Once the Sky Hawk Ninja were in line, two large doors opened up on the side of the ship to reveal eight STORM-nins who positioned themselves along either side of the ramp as a guard of honour. Much like what the Sky Hawk Ninja's did with four STORM-nins on one side and another four on the other. After the STORM-nins fell into position The Raikage himself appeared dressed in his official Kage uniform, with his Yellow Kage hat and Yellow and White robes as well as his mask that covered the lower portion of his face. Along with him were two of his bodyguards Nii Yugito and Killer Bee as well as three other new faces, who when some of the Konoha members saw them were shock beyond words.
"Akechi Mitsuhide!" said Shino in a surprised monotone voice (or as surprised as a monotone voice can sound), where he rose one of his eyebrows.
"And Miyoshi Saiyuri!" said Kiba with surprise, as he was just as surprised as Shino was.
"Who?" asked Konohamaru as he was not familiar with either of them.
"The Man in White is Akechi Mitsuhide also known as Shirotakai no Kiri (Mist's White Death), formerly of Kirigakure (Hidden Mist). He was the former head of Kiri's Oinin division, which he became when he was only thirteen, he was also a former member of the Kiri no Shinobigatana Nananin Shū (Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist) which he became when he was fifteen. He is also currently the last remaining member of the Akechi Clan as well as the last remaining wielder of the Clan's Bloodline the Takagan (Hawkeye), which allows its wielder to see great distances, keep up with great speeds, see through Genjustu and see through objects. Much like the Byakugan and the Sharingan it also allows the user to hit any object with 99.99% percent accuracy no matter how small or how far the object as well as several other abilities. He is wanted for singlehandedly killing three hundred bloodline hunters, which was nearly the entire Bloodline hunter division, in a single night after which he was given the rank of an S Class missing-nin from Kiri with an engage with caution warning on him", spoke Shino.
"And the Red head is Miyoshi Saiyuri also known as Kiri no Shinkutakai (Crimson Death of Mist), formerly of Kirigakure (Hidden Mist) as well and former teammate of Akechi Mitsuhide, she also a former member of the Kiri no Shinobigatana Nananin Shū like Akechi Mitsuhide. She is also the last surviving member of the Miyoshi Clan and wielder of the Clan's Bloodline the Shitaikiri Kitai (The Mist Body Vapour) which allows her to turn her body into a mist like vapour which allows them to enter almost any enemy stronghold without difficulty and allows her to do a few other things as well. She wanted by Kiri for killing the entire Kiri Council who supported the Yodaime Mizukage slaughter of Bloodline users and had ordered her Clan's massacre and was given the rank of an A rank missing-nin with an engaged with caution warning on her like Akechi Mitsuhide", said Kiba.
"Whoa!" said Konohamaru as he didn't expect to hear that, "So these guys are pretty tough then".
"Extremely", replied Shino.
"But then who the guy in the robes with the fan, he looks like some kind of pansy noble to me", joked Konohamaru although he joking quickly ended when he saw Jiraiya and Tsunade giving him serious looks that told him it wasn't funny. Not to mention he saw the worried looks that Homura and Koharu had and the concern look on Danzo usual neutral face when he looked at the man in robes.
"I would not be making any jokes like that Konohamaru, if I were you, especially with Zhuge Liang", said Tsunade in a serious tone and look on her face.
"Who is he, sensei? I've never heard of him" asked Sakura.
"Few have, since he usually keeps to himself in his mountain retreat, and he rarely involves himself with other Nations or people. Tsunade and I met him once before when he was fifteen and he was already highly skilled and talented boy at the time, where he was travelling from one place to another, learning as much as he could", said Jiraiya.
"How powerful is he?" asked Choji.
"From all the things I heard about him over the years in terms of power Zhuge Liang is as powerful as Sensei was, back when he was in his prime", answered Jiraiya.
"He as a powerful as Oji-san was?" said Konohamaru in shock and disbelief, as he knew that he Grandfather was once one of the strongest Shinobi's in the Elemental Continent. When he was in his prime, if not the strongest and was also the strongest Hokage to have live, second only to the Yondaime Hokage himself.
"Maybe even stronger ", said Jiraiya, shocking the Konoha Eleven, "From what I heard over the years about him, he knows and has master thousands of Jutsu's and his able to combine them effectively to make them more powerful just as Sensei was able to do. He's also a master Genjutsu user, and a master in the art of sealing where he is at my level in it, not to mention a master strategist where many Shinobi villages, rulers of other nations had often tried to have him under their employment so to command their armies. But he refused them all as he had no interest in joining any nation of Shinobi village, and only helped out those he deemed worthy of helping, after which he would then go back to his mountain retreat", said Jiraiya further shocking the group.
"He's that powerful?" said a stunned Sakura to which Jiraiya nodded.
"He is…..and he is also known as the Nemuriryu (the Sleeping Dragon)".
"Why's that?" asked Ino.
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