Chapter 2:
Hiruzen Sarutobi sighed inwardly and leaned back in his chair, the old leather tattered from the many late nights spent mulling over seemingly endless paperwork. The chair had been new when Minato became the yondaime
It was an hour and a half later than the arranged time. This wasn't the first time that had happened, the silver haired anbu's tardiness seemed to be getting progressively worse. It had started out as five minutes, then ten, then half an hour, and now an hour and a half, anytime it wasn't imperative for him to be on time- he was late. Hiruzen didn't blame him though, It was understandable, if not a little obnoxious at times.
Most shinobi had strange ways of coping with the stress and grief that accompanied their chosen profession (His own three students' um… hobbies were prime examples of this fact) and hadn't Kakashi coped with more than most shinobi twice his age? It was a wonder he hadn't snapped completely long ago and finally done away with it all. He really needed to find time to start working out a solution for the anbu, he owed it to his successor to at least keep an eye out for his last remaining student.
But that was a problem for later, for now he needed his top anbu out in the field as soon as possible.
"Your next mission is a solo, S-ranked covert track and rescue. I can not send more than one person on this mission" The hokage said. Anbu wolf, having not been born yesterday, easily read inbetween the lines.
'The moronic elders on the council don't want this person rescued, (that or they don't feel like he or she is worth the manpower) And so I'm the only one he trusts to get the job done on my own and keep my trap shut. Interesting… Wonder who it is...'
Anbu Wolf nodded. This was nothing extremely irregular for him, he had done plenty of missions like this in his time. A fair amount that never made (were excluded from ) the records.
"As you may know there was some... general confusion a week ago." The sandaime continued.
The Anbu wolf 'hn-ed' slightly in acknowledgement; Nearly a week ago someone had left open the Inuzuka kennels and over one hundred and fifty Untrained puppies got loose on the village. Multiple young genin and academy students took advantage of this distraction and thus a chain of pranks that would rival that of the great Kushina Uzumaki, were let loose in a mass of paint and glitter. It was all perfectly coordinated, not even all the ambu were immune to effects of the chaos. Tenzo and Gemma's hair were two such casualties. It had taken quite some time to wash the pink glitter out of it.
Gemma's hair still sparkled
"During that confusion Uzumaki Naruto went missing, along with one of our newer Jonin Hashimato Hito - we have reason to believe that Hito-san betrayed Kohona and has taken the Jinjuriki."
That got the Anbu's attention. Uzumaki Naruto? Sensei's kid? Sensei's son had been missing for nearly a week and they were just sending someone out now? Why hadn't the orphanage reported it right away?
"It is imperative that this mission remains completely under wraps" The hokage stressed. "Here's your mission scroll with further details. You know what to do."
"Hai Hokage-sama!"
The lanky Anbu dipped his head in acknowledgement, accepted the strategically nondescript scroll and disappeared in a whirl of leaves.
The Hokage sighed, eyeing the unending piles of paperwork that refused to submit to his will and just die already, darn it!
I'm really getting too old for this, he thought.
The moon shone brightly through the apartment's window, gently illuminating a solitary ANBU agent pulling the metal arm guards taught. Preparing for the task ahead.
Earlier that day Wolf, after leaving the hokage's office had taken an almost extreme caution to avoid a notoriously over-enthusiastic green clad jonin. Honestly, Might Guy's 'rival senses' were a border line kekei genki.
It was frightening.
After finally making it back to his small apartment, and then read, memorised - courtesy of the sharingan- and burned the scroll using a simple katon jutsu, the remaining student of The Yellow Flash had set out to prepare for his upcoming mission. It did not seem to be anything abnormal from what he was usually assigned. Apart from the fact that it was Sensei's son that was kidnaped.
Kakashi narrowed his eyes at the sealing scroll he was packing food provisions into.
It appears that some random Jonin, fresh out of a field promotion - Hito Hashimoto - he reminded himself- had decided to exact his revenge on the 'demon child' by kidnapping him. Well, Kidnaping may not be the right word, the woman at the orphanage had practically given Naruto away for free, only too glad to be rid of the demon brat. And somehow no one noticed or reported the absence of the child until nearly a week later?
He shook himself.
'Just another mission. Just another citizen. Move on. Don't get emotional, don't get attached. If you let your judgement get clouded- it could get you killed- just complete the mission and then sort out your thoughts.'
Somehow he didn't completely believe himself. Pushing his thoughts to the corner of his mind he slipped the sealing scroll he was working on into a hidden pocket and picked up his mask from where it was hanging semi-discarded on the back of a chair.
Pushing open the large window, he slid out into the starry night. (Making sure to reset the detection seal on the sill, of course.)
A passerby on his way home from meeting a friend, glanced up arbitrarily at the window of an apartment building and shivered as a swift shadow passed before the cold moon.
A/n: Ok, well this isn't my best chapter, I don't think; but i tried so… yeah. Y'all can probably see how my mood was affecting the writing on various days and oh my goodness writing is hard!
I would like to thank everyone who reviewed a lot because all those really help, I appreciate having ideas to bounce around. (and thanks for pointing out that i misspelled anbu, i've actually fixed it this time : )
My younger sister is also demanding that I publicly thank her for being such an amazing sister who will give me ideas that aren't 'lame' thank you lydia. (but actually thanks, it really helped) and also to my best friend and grandparents and basically everybody who helped in the battle against plot bunnies and words! Huzzah!
And can i request that y'all review please? Just a few words letting me know what you liked or didn't is so appreciated, cause this is an experiment on teaching myself to write better so feedback would be awesome! (and also pls pray for the kipfmiller family, they recently lost their son stephen to cancer really suddenly um, the 10th graders took it really hard)
Okay, well I'm not a fast updater apparently so until next time
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