Shisui woke up with a horrible headache, what he hoped was not a black eye and two kunai in his leg that didn't seem to be poisoned but he wasn't sure. "Sakura?" He looked around, he seemed to have been out for quite awhile. "Sasuke?" Shisui braced his leg with the kunai in it and grabbed some sterile wraps from his pack wrapping the pads around the kunai packing them before pulling the blades out. They bled but it wasn't anything that hadn't happened before.

Sasuke had been sitting there for an hour now wondering where the others were. He was going to die here, he knew it. His chest hurt, he wasn't sure how bad the wound was but he knew it wasn't good. He took another breath, or tried. It hurt. He was getting really cold and the shivers that moved his body ached. When he had first woken up he had tried calling out for Shisui or Sakura but had stopped when blood came up over his lips. His bleeding was slowing and his vision was getting darker. It didn't hurt anymore at least. Sakura, he thought, I'm sorry I couldn't be the man you deserved, he had let her down and he knew it.

Shisui paused as he finished wrapping his leg. "Sasuke." He felt Sasuke's chakra flare and then flicker out. Shisui concentrated, closed his eyes and willed his senses out farther and farther, nothing. Sasuke's chakra was nowhere to be found. Shisui bit back a snarl and slowly stood up. He looked at his surroundings. He was by the river they had passed two days ago. North or south, had someone carried him here? How had he gotten this far away from where they were just hours before. Sakura, he felt the waning presence of her chakra on his arm. Had she teleported him away? He had to find the rest of his team.

He searched for hours, it was starting to get dark and he was still injured. He flickered over the miles returning to Konoha. He needed to tell the Hokage what had happened. Shisui made it to the gate before he collapsed. His head hit the ground and he gasped as his leg twisted out from under him. He could see Kotetsu and Izumo running toward him, and he passed out.

When Shisui woke he was in the hospital. The nurse that was in his room looked at him and ran out the door. He heard shouting from the hallway and a moment later the Hokage, Lady Tsunade burst through his door.

"Where's the rest of your team and what happened." She had her hands on her hips and was radiating anger and worry all at once. That's right, Sakura was her friend and apprentice.

"They knew we were looking for them, they were looking for us, Sakura in particular. It seemed to me they were going to try to capture her when we found them." He said serious for once."They knew we were coming, someone had to have told them. We have a leak, a spy."

"Who knew their mission." Kakashi had just jumped through the hospital room's window.

"No one that wasn't on it and myself." Tsunade told them.

"Itachi." Shisui said.

"What?" Tsunade asked him and Kakashi growled.

"He came after Sakura told us we had our first mission as a team, to her apartment. We were in her bedroom when he got there talking about the mission and he came through her window saying he wanted to talk to her about the mission, told me to leave." He told Kakashi and Tsunade. "He...warned her, told her he didn't want to go. He knew he couldn't abort it, he told me to look out for her."

"He knew, he knew that the Akatsuki were looking for her and he warned her, but why? Why warn her and give away he knows they are looking for her. He had to have known we would talk, that it would get back to us. Did he tell the Akatsuki where you three were, he would sell out two members of his family and his ex lover?" Tsunade was getting angry indeed.

"Itachi told me something, by the monument, he told me there was going to be a coupe to gain control of the Leaf, headed by Danzo. He said he had found out that Danzo was planning to rouse a civil war with an Akatsuki attack, and use it to prove what a weak leader you are Lady Tsunade, and take over as Hokage in your place. I asked him how he knew, and he wouldn't tell me, only that he had found out." Shisui looked troubled.

"Danzo was decapitated, two nights ago, while you were on your mission. It has to be connected somehow."

Kakashi sat in the chair beside Shisui's bed. "Itach and Sasuke, where are they Shisui, do you know?"

"I couldn't find either of them or Sakura, I looked for hours before I thought it best to come back to Konoha to let you know what was going on, Hokage Sama. I felt, Sasuke's chakra flicker out. I think he is dead but I did not find a body. I would have brought him back with me." he looked out the window. "We need to find Itachi, find out what he knows."

"I was thinking the same thing. Let me double check your injuries, I healed you but you were poisoned, that will take a few days to get out of your system even though I pulled most of it out of your blood. You won't be at 100 percent but you'll be good enough." Tsunade ran chakra infused hands over his abdomen, legs and back up to his chest.

"All clear. Meet me in the office before you go though, and you Hatake, I want you there because you are going to find my apprentice and bring her back to me in one piece." She left the room.

"Did Itachi take Sakura?" Kakashi stood looking out the window, his back turned to Shisui.

"Honestly, I don't know, but if he did, if he was planning on it, I didn't know."

"You do know something though don't you." Kakashi turned to face him.

"Let's wait for the summons." Shisui said and Kakashi jumped out of the window. Shisui got out of bed and walked to the closet pulling his jounin shirt and pants on. Damn it Itachi, what have you done.

Shisui and Itachi had planned it together. They were going to assasinate Danzo together but use Shisui's Kotoamatsukami, to plant false memories in Danzo's aide as a witness for Danzo's "suicide", so no one would be blamed for his murder. Danzo had been instigating hatred and unrest among the Uchiha, calling for, advocating a civil war a coup in which they would partner up and rule Konoha.

Itachi and Shisui the two most powerful Uchiha, knew it would end in terrible bloodshed on all sides and had a plan to put a stop to it. Shisui had recognized Itachi's handwritting ofcourse, Itachi was the one who had sent the scroll to them telling them of Danzo's murder.

Why, why didn't you stick to the plan Itachi, and why take Sakura, for he knew now, it was Itachi's idea to take her and not the Akatsuki's. They had been trying for the last two years and Itachi had prevented them, so why now, what had changed. Shisui's head started to hurt again, too much thinking. He missed Sakura's glowing green hands.

He jumped out the window landing hard on the roof. "Oww." He flickered to the tower to wait for Kakashi. He was convinced, Itachi had Sakura somewhere, keeping her for who knows what. What was he going to do when Itachi didn't show up. Shit, why hadn't Itachi just stuck to their plan. He had promised to help him get Sakura back after Danzo and the coup were settled, why didn't the asshole just wait.

Kakashi and Tsunade were already there when he arrived.

"Do you know where Itachi is Shisui?" Tsunade asked him once he had closed the door to her office.

"No, I mean, I just got back and woke up in the hospital, but no I haven't been able to sense him either." Shisui admitted.

"We are wasting time. We need to find Sakura and Sasuke, dead or alive and bring them back. Itachi's allegiances need to be verified, after our conversation in the hospital I find his motives unclear and being who he is, we need to be cautious, he needs to come in for questioning." Kakashi said pointedly.

"Hatake, Uchiha, you two are on capture and rescue, find Sakura and Sasuke, find Itachi Uchiha and bring him in for questioning. I expect you to both keep your heads, do not rush in, do not be rash and I want Itachi alive, traitor or loyal, alive do you hear me Hatake?" Tsunade gave him a piercing eye.

"Blood can be spilt in the name of peace." Kakashi replied coldly.

Shisui looked at the Copy Nin, in the name of peace, he hadn't expected to hear something like that from someone like the Copy Nin.

"I want my apprentice back and unharmed." Tsunade said.

"If she is harmed I'm sure it is because she couldn't hold back, why do you think I'm in such a fucking hurry woman!" Kakashi glared at the Hokage taking a step forward.

"Bring her back and make them pay but most importantly, bring all three home to Konoha, and we can sort it out then." She waves them off.

Shisui and Kakashi head for the door to the office to leave.

"Alive Hatake, Alive." Gold eye met coal.

He walked past Shisui and out the door.