The Truth From The Lie
Chapter 2: Informations?
In a dark room, without any windows, two shadows could be seen. One was much taller than the second.
The first was sitting behind a desk, with his hands entwined on top looking to the person in front of him. The person who was sitting behind the desk was a man. Even if he was in the shadows created by the lack of light in the room, it could be seen that he was already old, comparing to the other person in the room.
The second shadow, a girl, was leaning against the wall. That person was little and she had her arms crossed in front of her chest.
The man interrupted the silence that was in the room, speaking for the first time.
-"You have a mission." – he said looking at her, while she only nodded for him to continue. – "Konoha has a lead in one of their Missing-nins. One that you know very well, at least you knew him." – said the man while he looked at her with a speculative look, to see how she would react.
Seeing that she didn´t said anything, he continued, but he didn´t missed the fact that she tensed when she heard his last phrase, showing that she knew who they were talking about.
-"Uchiha Sasuke. That's the name of the Missing-nin that they discovered the lead. The Hokage is sending a retrieval mission, and the Council required an ANBU official and a Hunter-nin to joined them in the mission." – he continued while looking at her attentively, expecting a burst of rage coming from her, but nothing came, except the question.
-"And who may be those two officials?" – asked the woman.
-"Easy, you and Yamato." – he answered easily.
-"You want me to go back to Konoha?" – asked the woman with a neutral voice, but he could hear the rage under it.
-"Yes." – the man answered quietly.
-"Why don´t you send another person besides me and Yamato?" – asked the woman, but she continued before he could answer. – "Hatake would love to go on a mission where a student of him is concerned. Don´t you think?"
-"Yes, but he is already there, along with the Sannin Jiraya and his student, you know who is it, don´t you?" – he asked with a smirk.
She snorted and answered. – "So Hatake and Uzumaki are in the Village. Interesting, but you still haven't answered my question. Why do I have to go?"- she asked annoyed for the fact that he as stalling.
-"Because you are the best, and don´t you want to see Konoha again?" – he asked and for an answer he received a cold glare that made his hair stand, but he didn´t show it. – "And the other reason is your mission. Uchiha Sasuke was seen with another 3 persons. A girl named Karin, who can track down chakra, a boy with grey hair that can dissolve himself in water which means that he must be one of Orochimaru´s experiments and has Zabuza's sword, Sasuke must have told him where to find it. And last but not the least, a huge boy with orange hair that has rage attacks, and those attacks are consistent of those who have the seal, which makes us believe that he is the source of Orochimaru´s seal."
-"That is very interesting, but what is my mission?" – she asked annoyed that this is taking a long time to finish.
-"Your mission is to bring the body of Uchiha Itachi to Headquarters so that we can discover the secrets of Sharingan and at the same time protect Konoha."
-"What happens if he doesn´t manage to kill Itachi?" – she asked without any interest
-"You come home, nothing more." – he finished.
-"Very well, we will see what happens. I will inform Yamato and we will leave immediately." – she informed will she stop leaning against the wall, and left walking to the door to leave.
-"Wait!" – he called right before she could open the door. – "Here" – he said launching a scroll to her, which she caught.
-"What is it?" – she asked will she ripped the seal of the scroll, and start to read the mission on it.
-"It´s the retrieval mission of Konoha." – he answered while she just nodded her head and turned to leave once more.
When she was almost closing the door, she heard a voice saying.
-"Good luck and don't let anyone see your face." – he told her with a menacing voice.
-"Don´t worry, I won't. This mission is going to be over quickly." – she said, and in the end she finished her phrase, - "I will be careful, no one will know who I am Danzo."
-"I don't doubt it. Good luck once again," – he grinned before e finished, - "… HellCat."
With this the door was closed and the room was back to its silence with a man sitting in a chair in front a desk in the shadows.
With the news of the death of his friend, Naruto Uzumaki entered in a depression, being unconscious, now in a room at the Hospital.
