Chapter 16.

Motherfuckers I'm back! I'm sorry I made you at so long and I was busy helping a old lady with no arms or legs cross the street and lets just say it took a minute... no? I swear.. okay fine. Here's the deal, I was literally ind fucked I lost my writing mojo, I sat behind my desktop and just lost it. But as of late I've been getting a little inspired after finally reading some other fanfictions and I decided to give it another go. So please enjoy chapter 16. Not a really long chapter maybe 5 or 3 thousands words and if I feel like it make it a full chapter of my regular 10K.

On a completely different thought LET'S GO SPURS!

I don't own Naruto.

"You returned to your village to give the current leader news, news that would've prevented the attack but you didn't say anything. What? Don't give me that look. You know the reason you didn't want to come here was because you already knew what was here. You would've prevented so many things... What's your goal in Konoha? And don't tell me its to protect Naruto. We both know that's bullshit. Every power has a price, the uchiha know this the best.. a uzumaki is just as cursed at the Uchiha. You feel your power dwindling? Harder to control the mighty elements? Harder to teleport, because the power you posses is finally starting to show its true colors. The Tama, it's a selfish power. It gives then takes. Why aren't all the Uzumaki weather controlling monsters? Because to have this power you must have something everyone can't meet.."

Nanashi cursed under his breath, he knew he shouldn't have came here. Nanashi looked up at the star filled sky. The things Mitsu said circulating around his head, 'everything power has a price.', 'don't tell me its to protect Naruto, we both know that's bullshit!' Nanashi cursed this time even louder.

"What's wrong Nanashi." Asked Kakashi. After that guy Mitsu disappeared Nanashi has not said one world.

"Nothing, check on the kids wake them up we've been gone way to long its time to head back to Konoha." Nanashi said before getting up and walking away. Kakashi raised a eyebrow and ignored the brooding Uzumaki. He looked behind him and saw three kids all in separate sleeping bags all deep in slumber, that fight mus have taken more out of them then he expected. When Nanashi freed him, he found the three of them littered around an empty field, all signs of night crawlers gone and the field look like there wasn't even a fight, the only enemy lost was the girl that they found next to Nami who had hundreds of small scars across her body, what ever Nami did to her was not something he ever wanted to experience.

He walked over to them, shaking them all awake, nothing, he shook them a little rougher before a small groan escaped Naruto lips, which quickly lead to him leaping up looking left and right.

"Naruto! Stop it the battle was lost Mitsu and those creatures all disappeared!" Kakashi yelled grabbing the blond by the wrist. It took him a minute but Naruto finally calmed down.

"Where's the others?" He said falling back on his but, his chakra was running low.

"They're fine, Nanashi went to get some fresh air that Mitsu guy really got to him." Naruto frowned, Nanashi was never one to linger too much on a person. What happened after he got stabbed, he reached for the wound on his chest and found none. What the hell happened to him?

"When you say disappear?" Naruto asked. Kakashi caught on quickly.

"Literally disappeared the factory we was at, the village, the clearing, all disappeared it was like a giant Genjutsu." Naruto frowned, that was not a Genjutsu it was real, but it will explain how Mitsu escaped his Zaga sword Genjutsu at the Inn, but it felt so real.

"But I got stabbed." Naruto said. Kakashi nodded.

"Yes you did, but it disappeared quickly after Mitsu left." Kakashi stated. Naruto nodded. Right on cue Sasuke and Nami began to wake up. Doing an exact replica of what Naruto did earlier, before quickly falling back on their asses.

"I never felt so weak." Sasuke said.

"Low on Chakra just like me, our Kekkei genkai took a toll on our body." Naruto stated still feeling a little light-headed. Nami looked around and frowned

"What happened? I remember fighting that girl and everything went blank, before I was knocked out by something."

"If it wasn't for you Nami we would've had nothing to bring back as evidence to the Hokage. That girl you beat was found dead with hundreds of small scars around her body, Nanashi sealed her in a scroll and sent it to Konoha via messenger hawk to be investigated by the TI department. Apparently that guy Mitsu was just playing a game the whole time." Kakashi said.

"What do you mean Sensei? Surely there was more than one piece of evidence, that battle was huge." Nami said. Kakashi shook his head.

