In a dark and gloomy place, an old man clothes in rags was seated on a massive chair made of earth.
The old decrepit old man even asleep exuded a dark and dangerous aura.
"MASTER MADARA!! I found them!"
From the ground, a white humanoid creature emerged screaming with an obnoxious voice.
"Are you asleep Madara-sama?" he questions again before receiving a response
"Talk Zetsu I'm listening!" said Madara lifting his head and opening his eyes to reveal his strange eyes.
"Hum! Yes, it's about the Uzumaki, we found them, a part of the Uzumaki was detected by a few of your tools of Kiri, you know ones of the groups that you manipulated into-"
"Where!?" said Madara cutting off the useless blabbering of the white Zetsu
"Huh, it's a little called Kura town, near the Kawa pass,"
"Kura town! the Kawa pass, huh so they decided to leave the land of fire," he analyzed slowly
"Were you able to plant your spore on them," he asked
"Yes, I was cautious due to the sensitivity of those people but I finally succeded in planning them, on a few of them," the white Zetsu said with satisfaction and he could see a little smile appear on the lips of Madara
"Good, very good,"
At that moment black Zetsu made his presence know
"I still wonder how they were able to escape the attack of the four great villages," it said in its rugged-voiced
"They were probably expecting an attack!"
"What I didn't expect is that they would choose to abandon a part of their population to survive, from what Madara sama said they were supposed to be extremely loyal to one another," the White Zetsu continued
A touch of annoyance appeared on the face of Madara before he talked
"This is the reason why they were able to do what they did," he explained
"By the way Master..." Black Zetsu started "...I found a few surviving of the invasion of Uzushio,"
A smile crept on the decrepit face of Madara while the white Zetsu exclaimed in surprised
"I thought that they had chosen to sacrifice their lives," he questioned
"Not everyone can just accept death with open arms," said Madara leaning back on his chair
"Sometimes one can think that we are ready but when the time comes you find yourself fighting for your survival,"
"Monitor them, and make sure that they survived!" he ordered
"What about the others, should we divulge their location to the world so they can be-"
"No need..." he cut the Zetsu taking a breath before speaking again
"By the time anyone arrived they would have left a long time ago, they intend to leave the fire country, by sea, and establish themselves somewhere safe," he explains
"But..." the white Zetsu hesitated a little before talking "...I won't be able to detect them if they are too far away, and the spore may soon become useless, or be detected!" he explained
"The situation changed!" said Madara calmly
"There are pure-blood Uzuzmaki in the nation of fire unprotected, they are now our priority," turning to black Zetsu he said "I will find a receptacle among them for my eyes, and you," he said turning to white Zetsu
"Your new mission is to locate their next settlement Understood," he said in a cold voice
"Y-Yes," murmured the white Zetsu before disappearing into the ground
****
Days later
A fleet of about fifty ships transporting about one hundred people primarily children, were peacefully drifting toward its destination.
The ships carefully arranged in formation chevron or v were peacefully drifting toward their destination
Well, not that peacefully, in the center of the formation among the ships you could see a bunch of red-haired children running on the water under the supervision of adults seated comfortably on their seats slowly slurping their drinks and enjoying a few laughs.
"This-this isn't training, this is torture," Akashi grumbled between breath
"You're gonna get used to it," Arima running beside him said
"What do you mean I will get used to it, you talk like before two days ago it is a custom to run a few kilometers on the sea, the vast, endless, agitated sea," he retorted anger on his face
"No, of course not, this one is new, but there are others exercise, like one particular day Kiria-sensei," turning around he asked Karin who was beside him
"Was that kiria-sensei?" After a few seconds the poor girl who was so exhausted that she could barely breathe correctly nodded to him he turned back to Akashi to continue his story
"One day Kiria-sensei decided that all day long instead of walking we would be moving around doing squat, and guess what all the teachers and parents found it well though," he sighed lightly with a smile on his face as he remembered the past fondly
Akashi looked at his cousin stupefied with his mouth so wide open that a fish could easily jump in
"Stop smiling like an idiot, there is nothing to remember fondly about that," said one of the Uzumaki running not far away between deep breath
"That's true why are you smiling about that you weirdo,"
"It was hell,"
"Masochiste he,"
"Honestly I'm starting to think that they enjoy putting us through hell, maybe they...It's like they decided to inflict on us the same pain that they were subjected to in their youth, that is awful," said Akashi after a few seconds of hesitation
"Ploof," turning his head Akashi saw one of his comrades sinking into the sea like many others before him before being swiftly fished out by one of the instructors.
"We should rebel!"
****
On one of the boats Ashina and Kana were comfortably seated side by side enjoying the nice breeze while drinking their cocktail on the boat at the center of the formation.
They were looking at the children falling into the water while casually talking about subjects that would make most people lose their mind
"So those men, they were sent by Madara Uchiha, huh,"
"Yes! With the technique of the Yamanaka in the secret scroll we were able to see their mind, there was a mangekyo sharingan there, why don't you have a look, I'm sure that even after so many days they will be able to-" Ashina cut Kana off while she was talking
"I already told you that I'm not interested in the Mangekyo,"
"So why do you continue to ask," she retorted, that wasn't the first time he asked the same question
"I have bad memories of the mangekyo, or rather father had bad memories of that, it killed a few of his close ones, and he kind of passed his fear onto me, Madara wasn't the first Uchiha to open those eyes in the warring state," he responded calmly
Kana looked at his brother with a little surprise
"He never talked to me about the specific, of course, you don't need to be a genius to know why he didn't like them," she said
"Huh," Ashina nodded
"I'm still surprised by what the kid told us,"
he chuckled a little remembering once again the information that their grand-father had extirped from Akashi before they departed of Uzushio
The old man was able to extract from him more than her own mother
They now had a lot of information on the future and were using it to guide them, they even knew things about the elusive Madara and his henchmen the Zetsu hiding underground
Of course, he didn't reveal everything and managed to keep to himself such as the Rinnegan and the way to awaken it.
"So what will you do?!" Kana asked looking at him a little more seriously
"About what?!" he retorted
"About what, about your daughter, of course, she is supposed to die in the attack of Madara on Konoha,"
Ashina keeps quiet for a few long seconds before opening his mouth again this is so far away. We have enough time to establish ourselves in the sky country, reconnect, and get her back so much possibility. Plus with the changes that we are gonna bring, so many things may change," he explained to his sister
At that moment a whistle was heard marking the end of the training for the children, they were finally gonna be able to rest a little before another hellish training.
"Let's talk about something else then," said Kana changing the subject
"So what are we doing for the sky country, maybe we kill everyone!" she said casually
"I'm not comfortable with starting our new life after escaping a massacre, by performing a massacre ourselves, plus how do we take control if we kill everyone," he replied
"Yes that's true, well we will just let the ninja of Konoha do the killing and save who we need!" she responded looking at the children of the clan climbing on the boats and their children walking toward them
"We will arrive soon, let's prepare for any eventuality,"