The sun was setting over the village hidden in the leaves, the camera pans down from the horizon to focuse on the Shinobi bar and grill. Inside asuma and myself sat at the bar, laughing and reminiscing as we shared drinks together. "I know it might be a touchy subject be I have to ask, what was the thought process behind you going after orochimaru himself?" Asuma asked this question as he glanced over towards me, an amused smile on my face as I glanced down at my missing right arm. "Honestly there wasn't one, I let my emotions get the better of me and by the time I realized, it was too late. Although I will say that senshi didn't help much in that regard." I said this with a short laugh before taking a drink of sake from my dish, the incident did way heavily on me. It was by far the biggest blunder of my life, however in the end it was my own rash actions and idiocy that cost me my arm. It was a lesson to learn from, not a mistake to dwell over. "You're doing a real good job with ino, choji, and shikamaru. Those three's teamwork is exceptional, that inoshikacho formation is seriously formidable. I'd hate to be on the receiving end of it." I spoke these compliments to asuma as a pleased smile appeared on his face. "Thanks, when I was first assigned as their jonini instructor I wasn't too sure about it. But seeing how far those three have come always puts a smile on my face, just like it does with you katate. You know we are proud and happy for you, even if we don't cut you slack for being a genin." Asuma said the last part of his sentence as he elbowed me in the shoulder. "I know, I just wish hirozen could have been here to see it. Kinda feel like I let the old man down while he was still around." This response from me came in a slightly more somber tone as I recalled Hirozen, unable to properly remember my own father. "He was never disappointed in you, none of the sarutobi clan was, not everyone is cut out to be a Shinobi." After that a few moments of silence passed as asuma and I enjoyed our drinks before a familiar voice made itself known. "Well would you look at that, how's my favorite one armed Shinobi doing." The voice belonged to none other then might guy himself, as he came up behind asuma and myself. Throwing his arm around my neck in a friendly manner. "You say that like you know other Shinobi who are missing an arm." I said this with a smile letting out a soft laugh as guy released me. "Glad to see you haven't let anything get your spirits down, I hate to drop this on you so suddenly but I got a favor to ask. It's about tenten, iv never been much of a weapons guy. But you, well I bet there's a whole slew of advice and tips you could give her. What do ya say?" Guy spoke in his overly energetic and enthusiastic tone as usual, causing me to roll my eyes in amusement. "You want me to give tenten some pointers on utilizing her weapons, can't say the idea rubs me the wrong way. My specialty is kenjutsu and I also heavily practiced with other types of weapons, send her by my house some time and I'll show her a thing or two." Asuma, Guy, and myself sat at the bar for several hours after this. Conversing and simply enjoying each other's company, until inevitably we all went our separate ways to go home. It was slowly becoming nighttime as I made my way out of the bar and down the street, however as I did so I couldn't stop thinking about sensei and Sasuke. They had been held up in the Uchiha compound for quite some time, with no one having entered or exited, I was skeptical that they may have taken off together. It was not difficult to make my way to the uchiha compound in the dead of night, on the main gate was a rather sturdy lock and seal. The seal itself was not one of senshi's, it had been placed by the anbu and for some reason had been dismantled without being removed. Fortunately i had been working on another project for just such an occasion, i called it a mimic key. This key was a short rod that had several turning sections with different teeth bits that could retract, allowing it to mimic the shape of nearly any key easily. This allowed me to pick the lock and open the gate with a loud and audible clunk of the shifting lock. For the most part the compound was empty and abandoned aside from the main family branch home, from that building came the sounds of clashing steel and the shouting of instructions, there was where i found senshi and sasuke caught up in the middle of a rather intense and serious training session. "This doesn't look much like a rehabilitation, more like training and preparations. Whats going on here senshi?" these words interrupted the session taking place between sasuke and senshi, when the young uchiha looked over his shoulder at me there was no mistaking it. Sasuke had his third tomoe, a fully developed sharingan. "Whats going on here is none of