New chapter. Thank you to everyone fore the reviews and reviews to come, it's really encouraging and they make my day. The other chapters seem a bit short, what do you think? Should I do a lot of chapters that length, or less chapters that are longer, all the chapters look a lot longer in word. Enjoy!
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"We should head out now, we need to go a bit faster today, we woke up late." Kakashi said when the team finished packing up the tent. "Right!" Sakura replied. Kiba and Anko were too tired to do anything but go to the stream to dunk their heads in the water. "Don't you think its interesting that they would send four Jonin all the way to the land of snow just to find a body?" Kiba said as he came up from the water. "Now that I think about it I do, but we can't just abandon our mission, we need to see this through. "Right." And with that the team headed for the port, the trip should take most of the day, and they were moving to quickly for talk, so they all mostly kept the their thoughts.
"It is odd that we are going all the way to the land of snow just for something like this." Anko thought. "Why didn't they just hire some Shinobi from the Village hidden in the Mist, they're much closer. And why Jonin, they could do it with Chunin, or even a Jonin and three Genin, oh well, I cant abandon a mission." "Anko, our Hokage is a smart women, she has a reason for sending us on this mission. We just have to trust her" said Kakashi, as if he could read her mind. "Yeah, I guess you're right." said Anko, and with that her mind drifted to a certain silver haired shinobi on her squad.
"Wow, did he just read my mind, no he can't have. Hmm, he probably overheard Kiba and I talking. I know he wasn't purposely eavesdropping, he's not like that. Damn, he has good ears. And a nice ass, Stop it Anko! Don't be a perv, I can't deny that he's attractive, but I shouldn't perv on him, after all, he is one of my best friends." Their trip was quite uneventful until about one hour away from the port when they were stopped by a group of bandits. "Give us all your money and we won't kill you!"
They landed while drawing their kunai knives. "Back off if you know what's good for you!" Kakashi said. "You guys don't stand a chance, we were Chunin from the village hidden in the mist before we left, now I'll give you one more chance, give us all your money or die!" As soon as he finished his sentence all of the rogue ninja were on the ground tied up. "We need to go to the port in the village hidden in the mist, on our way we can drop these off." said Anko indicating the three rogue ninja that were tied up at the squad's feet. "yeah, your right." said Kakashi, " We need to hurry though, they did delay us a little bit." The rest of the team nodded, and they were off, carrying the bandits on their backs.
Luckily for them the building were they could turn them in was right next to the port. Kakashi simply open the door and dropped the unconscious ninja inside the building and went his way. They made it to the port just in time, their boat was going to leave in about one minute. "Alright team, lets get on the boat, the trip is about twenty-six hours, but we will be getting our mission details ON the boat, so that will give us time to prepare for our mission." Anko explained to the rest of the team as they got on the boat. Where they found their employer waiting for them.
"Hello, my name is Koraga. Your mission is simple. You must find the body of one of our ninja. It contains vital information that the land of snow needs. We know the general location of the body. I have been made aware that you have brought a ninja hound with you. Upon hearing this information I got an object with his sent on it, so you can hopefully track the body. I'm sure you will want the rest of the time to play, allow me to show you to your room."
So the squad followed Koraga to their room. It was a large room big enough for all of them to stay in comfortably. "Kiba, do you think that Akamaru will be able to find a dead body with a sent?" Kakashi asked Kiba. "Most likely, especially if he knows the general location." "Good." "I'll be right back, I have to use the bathroom." Anko said, as she left the room. Going to the bathroom wasn't her intention. She needed a word with Koraga.
"Koraga, why are you hiring from a different country, you said it yourself, you have your own shinobi, and why not hire from the village hidden in the mist either, they're so much closer that we are, so it would be quicker." Anko said to Koraga. "Ah, well you see, we think it may have been our shinobi who killed the one you are looking for, though we are not sure why. And to answer your second question, we don't really trust the village hidden in the mist, we think that they want to take our land by force. Does that answer your question." "Yes, but I have one more question, who is it that we are looking for, what is his name, also, tell me about him." "Oh, I don't think that that's necessary, do you?" with that Anko walked away, decided that none of his answers were satisfactory, and that she needed to mention something to the rest of the team.
When she came in the room she didn't wait to say "I don't trust this Koraga character, he seems a bit shady." "That's what we were just talking about" was Kakashi's reply, as always he was completely indifferent to the situation at hand. For the first time ever Anko was actually turned on by his indifference. "Oh, okay, so what do we do then?" "We wait, at the moment, we can have our suspicions, but there is no way of really telling at this time." Kakashi replied, ending the discussion. "While you were away though, we did decide what are plan is if Koraga isn't lying to us to try to get us killed. Here is what we will do. We will first see if Akamaru can find the body by scent, hopefully that will work out. If not, then wee will have to fan out and search individually, but keep in sight of one another, the whole time I want Sakura to keep an eye on Koraga." Finished Kakashi, indicating Sakura.
