A/N: Here's the fourth installment of ODSAW... I hope you enjoy it. I got reviews that made me happy and I would like to thank you all for doing so. For those of you who put me in your alerts thank you as well. And here's the answers to some of your questions (for those of you who asked) and the other questions will be answered later on (hopefully)!

Tsunade growled at nothing in particular as she threw her sake glass across the room and took a large swig of her bottle. She looked at a large opened scroll in front of her and stamped it with a big red 'DENIED' in the front cover. She cackled to herself as she threw the scroll in the huge pile of 'DENIED' scrolls that was steadily growing bigger than the 'ACCEPTED' pile on her other side. She took one more swig of her sake and stamped one more scroll before sitting back and 'officially' doing all of her hokage duties for the day.

She was expecting a visit from Team Kakashi soon and she did not want anyone to manage to mess this up for her. It helped that she had a little liquid courage to liven things up for the information that she was about to give the team. She was about to take another swig of her sake when the door opened and she stopped with the bottle halfway to her mouth, she continued to bring the bottle to her lips when she noticed that it was her expected audience.

"You're late!" she shrieked as she threw a sharp looking paperweight at the silver haired Jounin next to the pink haired girl. The girl easily dodged the contraption but the Jounin wasn't as lucky as he was a tad too busy reading his porn to notice that something sharp, heavy, and deadly was about to make contact with his head. There was a satisfying 'thunk' as the paperweight made contact with the soft flesh of the Jounin's head and then proceeded to make the man bleed. Tsunade cackled once more as her eyes glinted in delight.

Sakura stopped her from throwing any more deadly objects when she asked the reason for them being there. "Well, as you know, Naruto, Sasuke, and Ookami are going to an extended mission to an undisclosed location until further notice."

"But Sasuke just got here, Hokage-sama," Sakura said as her hands formed into fists and she prepared herself for a long argument to keep Sasuke from going away. "Is the Council letting him go on missions after what happened with Orochimaru? Did they pardon him for leaving the village?"

Tsunade sighed. Sakura had a way of making even the drunkest of men sober with just one of her speeches about the rules and if you didn't pay attention she had a tendency to use those chakra infused fists of hers. "The Council has yet to pardon him for his treason," Sakura flinched as the blonde woman said this. Ookami and Shikamaru have been doing some research for the last couple of months and they've uncovered some archaic law from the time of the First Hokage that might be able to pardon Sasuke and let him continue his ninja training in Konoha as well as his ascension in rank from Genin to Chuunin."

Sakura stared with her mouth slightly opened as the Hokage took out some old papers and journals from a locked compartment in her desk drawer. She handed them to her and waited patiently for her to read them. "This is impossible. There's no way that the Council will accept this."

"And that's where you come in," Tsunade said with a satisfied smirk that made Kakashi squirm in discomfort and for Sakura to do a good imitation of a Greek statue. She wasn't very fond of those smirks as she remembered them from her time as Tsunade's apprentice and they hadn't been pretty. "You will make sure that the law is translated into modern words so that the Council accepts it. If we ever want to see Sasuke walk the streets of Konoha again without getting arrested and thrown into jail you have to make sure that this law pardons him, understand?"

Sakura nodded quickly as she clutched the papers to her chest. "What about Naruto and Ookami? Why are they going on a mission with Sasuke if he hasn't been pardoned yet?"

"The Council has accepted this mission because it is to rid Sasuke of the Cursed Seal Orochimaru put on him," she paused as she straightened some papers on her desk while trying to not grab her sake bottle and take another gulp. "As far as the Council is aware, Naruto is still training with Jiraiya and only stopped in Konoha to go to the hospital for a routine check-up. They will leave in a day's time."

Sakura gasped and looked out the window with longing as she wanted to dash out of there and say goodbye to her teammates (read: Sasuke) before they left her for an undetermined amount of time. Her entire body froze, though, when she felt the most amazing glare of killing intent. She looked up and nearly gave a sigh of relief when she noticed that the glare wasn't directed at her, but rather at Kakashi who was still reading his porn happily.

"Kakashi, you're job is simpler than Sakura's," Tsunade began as she lost in her attempt to keep herself from drinking from her bottle. "You are to resume your Jounin duties as usual. As you no longer have a team due to the fact that Sasuke defected, Naruto went to train with someone else, and Sakura became my apprentice, it is assumed that you will take another Genin team at the next graduation ceremony."

Tsunade took a gulp of her sake and waited for them to say anything before plunging ahead in her explanations. "You are still Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto's teacher. When they come back from their respective places your Genin team will be given to another teacher who will be working with you from the beginning. This will form a team of five instead of the usual Four or Three Man Cells that we are used to. During the times that you are incapable of leading your Genin team, one of those times being when you are injured, then the other Jounin teacher will take over from where you left off."

