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  Orochimaru gazed at his former teammate unscious on the ground and his face was devoid of expression. 'So after all these years, it has e to this. Sorry Tsunade. But to further my goals, your sacrifice is needed.'

  He then turned his attention to his guards. He looked at Kimimaro, Jirobo and Kidomaru and spoke. He saw the blood flowing from the er of Kimimaro's mouth and frowned. 'Even after all the preparations, Tsunade was still able to inflict signifit internal damage to Kimimaro.'

  "You three. Head back to the base and secure it. This is a delicate time. I don't want any ued is." The Snake sannin gave the order.

  Kimimaro stepped forward and bowed. "Yes my Lord. We'll make sure nothing happens till you return."

  "Make sure to heal your injuries. Shizune's poison jutsu isn't something you simply shrug off."

  "Uood my Lord."

  The Snake Sanniuro the remaining members of the Sound Five. "Sakon, Tayuya. We o move quickly. You know what to do."

  The two guards nodded ao the two sleeping bodies on the ground. Tayuya picked up Shizune while Sakon carried Tsunade. Orochimaru looked around and noticed that their pet was missing.

  He inwardly smiled as he couldn't seonton anywhere nearby. 'It must be on its way to the vilge. This battle was bound to draw attention. Even if they sent their entire force to search, they wouldn't find me.'

  "Let's go." On Orochimaru's orders the group split up a in two dires. Sakon and Tayuya followed Orochimaru, carrying their captives while Kimimaro and his team went to the main base in the Land of Sound.

  Shortly after all parties left the area, a strange figure appeared out of the tree several meters away. A figure with the body of a pnt and wearing the Akatsuki robes. Zetsu looked at the se and was fused.

  "Well, that was ued. You think she did something to make Orochimaru mad?" The white half asked his partner.

  "No. Tsunade had been wastiime getting drunk and gambling this st year. I doubt she had crossed paths with Orochimaru at the time. That snake must have something pnned." Bck Zetsu replied.

  "I see. You're probably right. Still, I didn't think she'd put up such a fight. Even outnumbered she was holding her own."

  Unlike his other half Bck Zetsu khat they weren't battling with anywhere heir full power. "No. It only looked like that because Orochimaru and the others didn't go for any killing blows. For some reason they want her audent alive."

  "What do you think Orochimaru's pn is?"

  At the white half's question, Bck Zetsu became silent for a few moments. "I have a few ideas but I 't make any solid clusions. Let's see if we follow them."

  The two disappeared into the ground and tried to pursue their target. As they neared Orochimaru the Snake Sannin suddenly stopped while his subordinates kept going.

  "Kuku… Is that you Zetsu." Orochimaru spoke as he kept looking forward.

  Zetsu, who was hidden in the ground several meters away, was annoyed. 'He knows.'

  "If yoing to keep following me I'll see for myself just how durable you really are. Or art ways and you go spy on someone else." With those words Orochimaru vanished from Zetsu's sight.

  The Akatsuki spy was hiding underground and decided not to pursue the Snake Sannin. "His sensing skills are sharper than I thought." The white half remarked.

  "He must have some method to detect us. Still it's expected that he's a lot more vigint than usual. He just attacked and kidsunade Senju. This i will definitely cause an uproar o gets out." The bck half spoke.

  "So what do we do now? Should we tell him?"

  "Yes. This is a big i. Let's go find Madara." With the final say from Bck Zetsu, the spy began to move in a different dire. Towards the Mountain Graveyard where Obito was.

  Leaf Vilge.

  It was shortly an hour past midnight. Hiruzen was still in his office going through several dots. As he was w, two Anbu suddenly appeared in front of him. "You summoned us, Lord Hokage?"

  Hiruzen looked up from his dot and saw the Anbus Bear and Snow standing in attention in front of him. He had tasked Bear with infiltrating the Root forces and Snow with iigating his own ninjas. An assighat was given years ago.

  "Yes. First, Bear, I have a task for you." Hiruzen gave Bear the scroll Danzo had given him earlier and spoke. "I'm sure you made a copy of every missio of the st decade from the Root Archive when you first infiltrated the anization. I need a copy of the reports of the missioioned in that scroll."

  "What is this about sir?" Bear asked the old leader.

