Sean, Miri and Amari sat straight up with heavy breathing. They looked around and saw they were inside a church and the pews were all around them. The man they handed the scroll to sat on his knees. His eyes were closed and his hand was over his heart.

"Oh I never thought you'd wake up." He spoke.

"What do you mean? You tried to kill us!" Sean yelled at him.

"No, no, no, you looked at some man in our temple that asked about our scholars. You gave us a scroll that contains a summon that knows about the lava technique. But you all fell unconscious and he left. Now he's back and burned our temple."

The three looked around the temple and saw several more men people that dressed like him at all the windows. They could see a purple fog outside the windows. "What's that purple stuff?" Amari nodded at one of the windows."

"The man returned and trapped us in the temple. We need your help getting out."

"Why don't things ever get easy." Sean pulled open the front doors. "Hidden wind style; barrier pathway." Sean pulled a part of the barrier open. Miri walked through the barrier and Amari grabbed hold of Sean and dragged him with through the other side.

The old attackers waited outside the temple. Itachi looked bored, his look was flat and his eyes were forced on the three. The other was vicious, his grin revealed his sharpened teeth and his greedy twitch in his eyes. Polar opposites of each other but the group knew both of them wished to kill each and every one of them.

"We still in a genjutsu?" Sean asked.

"That's what was wrong with you?" Miri turned to her brother. "God, I thought you split a nerve or something."

"Should've understood when you said Itachi Uchiha. It went past me that his eyes can place the victim in a very lucid genjutsu." Amari cracked her knuckles. "I'm going to enjoy beating the shit out of these guys."

"We came for a final answer. What do you say Sean?" Itachi spoke.

"I'm surprised you even came here for an answer. You should already know." Sean moved over his headband to open the Tozoto.

Sean teleported in front of Itachi, his eyes wasn't centered on his eyes but his chest. He could see the other pull his sword in the air. Sean moved between the two to be behind the shark. The two Akatsuki turned behind them to face Sean. They looked down right after, a pair of arms sprawled out of the ground and gripped their ankles.

"You think something this simple will stop us?" The shark laughed.

Their arms dropped to their sides. Amari jumped right over them and faded the blue around her hand. "Stop you? Oh no don't get us wrong, we know we're no match for you. We only want to delay."

Miri pushed past the two. "Itachi you may have had the heart to kill each of your family members but you can't always tear a family apart. You can't just come in the middle of the night to tear us apart."

"Orochimaru is dead." Itachi blurted out.

Sean shot up his body from the bed. He heaved out breath after breath and expanded his chest out to push off the sweat that ran down. He looked down at the side of his bed, Sakura was barely moved by Sean's sudden moves. Her arm was still around his waist and her eyes were barely opened.

"Come on Sasuke, lay back down." Sakura moaned.

Sean's fear changed, he gentle grabbed Sakura's arm and moved it to the side before he moved out of the bed. Sean grabbed his Sweatshirt from the door handle and froze at the door. He shook his head "no" and walked over to the window. He took in a calm breath and crawled out.

Sean waited inside the hokage's office, the sky hasn't lit up for the morning yet and Lady Hokage saw it and hated it. She slammed the door behind her and mumbled as she walked to her desk. She dropped herself down on the chair.

"Why the hell are you waking me up this early? Couldn't you just send me a written report on your mission?" The hokage complained.

"Itachi is inside the nation of fire."

"How many of the Akatsuki are in our nation?"

"At least two, he came with a shark man with a very large sword and attacked us on our mission. They know of Orochimaru's death and now see us as an easy capture. From what I can understand is that he wishes to take us and now use the eye."

"Why did they wait till Orochimaru was dead to finally go to you?"

"I believe it's because he thought we were with him this entire time and didn't want to take us on as a group. But now that he's dead we have no one that still desires to keep us safe and alive. Now, now he can finally push on us and take our eyes."

"We finally get you back on the field and now we risk your crew being attacked by one of them on every mission. Now will you let me place another Shinobi on your team?"

"Yes, since we're short one member."

"What do you mean?" her question was answered when Sean was replaced with smoke. Tsunade relaxed back on her chair. "Damn it."

A half hour went by and Miri and Amari were in the office. Amari went forward on her word and returned to her original outfit. The only thing different was that her small pink jacket was replaced with a red version of it. Tsunade sat on her desk and repeatedly tapped her pointer finger on her other pointer.

"Should we start without Sean?" Miri asked.

"We're going to have to, Sean from what I could tell transferred over to the Akatsuki." Tsunade stood up from her chair.

Miri and Amari were shocked. "You're joking right? This has to be some kind of test to see if we can handle without a captain."

"Sean lied to you if he said we were testing you for a captain or to be on your own. We used Anko to use as a temporary captain till we find you a permanent one but Sean bested her in combat so we allowed you to do this one alone. We did find you a new possible captain." She looked past the two and to the door. "Let him in."

The door opened for a leaf shinobi to walk through. He looked young for his rank, he wore a green jacket like many of the other high ranked ninja. His hair was slicked over to the side and the sides of the brown pile were evenly shaved down. His beard was just as smooth as the top of his head. His eyes were sky blue but the inner iris speckled red.

He rolled up the sleeves to his sleeves to the joint of his arms. "You can call me Captain Magu."

"He's a new jounin but the specialty of his jutsu nature makes me believe he can lead Team 16."

"Team 16?" Amari asked Tsunade.

"Amari, Miri, and Sean Ezenki, and Captain Magu Behtro is now Team 16 of the Leaf. Just like the operations to retrieve Sasuke Uchiha, we are now releasing operation rescue Sean Ezenki."