Chapter 9: Hokages and Mages
Tsunade sat in her chair. She looked over at the old man on the other side after he had finished telling his story. It wasn't really something that merited being told in person to the Hokage, but apparently the crime committed was by an extremely strong ninja, and also two members of the Akatsuki were spotted with the perpetrator of the crime.
"And that's everything?" She asked. She contrived to look bored now, but actually she was very interested. The description of five of the people matched no known missing ninja. Plus with those weird chakra readings that had been detected far off, it was possible that the two events were connected somehow. She decided to send separate teams after each one and see their reactions and powers. She decided to ask them to capture the people first. She grinned. Perhaps this would be a good day after all.
She sent for Shizune and then asked her to give team 7 a mission. As she put it; "I believe that they've had the most contact with two of them"
-Meanwhile; with Ami-
"Bye Kisame-kun!" Ami watched as Itachi dragged the reluctant fish-man away. "What a cool guy! Too bad he and Itachi had to go back to their Akatsuki or whatever. Well, I better go find Orpheus." He thought about this, and remembered a directional technique that Sekai used. "I bet he's in… That direction!" And he happily wandered to look for him.
-5 minutes later-
"Hmm. Still haven't found him."
-20
minutes later-
"Oh bugger."
-40 minutes later-
"I blame you for this Sekai!" Suddenly his cat-ears twitched. Voices? He thought. I better go investigate. He quietly moved towards the noise, not noticing the raised root in his path. "Aaaaaargh! Bugger! Damn roots with their trees and their…" He looked around and contrived to notice the four ninjas looking at him, and then to a sketch, and then back again. "Erm, hi?" He struggled to place their faces, and then remembered that Orpheus had told him about four ninjas that looked like that. Lets see. "That one's called Kakashi, that one is Naruto, that one is Sasuke and that one is Sakura." He got out his sketch-book out and started drawing pictures of them so he wouldn't forget. The four looked at each other. "Think we can wait until he's finished before we jump him?" Naruto said. Sakura looked back at him. "Think we can get Sensei to stop making that stupid pose?" They both looked at each other, and then shrugged.
