Takes place at the beginning of Naruto Shippuden, right after Naruto returns from his training with Jiraiya.
Naruto & Hinata managed to form a close friendship prior to Naruto's absence. Now that he's returned, there is more than one reason to take...
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Yamato stood at the edge of the village and watched as the sun rose in the east, over the quiet jumble of tents and partially built structures. He had not been able to sleep for the last few nights. His rest was disturbed with old nightmarish memories of the time before he was found by the black ops.
His memory of that time was choppy, and the first decade of his life was completely blank. His very first memory was waking up in a large test tube within a dark dank laboratory filled with several test tubes housing children just like him. After that, there were a series of these awakenings until finally he found himself outside of his prison.
The first living breathing face that he encountered belonged to Orochimaru, though at the time the sannin was just a stranger. Every time he found himself outside of the test tube, he was given a set of instructions and put through a series of tests. Eventually he began to manipulate wood. Growing small trees in the pots of soil that Orochimaru provided.
He learned a few other things while he worked with his captors. First that he had no name and was called test subject hash135. Second that he was collected during the third war with other young war orphans whose clans and families were offshoots of the Senju clan. Lastly miraculously, he had lived in that test tube for over a decade even though his biological age was only about six years old at the time.
Soon after he showed he could use wood style, he was placed back in the test tube and he lost time again until Kakashi found him a few years later.
Ever since Kakashi's intel had arrived, he had an unsettling feeling in the pit of his stomach. After all, he had been one of Orochimaru's experiments too. The very first successful experiment, it seemed. Though no one else was very concerned about him, and he had not been included in the discussion about the altered Hyuga or the Uzumaki clone, he was concerned that he had a part to play in all of this. And every second that past felt as if the other shoe was about to drop.
And then as he yawned and stretched welcoming the sun and the new day, the shoe did drop.
Yamato began to feel something cushiony surrounding him from behind. He looked down at himself to find a white foamy substance beginning to form and spread around his body. He fought against it. He tried to use his wood style to rip it off, but it only seemed to get larger and stronger the more he used chakra.
In the end, he was completely restrained from his mouth down to his toes by the material. A deformed head appeared from the white substance and it began to laugh at him with its deformed mouth. Then a white spiral face with only one hole, where the left eye should have been, appeared above him.
"Hi Yamato!" The spiral faced man-thing said cheerfully. "I'm Tobi! Better known as Guruguru. We finally meet. I've been watching you for a long time. You are his most precious spawn, after all."
Guruguru squat down closer to Yamato, placing his cool white hand over Yamato's cheek. "This is like meeting my own beloved sibling for the very first time... awww so sweet."
