Prey

After eating the ramen the sun is already falling below the horizon. Zitsu once again roams the streets. Everything's the same as the series except one thing, every once in a while he'd see members of the Uchiha clan walking around in pairs. On their shoulder is a four-point star with the Uchiha fan symbol in the middle, a sign of the Konoha Police.

After walking around for a bit Zitsu arrives in front of the Konoha Inn located in the hot springs district. The building was well designed with an arched roof and giant pillars outside its door. Walking inside he sees lounge chairs and floor cousins filled with people.

"Welcome, welcome to my establishment." An extremely large lady approaches him with a folding fan in hand. "Are you staying the night, or looking for" She pauses as she looks at a few young girls waiting on guest "Other services?" She smiles as she looks at the muscles visible through his shirt.

"I just want a room, but I don't know how long I'll be staying. Will that be a problem?"

Unfolding her fan she begins waving it at her face "No problem at all dear, but you must realize what happens if you skip out on your bill, yes?"

Zitsu just smiles at her "Don't worry, that won't be a problem."

"Marvelous darling marvelous." She turns towards the side "Asahi show this young man to his room!" As she finishes speaking she waddles away.

A young girl dressed in a sky blue kimono with dark brown hair walks towards him. "Please sir, follow me."

Zitsu nods as he follows her to his room.

Arriving at the third room on the second floor, she unlocks the door and hands the key to Zitsu. "Do you need anything else, sir?"

"No thanks, this is fine." Taking the key he walks inside and closes the door.

The room has a nice canopy bed and exquisitely carved wooden furnishing. Zitsu pays it no mind as he sits on the floor.

Ever since he entered the village he could sense he was being followed. He doesn't know who, but two ninjas with Chunin level chakra watched him the whole time while he was eating and are still outside the inn at this very moment. Unless one is a sage they won't be able to tell when someone is watching them or trace their trackers, so they don't know they've been spotted.

Zitsu once again begins gathering Natural Energy into Samehada to pass the time. The three dots on his forehead store massive amounts of Natural Energy that he can passively use to do small things like hiding his chakra. Using all the energy from a single dot will allow him to immediately enter sage mode, a little perk from his Senjutsu tree.

Even though Senjutsu is his lowest skill level, it's the hardest for him to level up. The others level from using them in combat, but Senjutsu slowly levels as he absorbs Natural Energy. So all he can do is practice. Due to his unique connection to Samehada, he can no longer create shadow clones, which drastically slows down his progress.

He thought about leaving his last shadow clone active, but it was too weak and would only be a hindrance. Why keep a shadow clone weaker than his water clone? So his only way to level up Senjutsu is to shove Natural Energy into Samehada.

After an entire night of practice, the bar hardly moved. Practicing every day for five years only got him to level 21 after all, so he can't complain. Leaving the Inn he notices the same two ninjas are still following him.

As he's walking towards his destination he specifically looks for members of the Uchiha clan. Not every member of the police force has the Sharingan, but those who do have it activated as a point of pride, to show off their elite status and dominance.

Every Uchihas he saw had their chakra signature remembered, but those with the Sharingan he paid more attention to. To not draw attention to himself he acted as though he was lost, and asked for directions towards Amaguriama, a sweet chestnut shop.

After eating he would walk around the village for a bit before returning to the inn for the night. The plan is to walk around for a bit before going to another famous location. Besides members of the Uchiha clan, he also remembered the chakra signature of anyone from the Hyuga clan just in case.

Over the span of a month, he went everywhere from the Dongo Shop, Fire Park Zoo, Kikyo Castle, and even walked around Senju Park a few times. The ninja tailing him changed between six different ninjas over the month, but none of them ever approached him.

The money he got from Daikoku would run out soon, and he hasn't met any new Uchiha in a while. As he sits on the floor of his room he smiles. During this month he saw a lot of people he recognized, but interacting with them will do him no good for now so he ignored them. Every time he even got close to the academy he could sense the ninjas moving closer to him, ready to act.

"Time to make my move." His right hand begins to perform seals at the same time as his left.

