"ARRRGGGGHHH" Screamed the falling ninja as he hit the ground knocked out from a devestating attack from Sakura. She healed the ninja behind her quicker than Tsunade thought she could and even kept the attacking ninja busy with some replicas of herself.
Tsunade walked up to Sakura. "Very good Sakura!" Tsundae yelled in joy. "You have improved greatly. I'm sure you will make a great medic nin!" She commented as she looked at Sakura.
Sakura was suprised at herself as well. She didn't think that defeating her enemy was going to be this easy. Even with the injured comrade and all, she formulated a plan, used her techniques perfectly and defeated the enemy. She felt stronger, it was a beautiful feeling that she loved to feel. She looked at Tsunade. "Is this all for today?"
Tsundae nodded. "Yes. You may be dismissed now Sakura. I expect to see you tomorrow morning again." She said as Sakura walked away from the area and back into town. "That girl will become something great..." She thought to herself as the wind blew past her. She walked over and helped the ninja to his feet. "You okay?" She asked.
The ninja took off his mask to revel that it was Iruka. "Ahhh...that girl is amazing." He said as he rubbed his jaw. "She packs a mean punch."
"She got that from me." Tsunade replied. "Thanks for helping out though." She looked at the smiling Iruka.
"Anytime Tsunade-sama. I just had to see how much progress Sakura made. I see that she isn't the little pink haired girl I used to know." Iruka remembered Sakura well. She was the head of the class with Chakra control and knowledge on Ninja-Know-How. He felt proud to teach her everything she knew and to grow up to have become what she is so far.
Shizune appeared out of the blue, but to no suprise to Iruka and Tsunade. "Tsunade-sama...you won't believe this..." She said with a tone of seriousness in her voice. Tsunade turned to her hearing this. "Please follow me to the hospital." She disappeared once again.
Tsunade wondered what could be wrong as she looked at Iruka. "I'll chat with you later Iruka, looks like somethings come up." She said to him in a hurry. She then disappeared from the area and sped her way to the hospital. She landed at the front doors and headed in, looking to the front desk.
The desk nurse looked at her. "Ahhh...Hokage-sama...Shizune is in the waiting room." She said to Tsunade.
"Thank you." Tsunade replied as she made her way to the waiting room. She opened the door to a small room with chairs lined up on the walls and a TV to watch. She saw Shizune sitting across from Raven. He had his hood up and a dark shadow blocked the view of his face. She took a seat next to Shizune and looked at the ninja.
"You must be the 5th." Raven stated a he looked at her and sensed her appearence wasn't what it seemed. She was hiding her age with chakra. "I must say...she is pretty attractive." He thought to himself.
"I am..." Tsunade replied. She didn't want to wait...time to get down to business. "What is your name and reason for being here?" She asked.
"My name is Raven. I was on a mission to deliver some information to Gaara in the Hidden Sand, when my sister and I were attacked. We managed to escape and head here. I didn't mean to cause a scene when I got here, but two of your Jonin wouldn't listen to my plea." He looked to the side some and thought about his sister and if she would be okay.
"Hmm...what village are you from?" Tsunade asked. She watched him as he looked back at her a he took off his hood and reveled his face and forehead protector. Her eyes grew wide in shock of what see is seeing. His forehead protector showed a bar and a tear drop shape hanging from it. "I thought..." She began to speak...
"That we were destoryed?" He said cutting her off. He looked down some. "No...we were hurt badly though." He looked to his right and peered out the window. "I was only seven at the time when the Hidden Sound, Mist and Cloud attacked us." He looked back at Tsunade with seriousness in his face. "But the Hidden Shadow did not die..."
He saw that Tsunade was still in shock at this news. Tsunade always wanted to visit the Hidden Shadow to enjoy the beautiful village located on the biggest island between the Sound, Water and Lightning countries. Even though the country of Shadows was small, it was known in past wars that whom ever side they take, that side will win. Reason behind that was that the Hidden Shadow had the most feared Jonins, but before the Leaf and Lightning war, Lightning tricked the Water and Sound into attacking the Shadows by killing some Water and Sound Jonin and placing their bodies on Shadow land. Lightning's main purpose for this action against the Hidden Shadow, was to disable any assistance from a stronger force than themselves alone.
"I think that it isn't safe for us to leave this village now." He said, looking at Tsunade. "Those ninja's will be waiting for us."
"Do you know who these ninja are?" Tsunade asked.
Raven shook his head. "No...they didn't have forehead protectors on, but they were strong."
Tsunade thought to herself. "Hmm...I'll have Gaara come here then." She looked at Raven for a response.
