Tenzo, or Yamato, whatever you want to call him, unfortunately was always forgotten. He was a good person, had an interesting backstory, or at least as interesting as anyone else, had more against Orochimaru than some of the others did, and even had Wood Release, the only person to do so since the First Hokage. But none of that stopped him from being in the background, only a afterthought of everyone in the village, including his supposed Team.

But that worked well with Anbu. While Kakashi could hide when he needed, as soon as someone saw his white hair, they knew to fear his Sharingan and Chidori. If someone saw Yamato, no matter how well known he had gotten with his Wood Release, no one ever realized it was him until it was too late.

It also worked well when he woke up one morning, in a bed that was destroyed by Pein's attack. After confirming he was five years in the past, he nodded and went out to go find his senpai. If he was in the past, he was determined to change things for the better.

xXx

All those plans went out the window when he got the report that evening that Kakashi Hatake had gone rouge and taken his three students with him. What weird world did he wake up in?

He sighed frustrated, going to go check in and see if he couldn't be the one to go after them.

xXx

He had found them, along with a team of Anbu, days after they had left. Kakashi just looked resigned but Naruto, for some reason, looked annoyed. He couldn't possibly had gone willingly could he? Sasuke he could see, the boy had already left once for power, and ok, maybe Sakura would follow her crush at this point in time, but Naruto was supposed to want to be the Hokage. Yamato couldn't think of any reason he would turn against the village he vowed to protect.

"Man they found us already…" He heard Naurto grumble, and Sakura shook her head.

"Of course they did. What could we have done to stop them?"

"Well maybe," Naruto started, looking up at him sensei annoyed. "If Kakashi-Sensei had actually helped…."

"Maaa…." Kakashi said, tilting his head a little. "Learning experience. This was your idea anyway…"

"It was a stupid idea." Sasuke said, in a way that Yamato wasn't expecting. He sounded almost…fond. They had only been a team for a few days, that tone of voice was out of place. Still, Naruto glared, at both his teammate and his sensei.

"I just wanted to start my own village! Is that's so hard to ask?!"

"Yes." The other three members of team 7 said, before one of the Anbu next to Yamato got tired of waiting and shot a kunai at Sakura without warning. Yamato made the hand motions to stop it- they weren't supposed to attack the children, they were only Genin, not even a threat- but he was too late. The kunai hit the surprised girl in the forehead, the boys on her team looked at them in shock, Kakashi looked at them in anger, oh shit they were going to die-

Then he woke up in his bed again, a few days earlier.

xXx

That night, a still reeling Yamato got the message that Kakashi Hatake had left with his three students, and a very familiar boy that they shouldn't even know yet. Danzo was having a fit that Sai had left without him knowing and Yamato had a feeling Root would be sent after them instead of Anbu.

And he didn't think he was the only one there.