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Rescuing Nanami
Team eight along with their sensei Kurenai met up with Iruka at the gate. He nodded and motioned for them to fallow.
"Just fallow me. I know where we are headed. By the end of today we should be someplace secure enough that I can safely inform you all about the mission parameters." Iruka blandly stated.
They set off threw the treetops single file. Iruka in the lead fallowed by Shino, Hinata, Kiba and Kurenai bringing up the rear. They only stopped briefly to rest, before they took off again. An hour before dark Iruka signaled for the team to head down towards the ground. There Iruka held up his hand asking for silence. He quickly ran threw a few hand signals extending his chakra. Satisfied that no one was near or fallowing. He paced quickly over to a weeping willow. The others fallowed.
"Grab these. And when I say pull, pull. You just need to give it a light tug." Iruka instructed handing everyone a weeping willow branch. "Pull!" With that team eight found themselves being pulled through the air towards the top of the weeping willow, and miming Iruka, they let go just as they reached the top sliding into a hole. After sliding a few minutes they landed in a heap. Iruka stood watching them right themselves.
"Welcome to one of team 13's home away from home and base. Base 9 actually. Well fallow me to the conference room. Oh we are below ground quite a ways actually. I would also appreciate it if you didn't mention this to anyone. Kurenia-sensei, please just keep this to yourself this is a team 13 secret. Right then this way." Iruka then moved off down the softly lit hallway and into another one, before entering a door on the right. Team eight and their sensei entered to see Iruka puttering around unsealing a tea set, and heating water, unsealing a selection of tea leaves, then unsealing another scroll revealing already prepared food. Noticing their astonishment he explained, "I may have edited and made some adjustments to sealing scrolls. Heh, oh and basically it freezes whatever is put into it. So when you unseal the item its just like when you first sealed it. Tea?"
Four resounding yeses answered him and he grinned. "Ano? Sensei how...how did you know about this place?"
"Hmm? Oh easy Hinata-san. I am a part of team thirteen. And well we had an unusual sensei. His name was Usagi Yuki. We were all orphans, well I wasn't until after the Kyuubi attack, but he was still like a father figure to me. Well now I should explain the mission, huh?"
"You know Iruka as the elected team leader you don't have to tell us the whole mission, only what we need to know." Kurenai pointed out.
"True, but it will be better in the long run if I explain now. Its an S-rank mission. Orochimaru is involved. Well his henchmen to be exact, but its possible that we might run into him ourselves. My teammate Nanami was on her way back from a 16 year long mission, when she was captured. She managed to create a clone, and by giving the clone the chakra I had given her before she left as well as a hefty portion of her own, the clone, a kage bushin actually, managed to sustain itself enough to get to Koncha where it informed the Hokage and Hanataro, my other teammate, and myself of the situation. She is being held in Orochimaru's base by our base 12. So that is where we will head."
"An S-rank? They put you a chuunin in charge of an S-rank?" A wide eyed Kurenai gasped.
"Hey! Iruka-sensei is not a mere chuunin!" Kiba growled.
"You mean you cannot sense it? Sure his chakra store now is larger then when you first met Iruka-sensei but even then..."Shino trailed off uncertainly.
"Kurenai-sensei, you should not under estimate Iruka-sensei. He is your comrade should you have faith in him like you do us!" Hinata admonished.
"Its alright, she is a jounin and wouldn't know me like you who were once my students do. She wasn't even in my academe class. However that doesn't mean she isn't a good shinobe. In any case you all should head for bed. No need to worry about being found here. Our bases have an excellent security system. Night!" Iruka explained softly.
Kiba, Hinata, and Shino nodded their assent to Iruka's words and left the room. Kurenai looked at Iruka her eyes a mix a emotion. "They are right chuunin or not I should not underestimate you. I apologize for my thoughtless remarks."
"Its quite alright Kurenai. I know I don't seem like much." Iruka replied. Then they parted ways for the night.
Green eyes blinked fuzzily open. 'Iruka...be careful. Kyoko watch over your daughter. Lily...Sayuri watch over your son. My beloved sisters I will find your children...I promise on my life. 'Ah your awake again. Maybe this time you'll tell us your name, rank and village.'Cold laughter filled the air as the woman screamed in defiance and pain. The torture lasted three hours before she was given a sedative and knocked unconscious.
* Kay thats it for now. Don't worry I will update soon. But I want to reveal who Nanami will go after first in the next chapter. So vote! Otherwise I'll have to do odd numbered chapters in which she goes after one and even chapters in which she goes after the other. So make my life slightly easier okay? Reviews are welcome. :)