Mission Recall
DanniMarie
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Last time…
Looking up, she saw a whole new man, one that wasn't afraid to show express how he felt, a man that had to learn how to use those feelings all over again, with her help.
Part 010
Snow was beginning to fall heavier, and Tsunade wasn't happy that she had to call off the search party. As much as she wanted both Kakashi and Sakura back within the village walls, she wasn't going to risk losing more shinobi, to the storm, or to the wraith of Kakashi.
She understood why Kakashi had left, but why had he taken Sakura with him? She still had yet to ask her in full what had happened to the village, what happened to her, and she knew that there was important information that she needed from the woman.
Taking a deep breath, she looked around her cold office. It was so quite, to quite. Only a few minutes ago, Naruto had been in to see her, yelling at her for calling off the ANBU teams. He was worried abut Sakura, everyone was.
They had thought that Kakashi went rouge and kidnapped Sakura to get back at the village. However she knew better then that.
'He's trying to protect her. But from what?' She couldn't do any more work with her mind set as it was. Getting up she walked over to the door and opened it. Looking for Shizune to tell her that she was leaving for the day. It was early in the afternoon, and she did have a lot of work to do, but she needed to deal with the 'Kakashi/Sakura' thing first.
If too many found out that he had quite, because he didn't want to take the mission, they would think that something was wrong, and that would make her look bad.
It wasn't a secret that Kakashi was a force that you wouldn't want to go against, and the fact that he had been trained by the Fourth himself, wasn't something that went unnoticed.
However what many didn't know was that he was the one who had been asked to be the next Hokage, but he turned it down, saying that he was better fighting in the battle, not planning it out. No matter how much of a lie it was.
Walking down the halls, Tsunade knew that she should have known better then to go against him on any matter. She would hate to admit it, but she had always had a small fear of the man. He was always clam no matter what, because he knew that when the time came, he could handle anything that was thrown at him.
'Not this time.' She thought as she recalled the look in his eye when he came to get her, to take her to save his partner. 'I should have known then not to push him. But then again, I've always been bad at gabling.'
She couldn't help but laugh, she had always lost, and she was going up against a man who never lost, he always won, no matter what.
With a sigh she lowered her head, she would have to get word to him, to let him know that she would allow him back into the village, when they where ready. She just couldn't risk the chance of losing them, not like this.
"I'll send Naruto to tell them." She said out loud not caring if others looked at her funny.
"You there, go and send for Naruto, tell him that I have a top ranking mission for him." She barked out to a Genin team that was passing by.
"Yes ma'am!" They all said with a bow, and took off down the hall.
At the Front Gate
"I can't wait till spring comes back around. Man I'm so sick of this cold weather." One of the gate keeps said, talking with his partner.
"Tell me about it, and it doesn't help that there isn't any heating in the tower. We really need to take this up with the Hokage."
Laughing at his friend, "Yeah, to bad she has other things to worry about right now."
Looking down, he pulled his coat closer around him, it was true, she did have a lot going on; getting heat to the front gate wasn't something to bother her about right now.
They looked out over the gate into the snow covered forest that lay before them. "Think she's ok?"
Looking to his friend he couldn't help but look confused. "Who?"
"Lady Sakura." He said, quite. Everyone in the village knew that she had left, and agents the orders of the Hokage.
"We can only hope. I mean she's with Kakashi Hatake. Even though we may not know why they left, I know that he wouldn't hurt her. He couldn't ever hurt anyone who is from the Leaf."
"Yeah, you're right. I'm sure there is something much more going on, to bad we don't know."
They both laughed to that, they didn't want to know.
"Hey, did you see that?" One of them asked to other, looking deeper into the falling snow.
"See what?" His friend asked looking. It wasn't long before they saw that the branches where moving, only the way they would if someone was coming, and fast.
Looking at each other, they knew that something wasn't right, there wasn't any incoming shinobi on the schedule for the day.
Before they could send a warning to the others, a dark figure jumped out of the thick snow covered trees, taking one more jump from the ground before landing right on the gate, just a few feet away from the two guards.
They couldn't believe who they where looking at; the last person they had expected to see was Sasuke Uchiha.
Glaring at the two guards, Sasuke didn't waste time asking them where Sakura was. Just as quickly as he landed, he took off, heading for the Hokage's Tower.
Leaving the two shocked men behind him, with a smile on his face, he rushed foreword. The desire to know what had befallen his former teammate, burned in his chest.
End of Part 010
Sorry for it being a short chapter, I'm already working on the next one and I hope to have it out soon.