I had of course iigated the guy myself after he kept sending people to spy on me. What I found was that Danzo Shimura aranoid individual that seemed to have an issue with secrecy. I had covered myself in nature energy to avoid dete while I trailed him but was forced to run around in circles for like an hour as he went through every method to ditch a tail that he could before finally entering one of his secret bases that were positively COVERED in seals. Thanks to my sensei I had gotten quite familiar with identifying the presence of seals after all.-

  Even more extreme was that Danzo was nearly always in one of his bases and thus out of my realess I decided to toss all caution and carefulo the wind and ght for him. The rare instahat the man was not in his bases or surrounded by guards esc him i he was stantly vigint of his surrounds like he expected to get attacked in the middle of the vilge. This made ambushing him with the i of cleaving his head off and leaving pretty much impossible as he never got into a position that would allow me or anyone for that matter to kill him without getting caught.-

  It was a bit frustrating to be ho but there was literally nothing I could do about it. That said his subordinates weren't off the table of people I could make disappear silently. It would be ughably easy as they weren't nearly so cautious as their leader and it would take little effort for me to make them vanish without a trace. I of course wasn't so foolish as to do so however as all that would aplish was to raise the mans vigince even higher. -

  Instead I bide my time while probing the defenses of his base to find a way in without tripping the seals. I thought about just flooding the whole base with a toxic mist but that would no doubt get traced bae when the poison was pared to existing samples and found to be nearly identical to Rens poison. While I could easily py it off since I sold Rens poison in the vilge for quite some time in the past and it was not much of a stretch that a fn shinobi could access it. The doubt that I was involved would always exist however which was not good.-

  Still I had found out that the seals had a fatal fw in that they detected chakra in a living being sort of like a Byakugan and that meant that I just so happeo have a beast with the perfect ability to infiltrate one of these bases, my lizard. Unfortuhere were other seals that detected sound, air movement and st that were not possible to avoid with my lizards ability. Thankfully I had methods to fix some of these issues.-

  For the st I could just remove it with powders while for the air movements I just o stick close to a group of three or more shinobi entering the base. Sound was going to be trickier but if I was in a group I should be able to disguise my own sounds with the groups. All of this of course predicated on the assumption that I figured out how to perfectly mimic my lizards ability. Until then I merely sent a shadow e everyday to keep an eye on the man.-

  Moving on from my plot to assassinate Danzo the in exams started to draw near enough that the partits from the other vilges began to show up. While all the vilges got an invitation to participate only Suna(sand), Taki(waterfall), Kusa(grass), Oto(sound) and Ame(rain) accepted a genin to participate. The partits o be in three man squads to participate and the final t for each of the vilges Konoha: twenty eams, Suna: ten teams, Taki: two teams, Kusa: two teams, Ame: seven teams, Oto: oeam. This meant there was a total of one hundred and fifty three partits or fifty oeams if you prefer.-

  There was of course jonin apanying these teams of genin and under watake sure no one does anything unfortunate like the Hyuga i years back. That event was right after the third great war and Kumo(the cloud) had sent ambassadors only for one of them to try and kidnap Hinata who was a toddler at the time. The leader of the Hyuga killed the ambassador and triggered Kumo into demanding the leaders corpse as repayment unless we wao go back to war.-

  Shamefully we ended up sacrifig the leaders twin brother to appease Kumo as the vilge simply couldn't ha another war so soon after the st. Thanks to that i Konoha always kept a distrustful eye on any visiting people from other vilges. Otherwise however we were a fairly hospitable people as we greeted uests in a friendly manner even if it wasn't returned. Like we didn't bend over backwards to whatever whims they had but we still aodated them just fihat said not all of the teams sent to our fine vilge were friendly and some were dht hostile.-

  For example the team prised of the fourth Kazekages children was very abrasive when they first came to the vilge even going so far as to insult us as weak while trying to beat up Konohamaru who was a mere child defending the vilges honor. That was a bit too much for Naruto and myself as we moved to front them about it after witnessing this escation. Naruto blocked the attack at the kid while I nded behind the team and pressured them with the full fory chakra. All three of them were forced to their knees as the ground rumbled and the winds began to howl.-

  "Sunagakure must be failing to properly educate their genin if you don't even know how to behave in a fn vilge." I said calmly while looking down at them.

  "That's enough Kenzo, they are uests for the moment even if they were out of line." Kakashi said when he showed up to mediate.-

  "As you say." I aowledged and withdrew my chakra in an insta the area like nothing had happened.

  The blonde girl and boy with face paint looked at me warily as they stood up but the red headed boy with the tattooed word meaning "love" on his forehead ahen gourd on his back gred at me with murderous ihat was very thick. I merely raised an eyebrow at him however since he was much too weak to think he could take me. Sure he had a rge reserve of chakra that was ag suspiciously simir to Narutos when the ails was ag up. But other than that he was weak as his body was untrained beyond the very minimum and he clearly had some sort of mental issue.