Hehehe. Tsunade gets to suffer.

-F.G.

Haywire

"Not possible. I will not disclose classified information"

Shikako had been repeating the same thing every time she was asked a question about what happened in the future. Shikako watched as Tsunade's eyebrow twitched. She didn't for one second believe the woman was not dangerous to her. Shikako had known the Hokage for 3 years now, and 1 of them she had worked as ANBU. This Tsunade knew nothing about her, didn't owe them the protection of Konoha ninjas. The three elders and Sasuke were in the office with them. And she definitely wouldn't open her mouth in front of Danzo.

Danzo in her world had less influence and firepower this one probably had. The other one had been slowly drained of power by Tsunade. Having come in contact with Sai early on had allowed them to dig information on ROOT sooner than here.

"This is ridiculous, girl" The old woman of the council said with a scowl "all we know is that you allegedly had an accident after coming in contact with a Seal. How do we know you are who you say you are? That you don't mean to harm Konoha?"

She had refused to let Inoichi into her head. There was too much in there that could get her a ticket straight to invasive interrogation or possibly the afterlife. She wasn't that eager to find herself dead again. It was too late to pretend to be someone else. Sasuke had said her name during the fight multiple times and it was clear he wasn't this world's Sasuke. Even Naruto had figured it out within seconds. The Konoha 12, the Sand Team, and higher leveled ninja's knew exactly what Sasuke and she was. It was too late to close those floodgates.

"We don't mean to cause anything. We can even leave Konoha if you so wish it. The information I possess could be used dangerously. I need to figure out how to undo this"

Tsunade looked at Sasuke "Orochimaru wants Sasuke. If you leave we would be handing Sasuke to him…And his body belongs to one of our ninja"

Sasuke very carefully didn't twitch. He had remained quiet, letting her handle the situation. Naruto had told them on their way to the village exactly what this world's Sasuke had been planning to do. He would have been in Orochimaru's hideout by now, Shikako knew that. Oh hell. She very quickly shut the door in her thoughts about alternate realities and ignored it completely for later perusal. Tsunade was quickly losing her patience. She needed time to think.

"I know someone that I can trust implicitly in any…situation. I will agree to share information with you, and only you, with Jiraya-sama present" He wasn't present in the village. That would give her a few days.

"Girl-"

Tsunade held up a hand to interrupt one of the council members and studied her. Shikako held herself steadily. She'd die rather than let Danzo have the information that she possessed. Danzo was being creepily quiet. That didn't bode well for anyone. Tsunade apparently found what she had been looking for because she nodded in acceptance.

"I will send for Jiraya. You will speak when he gets here, understood?" Shikako nodded seriously, she would have to "For now, you will be given accommodations in the Uchiha district" that was definitely out of the way in case a fight broke out "any suspicious activities will mean a switch in security level" Translation: you ass will be handed to Ibiki and Inoichi. Shikako almost shuddered "understood?"

She bowed to the Hokage in assent. It had taken a while for her to be able to do it without any awkwardness but ANBU had changed that. They were soon escorted to the house by a jounin member of the Aburame clan. She didn't doubt for one second this one was known for being especially good at draining chakra.

The man didn't talk to them before he disappeared into the trees. The four ANBU that had been tailing them chose the best vantage spots and settled down for their watch. Shikako signed inconspicuously to Sasuke to let him know. The house was Spartan, there was no defense to it and it had plenty of windows that had very open views into it… She almost wanted to sight.

"Now what?" Sasuke said out loud and she wanted to just lay down and go to sleep. Yes, indeed. What now?

"Not even one fucking mission, Sasuke. This is ridiculous" Sasuke cracked a smile at that. Their ridiculous curse of their missions going haywire no matter what rank or what intel…but this was just a higher power fucking with them.