Two days later, Main Root base, 1058Hrs:

Sasuke and Naruto stood in front of a small, fūinjutsu secured tank looking at the white snake floating inside. The snake was alive but unconscious due to the seal on its belly which had the Kanji for 'sleep' in its center. "I still find it a little hard to believe that it's possible to transfer your soul or consciousness or whatever into someone else's body, you know, long term" Naruto said while fighting the urge to tap the tank front of him.

"And I'm still finding it hard to believe that you're being groomed to take over the most elite shinobi force our village has to offer" Sasuke said before rubbing his tongue along the bottom of his mouth. "Ugh, how long did it take your tongue seal to stop hurting?"

"I don't know, a few hours maybe? Just be glad Danzo didn't put the 'kill' seal on your back" Naruto answered looking at Roots newest recruit. The night of the sound four's attack Danzo had surprised Naruto by only halfway lying to Sasuke. He told the Uchiha heir about Root and how the organization had officially been ordered to disband but unofficially ordered to cut back on its missions and focus on recruiting and training individuals that had 'promise'. Sasuke had been told how Naruto became a member and how he would have been recruited at a young age as well if not for his fragile mental state after his clan's massacre. Sasuke was even told about Root's hand in causing the current war, Danzo's cancer and Naruto being picked to be the man's replacement.

After Sasuke digested what he had been told he recognized the need for a group that could carry out missions that absolutely couldn't be traced back to the village. Due to his S-class missing-nin brother, he also saw some of the merits in placing seals on your more promising ninja, he even agreed with the whole emotional conditioning thing…to an extent anyway. The only thing about Root that really bothered him was the fact that it seemed to be a too much power for one person, especially one as shady as Danzo, to have. This was the reason that he refused to join Root unless his 'kill' seal was applied by Naruto after he took control of the organization. If somebody was going to be able to kill him with only a couple of hand signs it would be one of the two people who he trusted with his life.

The two were pulled from their thoughts by their prospective teammate who entered the room. Sasuke still couldn't believe how different his old admirer looked. She had the same asymmetrical hair cut but had apparently decided to dye her hair a light blue color. Her eyes were now a darker shade of brown and most of the baby fat that had given her face a round almost chubby look was gone allowing her beautiful bone structure to be more easily seen. She was wearing a short black jacket with purple straps over a black and purple striped, high-collared midriff shirt, black pants, shinobi sandals and dark purple fingerless gloves. She also carried an injection shot sniper on her back instead of the customary Root tip-less tanto and had a seemingly standard issue med-nin back pouch sitting above her left hip.

"Naruto-senpai, Uchiha-san, Danzo-sama has ordered us to report to the main training chamber" Ami informed in her smooth voice that reminded Sasuke of Kurenai Yūhi's, only more youthful.

"That's right, your audition's today" Naruto said before he and Sasuke followed the girl to the chamber where Danzo and Kichida were both waiting. Naruto, Ami and Sasuke all knelt down before Danzo with their heads bowed awaiting his commands.

"Naruto, you will spar with Thirteen and push her as far as you can without killing or critically injuring her. Thirteen, you will do the same with Naruto. Your objective will be to subdue your opponent i.e. knock them out or render them unable to continue fighting. Thirteen, use your bloodline to put up a protective wall that we can watch behind" Danzo ordered.

"Crystal Release: Crystal Encampment Wall" Ami said as a three sided wall of crystal rose up from the ground around them.

"Try not to get your ass kicked dobe" Sasuke said as Naruto as Ami walked to the middle of the room.

"Nah, I got her"

If Ami heard this she didn't show it as she slipped into a fighting stance.

"Begin"

Hearing Danzo's order Naruto created 3 shadow clones and had them charge Ami in order to get a feel for her Crystal release. Ami however had other ideas. "Earth Release: Earth Flow River" Ami yelled, causing the ground around the clones to turn into a shoulder-deep mud pit, trapping all three at once. Extending her palms forward she shot out several chakra threads that latched onto the immobilized clones and drained their chakra popping the doppelgangers in seconds.

