Chapter 18: The Kazekage....
"What the heck?"Hidan said, listening to What Temari was saying.
"Wha?"She asked, confused, before seeing What he was seeing........They both saw two blondes, that looked very famaliar, play wrestling before landing in some leaves. You could tell they were playing or training because they were laughing really hard.
"Ahem."Both Temari and Hidan said, crossing their arms and standing above the laughing pair. Both Deidara and Ino looked up before blushing a bright red. They got up really fast and started brushing the twigs and leaves that were sticking in their hair.
"Gee. I wonder What you two were doing?"Hidan said, his voice soaked with sarcasm. Temari giggled while Deidara and Ino still blushed.
"..tsk tsk tsk...having fun on the job,"Temari joked, her and Hidan laughing as they walked to base.
"We'll finish this up later, I will win, Yamanka Ino, un."Deidara smirked as him and Ino lagged behind the couple in front of them.
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"Mommy!! Daddy!!"Jinta yelled, hopping off Itachi's lap and hugging Ino's then Deidara's legs.
"What. The. Hell!? Mommy!? Daddy?! What the hell's has been going on around here!?"Hidan asked, seeing the kid's affectionate names for the blonde couple.
"Mommy and Daddy? Hmm What have you and Deidara been up to, Ino?"Temari giggled causing Pein to look confused when he walked in during her comment.
"Wha?"He was like. Konan laughed and said,"Just forget it, Pein."
He shrugged and said,"Well, I would have done this earlier but I was...yeah..so here are the missions for today....Konan I gave you a small patrolling for the town. Hidan and Temari, you two rest from your mission. Kakuzu, you've got a bank robbery. Deidara you've got an infiltration mission. Itachi and Kisame, you two are resting as well, and Ino and Sasori. You two got a mission together on infiltration. Here are the spects."Pein said, sliding papers down to the appropriate peoples.
Sasori looked at the folder before handing it to Ino. It was an infiltration into Sunagakure, to get information on the Kazekage, Gaara.
"Ino, get some stuff ready, and meet me back here in 20 minutes...Hopefully unlike Deidara, you'll be on time."He said, his attitude all dark and murky.
"Sure..."She said, shrugging her shoulders and getting up from her seat. Deidara got up as well and whispered,"Just a heads up, Sasori-danna gets cranky on missions to Suna, yeah."
"Thanks," She smiled before running to her room to get there faster. She bended down to her knees and opened her brown dresser. Inside were her weapons, scrolls, and katanas.
She grabbed the scroll for her scythe if she would need it, some weapons and that was that. She summoned Silence and watched him appear out of the smoke. He smirked and said.
"HEY! Ino-danna, long time no see. So What's been going on?"He asked, before biting at his paw.
"Nothing much, signed Jinta up for the ninja academy, got a mission to go to. So What's been up with you?"She asked, smiling at the dog she hadn't seen in a few days.
"So What and who's the mission with?"
"Sasori-san and it's an infiltration mission. No more of those missions."Ino smirked, now that Konoha had found her out, she didn't have to take anymore missions from Tsunade and have "those" missions.
"Oh okay, Whatcha need me to do?"He asked, sensing her need to call out to him.
"I need you to watch Jinta while I'm gone. Sasori-san is impatient so we're gonna complete this mission as fast as we can. So I won't be gone long."Ino explained, standing up. She put the scrolls inside her pockets and strapped her newly refilled shurikens and kunais to her leg as usual.
Silence and Ino talked about some random thing until they got to the kitchen and Jinta yelled.
"Silence!!!!"The young boy then jumped from his seat and hugged tightly onto the giant, black doberman.
"Hey squirt."Silence laughed,"Hop on, we're gonna hang out for a while, while Ino goes out."
"Are you coming back, mom?"He asked, turning to the smiling blonde girl.
"Of course I am,"Ino smirked, snatching the child up from Silence's back and into a hug,"Be a good boy while I'm gone."
"Okay!!"He said nodding his head enthusiastically. She put him back down on Silence and waved bye before seeing Sasori at the opening of base.
"Ino, you-!"Sasori got out before Ino interrupted him.
