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Chapter 6:Find That Missing Nin!
Kakashi moaned loudly as he woke from the trance magenkyo sharingan had put him in. So Tsunami has sharingan as well. But the question was how did she obtain it? Were they transplants like his eye? Or was she born an Uchiha? Now he was going to have to explain to the fifth Hokage, Asuma, and Kurenai that their prisoner escaped. He was not looking forward to that. He would have to give a slight white lie as to what happened. There was no way in hell he would tell them that he was thinking about kissing her. He would just say when I went to use my sharingan for interrogations, which was true, she whipped out her own and I was knocked out. Yep that was his story and he was sticking to it. Mentally kicking himself for being so stupid he walked down the hallway to the Hokage's office. Knocking once before entering, Kakashi cleared his throat to get Tsunade's attention. Which wasn't that hard to do, she quickly looked up from the paperwork she was currently working on. She was already scowling. Did she already know about Tsunami's escape?
"Yes?" She asked, seeming to be highly irritated by something. He might as well get it over with.
"The prisoner escaped." There that was quick and to the point.
"What?! WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY!!" Tsunade stood up abruptly, knocking over her chair in the process and glared at him. How could Kakashi be so calm about this?
Wishing he could pop his eardrums without the Hokage noticing would be difficult. But her voice was rather loud and it had a tendency to carry.
"Lady Tsunade! Is everything alright?" Shizune ran into the room, concerned etched into in her features. Ton Ton followed Shizune oinking the whole way.
"No everything is not fine. Kakashi just informed me that our Akatsuki friend escaped! How did it happen Kakashi?" She changed the look on her face slightly. Now she just waited as calmly as possible to hear his explanation.
"The Akatsuki member has sharingan. Not just sharingan but Mangenkyo Sharingan." the copy-nin was still being calm about the whole situation.
"Sharingan? But how is that possible?" Shizune looked to Tsunade seeing what her reaction was.
"So that makes three members that have sharingan? I can't believe this. Don't know Shizune only two possibilities, one she has Uchiha blood or two their transplants." Tsunade was now thinking about something.
"Alright. We need to find out more about this particular member of Akatsuki. Kakashi this will be your top priority. Find out anything about this Tsunami woman. Where she comes from, what her full name is. And most of all what her abilities are. Your dismissed and you may leave to tomorrow to began this mission." Tsunade picked her chair back up and sat down massaging her temples. Just then Jiraiya popped into the room carrying a bouquet of red roses. Kakashi gave a questioning look before doing as he was told. "Hey Kakashi, I have something for you." Jiraiya handed him a new book from the Icha Icha line. This one was titled Icha Icha Tidal Wave. Kakashi stared at the title for moment, just what was Jiraiya thinking? Sure enough the main female lead of the book was named Tsunami. But instead of black hair the character had blue. He would have to kill Jiriaya later now he had to get started on his mission. From the hallway he could hear Shizune saying, "Well I caught you drinking sake during the week we had made our little bet. So now you get to go on a date..." He couldn't hear anymore but was laughing slightly. So that was why Tsunade was in such a bad mood before he got there.
The copy-nin made it to his apartment and was trying to decide which direction would be the best why to go. Gathering information on the Akatsuki wasn't an easy task. When they first encountered them the Akatsuki was heading to Water Country. But that was a couple of weeks ago. This latest stunt they had actually entered Fire Country. But now where would he look? Trying to deduce the most likely scenario. Finally deciding on Grass Country, he went to find Sai. He needed his artistic abilities to sketch the crescent moon on her hia-ate. Kakashi found him easily enough. "Sai." Getting the young man's attention was easy. Sai seemed quite embarrassed after all he was in Yamanaka flower shop. He looked like he was deciding whether or not to buy a rose.
"What do you need Kakashi." he sounded a bit annoyed as well as embarrassed.
"I need you to sketch the hia-ate of that Akatuski member." He was doing his best not to call Tsunami by her name for that would make her familiar and that was something he didn't need to do.
"Sure is that all?" He still wasn't happy about being caught in the flower shop.
"Yes." was Kakashi's short answer.
"And I suppose you want it now?" Sai grabbed a single rose and went to pay for it before Kakashi could answer. After paying for the rose he stopped at the nearest bench and carefully set the rose down. Got out his sketch book and flipped to a clean page and neatly drew the crescent moon on the hia-ate. "Done." he tore the page out and handed to Kakashi.
"Is that rose for someone we both know?" Kakashi had a feeling it was for Sakura. Here lately Sai had been acting strangely around her. He still called her ugly but it was like he was trying to say something else but didn't know how. Sai blushed slightly before regaining his composure. "Don't know what your talking." He picked up the rose and walked in the direction of Sakura's house. Kakashi chuckled, that boy could be easily read at times.
