"So what was your scroll?" Gin asked, his dark eyes turning again towards their sole female teammate.
"Water." she responded miserably looking at the lightning and fire scrolls Gin and Yuu had presented. If only she had held onto hers.
"Perfect." Was all the silver haired boy uttered in response. But before Mitsuki could feel too bad Yuu added, "But we do know who has her scroll, so at least we know who to track down."
"Then we'll only need wind and earth" Mitsuki said mentally deciding this may not be as bad as it could be.
"But we'll still have to protect the scrolls we have," Yuu frowned.
The three took care of the small scrapes they all were littered with as best they could and headed toward the place they had last encountered Hitsuya.
Mitsuki was hoping her scroll to the face had perhaps knocked the white eyed boy out. But there was no such luck. He had clearly moved on though Gin was a skilled enough tracker to get an idea of which way that was.
Sasuke watched his team from the shadows. The early scroll flinging and subsequent wild retreat had disconcerted him to the point that he nearly declared them completely useless. But at least they figured out they had to work together and were heading relatively in the right direction.
Shikamaru's genin had already figured it out, but Sasuke was slightly consoled by the fact that so far Naruto's had not. Each of his was very wrapped up in winning himself. Though they were smart enough and would certainly catch on soon.
The anbu came down beside him, "So they've figured it out," she said, though receiving no response from Sasuke, who instead considered Naruto's reaction to her much earlier when she first showed up. At first it seemed like he knew her, though only for a moment. Perhaps he did, he had been in the Hokage's anbu squad in the years previous. He wondered if he knew her true identity.
Then his thoughts drifted to Sakura, wondering where she might be. Who she might be now.
Then the anbu said, "They're in a fight," before racing off through the trees to observe it, leaving Sasuke behind in the shadows.
Ino's civilian neighbors and customers thought she was just a friendly florist who did the occasional mission. They had no idea she had recently become the newest head of the Konoha Torture and Interrogation Force and frequently exacted information from threats with deadly precision.
At this very moment the blonde ninja was attempting to extract information from a particularly tough nut to crack. She had even had to ask her recently retired predecessor, Morino Ibiki, to come in and try his hand at the stubborn spy.
She hadn't talked at all since they brought her. Not even flinched as Ibiki did his work. Ino looked on from behind the false glass of the interrogation suite, considering which of her she would employ since physical torture was obviously not the answer.
She considered the implications of such a sophisticated spy. Since the end of the war the types of people she had been interrogating had been low level loser trying to start some kind of ninja gang in their small home villages and decided Konoha would be a good place to gather intel. None as disconcerting as this one had cropped up in several years.
It was coincidence Ino had caught her in the first place, ironically it was the sweet, civilian nature of her flower shop that caught up the spy, who wandered in as a part of her cover.
AN: I decided not to change things and continue this story. I will be mostly ignoring the new canon stuff, though I might occasionally add some aspects depending how I feel about it. Just to avoid confusion I started all this before the manga ended and realized the little white haired kid is called Mitsuki(looks like a tiny Gintoki to me) in the manga, that is not the Mitsuki in this story. You think I should change the name?