Shisui sighed for the umpteenth time that day. It had only been an hour since his two mysterious teammates had left and he was bored out of his mind. It turned out that the secret organisation was very boring. Then again all he was watching over was a small clearing that was apparently the entrance to some underground base.

He rubbed his tired eyes as he sighed once again. 'I bet 'Tachi-chan's doing something more interesting then this..' He sulked.

Five hours passed and Shisui was tempted to leave his post. Nothing interesting had happened and he was bored out of his mind!

The curly haired Uchiha sighed. 'At least I won't be on spy duty all the time since we're switching every day or so..' Poor Shisui had no idea about Nozomi's 'evil' plans.

The boy summoned one of his crows to keep an eye on the area. There was no way he was going to suffer alone.

After another few hours Shisui fell asleep in the tree branch he was in, leaving his crow summon to keep an eye out on it's own.

He was woken up by his crow pecking him on his head and was about to shout at the animal for doing so when he heard footsteps. Someone was approaching. His eyes narrowed, the footsteps were nearly silent even to his heightened senses which indicated that they- whoever they were- were most likely a shinobi.

He looked up to the sky, the position of the moon indicated that it was around two o'clock in the morning. The footsteps grew louder and Shisui double checked that his chakra was cloaked (luckily it was) before jumping to another tree, closer to where the sound was coming from.

His animal summon flew over with him and the curly haired Uchiha landed on a branch. He looked down, trying to find the cause of the footsteps. His brows furrowed as he watched someone come out of the shadows, they were wearing a cloak so he couldn't tell who they were or what they looked like but they continued walking until they stood in the middle of the clearing Shisui had been watching over.

A few minutes passed before two more figures emerged from the opposite end of the clearing. One of the figures was short and round whilst the other appeared to be tall and have broad shoulders. The atmosphere seemed rather dark and mysterious and Shisui sent chakra to his ears to catch what they were saying.

"-ight becomes dark and shadows fall over the world where light once shone." The figure Shisui had first spotted spoke.

The stout figure hummed before letting out a long, loud cackle that made goosebumps rise along the Uchiha's arms. "Hehe, so I'm guessing you've got it then?" The voice of the figure was masculine.

There was a moment of silence before the first person spoke again. "Not yet." Shisui frowned, he couldn't quite pick up on what gender the person was but their tone was dark.

"What!" The pudgy figure squealed before he raised hi right arm and pointed at the figure opposite him. "How dare you! Have you forgotten what I'll do if-"

"No I can ashore you I haven't. I-I just need some more time and then you'll have what you want." They sounded desperate, pleading and Shisui couldn't help but feel a tinge of pity for them.

"Hm. Fine you have one week! If I don't have it by then, well you know what the consequence will be." With that the man turned away and walked out of the clearing, the tall, broad-shouldered figure following behind.

The figure who was left in the clearing alone seemed to relax slightly as if they had just breathed out a sigh of relief. Shisui blinked and the figure had disapeared.

"Did- did I just imagine all that?" He looked to his right where his animal summon was perched next to him.

"..." The crow disappeared.

Shisui pouted when he realised that he was alone. 'Oh come on!' He groaned internally as he prepared for a long night of watching over the clearing.

~{*.*}~

Shisui was in a bad mood. He had stayed up all night keeping an eye out for anything suspicious and all that had happened was that secret meeting at something o'clock in the morning. He was tired, he was frustrated and most of all he was annoyed. So if you can't sympathise with his situation imagine how his bad mood increased when his two teammates for this mission were late! The only way he was managing not to collapse or scream was because of the thought of finally being able to have a break from 'Watch the clearing' duty.

'You'll be able to sleep soon Shisui.' He told himself. 'You'll be able to rest soon Shisui. You'll-' It was safe to say that he was slowly losing his sanity.

"Hey pretty boy!" It looked like his teammates had finally arrived.

"Hey Swirl-san.." He replied unenthusiastically .

"Woah, what's up with you? You look terrible." The maroon masked female asked.

"Hn.. Let's just get on with this, whose turn is it to watch over the clearing next?"

"Uh, uh, uh, first you need to tell us if anything happened." Shisui sighed.

