Ryoko traveled all the way to the ruins of Dragon Country trying to take her mind off of Itachi and wanting to kill Dita so badly for what she has done. She gave no notice to anyone at all...just left after threatning Dita. Dragon country would take her a week to reach at her current pace but she sped up every couple hours.

At Dita

Dita was called in by the Hokage. She went to the office and only Yondaime was in the office, she was hoping that Sarutobi would be there to make her feel more comfortable. "Um...you called for me, sir."

Yondaime nodded. "Yes."

Dita could actually see the lust in his blue eyes. She nervously cleared her throat, "Sir?" At this, Yondaime snapped out of staring at her with lustfull eyes.

"Right...I hear that you and Kakashi are getting pretty serious with this relationship of yours."

"Yeah...um-" Luckily, Sarutobi walked in. "Sorry I'm late, Konohamaru was causing some more trouble. Dita...you have been selected to go on a very important mission."

Dita's face got serious and she nodded slightly. "What is the mission, sir?"

Sarutobi waved his hand to tell Yondaime to scoot his chair over a bit so that Sarutobi would have room to sit in his own chair. "You are to safely escort our feudal lord to the Village Hidden in the Mist. The reason why you are to accompany Lord Shinichi is because, you have to cross through a forest where there a lot of rogue ninjas."

Dita crossed her arms. "Are the rogue ninjas close or mid-range fighters?"

Sarutobi cleared his throat and elbowed Yondaime. "You should tell, rather than me." Sarutobi whispered to the blue-eyed Hokage.

"Well, half of the ninjas there fight from a far away range..."

"And what about the other half?" Dita asked getting suspicious.

"Another thirty-four percent of them are taijustu users and close-range fighters...the other sixteen percent are mid-range fighters." Yondaime said hesitantly.

Dita sighed deeply and nodded her head slowly. "This isn't good...I'm not good with close-range attacks, and I'm not exactly horrible but great at mid-range attacks. Maybe you should pick some other people to go on this mission. How about..."

Dita searched her brain for some other candidates. "How about Ryoko or Anko, eh?"

"No, no. First, Anko has to be here for the chuunin exams and secondly..." Sarutobi had a look of worry on his face, "Ryoko cannot be found anywhere around the village. Therefore, we are left with you...and other jounin but they have other things to take care of at the moment."

"Damn.." Dita cursed under her breath. Sarutobi chuckled a little to himself. "Don't worry...the ninja that dwell in the forest rarely have any jounin ranks lurking about, so you should be fine."

"Yeah, she is isn't she?" Yondaime accidently blurted out. All eyes fell upon him. "What I meant t-to say w-was...yeah, she will be fine..on this mission o-of course." As he stuttered, his face went a carnation pink.

"Moving on..." Sarutobi gave Yondaime a strange look, " you are to leave for this mission as soon as possible. Lord Shinichi must be at the village in three days tops, so you have no time to lose, Dita."

"Yes, sir..." she gave a nervous glance over at the fourth and left the Hokage office.

Not Long After

Dita met up with Lord Shinichi who was accompanied by many of his own men. Dita counted a total of seven men, two of which she found sort of cute.

Dita bowed slightly. "Hello, sir. I am Dita, your personal escort to the Village Hidden in the Mist."

"Excellent...shall we be going now, Dita."

Dita nodded. Lord Shinichi got into his carriage and with that, they were on their way.

In the Forest With Rogue Ninjas a Few Hours Later

Dita was constantly looking around to see if there were any ninjas going to attack at any given time. One of the Lord's men noticed this, "Are you okay, Dita-san. You seem a bit tense."

"Oh no...I'm perfectly fine. Just keep your guard up. Rogue ninjas may pop out without warning." She looked behind her.

The man nodded and got his gaurd up as well. "How are you fellows doing out there?" Lord Shinichi called out from his little retreat that his men were carrying.

"We're okay, sir. Just relax and we'll be at the village before you know it." Dita called. She heard a rustle in a nearby bush and sensed an unfamilar chakra. "Already? Aw man!" She performed some hand seals for a genjutsu and cast it upon the unknown ninja. "Gotcha before-"

Her thoughts were interuppted when a ninja dressed in a black cloak and a hat that an old Chinese man would wear, came out and attacked her with a pair of butterfly swords, which Dita didn't dodge and left her with a gash on her right shoulder.

"Dita-san!" One of the feudal lord's men came in to help her but she held her hand to them to signify them to stay away. "Crap, he's a close-range fighter."

