Ch. 31 The Great Kage Meeting
The two ANBU woke up before the crack of dawn and continued on their way. The sky was grey and snow began to gently fall upon them; their breath creating humidity from behind their masks.
"How far do we have left?" Don asked.
"Not too far, we have to make it past tight security though; think you are up for the challenge?" his partner asked.
"I'm not the Shadow of Suna for nothing you know." He replied.
Soon they came to a rocky area in the middle was a cave guarded by the Land of Iron's Samurai. Mikazuki disappeared as did Don. They reappeared some distance from the meeting building. They watched as the Kages walked into the building.
Temari…. He said to himself as he watched the pugnacious blonde of his home village walk in with her two brothers.
"Don, you will be the one who slips inside and eavesdrops on the meeting, I will stay here and keep an eye out for anything suspicious or anything that could go wrong."
Don nodded and melted into his own shadow and made his way into building. Their first comments were just mere bickering towards each other and challenging their right to rule their own country. As usually, however, Gaara of the Sand remained quiet. Then something caught his attention.
"Stop all this useless feuding, this is not what I called you here for." The Raikage shouted in anger "We are here because of Sasuke Uchiha's participation with the Akatsuki."
Then one of the other Kage interrupted him. "And what of Don? Lord Kaze and Hokage, did he not attack your villages too? What steps have you taken for his participation with them?"
"He has been treated with too much tolerance in the past by our former leader. Now that I am Hokage, I will treat him no different than Sasuke, even if he is a very special case." Danzo replied sternly.
"Case? What do you mean Lord Hokage?" Gaara asked inquisitively.
"He is a descendent of our First Hokage after all, how else would he be able to use that wood element jutsu of his?"
Don's eyes widened, him, a descendent of the first Hokage? So calling Tsunade "aunt" as a kid wasn't just some name to call her. They really were related…
Don, a descendent of the First Hokage? I would have never know yet it explains so much and yet so little. Temari thought to herself.
"Our naïve council still has hope for the boy; his father was to become Hokage one day and his son to follow; once his father died they council looked to him even more with even greater promise despite his reclusive attitude." Danzo said angrily "Sacrifices must be made and he will be found and ki…"
"You must have not heard Lord Hokage, but shortly after he attacked your village, Lady Tsunade sent an assassination squad after him, we eventually trapped him and killed him." Temari interrupted.
"Hmm, this is news to me; however I do not wish to take much more of this meeting's time by worrying about a dead traitor."
As the meeting went on Don's head was sent spiraling, Danzo had the Sharingan and now Zetsu had appeared before all of them and gave them a warning of Sasuke's coming to the meeting. Don returned and reported back to Mikazuki as the Raikage busted from the building to find Sasuke.
"Hmm, things have taken an interesting turn. Let's see how things unwind before we make our next move."