"Earth manipulation and chakra absorption through chakra threads, her long range defense/offence is good. Time to see how she does up close" Naruto thought to himself before creating two exploding shadow clones and having them shunshin towards Ami.

"Crystal Release: Abatis" Ami said surrounding herself with a defensive circle of pointy crystals that detonated the clones before they got to her. Feeling another spike in chakra Ami ducked just in time to avoid being struck by the blunt side of Naruto's short sword but was too slow to dodge a kick to the face. Instead of recoiling from the blow Ami's head turned to mud before hardening around Naruto's leg trapping him.

"Mud clone" Naruto said to himself as the real Ami jumped out of the ground behind him and quickly brought a tanto made of crystal down on him as she landed. In feat of flexibility that caught everyone by surprise Naruto bent so far backwards that his head was only a couple inches above the ground and blocked Ami's heavy two handed slash with just one hand on his short sword. "She was only out of my line of sight for a few seconds after my clones exploded but managed to not only create a mud clone to trap me but tunnel underground for a surprise attack as well. Her jutsu casting speed is impressive but her physical strength could be better" Naruto thought to himself as he blocked all of Ami's slashes.

Making three one handed hand seals with his free hand Naruto struck Ami's Tanto as hard as he could knocking it out of the girls hand before thrusting his palm forward "Wind Release: Great breakthrough!". Due to his position under her, Naruto's attack lifted a spinning Ami 15 feet in the air.

"Crystal Release: Jade Senbon!" a still airborne Ami called out, firing a wide spray of green senbon at Naruto. The attack came from above and since Naruto was still inside of Ami's circle of crystal there was no way he could dodge the attack so he tried to stop it in its tracks with another great breakthrough gust. "Shit!" Naruto yelled when the needles went right through his wind attack, their velocity slowed but still dangerous. Channeling wind chakra around his blade to cut down on its air resistance Naruto whipped the weapon around like a mad man, managing to defect all the crystal needles.

Cutting himself free of the clone and jumping out of the crystal circle Naruto found himself swarmed by mud clones that he quickly dispelled as soon as they attacked however they attacked so fast that Naruto didn't immediately notice the way the mud splattering on him was hardening, restricting his movements and weighing him down. More and more mud clones rose from the ground and attacked Naruto, dog piling him once he was slow enough.

Twenty feet away the real Ami was panting with her hands still in the ram hand seal. "Okay, now all I have to do is disperse the clones that are on him and he'll be encased in stone. This Uzumaki chakra is something else, I'm tired but I could still make another couple dozen clones if I needed to" Ami thought to herself before feeling a surge of chakra.

"Demonic Mimicry: Chakra pulse Jutsu!" Naruto yelled surrounding himself with chakra and unleashing it in a violent burst that repelled the mud that was on his skin and clothing as well as dispersing the mud clones. Placing his sword back in its sheath as he ran, Naruto prepared to engage his opponent in Taijutsu. Throwing a punch Naruto was surprised when Ami just planted her feet and took it. He was even more surprised by how hard her fist felt when she punched him back. She was fast, not Sasuke fast, but definitely faster than he was. She also had a strange fighting style that seemed almost like a dance. She was constantly moving her body left, right, backwards and forwards. Dodging attacks instead of trying to block them, cartwheeling over leg sweep attempts and supporting her body weight with her hands while attacking with her feet. It was almost like she was fighting to a rhythm but as soon as Naruto figured out the pattern to her attacks she'd change the tempo.

Her speed, hard skin and odd fighting style added up to Naruto getting his ass handed to him. So when Ami put both hands on the ground and horse kicked Naruto into the air he used the kicks energy to somersault away from her before landing and continuing to back flip away. Ami charged forward pressing her attack but Naruto had managed to buy himself enough time to form a few hand seals.

