A/N: YAYYYYYY My first fanfic. Please be warned that there may be odd grammar here and there. I hope it will improve if I continue writing though. :D I'll see how I do. Please feel free to review or give constructive criticism.

xX Nero Bianco Xx

Chapter 1

"So…What's up?"

"The sky, the ceiling….a new case."

"…"

Kakashi Hatake, head of the spy division of Konoha Police rolled his eyes. The woman sitting opposite to him, Tsunade, head of the Police Force only smirked in reply. Both were sitting in an ordinary office, with a slow rotating fan creaking overhead. A hardwood desk settled over them, creaking under the weight of paperwork and bottles of sake. Glasses and papers were strewn on top it. Kakashi hated evenings like this. The air was always uncomfortably heavy (not in that sense, mind you), and smelled of alcohol. And it was ALWAYS a Friday night in which he was called into the office. And the Icha Icha paradise TV series were always on during Friday late nights. Kakashi sighed inwardly as he recalled how he had missed the show for three weeks in the running. Often, these meetings will go until the crack of dawn, as Tsunade always ended up sick, and in need of getting a ride back home, or the momentous amount of decisions paperwork one had to both sign BEFORE a mission.

"Anyway, We've just received reports of another disappearance. " Tsunade said. "We need to take action, before any more people 'disappear into thin air'. As you know, people are disappearing one by one. This cannot go on, Kakashi. The public is frantic, people are avoiding to go out late at nights and pubs are closing at an alarming rate! Where can I go get my sake if all of them close? Ordering them online on ebay is far too much expensive."

Kakashi's eyes narrowed in response and said: "You drink too much. And it's only been a month or so since this happened! Maybe they all, I don't know, left Konoha without the immigration knowing or something? It is a free country you know."

"Kakashi! It is NOT the time to be joking, I daresay, 50 disappearances in a month! How can you explain that? We can't keep covering up these disappearances with notices such as them getting trouble with the law or getting deferred as an excuse! The number is too large!" Tsunade exclaimed, fingers gripping the edge of the desk in anxiousness. "On another note, take a look at this report". With that, she bent down and pulled a lever on her desk. A file slipped out from the ceiling and landed peacefully.

On Kakashi's head.

With an annoyed grunt, Kakashi grasped the file and glanced at the contents.

NAME: Karin (香燐). No known surname.

AGE: 25

GENDER: Female

APPEARANCE: Glasses. Red mid-length hair with a shaggy side long, the other short. Wearing office clothes at time of disappearance.

LAST SEEN: At the Nero Bianca, a newly established pub, built just a month ago. Quite popular with locals.

OTHER DETAILS: Works at Uchiha and Co. as a secretary. Has unfavourable desires to the young CEO, Uchiha Sasuke, who is aged 25. A TOTAL B*TCH.

Kakashi chuckled in response. "Did Sakura write this?"

"Why….Sh-She had nothing better to do. How did you know it was Sakura?" Tsunade blushed in embarrassment.

"And that's how you use my spies? Doing paperwork for you when they are out of duty? And plus, Sakura is the only one who writes comments such as a total b*tch without quotation marks, writes with a lack of professionalism AND writes in pink for her reports. Do you think that me, being her sensei for 10 years hasn't taught me something about her?" Kakashi smirked in reply.

"Well, this SAKURA who hasn't got the professionalism, writes in pink and makes comments on her reports are part of my department now, and as your superior, I order you to shut up." Tsunade retorted.

Kakashi inwardly sighed the second time that night as he recalled her deferment. Apparently, his department was TOO harsh on the recruits and not WOMANLY enough, as stated by Sakura. It always bothered him why Tsunade would agree to that, and give her more "womanly" duties in the paperwork department. They had lower pay, and longer working hours, for heaven's sake! Or perhaps it was the recent case she had been on?

"Because of that deferment, I plan to give Sakura the chance to become a spy again. I wish she will take this opportunity. She has performed extremely well, plus, her…attracting skills always come in handy when there is a male." Kakashi stated with an air of annoyance.

"Perhaps that's why she deferred to my department. Anyways, we have to employ at least two agents. One to go to work at the Uchiha Co. and one to work at the bar in which Karin disappeared, the Nero Bianco."

"Why focus on these two spots?"

"A couple of employees, about twenty in total have disappeared from Uchiha and Co. This is a large percentage of the number of disappearance during these past two months. The other people who have been 'disappeared' from thin air are employees from thirty other companies. And they do not have a gender bias in there disappearances. So far, there has been about an equal distribution of females and males. Let's just hope and see if we can get any information there." Tsunade replied as she took a bottle of sake from the top shelf and poured its contents into a ceramic, dainty cup. She took another cup from the shelf and pushed it towards Kakashi. He accepted and allowed Tsunade to pour a portion.

"And with Nero Bianco?"

Tsunade grinned in response with a spark dancing in her eye. "As with Nero Bianco, I hope you remember the Hyuugas. They are…a quite notable lot, are they? Look at the name of the bar, the Nero Bianco, which means 'white eye' in Italian. A good giveaway, is it not? They are, according to bloodline, the only family or clan in Konoha to have this trait of having white eyes. They were once, or maybe, still a wealthy and well-known family. But, nothing have been heard of them ever since they 'left' for ten years. And the bar, Nero Bianoc, has been open ever since. This is the tenth year. Plus, out of these disappearances, ten have occurred at this particular bar."

Kakashi mentally slapped himself. He should have paid more attention to this case. Afterall, fifty disappearances in a space of three months were surprising. And these disappearances were REPORTED ones, which meant that the number of disappearances would probably be more. He lifted the ceramic cup towards his lips and swallowed the sake slowly.

"Now, as I have told you the locations, we should nominate the spies."

"Sakura for the Uchiha and Co." Kakashi stated automatically.

"And the other one…..Tenten."

Kakashi coughed and spluttered on his share of saki. "HER? But…BUT….wait a moment. She hasn't been on a mission yet! And she has just graduated from the academy! You can't believe that she would be capable to handling a mission on her own!"

Tsunade only smiled in reply. "Why not? She is a good candidate, she graduated as the best of the year, AND she has skills. I haven't seen anyone with a level of accuracy higher than hers".

"I suppose a bird has to leave the nest sometimes. It can't always be caged. Well, I better get going. My TV show is starting in about fifteen minutes."

"You forgot something."

"What?"Kakashi questioned as he reached the handle of the office door.

"Cheers."

With that, the two raised the cups of sake and wished for the mission's success.

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YES! And that's the first chapter. Please review! I wanna to see your comments. XD