Rushing through the trees at a speed like this, a normal person would feel as if their flying, while ninja saw it as an every day feeling. It was a common way of travel after all, leaping along limb after limb was a lot faster than walking or running along the road, believe it or not. Not to mention, chances of running into enemies were more slim in the trees rather than out in the open. The mission had been a success, the three of them, Kakashi, Tenzo (or as the kids know him as, Captain Yamato,) and Anko had taken care of the little situation the Hokage assigned for them, meaning a group of ninja trying to form their own little Akatsuki copy cat group, were properly taken care of and wouldn't be bothering anyone again. That being said, they could go home and begin making their report to the Hokage about the mission's success.
"Still coming to tonight's poker game, Kakashi, or are you going to make up some excuse like last time?" The girl teased as she leaped along beside the copy ninja.
"It wasn't an excuse, they had released the final Icha Icha book recently, and-"
"Yeah, yeah, you couldn't keep your pants on and had to read it, I know. What I don't understand is why you're so addicted to those books. I read a chapter of one and it's honestly pretty bad." She knew talking about the others favorite books always tended to get him a tad "upset" and who couldn't say it was funny to pick on the cool guy anyway. "You know, if you're looking to learn how to make a girl happy, there are better ways to do that than to read some pathetic pornography." She teased again, "not just girls either, hell, I'd say you'd learn much more from experience if it's a guy you're trying to steal, right Captain~" She purred out, seeming to tease the other man in the group who seemed to glance away.
Frankly, something was telling Yamato that someone had leaked information about him and his Senpai.. not that anything was even going on, most just caught on to them having a past and assuming from there that they had some kind of romance going on. It was a bit infuriating sometimes, listening to the teasing. Honestly, neither Kakashi nor Yamato tended to know where the teasing came from, though if either of them remembered the embarrassingly flirtatious comments on poker nights, or while about one or the other not being there when some of their group would go out drinking, maybe they would realize just how obvious it was
"I'm not sure what you're talking about, Anko." The more serious of the two stated lowly, though the faint pink shade on his cheeks seemed to state he knew she was teasing them like always. A laugh came from her because, no, the blush did not to unseen despite how small. Kakashi could only roll his eyes least until he saw something from the corner of his eye, wandering in the middle of the dirt road off a few yards. How did he know to look that way? He could sense the familiar Chakra. That wouldn't have been a bad thing if the Chakra wasn't from someone he knew died over a decade ago. It was enough of a shock to make the man stop, the one eye widening as he froze and the other two stopping and looking back, being a few limbs ahead.
"What is it?" Anko called out, seeming to be ready to fight any attackers. Yamato looked even more confused for a second before sensing a Chakra he didn't know, but looking the direction Kakashi's one widened eye was directed, lead him to the answer. A man he's only ever heard stories about.. a man who stood for saving your comrades rather than leave them to die, being the man who changed several hearts and minds, philosophies of many ninja.. was walking around disoriented from the looks of it.
"Senpai-" Yamato found himself calling out from the way Kakashi was gone in a flash. Luckily, the man was use to the silver hairs antics and went off after him, leaving Anko in extreme confusion because.. were they fighting or not? Soon, she just followed after them, figuring she would get answers along the way being as she was at a different angle than the two, she didn't see who they did. Arriving a few seconds late to the party apparently, she heard Kakashi call out to Yamato, calling him Tenzo out of minor habit, though the man didn't seem to correct him since Kakashi seemed to pay better attention around the kids. When being called out to though, the wood style ninja seemed to immediately know what to do, forming a few hand signs before sticking a palm out while wood shot from it, wood seeming to wrap around the man Anko soon noticed and seemed confused at first because she couldn't figure out how she knew this man, but she swore she knew him. Once the man was binded, seeming to struggle at first before he saw Kakashi and stopped his struggle. Anko walked to Yamato and muttered,
"Why do I feel like I know him?" her voice low as if worried to offend anyone for not being able to pinpoint how she knew this guy. Knowing it wasn't personal, she ever met this man before in her life, but still felt as if she knew him. Did he have a bounty on his head? Friend of someone she knew maybe? Saw him in passing? None of those lined up, because they didn't explain why Hatake Kakashi was so shocked at the sight of him, and so determined to capture him. She wasn't sure what the copy ninja was going to d because for once, he didn't have an emotion, she could read, on his face. Over the years, Anko learned to read the expressions. Like, when he was happy, depressed, even when he was in the middle of teaching and that one functioning brain cell left in that silver head actually worked and he was focused… but this? She couldn't read. Who the hell was this guy bound?
"You don't know him, not personally," Yamato started, "only through legends told to our generation growing up.. you're looking at one of the greatest ninja from the Kohana, White Fang."