"Nope, everything disappeared, the village, the battle field, the crater. In fact we're not even close to Yamigakure we was walking in the wrong direction the whole time, that guy Mitsu was toying with us the entire time." Nanashi said. His voice was regular but you could tell he was far from happy about the events.

"So you're telling me none of that shit happen?" A angry Sasuke seethed.

"No, it did happen. Everything was real right untill that part where Naruto was stabbed for the first time, in fact we're only a couple of miles away from that village we stopped at. But it was expected, we were unprepared against a guy like Mitsu." Nanashi stated.

"In the Inn, I tried casting a Genjutsu on Mitsu but he saw right through it, which is next to impossible since it was one cast by my blade." The group took a minute to process the information any technique that was formed by a demon blade was hard to beat.

"What are you getting at?" Sasuke asked. Naruto continued.

"What if it did happen... what if everything that we went throw was more than just a Genjutsu." Naruto drifted off. Everyone contemplated it. Nanashi eyes narrowed ' I am fate.' He heard go across his head.

"Even if it was something bigger we can't dwell on it. Drink some water and eat something we need to head back, the hokage is probably waiting for a report after the IT department informs him of what they found." The group gave a nod before gathering their stuff.

The rookie 9 were all sitting around a table at their favorite BBQ spot, like always Choji was the only one really eager to eat.

"We've done nothing but baby missions for like the last week, me and Akamaru been chasing the cat for days and we still can't catch it!" Fumed Kiba. He prided himself in tracking especially his nose and nothing he did worked against that stupid cat. Akamaru growled under the table, which Kiba had to cover up since the waiter looked over at their table.

"Ne, you got to be quiet buddy no dogs allowed, even if you are ninja trained." Kiba whispered.

"You really shouldn't bring dogs in here Kiba its unsanitary." Spoke Shino. Everyone nodded, and Kiba just stood speechless..

"Your covered in bugs." Was his only reply. Shino nodded.

"But not ticks." This caused the group to start laughing. Who would've thought Shino had it in him. Kiba just fumed before turning his head.

"Ne Hinata, have you seen any members of team 7?" Asked Sakura a little worried since she hasn't seen her Sasuke-kun in more then a week.

Hinata looked up from her plate. "S-sorry S-sa-kura-chan, I haven't seen any of them." She managed to finish a little weakly a little sad she hasn't seen Naruto-kun either.

Shikamaru sighed raising his head of the table. "I heard from my dad they were out on a mission outside the village."

"WHAT! That's so unfair, we've gone way more missions than them! I guess the kids of the hokage do get special treatment!" yelled Haito a loud mouth genin from team 11.

"Yeah like they will send a reserve team anywhere. They should send a team that could actually stand a chance like us! Team 8." a rather cocky Kiba said. Haito leveled the Inuzaka with a glare.

"What was that dog breath?" Haito asked. Kiba smirked.

"You heard me. Your nothing more but a reserve rookie. Your only use is to replace genins if one person from a team is ether Ill or cannot physically go on a mission.. so your more of a filler." Kiba said with a smirk. Haito got up slamming his hands on the table.

"Wanna take this outside?!" Kiba got up just as quick.

"I would love too." The others just sighed. While Haito was no push over he will lose in under a minute, he was more of a street fighting and didn't have any real skills and while it would be fun to see to brawlers go up against each other they were hungry.

"Could you two just sit down and eat for fuck sake!" Yelled a pissed off Ino. The two kids glared at each other before sitting down, both promising this wasn't over.

"A mission outside the village? They must have done something really good to be recognized for something like that." Said another member of team 11 his name was Kimino hallo, but they called his Kimino.

"Yes but then again they have three of the strongest genin on one team." Chouji taking a break from gulping down meat.

"They ain't that good." Haito said surprisingly Kiba agreeing with him. Shikamaru just ignored them. Naruto and Sasuke were nothing to mess with, and Nami was another problem all together. All in all, he would hate to fight them, even if his mind was already running threw various scenarios on how to beat them.

"I've seen Naruto train the only person that stands a chance is Neji-niisan or his team member Lee-san." Hinata said surprisingly with no stutter. They nodded, if there was someone who could beat Naruto was Neji they were both geniuses not to mention way to strong for their age.