  "Danzo came to see me a few ho. He gave me this scroll and it was his justification for disobeying my orders and tinuing with his operations. The missions on that scroll goes all the way back to the time of the Uchiha massacre. Based on the mission's details, it suggests that if it wasn't for Root the vilge would have been embroiled in several majhts with other nations. The as the Root took, mainly assassination and subterfuge missions oain targets around the world, reduced the tensioween the great nations and smaller vilges."

  "So essentially Danzo is sayihe reason eace right now." Snow couldn't help but remark.

  Hiruzen nodded. "Yes. Some of the is took pear our border and I've had some Jonins iigate it at the time. On the surfaost of these events there wasn't much. It looked like a straightforward assassination by people who had a grudge against them. But now with this… The scroll gives a detailed at of what the targets were up to and what their iions were… If it's true then Danzo's as could be somewhat justified but…"

  Bear suddenly uood why the Hokage wahe report copies he made. "You want to make sure the information on that scroll is accurate."

  Hiruzen nodded in agreement. "Yes. I o know the authenticity of this information. They have figured out that they have a spy in their midst. So the reports in their archive might have beeed now to match what Danzo gave me. But that won't be the case for the copies you made. I hose dots by tomorrow m."

  "Yes sir."

  The Hokage then turned his attention to Snow. "Have you pleted the iigation?"

  "Yes sir. It'll take me a few hours to pile the report though."

  The old kage nodded. "That's fine. Make sure to get it to me by m… So how is it? Is it as bad as we feared?"

  Snow was silent for a few seds before he replied. "No sir. Danzo aranoid and limited the number of agents he had within the ranks so they wouldn't be found out. But some of them are in key positions iain squads."

  Hiruzen sighed and leaned ba his chair. "Get me that list by early m."

  "Uood sir."

  Just then Bear spoke. "Lord Hokage. I ask you something?"

  "What is it, Bear?"

  "If the information on my reports corresponds to the reports in Danzo's scroll, are you going to show him leniency?" He asked the question that's been on his mind.

  Hiruzen was silent as he thought about the question. "No. I gave him an order and he disobeyed. It doesn't matter what Danzo says. I'm not going to let Root operate for much longer. Under Danzo, the Foundation is an untrolble, uable element."

  'I o talk to sensei wheurns and update him ohing that happened. If Danzo has proved himself loyal then… No. He's crossed far too many lines for me to back down now. Still, I o talk to him alongside sensei. After that I will decide whether I have to kill him or not.'

  Mountain Graveyard.

  It wasn't long before Zetsu reached the hidden location. He saw a masked ninja meditating on the ter of the yer and got closer.

  "~Big News. We have big news Madaraa…~" White Zetsu spoke in a sing-song voice.

  "Would you be serious!? This is important." The Bck half reprimanded his terpart.

  Obito seheir presehe moment they arrived he base. He turned in their dire and spoke. "What is it, Zetsu?"

  "It's Orochimaru. He attacked Tsunade and captured her along with Shizune."

  Obito was curious and was slightly ed with this new development. "Orochimaru attacked and captured Tsuhis is certainly ued. What could he be after?" The man rubbed his and muttered to himself. He then looked to his subordinate.

  "Zetsu, did you mao track his location after he captured them?"

  "I'm sorry, Madara. But he mao notice me. He made a threat that I have no doubt he would have followed through if I kept going after him. I lost track of him after, so I came to inform you." Bck half replied with a calm voice.

  "It's not surprising that he picked up on you. He's been studying all the Akatsuki members since he joined. He's developed measures to evade your surveiler all. So losing track of him isn't surprising... That snake is skilled at disappearing when he wants to. Zetsu, did you notiything peculiar about his as or any hint of his iion?" The masked Obito asked his spy.

  "Hmm... Orochimaru seemed determined and focused. Based on the way he and his team fought, there was a sense en their as. He didn't waste any time subduing Tsunade audent. Orochimaru and his team took them down before Tsunade could use her summons."

  "Did you watch the whole fight?"

  "Yep. We recorded the whole thing for you." White Zetsu replied.

  "Show me."

  At Obito's asu showed him the battle that took pce between the Sannin and their subordinates. Obito watched the fight and noticed something.

  "He didn't use ahal attacks. He wasn't trying to kill them or even seriously isuhe same goes for Shizune. He hem for something."