"Demonic Mimicry: Human Chakra Cloak!" Naruto yelled, generating his cloak just in time to block a kick that would have knocked him out if it had landed. With his speed boosted Naruto was finally able to change the flow of the fight, putting Ami firmly on the defense. Naruto was now able to land a few blows but found that Ami was still able to take them without being shaken to badly. It was when she ducked one of his punches and the light coming from his cloak hit her just right that he saw what was going on.

"She's covered in some kind of transparent crystal armor! Is that why she just took my first punch, to test her armors effectiveness?" Naruto created four chakra arms, two small ones that grabbed Ami's wrists and pulled them out to her sides before forming tight coverings over her fingers to prevent hand seals of any kind. He then created two large chakra claws that closed around Ami's body from the arm pits down and lifted the girl off the ground.

"My armor will outlast your cloak Naruto-senpai. When you run out of chakra I will finish this fight"

"Fights already over" Naruto said before pulling out two purple pellets from his vest's left chest pocket and throwing them at Ami. The pellets hit the girl's hardened chest and released a pressurized knock out gas. Ami tried to hold her breath but Naruto used wind manipulation to slow the gas's movement, keeping it on her. When the gas finally did dissipate, Ami's prone, unconscious form was revealed.

Behind their protective wall Kichida's mouth was agape, "Amazing, with the addition of Ami to team 7 we might just be able to do it. We may be able to create a new group of Sannin"

"That's what they have planned for us? No pressure" Sasuke thought to himself incredulously.

"Too bad we aren't the only ones with such ambitions" Danzo ominously informed just as Naruto reached their postion.

"What do you mean Danzo-sama?"

Iwagakure, Training Ground 12, Same time:

Ōnoki was floating over one of the many mountains surrounding Iwa looking at the two different generations of his shinobi stare each other down. On one side of the training ground stood two of his elite Jonin, Monga of the Stone Bamboo Shoot and Gari of the Explosion Release. On the other side stood Iwa's future, three young ninja with the potential to become Iwa's version of Konoha's legendary three.

The oldest was 14 year old Hirutsuchi his name ironic due to the fact that his father, Rotsuchi, figured out how to use the Iron Skin technique by imitating the boy's bloodline limit. At 5'8, 160 pounds Hirutsuchi was tall and muscular for his age and would probably grow to be the same size as his father. Like Rotsuchi he has dark eyes, buzz cut hair, a strong jaw and a large bulbous nose. He wears the standard Iwagakure shinobi uniform with a left sleeve and a right lapel, his Iwa plate sewn on his left sleeve at the sholder. Instead of a war hammer he has a sledgehammer strapped to his back, head up.

His apperance seemed to be the only thing that he inherited from his father since, much to Ōnoki's disappointment, the boy was the definition of a 'gentle giant'. Despite his prodigious skill in the ninja arts the boy hated violence and absolutely despised killing. If Ōnoki didn't know better he'd think his grandson was the reincarnation of some Konoha-nin.

Next was the 13 year old Maiko who was found in the border village of Tochigi at the age of 6. While Tochigi is technically in Lightning country, a group of Iwa-nin were in the area on a training exercise and were approached by the village's leader. An invisible thief (or thieves) had been stealing a large amount of food and the local officials had been unable to catch them. When Ōnoki okayed the C-rank mission via messenger hawk he never thought that his shinobi would return with a caramel-skinned little girl with green eyes, snow white hair and the fabled Swift release.