"What is our plan if Koraga attacks or has people attack while we are looking for the body, if there is one." asked Anko. "Well, I think it would be best if we regroup in a spot in between all of us. And plan to fight, or get away, depending on his actions." was Kakashi's answer. "Alright." said Anko as Kiba and Sakura nodded. It's getting late said Kakashi after a long period of silence, we'll need to be rested tomorrow, no matter what happens, let's go to bed." And with that the squad each took one of the beds in their room, and went to sleep, all of them thinking about how the next day will go.
"We have arrived at the land of snow, please meet us on the deck for breakfast, then we will head out." said Koraga when he woke up the squad. All of them got up and went to breakfast, without a word, they were all to deep in thought about what would happen during their mission today. They ate a breakfast of rice balls. Koraga seemed to be in good spirits, his explanation for this was that the mission was finally going to be done. But the four shinobi had suspicions about what mission he was really talking about. After the breakfast they left the ship to look for the body. "You said that you had some of his scent?" Kiba asked. "Yes we do, here it is." said Koraga handing Kiba a glove, commonly wore by a shinobi. Kiba lowered it for Akamaru to smell, and Akamaru gave a few barks. "Can he pick up a scent?" Kakashi asked. "Yeah he can, he says its not far from here, probably only about three-hundred meters or so." "okay, what are we waiting for, let's get going!" said Anko, she was anxious to finish the mission and get back to the village hidden in the leaves.
After a few minutes of running they came to a valley, and they saw something that resembled a body in the center. They approached it, then looked back to see if Koraga was close behind them, he wasn't. They looked at the body and found a note on it. It read,
You are fools leaf shinobi, you fell into our trap, the body is a fake and this is no ordinary island, it contains a chakra below it that is ever present and it will cause you to lose your sense of direction completely while on the island, I hope you're ready to starve to death.
-Koraga
"Damn, how could we be so stupid to not notice that he wasn't following us while we were going after this body" shouted Anko. "Don't worry about it, dogs can tell when people are lying, Akamaru knew that he was being deceitful and got his scent, he's this way." said Kiba, pointing in the direction that they all starting running in. Sure enough Kiba was right and they found the boat leaving. "Great that we found this place now, but how do we get off this island?" "I'm on it." said Kakashi as he made some hand signs and put his hand on the ground while saying "summoning jutsu!" He summoned a messenger bird to deliver a message to the village hidden in the mist to bring a boat to this island as fast as possible. "They will probably send one of their faster boats so we are will only be on this island for a day." explained Kakashi.
They went off to search for a cave by where they were to stay in until the boat got there. Luckily for them Sakura spotted one very close by. When they got in the cave Anko said "Lucky we brought Kiba with us." "maybe luck, but maybe the Hokage was suspicious as well." said Kakashi. "But if she was suspicious why did she even take the mission, and why wouldn't she tell us she was suspicious?" asked Sakura. "I'm not sure yet, I'm going to ask her, but we need to wake up early tomorrow to wait for the ship, so let's just light a fire then go to bed." said Kakashi. Apparently Kakashi had brought some wood so he set it out and used a jutsu to light it on fire.
Even with the fire going it was still really cold. Sakura and Kiba fell asleep right away. As they were sleeping Anko decided not to sleep right away and keep to her thoughts and think about what was going to happen next, were they just going to let Koraga just get away, doubtful, especially when Akamaru had his scent. Her thinking was interrupted by Kakashi draping his winter cloak over her shoulders. "You look cold, I'll be fine without it. Why aren't you trying to sleep, is there something wrong?" "No, I was just thinking, are we going to let Koraga get away, or are we going to go after him?" "I think that we should go after him, capture him and bring him back to the village hidden in the leaves. I will send the Hokage a message telling her what happened." Kakashi said, Anko just nodded.
After a while Anko said, "Kakashi, you look freezing, take back your winter cloak." "No, you need it more than I do, either way one of us will be cold, it should be me." After a short pause Anko said, " Well, there is one other thing you know." "What is that?" "We could huddle together for warmth, that way both of us will be warm, instead of one of us being warm and having the other be freezing." This brought upon an internal struggle for Kakashi.
"God dammit, she's right, but if I say yes, then I may get attached. If I get attached, I could have my heart broken again. I want to say yes so badly, but if I do, I will be weak. A shinobi should not show their emotions, it is a bad trait in a shinobi to let yourself be overcame by your emotions so easily." Kakashi had no idea what to do. He loved Anko, but he didn't want to admit it so he would have to face having his heart broken again.
That's all for this chapter, I hope you enjoyed my little cliff hanger, I had fun writing this one. Review if you want to, criticize all you want, I could use some advice. And if I'm spelling anything wrong, make sure to tell me. I still need a better name for the story, PM me with one if you have any ideas.