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  Danzo Shimura held a cold gaze as he made his the steps of the Hokage tower. His mind was on the events that would take p the few days.

  'I'm doing what's best for the vilge. If we remain passive the other vilges will take a aroy us… Yes. This is for the best.'

  Danzo only went to the Hokage tower after he had firmed that Hiruzen had met with the spy he embedded in Root.

  'Hiruzen will no doubt be fused. But with this information his forces will be stretched thin and I initiate my pn.'

  Danzo soon reached the door to the Hokage offid took a deep breath of air. 'This is it. My point of urn. If this fails… I'll be executed. But if it succeeds I'll be the Hokage. Only a few will remain a problem. Once I deal with Hiruzen I'll have to deal with Jiraiya as well. Hmph. No matter how strong he is, Kotoamatsukami will put him under my trol.'

  Just a momehe door to the office opened and two Aburame and a Hyuga Jonin walked out. Danzo looked at their body nguage and saw that they were tense and he k was not because of him.

  'I wonder what's happened…? No. Now isn't the time to worry about that.'

  Danzo quickly moved forward and stood in front of the old leader. "I have what you asked for Hiruzen."

  The Hokage merely leaned ba his chair and looked at the one eyed man in silence. He remembered the information his spy sent him a short while ago. 'Let's see what yame is Danzo.'

  The old war hawk put the scroll on the desk and activated it. Several papers and maps appeared and Hiruzen quickly began going over it. His eyes widened as he saw the information on it.

  "These are…"

  "Orochimaru's secret transportation els, approximate location of his base of operations. And aimate of the man power he would have under his trol."

  The Hokage quickly went through the information and his eyes narrowed. "Acc to these, Orochimaru has around 7 bases of operations built in the Land of Fire."

  "Yes. He's been busy the st few months. He was very careful about it but he couldn't move such rge shipments of materials and people without me notig it." Danzo replied as he stood stoically.

  Hiruzen raised his head and looked at the ander of Root. "I've been keeping an eye on Orochimaru's movements but I didn't find anything… So how did you e across suformation?"

  "I have my methods, Hiruzen. You have what you asked for."

  The old kage was silent as he looked at the information on his desk. "I'll o iigate and make sure this information is accurate before I take a."

  Danzo only nodded his head.

  "This information… Do yents know about this?" Hiruzen asked while keeping a calm expression.

  "They knew a few details but not much. All this information is kept cssified and under lo my vault. I've sent my men to iigate 3 locations to make sure I'm n and Orochimaru isn't leading us into a trap."

  Hiruzen nodded and soon dismissed the man.

  Danzo was expressionless oside but his heart was beating faster than normal. 'The information I gave you is all true. You'll need a rge force to attack Orochimaru's hideouts. Onake your move, the vilge won't have much force to defend you and then I'll take charge. The sleeper agents I've sent to infiltrate your ranks will soon help me take trol… I'm the one who will lead this vilge into a new era.'

  The Hokage watched the man leave with a calm gaze but as soon as Danzo left the old leader's expression turned cold.

  'I o verify this information before I take a.'

  "Sparrow."

  The Hokage called out and the moment Anbu appeared and stood before him.

  "Take all this information to the intelligence department for analysis. While they gh the data I want you to assemble seven le trag and reaissaeams. There are several loarked on the map. We o seard firm them all. Right now our priority is resg Tsunade and her apprentice."

  The Anbu with the mark of a sparrow on its mask nodded. "I'll take charge of this operation. I'll assemble the teams for this mission."

  Hiruzen nodded. "We o find Orochimaru's hideouts, firm the yout and assess the strength of the enemies before I send in the assault teams."

  "Yes Sir. I'll have the teams ready for departure ihan an hour."

  "Good. I'll leave this to you."

  The Anbu vanished and the old Kage got up from his chair and walked to the window. 'Things are about to get chaotic. It seems the time is near…'

  (10:30 am - Several in and Special Jonin trag teams leave the vilge.)

  —-

  Kakashi's Team.

  Around the time the in teams left the vilge to iigate Orochimaru's hideouts, Kakashi and his team reached the loentioned ie.