Kakashi Hatake became upset with the news, since he wasn't there to protect the Konoha's Cherry Blossom, but above all, the team 7.
One week passed since the day they have returned and received the sad news. Kakashi passed his full days in front of the memorial and with his fingers he passed countless times the carved name of "H. Sakura". He didn't do anything, being possible to resume his all week in to chores, during the day he stayed in front of the memorial and during the night he stayed in the room where is student, Uzumaki Naruto was unconscious.
After that week, in one night the Hokage entered the room followed by the rest of Konoha 12, except Naruto who was lying in the bed, Sakura who was dead and Sasuke who was missing.
-"We had news about Sound, and for consequence about Orochimaru and Uchiha Sasuke." – says while she took the vital signs of Naruto searching for any alteration in is state.
-"Any change Hokage-sama?" – asks Hinata, without stuttering because with the help of Sakura in the following weeks of the betrayal of the Uchiha she explained her that she had to have trust in herself because she was a great konuichi, and that's exactly what happened, since then Hinata lost her shyness in front of everyone except Naruto because he still was her crush.
-"No, everything is the same Hinata." – answered the Hokage with a sigh, because the fact that his life wasn't on the line was good, but being unconscious for this time and the fact that there was nothing to make him wake up, that was the problem.
-"He is to knuckle head to die, don't worry with this Baka, Hinata." – says Ino, being hand in hand with her boyfriend Shikamaru, trying to calm down Hinata.
-"Troublesome women, don't you see that you're scaring her." – says Shikamaru with his head on his girlfriend's shoulder.
-"Ups, sorry Hinata." – excuses Ino herself.
-"Don't worry about it Ino. I know that you are worried about him too, besides what you say." – says Hinata with a little smile receiving other from Ino.
-"He is going to be fine, after all he is Naruto." – tries to lighten the mood Tenten. – "Don't you think Neji?" – asks to her boyfriend.
-"Hn." – answers Neji.
-"Well now, let's talk about what we are doing with the information's and let the talk for another time." – says the Hokage finishing with the talk.
-"Hokage-sama, do you know if Sasuke has knowledge about Sakura's death?" – asks Kakashi making all of them tremble when Sakura's name was pronounced.
-"I don't have a clue, but he must know, after all it was Kabuto who killed her." – answers the Hokage.
-"But are you sure? Did you take any conclusive thing about her body wounds?" – asks Kakashi.
-"Her body was never found Kakashi, we think that it must be taken by Kabuto to Sound. If that's what happened, the Uchiha kid must know that she is death." – says the Hokage.
-"If her body was never found how do you know that she died? She could be alive for all we know." – defends Kakashi.
-"We organized a lot of rescues teams and not even one saw the body. Trails and signs that occurred a fight, there a lot of them, but her body, no, not even a trace." – answered the Hokage.
-"But that's a good sign, it means that she could still be alive, isn't it?" – asks Kakashi with a little hope in his voice.
-"Yes, it could mean that, but while time goes on, the possibilities of her being alive are getting smaller and 5 years all ready passed. It´s impossible for her to be alive after all these years." – says the Hokage with sadness in her voice.
-"Sakura-chan is alive." – says Naruto without any doubt when he opens his eyes. He had woken up after hearing the Hokage saying that there were informations about Sasuke, but then the conversation changed to this topic, and he wanted to see if they said something that they could be afraid of telling him, and that was exactly what happened.
-"Naruto, it's impossible." – tries the Hokage.
-"No it's not, she is strong. Stronger than me, the Teme or Kakashi-sensei. She is alive and I am going to bring her, along with Teme, back home." – says Naruto while looking to everyone present in his room.
-"That doesn't mean anything. If she is alive, why didn't she come home? She would have come when she was hurt, but she didn't, did she?" – defends the Hokage.
-"She is alive and I'm not going to stop until I find her, even if she is alive, or I will bring the body if she is dead, because she has to go back home." – says Naruto without hesitating.
