Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of the characters.
Gone but not forgotten
Sasuke and Sakura nodded, watching as Kakashi turned to leave and head back to Konoha.
Kakashi sighed, how did one search lead into something bigger?
He couldn't believe they were, in fact, looking into a possible person who should be a S-Rank missing nin but might not be one, and that he was really going to risk his ninja status to actually look for such evidence. He had the feeling it wasn't just for Naruto, but that it was more so to fill Sasukes curiousity. Sasuke had given up search and revenge for his brother for Naruto, but to hear that Itachi might be linked to Narutos search, it gave him a reason to go back to his revenge.
The silver haired jounin shook his head, pushing the thoughts away, that didn't matter right now, he had to plan his plan one step ahead than his current moves.
How was he supposed to sneak in to the over protected head quarters of ANBUs? He still had strong tie with them, but many would disagree with what he was looking for, after all, files have every mission recorded and every mission is highly top secret, to be taken out of the ANBU or Konoha was a big no-no.
Even for Kakashi, he wouldn't be let off lightly.
The moment Kakashi arrived back to Konoha, he jumped back home, he had remembered he had his old uniform lying around somewhere. He'd just have to look for it abit.
He dug through his wardrobe and through his chest of draws, but there was nothing it was then he remembered about the trunk beneath his bed. He pulled out the trunk and inforced some chakra into the keyhole where it begun to click. It was now unlocked. He opened the trunk and there it was, photos of his old team, and the anbus and him, with of course their masks on. His mask and uniform.
He grabbed his uniform and changed into it, it still fit like how he remembered. He shrugged on a cloak and pulled up the hood to hide his face, he looked at his mask. The mask he had kept when he left the Anbu. He stared at it for a while, memories coming back, he decided not to use it, each Anbus mask was one of a kind, if they saw it they'd know it was him. In the end, he choose just to use his hood to hide is face for a while until he could get his hands on another mask.
He casually walked over to his window, masked his chakra and glanced outside if anyone was looking, unlocked the hatch, then he slided the window open, climbing out of it, once out he stopped and began to slide the window down.
After his cat like skills of climbing out of his own home, he began to make his way to an old friends home creeping in the shadows of Konoha.
Once arriving there, he saw his friend dancing in his own front room. Kakashi smiled awkwardly to himself, it was funny yet it was a scene he just didn't want to see. Kakashi took this opportunity, the off the clock anbu had let down his guard, to creep in and ambush the Anbu. You'd expect better from an anbu. Assassins who are skilled and picked out by the Hokage, alas, this Anbu was easily taken out by the number one copy nin.
Kakashi stared at the poor guy. He felt like a traitor for doing this but right now, to himself, his mission was for his students.
He ran up the stairs silently and into a room, there sat neatly on a hook a mask and a cloak. He grabbed the mask and put it on covering his face.
So far so good. Everything was easy. Too easy, but thats how things start, they start easy and they begin to get harder, for some it starts of hard, become easy but become hard again, either way it always becomes difficult sooner or later.
Kakashi was prepared for that, no one ever said it was easy to break into a place, let alone the head quarters of assassins, heavily guarded from inside and out. Yep, it sounds so easy.
He dived out the already opened window, rolled along the roof and pounced high into the sky as if he was flying. Kakashi felt elegant having to play sneaky in Konoha, it made him feel even more of a traitor. He knew every single dark corner, where the ninjas would be at what time of day due to their scedules he had remembered from a while back, places he could escape to or from if he ever got caught. Now, he somewhat knew how Itachi felt, feeling free yet all knowing of this one place.
'What if I just become an S-rank?' Kakashi thought. He was about to forget even such a ridiculous thought had came to his mind but then instead he kept the thought in his mind, because what if he did get caught? What if Sasuke, Sakura and himself got into trouble for this, there a possibility Tsunade their Hokage wouldn't stand for them to be classed as S-rank nins, especially if this act did uncover something. Even the council might allow it, because this now involves the other last Uchiha.