"I feel sorry for the new Genin team," Sakura muttered under her breath as she tried to not to glare at Kakashi. "Tsunade-sama, why is their mission going to be for an undetermined amount of time? Where are they going?"

Tsunade looked at her bottle and tipped it over… not even a drop came out and she tried again as she tried to at least get one more drop of the godly drink. "You've noticed the foreigners walking around the village; they've asked Konoha for help and hired those three. They said that it would more than likely take a while because they are being chased by some people and they have to evade them."

"How do we know these people aren't lying?" Sakura asked as she stood straight and waited for the impending glare of the busty blonde woman in front of her. Tsunade didn't glare at her, however, and proceded to throw away the bottle in her trash bin. She calmly looked back at them and waited for them to say something else. "Hokage-sama?"

"I trust them," she said softly as she steepled her hands and put her chin on them. "They know Ookami's parents and know what he is capable of and I know that Ookami won't betray us. They are trustworthy and they will more than likely come back again to stay in Konoha by the looks of things. They care for Ookami too much to let him come back without one of them."

Sakura nodded and Kakashi paused in his porn reading to arch a brow.

Tsunade nodded and pushed some scrolls out of the way. "You should also know that Council is watching us. They have sent an informant of theirs, Sai, to make sure that we are doing what we are supposed to be doing. Kakashi," she glared at the man hard as he put his book down slowly and waited as patiently as he could, "you are to keep Sai from figuring out what Sakura is doing so that Sasuke can be pardoned and Sakura you are to make sure that Sai does not find out about this new development."

They both nodded as they waited for Tsunade to say anything else. She waived her hand in dismissal and they both nodded before walking out the door, a firm glare from the woman kept them from leaving out the window. Sakura laughed sheepishly and rushed out of the room while quickly putting the things that Tsunade gave her in her side bag.

"That went better than I expected it to go."

Tsunade turned around and glared at the wolf-masked young man crouching on her window sill. She motioned him into the room and let him walk around so that they were facing each other. "You've heard all I have to say about this," he nodded. "You're to do what's expected of you in this mission, Ookami. Sasuke will be pardoned even if we don't help out. The only problem is suppressing the demon inside of Naruto long enough for the seal to be mended."

"The seal is breaking?" he asked softly.

The hokage nodded and threw a small, red scroll at him which he caught with deft hands. "According to what Jiraiya tells me, Naruto managed to injure him enough to cause scars and for four tails to appear," Ookami nodded slowly. "I understand that you have a different way of handling this and that you might be able to do something about it without having to seal the demon within him once more… make sure Naruto is not hurt in this process and that you come out alive after this."

"I'm Konoha's only known expert on demons, Hokage-sama," Ookami said softly as the scroll burned in a black flame. "Naruto will be fine and I will teach him what I can in what little amount of time I have. If the demon seal is broken then it is possible for Naruto to absorb the demon and make him a hanyou. He would no longer be accepted here but he will be unharmed."

"Are you implying that Naruto will have to defect from this village?" Tsunade hissed as she slammed her fist on her desk, breaking it in half. "He won't have anywhere else to go."

Ookami looked away from her and let her settle back down before answering her question with something that he hoped was satisfying to her. "You know that I don't belong here. I'm willing to take care of him if it comes to that specific form of action, Hokage-sama. You are aware of the fact that the better part of the village would like nothing better than to see him dead. I'm trying to make sure that he doesn't suffer like he did when he was younger. No one should have to go through what he did."

Tsunade glared at him and crunched some pieces of her desk under her feet with a satisfying crunch that calmed her down somewhat. She crossed her arms and dared him to say something else but the wolf-masked young man looked away and bowed apologizing for speaking out of turn. "Naruto is to be kept safe, no matter what. I don't care if he has to leave this place for that to be accomplished but he will be kept save."

"The Uchiha boy will more than likely stay with him," Ookami said slowly as he held in the flinch that was trying to fight its way up his spine. "He will want to train with someone that he finds worthy and Naruto is the only one that can fit that category."

"And what of the Akatsuki?"

"Any further knowledge I have regarding the Akatsuki is limited and all I've been able to gather is that they are ritually extracting the demons from the demon vessels," Ookami said as he paused for the woman to take this in, "the vessel has not been known to survive the extraction of the demon and even if they did there is the certainty that the Akatsuki would not keep them alive."

Tsunade nodded sharply as she walked around her ruined desk and towards the shelf to the far side of her wall. She picked out some scrolls and held them in her hands for a moment before nodding to herself. "You are dismissed for the moment. Tell Naruto to come say goodbye before he leaves."

"Hai, Hokage-sama."

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