-"It's impossible for you to find out the body now Naruto, he should already be in decomposition." – try the Hokage to dissuade him from this request without any luck.
-"It doesn´t matter, I'm not giving up, she is my friend, she was always there when I needed her, but when she needed my help, I walked away. I wasn't there to protect her in that mission. I'm not going to lose my family again, and she is a part of that family, so I will never give up. I already left her behind once and that is not happening again, because those who leave their friends behind are worse than trash, and I already did that once, so I'm not doing it again. And don't start Baa-chan, because there is nothing that you can do to stop me." – says Naruto without hesitating once. After hearing it, the Hokage sighs knowing that there isn't anything that she could do to try to stop him.
-"Ok, you are the one who knows, you are the one who is going to lose time." – concludes the Hokage.
-"I will never lose my time with my friends, a lot less with Sakura-chan that is like she is my sister." – answers Naruto without fear. – "Now, what are the informations about Teme?" – asks.
-"Orochimaru is dead." – announces the Hokage, seeing the surprised faces of the occupants of the room. – "The Uchiha kid killed him, at least that's what is rumored."
-"That's the Teme I know. That means that he is coming back, right?" – asks Naruto proud, because his best friend and rival had killed one of the biggest Missing-nins in all world.
-"No, he made a team, that's made by him and 3 more people." – answers the Hokage seeing the sad face of Naruto.
-"And what is he doing now?" – asks Naruto.
-"He's going to track down his brother, because that was what made him leave the Village, so now he must be going to track Itachi down, and I also heard that Itachi was waiting for him in one of the Uchiha Hideouts to end this once and for all." – answers Shikamaru.
-"Do we know here this Uchiha Hideout is?" – asks Naruto with hope to bring his 'brother' back home.
-"Yes, why?" – asks the Hokage, while she is distrustful of what Naruto is thinking, since he doesn't think too much, and when he does, nothing good gets out of that head.
-"Because, Baa-chan, you are going to organize a team, which includes me and Kakashi-sensei, so that we can go there and bring him back." – says Naruto with a big smile.
-"You don't need to tell me Naruto, I already did that, and it was because of that topic that I brought everyone here. The team is going to be made by: Neji, Shikamaru, Ino, Hinata, Tenten, Lee, Chouji, Kiba, Shino, Kakashi and last but not the least, by you, Naruto." – says the Hokage while seeing the look in Kakashi's face when she said that he was going to be the only adult in that mission, signifying that he had to take care of all the kids. – "Kakashi don't worry, because you aren't going to be the only oldest to take care of the kids. I had to ask the Council about the mission, as you must know and they accepted under one condition." – says the Hokage.
-"Which is, Baa-chan?" – asks Naruto.
-"You have to take 1 ANBU and 1 Hunter-nin." – answers the Hokage seeing their surprised faces. – "It's orders, that I accepted, so there is nothing more that you can do. You are going to wait 1 more hour then you leave." – finalizes the Hokage.
-"Very well, who are they?" – asks Naruto.
-"You know the ANBU Kakashi." – answers the Hokage.
-"Yamato, right?" – asks Kakashi, already knowing the answer.
-"Yes, Yamato is the ANBU." – answers the Hokage.
-"And the Hunter-nin?" – asks Kakashi distrustful with the answer.
-"That was what surprised me, the Hunter-nin is Danzo protégé."- answers the Hokage.
-"HellCat." – says Jiraya that has entered the room through the door.
-"Hell… who?" – asks Naruto confused.
-"HellCat, does anyone already heard talking about her, besides the stories?" – asks Jiraya seeing everyone saying no with their heads.
-"But I bet you already have." – says the Hokage without any hesitation.
-"Yes." – answered Jiraya with a smile in his face. Coughing, he started to talk. – "Her story is a complete mystery, but what I found out is this.