  A rge area was pletely devastated with several craters and uprooted trees. Multiple sharp long bones were stig out of several pces. There were obvious signs of Fire ninjutsu used along with multiple earth jutsu.

  Asuma and the others were surprised to see the destru. "Man they really wrecked the pce didn't they."

  "Such destru. What kind of a battle must have taken pce here…" Guy couldn't help but excim as he looked around.

  "We're not alohe Hyuga in the group spoke in a low voice.

  The Sharingan ninja of the group nodded. "Yeah. I know. Something like this is bound to get everyone's attention."

  The team was he Land of Fire and the Land of Waterfall border and they could already see several ninjas from minor vilges iigating the area.

  "I smell blood." Kuromaru, Tsume's ninja dog, spoke with a small growl.

  "Yeah. I do too…" Tsume spoke and the team moved to the ter of the devastated nd. The team soon reached a certain spot and observed the area.

  "The st is strong here. It's definitely Lady Tsunade's st. And… Yes… That bastard Orochimaru's st is also here…" Tsume spoke. There was anger ione and everyone could uand her emotion.

  The team spread out and searched the area for a while looking for any clues.

  "I see several long bone spikes buried in the ground." The Hyuga spoke as he looked around.

  "Bone spikes?" Kakashi and the rest were puzzled.

  The Hyuga took a few steps and k down. He added chakra to his fingers and plunged his hands into the earth. He retrieved a long sharp bohat looked broken.

  "Strahis doesn't seem like a bone in the human body…" Asuma spoke as he ied the item.

  "Hmm…" Kakashi's eyes narrowed as he examihe long sharp on. 'This bo's created with chakra.'

  "In the hidden Mist vilge, there used to be a that used bones as ons. I've never met them but I've heard stories about the ." Kakashi spoke as he recalled some information his teacher had told him.

  "Wait. Now that you mention it…" Tsume had fought in the war and suddenly recalled seeing something simir. "Yes. You're talking about the Kaguya aren't you?"

  Kakashi nodded.

  "They're a bloodthirsty . Always looking for a battle… But I heard that they were all dead and the was extinct due to the Mist civil war." Tsume spoke.

  "Well, apparently I think one or two might have survived."

  "Wait. So Orochimaru has members of the Kaguya with him." Asuma and Guy looked at Kakashi and their faces were grim.

  "I believe so. He's someone who's fasated with rare bloodlines. So it shouldn't e as a surprise." The Sharingan ninja replied with a small sigh.

  "My is have spread through the area and found multiple strong sts going in different dires. But something's strange…" Shibi spoke as he looked around.

  "What's wrong?" Kakashi asked.

  Tsume and Kuromaru also took several whiffs before their faces turned grim. "Yes. I think I know what yetting at… East, West, North and South. The sts move in these four dires. I thirying to fuse us."

  "What do we do, Kakashi? Orochimaru should know we'd be trag him. This most likely is a false trail. If we go these four dires we'll just be wasting time." Asuma spoke as he looked around.

  "But not following up on this is also not an option. We o find something…" Guy spoke.

  "We 't not iigate. Ideally I would say split up and follow the tracks but… I have another idea." Kakashi spoke and immediately went through the seals for the summoning jutsu.

  Poof.

  Pakkun and his team appeared in front of Kakashi. "You know Kakashi, I was just about to rex and have a long nap before you called us." Pakkun spoke in a deadpaohe ninja dogs with him also whined.

  "Sorry Pakkun. But this is an emergency."

  The ninken immediately stood iness as they heard the words. "What's wrong?"

  "Orochimaru has attacked Lady Tsunade. Based oel we have, he might have abducted her audent. There are multiple sts leading away from here in four dires. I need you to split up and iigate them."

  "Uood. We'll get it dohe dogs disappeared and Kakashi stood up.

  "We could have looked into it. Why did you use your summon?" Tsume asked the Jonin.

  "Because if I'm right, then those leads won't take us anywhere. I've been following Orochimaru for a while after he defected. I have a good idea as to how he operates. Those tracks are to mislead us. I'm sure of that. But as I said, I 't not look into it either." The Jonin replied with a sigh.

  "So assuming those tracks are there to fuse us and waste our time, where do we start?" Kogamu Hyuga asked the man. He was a retly promoted Jonin but his trag skills are top notch.