Having a picture of the hia-ate would help in his search for Tsunami. On his way towards the gates of Konohagakure he would walk by Sakura's house just to see if his suspicions were correct. Sure enough they were. There was Sai standing next to Sakura, holding the rose behind his back. He slowly brought the rose around and held it out to Sakura. Sakura was shocked and not to mention blushing. Kakashi would have to find out later what would occur between his teammates. Right now he was on a mission. Exiting the gates and quickly leaving Fire Country Kakashi headed for Grass. He would find the village hidden by grass and ask some of the locals if they've seen this hia-ate before. Easy enough to do but the trouble would be finding someone willing to talk about. He was still two days away from Grass. But on his way he asked a few people that were also traveling if they had seen the hia-ate before. So far everyone said they'd never seen one like that before.
"There's a guy asking about you." said a ninja from Tea Country.
"Is that so? What does he look like?" Tsunami wanted to know, might be something to investigate.
"He had silver hair and was from leaf village. He was also wearing a mask and you could only see one eye." explained the ninja.
"I see." So Kakashi is looking for me, uh? Great just what I needed. Tobi still isn't well enough for travel, not since he got that cold. Oh well I just find him myself. "Where was he headed?"
"Grass." answered the ninja.
Tsunami didn't answer she just turned and walked away. Kakashi was looking for her in Grass. Well she'd make it worth his while and pay him a little visit. After all she was only one day away from Grass Country.
Kakashi finally arrived in Grass. Little did he know that Tsunami had arrived the day before. Her presence made the villagers nervous but they wouldn't go around telling anybody that an Akatsuki member was in the area. He decided to go to the local bar. Stepping in the small hut like structure he could see only three other ninja were in there. The bar tender was a middle aged woman wearing some of the most revealing clothes possible. He sat down and asked for a drink. The bar tender tried to flirt with him but he simply ignored her. She poured him his drink and scoffed at his behavior towards her. He didn't care, he was there on a mission and not to flirt with the woman. One of the patrons approached the bar asking for a refill. Kakashi took the opportunity to ask the man if he knew what village the hai-ate was from.
"Yeah I know that insignia. It's from Moon Country." the man answered and went back to his table carrying his drink. Finally he now knew where the insignia came from but now he had to find out where Moon Country was. And seeing how drunk that man was he wouldn't be getting any more information from him. Deciding he needed some sleep, Kakashi found a small inn and rented a room for the night. He unlocked the door to his room. Looking around for any possible traps or bugs, or unwelcome visitors, he found none. Collapsing on the bed, he quickly succumbed to sleep.
Tsunami had been watching his every move ever since he had arrived in the village hidden by Grass. Now he was asleep, completely unaware she was watching him. She heard the man who told Kakashi where her hia-ate came from but that didn't matter, he would never be able to find Moon Country. She quietly opened the window sneaking inside. It would be so easy to just kill him but where would the fun in that be? It was never her style to kill a sleeping opponent anyway. Tsunami would have to be careful to wake him. She didn't want to have her throat slit wide open so she decided to yell at him from a distance. That way she could hopefully dodge any attack he might just whip out. "You know it isn't wise to sleep while an enemy watches."
Kakashi heard her silky voice and almost thought he was dreaming, almost. He shot out of bed, wide awake and alert now, he gripped his kunai tightly. Staring at the dark figure in front of him.
"You can turn a light on." she made it sound like she was in control and for all he knew she could be. Slowly reaching over to the night stand he flipped on the light. Filling the small room with a dull light. Kakashi could now see Tsunami's sharingan and her Akatsuki cloak but no straw hat. His mind wondered for just a second. She looks better without that cloak.
"Why are you looking for me?" Tsunami stared at him, wondering if he had realized when she escaped she looked at his face.
"Hokage's orders." He wasn't looking directly into her eyes, he wouldn't fall for that trick again.
"If you say so." Tsunami removed her cloak and placed it in the nearby chair. She was wearing the same black pants, t-shirt and sandals as the first time they had met. Kakashi watched with intense curiosity. His mind kept going to the gutter.
"Who are you?" he had to try to interrogate her. After all failure was becoming a common problem around this woman. Twice now had she interfered and won. He was getting annoyed with that fact.
"I already told you when I know I'll tell you." She sighed in frustration.
"What do you mean by that?" now he was asking because he wanted to personally know. This situation was getting out of hand. He was physically attracted to the enemy.
Tsunami debated telling him anything but why not she was bored. She always did stupid things when she was bored. Like the time she accidently blew up one of the Akatsuki bases.
"I don't remember anything before I was 7." For some odd reason she didn't care if he knew about some of her past.
Now he was getting somewhere. "Is that when you became a member of the Akatsuki?"
"No." a short response. Now he was just being nosy and that irritated her.
"Then..." he was interrupted.
"Sorry but it's time for me to leave." She grabbed her cloak and was almost out the window when Kakashi grabbed her arm, preventing her from leaving. She turned around to look at him. Looking up into his eyes was a mistake though. His sharingan was revealed and already hypnotizing her to sleep. Kakashi caught her before she fell to the floor. Placing her sleeping form on the bed he bound her with chakra ropes and a couple of chakra filled chains. Now he could further interrogate her in the morning.
A/N: Thanks punkgirl94 for reviewing!
