29 Chapter 29

Raijin of the ten thousand Rinnegan.

In his quest he trapped trillions of people in genjutsu forever to keep them alive forever and killed trillions more. The gods of life and death, Kami and Yami were abetted by his actions and came down to destroy him themselves. They quashed him and sealed him away but he swore to come back and destroy those two.

Eventually over the years, he became a myth, even among the Ootsutsuki. The Oostustuki became complacent and overconfident of themselves. The strongest after Raijin could barely control a planet let alone galaxy super clusters. Raijin-the charismatic leader was forgotten, his memories went into thethe shadows. His life became myths only priests cared about. He was worshipped only to be forgotten the next second. No one alive during Izuna's time knew that he was still alive. Now Izuna too knew this. He needed to find out more about Raijin, he needed to get rid of all Ootsutsuki who may or may not have this knowledge... Even gods couldn't kill him, What would the weak human race do?

He came out of his trance and summoned the third Hokage. He also summoned Naruto and Mito. He needed to give them a long term mission. He summoned Kakashi as well. If things went downhill and the third somehow died, Kakashi wss his successor, the sixth Hokage.

Kakashi and the third were in his office within seconds. The both of them were sleepy and had bags in their eyes. Kakashi was wearing his normal jonin attire and the third was wearing his normal hokage robes without an armor under it. Who needed armor when they were in a peaceful retired life with a monster of a genius for hokage?

Izuna looked at them solemnly and said, "I am leaving the village in your hands."

Sarutobi was shocked and asked, "What's wrong? Why are you retiring so early? Are you even thinking of retiring?" Kakashi had an amused and shocked eye. Nothing else was visible.

Izuna just chuckled and said, "I am leaving on a quest. I have recently found out that a threat looms in the dark reaches of space time in the unknown universe. I need to be sure that humans are going to be safe forever. I am willing to give up anything for the safety of my kids. That includes my own life. This threat must be eliminated for the same of all humanity. For that, I must leave the planet to go on a journey of not only threat elimination but also self discovery. By the time I return, I will either be hundred years old or you will all be hundred years old. Best case scenario, I will be back to earth by four to five years. Worst case scenario I won't be on Earth for at least ten years. That is why I have called you here. I want Lord Third to come out of retirement and take office until you feel fit, one you feel like you have to out of all fuel, Kakashi will take over. Kakashi is my successor. I hope for our own good, the best case scenario plays out. Naruto and Mito are coming in now. I am sending them on a long term mission completion of which will propel them to be capable to take on the hat. I am instating the two of them as jonin. Keeping them as genin is a water of their talents. Their mission involves espionage and diplomacy. They need to broker an alliance with each ninja village and get all their jutsu by hook or crook. This will test many of their skills. Part of their mission also involves bringing an end to the civil was in Kiri and there unrest in Ame and do a number on the terrorist organization Akatsuki. If they succeed in these missions of theirs, then you can give the hat. They are to revive no help or reinforcements from Konoha for their missions. Here they come. Be quiet about this."

Just as Izuna finished his words, Naruto and Mito walked inside the office. They were both wearing a black top with the Uchiha crest embroidered to the back, Naruto's crest with a silver lining to the red and red lining the silver. Mito's crest had blue lining both of the parts. Izuna threw two jonin jackets at Naruto and Mito. He then threw two scrolls at Naruto. Izuna said, "Congrats, the two of you are hereby jonin of konoha. Do your village proud. Those two scrolls are for your mission. One of them contain the details, the other contains the money you get for the duration of the mission. This is a long term mission to the two of you sanctioned by konoha which will take the two of you years to complete and you will be traveling throughout the continent for the mission. The mission is SS ranked and will pay you enough to live the next ten years peacefully. If you get caught by another village while you are at this job, then Konoha will not be responsible for you because we cut all our ties with you when you are caught. The mission entails stealing every jutsu from every village. If you get caught at this, you were not doing this for konoha but for your own gain. The shinobi world is cruel this way. You are citizens of Konoha as long as you are not caught. The mission also entails many dangerous aspects, which can lead to death. So choose if you want to go on this mission after giving it a lot of thought. If you don't want to, you can continue to work as a normal jonin. You a month to decide. Take your time with this. I won't be in the village for a long time, by the way, nor on the planet, so you shall rendezvous with the third. You must be very careful during this mission. Failure will not be accepted. Fare thee well, meet you later take care of your brothers."

