A/N: As an added bonus with this chapter, Chapter 2 has been rewritten.

There should be a poll on my profile for this, about the sub-plots. Please check it out, as sub-plots make for more crack-filled adventures.

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It just wasn't fair.

At least, that's what Orochimaru thought, as he dodged a kunai that Uchiha Madara stabbed at him.

All he wanted was Sasuke's body. Was that to hard to ask?

"Can you not sense the hidden hebi laying in wait?" He heard Madara ask someone, and he slowly surfaced from a tree a few metres away to see who.

"Hmm. Seems you were right." Orochimaru's eye brow twitched at the familiar voice, and barely made it back into the tree as a kunai came flying towards him. He waited for it to impact into the tree, only it never did. He peeked out of the tree, to see the kunai flying a little more up. He got ready to dodge, when a blur came and the kunai delved into it.

"MADARA! Why are you trying to kill me! AGAIN!" Orochimaru glared in confusion. Sure, Kabuto had told him that the Uzumaki brat had used the forbidden Edo Tensei to summon up three powerful shinobi, but he had tuned him out in favour of thinking of the Sharingan. Perhaps he should have listened to what his faithful servant was trying to say. To have a Jinchuriki as the master of Hashirama, Madara, and Tobirama... the power that Konoha now owns...

"Why do you all interrupt my kunai!" Madara angrily shouted, stomping his foot like a teenage girl. "Seriously! It's always my kunai!"

"Maybe you just suck at throwing kunai?" Tobirama offered, further infuriating the Uchiha. Orochimaru raised a brow. Was this how they acted with each other before they died? Or had some of the Jinchuriki's personality rubbed off on them? He recalled that in the end of Kabuto's tirade about the Edo Tensei that the summoned dead lived with the Uzumaki.

"Guys, guys, stop!" Hashirama said, raising his arms. Orochimaru sighed softly. At least one of them acted like the tales said they did... "Save all your homicidal tendencies for Kakashi!" Orochimaru's brow twitched once again.

"Ah yes. Perhaps we shall." Madara smirked, absently twirling a kunai in his hands. Tobirama rolled his eyes.

"You can't kill Kakashi. He is still, technically, in charge of our Genin."

"Oh shut up you fun sucker." Hashirama muttered, crossing his arms. "But anyway, why did you throw that kunai at me for?" Orochimaru cloaked his chakra better as Madara's eyes swept over the trees.

"There is a hidden hebi around here." Orochimaru blinked. That was the second, no, third time Madara had referred to him as hebi. A snake. But how did he know that?

"A snake? Well of course there are snakes, idiot. We're in a forest in a warm climate."

"NO! Hashirama, sense him!"

"Fine." A few minutes ticked by. Orochimaru was about ready to peek out of the tree once again when Madara started talking again.

"Now do you see what I mean?"

"Yeah, I guess so." Hashirama grumbled. "He's behind me, ten metres. I'm pretty sure he's been listening to our entire conversation." Orochimaru decided that right then and there was a good time to slink away. He may want the Sharingan badly, but he was not suicidal enough to face up against two former Hokage and the strongest Uchiha known to exist. He slithered through the ground away from the team. He would just have to wait until the exams are over to approach Sasuke...

"Ah, he's running for it! Seems like he was just a coward." Madara said, a slightly saddened look on his face. "And I so wanted to dance."

"What did he even want, anyway?" Hashirama asked.

"I believe he was just spying for now, looking for information on our team." Tobirama explained, catching the other two's attention. "He may have heard of our revival and wanted to see if it was true."

"Or he may have heard that a Jinchuriki was the one who revived us, and wished to test Naruto's strength." Madara muttered, glaring at the ground in thought.

"...perhaps he was after Sasuke-kun." Hashirama said, and his brother and rival's eyes immediately bore into him in question. "Think about it. A powerful shinobi just sitting in a tree, watching Madara and Sasuke? If he wanted to see if our revival was true, he would have watched the Uchiha for a few minutes before attempting to find Tobirama and myself. If he wanted to test Naruto-kun, all he had to do was seek the two of us out. Instead, he watched Madara and Sasuke for an undetermined amount of time. But why would he do so?"

"The Uchiha Clan Massacre." Madara softly said. "He's after the Sharingan." Hashirama nodded.

"He must have tried to get Sasuke's elder brother's Sharingan, before deciding that the youngest surviving Uchiha was an easier target. He didn't factor in our presence, and, at our timely arrival, flew the coop."

"If this is true, then Sasuke is not out of the woods yet. This shinobi will not stop until he has Sasuke." Tobirama said, shaking his head. "Hiruzen needs to know about this." Hashirama and Madara nodded in agreement.

"Yes, he does."

"But for now, how about we leave it." Hashirama grinned. "No need to alarm the poor Genin we're watching over!"