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Shuriken 1: A New Mission

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Kakashi was fighting.

There was a strange graceful savagery to his movements, as if primordial human and ninja had been combined inside of him. Which it had. That was how the ANBU survived.

He slammed his sword into the stomach of a doppelganger, ignoring its scream of pain as he twisted. The doppelganger disappeared in a puff smoke, and he twirled to face the other one.

Another attack!

He swirled, lopping off the doppelganger's head, as well as slicing another in half. There were more puffs of smoke as the doppelgangers evaporated.

"Ungh!"

Yet another doppelganger had scored him on the side, and crimson blood now dripped from the wound. Snarling like an animal, Kakashi brought his sword down on the copy's shoulder, cutting it from shoulder to hip.

On a human it would have been a near fatal injury. Kakashi would know he'd had the type several times. The last, however….

"Don't you think that's enough?"

Kakashi spun about to face—Iruka.

The former ANBU officer relaxed. Iruka wasn't any particular danger, and he knew that the chuunin wouldn't suddenly attack him.

"What do you mean?"

Iruka reached out and caught two fingers around a lock of Kakashi's silver hair.

"This," he replied showing the 26-year old the sweat that had come off.

Kakashi shrugged and adopted his "Ignore me, I'm too lazy," stance, and walked out of the clearing (he'd been practicing in the forest).

Iruka followed his face troubled.

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Kakashi slammed the door of his apartment with an angry crash.

How dare she?! How dare she put him up with that…that chuunin?!

Did Tsunade want to make his life miserable? Of course she did.

He gritted his teeth.

Tsunade apparently felt that a trip to the other continent was in order; and, not only did she feel it was a specific continent, but a specific city.

The last time he'd been to Cormlay City, he'd barely gotten out by the skin of his teeth.

Cormlay City was a city on the Eastern Continent, and was the unofficial capital for all manners of prostitutes, hookers, and whores (Kakashi was actually on very friendly terms with them).

Whores really weren't that bad; they were very polite actually, and they made excellent spies. Now that he thought about it, he'd gotten a report from Fa-weer, the madam of the top brothel a few weeks ago.

But brothels weren't the only buildings that he'd gotten into.

Cormlay City wasn't just a city. It was the capital of the kingdom of Camion, and the king was very much a problem. Not only was he a lecher, but he seemed completely convinced that he was destined to conquer the West continent. Naturally, this was a problem.

Kakashi's job had been to go to Cormlay and seduce the king into revealing as much information as possible. It was a good thing that the king liked men just as much as the ladies, because if he hadn't then Kakashi would have to use jutsus to transform into a woman, and…. Well, he'd done it before, and it hadn't been enjoyable. How women functioned with extra body parts and those strange chemicals in their bloodstreams were beyond him.

Nothing improper had happened of course, (the king would be dead if anything had) but Kakashi was still very angry about the desperate passes that the fool had taken at him. But slamming him up against the temple walls and threatening to pull his guts by hand had been very satisfying and had had the double affect of scaring him out of his wits so badly that he hadn't mounted an invasion in years.

The move had been a bit unorthodox, yes, but that idiot grabbing his ass had been the last straw.

But going to the Cormlay wasn't the worst of it. It was the company that bothered him actually.

His kids were coming along: Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura.

In Kakashi's opinion, this wasn't necessary. They were only 12 after all, and Cormlay wasn't a good place to go to, even during the best of times. He didn't want to expose them to that type of atmosphere, Sakura especially. Who knew, though? It might be good for them.

But there was going to be another ninja joining their party, and the choice was not one that Kakashi preferred.

Umino Iruka was coming with them, and Kakashi didn't like it. Iruka was talented, yes, but that didn't change the fact that he was a chuunin. The streets of the capital were filled with thieves and cutthroats, and Iruka….

Nothing in worrying about it now. What was done was done, and Kakashi couldn't sway the will of Hokage the 5th, no matter how much he wished he could.

A twinge in the jounin's stomach reminded him of his hastily bandaged injury. Dammit, he should have asked Tsunade to heal it or something. Too late now.

Swearing softly, the jounin replaced the bandage. Then he glared at the darkening sky, and tried to figure out why Tsunade wanted Iruka to go with them.

Tried.