Konoha has been finally restored to its former glory, looking beautiful as ever. It was if it had never been invaded at all. However, it would seem to be that a new Hokage would have to be elected.

Tsunade has yet to awaken from her coma, and a village cannot be led without its leader. And it would seem a new one has already been chosen. One of the elders' were elected as the Rokudaime Hokage, Danzo Shimura. His first act? Revoke Sasuke's immunity to crimes, allowing him to be placed in the Bingo Book,

Coincidentally, three shinobi from Kumo arrived. They were demanding information about Sasuke, who, apparently, had kill their sensei. And that said sensei is also the current Raikage's brother.. The three were Karui, Samui and Omoi. In one of the training grounds, they were speaking with the Konoha 11 + Sai and everyone else, right now.

"Alright, what do you people know about Sasuke?" angrily asked Karui

Sakura raise an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

Karui gritted her teeth and exploded. "That b*stard killed our sensei, the Raikage's brother! And now, we need any information we can get to list him in our Bingo Books."

Everyone looked shocked at this newfound revelation. They want to speak any information about the Uchiha, but there's one factor that blocks them from it. All eyes fell upon Naruto, who was looking at Karui calmly. He spoke, and what he said shocked everyone.

"What do you need to know about the teme?"

Karui began listing off things that they need to know about Sasuke. Naruto nodded and obliged them, answering everything to the best of their abilities. The team from Kumo nodded in appreciation and left. Sakura turned angrily at Naruto and asked.

"What the heck was that Naruto? Why did you just willingly give up information about Sasuke-kun? I thought you don't want him to get killed?!"

Everyone nodded in agreement, while Shikamaru looked at Naruto with a calculating gaze. Naruto looked at Sakura and replied.

"You could say...my vision became clearer."

Everyone grew shocked as Naruto's eyes flashed purple, showing the Rinnegan. Shikamaru quickly formed the Rat hand seal, ensnaring Naruto with his shadow. "Kagemane no Jutsu, success."

Neji activated his Byakugan and perfomed the Jyuuken stance. "Jyuukenhou: Hakke Rokujuuyonshou!"

Hakken Nishou!

Yunshou!

Hanshou!

Jyuurokushou!

Sansi Nishou!

Rokujuu Yunshou!

And all 64 tenketsu points have been closed off. Shino quickly gathered his bugs, Choji enlarging his fist and Sai drawing up snakes. Shikamaru walked up to the fallen blond. "So, who are you and what have you done with Naruto?"


Scarlet rolled his eyes, along wtih Crimson's. The bruentte crossed his arms and looked at his friends. "It's Naruto.

Everyone turned to face the Genjutsu Master. Kiba growled and barked. "How would you know?"

"I was with him when he confronted the master behind Pain. His eyes were switched with Pain's as a peace offering, along with reviving those who died." explained Crimson. "So, can you please let him go?"

Everyone processed the information and looked at the restricted blond, who felt unseasy with all eyes on him. Shikamaru sighed and receded his shadow back. Hinata helped him stand up and reopened his tenketsu points.


Neji then bowed. "Forgive me, Naruto. We had thought that you were an imposter."

Naruto just chuckled and waved it off. :It's nothing Neji. We're shinobi, we're practically entitled to be paranoid."

As this happened, Scarlet sighed. Naruto and Crimson noticed him tense up, making them frown. The brunette closed his eyes. "Well, might as well completely rip off the bandage."

Shino raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean Scarlet-san?"

Crimson and Narutof frowned, the both of them had a feeling where this was going. Scarlet deeply inhaled and shot open his eyes. "Mangekyo Sharingan!" And his eyes shifted into his Mangekyo, eliciting a gasp from everyone.

Everyone, besides Crimson and Naruto, looked at Scarlet in shock. Sai managed to break out of it and shakily said. "Y-you're an Uchiha." Getting a nod from him, he continued. "Why did you hide it then? And since when have you had it?"

Scarlet deactivated the Mangekyo and explained. "I didn't want to be treated differently. And I got this Mangekyo, during the training with Jiraiya-sama."

Azure had a frown on her face. "Who knew of you having a Sharingan, before now?"

"Jiraiya-sama, Tsunade-sama, Kakashi-sensei and Itachi."

The last one caused eveyrone's eyes to widen slightly. Naruto spoke. "Itachi? How does he know?"

Scarlet combed his fingers through his hair. "He was the one who taught me how to efficiently use my eyes. He did it by placing me in Tsukuyomi. Withhin the realm, we trained to the fullest. And I got this, when I had to kill my old guardian."

Scarlet and Jiraiya were positioned over some trees, overlooking an old mansion. The Toad Sage looked at the brunette. "This the place?"

Scarlet nodded, a wistful smile creeping his lips. "Yeah. I can't believe it hasn't broken down."

