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  "You're right, Zefrek. Orochimaru might not help us if we go empty hahat's why we'll bring him the forbidden scroll. But I'm going to use someone else to steal the scroll."

  The prisoner sarcastically smiled. "A patsy willing to steal the Forbidden scroll from the Hokage tower and give it to you? Who would be dumb enough to do that?"

  "Oh I have someone in mind. Don't you worry about that."

  Seeing the malicious grin on Mizuki's face Zefrek assumed it was someohe man hated. "Moving on, if you want my help then I need my strength back. The food in this prison keeps our chakra unstable and blocked. You got a solution for that?"

  Mizuki nodded and took a small blue vial and a scroll from his pocket and gave it to Zefrek. "That drug will teract the effects of the chakra destabilizing poison you're forced to take here. It will st till you eat the meal. The scroll tains a few more vials, several ons and a poison co."

  Zefrek looked at Mizuki for a few moments before deg to ce it. He drank the tents of the vial and within a few minutes began to feel the ge in his body. 'My chakra is being stable and easier to circute again.'

  He stood from his spot and looked at the academy instructor. Killing i began to fill the air. "I feel it. My strength is returning. So then what's stopping me from knog you down, killing that guard outside and esg, huh?"

  Despite being faced with the evil i of a Jonin, Mizuki held his ground. "Nothing. You might be able to escape the prison but you won't make it out of the vilge alive. You've been a Jonin for a while. You should know that. And even if you somehow did, how long do you think you'll stay safe?"

  Zefrek looked at the in in front of him and his grin widened. "Hahahaha… Fine. We'll do it your way. I wait a few more months."

  "You should hide that scroll. This pce has daily iions, doesn't it?"

  Zefrek made a few seals and smmed his hands down on the ground. A summoning seal spread and in a puff of smoke a small earthworm appeared.

  Mizuki looked at the creature with narrowed eyes. 'So this is how he smuggled illegal items and stolen goods. His summoning creature isn't used for battle but for stealing. Iing.'

  "You said we'd be leaving on March 2ht?" Zefrek asked Mizuki just to make sure. After seeing the in nod he turo his small summoning creature.

  "J'vaya. Keep this scroll safe aurn it to me on March 20th early m."

  The small earthworm moved its body up and down and opes mouth rge enough to swallow the scroll. Ohe scroll disappeared into his body, it burrowed into the ground and disappeared.

  "By the way, how did ye our meeting?" Zefrek asked.

  "Kirai has a vea against the person I'm going to frame. So he agreed to help me. I told him that on graduation day, I'd e here in disguise and hold him hostage and make the uards release just you. Then have you kill the patsy and Kirai would arrive just in the nick of time to capture you before you escape."

  "But that's not the pn, is it?"

  "No. My pn to cause chaos in the vilge and escape won't work if it's just you. On that day, I want you to kill Kirai and the uards and take trol of this prison. You'll o recruit a couple more people who'll e with us. There is strength in numbers after all."

  Zefrek grinned and nodded. "I'll quietly poke around and see who's willing to join us."

  Mizuki nodded. "I'll e by after the exams are done and I'll get you some gear so that we blend in."

  "Who exactly do you have in mind to take the fall for stealing the Forbidden scroll?" Zefrek was curious and asked.

  "Naruto Uzumaki."

  "The ails brat? You really think he'll go for it?"

  Mizuki nodded with a dark gleam in his eyes. "Oh he will. I'll make sure of it."

  "Haha… This is going to be fun."

  "March 20th. I'll be ing by in the evening. Make sure you're ready."

  At that moment Zefrek stepped forward and stood face to face with Mizuki. "You're awfully trusting. What if I betray you?" The man asked without cealing his vicious grin.

  'I've e too far to stop now.' Mizuki didn't back down. He gred at Jonin and spoke in a chilling tone. "I won't let a in my way. If you betray me or do anything to ruin my pn, it won't matter how strong you are, you'll pay. I'll make sure of it."

  Both of them stared at each other with narrowed eyes and malicious i. Suddenly Zefrek backed up and smirked. "Looks like I'm making the right choice. I'll see you oh."

  Mizuki nodded and soo Zefrek to his thoughts. He had spent the few months speaking with several people before finally deg on two ihat wouldn't betray him and exge the secret information for reduced sentences.

  Fshbad.

  Zefrek smirked as he looked as he looked around the prison cells. He walked towards a dead guard and took the keys to the cells. He opewo cells taining his partners in crime. Haroshi and Seijo. Both of them, former ins of the Leaf vilge.

  Both of them hated the vilge and wao escape. Zefrek learhat they were even willing to join Orochimaru. Early m that day Zefrek got the scroll from his summon arieved the tents. He gave the blue vials to Haroshi and Seijo with the instrus to drink them after having their breakfast.

  Seijo was an expert in using most ons and Zefrek handed him the poison vial and a few needles. They waited the whole day and soohi acc to their pn.

  "So now what? We wait till he gets here?" Seijo asked Zefrek as he was the leader of the group.

  The Special Jonin nodded. "Yes. He said he'd bring us gear. We need his help." 'For now anyway.'

  Zefrek and the other two opened all the cells and the prisoners came out one by one.

  "We'll be esg soon. Who wants their freedom!?"

  "YEAAHHH!"

  —-

  Around an hour ter, Mizuki came to the prisoered and g the dead bodies on the side. 'Sorry Kirai. But I couldn't let you live. But I'll make sure the demon brat dies today. It's the least I could do for you.'

