20 Four years

In a lush and beautiful forest, you could see a young man jumping from tree to tree at an amazing pace, dressed in all black with a sword strapped to his back, his lower face covered, as his deep black eyes carried a sense of boredom, too anyone looking at this young man they might just think this is a young ninja going on a mission from the hidden leaf village, and most times or ninety-nine point nine percent of the time they would be right but, this just happens to be that missing one percent.

If one was to look closely you would notice this young man is not wearing a hidden leaf headband anywhere on his body, and the group of hidden leaf shinobi chasing after him in the distance, this is because the young man is a criminal, listed in the bingo book of four of the five great villages with the hidden leaf being the only one being the exception, but that might change after the events that are to come

Flashback(2 days prior )

Ren had just crossed the border between the land of fire and the land of the earth as he was finally going to assassinate some of the younger talents of the hidden leaf, as he had already visited all the other villages leaving only the leaf village, but ren did not expect to accomplish a lot during this trip as the great village had kept a close guard on their talented shinobi after word spread about what happened to the village hidden in the sand, making it extremely hard for Ren to get to his targets, increasing the time taken to complete his mission.

The village Rens assassinations did the most damage to was Sunagakure, and he did not even kill anyone he remembered from the cannon, that is to say, how little the deaths he caused in the other villages would have in the long run as all the major players are still alive or to be born later, later going to Kiri ren had had a talk with Onoki about stopping the mission for a while giving the other villages some time to forget about it, that way they would send the target out on missions and he could kill them then, but Onoki just responded the same each time the topic was brought up.

"Ren, you may not notice it but all the people you have gotten rid of would have eventually become a jonin given time even if we can't get those with Kage level potential now then we will go with your plan, but remember Ren jonins are the top fighting force of any of the hidden villages, they are many more than Kage level experts and they are the ones who will fight the most in the upcoming wars and the Kage level expert would only appear to deal with each other."

And from anyone else's point of view this would be good, ut Ren knows about what going to happen and who really contributed to the wars and none of those people were the ones he managed to kill, so to him, it felt like this whole mission was a waste of time.

As Ren entered the land of fire he had already disguised himself dressing in all black and his sword hung on his back, and a simple but strong genjutsu to change the color of his eyes to black, his target was a branch member of the Hyuga clan that had a good level of talent who was on a mission to destroy a bandit group already having the information Ren heads in the area to ambush the Hyuga clan member and collect his first bloodline.

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Hidden Leaf village

As Ren was thinking of collecting his first bloodline, back at the hidden leaf village gate a group of ninja was gathered looking at the young woman in front of them with a look of respect.

"Tsunadesan, is our plan going to work, I mean he has escaped every time one of the other villages has tried to capture him?"

"There is no need to worry this is the plan proposed by the Hokage, so there will be nothing going too far out of the scope of what the Hokage has calculated for."

"Remember we have to stay a safe distance away from Tobi, just in case our target is a sensor."

"With that said let's go" saying that the group disappeared into the forest at a blinding speed.

While in the Hokage's office The third Hokage could be seen looking at where the group just disappeared from with a look of concern on his face.

"What the matter Hiruzen, if I didn't know any better I would think you are worried."

"I am, I just have a feeling they won't be enough to deal with him."

"Are you serious? Two special jonins, four chunins, and let's not forget about Tsunade she is already a powerful jonin there is no way he would be able to escape, or are you forgetting the information from the other villages put him around age twelve how strong could he be."

"Danzo it's just what my instincts are telling me."

"Well maybe your instincts have dulled being in this office Hiruzen, "Danzo says as he turns and leaves the room.

Left standing looking out the window Hiruzen sighs thinking of the changing attitude of his friend.

"Anbu, where are jiraiya and Orochimaru?"

"They went on a mission Lord third and should be returning in a days time." said a figure as he lands in a kneeling position behind him

"As soon as they return send them after Tsunade."

"Yes sir."