As usual, author's note is written at the end of the chapter.

"You are to protect Mito."

I nodded and placed my mask onto his desk. I took a deep breath and placed my right fist above my heart.

"Very well, Hokage-sama. Let what happened within the darkness lies in the darkness. All that come from the shadow, returns to the shadow. May the Great Tree blooms under the hidden protector of the Leaf."

I spoke out the ANBU motto and nodded at all of them.

"What should I do now Hokage-sama?"

He nodded at me and glanced towards Mito who was fast asleep.

"Head back to the ANBU headquarter and take a rest. After that empty your room and report back here in 2 hour."

Before I left the room, Hiruzen gave a command to those within the room.

"Everything discussed in this room will be considered an SS-Rank secret. No word shall pass about this. Am I understood?"

Everyone nodded. I chuckled in my mind as I left the office, heading to my next destination. I had hoped that Hiruzen would've thought that I came from the Senju and Uchiha. It seemed that I achieved my objective to misdirect Hiruzen. Even if I was not known to the Uchiha, I can still use the political leverage of being a Senju. I'm sure that Tsunade would die happy knowing her asset in the village is used… efficiently. Heh…

~ Scene Change ~

I stalked silently within the dark corridor of the underground facility. The figures surrounding me nodded to me as I passed by them. I crept forward with great ease and slammed the door open in front of me, entering a small hall of which three figures were there, one... of not my own. The human that was leaning in the chair at the end of the room narrowed his eyes at me, staring at my original form. He silently signaled my clones to restrain me and they nodded at him. His eyes widen in surprise when the two beside him slammed a chakra restricting seal on him and slammed him to the ground completely restraining him. He roared in anger when the realization hit him.

"What is the meaning of this!?"

I chuckled heartily, amused at his reaction. I ignored him at the moment and walked over to his recliner, sitting down after the long day. I crossed my legs and palmed my chin, resting upon the hand rest. The two clones pulled the bandaged man to his knee facing me. The cyclops growled at me almost threateningly.

"Who the fuck are you!?"

I leaned in the chair, looking at him within the dim room. I lifted my head and laced my fingers.

"Yes perhaps an introduction is... imperative."

I stopped talking, allowing the silence to anger the warmonger. He gritted his teeth in hatred before screaming at me.

"Tell me, who the hell are you!? What the fuck did you want!?"

I chuckled softly, looking at him in pity, causing him to boil in rage.

"Truly. Are you in any condition to demand such thing from me?"

I looked into his eye in amusement. Suddenly the door opened and a man entered the room. Knowing that only his army was in this place, allowed some confidence to fill within him. But he was puzzled when nothing happened. The man walked towards me, passing the kneeled man and saluted me. I raised my eyebrows.

"All of the hidden headquarter had been occupied and the total of 17 place had been taken out and another 6 hidden Serpent's labs had been identified, though the village itself hadn't been swept for spies or other concealed locations."

"What is the meaning of this!?"

The mummy yelled out. I ignored his shout and nodded at my clone.

"Do not reveal the location to anyone. We will need a base to settle down. Go and after that I want 4 clones to meet me here when I call you. Remember all interaction is to be done in English. We don't want anyone spying on us to know anything, especially that man."

I spoke in English to my clone. He nodded and left us. I looked down on Danzo and pondered on what to do with him. I was thinking on how should I deal with this world and I shook my head regarding my earlier action. I was so bereft of any interaction that my common sense was severely lacking of it. I thought deeply upon my earlier action. Why did I decide to reveal myself to the human, when I could simply ignore them or better yet just kill them? Why did I decide to take care of Mito in the first place when I could simply leave her to her own misery? Why do I even bother with all these? Why... Of course... I knew my own reason... I wanted...

"Answer me, heathen!"

I was snapped out of my reverie when the human before me screamed. I shook my head and decided to deal with the overgrown parasite first. I sighed, stood and dashed forward, plunging my hand directly into his heart and allowed my Blacklight strain to rip him apart and consume the man completely. The two clones holding him dispelled themselves and I sat back to the chair and decided to delve into the memories that I had accumulated over the day.

~Clone Memory~

I faced the three opponents within the room. I dashed forward as the middle one ran at me with his weapon pointing towards me. The other two leapt backward, hands blazing into motion for a technique. With the memories cemented within my body, with ease, my right hand reformed into the blade form. I ducked to the right under the chokuto, with the hand blade positioned above my left hip, I slashed to the right completely bisecting the now-dead ninja. Out of instinct my black armor shrouded my body in a blink and I was pelted with a storm of fiery breath, laced with the wind.

I narrowed my eyes within the blaze and did a Kage Bunshin and both of us Shunshin-ed out of the flame, ambushing the ninjas from behind. I slashed downward but stopped the cut at his heart. My strain immediately consumed the corpse, assimilating his memories and skill, together with his body. I nodded at my other for him to continue and dispelled myself.

