Well here's chapter three. I have to say its not my best work and some parts might be a bit confusing, but enjoy.
"Anko!" Kakashi's yell rang through the silent woods. "Anko, damn it, this is no time for a joke! Come out!" He placed the basket on the ground and jumped into the trees, searching for her. When she was nowhere to be found he uncovered his sharingan with a sign. She was going to pay for making him use this and pay well.
He scanned the woods with his sharingan, but to no avail. Anko still couldn't be found. Something's wrong, he thought, sniffing the air. I can't even smell her scent. It's like she… evaporated into thin air.
Quickly, he formed the hand seals and summoned Pakkun. The little dog looked at him with interest. "Hey Kakashi. What'd you need?"
From the basket, Kakashi pulled out Anko's swimsuit. "Find her. She was here not 10 minuets ago, but even with my sharingan I can't find her."
Pakkun sniffed the swimsuit then raised his nose to the wind. "I'll do my best." With that, he took off into the trees, leaving a very worried Kakashi to wait for his return.
Kakashi paced back and forth on the path. Yes, Anko liked to play jokes, but this was going too far. His head jerked up as he heard Pakkun returning. His eyes scanned the woods, waiting for Anko to reappear.
Pakkun looked sadly at his master. "Her scent train comes from the lake here, but then it just vanished. I can't help you. There's no trail to follow."
Kakashi sank to his knees. What had happened? She had been right behind him. No enemy could have snuck up on them. Even if they hand, Anko was no weakling. Not only that, but struggling would have made a sound.
Pakkun placed a paw on his master's knee. "I'm sorry Kakashi. You better inform the Hokage. I'll sniff around a little longer, but I doubt I'll find much."
"Thank you Pakkun. I'm going to request a team to help me search for her." With a small piece of new hope, Kakashi pulled himself to his feet, hefted the basket once again and jumped into the trees at full speed, heading for Konoha and for help.
10 minuets later, Kakashi burst into the Hokage's mansion, the basket no longer on his back, but at his apartment. He rushed upstairs and found Shizune outside Lady Tsunade's office. "Shizune," he gasped. "Is Lady Tsunade here? It's of the highest importance!"
Shizune took one look at Kakashi's face and knocked on the door. "What is it Shizune?" came a voice from the other side.
Shizune opened the door slightly. "Kakashi is here to see you. He says it's important."
"Send him in." The words were barely out of her mouth before Kakashi burst into her office.
"Anko is missing." he said. Tsunade put her pen down and clasped her hand in front of her face.
"Are you sure?" She knew Kakashi wasn't one to lie (except about being late). But she also knew that Anko liked to play tricks on her fellow jonin.
Kakashi nodded. "There's no trace of her. We were walking back to the village and all the sudden I hear her whisper 'goodbye' and when I turned around she was gone! I searched with my sharingan and even summoned Pakkun, but there's no scent trail. It's like she vanished into this air!"
Tsunade's eyes widened. "You're sure of this?" Kakashi nodded. "SHIZUNE!" Tsunade yelled.
The door opened slightly and Shizune's head poked through. "Yes my lady?"
"Get me Shino, Hinata, and Kiba. NOW!" Without bothering to answer, Shizune was racing to find the three Tsunade wanted.
"When do we leave?" Kakashi asked anxiously.
"Kakashi," she said slowly. "You will not be joining this squad. You will be remaining here." She braced herself for the outburst.
It took a moment for the words to sink in. "What?!" Kakashi yelled, jumping up from the chair he had seated himself in. "What do you mean I'll be staying here? Lady Tsunade I can't!"
"Give me one decent reason why you can't." The Hokage's voice was firm.
"Because." He looked into her eyes. "I promised her if she ever disappeared, I'd never stop searching until I found her."
Tsunade let out an audible sigh. Being Hokage, was not by any means an easy job. "That's by far a decent reason, but I cannot allow you to leave the village."
There was a knock on the door and then Shizune let Kiba, Shino, and Hinata in. They stood, awaiting their mission assignment.
Tsunade turned to them. "Anko Mitarashi has vanished." The three all wore surprised expressions, but they held their tongues. Kurenai bust through the door, her face was white with worry.
"Hokage-sama! Is it true Anko is missing?" She completely ignored the fact that her former team was in the room.
"Yes, it is. I'm sending out a team to search the area, although Kakashi searched with his sharingan as well as Pakkun." Tsunade indicated to the three young ninjas standing in the room.
Kurenai shot a glance at Kakashi, who nodded. "Oh…" she said in a small voice. "I'll just wait outside then." She left out through the door. Inside she was breaking. She couldn't lose Anko, she just couldn't.
Back inside Tsunade's office, she had already briefed the team. "Shino, I'm assigning you as squad leader. See if you can find anything that would give us a clue to what happened. You leave now. Report to me tonight. Dismissed."
The three bowed and left. Seconds later, Kakashi asked, "Why am I not allowed to search?" His voice was tight and pained.
"I plan on retiring shortly, stepping down from the title of Hokage and just being one of the three Sanin." She looked out the window. "I intend to leave Konoha in capable hands."
"What the hell has this got to do with me?" Kakashi was too upset to see where this was going, or to even get a head start and run away.
She looked at him. "Kakashi, I'm passing the title of Hokage onto you."
Kakashi just looked at her dumbly. "What?"
Even Tsunade had a hard time remembering that this lazy, laid back ninja was a genius sometimes. "Kakashi, I'm making you the 6th Hokage."
"Don't I get a choice in the matter?" Honestly, he wanted to search the world until he found Anko, not be stuck behind some desk.