  "So is it done?" Zefrek came he academy teacher and asked.

  "Yes. That brat took the bait." Mizuki said and tossed a ste scroll to his partner in crime. "As promised. ons and ninja gear to blend in."

  Zefrek opened and saw several sets of ons and a few Jonin fk jackets. Several prisoners came nearby but only a few got to wear the Jonin jackets. The rest were forced to keep their prison uniform.

  O was just the four main culprits, Haroshi spoke. "We got our chakra w and got some gear. So do we leave now?"

  Mizuki shook his head. "Not yet. You all o stay here for a few more hours. Without the Forbidden scroll in my hands this pn won't work."

  Haroshi and Seijo frowned but since Zefrek was keeping quiet, they didn't argue anymore.

  Mizuki told them the pn and instructed them not to leave the prison until the desigime. He gave them the meeting location and soohe prison.

  After Mizuki left Seijo turo Zefrek. "Are we really listening to him? We get out of here right now. We use the rest of these guys as a distra." He spoke in a low tone so as to not be overheard by anyone else.

  Zefrek shook his head. "No. Even if we escape now, it won't matter if we don't have a strong bag." He g the rest of the prisoners standing several meters away. "We he Forbidden Scroll. Its power will greatly help us."

  —-

  Somewhere he Leaf vilge.

  Mizuki stood he entrance of a small cave and looked around. He made sure this was the right location. 'This is it. It's inside here.'

  He lit a small dle fht and began to slowly make his way inside. As he took each step he remembered the first and only time he met Orochimaru.

  Fshback.

  "HihihihihiHAHAHA… How fasating…"

  Mizuki looked around but he didn't know where the sound was ing from.

  "I saw you… You killed your ieammate. That's not something ohat often. Especially amongst the Leaf shinobi…"

  Mizuki's eyes widened as he saw a man emerge from the shadows. He instantly reized him. "You're Orochimaru."

  "Correct."

  "Wh-what do you… want?" Fear was evident on Mizuki's face. His voice cracked as he failed to even speak clearly in the presence of the Snake Sannin. "I-I didn't do anything wrong…"

  "Yes. It's true. You were merely pleting your mission."

  "That's right. It was my only choice."

  "But I doubt the Leaf vilge will see it that way. They will bee suspicious and soon after, they'll start to distrust you. They won't aowledge you." The instant a snake flew from Orochimaru's sleeve and bit Mizuki's hand.

  "Aaaaahhh… Wh- what… did you…" The in was on the ground screaming in pain as a tattoo formed where the s.

  "When you're ready, seek me out. Good luck…hihihi." The Snake Sannin vanished from Mizuki's senses.

  Fshbad.

  'It was just like he said. The vilge didn't trust me. I did what I had to do a I was treated like a criminal. They'll never help me… So this is why, huh… Orochimaru must have wao beore powerful and the Hokage stood in his way… It must have been why Orochimaru left the vilge. But even without the vilge's help he is one of the most powerful and feared ninjas in the world… I'm making the right decision. Leaving the vilge is the best choice.'

  Mizuki soon reached a dead end wall ihe cavern. He carefully looked around and soon saw a small diamond shaped hole in the rock at the bottom of his feet.

  'There it is.' Mizuki took a kunai and ied it into the small stone opening. When the on was buried all the way to the hilt, a sudden click was heard and the ground slightly shook. In seds the wall in front of Mizuki slowly started to disappear beh the floor.

  Mizuki stepped into the new circur room and looked at the stone bricks on the walls. 'The eight one from the right.' Mizuki pulled a sb of rock from the right wall and found a lever. Pulling the lever activated the meism that opehe floor and brought a special sb up to the surface.

  The grey haired man smiled wickedly and took a ste scroll from his pocket. He ope and id out the ingredients and utensils oable. 'The two pces that had these special drugs were the Nara b and the bck market. It e my fortu now that I have these I'll be invincible.'

  Mizuki looked outside and saw the sign of the disappearing sun. 'I better get to work. There isn't much time left.'

  He brought his hands together and made three seals.

  Tatsu - Tori - Inu

  The tattoo on Mizuki's arm glowed and writings appeared. They were names of various ingredients and herbs with measurements marked on it. The in began to mix the drugs acc to what was written on his tattoo and before long he poured four different colored liquids onto each designated slot on the special sb in the middle of the room.

  "All the preparations are dohis is the moment my future is decided." Mizuki spoke to himself and pressed a small button on the sb. The four liquids flowed into different chambers and began mixing with each other and soon Mizuki had a small beaker filled with the final co.

  "With this I'll be unstoppable. HahahaHAHAHAHA…."

  A chemical that could replicate the power of Orochimaru's curse seal was now in Mizuki's hands.

  —-

  he Hokage tower.

  It was night time and Naruto was hidden behind the leaves of a rge tree. His gaze was on one of the most important buildings in the Leaf vilge. The Hokage tower. 'Alright. I just gotta sneak ihe scroll a out. Easy… right?'

  Naruto slightly shook his head. 'e on. You do this. Don't quit now.'

  Seeing the patrol guards get further away Naruto made his move. He kept to the shadows and made no sound as he infiltrated the tower. 'Time to find the scroll. Then I'll pass the special test and I'll be rookie of the year. Believe it.'

  Naruto ehe Hokage tower without any problem but he didn't realize that there were several eyes already on him. Both from withiower and from outside .