Maiko was (and still is) rude, defiant and prone to bursts of anger but over time came to see Iwa as her home and agreed to join its shinobi ranks to protect it. While training her it was discovered that Maiko had trouble seeing at the high speeds Swift Release granted and she also had a hard time coming to a stop. After exhausting every training method that he and the girl's instructors could think of Ōnoki found the solution which led to Maiko's strange form of dress. She wears a skin tight, black and green body suit and chakra armor that was bought from the land of snow that covers everything from the upper neck down. Her armor consists of mechanical looking ear coverings each containing half of her HUD visor. She wears black gauntlets that start at yin/yang symbols on her shoulders and cover her entire arm. The gauntlets also have stabilizers built into the palms that release pressurized bursts of her wind chakra to aid in stopping/changing direction. She wears black knee high boots with wind stabilizers as well. Maiko also has a lightning affinity but has trouble controlling said element.

Last was the youngest but most powerful of the three, 12 year old Tetsuo Makino. At 5'2, 105 pounds Tetsuo was the smallest member of the team but with his Magnet release and iron powder/sand the boy was hands down the deadliest Chunin in Iwa. Years ago, during his first few years as Tsuchikage, Ōnoki had managed to plant one of his most skilled espionage kunoichi as one of the Sandaime Kazekage maids. Said kunoichi was young and incredibly beautiful and managed to tempt the Kazekage into cheating on his wife. Although the man didn't engage in pillow talk and none of Suna's secrets were disclosed her mission wasn't a total loss since Iwa was able to acquire a powerful bloodline.

Tetsuo knows of his status as the illegitimate grandson of the Sandaime Kazekage but is still deeply devoted to Iwa and sees the Nidaime Tsuchikage as his hero. Like the Nidaime his entire upper body is covered by intricately wrapped bandages, with only his spiky, near shoulder length brunette hair, honey-colored eyes and nose being visible. Instead of a bandanna he wears his Iwa plate as a belt buckle to keep his black shinobi pants up. He wears an open dark brown cloak that looks a size too big for him with the metallic grey kanji for 'Iron' inside a white diamond on the back. The boy was everything Ōnoki wished that his grandson would be, calculating, unafraid to use underhanded tactics to insure the success of the mission and just a little sadistic.

All three had been trained in secret since a young age, only going on missions within the Land of Earth but had only been training with each other for the last 3 years. The team worked well together with both Maiko and Tetsuo acknowledging Hirutsuchi's seniority and following his lead. Tetsuo's unflinching politeness and Maiko's rudeness, along with her view of Tetsuo's mid to long range (mostly stationary) fighting style being lazy/cowardly causes her to frequently belittle the iron sand user. Luckily Tetsuo's calm personality usually wins out and the two have never physically fought each other outside of spars.

"Oy! You fall asleep up there old man? When are we going to get this started?" Maiko yelled up at him pulling him from his thoughts. If she had been anyone else such disrespect would have been severely punished but since all the punishments that he had tried giving her had so far had failed Ōnoki just shook his head and yelled "Begin!"

"Steel Release: Impervious Armor" Hirutsuchi said applying his bloodline's ability to his arms making them turn dark gray with the middle and ring fingers being red with red lines coming from them and merging together below the knuckles. From there the red line ran up to his red elbow before continuing up to the shoulder.

Tetsuo channeled chakra to one of the many seals sewn into the inside of his cloak summoning a couple hundred pounds of iron sand.

"Velocity Armor: Quick Start" Maiko said causing her yin/yang symbols to glow and a short beeping noise to come from her armor before her HUD visor shot out from her ear coverings and covered her eyes.

Seeing that the kids were ready Gari immediately went after the one that he perceived as the biggest threat. In an impressive burst of speed he appeared in front of Tetsuo and threw a lightning quick punch but his target disappeared in a green flash. Sensing an incoming attack Gari ducked a sledgehammer swing before turning around and attacking the brat that had tried to sneak up on him "Explosion Release: Exploding Palm!". While he hadn't put enough chakra into the technique to kill, Gari was surprised when Hirutsuchi wasn't blown back in recoil and simply looked down at the scorch mark on his Chunin vest.

"You'll have to do better than that Gari-san" Hirutsuchi said before taking another swing.

