouldn't care would ya" She said under her breath. It was then the group noticed a familiar Uchiha walking towards them. Karui growled, going for her sword. "Well lookie here, I got something else to take my fustrations out on, you know Uchiha, I never got to have my swing at you for what you did to Bee-sensei"

Sasuke's eyes widened as he realised that these three had been to a bar, and based off the alcohol he could smell coming from the red head he could guess she was slightly drunk. He decided to try and be diplomatic. After all, fighting 3 shinobi from the village surely wouldn't bring them onto his side when trying to convert them. "You are Karui-san correct? I was speaking to your Sensei earlier and he said that your attitude and skill made you a very good shinobi" he said, hoping compliments would work as he remembered how killer bee had said 'She got a fire in her head and with her skill with a sword most lose their head. She was trained by the best, the shinobi better than the rest, Thanks to me she is a killer shinobi'. He was still trying to purge the experience from his memory.

Unfortunately this just seemed to put them on edge as they all seemed to stiffen up and start sinking into a fighting pose. "You have beter not have done anything to Bee-sensei, teme, otherwise I'll kill you" Karui growled, drawing her sword. Sasuke realised the situation was worsening and he was about to try and fix the situation when he seemed to be saved by the rapping jinchuriki himself. He dropped from nowhere holding karui back. This wouldn't have surprised anyone if it wasn't for the fact he had decided to go for a new look. He now wore his standard kumo armour but it had re-designed so that instead of white, it looked like bark. His glasses had been swapped for wooden framed ones, and Samehade seemed to be decorated with leaves. Over his clothes however he now wore a coat similar to the Raikage's except once again looking like bark. "Karui, please refrain from attacking Sasuke-san. He has kindly spent time showing me the bark so I would prefer if you did not harm him." Sasuke smiled at having his earlier confusion cleared up

Needless to say the Kumo shinobi were shocked. Bee had just spoken two sentences. And they didn't rhyme! And they were actually well formed! If Samui didn't already know genjutsu didn't work on Bee thanks to Gyuki's influence, she would have tried breaking him from whatever one had been placed on him. "Bee-sensei... you look different" Omoi commented, still slightly shocked.

"Yes, I decided to change my appearance once Sasuke-san here had extended the branch of the Log to me" He said smiling "You see I met him earlier today, and after a brief drink in a nearby bar, he showed me the way forward". His team, now recovered and thinking how on earth Sasuke had brought such a change as to make Bee sound ELOQUENT, looked confused. "Sensei, what do you mean 'the way forward'?" Karui asked.

"Come with me, my students" Bee ordered walking off "You have much to learn of the true ways" He said sounding sagely. The three Kumo nin decided that Bee's already precarious sanity (if his rapping didn't show it, his will to disobey A certainly did) and followed him. Sasuke smirked, his plan was working. He stalked off to a nearby hotel, deciding sleep would be best right now. Eventually finding a place that was still open he fell asleep a ghost of a smile on his normally stoic face.

The next morning

He had to admit his sleep was almost perfect. No nightmares of the horrors in Oto, or the massacre, or even the war. No he slept pretty soundly in his nice double bed. The duvet was warm, the pillow was soft and the mattress was comfy. All in all a decent bed. His room had no one occupying the rooms either side of it so there was no noise to complain about and it was in a quiet portion of the hidden village so no noise woke him because of passer byes. What did disturb his sleep, however, was the squad THNDR Holding tantos against his neck, and poised to strike his eyes and vital points.

The lead agent, a man with a lightning bolt across his mask, spoke in a flat monotonous voice "Sasuke Uchiha, you are under arrest for brain washing of Kumo ninja and sneaking into Kumo unlawfully. If you resist arrest we are under orders to execute you" He said, seemingly on one breath.

Sasuke simply sighed, shaking his head. It was far too early to be dealing with this