After the gruesome scene of blood sweat and tears of limbs on the bridge, Kakashi and Zabuza graciously used a water elemental jutsu that creates giants waves that swept the bridge clean of bloodshed, erasing the evidences of any homicidal acts carried out.

Sakura simply stood, unable to brain what just happened and kept on wondering...

"HOW ON EARTH ARE YOU GUYS NOT AFFECTED BY ALL OF THIS??!!" Sakura shrieked in her typical high voice towards her nonchalant teammates, Naruto and Sasuke and the additional Haku.

The three boys (two of them are actually adults in a teenaged body), halted in the middle of the game of poker and turned slowly towards the fuming kunoichi of the team.

Naruto shrugged and said
"We are ninja" as if it's the answer to everything.

"Hn" typical Sasuke.

Sakura sweatdroped and sighed in frustration. She felt upset not because of the situation itself, but the feeling of being left out of things.

She is a part of team Seven too isn't she?

As if reading her mind, Haku supplied an answer.

"We are not affected because we planned it," Haku.

Sakura froze.

"....what?" Sakura was confused.

"What do you mean you planned it? Are you saying that everything that happened so far has been staged since the beginning?!!!" Sakura uncharacteristically whispered in disbelief and denial.

"Yes," Haku. Naruto and Sasuke stopped in their poker game and face palmed.

----Flashback----

Naruto scurried silently through the darkly lit corridor to the grand meeting chamber in the secret underground hideout for Secret Alliance Association.

There, the SAA agents are all there waiting in standby. They were full of anxiety, trepidation and uncertainty as it will be the day that their first missions as official SAA agents (returning the orphans to their respective families and orphanages didn't count) will be briefed and handed out by their very young but very charismatic leader.

Uzumaki Naruto. Konoha's future hokage. Of that, there is no doubt among the agents.

Naruto's aura and authority exuding presence confirmed it. Assured them. They will serve and follow him till death takes them.

Naruto paced back and forth in the meeting room, face serious, and a frown on his face, which looks unexpectedly unsuitable. Naruto was made to always be cheerful and happy in everyone's mind.

"There is a mission, a mission that may divert the future outcome drastically as soon as I make this enormous decision. Be well-informed that I am taking this matter very urgently and most importantly" Naruto began. His Hokage Voice booming in their ears.

One brave agent dared to ask.

"What mission is it?"

Naruto smiled a predatory smile.

"The Naruto Bridge Mission!!! Believe it!!!" Naruto made the perfect imitation of Guy's and Lee's thumb up style down to the pose and twinkle of the teeth.

The Good Guys pose.

All of the agents sweatdroped unable to make the reference while Sasuke and Shikamaru frowned thoughtfully.

Shikamaru decided to speak up in hope of avoiding a huge disaster.

"Are you sure about that, Naruto? We would lose our most precious advantage of knowing what happens next," Shikamaru carefully pointed out.

"The main point of coming back is to change things. I am not going to play God. Whatever may come my way, I will win! Besides, I didn't need to know the future to win us the Shinobi World War in the past. So I reckon I can handle anything the shinobi world can throw at us right now!" Naruto stepped up confidently.

Shikamaru smirked in pride of his hokage.

"Tch, troublesome," Shikamaru muttered but the smile on his face shows how much he trusts his best friend.

"Hnn," Sasuke smirked.

Henceforth, in preparation for what is to come, as well as the uncertain future that awaits them,

Naruto send agents all around the elemental nations,

to gather information on the state of affairs of all great hidden villages (Sunagakure, Kirigakure, Kumogakure, Iwagakure) as well as small ones such as Takigakure and Kusagakure and of course Amegakure

to watch out for Akatsuki's movements while looking out for all Jinchuurikis to possibly make contact in the near future

as one of the first few steps they had planned in uniting the five nations and achieve peace.

They will infiltrate with false identities and remain there at their assigned locations as part of Naruto's spy network,

be it as mercenaries,

civilians out looking for jobs there for better living or even as merchants.

Some were encouraged to assimilate themselves into the inner circle of the society at each respective village and towns to be privy to more important information that are not public knowledge.

With Naruto using his clones and Hiraishin in receiving and disseminate information in the network.

Since Naruto had place destination seals all over the elemental countries previously to set up his teleportation network for his person,

Naruto easily able to deliver the agents to those places and back to Konoha in a matter of seconds.

While he could not slip away every time to all those places to receive reports on the agents' progress,

he designed the reporting method by sending his clones, also via Hiraishin, every week to meet all those agents at a prefixed time and place at once to receive the reports and teleport back just as quickly or if in the case of verbal report the clone will listened to the report made by the agents, commit them to memory then disperse then and there to return the memories back to Naruto.

Naruto made a point to the agents to report and protect the Jinchuurikis if they found them.

He forbade them to made the initial contact for he wanted to make the contact with them personally as a fellow jinchuuriki to avoid unnecessary hostility and possible casualty, for indeed the jinchuurikis are powerful personas.

Besides, Naruto also has a theory that he wanted to test out. (Anyone can guess what theory that is?)

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The sand dunes stretched far and wide as wind blows continuously causing dust to constantly obstruct the vision of two unknown figures. Their dark brown cloaks that protects them from the raging sand storm billows in the harsh wind as they track through the endless dessert towards their destination, Sunagakure, the Village Hidden in the Sand. With chakra channeled to their feet to avoid sinking into the sand and made their travel across easier, they raved through the ever increasing storm of sands that threatens to swept them away.

One of those figures had bright blonde hair while the other looked like a plain looking merchant.

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It has begun.