"I'm not late, Sasori-san. It's 20 minutes exactly now."She smirked, Sasori gave a small grin, she wasn't like Deidara. If it had Deidara, he would come about a minute late.
"To Suna...so What's the plan?"Ino asked, changing the subject about her time in getting there.
"Well...I suppose we get in and get out, gather the info about the Kazekage's strengths and weaknesses."He answered, his dark mood returning at the thought of entering Suna.
"Do you want me to go in? Deidara said you hated Suna and I could go in instead of you. I know of it's recent changes."Ino suggested for his own benefit.
"..I guess."
"I don't know why we have to go anyway, I know the Kazekage. He's a sand user, literally."Ino muttered to herself and still Sasori still heard her. He snickered lightly but Ino didn't hear him.
....a few hours later....
Ino and Sasori approached Suna's borders. Luckily for them, a sandstorm was covering them, so the border watchers didn't see them.
"Just don't keep me waiting."He said, after they took out the guards guarding the gates to Suna. He watched as the blonde walked in and disappeared with her infamous ANBU speed. He had to admit, she was fast.
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Ino appeared ontop of the Kazekage's building, she didn't wanna be seen by him or anyone else. Her attention shifted when she saw movement on the balcony.
'There he is.'She thought, seeing Gaara watching over the city. She had to be careful, if she had gotten much better, she knew he must have too. Ino thought about doing a disguise but quickly tossed the idea and just decided to take off her robe in case he saw her, he wouldn't see the Akatsuki uniform. Hopefully, Konoha didn't alert Suna or any other their allied villages she was part of the Akatsuki now.
"Come out now, I know you are there."Gaara said, without turning around. Ino was surprised at first, she was about to go to him when another girl came forth.
She was younger than Ino and Gaara by about 2 years, with blonde air, the same color as Temari's and had green eyes. She was kinda scantily dressed in Ino's opinion. The girl was wearing some short shorts, about the same length Ino had to wear on her mission Tsuande gave her, some thigh length black boots, and a red midrift.
"Konnichiwa Kazekage-sama, Gomen-I was just um..watching you."She stammered, looking at her feet instead of his face. Ino had to stifle a giggle, it almost failed. Gaara slightly turned around to face her.
"Misumi, did you want something?"He asked.
"..Um...Hai. Would you like to get some lunch with me?"She asked, a bright red blush visible to even Ino, staining her cheeks.
"No Arigato. I have work to do today."He said, turning back around looking back at the city.
"Oh."She said, sadly before going back inside the building.
"Why don't you come out, too?"Gaara said, not turning around, again. This time he really was talking to Ino.
She hopped down and landed next to him. He turned to her and said.
"Yamanaka Ino...nice to see you.."Gaara says. Ino nods and finshes the conversation...
"Nice to see you too, Gaara...How've you been?"
"Alright, its been alot of work being Kazekage,"He says turning back to watch the sunset,"What brings you here in Suna?"
"Just for a visit, that's all."Ino says. Gaara then gets serious...as usual.
"Temari's disappeared...I sent her on a mission and she hasn't returned, and the search squad hasn't picked up her trace. Keep an eye out for her."Gaara said, his brotherly love bubbling up. He used to not care at all for his siblings, threatening to kill them, but after his fight with Naruto, which was awesome, he changed alot. He and his siblings reconnected.
"She's fine...she's resting. Fortunately for her, I was on a mission and heard a battle going on...being naturally curious, I went to check it out. She was fighting with two guys who were actually beating her. Knocked her unconsious so I decided to step in."Ino said, Gaara turned to her and he actually smiled.
"Thanks...we got worried...especially Kankuro, you know how he is, overreacting."Gaara joked, knowing it was him as well.
"Well I have business to attend to...nice seeing you again, Gaara I'll be going now..Tell Kankuro I said Konnichiwa."She said, standing up and waving befoe disappearing. She picked her robe back up and headed back to Sasori.
"You're late, Ino. I hate being kept waiting."Sasori and his little grumpy self said.
"Gomen, Gomen, Gomen. Just gathering some info and all that good stuff."Ino said, before they went back through the gate and headed back for their Amegakure base. Ino noticed Sasori was winding down again now that they were leaving his home village.