~Memory End~

I mused on the fact that even the Bunshin had complete control over my DNA. They even had the capabilities to create Bunshin to replace them, allowing me to assimilate their memories. This means that my own specialized clone trancend the capabilities of normal Kage Bunshin. They changed from tools of infiltration into tools of destruction with my Blacklight empowering them. I wondered where did the collective mass I, or my clones collected were stored to? Perhaps into a pocket dimension similar to a sealing scroll? Accessible by all my clones? What about chakra? I shook my head and push back the theories to the back of my mind. So I pondered over the memories I just consumed.

~ Danzo's Memory ~

I gritted my teeth and swallowed my pride. I could feel his smug smile radiating from behind his mask. The evolved red swirl in right his eye caused me to hesitate from attacking him. Those powerful eye...

"So, are we in agreement then?"

I nodded and swallowed my pride.

"I had to say.. Madara-sama..."

I almost spat his name venomously.

"... where does this... helps me... in my conquest..."

I questioned him. He narrowed his eye and it swirled faster, clearly in contempt towards me. I gripped my hands, calming myself from killing that arrogant bastard. He laughed and told me almost sincerely.

"I had to say... in this nearest future... there will be... let's say an event... that will allow you to insert few of your... puppets within your military rank... and if you react accordingly... it's possible for you to... seep your own brand of loyalty into the... council... And was that not enough, for you?"

He mocked me.

"That and this are different matters altogether. What is the use of having the best clan in the village... yours none the less... wiped out? What does that leave me in my... future seat? What of my future... assets?"

I narrowed my eye. He chuckled at my question, angering me. The bastard was mocking me.

" Of course... A trade perhaps, if somehow you achieved in isolating them, I may allow you to... take most... if not all of the activated eyes of... my clansman. And… the instruction for you on how to integrate… the Senju cell..."

I narrowed my eyes in suspicion.

"Of course, all I want you to do is tell me something I wish to know… The current location where the Jinchuuriki is…"

I smirked. The power is in my hand. However before I could say anything, he snarled.

"And do not play with me! It's good enough that I had the courtesy to help you in your insignificant dream!"

I gritted my teeth in anger.

"North. 3 miles away."

He threw two scrolls at me. As he turned around, he glanced back at me.

"Though... I doubt you'll achieve what you want… if the rat is not disposed of."

I widen my eyes in understanding and screamed in anger.

"143! Kill the one spying on us!"

The latest Uchiha... convert, ran to pursue the spy. I turned back to the masked man, only to notice that he was gone. I looked down at the scroll in my hands.

"It looks like our deal was a beneficial one indeed. Though, I have to say... I think I got the better of the deal."

I froze when a sudden malicious chakra emanated in the air. I cursed myself for leaving the Jinchuuriki unsupervised.

~ Memory End~

I created a Kage Bunshin and dispelled it. And then I face palmed. Why would I call for another 4 clones if I can just create another 4 as easily? Another 5 clones was formed and one of them was dispelled after being told to dispel all other. As soon as that occurred, I felt the immense chakra flowed back, overflowing into me but not my Blacklight. I winced as I noticed my chakra control was shot, but luckily my elemental chakra got better. It seems that the construct of my Blacklight Clone were made up similar to human with regenerating chakra. But the total pool of chakra goes to me. The Blacklight itself were somehow stored elsewhere. I dispelled the 4 clones and recreate them with 24 percent of my chakra pool, leaving me more than enough chakra to use. I sighed and stared at my clones. Plans and ideas raced through my minds.

~ Time Skip ~

After the meeting ended, I went back to the surface in order to take care of my own persona, Ichigo. While I went up, the 4 clones will deal with their own business which I had assigned to them. The first was the financial. Running around the Manhattan without any money to use, I couldn't even afford to do anything I wanted freely. Everything I got was from scrounging all over the place. With my base already present, I could use some money to take care of Mito and other projects if needed. The first clone would have to re-write several books of interest, primarily medical and entertainment books. Then if need to, perhaps writing Romantica… since porn were highly over-rated.

I sighed, remembering from a few memories regarding the sold count for the Icha-Icha series. Can this body of mine even procreate? Was there any use? I shoved the question to the deepest recess of my mind. The financial for Danzo's personal troops came from bribes and other elusive source. Slavery, smuggling and assassination. Since those were once the money source, I probably should have continued but… it was simply too dangerous if it was exposed, maybe not assassination, hence a bit of change here and there. No more slavery and smuggling. Assassination is still the highest income so it should be fine due to the fact all the danger of death is negated by the use of my Blacklight clones.

