The next day team Shadow was walking through the village on their way toward the academy. Maelstrom looked to his left at the building they were passing and thought "So after I was gone they rebuilt the building and repaired all the damage to my old apartment and neighborhood.....remember Naruto, stay calm and silent."

As they approached the academy there were several teams outside the building and Scorpion look at one team that entered and said "Well that's interesting."

Subzero asked "What."

Scorpion pointed toward the team from Suna with his head and said "The boy with makeup is a puppet user and the one on his back is named Crow. It's one of Sasori earlier puppets."

Maelstrom said "Remembering the past Scorpion."

Scorpion said "I would kill myself if I ever used one a simple as that now a days....even if it was one of my better works at the time."

Maelstrom snorts and said "Modest are we. Come, lets go." as he walked into the building with his team.

They soon made it to the 2nd floor and saw a lot of people all gathered around a door and Maelstrom shook his head and throws a kunai at the wall behind everyone who was gathered who were facing the other way and an explosion went off scaring everyone and Maelstrom walked to the new hole in the wall and used chakra to begin to walk up the side of the building with both Scorpion and Subzero following.

Several Gennin looked at the 3 confused while some were clued in on what was happening.

3 figures came running up to the large group looking around and one asked "What happened here." in a demanding voice.

Everyone looked at them and several people recognized them as team 7. Neji taking a shot at Sasuke said "Your to weak to realize what happened here Uchiha." as he turned and began to walk away with his teammates following after him.

Sasuke glared at Neji back and looked around and said "Release the Genjutsu." causing a few people to smack their faces while other looked confused.

One of the 'Gennin' by the door said "So you detected it. Well detecting it is only half the challenge." as he went to punch Sasuke who went to kick him and they both hit sending Sasuke flying backwards into Sakura arms while the other 'Gennin' was sent into his partner and both shushined away.

Sasuke glared at the place they had stood and he quickly stood up straight and saw a few people snickering at him and his team mate Sai said "Good job dickless." and Sasuke ignored everyone and walked past them heading toward the third floor.

When he got there Kakashi was standing there and he said "Ah Sakura, Sasuke, Sai. I am glad to see all 3 of you made it."

Sai said "Dickless here got into a fight on the way here with a Chunnin and got his ass handed to him."

Sakura screeched "Don't talk about Sasuke-kun like that and that guy was a Gennin" as she tried to hit Sai who moved out of the way and said "Whatever." when she missed.

Kakashi sighed and said "Listen to me all 3 of you. Hokage-sama has asked me to pass a message to all 3 of you. There is an independent team taking the exams. All 3 are dressed in black except one has gold and another has blue on their outfits and the only real detail you can see about them is their eyes. He wants you to avoid them at all cost because we think they may have been sent here for some reason other then the exams. Perhaps to try and kidnap one of the heirs to the clans or perhaps to steal one of the bloodlines."

Sai asked "How much of a threat does he believe they are."

Kakashi said "I don't know but I do know that he had ANBU black ops follow them from the moment they entered the village till they entered the building. You already saw some of their handy work on the second floor new window."

Sakura got a little scared at this and Sai looked bored while Sasuke looked interested.

Kakashi thought "I shouldn't of said anything to them because I fear Sasuke will seek them out but I was given orders to inform them." and he said "Well good luck all of you." as he shushined away.

Team 7 entered into the room and saw everyone glaring at them and all 3 saw the team Kakashi mentioned sitting in the corner while everyone seemed to be avoiding them.

A shout of 'Sasuke-kun' made everyone turn to Ino who jumped on Sasuke back and as her and Sakura began to scream at each other drawing the other rookie Gennin toward them Kabuto walked over and said "You all should be a little quieter because you drawing attention toward yourself."

Kiba sneered and said "And who the hell are you." as he looked at Kabuto.

Kabuto said "My name is Kabuto and I thought I might give you all some free advice to help you with the exams. You see I have taken this test before and I have gathered lots of info on the other competitors." as he showed them the cards.

Sasuke asked "Do you have any information on specific people."

Kabuto pushed his glasses up and said "Yes. Just tell me who you want and I can show you."

Sasuke pointed toward team shadow and said "Them."

Kabuto looked at team shadow and he said "Hmm.......the three assassins. I have heard a lot about them recently but I don't know how much is true." as he pulled out 3 cards. They showed pictures of all 3 and he said "The one on the left in blue is code named Subzero. She's not in Konoha bingo book because she never been in fire country before but in Mist where she is originally from she is called the Ice assassin. She has a bloodline that allows her to use Ice and is responsible for the deaths of 35 Jounin, 54 Chunnin and 111 Gennin as well as a little over 75 mercenaries in Wave country."

