Itami Chapter 2, a naruto fanfic

Chapter 2! Thank you for the two that posted a comment! x3

More going to come, have a good read!

"A week has past, have you found any clues or anything of the sort?" The Third Hokage asked as everyone in the squad stood at attention.

"No, nothing has been found, all evidence is washed by the rain and no one has heard or seen Sakura sense the night of the murder" Kakashi stated; Sasuke gave a slight shiver as her name was proposed by Kakashi.

"Very well, sense no evidence has been found as where as the whereabouts of Sakura Haruno, this mission is now closed" the last words came hesitantly as Naruto gave a slight whimper. "Don't get we wrong but there is a chance Sakura is alive so don't lost hope Naruto"

"I-I…I understand.." Shikamaru gave a grunt as he left the office; following by Sasuke, Naruto, and Kakashi.

"Oh how I would want to help more Naruto but some things are best left closed…" The Third Hokage leaned back in his chair and gave an expatriated sigh.

"But Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto complained in the middle of the road. "We can't leave Sakura-chan out there! What if the murderer is still out there? What if she won't come out because she is so scared? What if-"

"Enough Naruto, these are the Hokage's orders and we must follow them even if we don't like the orders at all" Naruto clenched his fist and bent his head down to the Earth. "Do you understand Naruto?"

"Yes but-"

"Naruto stop, your getting annoying" Shikamaru opened his mouth the first time that day."Look, I want to look too but hey, orders are orders; we can't do much about that" Shikamaru looked up to the clouds as Sasuke stopped to listen.

"Well said Shikamaru," Kakashi added as Naruto grumbled in defeat. "Sorry but the truth hurts Naruto, we can't help Sakura more then we already have…"

"Humph, Well I'm going to train, I'm tired of standing here…." Sasuke walked off to the training area as Shikamaru walked the other way to his place.

"Yeah, this has been a lot of work, too much for me so I need a break. See you later Naruto"

"And I have some place to be, have a good day Naruto" Kakashi patted him on the shoulder and jumped off somewhere.

"I guess I'll get something to eat, I am hungry" Naruto petted his stomach and headed to the Roman House for his daily meal.

"Hey Sasuke!" Sakura ran up to him as he was practicing his jutus.

"What?" Sasuke, in his black costume, turned to her as she stood with her hands behind her back.

"Kakashi-sensei wants to see us for something" Sasuke gave a huff as he put down his arms.

"What does he want now?"

"Who knows, he says to meet him at the bridge next to the hot springs" Sakura turned her back to him. "I'm going on ahead so see you there Sasuke!" Sakura ran off into the forest to head toward town. As he began his walked everything was peaceful until a high pitch scream was heard.

'Sakura!' Sasuke ran farther in with his eyes activated. Finally, he found where the scream took place and saw a pool of blood. "Sakura?" Then he saw it, his worst nightmare. Sakura was dead with a cuts and bruises all over and one lethal stab wound in the heart. "Sakura! Sakura wake up!" He kneeled next to her corpse and picked her up, but no response

"gasp" Sasuke shot up from his bed and threw bed cover onto the floor. He wiped the sweat from his forehead. "I had that dream again…I haven't had in 3 years" Sasuke shook his head and pushed it to the back of his mind. "Time for me to see Tsunade about the new mission we got." Sasuke got up and ready into his clothed from the dream. As he shut the door to the apartment, a shadow rushed past his window.

"Yo Sasuke! Over here!" Naruto's annoying voice summoned him into the building where Kakashi, Naruto, and Shikamaru were located.

"Hey Shikamaru, why were you summoned?" Sasuke placed his hands into the pockets of his pants as Shikamaru gave a irritated sigh.

"Hell if I know! Stupid woman called me last night during my nap"

"Aww….poor baby" Tsunade's voice caught everyone's attention, definitely Shikamaru because she was pulling his cheeks. "You know you're just like your father?"