5 years ago, she appeared the first time beside Danzo, who said that she was his student. She is one of the best assassins of all Fire country. I known that she kills at least 100 missing-nins in a year, taking out a lot of them off the bingo book. She is excellent. It's known that was Yamato who found her while she was hurt, almost dying. She was 13 years at the time, and she started to train with Danzo right away. She did 3 exams in Black Ops that year, having 100% in everything, a true prodigy. Since then she has been a Hunter-nin. She is feared by everyone, including Danzo, who is afraid of his own creation, because they say that she kills without blinking.
To conclude, she is the best tracker, seducer, being one of the most wanted woman in all over the world, having a body that every man wants, and for everyone information, her body is when she was 15 years old and because she can seduce, by only walking through the door or to go to bed with the target, she can start in 8 and end in 80, interrogator, since she can torture and don't even flinch a bit with the bloody screams and killer of all countries.
Her first mission is a lend, '500 Yukaza Man', that for those who don't know, as a Yukaza that raped and killed children. They say that she was alone, since it was a solo mission, and she tortured and killed every single man and she didn't blink or flinch while doing it. And the most horrifying thing, is that she was only 13 years old when she did it. It's said that the Black Ops that found her pass out at the sight, and those who managed not to, puked their insides out. And they said that when they looked at her face, they didn't even saw an hint of remorse of what she had just done.
Her best and favorite mission are the S-rank or suicide mission, she doesn´t do anything under those ranks, and are all to the top, mission with black tabs, these tabs classify the sub-rank of the missions, being black the worse, and she is one of the best medic-nins from all country. She does everything. That's the reason why she is in every single bingo book. Not even one escapes." – finishes Jiraya with a smile seeing the shocked faces of those who are in the room.
-"Hunter –nin with 13 years old, she must be good." – said Neji interested by her and slightly surprise by what she achieved.
-"Yes, she jumped rank, from Genin to Hunter-nin with only three exams, one after another, she didn't even rest between. And even so, she managed to score 100% in the three, passing them with flying colors." – agrees Jiraya.
-"Well, we just have to wait for them, and then we leave. It's time for us to bring Teme back home, whether he wants or not." – screams Naruto, forgetting that he is in a Hospital, but that doesn't pass without him noticing much, because in the next second he is taking a hit on his head.
-"Don't talk so loud Naruto, this is a Hospital." – says the Hokage after hitting him in the head and receiving a little smile in return.
-"But what if she goes with us to kill Sasuke, after all she is a Hunter-nin, and he still is a Missing-nin?" – asks Kakashi distrustful, alerting everyone for that possibility.
-"I would kill her before she could even touch Teme." – says Naruto without a hint of fear in his voice and eyes, showing that he was telling the true.
-"You're not killing anyone Baka. Don't worry about it Kakashi, I also asked about it to the Council and they said that her only mission is to bring Itachi's body because of the Sharingan's secrets, nothing else. They promised to me, and I don't think that they are going to break this promise above all others."
-"Good, so one less person to worry about." – says Kakashi relaxed, but still a bit distrustful with the Hunter-nin presence.
Before someone else could talk, a knock can be heard, and after a 'Come in' of the Hokage, a nurse walks in the room and says:
-"Hokage-sama, I was given orders to call you and tell you that the two persons that you were waiting just arrived and were sent to your office."
-"Ah, thanks Yumi." – answers the Hokage, that seeing the nurse leave the room, says: -"Well, our guests already arrived, shall we go to the Tower?" – asks the Hokage leaving with everyone following her.
In the line that had in the lead the Hokage, Kakashi and Naruto went in last place, whispering.
-"We have to be careful sensei, I don't like this. We have to protect Teme from her." – says Naruto.
-"I know, I also don't like the fact that she is going with us, so we are going to keep an eye on her." – finishes Kakashi, entering the Hokage's office followed by Naruto.
-"Hokage-sama, long time no see. Kakashi, how are you?" – asks Yamato polite, since he was known for it.
-"Very well, thank you." – answers Kakashi to his long time friend.
