War preparation

Jiraya nodded. "Mn...I agree with your assessment. Sasuke has indeed achieved many great feats for the village. Whether or not he will be able to become a Hokage will be left to the future. However, it does not hurt to always have multiple capable candidates for the position of Hokage. Kakashi should remain as the captain of the Third Division. This will allow him to gain even more recognition in the world of shinobi and create stronger bonds with other villages. I have no doubt that Sasuke will join us soon. As for me, with my skills and experience in battle I will join the Fifth Division's special battle unit with Naruto. It will allow me more flexibility to aid those which need it most."

With Jiraya's comment bringing the topic back to the war everyone pushed the topic of Hokage candidates to the back of their minds and refocused on what was currently important. Tsunade nodded at Jiraya's logic about leaving Kakashi as the Third Division captain and having Naruto and Jiraya himself join the Fifth Division. She then proceeded to say, "Is there no way we can get Sasuke back up as soon as possible?" A silence befell the room once more before Kakashi said, "I think we just have to wait for him to get his eyes adjusted. Hopefully it shouldn't take that long." "Haaaaa…... What bad timing." Tsunade said with a long sigh. Everyone left the office as they finished up the meeting while Tsunade sat in her chair staring at the beautiful luminescent moon that lit up the sky in a calming aura. She said to herself "I hope everything goes well".

"Oi, watch where you're going…" "Hey, long time no see, how've you been?..." "So the war will begin soon huh?..." "Hey, what division are you in?..." Many voices could be heard at this moment as a gathering of approximately 80,000 shinobi and samurai mixed together gearing up for war standing by in their respective divisions and awaiting in a line to receive their allied shinobi headband. After some time, everyone had finally received their Allied Shinobi Forces forehead protector and stood in their respective divisions as the captain of the First Division Darui, the captain of the Second Division Kitsuchi, the captain of the Third Division Kakashi, the captain of the Fifth Division Mifune, and lastly the captain of the Fourth Division and regimental commander of all divisions Gaara stood forth in front of everyone prompting loud cheers and battlecries to be heard.

Meanwhile, in a dark cave stood two figures. They were Tobi and Kabuto as Kabuto commented, "It's just about time to begin." "Indeed." Tobi replied as he stood there with a new mask with one Rinnegan and one Sharingan with a new hand. Kabuto licked his lips and said, "It's too bad that Itachi and Kisame failed to obtain the Eight Tails on their second attempt. Instead Itachi was killed by Sasuke and you also lost a hand to him. But, I suppose it wasn't all bad."

"Hmpf. Their deaths don't mean much. Take these." Tobi replied. Kabuto looked at the two vials in Tobi's hands before asking suspiciously, "And what are these for?" Tobi looked at Kabuto indifferently. "There are too many variables in war. These two vials contain the blood of the First and Second Hokage. I want you to revive them. I'll lend you two white Zetsu's for the sacrifice." Kabuto furrowed his brow in wariness. "You could have given them to me earlier, I assume there is something you want?"

Tobi nodded. " Send them to the place where we were going to station the gold and silver brothers Kinkaku and Ginkaku. I will use the chakra they absorbed from the Nine Tails to help move along my plans." Kabuto frowned but shrugged his shoulders in the end and said, "Alright. That should be fine." He took the vials containing First & Second Hokage's blood and used two White Zetsu's for the sacrifice as he formed the signs of Tiger, Snake, Dog, Dragon and clapped his hands together saying, "Summoning Jutsu Reanimation!" Flutters of dirt and white paper stuck onto the two Zetsu sacrifices before revealing a reanimated Hashirama and Tobirama.

Kabuto then said, "Now then, time to summon the others." He clapped his hands once more and said, "Summoning Jutsu Reanimation!" The ground trembled slightly as many wooden coffins rose from the ground with the cover falling revealing many powerful shinobi. Kabuto smiled as he looked at all of his reanimated shinobi introducing some of them to Tobi. "First, the former members of the Akatsuki, not only Kisame, but, Sasori, Itachi, Deidara, Kakazu and Nagato."

Tobi glanced at Kabuto with narrowed eyes and said, "When did you manage to obtain the DNA of Itachi." Kabuto smiled. "During Sasuke and Itachi's battle. Itachi was injured in that fight and left quite a lot of his blood pooling around the area. With my skills, it isn't hard to extract his DNA." He then continued on. "Next, the former Jinchuriki. The Two Tails Yugito, Three Tails Yagura, Four Tails Roshi, Five Tails Han, Six Tails Utakata, and Seven Tails Fuu. Next the former Five Kage, the Second Tsuchikage Mu, the Third Raikage A, the Fourth Kazekage Rasa, and the Second Mizukage Gengetsu." At this point Kabuto let out a small and sinister laugh as Tobi's eyes widened in surprise before he narrowed his eyes and secretly glanced in wariness at Kabuto as he returned his attention to the coffin next to the Four Kage Kabuto had revived. Tobi continued to stare at that reanimated corpse for a few moments longer but elected not to say anything. Instead he secretly thought to himself, 'damn that Kabuto. He truly is a crafty bastard'.

Kabuto licked his lips as he also admired the shinobi resurrected in the coffin beside the Four Kage. Kabuto fixed his glasses. "Continuing on. There is also the explosion Kekkei Genkai user Gari, Hanzo of the Salamander, Granny Chiyo of Sunagakure, the former Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, Konoha's Dan, Hyuga Hizashi, and even Uchiha Kagami who was a former member under the Second Hokage and an old comrade of the Third Hokage's. He also happens to be an old relative of Uchiha Shisui's. Other than the ones I've introduced there's also a whole host of other notable shinobi."

Tobi closed his eyes for a moment taking everything in before turning around and walking out saying, "Let's go. The Fourth Great Ninja War begins." Kabuto licked his lips and gave a sinister smile under his hood as he thought to himself, 'With Tobi's White Zetsu army and my reanimated shinobi we should be able to defeat the Five Great Nations. In the end I'll secure the body of both Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto'.