Slavery and smuggling however was a bit harder. Debt repayment from slave would be converted to labor works but smuggling should be cut out. No more selling slave but buying them to get more labor. With that it is easier for another clone. Information. With the labor, they would be able to make bars in various places for information gathering and perhaps prostitution rings. Of course the already existing prostitution rings would have to be taken over and pulled under me. I could make those place better anyway. With those two places in various countries and venues, doubtful that any knowledge could pass my information network without me knowing. The next clone assignment was skills.

With how much my chakra currently exists, I would definitely need to refine them and thus the clone. He will train our chakra control and elemental manipulation till the highest degree, including the bloodline skill. If possible, I wanted to be able to use all skills without the need of hand signs. It was a bad aim of course, due to the fact that in the future, I will kill even more people and more chakra to be refined. However, I was anything but hasty. I don't age and time is irrelevant to me. Plus there were plenty of training places, with how much the ROOT base exists. Sensor training was also included with this regime.

And the last clone will deal with my new fascination. With all of Alex's memories integrated within me, I knew that at my very core, I am an engineer and a scientist. At the very moment seals were mentioned, I was quick to be interested with it. With how the seal could summon the embodiment of death himself, I am sure that it was a powerful tool. Given what Minato was able to do with it, I had no doubt about it. The seal I was aiming for was to travel world, of course. To be precise, universe traveling. Since I was thrown into this world, it should be possible to find a way to travel through the multiverse. I believe I find a way to get off this plane of existence. But that could wait.

I rushed to the ANBU headquarter to meet up with the clone I sent before going underground. I sneaked into my room and took the scroll that was prepped by my clone, he dispelled himself. I walked out the door and went out of the building which was located beneath the Hokage monument. I jumped and dashed to the roof top and headed to the Hokage tower. Before reaching the place, I stopped and face palmed. I went to an empty location nearby and seeing no one around, I created a Blacklight Clone to replace Danzo. As much as I hated this guy, I need to keep his appearance or people will notice his disappearance. I continued on my way leaving 'Danzo' to his own activities.

Upon reaching my destination, I jumped down to the street, startling a few civilians and raised a few eyebrows from ninjas. I walked calmly to the front desk and called for the meeting with the Hokage. My cloth was already changed to the standard Jounin uniform, awkward due to my small sized body. I went to Hiruzen's office and knocked on the door.

"Enter. "

I pushed the door open and was greeted with the sight of Nara Shikaku standing next to Hiruzen. I nodded at him before moving in front of the Hokage.

"Tokubetsu Jounin Ichigo. Reporting for duty."

The Hokage smoked his pipe while the head of the Nara clan continues to observe me. He held up a report and threw it in front of me. It shows the list of the report from Nara Senbei's past accomplishments. The Hokage opens it and showed me a paragraph from the mission report with a red circle on a sentence.

'I used my Kagemane no Jutsu as my teammates strikes down the opposing rouge nin.'

I winced at the sentence. I sighed and looked at both of them.

"Would you like for me to demonstrate?"

While I asked outwardly, in my mind was chaos.

Oh my god! What should I do? Oh god damns it! Why the hell did I forget about the report!? Fucking shit! Damn, motherfucking, son of a bitch! Oh my god! Fuck!Well, they did say no plans survive the battle… Or some shit like that….. Sigh~ Fuck…

I sighed. My mind was racing for any possible explanation. Hiruzen and Shikaku looked at each other. The former looked at me, stood and walked out the door together with Shikaku towing behind him, but not before asking me to follow him. So, I followed them out. Hiruzen lead us to Training Ground 9 as walked in an awkward silence. Though a few glances and nods from the villager who were still out there, none greeted us, perhaps noticing the tension between me and Shikaku.

We reached our destination after a while. Walking to the middle of the place, Hiruzen gestured me forward. I walked forward and took a deep breath. I calmly did the hand signs for Kagemane, pooled the chakra into my shadow and let my memory work the magic. My shadow rushes forwards to the nearby tree shadow. Not that the shadow was easily seen because to the night time, but it can still be seen due to the moonlight.I released my hold on the technique and my shadow returned to its rightful place. I turned around and looked at both of them. Shikaku was smoking a cigarette while Hiruzen with his pipe. Hiruzen signed me to follow him and we returned to his office.

As we reached there, Hiruzen sat on his chair and Shikaku moved to the window sill. I stood awkwardly in the middle of the room, noticing that Mito was no longer in the room, probably transferred to a more appropriate venue. Shikaku stared at me.

"How?"

I sighed and decided to give lengthy false yet believable truth. I closed my eyes and stared at him simultaneously activativing my sharingan. He was a bit startled seeing my eyes.

"As a former Nara Senbei, I did disguise as him and lived within your compound for a while."

I started, trying to come up with total bullshit. He shook his head.

"Our technique couldn't be copied through observation. We kept a tight lid on who learns our technique."

He countered my words. I nodded.

