A week after my bounty osted Konoha got some visitors that it really didn't want. I was not in the vilge at the time since I was trying to y low while Danzo was trying to find me. Acc to what I heard though Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki simply walked into the vilge wearing long bck cloaks with red clouds on them and wide low rimmed bamboo hats. That was how bad security was after the old mahat two S rank missing nin could just freely waltz into the vilge.-

  It was no lie to say we were so weak that sudividuals felt no fear or hesitation to just walk right in. While on paper the loss of the old man didn't really drop our power as while we lost an S rank shinobi we got another in the form of myself. The ugly truth however was that our threat level had dramatically dropped with his passing. I was a threat sure but the old man was a much much greater one for the simple amount of versatility he had. Absolute mastery of every chakra nature transformation, a vast repertoire of jutsu, knowledge of seals and decades of battle experience.-

  To name a few of the old mas that I simply couldn't even begin to match, at least for the moment. Reag S rank at my age was sidered a sign of extraordinary talent sure but I had to fulfill that talent first. Anyways the the missing nin didn't cause any trouble at first but when Asuma and Kurenai discovered them and frohem things went poorly. Itachi used a genjutsu on Kakashi after the silver haired guy mistakenly thought he could ha with his own sharingan that let him torture him for over seventy two hours which was insane by the way. -

  The reason I say that is that genjutsu doesn't mess with you temporal senses due to the way they are made. In order to create a genjutsu you have to mentally envision the effect but how do you extend mere seds into days of time? If you actually experiehat sensatio would make se there was no logical way to do so as far as I khat was when I heard that his sharingan was not the regur three tomoe sort but inwheel instead. The moment I learhat fact I was heavily tempted to track the man down just to force him to utilize the mangekyou to create a susanoo.-

  Anyways Kurenai got caught in her owsu because Itachi reversed it on her. Kisame oherhand had to deal with Guy who showed up and got his ass kicked by the man. The disturbing part was that these two were apparently after Naruto for some reason and I could only hope Jiraiya could hahem. Sasuke ended up learning that Itachi had shown up in the vilge and bullheadedly chased after his brother for vengeaneedless to say that reunion did not go well at all for him.-

  He even got hit with the same genjutsu Kakashi did which was annoying for me since I was the only one able to treat the brain damage it caused. Yes the genjutsu caused so much sufferially that the brain very literally took damage. It was the equivalent of experieng a massive amount of torture in a mere few seds and so naturally the brain just short of fries itself when it was experienced. Fixing the physical trauma was VERY tricky but doable for me but the mental trauma was airely different matter. I left that to the experts on such matters, the Yamanaka . -

  As you might expect from a ind trollers and readers the Yamanaka was sort of the vilges top experts on the field of therapy aal recovery. You could probably go so far as to say they were the best in the world in fact. Thanks to this Kakashi and Sasuke were back to funing normally after a week of therapy. As for Naruto and Jiraiya they were totally fine as Jiraiya was easily able to hah Itachi and Kisame. -

  During this time period I only ever ehe vilge with a mitosis e which after the first three tries to follow it bay homes new location failed Danzo stopped sending people to tail. Unlike before where the vilge could fi any time they wanted I specifically left Mizuhe in the vilge as my messager but cut off all other forms of unication. There was a bit of an argument about how a leaf shinobi should always be avaible to be tacted in case of an emergency which was the only reason i had dohis.-

  Mizuhe could temporarily bath an area in mist that after it used it's ability in was impossible to track it bay location. Not that Danzo didn't try regardless but simply that he failed. I had to give it to the man he was certainly persistent in his attempts but I made sure all his efforts were little better than smashing his head against a wall over and ain. Karin was exceptionally chipper that I was effectively under house arrest just the same as she was which was fusing to say the least. I wasly absent before so nothing really ged beyond I was in the house more often.-

  I wasn't just sitting on my thumbs this whole time either but grinding my shadow es to perfect my chakra armor. It was slress as even by the time a month had passed I oehe armor to the ter of my torsht below my ne both my front and back. By my estimation I'd least another year if not more to have the armor cover my whole body. Mind you that was with shadow es and pretty muo other projects to work on.-

  That alone should tell you just how difficult what I was trying to do was given how fast I picked up something as plicated as chakra nature transformation without shadow es. Despite this challenge I won't say that it didn't seem like it was worth it as even just the full sleeve I currently was w with increased my defensive and damaging potential by a gargantuan amount. I hadn't tested but I retty sure I could tank any attack below A rank so long as it hit the chakra armor. The only reason I didn't say below S rank was that I simply wasn't familiar enough with that rank of jutsu to say for sure.-

  As far as offense went my chakra armor was able to transform into any shape that didn't require extra size and that meant bdes, cws, wings, fins, pincers, stingers and even mouths were possible. Add on my taijutsu and that made any attaine regardless of orientation potentially lethal.