The two dropped down and started looking around the place. Scarlet noticed an old picture frame, he picked it up and saw the picture in it. It was him and his old guardian. Scarlet teared up a bit, with Jiraiya placing a comforting hand around the boy.

"Thanks Jiraiya-sama."

Before they could continue foward, a stream of fire came from above.

"Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!"

Jiraiya grabbed Scarlet by the shoulder and dragged him down, avoiding the flames from above. Both of the Konoha shinobi looked from above and saw a hooded man drop down.

"You are trespassing amongst private grounds. The punishment for said action, is death."

The man formed the Ram seal, and caused Jiraiya to gasp as his eyes became lidded. Scarlet recognized it as Genjutsu. The hooded man tackled Scarlet to the ground and brandished a kunai.

"It seems your the weakest of the two overall, but the strongest in Genjutsu. I'll deal with you now."

Scarlet dispersed in a cloud of feathers, making the man surprised. Scarlet appeared behind the man and kicked him on the back. "Who are you?"

The man recovered and threw the kunai to Scarlet. He deflected it with a sword he picked up. The hooded man charged, with Scarlet doing the same. The man drew another kunai and tried to slash Scarlet, but he jumped above the man and tried to hit him on the back. The man quickly blocked the sword and pushed Scarlet back.

"You look as if you have experience with a blade, but it will not be enough."

The man swung the kunai around three times before he launched himself into the air and kicked Scarlet on the chest, sending his back leaning against the ledge. The man jumped back up and stabbed down, with the intent of plunging the kunai to Scarlet's head, but he managed to block it with his sword.

"Hmph, whoever you are, you can pass of as a member of an Uchiha, if your hair was not brown."

Scarlet gritted his teeth and pushed the man back. He drew multiple kunais and threw it towards the man. The man grunted and deflected all of them into the air, every kunai embedding onto the ground. But then he heard the hissing sound.

"Explosive tags?!"

"Kai!"

The kunais blew up and sent the man flying. He groaned and stood up, his cloak slightly tattered. Scarlet dropped down and formed the Ram seal around the man and feathers popped around him. Scarlet smirked and ran to Jiraiya, he found the Sannin with still lidded eyes. He slammed his palm on the old man's chest and formed the half-Ram seal.

"Kai!"

Jiraiya's eyes returned to normal, blinking. "W-what happened?"

Before Scarlet could explain, the man appeared back into the air and barrage him and Jiraiya with multiple fire b*lls.

"Katon: Hosenka no Jutsu!"

Scarlet rolled over and threw more kunai, making the man lose altitude and fall. He summoned out a shadow clone and they weaved through a set of hand signs.

"Katon: Goryuuka no Jutsu!"

Scarlet blew from the tip of his fingers and two fire dragon heads appeared, shooting towards the man. The man was about to move out of the way, but found himself entangled by...spiky hair?

He turned his head and saw Jiraiya with longer hair, which was wrapped around his legs. Jiraiya smirked, as the two katon jutsu crashed against the man. Scarlet wasn't finished. He sighed and circled through a set of hand seals. Scarlet's hand crackled, his eyes shifting into the Sharingan. "Chidori!" He charged forward and plunged his hand into the man's chest, eliciting a gasp of pain from him.

The man gaped, as Scarlet withdrew his hand, now bloodied. He looked at the body, looking like it was about to fall, but couldn't because of Jiraiya. The Sannin withdrew his hair, letting the body fall. Scarlet kicked the body so it was facing up, he took of the hood, and gasped. It was the same mask that his guardian wore.

"I-impossible. T-there's now way!"

The man coughed, still alive even though he had just had his heart be pierced. The man looked at Scarlet and weakly chuckled. "Scarlet-kun...you returned."

The cough caused blood to splutter out from the man's visible mouth. Scarlet started crying, tears falling on the man's cloak. "N-no, no!!"

The man chuckled again and turned to the left, causing Scarlet's eyes to widen. He grabbed him by his cloak and started shaking him. It elicited no type of response. Scarlet looked at the corpse and howled in agony.

"AARRRGGHH!"

Tears fell down from Scarlet's eyes as his Sharingan started to mutate. The tomoes converged and turned into the Mangekyo. The stress of receiving the Mangekyo and killing his guardian had caused Scarlet to black out, leaving Jiraiya to carry him back. The Perverted Sage looked at Scarlet sympathetically and returned to their camp.

Scarlet finished tearfully, with Azure hugging him. Everyone looked at Scarlet with sympathy. He dreamt of reuniting with his old guardian, but to instead kill him? It must've been trully heart-breaking.

Everyone decided to return home, leaving Scarlet and Azure all alone. The medic-nin soothingly rubbed Scarlet's back, while he wept. Azure comfortingly whispered into his ear, allowing him to sleep.

No. I'm still not back from my hiatus.