-"Well, they already know that you and the Hunter-nin are also going in this mission. Actually, talking about it reminded me, where is she?" – asks the Hokage looking around.
-"Right here, Hokage-sama." – answers a voice behind everyone, in the shadow provided by the open door. While talking, the door closes showing a figure with a dark clock, all closed, making impossible to see the body of the person in it. Her hair hidden, being the only visible thing, her mask, which was a black cat, with golden features and green eyes.
-"HellCat." – says Jiraya without any doubt, looking at her, while the others, except Yamato, were looking at her still surprised with her and by the fact that they didn't noticed her when they came in, and since that now she isn't masking her chakra anymore, they can see how much she has.
-"It's my code name, yes sir. I'm seeing that you did your homework." – says HellCat with a sarcastic voice – "Now, are we leaving or are we staying to clean up the dust." – asks still sarcastic.
-"You're going right now, don't worry HellCat, they already know where they are going and what they are going, so you don't need to take any maps with you." – says the Hokage displeased with the Hunter-nin's attitude.
-"Great, I hate people who don't know where they are going." – says mockingly. – "Now one more thing, I know that you all are friends with the younger Uchiha, some of you were in his team, when you were Genin," – looking at Naruto and Kakashi, while saying the last phrase, - "but don't worry about your dear friend, he is part of your mission and preoccupation, I'm only going to get Itachi's body, that is, if he is strong enough to kill him, or is the little Uchiha end up like he always ends, beaten up and a loser." – mocks the Hunter-nin.
-"Teme was always strong. Teme is strong." – defends Naruto.
-"Don't think so, after all, he did betray the Village to go train with another Missing-nin, didn't he? They are all the same think, but you want your dear little traitor back, so what can I do?" – comments the Hunter-nin.
-"You don't know anything." – says Naruto with rage. – "I'm even betting that you don't have any friends." –mocks Naruto.
-"You're right, I don't. Why should I have them? I had 3 friends for whom I would give my life in a heartbeat and all of them left me behind. Why should I have friends if they leave us and causes us pain, can you explain me?" – asks the Hunter-nin.
-"Well, maybe I would do the same thing. You look like you are a stone without feelings, maybe you don't even know what is friendship. They were smart, that's what they were, for leaving a person like you behind. People who don't know about friendship and don't value it, are nothing." – accuses Naruto.
-"And you know? Please let me laugh." – said HellCat giving a sarcastic chuckle but she started talking again before Naruto could say anything. – "Don't talk about things you don't know, because if you are going to 'rescue' your dear traitor friend is because you let him leave, right?" – asking but not receiving an answer so she continued. – "And when you left, to train, didn't you leave behind those you always believed you? Didn't you left a teammate that ended up dying in a mission? Don't talk about friendship when you leave everything behind to go train. To bring one of your friends home you forget the others and, don't talk about me, you don't have the right because you don't know anything about my life, so you don't have any right to give any hunches." – finishes seeing Naruto starting to be covered by a red clock, the clock of the Kyuubi because of the rage he felt after hearing her talk.
-"Enough with this conversation. Get a grip Naruto, if you don't you're not going in this mission, and you my little girl, you don't have the right to talk like this at him, do you understand?" – asks the Hokage glaring to the Hunter-nin, receiving has an answer:
-"You don't give orders to me Hokage-sama, only the Council and Danzo have a right to give them and for me to follow."
-"Very well," – interrupts Yamato seeing that things were getting out of hand, - "Enough HellCat, we are going to finish this mission and you aren't going to say anything else to Uzumaki, the two of us are doing our mission, and they are going to do theirs, nothing else, ok?" – asks Yamato trying to calm down everyone.
-"Ok Yamato, but that is just because you're the one who is asking, nothing else." – answers HellCat leaving the room and going to the Village Gates to start the mission, being followed by everyone, being the last Naruto and Yamato, that were having a little conversation.
-"And you Naruto?" – asks Yamato looking at the boy in question.