The ninja laughed a little to himself as he lowered his weapons. "I see your not so good at close-range...hm..you must be a genjtsu user. Ah yes I know who you are...Dita Eniwa, who's a great genjutsu user like Kurenai."

Dita growled to herself. "Who's there?" Lord Shinchi's head popped out of his carriage. "Oh dear..." He pulled back into his carriage and pulled the curtains closer together.

"Cut the crap already!" the rogue ninja got into his stance and started attcking Dita again. She kept dodging and evading all of his attacks but she got tired pretty soon.

"You can't dodge me forever!" he called as he charged after her. "He's right, I have to think of something fast or else...that's it!"

Dita hid behind a boulder and created a shadow clone. The shadow clone came out and continued dodging the ninja. While that was happening, Dita cast a genjutsu on the rogue ninja and left with the others. They couldn't help but stare at the ninja as he was rampaging all over the place when no one was there to fight him.

Dita smiled to herself. "Ha! I got him, I got him." Dita chanted to herself. "Excellent work, Dita!" The feudal lord clapped as he signaled his men to stop walking. He jumped out of his carriage only to reveal himself as a five foot tall man and Dita, being 5'4", felt as if she practically towered over him.

"Thank you, sir." she bowed her head. "Now, we shall stop and make camp." He clapped his hands twice and his men started making camp.

"I wish I had that kind of power." Dita said.

"Well, you can command them to do as you wish. I told them to listen to you and your every command."

Dita raised her eyebrows. "Really? Cool..."

"Yes..." Being a rich old man, Lord Shinichi didn't know what "cool" meant.

One of the guards approached Dita. " Dita-san, your tent is ready"

"You guys put up my tent?" Dita asked. The gaurd nodded. "Cool." Dita entered her tent. It was complete with a perfectly fluffed pillow with the most rich-people looking sheets. "Wow...I'm gonna sleep well tonight."

She turned to face the guard. "Thank you." With that she entered her tent and was soon sound asleep.

Next Day

Dita woke up before anybody did and got ready so she can wake up everybody else. She went to the guard's tents first. They got up immediately and she had one of them wake the feudal lord instead because she didn't want the feudal to get cranky at her.

"Good morning, sir. Did you get a good nights sleep?" Dita asked as she saw the noble step out of his tent. Shinichi nodded. "Excellent, we should be going soon. We don't want to waste any time."

Not Long After

Dita and others started headed out.

After a long while of no rogue ninjas coming out to attack and dead silence among everybody, Dita decided to end the silence by trying to start a conversation with the others.

She cleared her throat, and those who knew Dita well enough knew that whenver she would clear her throat it meant that was going to start asking a lot of annoying questions.

"So...the weather around these parts is nice huh?"

The feudal lord's men nodded in agreement with no reply. Dita, however, was determined to get a good conversation going. "Do any of you have a special one in your lives?"

It was while before any of them answered her question. "W-well..I do have a family back at home."

"I have a wife...and she's due in a few months."

Dita eyes widened. "Awww...do you know it's gender yet?"

"We want it to be a surprise so we'll know when it comes." The gaurd replied with a smile on his face.

Without warning, a trio of ninjas with what looked like gas masks on their faces attacked. One of them went straight for Dita and the others went for the guards and the feudal lord.

Dita dodged her way to Lord Shinichi in time to rescue him from being stabbed by one of the masked ninjas. "Thank heavens for you, Dita!" Lord Shinichi said as he put his hand to his chest as a sign of relief.

"It's my mission to make sure you get to that meeting safely." Dita replied.

The gaurds were busy fending off the ninjas when one of them pulled up and started doing hand signs. Dita recognized them almost immediately. "Genjutsu...no wonder they were so easy at close combat."

Dita looked around her to see if the genjutsu has already been cast upon her and the others. She saw the guards sink into the ground and could hear their cries of panic.

"Everyone relax! This is only genjutsu." She prepared the necessary handsigns to release the genjutsu and cast it. "Kai!"

She dispelled the genjutsu from herself but saw the others, includung the feudal lord, lying on the ground and shouting out. Dita went over to all of them a released them from the genjutsu they were trapped in. They looked around and saw that the rogue ninjas were gone.

"Don't worry...all that you saw was just an illusion. None of that really happened." Dita reassured them. "Come on. We are close to the village. Just one more day and my mission is complete."

She started walking and the others hurriedly followed suit.

Next Day

"Well, good luck with the meeting, sir." Dita bowed her head.

"Thank you for your assistance, Dita. Have a safe journey home." Lord Shinichi waved goodbye along with his guards.