"Nothing other then this odd meeting that occurred around.. two o'clock maybe?" His taller teammate leaned in in interest. "Three figures came into the clearing, one from the left, two from the right. They were all wearing cloaks so I couldn't see what they looked like but one of the two from the right side was a male and he seemed to be short and pudgy. He was.. asking the lone figure about whether or not they had gotten something and when the figure replied with a negative he got quite angry and threatened them. He gave the figure a week to get whatever it was and if not there will be some kind of consequence.."

His taller teammate nodded in understanding, she adopted a thinking position with her hand resting under her chin. "Hmm.. I see, well you'll have to keep an eye out for anything else, if those three return then contact us and we'll come r-"

"What do you mean by that? Isn't it someone else's turn to watch the clearing?"

"Hm? Oh.. right about tha-" The female was interrupted by his other teammate tugging on her cloak. "What is it brat?" The maroon masked female kneeled down so that the younger girl could whisper in her ear.

~{*.*}~

Something about the meeting Shisui had talked about made a memory pop up in Sakura's mind and she tugged on Nozomi-san's cloak to catch her attention.

"What is it brat?" Nozomi-san kneeled down so that the pinkette could whisper in her ear.

"You know how Shisui explained about that man asking for something from another person?" The red head nodded, signaling for the pinkette to continue. "Well I just remembered something that I overheard last night. I was listening in on people's conversations in case I could get any information that we could use and one of them involved a woman and two men, the lady asked them if they had gotten something and when they said they hadn't managed to get it the female let lose some killing intent, she seemed to calm down once they convinced her that they would have it in about two days time.. I was just wondering if the two situations are connected somehow.."

Under her mask Nozomi-san frowned. There was definitely a large possibility that the two events were related but she wasn't sure if they had anything to do with their mission..

"Err, I feel excluded from this conversation the two of you are having. Would someone care to explain?" The red head stood up straight and sighed before explaining to the Uchiha about what Sakura had said. A thoughtful frown made it's way onto the Uchiha's face. "I see.. do you know if those people were ninjas?" The curly haired boy asked, turning his attention to Sakura.

The pinkette hesitated slightly before nodding, "The woman is but I don't know what village she's from.." She said quietly. A thoughtful frown made it's way onto Shisui's face.

"So we could possibly be going against a ninja.." Sakura couldn't see the woman's face but she could tell that Nozomi-san was grinning madly.

"The one figure that had been threatened is definitely a ninja but I'm not sure if they're the same person Emerald-san saw."

"Well, I guess the brat and I can have a look around to see if we can find the woman. Pretty boy, you keep an eye out on the clearing, if we-"

"Hang on a second, why am I stuck with the boring job again? Shouldn't it be someone else's turn?" The boy narrowed his eyes at the older woman.

"Simple, the brat and I already have aliases, it would look suspicious if you suddenly appeared and one of us disappears!"

"Well you should of thought about that! Besides, you owe me for showing up late!"

"E-erm.. actually Uchiha-san I think it's my fault that we arrived here late.." Shisui looked at the pinkette, confused. "You see, erm.. Sensei had a hangover this morning because I didn't speed up her metabolism last night and so I had to stop her headache this morning because she was in a bad mood because I had to wake her up and-"

"So? It's still her fault for drinking too much!" It was rare for Shisui to get angry but he really couldn't help it, the woman had been relaxing and drinking away her worries whilst he had been up all night watching over an empty clearing!

"Tch, not my fault we were in a bar!" Sakura could tell that Nozomi-san was rolling her eyes.

In hopes of distinguishing the argument, the pinkette stepped in. "I can stay up and keep watch with Uchiha-san, Sensei, you can come up with an excuse for my absence and surely you can handle gathering more information on your own." Shisui hadn't paid much attention to it before but his little teammate's voice was so... angelic. It sounded much too pure for the world. Since their voice was just so sweet the Uchiha agreed to do her plan before his brain could fully comprehend what she had said.

"Hmph, fine brat.. but remember what I said about calling me that?" The redhead growled. Sakura bowed in apology and after a few moments the trio exchanged farewells and Shisui and Sakura watched their teammate sprint off, through the trees.


A/N: Hello! It's finally getting interesting!~

What do you think this mysterious object the people are after is?

I'm sorry for any mistakes!

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