"That will work out fine for my sister and I." He bowed his head. "Thank you Hokage-sama. I am sorry for the disturbance and any troubles I have brought with me."
Tsunade stood up with Shizune. "It is quite alright, this place has been a bit boring as of late." She remarked as she walked out. Shizune walked next to her catching up the pace. "Shizune, I'll give this mission to you."
"I must deny it then." She replied.
Tsunade looked at her, taken back some. "Why is this?" She asked. She knew that Shizune must have something important to do to turn down any mission given to her.
"I have a date with Kakashi tonight." Shizune replied as she saw Tsunade's eyebrow raise.
"A date with Kakashi?" She said with even more confusion. This was strange to see Shizune ask anyone on a date and especially Kakashi.
"I refused to give him anymore missions and told him to cheer up. Well...then I decided to take him on a friendly date tonight."
"I guess that means you're leaving me with all the paper work tonight as well aren't you?"
"You're suppose to do it yourself anyways! You're the Hokage! Not me!"
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Else where in a bar...
Genma, Aoba, Kokou, and Konton met up after the incident at the gate for a drink and to talk about the newcomer. Kokou and Konton were still in shock at the boy's level of skill and chakra skill.
"So you mean to tell me that this boy beat your Suiton: Kaihoudon? (Water Release: Pressure Cannon)" Genma questions as he looks to Konton. "And burned through your Sugoi Tetsu Kabe? (Great Iron Wall) Using the Katon: Karyu Endan? (Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet.)"
Konton and Kokou both nodded.
"He had this strange symbol on his forehead protector. One I have never seen before." Kokou said a he tried to recall the event in his mind. He thanked his lucky stars it wasn't a one on one case or he wouldn't be alive to talk about it.
Konton killed his glass of sake. "It was a bar with a tear drop looking symbol hanging from it." He looked at Genma and saw his eyes grow wide. "What?"
"Are you sure!" Genma asked franticly.
"Y-yeah man...calm down." Konton said as he looked confused.
"That can't be right...Hidden Shadow ninja? Here?" He looked at Konton and Kokou. "I'll have to check his out myself..."
"Wait...Hidden Shadow?" Kokou asked.
"Weren't they destoryed?" Konton added.
"It seems they aren't completely destoryed if one showed up here" Aoba anwsered. "And no wonder he beat you two, shadow shinobi are extremely leathal and are able to use multiple skills of ninjutsu." He looked at Kokou. "You are one of the few able to use water based jitsu attacks, but he can use fire, wind, water, earth...you name it, he probably can use it."
"H-how?" Kokou asked as he thought of the ninja as almost a Hokage.
"His skill at molding charka is the key." Genma said as he took a sip of sake. "We are comfortable with molding our charka to fire attacks and taijutsu attacks, but he is comfortable with just molding charka and controlling it to the point he can do almost anything with it."
"Mean if there is a jutsu..." Konton started.
"Give him sometime to practice it and he'll have it down faster than most ninja's."
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Outside of the village two shinobi over look the village with evil intent...
The two ninjas are Teuyoi Tanku and Kurohyou Tsume...
Tanku is a missing nin of the Hidden Sand and has been for over eighteen years. Many ANBU ninjas failed to kill him before he was considered too dangerous to face because of his incredible power and solid defense. He stood at a towering 6'10 and weighed over three hundred pounds of solid Gaara was born he was known to be the most feared ninja they had. Still his bloodlust is what made him a monster and a threat to those in the Hidden Sand.
Tsume was a female missing nin from the Hidden Mist. She stood next to Tanku at 5'5 with her companion panther that never left her side since she was younger. "Damn...we let him escape into here." Tsume said as she looked at the village. Things could get complicated now with their targets in a Hidden Village. "We need to watch out for some of the Jonin here. Kakashi is among the top ones."
"Ha! Kakashi is weak compared to me...So are the rest of the Jonin of this village. None could ever stand against my power." His eyes burn with the desire to kill as he peered at the village. "Why can't we just tear this village apart?" He asked Tsume.
Tsume looked over at him, disgusted with his desire to kill and hurt, but it's not like that she cared for anyone anyways, she just can't stand working with simple minded people. She let's out an annoyed sigh. "We don't want to call attention to ourselves and lose our target." She looked back out at the village. "Orchimaru-sama would kill us if we failed this mission. For now we recon and then report back to the rest of the team."
Tanku sneered. "All you lucky little weaklings get to live just alittle longer..." His mouth watered for death. "But sooner or later I will get my hands on you...and slowly watch you wilt in my hands..."