Across the training field Maiko sat Tetsuo down on the ground before slapping him in the back of the head. "Ow! Maiko-chan why do you always have to hit me with those gauntlets on?!"

"Why do you have to be so Kami damn slow?" Maiko asked annoyed.

"I was about to execute a substitution and launch a counter with the sand at his feet wh…" before Tetsuo could finish his sentence he was forced to summon more iron sand from his cloak and form a dome around Maiko and himself to protect them from an incoming boulder.

"Humph, sensing my attack and putting up that dome in time to stop it is impressive for one so young. Just imagine what the two of you could do IF YOU WOULD STOP YOUR CHILDISH BICKERING!" Monga yelled furiously.

"Maiko switch opponents with me, Tetsuo get airborne and provide long range support" Hirutsuchi ordered not getting anywhere with his speedy opponent. Tetsuo reformed the dome in to a 5x5 foot iron platform allowing Maiko perform a substitution with Hirutsuchi. Floating into the air he formed what looked like the back of a chair and a right arm rest to lead on to watch the fight more comfortably.

As Maiko stood in front Gari she couldn't help but be a little intimidated. The man was a legend, one of the most skilled Jonin Iwa has ever produced and now she was about to fight him one on one. Well Tetsuo would be helping at a distance but as usual she and Hirutsuchi would be doing the lion's share of the work. Maiko was about to attack when Gari brought his hands together in a cross like seal.

"Shadow clone jutsu" Gari said as two doppelgangers took shape in front of him. "Keep her busy" He commanded before forming the tiger hand seal and disappearing.

Pressing a button on her left HUD control (ear covering), Maiko switched through her four different vision sittings: speed, anti-genjutsu, thermal and night but was unable to see the original Gari anywhere. She was about to use the radio in her right ear covering to warn her teammate when one of the clones decided to attack. Despite being a clone it was still fast, throwing an explosive chakra packed punch that Maiko barely ducked in time.

"Wind Release: Repulsor palm!" Maiko shouted after driving her palm into the chakra construct's gut. The clone was lifted off of its feet by a pressurized jet stream of air and flew back 30 feet until slamming into to the stone wall behind it dispersing in a loud explosion. Maiko turned her head looking for the other clone when a red, blinking, upside down triangle in her HUD alerted her to a large heat signature coming directly from under her feet. Putting her hands together in the boar hand seal she quickly vanished right before for the ground exploded.

Tetsuo was above the fighting when he heard a loud explosion followed by another even larger one. "Figures that even her fights are irritating" Taking his eyes off Hirutsuchi's fight Tetsuo looked at the other side of the training field but couldn't find his kunoichi teammate or her opponent. Feeling something moving at a high speed through the iron powder particles floating around his airborne position, Tetsuo turned around just in time to have a watered down landmine fist go off in his chest. Or at least that's what would have happened if he hadn't pulled off a substitution with a small boulder right before the blast.

"How can he even see me?"Gari thought to himself due to his Hiding with Camouflage Technique still being active. He was even more surprised that the kid had managed to pull a substitution that fast having heard from the child's tutor as well as from the Tsuchikage himself that, while the boy's defensive and offensive capabilities were great, his speed and reflexes left something to be desired.

"Magnet Release: Iron Sand Coffin"

Gari's eyes widened as the platform Tetsuo had been riding on burst into sand before re-consolidating around him from the neck down leaving him immobilized and suspended in the air. Looking down he saw Tetsuo standing on the ground already going through hand seals for another jutsu. "I don't care what kind of bloodline he has, I refuse to get done in by a kid" "Explosion Release: Double landmine fists!" Gari yelled propelling the iron sand away and freeing himself. However by the time he landed he found himself surrounded by tens of thousands of tiny iron sand granules that were crackling with electricity.

"Lightning Release: Magnetic Murder Dome" Tetsuo said as he finished going through hand seals for his original jutsu. Gari tried to escape the dome with 2 different jutsu but couldn't, he also noticed that his movements were getting sluggish.

