"I don't believe this, Saito…with the Shikigami military police?" Yagami thought to himself. As dawn broke, no one uttered a word during breakfast. Naruto than broke the silence, " Hey Hokage sensei, how come you didn't went to help Kenshin san in the fight last night?" No reply came from the Hokage himself. Kenshin, knowing that Yagami was deep in thought decided to speak, " We should clarify with the Shikigami Police just to be sure." Nodding in agreement, the two men cleared the dishes before heading to the station.
Flashback
As the three chuunins along with the Hokage entered the village, an undercover cop was spying on them. As the group went to the station to register their visit to the village, they had to show their profiles to the receptionist where they will keep it until they left. The receptionist than walked into the captain's room where Saito was looking at the forest behind the station as he took a puff off his cigarette.
"Sir, I've got the profiles of the visitors, they're apparently from the village of Konoha. I'll leave them on the table."
"From Konoha you say? The village where they have great ninjas there, and I have to wonder why the Shinsengumi would want to attack them. Things were not like that when I was in there. Nevertheless, I'll read through the files." With Saito alone in the room he carefully read through the profiles of the three chuunins; not much of help but when he stumbled upon the profile of Uchiha Yagami, he read through every detail of it, the profile goes like this;
Name: Uchiha Yagami
Age: 27
Rank: Hokage
D.O.B: 8th May 1978
Weight: 68kg
Height: 1.93m
Partners: Uchiha Itachi(Deceased), Hatake Kakashi, Umino Iruka, Himura Kenshin
Affilations: Akatsuki, Former Nukenin from Konoha
Missions
D-Rank: 327
C-Rank: 224
B-Rank: 176
A-Rank: 119
S-Rank: 97
"This Uchiha Yagami, he is linked with the legendary Battousai…interesting." Saito packed the files and dressed up as a medical man to go undercover.
The police station, although small was bustling with officers running around sorting out cases. Just than they heard a voice, "Excuse me sirs, the captain will see you now." Proceeding into the office, they saw Saito gazing out at the window. He knew they would come but continued to look out to the forest behind the station. Turning around to their attention, he began, "An old abandoned temple out there with many traps, are you both sure you want to take the assignment still?" Silence filled the atmosphere before Kenshin spoke, "Saito, the swordsmen have all gone corrupted. Whom else out there can you trust on besides us? Besides the corpses they're going to revive are all the previous attackers on Konoha and we have the one man here who battled with them before, are you convinced now?"
"What about your students back at the Dojo?" Yagami replied, "My chuunins are trained indepently, besides I've cheated death once, I won't die a second time." Saying his part, Saito sat on his chair.
"Very well, but I suggest you tell them before they start freaking out." Returning back to the Dojo, Kaoru was preparing lunch while the chuunins helped out with the other chores. Deciding on how to break the news to them, they went to the training room to reconsider the offer they had just accepted. Kaoru was looking for hem and found them in the room.
"There you are, lunch is almost ready." Kenshin than grabbed her hand. Deep down she knew they had already accepted the offer but just put up a fake smile. After explaining to Kaoru, she smiled and walked away. Deep inside she was bearing the emotional torture; she didn't want to lose her beloved husband just like that. But there's was no solution that she could do to change their minds. Yagami went back to his sleeping quarters and saw Sakura studying on her medical notes. He broke the news to her and ordered that none of them should tag along unless ordered to. Sakura acted strong but could not hold back her tears. The Hokage wiped it off her cheeks and gave her a comforting hug as he whispered to her ear, "I promise you this Sakura, if I come back alive, I'll take you out for the New Year's festival on our first date." Finishing his promise Yagami blew a kiss to Sakura's cheek as he left the room. Blushing with embarrassment, Sakura never realized Yagami was serious about dating her, than remembering that he and Sasuke were the only two Uchihas left, it made sense that Yagami would treasure everything he loved, including Sakura who confessed her feelings to him. During lunch no one spoke about anything regarding the mission. Sasuke had a gut feeling his elder brother was hiding something from the group and wanted answers but Yagami just refused to speak. In the evening he saw the Hokage sparring with his clones. It was a new and unique way of training but Sasuke sat at the porch and watched. Finishing his training Yagami caught sight of his brother. Smiling at him, Yagami went to the training room where Kenshin was sharpening his sword skills. Night came and the two had their supposedly last meal before grabbing their swords and walked to the entrance. They turned around to see Kaoru and Sakura breaking in tears but their decision was final; they were about to embark on a dangerous mission.
Author: Hoho! Yagami has finally shown his affection for Sakura, looks like the young Kunoichi and the Hokage really were meant to be a couple!
Editor: Did you forget about Sasuke?
Author: Nah, she's done with him and needs to move on!
Editor: Sometimes I don't know what's going on in that creative mind of yours…