Dita headed back to Konoha and this time made it there in two days time instead of three now that she didn't have to fight off any psychotic ninjas or have a band of people slowing her down due to their slowed pace.

"Finally! Home sweet beautiful home!" Dita plopped herself on the couch. Just then, she remembered that she had to report to the Hokage's office. "Dang it!"

She got up and went over to get the report over with.

At Hokage's Office

"The mission was a success." Dita said.

"Not much trouble with any attackers?..." Yondaime calmly said.

"No...not much."

"Good." Sarutobi put a stack of papers in front of the fourth Hokage. Yondaime grumbled to himself before he took out a pen and started signing the papers.

Dita couldn't help but smile slightly to this. The smile on her face disappeared when she saw the look on Sarutobi's face. "Is there anything wrong, sir?"

Yondaime stopped signing and set down the pen. "Well...there has been a slight problem..."

There was a long silence before Dita said something. "And..."

"Ryoko is missing. She's been gone for nearly a week now." Yondaime looked up at Sarutobi.

Author's Note: In case you're wondering why Sarutobi is so worried about Ryoko is because...this may come as a shocker to you, but...Ryoko and the third Hokage are related. Normally she would call him "Uncle" but since he's the Hokage she doesn't anymore. Their relation to eachother is that Sarutobi is Ryoko's dad's uncle. If you don't get it then just let me know and I will be more than happy to elaborate for you. Good bye, thank you and bye-bye.

"I've had our top trackers look for her and there's no trace of her. They got as far as two kilometers out of Konoha and her trail just...goes cold. Do you have any idea why she would disappear?"

"You make the question seem as if she disappeared in her own free will." Dita said.

"Knowing her...she did go on her free will. If she was taken I'm pretty sure there would've been a note or some obvious trace as to where she was taken." Sarutobi said with more worry in his voice.

Yondaime spoke up after observing the two for a bit. "So do you know where she may have gone to?"

"No.." Dita's eyes grew shifty as she replied to his question.

"Dita...I know you know where she is." Sarutobi said narrowing his old grey eyes at her. "Maybe.." She said quietly.

"Tell me where she is, Dita."

"Well...there is a strong possibility that she's over at the ruins of Dragon country."

Everyone was silent for a few moments. "Why would be over there?" Yondaime asked in confusion.

"Dita? What did you do this time?" Sarutobi asked as if he read her mind.

"Um...we sort of got in a small fight."

The two Hokages looked at Dita in disbelief. "Small?"

"Okay it was big. Afterwards...she just disappeared in a puff of smoke like the way a ninja would as if to transport to another place." Dita confessed.

"It must've been something big for her to go all the way to Dragon country." Sarutobi looked back at Dita. "Care to explain?"

Dita nervously cleared her throat. "You know how she was involved with Itachi?"

"Was?" Yondaime repeated.

"Anyways...I didn't think that Itachi was right for her and I told to dump him but she wouldn't do it and-"

"You did it for her when she didn't want seperate from Itachi." Sarutobi finished for her. Dita nodded in cimfirmation. "She threatened to kill you didn't she?"

"Yeah."

"Sounds like her. Do you know how long she'll be over there?" Yondaime asked.

"I'd say about a month."

"A MONTH!" Sarutobi shouted.

"She is the same sensitive Ryoko even with the curse." Dita reminded him.

"B-b-b-b-b-b-but...she's only twenty years old and there are sick men in Dragon's neighboring country and they might come over and...a-a-a-a-and there are other ninjas and-"

"And she's an Aizawa. You remember they were reputed to be one of the strongest clans from Dragon...including the Eniwa clan. We all know that Ryoko is stronger than she may seem and she should be-"

"In DANGER!!!" Sarutobi interrupted Yondaime. "We should send a rescue team out there to get her!"

"Relax, Sarutobi." Yondaime said.

"I can't relax! My neice could be dead and her body is...oh my...I don't even want to finish that thought!"

Sarutobi snapped out of his fit when there was a knock on the door. He opened it and three guesses who it was.

Sorry it took me so long to update. I've been sick with anemia (which is when you don't have enough blood in your system so you puke and you can't stand up without feeling fatigued among other unpleasant stuff.) Anyways thanks for reading and an extra thanks if you review. Good bye, thank you, and bye-bye.

Preview of next chapter: Ryoko returns and Sarutobi gives a three hour lecture on how it's bad to disappear and crap. Also, Yondaime and Dita do something...naughty cough cough Itachi's mom invited Ryoko over to dinner thinking that she and Itachi are still together you can only imagine how that will turn out! I told you too much already dammit! Tune in next chapter to get all the juicy details.