Kakashi arrived at the location, he swung up and over the wall. He was now offically on their land but not inside the building just yet. He looked around, the building was like it was before. Windowless. Kakashi frowned.
'If only I had the byakugan, I could see everyones chakra and the areas most easiest to get in.' A light switched on in his head.
'Byakugan, eh?'Kakashi thought, 'Now where would I find someone with that who would co-operate with him?'
Kakashi jumped back over the window and headed to a training ground.
"I refuse." Came a simple reply from a long brown haired teen.
"But Neji-san!" A green clad teen turned away from the boy, fire in his eyes, "Gai-Sensei and Kakashi-San has done such training before! We must do this, to become stronger, for when Sasuke-san and Sakura-chan find Naruto, we can show him how strong we are!"
Neji sighed, "Hell no, do something else, Lee".
His purple eyes narrowed as Lee bent down.
"Neji-san"
"Get up-"
"Neji-San?" Lee turned his head around to look at Neji but realised the teen wasn't there.
Lee began to call his name repeatedly, hoping the name would call his friend back, unknowingly to him, he was being watched from the bushes.
"shh" The cloaked figure said into Nejis ear, one hand covering his mouth and the other holding a kunai to his throat.
"Neji, I need you to do something for me."
Nejis eyes widened, this person knew him, he waited til the hand pulled away from his mouth.
"Who are you?" Neji questioned.
"You should answer that for you're self, Neji-kun" The voice was right, his 'kidnappers' voice sounded oddly familiar to him.
"If it helps you Neji-kun, if you help me, you'll be helping us find Naruto-kun"
The voice had been right again, it helped Neji figure out who he was, although he still felt unsure. "Kakashi-san?" Neji asked hesitantly.
There was a brief moment of silence until he spoke again.
"Call me Ichapa"
It took a moment for Neji to realise why such a ridiculous name.
'Icha Icha Paradise...' Neji thought. 'Ichapa...It really is you...'
"Okay, I'll help you."
Kakashi let his grip off of Neji, and began to pull out from communicators. He put one into his own ear and handed one to the brown haired teen.
"I need to get into the Anbus Headquarters," Kakashi began "I'll need your help to do so," He watched as Neji placed the device into his ear "I'll need you to use your byakugan to look through the walls and to tell me where others are and the easiest entrance there is for me to get into the building."
Neji nodded.
"Before we get going," he paused, he swear he would hear the male smirk behind that mask. "Ichapa" Neji strained the alias. "How will this benefit to finding Naruto?"
Kakashi stared at Neji, contemplating on whether to tell the lad or not.
"We recently found evidence in Narutos apartment," Neji glared at hearing this but Kakashi continued anyway. "of two letters aimed to the Anbus from an S-rank, we're looking into why an S-rank would try and contact Anbus for the safety of Naruto."
Neji remained silent. He understood, that was indeed odd.
"Alright, lets begin." Neji said.
"Ichapa...there are five chakra flows at the main entrance, and two at the back entrance-"
"Then I'll take the back" Interjected Kakashi.
"OR you could jump to the roof and enter through there. There's no one there."
Kakashi stopped in his haste to the back entrance and began to climb to the building sending chakra to his feet.
"Don't rush, you could have been seen just now"
Kakashi chuckled, "Don't under estimate me..."
Neji frowned, looked away from where he could see Kakashi's chakra flow to the building.
"There isn't many inside the left side of the building but there is more on the right side of the building, where are you aiming for?"
There was a long silence.
"Hello?" Neji asked
"The right"
Neji paled. "What exactly are you looking for?"
"...the file room..."
Neji frowned, yes, that was on the right side of the building...
"This isn't going to be easy..."Neji mumbled
"I never said it would be" Kakashi replied back.
Kakashi had finally reached the roof of the building and was sticking a chakra inforced pick into the padlock on the door.
