Author's note: Hey everyone, thanks for checking out this story. This is my first one, so it probably sucks :( But if you're going to read it anyway, here are a few things you should know:
1. "Godaime" means "the fifth"
2. "Kun" is used to refer to a boy you already somewhat know. It cannot be used for girls.
3. "San" more or less means Mr. /Miss.
4. "Sama" is used to refer to a person with respect.
5. "Chan" is a cutish way of referring to someone. For example, a small child may refer to
his elder sibling as nii (elder brother)-chan. Also, Naruto refers to Sakura as Sakura-chan.
Dream-breaker
Chapter-1
Inception
It was nearing midnight as a dark figure was approaching the Konoha gates. The Konoha watch was hardly doing its job well, each one consumed in some discussion or the other. There had been a lot of hype over the whole criminal-Uchiha thing, but nothing had happened in several months now, and so there were barely two shinobi guarding the gate. There were Konoha watch towers, of course, but it was next to pointless with the thick fog in the area. Konoha winters were always like this.
While the gate guards were lost in conversation, a voice said "enjoying ourselves aren't we?" The guards immediately turned towards the sound. "Who are you?"They said in unison, lifting their weapons, preparing for an attack.
"I needn't tell you", said the hooded figure, "but I suppose there is no harm in doing so, as I will soon dispose of you". "My name", said the man, emerging from the fog as he lifted his hood, "is Sasuke" – "Uchiha Sasuke."
And then it went black.
It was early morning when Kakashi was at the K.I.A. stone, staring down at the names of his teammates inscribed on the hard grey rock. "Obito, Rin", he said, "I wish I could have protected you; but now I can't even protect team 7. Each day I look at them, I can see the remorse in their eyes. Our team broke apart because of your deaths, but this team is falling apart because of broken bonds."
He looked up from the stone, wondering if he had gone insane, spending every morning talking to a rock.
"Kakashi!" shouted Genma, running up to him. "Hokage-sama wants to see you A.S.A.P."
"A.S.A.P.? Why? What happened?"
"How should I know? I'm just a messenger", came the reply, as they were walking towards Hokage tower. "But she did say that she would rip up all your icha-icha paradise books if you came late."
Kakashi ran faster than he had ever run before. How could anyone be so evil?
"Kakashi!" screamed Tsunade as he burst into the Hokage's room, gasping for breath. "What", she said, slamming a thin sheet of paper on to the table, "is the meaning of this?"
Kakashi stared at the blank piece of paper lying on the table and said, after a lot of thought, "it's a blank piece of paper".
"And what is on the paper?" said Tsunade, prompting him.
Kakashi looked confused. "Blankness?"
"No not Blankness!" snapped Tsunade, "there is chakra etched on the paper, don't you feel the chakra emissions?"
"No", said Kakashi, looking slightly miffed. "I'm not an all-powerful super-elite sannin with the most powerful shinobi village in the entire world at my disposal."'
"Point taken", said Tsunade, calming down and settling back into her chair. "I sometimes forget little things like that. Anyway, I'm sure that by now you understand what I want you to do."
"Yes, it's obvious. My mangekyo sharingan can see the colour of chakra, and you want to me to see the chakra on the paper, enabling me to see what is given there."
"Exactly", said Tsunade, "sharp as always, Kakashi. Now how about you do just that, hmm?
"I'm on it", said Kakashi, lifting his fore-head protector to reveal a deep-red eye, which starting spinning and finally stopped in the form of Mangekyo sharingan.
There was a sharp intake of breath as Kakashi read the paper.
"What is it Kakashi?" said the Godaime, looking concerned.
"Well-"
"Spit it Kakashi".
Kakashi read aloud-
Hand over the copy-ninja or the village will be destroyed. I suggest you check on your mission files. You won't be finding them any time soon. I have obtained the files containing the records of every shinobi, their names, their mission parameters and their current locations. With this information I can easily track them down, set up ambushes and kill them off one by one at a leisurely pace. With so many shinobi dead, the village will be left virtually defenceless...
The Hokage ripped out her drawer, searching desperately for the mission files. After a fruitless effort, she shoved the drawer back into its position and screamed "that bastard!"
...However, it will not be as such if you hand over the copy-ninja Hatake Kakashi. I want him bound and gagged at clearing QT-47 of forest SR. If you value the lives of all your other thousands of shinobi, or rather, 7869 shinobi according to the files...