your business katate, go home and forget what you saw." senshi said this in a cold and serious tone as he and Sasuke broke apart from their Kuni clash. Both turning to face me. "Ya thats not going to happen, everyone is starting to get suspicious about you two. They think you're plotting something, and now so do i. You guys either need to answer my questions or I'm going to make you answer them.." these words didn't sit well with sasuke, the young uchiha was quick to raise his kuni up and enter a battle stance. "Uncle let me take care of him" looking back over his shoulder sasuke received a simple nod from senshi. Saskue was quick to charge in at me to yake three slashes at my upper body with his Kuni, however. As I focused on Sasuke my gekugon responded in an odd way, several seconds before each of sasuke rushed forward a purple figure of the boy rush forward first to perform those exact movements. While I was not naturally fast enough to keep up this sudden precaution from my gekugan told me exactly what Sasuke was going to do before he even moved. Thus allowing me to easily throw my left hand up and deflect the three slashes by knocking his wrist away and or blocking it which served to greatly anger the boy. Sasuke would jump back performing and firing his fireball jutsu at me, in response to which i would slam my foot on the ground raising up a stone wall to block the fire ball, the flames crashed into my stone wall with the force of a cannon ball. Causing large streams of fire to shoot around the wall and myself. When the flames died down I watched as that same purple figure of sasuke came rushing around the right side of my wall taking a slash at me with its kuni. When the real sasuke attempted to do so I was quick to react, jumping up and letting the boy slash the wall as I landed behind him. "You're awfully cranky. I think it's well past your bedtime." I said this to sasuke as I snatched him up in a choke hold with my left arm using all of my strength to choke the boy out as he struggled in my arm, however saskue attempted to stab me in the side with his kuni by flipping it around which resulted in me throwing the boy to the side. As Sasuke tumbled along the ground I knew I couldn't let him recover, just one slip up on my end was all it was going to take, and I had no idea how long this precaution was going to last. Lunging across the courtyard i closed the distance between me and Sasuke, slamming my right heel into the side of his head as I came down. This rattles Sasuke as his head pounced off the ground knocking the boy out. Turning to senshi I thought I was prepared for anything he could throw at me, until I watched him take his fighting stance and his eye shift into its mangekyou form. Instantly my eyes were drawn to senshis feet as I wanted to avoid eye contact, senshis he genjutsu were nasty business. I watched as several dozen purple versions of senshis feet split away each one coming in for it's own attack at different angles and timings. This left me unable to predict where senshi was coming from and before I knew it he dropped from the air planting a firm kick on the back of my head knocking me face first onto the ground, I tried to scramble up onto my feet however the moment I attempted to do so a wave a pain washed over my body paralyzing me on the spot. For several moments I struggled on the ground trying to make my body move however this only caused the pain to get that much worse. "It's no use, one of my mangekyou abilities is to see and manipulate my own chakra to an unbelievably precise degree. Right now I'm forcing my chakra into your body and activating your pain receptors to keep you paralyzed." Senshi explained this as he walked around me to look down at my face. "Well what are you waiting to kill me." I said this through my gritted teeth as my body screamed in agony, however the pain suddenly vanished and I was able to stand back up. "Damit katate I'm not going to kill you, you idiot." Sneshi said this in a mixed tone of anger and disappointment as his sharingan faded. "Then what are you doing? What's all of this about?" This question got a moment of silence from senshi before he spoke. "Its about rebuilding the uchiha clan without unnecessary restrictions, i will open the eyes of tsunade and the village even if it means war. But for now I just need you to trust me, I already have kaens support and with yours we won't need to go to that extreme." Senshi spoke, letting his tone fade into a much more somber tone. "That all depends on what you want me to do and how in the know I'm going to be. You can't expect me to just side with you if I'm in the dark." I spoke this counter argument in a serious and rather aggravated tone. "I just want you to handle the next few missions of mine that come in, I need time. Agree to that and I'll explain everything to you."