It took a while but eventually the padlock unlocked and the door swung open. He began to run down the steps, the steps becoming spirial, twisting and around and around for what seemed like hours til he got to the end of the steps.
"There's two coming your way, and there doesn't seem to be anywhere to hide, just try and blend in"
Kakashi glared to the ear his device was in. Blend in, shouldn't be too hard, cloak, uniform and current anbu persons mask, all sorted.
Kakashi glided by the two as they walked past him too. He was almost into the clear when..
"I thought you're on holiday for the week"
Kakashi turned to look at them.
"unless you're coming in a day early?"
Kakashi nodded. He turned and went to walked away. Surprisingly the two had let him carry on.
'fuck, I should have realised he was on holiday...' Kakashi swore to himself, 'after all I saw horrible dancing skills...'
After ducking and diving, and hiding, and squeezing into tight but dark spaces, Kakashi had finally arrived at the room. He twisted the door handle and walked into the room, closing the door quietly.
He rushed around in the room, opening and shutting drawers. Searching for the specific name.
After searching for a while, and making sure not to cause alot of mess, he finally found the folder.
"found it" Kakashi whispered in a sing song voice.
"Great, now get out of there" Neji mumbled.
Kakashi shoved the files into his cloak, and dashed out the room and down the halls. An open door full of anbus stopped Kakashi in his tracks.
"I'll telling you Icha Icha paradise was before Icha Icha Tactics"
"No no no, you're ultimately wrong, Tactics before paradise"
Kakashi couldn't help himself but answer. "Paradise was before Tactics what imbecile wouldn't know that, do you even consider yourself an Icha Icha fan!"
Everyone looked toward him and stared.
"He's right" they all began to nod and continue to talk about it.
Kakashi was just about to continue walking.
"8790, I thought you said you didn't like Icha Icha at all, that it was just a bunch of useless jumble of written porn that was poorly written and we should actually go out and get a life, like a girlfriend or wife for once."
Everyone continued to stare at each other.
"and you're voice..."
Kakashi legged it. He was down the hall turning the corner, just as each Anbu in that room had got up and out of that door.
Alarms were blaring, red lights were flashing, and all Kakashi could hear on the other end of the ear piece was...
"Idiot...stupid perv...couldn't just leave it..."
Kakashi, dodged a couple of people running his way, unknowning it was him they were after.
Soon he was jumping up the spiral staircase, side to side, skipping all the running. He ran through the door, stopping to close it, and pull out from tags to seal it. He poofed out from the roof, to the walls down below, and out of the compound.
He knew he couldn't relax now, they were all going to try and follow him, and they would find him sooner or later.
"Ichapa...you're being followed and they've already figured out that you've escaped the building"
"Thank you for your help Neji-kun, escape from here and destroy the device"
Kakashi pulled out the ear piece and crushed it. Jumping building to building, he was running at full speed, he couldn't stop or check if they were still on his tail, he had to keep running. He knew it was risky to head to Sasuke and Sakura, but it couldn't wait.
Finally he arrived at the valley of the end, and he saw Sasuke and Sasuke sitting down. He watched as they both looked up and saw him. Their eyes widening in surprise, Kakashi took of his mask to show them it was him.
Out of breath, he grabbed both of them, and yanked them, signalling them that they had to run with him. They ran as far as they could, Kakashi stopped. Sensing they were safe.
"I got the files." Kakashi finally spoke, "Luckily, they didn't realise it was me""You nearly got caught?" Sasuke asked as he raised an eyebrow."I shouldn't have answered a question..." Kakashi answered handed the two the files. He watched as Sasuke began to flick through them and Sakura leaned over his shoulder to read it too. Not even Kakashi had seen the files just yet.
Sakura gasped.
"This is..!"
Ended up taking a while. Spent most of my day on this, just couldn't be bothered to do my college work. And I didn't want to tlk to any of my friends. Going through a rough patch with them. Might end up writing a story based on it, it was pretty stupidly dramatic.