"You do, but I think this will change our mind." From a draw in her desk, Tsunade pulled out three objects. The first she handed to Kakashi who took it with trembling hands.
"Where did you get this?" His voice shook.
"The Fourth Hokage had it repaired by the most skilled blacksmith he could find."
Slowly, Kakashi gripped the hilt and drew his father's sword from its sheath. The blade was mended seamlessly and the edge was as sharp as ever. "I wish I could thank him."
"You can," Tsunade said bluntly. "It was his wish that you become Hokage." Then, she picked up the second object, a scroll, and opened it. "This scroll states that if his son wasn't ready to take on the position, he passes it onto you. As for the final object, it's a box, but I don't know how to open it."
Kakashi didn't even ask, he just took the box of the Hokage's desk and froze. Slowly, he placed the box back on the desk. "It's been chakara encoded. It will only open for the Forth Hokage or myself."
"What is so important that it was chakara encoded?" Tsunade was curious now.
"I am the last member of the Hatake family, or at least the last one in Konoha." Kakashi's eyes never left the box. "My family scroll had to be protected. It contains…" Kakashi paused; he had to choose his next words carefully. "…certain aspects of my family history, which in the wrong hands would cause havoc on Konoha and the entire Fire Country, not to mention all the other countries."
Tsunade knew Kakashi had to be cautious when talking about the family scroll, but she still wanted to know. "What exactly does it contain?"
Kakashi held up his hand, palm facing up. The glowed with a blue light and the sound of chirping birds filled the room. "The Chidori and its more powerful form, the Lightning Blade, are just a small sample of what is contained within the scroll. Yes, they are my own original moves, but are only complete because of the sharingan." The chakara vanished, as did the chirping. "Over the years I forgot about this scroll. It would appear, however, that the Forth Hokage had other plans for it."
Tsunade raised an eyebrow. "So, you're saying this scroll contains high level lighting moves?"
Kakashi nodded. "In that box is perhaps the most powerful lightning jutsu scroll as well as my power."
Tsunade was surprised at this. "Your power?"
Kakashi's hands balled into fists. "When I was young, I had so much chakara that it nearly overwhelmed my body. I had perhaps as much as Naruto, but my body couldn't take it. The Forth Hokage sealed a good deal of my chakara inside a medium until I was older. He passed before he could return it."
"It would seem," Tsunade began. "That the Forth had many secrets, some still unknown. Now I ask you Kakashi, will you take back your powers and the powers of your clan and protect Konoha as the 6th Hokage?"
Kakashi looked at the box before him, and his father's sword which sat in his lap. His resolve hardened. He took the box and box and opened it. Inside laid his family's scroll and the medium. Placing the box back on the desk, he picked up the medium, a diamond. "Chidori," he whispered and the diamond shattered into grains of fine powder.
A strange, yet familiar power filled Kakashi. It was the power he had lost long ago, once again coursing through his veins. He met Tsunade's eyes. "I cannot give you that answer now."
"Very well. I'll give you some time to think of it and learn your family's techniques. Tsunade raised her voice. "Kurenai, you may come in now."
The door opened and closed as Kurenai reentered, her eyes red and puffy. "Lady Tsunade, is there any hope?"
Tsunade sadly shook her head. "Kakashi couldn't find her and he was there right after she disappeared. He even summoned Pakkun."
The tears flowed from Kurenai's eyes once again. There was a light knocking on the door. "Come in," said Tsunade.
Asuma entered. He placed a hand on Kakashi's shoulder. "I'm sorry man." Then, he went over to Kurenai and took her into his arm. "I'm sure you have things to discus with Kakashi. I'll bring her home."
"Thank you Asuma." It was one less thing Tsunade had to deal with at the moment. They bowed and left. "Kakashi, I know you want to search for Anko, but we have no leads no clues to where she might be. I don't plan on stepping down for a few months now, so you have some time to think. If anything does come up, I'll let you know."
"Thank you Hokage-sama." He closed the box once again, and left with it in hand, along with his father's sword.
Kakashi put his key in the lock and turned it. The door slowly creaked open. No, Kakashi wasn't at his apartment. He was at his mansion. For years and years, he had avoided the place, but now that he had his father's sword and his family scroll, it only seemed right to return to the place where so many of his nightmares began.
Stepping inside, he found the light switch and turned them on. Lights slowly flickered back into life after years of disuse. Everything was covered in a thin layer of dust. With a sigh Kakashi set to work cleaning the living room. At least there, sheets had been placed to protect the furniture.
It took him a good two hours to get the room cleaned, but when he was done, he placed the blankets he had brought from his apartment on the couch and sat down.
From the picnic basket he had brought it with him, he drew Anko's swimsuit and the cloths she had worn on the way to the lake. Deeply, he inhaled, breathing in her scent. To him she smelled bittersweet. Sweet like the dangos she loved so much, but bitter like all the hardships she had been forced to endure.
The he noticed something. From the basket, he drew the uneaten chocolate. Tears welled up his left eye. Anko has never left chocolate uneaten before. Now, it seemed like she would never eat it. "Dammit Obito!" he yelled as the tears start flowing down his face. "You were always quick to cry." He clutched her cloths, all he had left of her, to his chest and though, Anko… what am I going to do? His mind slowly settled off into an uneasy sleep.
A/N: Ok, not my best chapter i know. I had a bit of a writers block on it and some trouble messing around with the timeline. Like i had Asuma dead, but that would mean Naruto was back and Kakashi and Anko talked about Nauto's training at the lake, so i fixed that. So we leave off here, Kakashi is in the Hatake mansion and sleeping on the couch. What on earth could he be thinking. and where is Anko? Only time will tell.
I'll try to update again soon!
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