Naruto: the Chaos Wars
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Chapter 1: The beginning
Tsunade stared at the mission report in front of her, a steeled look on her face so as not to betray her emotions.
She raised her head and stared at the battered forms of her fellow shinobi as they were being treated in hospital beds.
None of them bore a smile nor said a word despite their mission being a success, nearly all of them were covered in cuts, bruises and burns, Kiba was being treated for a broken leg while Rock Lee's arm was getting fixed from multiple fractures.
She turned to the Sand siblings who were also part of the mission in order to strengthen ties between Hidden Sand and Hidden Leaf, they didn't look any better than the rest of the genin, even the untouchable Gaara had a nasty cut down his left side that was freshly bandaged. His face was grim and angry, Tsunade could hardly blame him, they looked like were about to cry.
Sakura, Ino, Lee and Hinata already had tears streaming down their faces as Tsunade scanned each of them. Chouji looked close enough to crying while he nursed a black eye. She wanted to try and comfort them but formalities came first, as is the duty of the Hokage.
"Congratulations on completing your first S rank mission". She announced with a tight voice to keep herself in check. "You should be very pleased to know that you will most likely be joining Shikamaru as Chuunin because of this, despite the unknown elements that caused this mission to go from an A rank to an S you adapted and handled the situation as true ninja of the leaf. Even with the…." She nearly choked on her words as she forced them out.
"... Loss of a comrade you all held together until the mission was completed, well done". She couldn't say anymore and she hated herself for it.
After this she was going back to her office and drink herself into oblivion.
Kakashi stood against the wall behind Tsunade watching the whole thing unfold, unable to say any words of encouragement he just slowly walked out of the room to leave them to mourn. He could only stare at the floor as he walked down the hall of the hospital. It tore him apart to see Lady Tsunade face when he handed her the report he had written with a heavy heart. He knew Lord Jiraiya would not take the news well either.
So many people may not care but Kakashi knew that the ones who mattered most would.
"If Sasuke had been there, would things have turned out differently?". He thought to himself remembering his last great failure as a Sensei.
It didn't matter nothing was going to change what happened no matter how much you think about it.
He walked out of the building and off to his own home, he still couldn't get the words he wrote out of his mind.
Mission report
Mission success
Casualties:
Naruto Uzumaki
Rank: Genin
Mission status: MIA