Ch. 4 A Long Departure
Temari opened the door. "Hinata, this is a surprise, please, come in. Do you need anything to eat? I made some breakfast; Don taught me how to make it so it should be good." She chuckled. "No thank you Temari." Hinata said calmly. Hinata took a seat at the table along with Temari, Rain and Gazu.
"So what brings you here Hinata?" Rain asked. "Well, I know this is going to sound silly but, I had a dream about Don last night. He came to visit me." she said, blushing a bit. Everyone looked at her in amazement.
"Hey, I had one too." Gazu said, "though that bastard nearly scared me to death with that false nightmare he pulled on me." Rain and Temari snickered. "I had one too." Temari openly said. "As did I." Rain said. "Wow, this is something isn't it, a dead guy we all know and love visiting us in one night, he's got talent, I'll give him that." Temari said.
"What he talk about Hinata?" Gazu asked. "Well at first it was just casual talk between us, and then he mentioned to me what we learned last night. He fears that Kabuto may have collected followers and also many other people might want their hands on Don's family scrolls. Since Don is dead, we are at a very vulnerable state." She said.
"Oh, wow." Rain said, "Who knew that guy had so much behind him." "I guess he didn't tell us because if anyone found out, he would have had to deal with a lot of ninja that were out for his life and family scrolls." Gazu mentioned.
"We will need to report this to Kazekage Gaara." Temari said. "We may have a full scale war with underground organizations or even whole nations themselves." She added. "I think it's time we start packing up. Hinata, will you and Tsunade meet us at the village gate?" Temari asked.
Hinata nodded and she left the room to fetch Tsunade. As the team approached the gates, Rain was deep in thought. They spotted Tsunade and Hinata by the gate of the village. "Well I guess this is goodbye, for now." Tsunade said. "I'm sure we will be back soon, and you can trust my brother will receive the information you gave up last night." Temari replied.
"Hey guys?" Rain said. "I think I'm going to stay in the village a little longer, I want to do a little more research on our situation here." "You sure?" Gazu said. She nodded at him, "Is that ok Tsunade?" she asked. "Yes, I'd be more than happy to have you stay here a while longer."
Rain waved goodbye and ran off into the distance. "Wonder what she is up to?" Gazu though to himself. Then the group waved goodbye to Tsunade as they walked off into the distance.
The group finally made it to the village. Gazu headed home as did their sensei. Temari however headed to her brother's office. She entered his office and began to explain to him the situation in Konaha.
"So I see. Don's death was no mere coincidence." Gaara said in his usual serious dark tone. "Yeah. Things will go down if preparations are not made. If Konaha is destroyed by the power of those scrolls, the same could happen to us; after all we are Konaha's closest ally." Temari said.
"This is most disturbing." Gaara thought. "Also, Rain is staying in Konaha for a while, she said she was going to do some investigation, I don't know what she meant, but she might be trying to find out more of what is about to go down in Konaha." Temari said, breaking Gaara's concentration, as he was lost into his deep subconscious.
"Very well. I will start making preparations." He said and Temari left the office. Mean while Rain was in the apartment room they had just left; think of where to go to investigate the future danger of this village.