The crowd parted like she had the plague which if she thought about the distance between civilians and shinobi it was pretty accurate. She wore skin tight black pants tucked into ANBU boots along with a tight black v-necked vest. Black fingerless gloves graced her hands with metal deflectors across the knuckles and on her left arm a mesh sleeve rose from wrist to bicep. Around her waist was a loose webbed belt that sat low on her hips and held five pouches along with a black bladed katana. Her shaggy white hair fell to her chin and a long red scarf was wrapped around her neck and doubled as a mask, covering the lower portion of her face whilst leaving her large onyx eyes free.

"I need to report to the Hokage," she said after climbing the steps of the Hokage Tower. The two Chuunin guards shared a look,
"And you are?" one of them asked
"I am known as Black Wolf," she replied and they snorted in amusement, "Why don't you go and inform the Hokage that I am here to report instead of sniggering," she suggested holding her katana against the neck of one of the guards and the matching wakizashi against the other's neck who blinked in surprise. She removed the wakizashi blade from one of them and he nodded and ran inside ignoring the thin line of blood that was now running down his neck. She sheathed her swords and turned to look over the village square that hadn't changed in the years she had been gone.

She turned back moments before the guard reappeared and bowed to her, "The Hokage will see you now," he said with his head still lowered. She swept past him gracefully and followed familiar passages to the Hokage's office. She relinquished her katana to the ANBU guards outside the office door but kept her wakizashi with her as was her due and entered the room to see a large busted blonde sitting behind a desk stacked high with papers. She had heard that the Sandaime Hokage had passed on and that Tsunade one of the legendary Sannin had accepted the Hokage position. Bowing in greeting before handing over a scroll that had her report on it she stood patiently as she was assessed by the leader of her village.

"So you are the infamous Black Wolf," Tsunade's voice said softly looking down at a file in front of her. "You have a very impressive record and your latest mission slip, which you have just given me a report for is very vague. What did it entail?" she asked,
"The mission had me infiltrate Kumogakure and take out the operations base of the slave traders and then assassinate all those involved, it was only last week that I tracked down and found the last owner." Tsunade nodded thoughtfully
"This took you nearly four years," she commented.
"There were in all nearly sixteen hundred slavers involved," she replied and Tsunade blanched,
"What was the actual number?"
"One thousand five hundred and seventy two Lady Hokage,"
"Everything is in this report?"
"That is a summary, the full report is here in these two summoning scrolls," she said placing two more scrolls on the desk.
"Thank you Black Wolf, I will read through your report and will contact you if I have any further questions. Dismissed,"
"If I may ask Lady Hokage, is there another mission available?" she asked politely, "And where can I pick up my pay? I haven't been in the village for a long while I am running low on funds and I will have to find a room for the night."

"Shizune!" Tsunade called out and a dark headed woman hustled in
"Hai Lady Tsunade?"
"Organise the pay for Black Wolf here and point her in the right direction of a room for the night,"
"Hai Lady Tsunade,"
"Black Wolf you are as of now on two weeks holiday, if a mission comes up you will be contacted but until those two weeks are up I do not want to see you," Tsunade said and the masked kunoichi bowed, "And Black Wolf, thank you for completing such a mission and congratulations on making it back safely,"
"Arigato Lady Hokage," she replied bowing again and following Shizune out of the office collecting her katana as she did so.

Shizune covertly watched the masked kunoichi walk beside her. "Is there something that you wish to ask?" she asked turning her head to look at the dark headed assistant to the Hokage. Shizune smiled gently, "No, I am just surprised that one as young as yourself has a name already amongst the shinobi of this world,"
"It is no surprise when you look at how hard I trained as a child to be where I am," she replied handing Shizune her pay docket. She waited patiently as the assistant carefully counted out her pay and was given directions to an inn that had the public hot springs beside them.
"Arigato Shizune-san," she said splitting up her pay and sealing most of it away in a scroll which she tucked into a pouch and placing the rest in a small pouch that was sewn into her belt before walking out of the Hokage Tower and back out into the hidden leaf village.