"Ow that hurts!" Tsunade let go with a laugh as Naruto waved and Kakashi stared, you know where.

"And you mister are just like that perverted Jiraiya!" Tsunade punched Kakashi across the hall and everyone saw as the anime took it in slow motion as he fell to the ground. Tsunade then turned her head to Sasuke, "Your doing well?"

"Yes" Sasuke grunted his answer, as Tsunade knew it meant: 'Yeah you woke me up too early with these idiots'

"Well follow me to my office" Kakashi was up already with a big bruise on his face as Naruto was hopping after. When the entered she sat in her Hokage chair and folded her hands.

"So what's this new mission!?! Are we going to a new place or something?" Naruto was full of energy as Tsunade gave a giggle.

"Sorry Naruto but it's in the Leaf Village" a whine was heard from Naruto as he slumped his shoulders. "This is a serious mission though; your mission is an A-rank mission"

"A-rank? Why so easy?" Sasuke said his smart comment of the day as Tsunade shot a glare.

"You're going to hunt down an assassin in this town, a female in this case"

"What?" Everyone was silent as they let Tsunade continue.

"She is an experienced Shinobi and has great chakra skills. None of her victims have a scratch on the outside but their charka is was like poison."

"What do you mean by 'poison?" Shikamaru asked.

"This Shinobi used tools that let her infect the chakra in ones system, so they started to die from the inside."

"Horrible…" Naruto said.

"So how are we to fight her?" Sasuke leaned against the wall.

"Close range but we don't know how good they are because no one can even get that close. This Shinobi is going after people like ex-convicts and leaving nothing but a signature." Tsunade put her hands down and pulled out the signature. Everyone looked in wonder and awe as the Fifth Hokage cut off the silence.

"What type of thing is that?" Naruto asked as his dumb self. Shikamaru sighed.

"It's called a Sakura flower idiot. In-Ino had it in her store" Shikamaru tensed at her name but shrugged it off.

"Very well done Shikamaru, yes this it the murder's mark" Sasuke had slight fear in his eyes and though of the name of the flower.

'Sakura? NO way! She…she couldn't be the one behind this can she?' Tsunade closed her eyes as she was prepared for Naruto's next random question.

"So this PROVES that a girl is doing this right? I mean it would be really weird if a guy did-OW!" Naruto rubbed the back of his head where a new bump was made by Kakashi. After a moment of silence Tsunade opened her mouth for more information.

"We believe that her next target is a mob boss who owns the gamble clubs in this Village. He is a highly wanted for death because of his sneaky schemes which end with many people paying depts. You must go and protect him at all costs so that we can have him pay a little dept back to me"

"Oh okay, but may I ask how many will be needed for this?" Kakashi asked as Tsunade gave an evil glare.

"ALL of you will be needed for this mission so no running off to the hot springs you pervert!" Kakashi gave a sigh as everyone grumbled in annoynce. "Your mission starts today so prepare yourselfs for the worst. She may be a woman but looks can be disifing."

"Ma'am!" Everyone left to prepare as Sasuke was last to go. When he was about to leave Tsunade said something to him that made him stop in his tracks.

"You think it's her don't you?" he hesitated and nodded 'yes'. "She might be doing this for the good of the people but they are people of this Village and I won't tolerate anyone taking their lives; even for revenge." Sasuke left on that note and Tsunade sighed and leaned back on her chair.

All were quiet as the boss they were protecting was explaining everything to Kakashi; minds were heavy with thoughts on different things. Shikamaru was thinking of this ability that this person was using to kill her victims, Naruto was just lost about how a girl can kill so many people, and Sasuke was thinking of Sakura how she was always clingy to him and how she always cared from him and Naruto before herself.

"Alright gang" Everyone looked to Kakashi as he was scratching his head. "We have 4 entry points to cover: 2 upstairs, one on this floor and the basement level."