"We could take him right Akamaru?" The dog gave a yelp, which again Kiba had to play off as himself from a suspicious waiter.

"Well I got to go. See yah all next friday." Said Shikamaru it'll be to troublesome if he stayed and didn't get home on time. They all nodded it was getting late.

IT department.

Inoichi Yamanaka was standing still his hand over the head of a woman. There was a trail of sweat going down his head before the body in front of him slowly started to fade away before she was gone. Inoichi stood in shock.

"Call the Hokage. NOW!" A anbu quickly left the facility.

"What the hell happen!" yelled an angry Ibiki he has never seen a dead body disappear. Inoichi frowned.

"Who sent that body?" Asked Inoichi a frown going across his face. A yellow flash later and Minato appeared.

"Status report." Inoichi took a knee.

"Hokage-sama, while I traveled across the girl's mind I came across something strange.." He trailed off.

"What type of strange?"

"Sir, the girl had no mind. It was a dark plain, nothing, there was no brain signals, no mindscape, not even a child memory." Inoichi continued.

"What does that mean?" Minato asked a little puzzled.

"It means sir this girl was literally nothing, for all we know she could be a clone, but that's not the most puzzling part. While I was in there a man appeared, he went by the name of Mitsu and he gave me a message for you."

Minato frowned.

"Which was?" Inoichi paused.

"Not yet." Minato sighed.

"Got anything?"

"No."

"Who sent the body?" Minato disappeared in a yellow flash.

"Who the fuck sent that body?!" Inoichi yelled. Ibiki smiled.

"Go home Inoichi." Inoichi sucked his teeth and left.

"That's just mean. Who did send the body?" Send a purple hair Anbu.

"I got no idea Yugao."

Uzumaki Estate.

Kushian frowned looking at the many files sent to her by the Hokage. These were the files that were confiscated from Danzo. He had files on each one of them, Naruto, Nanashi, Sasuke, Nami, Minato and even the Uzumaki estate weak spots and where the security was weak, and he even knew that her grandfather grave was empty because nobody found the body!

"Why the hell will he attack an empty grave!" Kushina yelled slamming the paper. She just couldn't fucking understand it. He has way to much information, he must have been working with someone, but who? What person will risk stealing this type of information, why would he risk his whole root organization.. unless he didn't. The thought of him using other shinobi instead of his wasn't really far off.. but then again it'll be way to risky, and he knows that.

"Fuck me!" Kushina said.

"That could be arranged." Said a smirking Minato. Kushina threw a knife at him, which nicked his cheek.

"You better have a good fucking reason to be in my office and not to mention trespass on to my estate." Minato wiped the blood off his chin and took a seat.

"How are the files looking?" Minato changed the topic. Kushina sighed.

"No use, he had a couple of information I thought were top-secret. Tell me Minato was there anyway Danzo could've sneaked in more shinobi into the village? you know as cannon folders?"

Minato played with the idea, after all this was Danzo they were talking about.

"Why the interest?" Kushina snorted.

"Stop playing games Minato." Minato nodded.

"Well there is away after all most of his Shinobi have no ties to the village as they were either trained by him and not the academy last time I checked he had a few followers that I have no idea how he got but bringing people from outside the village I doubt he'll be that reckless."

Kushina frowned just as she thought. "Then explain why he attacked an empty grave knowing it was a battle he can't win, in the middle of the day, with no cover and most of all no attempt to escape."

Minato rubbed his chin. That was rather odd.

"What I'm trying to say is what if he wanted to get caught? What if he wanted to distract us from something bigger... after all there was no one to protect the Hokage building where the most important documents are kept.." Not even a second later Minato was gone. Kushina frowned what did Danzo want.

"With that last thought she looked over at the pile of paper work. "Fuck mee."

Minato arrived at his office calling his secretary. "I want you to tell everyone to look over every single file going back as far as the first paper the first hokage signed. Every single ounce of data collected I want it looked over! Now!" The secretary nodded before spreading the word.

Minato sat behind his desk. "Tenzo bring me Danzo now." The Anbu nodded melting into the wood.

Minato frowned the IT department gets a body with no mind, now Danzo played us big time."

"Hokage-sama!" The secretary barged in.

"What happened?"

"There's a file missing! You wouldn't believe which one."

"Who's?" Minato asked a little scared of the answer.

