Here it is! Chapter 2! Very minor tweaks on this one.
Konohagakure
Tsunade took on last look at the map before wiping it clean with a concealing jutsu. She handed it to the masked and pink haired captain of the 3 man Anbu cell. "Guard this with your life, if you get compromised, destroy it."
"Hai!" responded the captain and in a lightning speed moment, the Anbu were gone
"Shizune!" hearing Tsunade's voice the special advisor to the Hokage came running in…
"Let it be known, Edo Tensi is forever banned and anyone caught using this Jutsu will be given the death penalty. It is the decision of the 5 Kages and everyone in Fire Country must know about it…"
"Hai Tsunade Sama…" With a quick respectful bow, Shizune left
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Mount Myōboku
"Naruto! Naruto! " Gamakchi called out to the only human for miles busy training to become a Hokage
"Nandesho Gamkachi?" Said Naruto from atop one of the peaks where he was meditating and gathering natural energy
"Come down! The great sage Toad has summoned you!"
Naruto landed with perfect ease and he took of with a "arigatou gamakchi! I'll see you for dinner!"
"Che… that kid is always in such a rush" Gamakchi mumbled as he took off in the opposite direction
The Sage Toad's Shrine
"Who are you?" Gamamaru Said as he looked at Naruto standing expectantly in front of him
"Aaaaah! Nani! You forgot me again! It's me! Naruto Dattebayo!" Naruto screamed outraged
"Oh yes! I always know you were Naruto but do you know who you are? " said Gamamaru "huh!" was the intelligent response Naruto could manage
"Never mind… I have dreamt of a prophecy…. Stuck in a moment of time a cherry blossom will fall, to return to you, what you have lost… This loss will then forever be forgotten, as what was once yours will then belong to the Cherry blossom…" finished the Sage Toad cryptically
"What does that even mean?" Naruto wondered out loud
"The meaning will be revealed to you in time… For now resume your training and be sure to answer any summons from Konoha…" With that the Sage Toad dismissed him
Confused and bewildered Naruto decided to go back to the human realm for bowl of Ichiraku's Ramen before he began to dwell on the riddle that the Great Sage Toad had set before him… Maybe he would ask Shikhamaru, he could probably figure it out in a snap…
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Somewhere in the Forest
With the help of his eagle, Sasuke didn't take time finding the 2 man Anbu cell. Just as the two rogue ninja's had said they were travelling in the direction of Sunagakure.
Traps were not going to work on Anbu, he would have to combat them head on, he was not taking any chances with this. He turned on his Rinnegan and Mangekyou sharingan and intercepted them mid air.
The fight was quick and the deaths painless as Sasuke made short work of the two man cell. No sooner had he thought that he'd won, the two bodies disappeared in puff of smoke
"Clones…" he observed impassively "Good thing so was I…." Sasuke disappeared in a puff of smoke and appeared behind the two Anbu ninja's hiding in the trees trying to conceal their presence. He knocks them both out and searches them but they have nothing on them…
A few miles out closer to the Sunagakure border, the Anbu unit captain stopped as her clones with Henge were immobilised. She'd probably be discovered soon too… She had to hurry…. Uchiha Sasuke was not a distraction she could afford right now…
Ironic she thought, all those years spent looking for him, then he shows up, saves the village and disappears… He'd become a mercenary for hire is what she'd heard but no evidence was ever found to put him in the Bingo book… Yes he helped rebuild the village… Yes he stood by them… and yes, he had left as unceremoniously as he had arrived as soon as his sentence of 2 years with Morino Ibiki was done.
He'd spent 2 years in interrogation, horrible, gruelling, mind breaking interrogation. He'd not withheld anything and was pardoned. For those 2 years she had nursed him. She had helped Tsunade regrow an arm from the cells of Hashirama and Zetsu. He'd given himself to science like a lab rat, he'd heard people slur his name and call him a traitor when they saw him. He had been ambushed many times and never fought back. She'd seen Uchiha Sasuke put himself through penance. She's stood right beside him even then. Just like that, without a message, without saying anything he was gone. He went out to get food, and left!
After he left, she had tried to find him & track him. Naruto did too, but after 5 years of no luck, they'd decided it was best to let it go. It's so true she thought, in war it is always the innocents who suffer.
It's had been 5 years since he disappeared. 3 since she stopped looking for him. 1 year since she did a special mission for the Anbu Hokage Cell. She could have found him, but she chose not to. He would never hold the power to hurt her or anyone ever again. And yet, here he was, and her instinct told her, he would hurt her again. Mercilessly
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