A Hand Forced
Chapter 2
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto…
A/N: I decided to double space this chapter, but I don't know why I just had the urge. My other Naruto story should be posted by Saturday. My Word subscription ran out and I just got another. YAY
The group of five Anbu, two Sand nin, and the Hokage were now on their way to the Hokage's office. As they went through the various hallways in the Tower the employees didn't pay them any heed. Soon the group arrived in front of the Hokage's office, but the silence was not broken even as the group filed into her office. The Hokage went straight to her desk and opened up a drawer, she carefully brought out three sake glasses and a bottle of sake. She began to pour the sake in all one of the glasses. The silence all the while was starting to wear thin on the two sand members. Before the Hokage could continue to pour the sake in the second glass she was interrupted.
"Hokage, I apologize for being so pressing with this issue but-," Temari was cut off by the other Sand member.
"Sand has been attacked and request assistance." He stated in an almost neutral voice, he barely betrayed his worry. The Hokage then sent a questioning look towards him wondering why he could be so calm while talking about an attack on his village. In answer to her unasked question he tossed the scroll at her and told her "It's all in there and we will try to answer any other the questions you ask. However I can not guarantee we have the answer."
The Hokage then opened the scroll and started to read it. Her eyes betrayed the concern she felt for her allies, and she knew that she couldn't deny their request for help. There was something troubling about the scroll and its writing, and Hokage started to worry for her village as well. These nin that attacked Suna seem to come with know clear objective, but they still made it close to the cities walls. The scroll claimed that the nins wore no symbols for their village, and then the scroll just stopped with his signature and the seal. The lack of information on these new enemies concerned her more than she could say. "This scroll isn't very descriptive. Do two know anything that might help us assess these enemies?"
"When they arrived it was like lightning, there were sudden attacks but within a few minutes span they would be gone. Just enough time to get a quick estimate on the reaction time of our Nins and their skills." The fox masked Sand Anbu announced. "It seemed like they were testing where the best place to attack would be, but then we began to think why they would warn us of there presence. They had to realize we would tighten our security once we realized we were in danger of an attack. The attacks continued a few hours before we finally left. Garra had asked a younger Jounin to go before us, but he came back bloody. So we handed our job of escorting the villagers off to someone else and came here as quickly as we could. We ran into a few problems, but," With a look at his partner he continued. "It wasn't anything we couldn't handle."
"Kazekage-sama also stated that he would send word however he could to the Leaf to update them on the situation." Temari picked up where her teammate had left off.
"I understand, although I wish there was more information on these attackers. But information isn't always available in situations like this." The Hokage then nodded her head towards one of the Anbu and then a door could be heard as he left the room. She then leaned back and finished pouring the sake. "Now while we are waiting for the last member of the Anbu squad that will be accompanying you back to Suna, I have a request for you." With a nod from both the sand members she continued. "I would like to know why Garra trusted you to enough to deliver the message to me."
"Garra trusts me more than most of his lead officers," She announced while glaring humorously at her companion. The Hokage couldn't have sworn she heard something like 'He just can't get over that I can beat him when we play poker.' A giggle was heard in response from Temari, and the Hokage then knew she had heard right. "And there is also a very good reason Garra trusts me so much, besides the fact that I don't cheat at poker I am his elder sister." With that she smiled at the Hokage and took off her mask. The level of killing intent rose in the air; the cause for this was the Anbu right next to the Hokage's chair. Temari turned and smiled at her as her friend glared at the female Anbu behind the mask.
"It's good to see you again Temari, and this time I sincerely hope that you don't send our lead strategist into the hospital." The Hokage laughed as she noticed the young girls eyes got a mischievous glint in them and turned her gaze to the man standing next to her.
"I don't think he is going to have to worry about that anymore," Temari smirked as she said the last part. "I have someone else to send there now." The killing intent in the room immediately went down, and the form of the Anbu standing next to the Hokage relaxed a bit, but still held its battle ready pose.
"Hn…like you could," Just like that the killing intent from Temari became aimed at the speaker, who in turn seemed to be oblivious to it. "First the reason why I was sent here with Temari is because I am second to the top Anbu that sand has. And that is only because my patience level with missing nins isn't the best. The current leader of the Anbu gave me a name the day I enter the Anbu, a name that has stuck with me since 'Karma'."
A/N: Will someone review and tell me what they think of this story? Cause it was just an idea I came up with during school so yah….PLEASE….