Saying so he vanished in a shushin. Naruto asked, "What's the mission?"

Kakashi chuckled and said, "Look it up. You are the one who has the scroll. Report to Hokage-sama once you decide. You have a month so take your time. Off you go now. Your friends have to attend a test in about three hours. Don't want to keep them waiting any longer."

Naruto chuckled and left along with Mito. He was excited to know his mission..His first mission as a shinobi and as a Jonin. He was grinning internally at the thought of completing the task with perfection.

As Naruto and Mito left, the Third Hokage said, "Kakashi, call a meeting of all the clan heads. We are in a grave situation. Our greatest hokage is no longer on the planet. Izuna was our face and head. Without him, the other villages may feel that they are strong enough to best us in a war. While Naruto is stronger than all the kage put together, perhaps even stronger everyone else put together now. But he is inexperienced and if the time came, then our enemies can take advantage of his inexperience and beat him. Izuna did his best to keep the peace between the nations. It only stuck because of the fear people have. There are more people who fear Izuna than there are that respect him. The gear and respect people have for Izuna was the only thing keeping them from attacking. The absence of Izuna in the village is an invitation to the other shinobi villages to attack us. We need to put up a strong front. Kumo and Iwa that is for destroying them in the last war. Suna blame us for the fact that their daimyo send us more missions than them and reduces their revenue and funding. Thus, even our allies hate us. Kiri is not in the competition any more. Everyone else would happily give their all to see us burn. We can't show that we are weak. As it is now, we cannot face an all out was against all the villages outnumbered five to one. We will be razed to the ground. We can't all be Izuna. We can't raze villages to the ground in a second. We can't mow down entire armies as though they are grass. Call everyone here now. We are going to up the standards of all our shinobi. Mobilize everyone who ever passed the genin exams and can work on a kunai or throw a shuriken. Everyone retired who is not mutilated or not paralysed or not too old to move without dying comes out of retirement. If you were a shinobi before and you can do your job, then you are coming out of retirement. Send this message to everyone. I want everyone to be fit and ready for all out war by the end of the month. Until Izuna is back, we shall work under the assumption that all out was is going to break out the next second. This is a direct order from the Hokage in office!" Though Kakashi and the hokage's safety ANBU detail were the only only people listening to him, they would get the work done. No matter what came. He was lucky to have such a great village after all.

Meanwhile, in a high cliff in Amegakure,

A large plant like humanoid being who was half pitch black and half white emerged from the ground. Said being was zetsu. He was reporting to Nagato or more precisely his deva path, he widely known as Pain in the continent and as God in his home village of Amegakure. There was one person on each of his sides. On his right was Konan, his angel, on his left was Fake Madara. They didn't matter to zetsu. They were all pawns in the game he had been playing for millennia. The game was finally coming to an end. His mother would be unsealed and reincarnated if not for that Rinnegan wielding monster of a shinobi. But now, Izuna was gone and it would be merely a few years more until his mother was back. He had waited for millennia. He could wait and play find for a few more years. He told Nagato, "Izuna is no longer in the planet. We can start our mission." There was a smile on each of the faces of the for people present. Zetsu had a smile for the aforementioned reason. Fake Madara because he would be able to wreck havoc and gain revenge against konoha and also science Madara's goal for peace.

Nagato and Konan were smiling because the world would finally know the pain they had suffered and peace would prevail. Nagato turned around and walked down until he reached a group of seven people, each wearing a black cloak with red clouds on it. Each and everyone of them an S ranked shinobi capable of subduing a jinchuriki. The members being Danzo Shimura, Itachi Uchiha, Kisame Hoshigaki, amongst others. Pain announced, "Members of the Akatsuki, the time has come for us to start our mission. The devil they call Izuna Uchiha, the only hindrance to our mighty quest is no longer on the planet. The world will soon know pain. Start collecting the bijuu. We have brought kiri to it's knees. We now support Yagura and then when kiri is no longer a threat and knows pain, we shall kill Yagura and extract the Sanbi from him. That time is closing upon us. We will have our first bijuu by the end of the next quarter year. No one will be able to resist the power of GOD!"

AN: THE SAGA THUS BEGINS. THE AKATSUKI ARE IN THEIR QUEST. IZUNA IS ON HIS QUEST. The next volume will involve the beginning of Naruto's mission, Kakashi's test, and Naruto and Mito's first date. Read and review.