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The Uchiha Clan had grown in strength and prestige, the experiments that Naruto and Orochimaru had been conducting proved to be an absolute success. They had found a way to create single organs for replacements with no rejection or side effects. This did not only make the issue of the blindness cause by their eyes a thing of the past, but surprisingly Hyuuga were also very happy because it came to be openly known that they too had the very same problem. The first experimental operation in an elderly hyuuga was something that orochimaru would always remember as both a happy and funny occasion. The operation was an absolute success, but when the patient recovered enough to removed the bandages, that is when it was the moment Orochimaru would always treasure. The old man at the age of 63, began to scream like he was a teenager at his academy graduation. He screamed one thing over and over again, "I can see, Thank god almighty! I can see!" With tears in his eyes and a smile on his grandson's face. Naruto simply told him that not being able to see was like being looked in a complete darkness for years, and he lost his sight earlier than most. So of course he would be extremely happy about it.
The Uchiha also grew because their new patriarch had written and made the perfect training schedule for their clan. You would be surprised how much can be done with just 2 shadow clones. The method that his grandfather Madara mentioned in his writings was a thing of the past. Naruto found that the magenjyou sharingan could be obtained through the use of a genjutsu he and his wife developed and mastered. The cloning experiment and the genjutsu made it possible for all the clan that wanted to obtain them, in fact could. A small mental exam was the only requirement to try it. The idea was simple enough, there was no need for say an absolute psycho with a power set of eyes that could trap the victims in a genjutsu. The experiment had also a second and most disturbing outcome, but that would be discovered in a couple of years by the hidden actions of Tsunade.
At long last Hiruzen Sarutobi had decided to finally retire and enjoy life with his wife. So in front of the entire village he made an announcement that would forever change the face of konoha, or at the very least the mountain. He declared that the name of the next hokage would be none other than Minato Namikaze. Mikoto could not help but to laugh at the look of relief that came over Naruto when he heard that. It appears that the possibility of being named to that position cause him some serious dread. The other anbu present could hardly believe that the most feared anbu, the oni anbu was afraid of being hokage. He simply told them to imagine paperwork as high as a mountain, and an entire world of whiny and hysterical people complaining at them day after day, and all that paperwork had to be done by 1 person. Suddenly the life in anbu was not so horrible after all, in fact it was not that hard either. Minato being free from his teaching job, and seeing that his team became Chuunin, and his son Menma was growing up a healthy boy. He took on the job of hokage with the innocence of a young man. He simply told them that Naruto was exaggerating, the paperwork could be done in no time at all with the shadow clones after all. Minato had to remember to thank Naruto for teaching him that jutsu.
The only negative of the announcement was that Tsunade was less than pleased. Well to be truthful, Tsunade was royally and absolutely pissed. She was heard at her home and in the hospital, that Hiruzen must have gone senile, or just plain nuts. How could he name Minato hokage and not her! She was strong, wise and beautiful. How could her own teacher be so ungrateful. She managed an entire hospital, made a program for medical ninja to be trained, and made several advancement in the way to treat people's illnesses. She truly believed that only she was the only truly worthy to being named hokage. She even stopped using prisoners and rogue ninja on her experiments with the cursed seal. Thanks to orochimaru's cloning techniques she had an almost limitless supply of test subjects. Her cursed seal however had to be developed in secret, and no one could know what the real purpose of the seal was. The snake summoner had developed it to transfer her soul into a new body. The way for her to achieve eternal youth was paid with many horrible acts, and after 4 years since Minato became hokage the truth was revealed. By an extremely proud, and extremely angry Tsunade. The entire council was outraged and the other villages wanted her to pay for her crimes against humanity. To cause the death of thousands of rogue ninja was one thing, but the prisoners were a different matter. Some of them were in fact innocent and they suffered things no human being such ever have to endure. The punishment for her criminal disregard of human life was, exile. Not a single village volunteered to take her in. All the hokage of all the elemental nations considered this a fair punishment. If she could not respect the sanctity of human life, then they did not want her in their villages. Tsunade called every single one of them a hypocrite. Sanctity of human life, how could they even argue that the entire village made it's major income from killing people! Every single ninja was a well trained, for hire killer how could they punish her when their normal activities would seem no better. Minato explained that the ninja did in fact kill people, but those people where a danger to the nation their village lived on. It was a patriotic and proud duty, what she did only benefited herself. Her own student Shizune was exile too, in secret she was sent on a top level mission to spy on Tsunade, and inform the hokage of Konoha if she ever tried to do something that threatened the peace or Konoha.
She was exiled from the place her grandfather and great senju hokage had created. The sheer rage from her could be felt by even the civilians. As she and her student left the village, she stopped at the villages northern gate. She looked at the monument that was where all the hokage where honored at, the hokage mountain. She looked at the two senju who had been hokage and screamed, "This village is not the village that my clan made, I will have my revenge you ungrateful bastards. I will see this place burned to the ground!" Many wondered how insane a person had to be to say that out loud in front of ninja that were there guarding that gate. But it turned out that even Tsunade had learned the shadow clone jutsu and made it so that the clone exploded when the clone was ran out of time. Naruto did mention to Minato that a person would have to be insane not to be bothered by the memory of themselves blowing up like that. He simply reminded the Head Uchiha that this was Tsunade he was talking about, so of course she was insane.
All though no village ever welcomed her, there was one place that Tsunade found was perfect for her. Their had been many rogue ninja in the elemental nations and many whispered of a group where the mighty were welcomed. The group was rumored to be under the direct leadership of Madara Uchiha. The Akatsuki was a group of extremely skilled rogue ninja, and they were indeed hired by the nations of the elemental nations to do things that the daimyo of the hiring nations wanted to be done, but these were things that could cause wars so they wanted them done in absolute secret, and if ever found out they could blame the group and dismissed all the blame on the nation that hired them. Tsunade searched, and searched. She used her snakes, her beauty, and even her student but found nothing. It was when she gave up and fell asleep in a cave that it happened. This weird half white, half black, part venus fly trap freak should up, he was wearing a black cloak lined with red clouds. "Tsunade Senju you are here by summoned by Madara Uchiha. If you want to be a member of us, you will come with me and be tested by our leader. Do you agree?" Tsunade of course did not wait a second to scream at the man that she did in fact agree, and that she spent half a year looking for his group in the first place. Setsu did not pay much attention to the woman's ramblings. He simply made a few hand signs and with a single jutsu they were transported to where the leader was. Tsunade and Shizune could hardly believe their eyes. There he was Madara Uchiha alive and well. They questioned him how he was so young. He simply laughed, "You made the research for the cursed seal, and wondered why someone else can use it? We stole that research as well as the cloning research from konoha, that is how!" Tsunade was upset at learning her research was stolen, but it also made it quite clear that this group did not mind it at all. She truly was going to feel right at home with this group, and so the week long test began. She passed and became a member of the group as she was taken to their headquarters and given her own cloak and ring.
"The group is now complete, in a little while we will finish perfecting the extraction process and we will meet my dear grandson. 3 more years and I will finally be able to meet you, and we can talk with each other about the clan, the village and why did you refuse to become hokage. Yes, we have many things to talk about." Madara said as he looked at the full moon. The plan to save the 10 tailed beast was progressing rather well. The return of the sage of the six paths was closer, and the salvation of the bijuu was as well.