"Double Transformation Jutsu." A cloud of white smoke surrounds him.

As the smoke clears Zitsu sits on the floor while a young girl with jet black hair and a plain face stands next to him.

Looking down at his black Kimono Zitsu smiles. "Samehada you wait here, I'll call you if something comes up."

Samehada in the appearance of Zitsu just shakes in response as it continues to sit on the ground. Samehada is giving off the same small chakra Signature as Zitsu before he transformed, while Zitsu gives off no chakra at all. Shrouding his body with Natural Energy he's invisible to any who can't sense Natural Energy. Because he is a Crocodile Sage, a predator, his ability to hide in plain sight is greatly enhanced. Most creatures won't notice the crocodile until its jaws are around their body.

"Time to catch some prey." The girl smiles as she walks towards the door.

Opening the door to his room he slowly leaves the inn. He can sense his trackers are still in their positions as he walks further away.

Walking through the village at night he slowly makes his way towards the Uchiha compound. As he moved he avoided any members of the Uchiha and Hyuga clan, as they could notice he wasn't giving off any chakra with their eyes.

Suddenly Zitsu smiles as he slowly approaches his destination. During this month he only found one team of Uchiha policemen where neither of them had the Sharingan. After walking around in an elaborate fashion to avoid the others they are finally in front of him.

"Excuse me, gentlemen, I'm lost." He calls out in the sweetest voice possible.

"Huh?!" The two officers turn around as they hear the enchanting voice. But when they see her plain face their hopes crumble.

"Look girl, we don't have the time to mess with you." His brows furrow as he sees her approach.

Zitsu's right hand begins performing hand seals in the long sleeves of the kimono while his left hand moves towards his mouth.

"Genjutsu: False Reality."

As he completes the seals he places them both under subtle genjutsu. To them, she is not moving, but in reality, she's slowly approaching them.

"Just a moment of your time?" Zitsu smiles as he walks closer.

"Keep bothering us and we'll arrest you." He smiles "How would you like to spend the night in jail?"

At this moment Zitsu stands right next to them as they continue to look at his original position. His left hand lightly pushes the back of one of the member, placing a seal.

"What?!" He quickly turns around but sees nothing.

"You ok?" His partner looks at him with furrowed brows.

"Yea" He looks at the Genjutsu girl once more before turning around "Let's go, we wasted too much time."

"Right."

Watching the two walk away Zitsu releases the genjutsu and walks away. As he enters an alleyway he suddenly disappears.

Zitsu instantly reappears next to Samehada. Performing the transformation jutsu he turns it back into a ring while he returns to normal. Putting Samehada back onto his finger he smiles.

"Ok buddy, let's go." As he leaves the hotel again he can sense his trackers following him this time. But he doesn't mind them as he walks towards the gate of the village.

At night the traffic entering and exiting the village is nonexistent, but two ninjas can still be seen at the booth.

Their eyes follow Zitsu as he leaves the village and his trackers stop following him.

As Zitsu walks further and further from Konoha he can't help but frown.

"Their security is so much better than Kiri, I'll have to talk to Mei about this when I get back." Suddenly his body turns into a blur as he flickers away.

Arriving in the forest he hides his chakra completely as he begins to wait, slowly sensing the changes around his seal.

When he realized he couldn't perform shadow clone jutsu anymore he was originally disappointed, but he soon realized the positive. Because of Samehada's parasitic qualities, he is able to create a seal that blends and feeds off the host's chakra.

If he's not targeting a person he can use the normal seal that's made from his chakra, but with the parasitic seal, he uses the targets chakra to create it. The benefits to this is it gives him the same connection he has with Samehada with the seal, allowing him to sense chakra within five meters of that person. In reality, instead of a seal, it's more of a parasite he's putting on them.

They can't transmit the host's chakra to him, but at this point, normal chakra doesn't increase his anyway. His only hope is assimilating more tailed beast, but even that is a theory.

Sitting in a tree he waits. Once that Uchiha stops moving around for a while it'll be time to make his next move.