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"I gotta admit," said Sakura, "that mission was pretty hard huh?"

"Nah, it's nothing for a ninja of my level," said Naruto, picking his nose.

Sakura wasn't listening. In fact, she stopped and fell behind. Naruto looked at where Sakura should've been. He looked back.

"What is it Sakura-chan?" asked Naruto.

"It's a forehead protector," said Sakura, "of Suna. Let's return it to Hokage-sama while we state our mission completion."

Sakura and Naruto opened the door to Tsunade's office. In there were tens of jounin, chuunin, and ANBU members. Hyuuga Neji was also there too.

"Oi, Neji," called Naruto, "what's going on?"

"Apparently, a murder has been committed," said Neji coolly. "No, numerous murders have been committed. We found a Suna forehead protector lying near a dead body and we believe that Suna did this. Konoha will be sending some messengers to Suna soon."

"Hey, I found a Suna forehead protector too, except that it was not by a dead body," said Sakura.

The crowd of shinobi filed into two single filed lines. Tsunade told Sakura to hand her the forehead protector.

"We cleaned up all the dead bodies, outside and inside people's houses," said Tsunade. "This is how we managed to locate one headband, but it's odd that we didn't find this second one. There may be more, but we now are sure that our assassins are from Suna and that there are more than two assassins. We are unknown about whether or not these assassins are connected to major people in Suna, such as the Village Council and the Kazekage.

"Because, you are somewhat close to the Kazekage, I will send you and Sakura as messengers to Suna. Go now!"

"Yes!"

Kira was on the wall, right near the Kazekage's window, using the meisai gakure no jutsu to conceal him. He had heard everything. He released his chakra, making him fall down. Right when Kira touched the ground, he leaped back to the air, ready to report everything to Kyoukan.

"I see," said Kyoukan, hearing everything from Kira.

"It seems that they will be trying to find some more forehead protectors if possible," said Kira.

"This is getting pretty interesting!" smiled Hakaisha.

"So, what should we do?" questioned Hyouhakusha, trying to hide his excitement.

"Konoha and Suna are strong allies," explained Kyoukan, "so after the messengers converse with the Kazekage, they'll come back with the answer of that they had no idea or something like that. So, here's what we'll do. I'll disguise myself as the Kazekage and attack them. I'll attack until I am to the point where the jutsu is about to wear off, then back after saying like 'I'll come back for Konoha…'"

"That works well," said Kira.

"Well then, I'm off," said Kyoukan.

Kyoukan jumped off to find Naruto and Sakura. He was lucky enough to locate them. Taking off this forehead protector, Kyoukan place it in a zipped pocket so that it would not fall out. Naruto and Sakura were about to take off. Kyoukan smiled. They took off; Kyoukan waited for a few seconds, and then followed them.

An hour passed, and Kyoukan was at quite a distance away from Naruto and Sakura. He gradually started to leap across tree branches a swifter pace. He gradually caught up with Naruto and Sakura and soon passed them. After that, Kyoukan went even faster. After another thirty minutes, Kyoukan changed directions and went directly to Naruto, after transforming into Gaara of course.

"I hear something coming," cautioned Sakura, stopping Naruto.

Naruto, eager to know what Sakura heard stepped closer to where the sound was coming from. A silhouette of the person appeared. Naruto recognized him. It was Gaara.

Kyoukan made the same expression on his face as Naruto did. It was a surprised expression. Naruto walked towards Gaara.

"Hey, Tsunade o-baa-chan told us-"

Kyoukan wasted no time. "Die!" Kyoukan took out a kunai and slashed Naruto's shirt.

"W-wait! What was that for?"

Sakura appeared from behind Kyoukan. "So it looks like you are the assassin in Konoha!" Sakura prepared the punch.

Kyoukan decided to take it. He had no idea of Sakura's power. Before he knew it, Kyoukan was flying off the tree branch and into a bush. He coughed out blood. Damn, Kyoukan thought, I underestimated her. Kyoukan then said, "I'll be back from Konoha…" He escaped back to Konoha.

"I-I can't believe it, Gaara really is associated with those crimes!" said Naruto.

"He was, after all, a murder," said Sakura.

The pair went back to Konoha to report the incident.

"Perfect, the messengers now think that Suna really did it," grinned Kyoukan with delight, informing his clan members.

"This definitely is getting excited!" yelled Hakaisha, licking his lips.

Sakura and Naruto arrived shortly after Kyoukan bounced back to his lair. They wasted no time in going directly to Tsunade's office.

"Impossible!" shouted Tsunade, "It takes five to eight days to get to Suna and come back! It doesn't matter; I can see that the torn shirt means that Gaara most likely is associated with the crime."

"He was about to come to this village to murder more people!" panted Sakura. "Except he was alone this time. We met him while going there."

"No wonder, so that's why it took only about three hours to get back," said Tsunade. "However, Naruto, explain the details of what happened."

"I just saw him and told him I had to talk to him and the next thing I know is that he takes out a kunai and appears right in front of me. He proceeded to slashing my shirt. Thankfully, Sakura-chan managed to save my ass by doing her killer punch. Then he told us he would be back for Konoha."

Shikamaru, who was wandering around the Hokage building stopped after hearing Naruto explain the situation. He started to think. If he remembered correctly, Gaara never tried to use taijutsu before. Shikamaru opened the office's door and stated, "I have never seen Gaara use taijutsu before."

"Now that you mention it, Shikamaru, you are right," said Naruto.

"We should investigate further into this before we declare anything," said Tsunade. "But since Gaara did lose the Shukaku, he might be relying on taijutsu more. Currently, I believe that Gaara and some other people have conducted the assassinations, but they are our allies, so we should think it over."

Kira was listening in to the conversation once again. Bouncing off the Hokage building, Kira was going to deliver the information to Kyoukan. As he reached near where the cave was, he saw an ANBU ninja spot him. The ninja was a skilled one who knew ninja's faces in the village. And Kira was not one of them.