A/N: Hi everybody. Only two chapters to go and this one's in the books. Time to get a look inside that pack. Ready? Then let's go. Enjoy!

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The foursome went immediately to Tsunade's office. Asuma knocked, and opened the door after he heard a particularly grumpy "COME IN!" Asuma said, "After you," motioning for Kakashi to lead the way.

Instead, he stepped aside and said, "Anko, want to go in first?"

She said, "Kakashi, this wasn't my mission! I can't go in there while you present to Tsunade! She'll just kick me out and say, "You can read the report later!" I'll wait out here."

"Me too," Kurenai said.

Kakashi said to Anko, "Don't go far."

She smiled at him and said, "I won't. Don't take too long ok?"

"I'll be quick." Kakashi knew he damn well better be quick. His girlfriend was still going to need a little more explaining from him if she was going to allow the sisters to set foot inside the village without killing them.

Kakashi went inside, and Asuma followed. Tsunade looked up and said, "You're back! Please give me some good news. I sent fucking Kotetsu and Izumo on a mission as you well know. Shizune's disappeared. I don't know where anything is, and it's PISSING ME OFF! First of all, tell your mission was successful!"

Kakashi said, "Hokage, our mission was a success."

"Good!" she bellowed at him. "Now, on to the next order of business. What did you get out of the sisters? Any hanky panky go on?"

Asuma said, "Absolutely none ma'am."

She said, "Then how the hell did you get them to give you any information?"

Kakashi said, "Well, we just got them to trust us. Here's what we got." He took his pack off and opened it, handing her the smaller pack that Harumi had given him.

Tsunade took it and said, "What's in it?"

Kakashi said, "We didn't look. They said it was what they were working on with Orochimaru. It was going to be used to destroy the village."

Tsunade opened the pack cautiously and looked inside. There were small bottles and scrolls inside. She carefully took out the bottles and studied them, then put them on the table in front of her. Then she took out the scrolls – seven in all, all numbered – and put them in front of her. That was all that seemed to be in the pack.

Asuma and Kakashi stood there watching what she was doing. Both wanted to leave, but they couldn't until they were formally dismissed.

Tsunade continued her examination of the things she took from the pack. She took the first scroll and opened it. She said, "It's a diary of sorts telling what the two sisters were hired to do. It doesn't seem too important. It seems to be more historical than anything else, but still it is good information on what Orochimaru was looking for when he chose to employ the girls." She opened the second scroll and on it were formulas for poison. She said, "Poisons. Many kinds. Simply made. Deadly if ingested. Interesting." She put that aside and picked up the third scroll, "Documentation of increasing the toxicity levels of the poisons and testing them on lab animals." Next she picked up the fourth scroll. She read some, and then opened it wider, reading more. She cast her eyes downward.

Kakashi said, "What is it?"

"Documentation of testing poisons on live humans." The room got deathly still, almost out of respect for those who were made to suffer and die on Orochimaru's orders.

Tsunade took the fifth scroll and opened it. "A new toxicity level was achieved. The sisters discovered a way to add the poison to water and not dilute it. They were then trying to find a way to make water be a carrier of the poison. To carry it into a water supply." She looked up and said, "Ours."

Kakashi and Asuma looked at each other, and the gravity of what Tsunade said was almost like a physical weight on them. The seriousness of their mission became clearly evident.

She put the fifth scroll down and picked up the sixth. She said, "This one was done recently. The sisters succeeded in finding a way to protect the poison as it traveled in water. But this seems to have been done after they left Orochimaru."

She quickly put the sixth scroll down and picked up the seventh. She opened it and let out a big breath. She said, "An antidote to the poison, for both the water supply, and anyone who ingested it. These girls thought of everything." She picked up the two bottles, one was marked with the poison, and one was marked with the antidote. She said, "I'll have both of these analyzed and duplicated immediately. Well done you two. If there is nothing else, you're dismissed. I'd like to look over these documents more closely."

Both shinobi nodded to Konoha's 5th Hokage and turned to leave her office.

Kakashi and Asuma both felt great relief. Their mission had turned out perfectly. Everyone in the village could now rest easier because Orochimaru's plan of poisoning their water supply, had been exposed, and prevented before it could even happen. The village owed a great debt to them, as well as to the two sister scientists, that trusted the Konoha shinobi.

But everything wasn't taken care of quite yet.

Kakashi and Asuma left the Hokage's office and as soon as they appeared in the hall, Anko and Kurenai jumped up. Anko went to Kakashi and said, "What happened? What went on in there? We heard a little and then everything went quiet."

Kakashi said, "Asuma, let's tell them everything."

Asuma agreed, "Good idea. Let's go to the lunchroom, I could use something to eat."

The four of them went to the lunchroom so Kakashi and Asuma could tell the girls exactly what was going on, and what yet to expect.

Kakashi started telling of how they met the girls, and their Aunt, and how the girls were totally against telling them anything. He told them how he had to explain how Orochimaru would kill them anyway, if they told or not. Then he told how the two of them shadowed the girls as they wrapped things up in the little village they were hidden in. He even told the story about Jun and how Harumi had quietly healed him from pneumonia, even though he was well past his prime. Anko asked, "How did you get them to trust you if there was no physical stuff involved?"

Kakashi said, "Harumi walked in on me when I was looking at my picture of you and me. I tried to stash it before she could see it, but she caught me and wanted to know what it was. I figured if I told the truth, she may trust me a little more. Seems that did the trick."

Anko thought looks like I'm not the only one who trusts this man. I need to meet this woman.

After telling how Kotetsu, Genma and Izumo showed up, and how he and Asuma hurried home to tell them that the girls were being moved to Konoha so as not to shock them, that that's where the story ends.

Anko said, "Not quite."

Both Kakashi and Asuma said, "Huh?"

"Not quite," she said again. "I'm pretty sure Kurenai and I would still like to meet these girls, and they should be here soon. Am I right?" Kurenai nodded right along with Anko.

Kakashi said, "They should be here within the hour. Kotetsu, Izumo and that fuck Genma, oops did I say that out loud, GENMA, are going to bring them straight here. Shall we wait here, or would you like to meet them at the gates?

Anko thought he's got nothing to hide. I can wait to meet them. Anko looked at Kurenai and said, "We'll wait here for them. You can go meet them if you want to. I trust you."

She was being totally sincere. She did trust him. She believed every single word he'd told her. She had no reason not to. Kakashi was a man of his word. Very few words at times, but he meant every single thing he ever said. So she had no problem whatsoever with him going to meet the group that was traveling in, because she found that she had absolutely nothing to worry about.

Kakashi just looked at Anko and thought my God, what a woman. I've been put in a situation that breeds doubt, that would tear apart a normal relationship, and yet she's still here, and she's fine. She believes in me, probably more than I believe in myself. She'd touched him to his very soul with her unwavering faith in him. So instead of going out to meet the group at the gates, he walked over and sat down next to Anko, he casually draped his hand over her thigh, and started drumming his fingers rhythmically on the inside of her leg. He said, "They'll figure out where we are."

Anko smiled and took his hand and laced her fingers with his. She gave his hand a squeeze, letting him know how pleased she was that he was back, and that they were still as rock solid as ever – if not more so. And that because of the solid trust she had in him, she planned on rewarding him - later.

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A/N: There ya go. Now you know what COULD have happened, had Asuma and Kakashi NOT been successful. Almost done. Next chapter is the wrap up.

Next up: The girls meet the sisters. See you soon!