  Bck Zetsu agreed with Obito's specution. "Yes. That's what I think too. Since he went after her it may have something to do with her medical skills."

  Obito had a slightly different theory in mind. 'Or her Senju bloodline. He always had a fasation with forbidden teiques and unique bloodlines. But why now? Why not sooner? Or is it something else?'

  "What should we do? It won't be long before the Leaf vilge finds out what happened and they won't be happy." Bck Zetsu looked at Obito for the course of a.

  The masked Obito nodded his head. "We're going to the Rain Vilge. We o inform Pain of this i."

  "Got it." Zetsu nodded and disappeared into the ground while Obito vanished in a swirl.

  Hidden Rain Vilge.

  The masked Uchiha, Zetsu, Konan and Pain stood oop floor of the tallest tower in the Rain Vilge. An e haired man wearing the distinct Akatsuki cloak looked at the vilge and the people below through the window.

  "So, Orochimaru is making moves again huh. This could plicate our pn." Pain spoke with a calm tone.

  "He's always been a wild card. But his as now have the potential to escate tensioween the great nations." The masked 'Madara' spoke as he leaned on the wall.

  "Agreed. We o keep an eye ouation. Orochimaru's as could potentially disrupt the bance of power we've been w towards." Konan crossed her arms and gave her thoughts.

  Pain slightly nodded his head and turo Zetsu. "tinue monit the Leaf vilge and Orochimaru's movements. If anything signifit happens, report it immediately."

  "Pain, shouldn't we inform the other members of the situation?" Konan asked her friend.

  The e haired man nodded. "Yes. But not now. We o know more about his pns. Zetsu, gather intel on Orochimaru's movements for the st year. We'll call for a meeting tomorrow and inform them of the situation."

  "Yes. I'll get it done." Zetsu disappeared into the ground moments ter with his ask to plete.

  "You should increase the patrol squads around the border. The Leaf will be sending teams to iigate the matter soon and they won't be some ordinary ins." Madara spoke with a grave tone.

  "I'm aware." Pain gave a short reply aurned his gaze to the view outside.

  "Don't engage unless absolutely necessary. We still need some more time. So for now it's best to stay in the shadows and observe." Madara spoke once again but he got no reply from Pain. Kona her impassive face as she looked at the masked Uchiha.

  Madara didn't say anything more and disappeared moments ter, leaving the two top members of the anization on their own.

  "Nagato, what do you think Jiraiya sensei is going to do?" Now that it was only just the two of them, Konan used her friend's real name and spoke in a softer tone.

  "We'll find out soon. Ohing is for certain. Something drastic is going to happen in these few days. I feel it." Pain replied as he looked at the rain p down from the sky.

  Author's Note:

  Things are about to heat up. I told you guys that will have an explosive start… I just pray that this ares out great by the time I'm doh it…

  A few things to crify about the previous chapter.

  01.. Why Tsunade didn't summon Katsuyu.

  Orochimaru wouldn't have givehe ce as a battle of such a rge scale is not what he wants.(it's given in the chapter) It's why Orochimaru didn't use his summon as well.

  02.. Why Tsunade didn't use her diamond seal?

  It may not seem like it but the fight was fast paced. And Orochimaru khat if she released the seal on her forehead it would take a long time to defeat her. He khe seals she o make to release that jutsu so he would have stopped it. And even if she did use her seal, Orochimaru would have used Shizune and threatened her. Not only that, Tsuiced that Orochimaru and his team weren't trying to hal blows. So why would she release the seal and just waste her chakra?

  03.. The gas poison used on Tsuhat made her go unscious.

  It's stated in the chapter. Orochimaru made this specifically for Tsunade. He knows just how strong her mediinjutsu is. So he would have created something to ter that strength.

  04.. Did I over power sound five?

  ly. In the anime and manga, they've had a fight with Genma and his team before they met the Shikamaru squad. But that was glossed over. And Orochimaru has been training the team in preparation for this fight. And gave them all detailed reports of Tsunade and Shizune's fighting skills.

  But that's not to say that the sound five came out unharmed. Tsunade was able to wound them but their teamwork and Orochimaru also made it possible to avoid deadly attacks from the female sannin.

  I hope this answers any questions you may have.