Scarlet Kunai

By Ginta and Hakakku Fangirl

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, or any of the characters

A/N: Original Character's name is Kyoko, female, only a few months older than Uchiha Sasuke, no Kekki Genkai, ANBU-ranked kinoichi, more info in story.

Rated M for violence, language, and lime.

*I may have to "rearrange" some events, in order for this fic to make sense.

*This chapter is all a flashback of Kyoko giving her mission report to Tsunade.

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Chapter Twenty-Six: Report

"I already know about your mission in Suna," Tsunade said. "It's the other mission that I'm interested in. Kyoko. Let me see your back."

Kyoko nodded, unlacing the corset of her borrowed dress; Tsunade stood as Kyoko pulled the material over her head.

Visible even through the fishnet shirt she wore, the Akatsuki cloud stood out, peeking out just above Kyoko's breast-binding.

Tsunade nodded.

"Are there any justsu in it?" she asked, leaning closer to peer at the tattoo between Kyoko's shoulder blades.

"Hai, just one. It lets me in and out of all the Akatsuki hideouts without knowing the jutsu guarding them."

"That's convenient," Tsunade frowned. "If you betray their location in any way, we still can't get in."

Kyoko nodded.

"And it's only the one hideout," she said. "They have others, but I don't know where they are."

"Oh?"

"Hai," Kyoko said, sighing. "And I doubt that any of them will tell me."

Tsunade nodded.

"A wise choice on their part," she said. "Even if the Akatsuki leader comes to trust you entirely, he won't tell you any more than he thinks you need to know. Or he won't if he's smart, anyway. You simply telling me the information he gives isn't the only way the information can be obtained from you."

Kyoko nodded.

"As it is," Tsunade continued, sitting back down, "I've had two of the blood samples Sakura took tested for any other jutsu that might give away the fact that you're leaking information to me."

"I know that no jutsu were performed while I was getting the tattoo. But I did have to sleep for several hours; it was done as soon as I got to the hideout."

"I see." Tsunade folded her hands. "Do you know who did the tattoo."

"Sasori. Of the Red Sand."

"And when you slept?"

"I'm sure nothing happened. I slept lightly, and in a friend's room."

"Friend?" Tsunade raised an eyebrow.

"In an inn," Kyoko corrected herself. "I went to an inn an hour from the hideout, I know the manager."

"Ah." Tsunade began to write. "What information did you get?"

"Whenever the Leader finds that someone else is after any Buuji, he has then assassinated, more often than not after they have been interrogated."

"I'll send a message out to every ninja village," Tsunade said.

"That may not be enough, Hokage-sama," Kyoko said. "I was told by two of the members that the Land of Waves has information."

Tsunade stood. "I'll have a warning sent right away."

Kyoko shook her head.

"They're already there," she said, then looked suddenly ashamed. "I hope you can forgive me."

"What do you mean?" Tsunade asked, raising an eyebrow.

"When I heard that they were going to the Land of Waves, and knowing that they are not a Ninja Village…I gave them truth serum."

"What?!"

"I'm so sorry!" Kyoko said. "It was a lapse in judgment, it won't happen again. I only thought that, if they had the serum, they wouldn't have to use force or torture."

Tsunade was silent, while Kyoko waited, nervous.

"I see your reasoning," Tsunade finally said.

"I'll accept any punishment--"

"I never ordered you not to aid them," Tsunade said. "And this was done out of concern for an entire land. However," she added, and Kyoko bit her lip. "If you aid the Akatsuki in anyway that is not necessary for you to hold back their suspicions of you, I will send you to Ibiki, despite your frail health and good intentions."

"Hai, Tsunade-sama."

Tsunade was silent awhile, writing down all that Kyoko had told her. Then…

"How is Uchiha?" she asked, head still bowed over her writing, not seeing the sudden, fleeting look of fear that crossed over Kyoko's face.

"He's…well," Kyoko whispered.

"Well?"

"Hai, although… I don't think he is as well as he let on," the ANBU said lamely.

"What do you mean?"

"I was only there four days, and only saw him for two…He's exhausted." Kyoko swallowed. "The Sharingan takes a lot of his chakra, and I've yet to see him stop using it. It's there when he falls asleep, and still there when he opens his eyes when he wakes."

"You've seen this yourself?"

"Hai. I went into his room," Kyoko said. "He was sleeping."

"How did he react when he saw you."

"He has no emotion left in him," Kyoko lied, "At least not that I have seen. I suppose that if something were to shock him enough, he may betray a hint of response, but I am not certain."

Tsunade nodded, frowning.

"You may go," she said, "if there is nothing more to add."

"Arigato, Hokage-sama."

"Go back to the hospital, I want you to rest with no interuptions. I'll know how long I'll want you to stay, after I get the results from your last two blood samples. Dismissed."

"Hai, Hokage-sama."

When Kyoko had left her office, Tsunade sighed. While giving information on Itachi, Kyoko had not been fully able to conceal concern, relief, and, as much as Tsunade wished she had not seen it, lust.

"Shizune!"

"Hai?" Shizune entered the office, Tonton in her arms.

"I want you to have Kyoko watched, for her entire stay in the hospital."

"Hai!"

"And Shizune?"

"Tsunade-sama?"

Tsunade sighed. "After Kyoko is out of the hospital…tell Inuzuka Kiba that he is too spend as much time with Kyoko as possible, after she is released."

"Tsunade-sama?"

"He'll be happy to be with her, and tell him that he is to report any changes in her behavior immediately to me, and that I will expect a report from him every night."

"Hai!"

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