  "Orochimaru must have had Lady Tsunade under surveilo attack her here where no one could interfere."

  "I doubt he would have personally takeime to spy on her. So one of his men must have do." Asuma deduced and Kakashi nodded.

  "We o retrace Lady Tsunade's steps. Find out where she was before she came here. If we track the person atg her, maybe we'll have a better ce of getting more information on Orochimaru."

  The Jonins agreed with the pn. It wasn't long before they found some clues to help them with their search.

  "I got tracks." Tsume spoke. "Lady Tsunade and Shizune were ing from the east."

  "Let's go."

  On Kakashi's orders the team began to quickly follow Tsuracks through the forest.

  "What you tell us?" Kakashi asked the head of the Inuzuka .

  "Based on these footprints, Lady Tsunade and Shizune were definitely moving in a hurry. It's almost as if… as if they were trying to get away…" Tsume was an excellent tracker ninja. She could tell what the iions of a person are correctly most of the time just by analysing their footprints and gait.

  The Jonins were surprised to hear that. 'What could scare one of the Sanin? Did she find out about Orochimaru before she was ambushed?'

  The team hurried and quickly moved through the forest. With each mihey were getting closer and closer to the vilge Tsunade had spent the day before.

  —-

  Anko, Daichi and Genma.

  The trio was standing several meters in front of an old wooden hut. They reached the loizuki gave at around 2pm.

  Daichi used Chakra and Mana sense and didn't find anything living in or nearby the area.

  "I hope we find something from there." Genma spoke with a serious gaze.

  Anko summoned a small snake and had it go he wooden house. "It's better to be safe."

  "Right. Check for any boobytraps."

  The snake slithered through the cracks and was soon ihe house.

  Daichi looked around the area and his gaze finally settled ba the small wooden building.

  'Observe.'

  [Secret ]

  [This building was created by Orochimaru several years ago as a means to unicate with his spies in the Fire Capital. It was deliberately created to look like a dipidated building to avoid suspi. Orochimaru has decided to abandon this and modified it a week ago and made it into a trap in case anyone es here.]

  'A trap huh. Damn it. So he was expeg Mizuki to fail huh. But this was modified weeks ago. Was it just a precaution ardless of the case, I'll o be carefull.'

  The team waited for a while before they saw the small creature returning to Anko and hissing.

  "There doesn't seem to be any traps inside." Anko spoke and Daichi couldn't help but frown.

  "Are you sure Anko sensei? Sihis location is lio Orochimaru shouldn't there be defences in pce?" Daichi asked. He couldn't tell them what his observe told him but he wahem to be cautious.

  "Yeah. Orochimaru is not someone who's careless. But this pce looks like it's going to fall apart anytime soon. I don't think he's going to waste his time on this pce."

  Daichi frow Anko's reply.

  "I have a simple solution." Genma spoke and told them his pn.

  Daichi had a smile. 'Just what I was thinking.'

  A few seds ter the ninjas were slowly making their way to the front door. They slowly ope and looked ihe had several chairs and a table. And on top of the table they saw a scroll.

  The three ninjas looked at each other and hey slowly walked inside as they looked around.

  'There doesn't seem to be any traps here. Maybe he really did give up on this pce.' Genma thought as he looked around.

  The three soon came he scroll and observed it.

  "It looks like a ste scroll." Anko spoke.

  "There doesn't seem to be anything around it." Genma spoke as he examihe small scroll.

  Daichi used observe skill and immediately found that it was a scroll that taihe body of Ko Yamanaka.

  "We should open it." Daichi spoke and the two Special Jonins nodded.

  They opehe scroll and out came the body of the dead missing Yamanaka ninja.

  "Wait. This is…" The eyes of the ninjas widened as they reized the person.

  But at that instant Daichi and the two Jonins danger senses went off. A seal instantly spread from the corpse and trapped the three Leaf ninjas.

  "Damn it. 't move my legs."

  Suddenly they heard a loud hissing sound. And the three immediately reized what it was.

  'Shit. Paper bombs.'

  "BOOM!"

  The instant the whole and everything nearby went up in fmes in a giant explosion.