"The first Hokage." Minato slammed his hand into his desk.

"What was in the folder?"

"A blood sample of the first, a small leaf made by him, and village secrets only the first knows."

"Fuck!" Minato cursed this wasn't good.

"But they did leave something." The secretary said handing him a card.

Minato read it.

"What does it say?" Said a just arrived Danzo. Minato snarled.

"Why would you attack the Uzumaki." Danzo kept his relaxed posture.

"I did not." Minato sucked his teeth.

"Don't play games, those were your root ninjas we were fighting against!"

"Your ignorant as hell. I would never attack the leaf, what you were fighting were a bunch of fake ninjas posing as my ninja. But unlike you I was here and was even able to stop the intruder from taking anything else! While you were to busy defending your damsel in distress!" Danzo yelled.

"That would explain why you were here when we arrested you, but that proves nothing." Tenzo said from his spot next to Minato.

"And who may I ask was this person?"

"Mizuki, he was working for Orochimaru and apparently had a mission to get some documents that he was able to get because you fools arrested me, shut down my root, meaning I couldn't send them to kill him! You fool do you know what Orochmaru can do with that document?!" Danzo seethed.

Minato frowned this was not good. "What do you suggest?" Danzo took the documents from Minato desk and read through them.

"Nothing for now. If he took these documents it means he's going to do something big that involves the village when he does that we'll be ready. What we should do is focus on this new village coming up that was just formed in rice country."

Minato frowned a new village in rice country why wasn't he informed of this?

"You didn't even know about that? Isn't Jiraiya sending you this information! He's the village spy master."

"I haven't had the time to check them." Danzo killing intent flared.

"Listen here boy, I know you killed the third and I stayed shut because that fool was going senile and was gonna do nothing but let the council control the village, those foolish civilians will tear this village apart." Minato stayed shut.

"Your so caught up on your personal problems you haven't taken the village into consideration, maybe its time you pick a replacement."

"Don't even think about it."

"Not me, Tsunade." Minato narrowed his eyes.

"This is my village. I can take perfect care off it."

"Then start acting like it! I will not let you destroy my home." Minato slammed his hands on his desk.

"Anything else?" Minato asked.

"Yes, your little SPEAK team, I wouldn't send them on another mission like the one you did. Unless you want your kids dead. They have talent no doubt but they are not ready for that type of combat the sannin were a complete different batch of kids. If I were you I'll let them get some field experience minor C-rank, some D-ranks. This will build reputation, let them taste victory, your mission will just show them how weak they are." With that Danzo got up and left.

"Who said your free to go?" Minato said.

Danzo stopped. "Do a you wish Hokage-sama." silence filled the room before Danzo left the door snapping Minato out his stupor.

"He could've been lying." Tenzo said. Minato went into his desk pulled out a huge scroll that jiraiya sent him. He read the scroll before burning it with a small katon jutsu.

"He was telling the truth. Jiraiya sent me news of Mizuki plans weeks before it happened, he also wrote about strange movement in rice country and he even warned me not to send Team 7 on that mission!" Minato fumed. He didn't realize how lost he's really been.

"I want increased security around the village, put up the barrier and make it strong. I want to know who comes in and out the village even if it's just a rodent. I want the TI department to look for hand prints around the file room make sure it was Mizuki and or if he had help. Send out a group of Anbu to meet team 7 half way as extra protection and for the love of god someone tell Jiraiya to stop snooping and get his ass back in the village."

"Yes sir, anything esle?" Minato nodded.

"Tenzo did you planted the seed on Danzo as ordered?" Tenzo nodded.

"Good keep me posted on everything he does." Tenzo nodded before going to do as he was ordered.

Minato took out a cigar before walking over to the window.

"Fuck me."

Mizuki arrived at the base.

"Your finally here." Said a figure.

"I got the stuff." He said tossing it at the man.

"Good, let's go Orochimaru is waiting." Mizuki nodded taking a step before doubling over coughing up blood.

"You are no longer needed." A grey haired glasses wearing kid said. Mizuki didn't say nothing as his vision went black.

"Orochimaru will love this." Kabuto said before disappearing in a shushin.

Short chapter not much action just tying up some loose ends adding more plot, being lazy, but hey I tried.

See you next time.

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