Somewhere within the Land of Waterfalls , a group of three individual are currently walking through a dense forest, one of them suddenly approach a tree , and activate a hidden seal.
After activating the seal , the soil started to move on it's own creating a small passage for the group.
The three individual descended for a long time , going deeper and deeper , finally at one moment the stairs stop.
The three men were now inside a large cave , even if it didn't look like one , inside the cave there are lights on the ceiling , some surface had been covered with solid walls , it look like it was already amenaged for quite some time , the furniture is very old and is in a bag shape.
Inside the cave is present the leader of the Hands , waiting for a certain someone.
The two masked individual that accompanied Saseki , started to walk away , leaving inside the cave only Saseki and the mysterious leader of this organization.
"I'm surprise that you manage to run away from Iwagakure anbu , you know they are actively searching you , if not for my help they would have found you , it was just a question of time."
"Thanks you I guess"
"You probably know that I want something from you , I wouldn't save you like this just for nothing"
"And what would it be"
"I want to know the reason why you left your village and became a rogue ninja , and why so much anbu are trying to kill you"
"So it started a few weeks ago"
-flashback
My name is Sesaki , I'm 26 years old and my ninja rank is tokubetsu jonin , and this is my story.
In my childhood nothing important happened, I just wanted to become a ninja which I manage after several years , by the time I became a chunin peace ended , and I had to fought in the second great ninja war for several years , luckily i survived this terrible war , when I came back to the village I had little money and the mission that ninja did were paid little , the overall situation in Iwagakure was bad , but thanks to my overall skill I was offered a job in the administration, the job was not very complicated , I just had to transport documents from various place to special storage room , the most important documents were placed underground the Tsuchikage mansion , while the least important were placed in gouvernemental building.
One night , because it was already late and the Tsuchikage was not here , I was ask by someone important to go inside the storage room with top secret files too see if everything was okey , I didn't know why he choose me , maybe because there were not many administration at this hour.
The Tsuchikage mansion is a very big building , but it is not comparable to what is under it.
The first time I was impressed by how big this whole building is , the building in the surface is composed of 5 floors , while the underground section is composed of 10 floors , so to say it take some time to go from the surface to -10 floor were secret documents are stock.
While accomplishing my task , I also took a few report that had to be stocked there.
Everything was fine , I reach floor -10 , found the stockage room and did my things , note that this night there weren't many guards present , mostly because it was already very late , and the few guards that were present, were in upper floors .
Everything was fine until I drop a box , and while putting back all paper inside , I saw top secret reports , my curiosity won , and I started to read the content.
Well to say the name secret was appropriate for what it contained , this documents describe all illegal action done by the Tsuchikage faction, such as fraude , favoritisme , corruption , suspicious use of Village money.
After reading all of this , i couldn't ignore it , I took all compromising reports , and left the village as fast as I could , in hope of revealing to everyone on day.
-fashback end
"This is the whole story"
"Quite interesting , I have a proposition for you , if you give me this documents I will let you join my organization"
"And what will you do with those documents"
"Not much for now but they can be useful in the future , anyway you don't have much choice , either you join us or you get killed by Iwagakure Anbu"
"I will join you for now"
"Good" said the leader of the Hand while giving a dark cloak to Sesaki.
-Hand 1 pov
I have been on a mission for almost 1 mouth now , trying to infiltrate Takigakure , the leader want me to gain some sort of information about mysterious water that can make people stronger.
In the beginning I showed to Takigakure as a wandering Shinobi , asking if they were searching for mercenarys , soon enough I got accepted , and now I'm doing some missions , to gain their trust.
I will need to be higher in the hirarchi if I want to obtain the information that the leader wants.
Anyway the overall strength of Takigakure is pretty weak compared to other village , they have few Tokubetsu Jōnin and even less Jonin , so someone like me showing up and offering them my service was quite interesting for them .
Well it doesn't matter how they perceive me , i will still have to stay in this village for quite some time.
-POV END
-NARRATOR
The hidden villages are recovering from the previous war at different pace , but one thing is sure , a third great ninja war is bound to happen.
AUTOR NOTE