Subzero nods toward Kabuto and he moved her card back into the deck as several people were looking as Subzero nervously. Kabuto said "Next we have Scorpion. He is known as the Puppet assassin. Rumors claim he is originally from Wind country and was rumored to have studied under Akasuna no Sasori before he killed him. He has also killed 18 Jounin, 96 Chunnin, 46 Gennin, 200 mercenaries and 3999 civilians." as he put the card back in his deck and Scorpion nods slowly as well.

The three Suna siblings now looked at team assassin and Kankuro thought "he killed Akasuna no Sasori and was trained by him." in shock.

By now nearly everyone was looking at team shadow with fear. As Kabuto displayed the last card he said "And then there is Maelstrom. The Storm assassin. He is responsible for the death of the Yondaime Mizukage, 299 Jounin, 379 Chunnin, 100 Gennin, 200 academy students, 1000 mercenaries and over 10,000 civilians." making several people walk out of the room with some of them pissing their pants while everyone else looked at him with fear.

Maelstrom said "You seem well informed about what we did in Mist country Kabuto-san."

Ino said "Wait. That was real." with fear in her voice.

Maelstrom said "Somewhat but also not entirely true."

Kiba asked "Well which is it. Is it true or not."

Maelstrom said "The current feudal lord in the land of water took over after his father was assassinated about 4 years ago by one of the factions in the bloodline civil war that has been going on there for over a hundred years. Fearing for his own life he began to search for anyone who could end the war there. We came in contact with one of his envoys who was looking for anyone who wanted the job. Price to do it was $2 billion in gold bars. Since we had nothing to lose but our lives the 3 of us agreed to take on the task and since nobody else even blinked at taking the job he immediately hired us despite our age. We then searched for the easiest way to solve the war there and we discovered that it was to simply destroy the hidden village of Mist since it was the one who was keeping the war going."

Subzero took over here and said "We spied for nearly a month looking for the best way to do it and we discovered the Mizukage head of security who was a Jounin because his father paid to have him promoted as such even though he was only barely a Chunnin in actual skills was nothing but a monster who found any young female he could and would take them back to his place acting all nice and friendly like a real gentleman and then rape them repeatedly before he killed them. We decided that I would be tasked with becoming his next target and since we found out one of his many disgusting habits was consuming large amounts of salt so that way the girls he raped would suffer even more. He nicknamed his manhood Salt lick. With that information we arranged for all the salt shakers in the restaurant he used to have an odorless and tasteless chakra disrupting drug that I was taught by Tsunade-sama when I was training under her. After the dinner on the way back to his place we walked through the woods that our team had scouted out and I lead him into an ambush where the 3 of us attacked and killed him while the drug weakened him."

Scorpion said "I then took the knowledge of human puppetry I have and turned him into a human puppet. Then controlling him I had him lead the 3 of us into the Mizukage office and we introduced ourselves to the Mizukage telling him how we had knowledge of a group of bloodline users who had formed together to try and start a revolt. As he listened to us tell our tail he never noticed his head of security come up behind him and attempted to stab a kunai into his skull killing him but he reacted at the last second and maelstrom took that distraction of him looking at the head of security to kill him. Acting quickly we took his body and sealed it into a scroll and left the office with the security chief. I then turned the Mizukage into a puppet as well and had him name Subzero here as his new secretary in civilian cloths while he name me his new head of village security dressed as a member of TIDE or mist ANBU while Maelstrom sent a message to our one time sensei and sent him a copy of the Mizukage handwriting and official stamp and he created complete pardons for himself and Zabuza Momochi. We then had a team of ANBU who were told both were cleared of all charges against them to first join the village to create a new clan as well as Zabuza attempt on the Mizukage life was an actual lie and he was a deep cover agent. They believed the lie we told them and had the Mizukage puppet first make a public announcement about the suppose undercover mission Zabuza was on and then he named Zabuza as the Godaime Mizukage."

Maelstrom said "After Zabuza became the Mizukage he named the person who came with him and who we had fake the signature of the Mizukage to become his head of security. They then has us work in the background working on scouting out the ninja and civilians and looked for who was causing all the trouble between the 2 factions. The feudal lord was given reports every week on what we were doing and he approved of both Zabuza and the other person and he started to pay us a percentage of our total pay out to fund our operation since we had actually been making a change to end the war and the only ones we actually had to kill was the Mizukage, and his head of security. Zabuza then took the info we gave him of the ones causing trouble and sent them on suicide missions by just re-ranking some S class missions as C and B rank missions we were able to take out most of Tide as well as the Jounin and Chunnin that were unwanted by letting them get killed on missions. As this was happening he gave false information to the council about 3 assassins that he had working on ending the bloodline war once and for all and he introduced us as assassin. The council did not want to believe him at first but nobody wanted to piss him off and since there was 3 of the major bloodline haters on the council on that very meeting he had each of us to kill one who were civilians."

