Chapter 9: Unexpected Visitors

"So...what brought you to our country? Why did you decide to come here all of a sudden?" Tazuna asked suspiciously.

"A mission," Kakashi replied calmly, "We have a suspicion that ninja from an enemy country are planning an attack here in this country. We were sent to search the land and find out what they're doing here. And what they're planning to do."

"I see...Are they so dangerous that you need two teams, though?" Tazuna's daughter Tsunami asked, a hint of fear in her voice.

"We're not sure yet. Our Hokage just informed us that it was a mission for two teams. She didn't give us very many details," Gai informed them.

Tsunami turned to her father, a concerned look pasted onto her face.

For a few minutes, they all sat there is silence. Then, Kakashi stiffened and looked toward the window.

"Somebody's watching us," Kakashi whispered glaring at a tree outside.

"Kakashi, I think you've seen too many horror movies," Gai told the glaring jounin.

"I don't watch horror movies."

"What! You haven't seen any of them!"

"None."

"Not even The Grudge?"

"No."

"Saw?"

"Nope."

"Barney!"

Everyone in the room stared at him as if he was on fire. Again, there was a few minutes of silence.

"...You watch Barney?" Kakashi asked a little frightened to be sitting next to him.

"No! I mean I - I only..."

Everyone continued to stare.

Suddenly, Kakashi stood and glared out the window again. He reached for his shuriken. In one swift movement, he threw three shuriken out the window then ducked as a kunai buzzed over his head, hitting the wall behind him with a thwack.

Outside the window, someone cried out as the shuriken hit him above his eyebrow. That gave away their location.

Gai quickly caught on to Kakashi's plan and jumped out the window, and trapping the three ninja outside.

After about 10 minutes, the three ninja were in a corner, their wrists and ankles tied tight enough to cut off the blood circulation. They were rain ninja, with masks covering their faces.

"Who are they?" Tazuna asked surprised at how they handled them so quickly.

"The are chuunin of the Hidden Rain Villlage," Kakashi explained, "Spies."

"What are they doing here?" Tsunami asked.

"We'll find out soon enough," Gai sounded confident, "Tell us, why are you here?"

The first of them spoke, "Why, we're here to spy on you of course."

"You're here for more than that," Gai said starting to get impatient already, "Tell us or we'll force it out of you."

"Heh. You'll force us, huh? I'd like to see you try."

Kakashi took that as a signal. He performed a few hand seals and then uncovered his sharingan. He looked directly into the eyes of the frightened ninja who had just spoken. For a while nothing seemed to happen, then the rain ninja cried out as he was being mentally tortured.

"Okay, okay! I'll tell you! Please, stop!"

"Tell us, why are you here," Kakashi repeated.

"We were told to spy on the governor of this place and report everything we find out about him. What time he gets up, eats, gets dressed, goes to bed, everything. He wants to take over this country. He wants to kill the governor and own all the people and all the land. We were told if there were any ninja or anyone who could be a threat to him to report it back to him. We were planning to kill you and everyone else in the house, then take anything valuable as a reward to ourselves."

"Well that was a stupid idea. You know where you're going to now? To Leaf Village where you will be tortured further until they get all the information from you. Then, well, they'll decide what they do to you afterwards."

The three looked scared and their leader looked the worst. He was paler, eyes wider, and he was trembling greater.

"Nice job, Kakashi," Gai complimented. "By the way, what did you do to him?"

"I showed him images of what happened at the Christmas party last year," Kakashi explained before walking away.

"Curse you, Kakashi!" Gai yelled towards the sky, which was actually the ceiling which was the floor under Nartuo's room, while falling to his knees and throwing his fists in the air.

Upstairs, Naruto fell off his bed and hit his head. He reached and touched his forehead. There was a bump the size of a softball. Slowly getting up, he made his way out into the hallway. It looked like the other students had heard all the noise downstairs too.

They followed each other down the stairway, lead by Tenten, and stopped as Tenten came to a halt on the last step.

She was looking to her right at three other pairs of eyes, black and cold yet screaming of fear, and screamed.

"AHHH! What are they doing here!" she screamed surprised.

"Don't worry, they were just leaving," Kakashi explained calmly.

"What happened," Neji asked tonelessly.

"Oh nothing. They were just spies. We took care of it."

"Whatever. I'm going back to bed," Sasuke announced.

The rest of the students nodded before following him upstairs.

"Well, I'll take them to Leaf in the morning," Kakashi sighed.

"They might escape tonight while we're sleeping! I'll take them now," Gai replied.

"Sure. Fine. Whatever."

With a nod, Gai grabbed the back of the chuunins' shirts and dragged them out the door.

Tazuna stretched his arms before saying, "Well, that's enough excitement for one night. I think I'll get to bed so I can get to the construction site earlier. We're starting on another bridge to the west, so I need all the rest I can get."

"Alright, Father," Tsunami said giving her father a kiss on the head, "I'm going to bed soon anyway. Good night."

Tazuna nodded and went into his bedroom.

"You should be going to bed, too," she told Kakashi.

He sighed. "You're right. Thank you, again, for your hospitality."

"You're welcome."

He slowly dragged himself up the stairs, down the hall, and into bed. Now that what was going on, it would be easier to catch whoever was doing this.

Then it hit him. He didn't ask who they were working for. He sighed, then pulled the covers to his chin and told himself to worry about it in the morning.