Orichimaru was having the best day of the year, he just got done killing two hunter nin teams, one from the leaf and one from Kumo. In their equipment was some supplies that he was out looking for in the first place so he was able to go back to his hide out earlier than he had thought was possible. Once getting back he was able to check his experiments to find out that each one had positive outcomes. Nobody had bothered him about any of his ninja beating each other up or killing each other. So he was in his happy place when some nobody grunt came to him to drop off messages from his spies from all around the elemental countries. Lucky for the grunt Orichimaru had waved him off and was able to get to the other side of the base before things went sideways.

Orichimaru was going through all the messages, things were going good all around. The only thing that was worrying was that it seemed that the canon fader that he was going to use for his attack on the leaf was disappearing all over the land of fire. Other that things were ok, that was until that last message came up, it was the only one that really mattered to him. He knew that he would get all the information he need to know for the invasion so he could adjust his plans. He would also get an update on the Uchia, then he would set up personal to watch him were ever he goes. The message was just like he had expected at first, his plans didn't look like he would have to change much at all. That was when things had gone all wrong, he saw that things in the leaf has gone off the rails. The lowered defenses were now at there war time status, most of his spies and pawns were either dead or currently in T&I, and last but not least the Uchia was injured in a way that made him furious about it. The eyes that he was going to take once they were activated and advanced, now had one missing do to what he read was the Uchia being an arugant stupid idiot. Anyone with half a brain could see that the three Kabuto had mentioned would not put up with his shit. Now he was going to have to wait for the idiot to have some kids so he could get a pair. He knew he might be able to get the one that was left but now that he was injured like that the Uchia would not be let out of the village without heavy guard if at all. Even that wasn't that bad, it was going to set his plans back some but not too much, it was the unseen or noticed exploding seal which was primed and ready to go that Orichimaru had in his hand.

Most would think, how would he not notice the seal, well normally you would be correct in thinking that but you have to remember most messages that are sent are in a code and/or hidden only to come out with an application of chakra. To which this one had both, so when he had applied some to Kabuto's message he had inadvertently did so to the other messages that were in his hand. One of many which were compromised by our three junior hunters about a year ago. What they had done when they found the information dealer was wait until he left his place of business was replaced all his paper supplies with explosive seal paper reactive to his chakra signature. They had also placed seals on the insides of the cabinet which would convert any new papers placed into the same along with copying them. The seal would only go into activation if the informer would place chakra into the paper to hide the information on it. Then when the receiver would put some in to read the message the tag would set. The tag would delay for ten minutes before going off, slowly stunning itself to the surrounding chakra to hide the signature before it would activate. Once ready to go three seals would activate in sequence. The first would jamb all jutsu usage like how Naruto had learned to do so by pulsing out at different frequencies. The second seal would then scan the surrounding area to find all chakra signatures. Then the last would detonate in the strongest chakra signature's direction with what ever jutsu that was set for that explosive note seal.

This seal happened to have the worst explosive type possible for an underground bunker, the infamous air fuel bomb. Orichimaru's first notice that things were about to go very bad for himself was the massive amount of flammable gas that burst out of one of the sheets of paper in his hands. That would not have been too much a problem if this lab was secured like labs like this should always be but being a cheep ass like he was. The ventilation system was not separated from the rest of the base. So with the explosive release of gas and with the vents just happen to be on full blast at the time, the air fuel mix in one quarter of the basses rooms was just perfect when the delay spark finally went off. It did not help that in his infamous wisdom had placed this lab at the worst possible location for this base, it was located below the rest of the base. Lets just say the only person to survive the explosion was Orichimaru, the rest of the personal either died from the shock wave, fire storm, or the implosion. It would be months before he was strong enough to slither himself from that location to take the long distance travel to the next closes base he had. Once their he would take over a new body. What he did not know was by being out of touch for so long it would bite him drastically in the ass.

Just found an Beta. This may be the last chap that goes up before the rewrite goes up I'm trying to decide if i'll post it here as the next chapters or as a new story. No mater what this will stay up as is so far. There are many stories that I had read that have been rewritten that the old version (the better to me) was removed and didn't even get 1/2 way to the point of the old one.