"The offensive aspect of this technique takes a while to charge but luckily its paralytic effect is pretty fast. It gives you just enough time to try a substitution, which is disrupted by the dome's electromagnetic based chakra interference, or a jutsu like the Hiding Like a Mole Technique which is neutralized by the abundance of lightning chakra in the dome's immediate area. Impressive huh? Can you believe it only took me a month to create this technique? I just finished it two days ago so I might mess up and kill you Gari-san but don't worry, if you die I'll name one of my children after you" Tetsuo finished his explanation with a grin.

"Tetsuo! Cancel the jutsu. Gari you're out of the battle!" Ōnoki yelled, not putting it past Tetsuo to actually use an experimental technique on a comrade in order to perfect it.

The crackling stopped and the sand turned back into a platform which Tetsuo promptly hopped on. "Just so you know Tsuchikage-sama, Gari-san, my chakra control isn't good enough to discharge a serious amount of lightning and hold the iron particles in position, if I had tried we all would have been riddled with holes"

"He beat me with a bluff?" Gari thought to himself as Tetsuo flew off.

Frustrated and waist deep in mud Hirutsuchi punched through the leg of another rock clone replaying the fight in his mind. Initially Monga had launched a wide variety of Earth jutsu including his Earth Release: Earth and Stone Bamboo Shoot technique at him but he'd been able to successfully defend against the attacks with just his armored arms. Then Monga had mentioned how slow he was and traped him in this mud pit to drive his point home. The pit was probably more than waist deep but Hirutsuchi was able to keep himself from fully submerging by dumping an ungodly amount of chakra from his feet. He wouldn't be able to keep it up forever though, even with his freakishly large reserves he'd run out of chakra eventually.

This fact left him with two options. One: He could wait for his teammates to come save him but look incredibly inept in front of his grandfather or… Two: He could allow himself to undergo a full transformation and use the one of the different jutsu that the advanced state makes available to him to escape.

The ability to turn every inch of his skin into metal was new and had only been reached with Tetsuo's help. The main problem was that, when fully armored, Hirutsuchi's aggression went up and his impulse control went way down. When he made his first full transformation he had demanded a spar from Tetsuo and nearly killed him which was scary due to the fact that his entire body was covered in a material similar to what the smaller boy manipulated on a daily basis.

Hirutsuchi had managed to convince Tetsuo to keep his ability to fully transform to himself knowing that if the Tsuchikage found out he'd make Hirutsuchi train with the ability despite the risks. Deciding to go with his first option he called out for "help". The second the word left his mouth Monga was lifted off his feet by a black and green flash.

"We really need to work on your speed big guy" Maiko said appearing at his side and grabbing his hand preparing to pull him up.

"Don't touch him!" Ōnoki yelled floating down into plain view. "Tetsuo, Maiko, you've both past this test but Hirutsuchi has yet to prove himself ready for the task I have in mind for you, stand down. Hirutsuchi, if you don't pull your head out of your ass I'll remove you from the team and reassign you to the academy!"

By this point Monga had gotten back on his feet and was rubbing his jaw. Looking at the Tsuchikage Monga got a look that basically said {apply pressure}. Following orders he made a few hand seals and made the ground around Hirutsuchi harden and constrict, slowly crushing him.

From his point above everyone (Ōnoki had floated down below him) Tetsuo watched as his best friend's face switched from a mixture of frustration and concentration to pure agony. While, on some level, he enjoyed seeing his enemies in such states he wasn't able to handle seeing Hiru like this so he did something that he knew would anger him to know end. He forced his friend to undergo the transformation he was so afraid of.