Subzero said "After that he made an official statement that the bloodline war was over and anyone found attacking any bloodline user would be assassinated. He then sent tide to where people tried to start revolts and assassinated them publicly and had the 3 of us go as squad leaders to put the fear into people to end the fighting. Word spread quickly about what was going on and the council tried to revolt against Zabuza-sama and hired a group of mercenaries to kill the 3 of us. By a very lucky coincidence the town they were meeting at to start the revolt was one of the port villages on the south side of the island and a Tsunami came through and just barely hit the land of Mist but completely destroyed the village killing every man, woman, and child in the village with one exception and that was....."

Maelstrom said "Me. I had been sent to follow the council members to discover what they were up to and when the Tsunami hit I used my substitute summon and had to anchor itself to the ground and had me hide in its mouth to survive the Tsunami. Because of this when people came from nearby villages along with a team Zabuza had sent to find out why I had not returned believed that I was the one who had caused the Tsunami and Zabuza saw the way the people reacted to the destruction and used it to finally end the war once and for all and since Subzero and Scorpion had already been talked about a lot enough to earn them their nicknames I was named the Storm assassin. We were then given the code names of Scorpion, Subzero and Maelstrom. We only actually killed ourselves around 30 people total that whole year and ended the 100 year war in mist. The feudal lord payed us the remaining balance in gold, Zabuza gave us free travel rights to and from the land of Water and put us in their bingo book with the total deaths of each of the missions as well as the village that was destroyed to not only aid us in gaining our reputation but also to put the fear of god in the people of Water that if they ever decided to try and start that civil war over then we would come back and assassinate them. Personally I feel we did a favor to the world since those people who died allowed a lot more to live without the fear of being hunted down and killed just for being born. Kill one to save 1000, that is our nindo." as he shrugged his shoulder and several people blinked as they heard this.

Kabuto said "So the info in the bingo book I read is widely over exaggerated. Don't you think that awfully convenient."

Subzero said "It's true though. 2, 10 year old and scorpion here did what no one thought was possible and ended a war by Assassinating 2 men and then called in a few favors to our friends. Mist has been an exploding tag waiting to go off for years. I seen first hand the bloodline purges mist country had. My father murdered my mother in front of me with a mob before they turned to kill me as well just because of the blood that flows through my veins."

Kiba who had calmed down said "So your all bark and no bite in the end then. I knew it all the time." as he smirked. Everyone else in the room relaxed as well as they thought about what they heard and they could see how such a plan could work though a few wondered about the skills that team shadow mentioned.

As things calmed down in the exam room and Kabuto walked away, in the Hokage office the third was listening to all of this as were several other ninja and when the third heard this his eyes went wide and gasped and said "It can't be." making everyone in the room to look at him.

Ibiki asked "What is it sir." seeing the shock look on the thirds face.

The third thought for several moments and said "Ibiki.......proceed with the plan but keep an eye on that team but do not fail them for any reason." making everyone wide eyed.

Kakashi said "But why sir. Why are you giving them a free pass. That has never happened before. What is going on to break the agreed plan so much."

The third said "I won't explain it at the moment Kakashi though I do have a mission for you. Deliver a message to Sai, Kakashi. I want him to unmask Maelstrom by any means necessary during the preliminary matches. Anko, arrange for that match to happen."

Anko asked "Whats going on Hokage-sama. Why are you having Danzo little lackey to unmask this Maelstrom guy when he is suppose to shadow the Uchiha."

The third frowned a moment and said "I need to know if he might be who I think he is." making everyone in the room look questionably.

Kakashi asked "Pardon me for asking sir but I think everyone here is thinking the same thing. Why are you so interested in this team that you already have ANBU watching. What is so important that you want to change the entire Chunnin exams just to unmask him."

The third said "I am sorry Kakashi and everyone else but I can not tell anyone anything else without destroying one of the clans of Konoha greatest secrets. I will know if I am right when I see his face."

Kakashi frowned and said "Very well. Where are the preliminary rounds going to be sir."

The third said "The tower on training ground 44."

Ibiki nods and leaves in a puff of smoke.

He appeared in a staging room and said "Change of plans. Watch but do not fail the team of independents. The Hokage orders." as he activated a seal on the wall and everyone in the room appeared in room 301.

As Ibiki arrived he saw everyone looking scared a little at team Shadow and thought "what is it about that team that has the Hokage so worried he would break the official rules agreed upon by every nation for the Chunnin exams." and said "Alright settle down. I am your proctor for the first exam Ibiki Marino. Each of you are to take a number from the Chunnin there and take the seat according to your number. We will begin the test as soon as everyone sits down."

Maelstrom looked around the room and thought "Idiots. Of coarse that was an EXTREMELY edited version of what really happened. The Tsunami was created by me or rather Kyuubi with his tail. I'm surprised no one asked who was head of Security in Mist now. It would have been funny to tell them it was none other then Uchiha Itachi. The assassination of the Mizukage was actually Haku final test to prove that she was ready to join the league of Shadows. Ending the bloodline war that destroyed her family was justice."