Yesterday and today, has been so hectic, that I deserve to drink three bottles of sake at least. Now to look at my secret stash, hopefully Shizune hasn't raided it yet.

Ah, here they are, in my lovely cabinet near my desk, there's no way Shizune would find these, hic.

Oh, that reminds me, I haven't told team Kakashi about everything yet. Great, maybe I should just tell them when I'm too drunk to care about Naruto's outburst, Kakashi's glare, and Sai's never ending silence.

Where are those guys anyway? Didn't I ordered Shizune to get those three here first thing in the morning? It's already noon, and they didn't even stop by at all.

Heh, Kakashi's tardiness must have been rubbing on his students. The moment Sakura decides to copy, the copy nin's record of tardies, is the day I'll let her feel my bone crushing punch.

"Tsunade-sama," as usual you know when to show up, Shizune, but couldn't you do it when I'm more drunk? I don't really need this, just look at this stack of papers that's already pilling on me, thanks to those Akatsuki brats.

"Nanda yo, Shizune," I asked her, waving my sake cup, urging to speak her business already.

"Neji just returned from his mission, he seemed to be injured but his mission has been carried out perfectly as usual, Sakura-san is healing him at the moment." Shizune reported.

"Good, anything else?"

"Ha-Hai, Gai-san just returned from his mission as well, and will provide a report as soon as he's finish his match with Kakashi-san today."

Hah? Those stupid matches again. When will their one sided rivalry ever end? Oh that reminds me.

"Shizune, do you know where these two are doing their competition?"

"Ha-hai," she seemed a bit hesitant.

"Go on."

"Gai san mentioned something about a ramen competition."

"Ichiraku it is, then."

"Hai."

"Shizune! I want you to get Kakashi here and tell him to gather his team, minus Sakura of course."

"Hai," she said and disappeared from my office.

Finally I'm alone with my sake, for one hour tops, at least. Better than nothing.

An hour and thirty minutes later, after sipping at least five bottles of sake, they arrived in my office. Kakashi scratching the back of his head as usual, Naruto looked like I've ruined his plans (whatever happen to the always excited to be given a mission, genin?), Sai looked the same as usual.

"You guys are late," I told them boringly.

"Datte," Naruto began.

"Ano sa…"Kakashi was about to begin his lame excuses again.

"No, I don't want to hear excuses." I told them seriously with a bit of a frown on my face.

"…" They were all silent, intently waiting for me to tell them their mission, or whatever it is they had expected.

"You are not here for a mission. In fact you are here for some news."

"Ano sa, baachan, is it good or bad?" Naruto asked.

"Depends on how you look at it."

Judging from how Kakashi replace his relax posture to a serious posture, he must have been expecting the worse. Well, he might as well. Sai was the same. And Naruto gain a bit of maturity during these kinds of conversation that he's no longer nagging for everybody to just tell him what's going on already. However his anxiousness has never disappeared totally.

I took a deep breath; then told them everything I knew so far, and the contract with Itachi and two ex-Akatsuki members. Leaving the marriage thing out of it; since, I wanted to test their reaction to it first.

"With the contract there is guarantee's that he would be faithful to the village, but why tell us first, hokage-sama," Kakashi asked his lazy eyes not leaving mines.

"Because it concerns Naruto and also…"

"So does that mean that there's no organization after kyuubi now?" Naruto asked, hoping for good news.

"Well, I'm not entirely sure. I haven't interviewed Itachi about the situation yet. However, there is a possibility that whoever did this to the Akatsuki are aware of what the organization stood for."

"Wakatta," Naruto said, not entirely too happy about that.

"You said it concerns Naruto and also something else, Hokage-sama," Sai asked, catching that there is also another reason why Team Kakashi is in here, listening to this confidential information.

"Yes, it does concern another Team member of Team Kakashi, besides Naruto."

"Dare?" Naruto asked, a bit shock that it would concern someone else, he looked from me to Kakashi; he must be expecting it to be Kakashi.

"Sakura," I looked at my desk refusing to look at their eyes.

"Sakura-chan, uso ttebayo, there's no way it should concern Sakura-chan. Na, baachan, tell me it's a joke," Naruto came to my desk shaking my shoulders.

"Naruto," Kakashi warned him.

"Demo." He looked down.

"Hokage-sama, what is her involvement," Kakashi asked.

"Itachi compromise that he would only sign the last statement in the contract, if he marries Sakura."

"Why ugly?" Sai asked.

"I don't know myself, but that is the only term in the contract that he added anything on, it being the last. I have no choice but let him have his way."

"But why Sakura-chan? Why can't it be Ino or someone else?"

"Naruto!" Kakashi warned him again.

"Does she know already?" Kakashi asked calmly. But judging from his form he is hardly calm about this. He knows first hand how strong Itachi is, and to have his previous student at the mercy of Itachi, was something that is hard for him to swallow at the moment.

"She knows. How she is taking it, I do not know."

They each left my office. That went rather well, Kakashi kept Naruto in check. I wonder who will keep Sakura in check when she decided to yell at my decision.

Minna he,

I'm sorry if this is yet, another filler, I promise I'll try to get all these fillers done and over with ASAP, I'll try to update with the same speed I've been doing for the past few days. Hopefully that's enough compensation for bearing with me with this filler chapter, but I thought it's a necessity to have their POV's regardless, since they have an impact with one of the characters so to speak.

Next chapter, it will be either Sakura's POV or one of Team Kakashi's. There won't be a Tsunade POV for quite a while, so the story should run its course already.

Thank you all for the lovely reviews, I love reading them, and this is my first time to ever receive such a huge amount for just three chapters. I'll try my best to keep up the pace that I've been doing so far as thanks for the reviews.

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