"Bastard".
...then you will have him at the clearing by midnight, no tricks involved...
"Ha!" Screamed Tsunade leaping out of her chair. "I just remembered that we have copies of those files and we can use them to send word to the shinobi!"...
"You know", said Kakashi, it would really do you good if you would just let me finish"...
...and by the way, you'll find your mission files' copies missing as well.
Damn it! Screamed the Kage, slamming her fist onto the table. "I'M GONNA KILL THAT BRAT!"
Schizune burst into the room, Tonton scurrying in right after.
"Tsunade-sama, what happened?" I heard a noise and...then she noticed the papers and fragments of the table scattered across the room. "Tsunade-sama!", she exclaimed, "I told you to stop drinking sake!" Tonton, busy sniffing the table-pieces spread out on the room's floor, gave an "oink" of agreement.
"Hokage-sama", said Kakashi turning towards Tsunade, "you dri..."
"Kakashi!", she yelled, cutting him of, "kindly explain what's happened to Schizune."
Kakashi obliged.
"So", said Schizune, once he was done explaining, "we have no idea who this person is?
"Check".
"And we have no idea why he wants you?"
"Check".
"Nor do we know how he managed to surpass all the security to get to those files , including the watch at Kage tower?"
"Check"
"Then what do we know?"
"..."
"Oh".
"Anyway", said Tsunade, having finally recovered from her temper tantrum, "for this kind of thing we're going to need someone very smart, who can easily analyse data and come to the appropriate conclusion."
Kakashi, Schizune and Tonton all turned to Tsunade. "You mean...?"/ "oink...?"
Shikamaru yawned. He wasn't accustomed to taking morning walks. What a drag. His mother had forced him to do it. She had been pestering him about how he was so lazy, did nothing all day other than lie in bed, blah blah blah …
Of course, he could always find some other place to laze in, but his mother would get to know about it some way or the other.
"Bah", thought Shikamaru, "Women. Nothing but trouble".
"Especially that Godaime", he thought, as he looked up at Hokage tower. Whenever there was a problem requiring high IQ levels, he got dragged over there.
Genma came running towards him, screaming, "Shikamaru-san! Wait up!
"Not again…" moaned Shikamaru as Genma approached.
"What does she want this time?"
"I don't know", said Genma. Shikamaru could sense a mope fest coming up. Because I'm just the messenger", he continued. "No one wants to ask me for advice". No one bothers sending me on important missions. All they say is Genma do this, Genma do that…gnn gnn gnn gnn. …
"Let's just go, shall we?" said Shikamaru, anxious to change the subject.
They headed for Hokage tower.
"Hokage-sama", said Shikamaru, as he entered the room. "I hear you called".
"Yes, I did. We have a situation."
"You see this?" said Kakashi, handing the paper over to him.
Shikamaru took it from his hands. "What about it?"
"Chakra encoded" said Shizune, picking up Tonton. "Kakashi-san read it with his sharingan."
"And what did it say?"
sigh"So tired of saying this over and over, but I guess I have to", said Kakashi, taking the sheet back from Shikamaru's hands.
He read it aloud for the third time (first to Tsunade, than to Shizune, and now to Shikamaru).Once he was done-
"Hmm….troublesome. This is gonna take a while."
"Shikamaru", said Hokage-sama, very seriously, "this is just inception. It's about to get a lot worse".
Shikamaru looked as though he could faint from the troublesomeness.
"Well, I've others things to", said Tsunade, "I'll leave you to it, Shikamaru. Shizune, go with him. When making inquiries he's going to need someone who knows her way about."
"Yes, Tsunade-sama", she said. And then thought "More drinking time for you".
"Oink?"
"Yes Tonton, you go with them too."
Oink! :)
"And what about me?"said Kakashi, getting left out of the conversation.
"You go and check on the Konoha boundary watch" said the Hokage. "We wouldn't want anyone getting in at a time like this, and if the culprit is already within the boundaries, we had better make sure he doesn't leave. And also, I've heard that the watch has been slacking of lately.
As the three left the room to their assigned missions, Tsunade settled back into her chair.
"This could get interesting."
A/N: Thanks for reading! Please comment, since it's my first story, it means a lot. Bye!
-Uchiha Kameko