"True. But even if I didn't learn it from the clan, I still could still observe and try to understand the concept of your Secret Technique. And from that, imitation is simply a small matter. The Uchiha…"

I scoffed and both of them raised their eyebrows.

"From what I've seen, they were to drunk in their abilities. They had easily dismissed others, too prideful and arrogant in their 'all-seeing eyes'."

Hiruzen narrowed his eyes. I shook my head as if answering the question he was about to raise.

"I was ashamed to be called an Uchiha, but I didn't hate them. You see, the Sharingan actually had a few severe weaknesses. Few of which I could tell you."

Hiruzen closed his eyes and nodded. I sighed.

"Sharingan prediction ability only includes human chakra."

Both Shikaku and Hiruzen frowned.

"Human had their body completely integrated with chakra network. So every movement would couse the chakra to follow similar path. And that path can be traced by Sharingan. The difference between Sharingan and Byakugan is that Byakugan could see pass the chakra and identify the main chakra network itself. Sharingan could only read the chakra."

Hiruzen narrowed his eyes.

"But that doesn't explain how Sharingan could copy techniques?"

I nodded in agreement.

"The copy ability is actually the instinctive ability given to the Sharingan user. When the act of molding chakra through hand seals occurred, Sharingan could read the molding of the chakra itself. More like how a Taijutsu Master could see every muscle of his opponents tensed as they about to attack. As the eyes read the intensity of the chakra molding within the opponent's body a few seconds ahead, they could then copy the technique at the same time."

"But even then, that copying ability is a fatal flaw itself. Those Uchiha who were too prideful to see the flaw were idiots and arrogant. You see, for those who had practiced a Jutsu, they would understand how it works and could easily execute a Jutsu with the least amount of chakra and get the best result from it. Differ from the Uchiha, if they did not practice the skill or simply just copied the skill, they would need to compensate with twice or sometimes thrice the amount of chakra used."

I shook my head.

"But back to the issue… detecting only human chakra. Not that my explanation had no value or anything like that."

I waved my hand and spoke nonchalantly, as if discussing the weather. They would notice some hints of other weaknesses if they were that observant. Not that it was a bad thing. I had completely decided to overcome those weaknesses in the first place. I shook my head.

"In the first place, Sharingan could only see human chakra. Not Youki from Bijuus or Senjutsu of the Sages. And by using those two it would completely blind the Sharingan. Coating the area with your chakra also works."

They were taken aback. Shikaku coughed.

"Kirigakure Technique?"

I raised my right eyebrow.

"Sure. Of course it would, but only for tier 2 Sharingan and below. The third tier could pierce the chakra mist, but depends on the technique density itself. But back to the original issue of using your clan secret technique…"

Shikaku nodded.

"Well, I could try to explain the idea behind the technique… but I doubt you would be willing to…"

I pointed out on several hidden ANBU, some of which I noticed earlier. He froze, forgetting that we were in an open room. I nodded at him once more.

"Perhaps, I could explain how I managed to do the skill in a… private place… away from the… prying ears."

He closed his eyes as if coming to a conclusion and nodded. He gazed at me.

"Tomorrow. 3 in the evening. My clan compound."

I nodded and he left me with Hiruzen. I stood before him in attention as the door closed.

"Mito is currently placed within the ANBU headquarter, being taken care there momentarily. Now, have you got a place to live?"

"None. I could rent an apartment of course, given how much money I gained from the collective pays from ANBUs missions."

I answered his question.

"And how about your… long term arrangement?"

I frowned. As Hiruzen saw that, he lifted his hand, stopping me from talking.

"Of course you would be paid for taking care of…"

"Hokage-sama."

I cut off his words and shook my head.

"I need not the money to take care of the Yondaime legacy. But I do require the permission to take high level mission in the future and perhaps hiring a babysitter... someone from within your ranks and if possible… one that you could personally trust."

I voiced my suggestion. Hiruzen who seemingly agreed, just nodded softly.

"Well then, go ahead and find the apartment. And do remember to report in… after… you gave the explanation to your Jounin Commander."

He added, stressing that I should explain my skill in Shadow manipulation to Shikaku. I nodded and saluted him. I left through the door and decided to skip the night before searching for an apartment, given how late it was and with various damages to Konoha's buildings in the attacks, I doubt I could find an intact empty apartment as easy.

~ Scene Change ~

I woke up and stretched my body. I dropped down from the tree, which I slept on and headed to the river within the Training Ground to wash my face. With that done, I took my time to walk towards the village to search for my new apartment. I sighed.

Well, you might find that my writing may have changed a bit, a few here and a few there. I haven't wrote for a loooong, loooong time. And sorry for the slow update. You can look into my profile if want to know the reason for my late update. (Not like I gave any. Heh~) Well then, like usual thanks for taking the time to read this story and please review. Don't worry I won't rant here anymore...

Granzrea - Signing off.