Discreetly moving the smallest of his iron particles which were too small to be seen with the naked eye (Maiko who still had her HUD active could see what he was doing) Tetsuo placed them on Hirutsuchi's skin. A few months ago Tetsuo discovered the secret to Hirutsuchi's bloodline. While Hiru's chakra was needed to boost his magnetic field and prepare his skin for the trauma of transformation it wasn't required for the actual transformation itself, that was fueled by the strangest chakra Tetsuo had ever felt. A chakra that seemed to come from nature itself.

All of Hirutsuchi's skin started to darken and the red lines that had previously stopped at his shoulders traveled horizontally across his collarbones before moving up his neck, cheeks and eyes before reaching his hair line. The entirety of both eyes turned blood red and his short dark hair turned red and grew rapidly, stopping just past his shoulders in multi-directional spikes.

Hirutsuchi's head was tilted down, his eyes covered by his new red hair. "You…" the boy said so quietly that he was barely heard. "You fucking assholes! I'll fuCKING KILL YOU ALL!" the boy roared his voice deep and staticy like it was being broadcasted through a loud but busted speaker. In an impressive show of brute strength Hiru jumped out of the pit and into the air spraying his immediate area in rocky shrapnel.

"Such power" Ōnoki said in awe as waves of chakra flew off his grandson.

"Hai, just like last time…" Tetsuo started.

Monga who was admittedly just a little intimidated slammed his hands to the ground and channeled his earth chakra in it before lifting a huge boulder that was at least 5 times his already large size and hurled it at Hirutsuchi. In a matter of seconds said boy absorbed more of the strange chakra that was surging through his system as well as some of the dirt and rock under his now bare feet. His red lines, fingers and eyes all began to glow before shining, orange molten steel started to drip from his elbows down to his fingers. Raising his right hand, Hiru rapidly swung it dozens of times at the incoming boulder slicing it into pieces with some kind of newly formed steel whip.

"…however that's new"

Once the boulder was cut down to manageable bits Hirutsuchi just stood there while they harmlessly bounced off his armor. Looking at his hand he saw that the whip was actually his middle and ring fingers and grinned. Swinging his whip fingers at Monga he tightly wrapped the man up from his shoulders down to his wrists ensnaring him.

"Well, I can see where this is going" Tetsuo said making the half ram seal with his left hand and extending his right arm, forcing pounds of his iron sand towards Hiru who sensed the attack and made a large shield over his left arm (ripping his sleeve to shreds) in the same manner he created his whip. The sand slammed into the shield, making the sound of iron sand bouncing off metal echo across the field. Tetsuo was surprised that Hiru had enough chakra control in his current state to repel his sand but wasn't afraid. The sand was forced away from the shield in chakra bursts shooting in random directions making it child's play to move a descent amount of it that was blasted up above Hirutsuchi back down onto his armor.

"I'll get you for this you little shith…" Hirutsuchi started before his magnetic field was forcefully returned back to normal and he lost consciousness.

There were looks of disbelief on the faces of everyone on the training ground before their attention was drawn by a chuckling Ōnoki. "That should do grandson that should do"

"Tsuchikage-sama?" Monga-asked while rubbing his arms in an effort to get the numb feeling out of them.

"Monga, take Hirutsuchi to the hospital for an eval. The moment he's cleared for duty I want you to take these three and find that good for nothing uncle of yours. Tell him that his self-imposed exile is over and that he's ordered to become the sensei of team Roshi and has 6 months to get them ready to fight a jinchūriki" As he floated away Ōnoki looked up at the overcast sky and whispered.

"Just wait a little while longer son, vengeance is close at hand"

A/N: Didn't mean to post this chapter so late in the day but something came up. If you hadn't guessed Ami's fighting style is Capoeira. I'm pretty sure Hirutsuchi's name means 'imitation earth'. I took HIRUtsuchi and MaiKO's bloodlines from Hiruko hence their names. Hirutsuchi was also modeled after Jūgo and Greed from FMA. Maiko's armor is modeled after Ironman's although she won't be using it to fly at any point in this story.

P.S I promise to chill out with the major OC's for a while.