"There is a basement level here?" Sasuke groaned and Shikamaru sighed. "Hey! Sorry if I don't know these things!"

"No it's alright Naruto not many do know but they do have the basement, it is used only for the people ripping off the club and they go down there to 'chat' with them." Naruto shivered as Kakashi informed.

"And you say it with such confidence…" Naruto said under his breath.

"Anyways, back to the topic. Sasuke and Shikamaru will patrol the upper floor; I'll take this floor and sense Naruto never knew a basement was here he can take that place."

"Wah!?" Naruto exclaimed and all the people in the room look at the boy with odd-ness.

"That is how it works Naruto; you ask the area you check it yourself." Kakashi smiled under the mask and walked off. Naruto had the gagging/shocked face as the others walked to their patrol areas.

It was pretty dark and Naruto wanted to doze off but he was afraid a dark ghost or something might come after him. The basement was pretty cold and Naruto tired to breathe through his nose but it was full of snot. "Man one way of torturing is the freeze a person to death" Naruto found crate and sat down on it as he hugged himself to keep warm.

'Ping' Naruto jumped at the sound and kept an eye out. A young man dressed in some clothes from the club walked up to Naruto, arms held a blanket. "I'm sorry if I scared you sir but I'm seeing it's late and it gets chilly at night."

"Yeah you're telling me" Naruto said as he eyed the blanket, the man laughed lightly.
"I was planning to give this to you, here" Naruto grabbed that blanket and wrapped it around himself so fast that the man was in slight shock of the action. "Well I must be going, don't want to get in your way or anything."

"Yeah you might want to go, it could bet ugly and I don't want you to get hurt" Naruto said in a serious voice and the man bowed and left.

Shikamaru was getting tired but he nodded off once in a while, trying to stay awake he was thinking of Ino. He had no idea what provoked him to think of her but she couldn't get out of his head. He paced and without knowing ran into a girl and she gave a slight scream. Shikamaru stopped and blushed as he noticed the position they were in; he caught her and he was on his back holding her waist' "I-I'm sorry!" the blushing girl proclaimed. Shikamaru let go so she could get up and helped her pick up the pillows she was carrying.

"No it was my fault, I wasn't watching where I was walking" He took some into his arms.

"Look let me take this to the rooms, the least I can do." The girl smiled and nodded.

"Sure thing, this way" The girl began to lead and he followed her to the rooms. After they finished she bowed to him. "Thank you for the help, everything went a lot faster."

"No problem" Shikamaru was about to walk off but the girl called to him.

"You know…you can talk about your problems and I'll hear you out…" Shikamaru looked away from her.

"It's nothing you should worry about, have a good night and stay in a safe area just in case."
"Y-yes and you be safe as well!"

Kakashi leaned on a pillar as he read the manga, minding his own business. "Excuse me young man" Kakashi put down his book to see an old man who had dropped his charm. Being the generous person he was he grabbed the charm for the old man who smiled at the act of kindness. "Thank you sir"

"No problem, this charm belong to you?"

"No it's for my grand daughter, she is coming to visit and I wanted to get her a gift" The old man put the item in a nice carrying case.

"That is very sweet," Kakashi smiled and the old man took Kakashi's hands. "Something the matter?"

"I should give you this, it may be small but it will show my gratitude." Kakashi was a bit shocked but took the offered gift. He always knew never to deny an elder's gift….except if it was evil then he might think about it. "Have a good night young man."

"You as well" Kakashi waved with his free hand at the walking then opened the other hand to find a small pendent outlined in gold but the jewel was a white color. Kakashi smiled and placed it into his pocket to keep safe, then began reading again.

Sasuke sat on the window still and stared a tree blowing in the wind. His eyes were glazed with a daydream and he never knew he was in one until arms wrapped around his waist, almost making him fall. He was about to retaliate but a kunai to his neck made him shut up. Sasuke growled as he tried to eye the attacker but the darkness was getting to him. "Who are you?"

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