Chapter 22: Rescue Mission
"How long has it been since Hinata was captured and you still haven't brought her back yet!" Tsunade screamed.
"We were only able to find the bodies of the ANBUs that went after them. We weren't able to find Hinata anywhere near." The rescue team answered.
"Search further into the forest."
"Yes, madam."
The rescue team left the room, and left off for the mission.
"Let's split into groups of four. Kiba, Akamaru, Shino, Sai and Neji will be in a group. Yamato, Sakura and Naruto will be in my group." Kakashi gave orders. "We'll contact each other through the radio. We'll split up when we reach the spot where we found the ANBU bodies."
They went in different directions after the reached the area where they previously found the bodies of the ANBUs.
After an hour and a half, they found the entrance to the Akatsuki headquarters and they meet up before they made any plans to just barge in.
Meanwhile, at the Akatsuki headquarters, the Akatsuki members were all gathered at the table having late breakfast with Konan nagging at everybody. "Look how late it is and you're only having breakfast. It'll be lunch soon you know."
"Then we'll treat this as breakfast and lunch." Rebecca said.
"That'll be brunch." Regina explained.
"That's not the issue here." Konan said in annoyance.
"Then what's the issue?" Jonathan asked.
"The issue is that if you make it a habit, to wake up and have late breakfast, it's not good for your body." Konan explained.
"Yes, yes." The three siblings answered and nodded their head in acknowledgement.
"To think we're still getting nagged at even when our mum are not around." Regina mumbled.
"But it's still nice to have someone nag at you. It shows that they're concerned for you."Rebecca whispered back.
"But, but, it's not our fault that we wake up so late. We just weren't able to sleep early to wake up early because we weren't allowed to sleep early! We were practicing till quite late at night." Jonathan said pitifully.
Konan slant a glance at Pein and said, "Now it's your fault!"
"What did I do now?" Pein who was just half way putting the omelette into his mouth paused and looked up at Konan.
"If you didn't make them stay up so late to practice, they wouldn't wake up so late today."
"Can we talk about this later? I'm having my Breakfast. The most important meal of the day as you was trying to say."
BOOM! A loud sound was heard from the door and Jonathan offered to go check it out.
"I'm sorry we don't want to buy any cookies you're selling." Jonathan refused the rescue team that happened to blow up their door.
Jonathan bends down, pick up the door on the floor, put the door upright and slam it in the faces of the rescue team.
Ding Dong. A bell was heard coming from the door.
"When was there a bell at our hideout?" Zetsu asked.
"Oh, remember when we went to the festival, I saw this door bell that was shaped like a chick and I thought it was really cute so I bought it." Jonathan grinned and ran for the door.
"We're not selling any cookies." Kakashi said coldly.
"Then we don't want anything you're selling." Jonathan shook his head and went forward to pick up Sai and Neji by their collar and threw them forward.
"Jonathan! How can you treat our guests like that?" Regina reprimanded Jonathan from behind. "You should treat them like that!" Regina picked up Sakura and Yamato and threw them into the forest.
"Oh now I see..." Jonathan lifted his hand and placed it on his eyebrows and nodded his head.
"Oh let me try as well!" Rebecca came running over as well but once she saw Akamaru, she turned around and ran back, "Sasuke, help! There's a big dog here!"
"Sasuke's here?!" Naruto shouted.
"That's right, Uchiha Sasuke, our pet chicken." Regina answered.
Sasuke heard that and stomped out, "I'm not your pet chicken!" Rebecca was hiding behind Sasuke.
"Of course you're not my pet chicken, you're her pet chicken." Regina pointed at Rebecca.
Rebecca started sobbing, "Get it away from me, get it away from me..."
"Don't worry I'll not let it come near you." Sasuke reassured her and patted her shoulder.
"Okay, amendments of plans, we're bringing Sasuke back with us." Kakashi gave orders.
"So who else are you planning to bring back with you?" Jonathan enquired.
"Hinata," Kiba replied. "Give us back Hinata and we'll leave in peace."
"You're hitting on my girlfriend aren't you?" Jonathan squinted his eyes at Kiba.
"What do you mean by girlfriend?"
"You don't know what a 'girlfriend' is? Poor thing..."
"I meant, what do you mean by calling Hinata you're girlfriend?"
"I mean it when she's my girlfriend. We're dating!" Jonathan exclaimed. "And I'm planning to propose to her soon enough."
"PROPOSE?! She's only 15!" Neji shouted.
"Cut the chit-chat and just hand them over and no one gets hurts." Kakashi interrupted.
"That sounds like a golden line from every robbery show." Jonathan commented.
"Ya, give me all you money and no one gets hurt." Regina said.
"I don't care what golden or silver line. Just get the dog out of here!"
"Then we'll go with the bronze line." Jonathan smiled.
"Shut up Jonathan." Regina said.
"Shut up Nii-chan." Rebecca said.
"..." Jonathan pouted his mouth.
"They're ignoring us again." Kakashi sighed.
"What's taking you all so long?" Konan asked and saw Rebecca sobbing. "Oh dear, what happened sweetie?"
"Dog. Big fat scary dog." Rebecca pointed at Akamaru and started crying harder.
"Don't worry sweetie, I'll get rid of that big bad dog right now."
"What did I even do?" Akamaru thought with a big question mark on his head.
"All of you, who don't belong here, get out of here right now!"
"Hinata and Sasuke don't belong here either. So they're leaving with us." Naruto said.
"Hinata and Sasuke belong here since Hinata is Jonathan's girlfriend and Sasuke is Rebecca's boyfriend. Now get out before I kill you."
"No! Not without Hinata." Neji objected. "And Sasuke."
"Sure, sure, here you go." Jonathan passed them a picture of Hinata and Sasuke.
"We do not want their picture. We want them in person."
"Konan, could you make a make a 3-D human size of Hinata and Sasuke?"
"Sure." Konan promised.
"We want them in flesh and blood." Kiba interrupted.
"Zetsu! They're after your breakfast." Jonathan shouted into the dining hall.
"If I were you, I would immediately get out of here." Regina advised while finishing her half eaten breakfast. "Zetsu will be really glad to know that losing a few bodies can gain him even more. And you don not want to be here when he has that thought."
"Okaaay, that's it. I'm fed up with all these nonsense. Just get out of here." Jonathan shouted and grabbed everyone by their collar and threw them all back to Konoha.
"I think it's time we change our hideout." Konan declared.
"Where to?" Rebecca managed to converse normally after the sobbing ceased.
"Oh we have many other hideout sweetie. Don't you worry; they won't find us so easily the next time round. Let's inform the rest now, finish up breakfast and we'll leave by today."
"Where are we going again?" Jonathan asked.
"Our new hideout, have you even been listening?" Regina said in exasperation.
"Where's Hinata by the way?" Jonathan finally realised Hinata is missing when what had happened just now was concerning her.
"Still in the dining hall eating when I left the dining hall. I reckoned she should be in the kitchen clearing up after some of the members."