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After another day of travel, they finally reach the Leaf Village, or what USED TO BE the Leaf Village, and sneak their way in through a hole in the wall created by Namaru using Earth Style. Upon entering the village, he guides them to his hidden base near the base of the Hokage Mountain. He tries to move the door but it won't budge. With further investigation, he found out something. "Crap. It's been sealed. They must've found it. No matter, I'll get us in." He holds out his right hand, and a spiraling ball of Chakra appears in his hand. He brings the orb to the door very gently. "Rasengan." A small explosion is made, but nothing enough to attract any unwanted attention. When the smoke clears, they notice the door had fallen to the ground. Namaru leads them all in, and drags the door in behind him.

As soon as they're all in, he closes the doorway with Earth Style, and melts the door down with Fire Style, then lights up the room, by lighting the lamps that line the walls. As all the lamps begin to burn, a spacious room with steel walls is shown. Only flaw is, the room is empty. After the other 3 look around confused, Chino finally asks, "Why is there nothing in here, Namaru?" All Namaru does is chuckle, and weaves a few hand seals. As he weaves these hand seals, objects begin to form from the steel walls and stone floor, and the room begins to grow. After he is done, the room has increased in size, hallways have formed to the right and left of the room, and in the center of the main room, a large platform has formed, probably for training. Namaru finally speaks.

"The small, empty room you see when you first walk in is merely a Genjutsu created by me. What you see now is what is truly here. Down the left hallway are 4 rooms. We will split into 2 groups, and both groups will pick a room. The other 2 rooms will be for anyone we can find in the village willing to join our cause. One room for men, and the other for women. Down the right hall is a dining area and kitchen, and right where we are is the training area where we will train our recruits. The ones you recruit are the ones you train that way we all have our own separate groups. After we each have found 5 people to train, we will split up in the rooms so each group has their own room. We will need to dawn our Samurai disguises so we can wander the village undetected, and gather recruits." The other 3 nod in agreement. "I'm glad we all have an understanding. Let's go ahead and put these things on and go recruit hunting."

They all put on their disguises, and traverse the Leaf, finding people who still have the ability to use chakra, and others who wish to learn how to fight. At the end of the day, they all gather back up inside the mountain base, where they are greeted by none other than Musashi's right hand man who shouts, "Who are all of you? Don't you dare lie to me." Namaru smirks and instructs the others to all take off their helmets. As soon and the Samurai sees who they are he turns a pale white color for a brief moment before regaining his confidence. "So. It's the ninja that have been terrorizing the Land of Fire as well as the Land of Lighting. Not like I didn't already have a basic idea." Chino interjects, "WE'RE terrorizing the lands?? No! That would be all of you!" The Samurai fires back, "We brought order to these lawless lands; something you Shinobi could never do," and draws his blade ready for a fight, but before he can even blink, he's looking down at a VERY blue Chino-tabi from the wall that he has been pinned up against.

"You call slaughtering a village of innocent people order? I should kill you right now, but..." Chino looks down at the floor for a second, and drops him "...I'll leave that to Namaru." He moves aside to reveal Namaru holding a Chidori. Namaru speeds at the downed Samurai and stops at the last second, his mouth next to the Samurai's ear. "This is for my family," he whispers before plunging a Chidori into the man 3 times; one for Sarada, one for Sasuke, and one for Sakura, killing him instantly. Namaru stand up and looks down at the dead, bloody body, and casts a final jutsu, "Amaterasu." The body instantly bursts into black flames, and Namaru watches as it gets completely consumed. Chino walks up to Namaru, and hands him a piece of paper. "I took it off of the Samurai. It shows where Musashi is hiding." Namaru takes the piece of paper and looks at it. "The land of Iron. That's where we're going next. We depart immediately."

Namaru creates a Shadow Clone and tells him to train the new recruits in the Mountain base, and turns to Chino. He activates his Rinnegan before saying, "It's time to bring you back for good." Before Chino can ask what he means, he hears Namaru say, "Rinne-Rebirth." Immediately, Chino hears a voice, "Return to the land of the living, or stay here?" Chino agrees to return to the land of the living. Upon returning to the land of the living, the body Chino was using began to disintegrate and fall apart, revealing his true body underneath. His Edo-Tensei markings were gone, and his eyes were normal. He feels stronger, too. He looks over at Namaru, who looks very physically drained, and asks, "Will you be okay?" Namaru nods, "Thanks to Saiken, I'll be alright. He has saved me yet again. Part of his chakra was used in that jutsu. Let's get going. We need to get to the Land of Ice." Chino and the other 2 nod, and they all depart."