-"Very well, but it's good that she doesn't start because if she does, I'm not going to answer by myself." – threatens Naruto.
-"You know Naruto, she didn't have an easy life, so don't judge her." – asks Yamato looking at the Gates that were visible, seeing everyone there waiting for them.
-"How can I know, if no one knows her life, know even knows who she is, besides Danzo and you." – answers Naruto.
-"Sooner than you think you're going to know and when you know you are going to regret everything you said inside that office, you are going to see, I bet everything I have on this." – says Yamato while stopping in front of everyone.
-"Doubt it." – answers Naruto looking at the Hunter-nin with rage.
-"You will see, but then, don't say that I didn't warned you when you screw up." – finishes Yamato when the Hokage starts to talk.
-"Very well, the captains of this mission are Kakashi, Yamato and HellCat." – says the Hokage being interrupt by Naruto, when he heard the last captain.
-"Why is she one of the captains of the mission Baa-chan." -asks Naruto surprised.
-"Because, after me she is the one who has a higher rank, actually Yamato and Kakashi, they shouldn't even be captains, but she asked to the Council and they said yes. But even so they didn't said yes to everything she asked, she didn't even wanted to be a captain in this mission, because she thinks that she doesn't have the right to give you guys orders since you don't know each other, but the Council dint accepted, so those three are the captains." – says the Hokage while everyone was looking at HellCat, surprised with her request.
-"In second captain is Neji, if something happens to any of these three and as strategist is Shikamaru." – completes the Hokage.
-"Aren't you forgetting anything Hokage-sama?" – asks the Hunter-nin receiving a confuse face as answer, having disappeared in an instant after she understood what the Hunter-nin wanted.
-"Oh, that, the other second captain is Naruto." – finishes th Hokage receiving confuse faces as answers.
-"But I'm still a Genin Baa-chan." – says Naruto, being him the one with the most confuse face, while Yamato was thinking 'what are you planning HellCat?'.
-"I know, you weren't supposed to be a second captain but she asked the Council, and they couldn't say no." – says the Hokage still seeing the confuse expressions of the people in front of her. – "I wonder what you used to threatened them?" – whispers the Hokage, but since as Hunter-nin all of their senses are above usual, the Hunter-nin heard giving the Hokage a smirk that she didn't saw because of the mask.
-"Why did you do that? I'm still a Genin and I though you didn't liked me?" – asks Naruto still confused and surprised with her request.
-"Ranks don't matter, the person and their mentality, that is what matter, and it's not my impressions on people that counts, so in my mind you have a right to be one of the second captains because you're going to save one of your best friends and ex-teammate. And take the idea that I don't like you out of your mind, because what I think is exactly the opposite, you're capable of doing what I'm not and because of that I have a little respect for you, but don't let that make you lose focus. So are we going now?" - admits the Hunter-nin.
-"Yes we are going now. I think I'm going to like you and I promise you that I'm going to show you that friends are important, you will see." – promises Naruto while thinking 'actually she isn't that bad'.
-"Sorry to say that I don't believe that, now are we leaving or what?" – asks the Hunter-nin again, this time looking at the Hokage.
-"Yes, your mission it's S-rank, so you have to be very careful, even if you are going with two ANBU's that do those types of missions very frequently and to a Hunter-nin that it's the minimum rank that they do, but that doesn't mean that you don't have to be careful." – advises the Hokage worried about them, even worried about the Hunter-nin.
-"Yes Baa-chan, we know, now finish what you have to say so that we can leave." – asks Naruto without patient.
-"How troublesome. Why did I have to be on the middle of this?" – asks Shikamaru with his hands on his pants pockets while right arm his being squished by his girlfriend arms, Ino's arms.
-"Stop playing that this is important and dangerous Naruto." – threatens the Hokage.
-"Don't worry Hokage-sama, I'm not letting anything happen to them, much less letting that one of them die, because if that happens I have to be dead first. Besides, I want to see if Naruto-san can do what he said." – says the Hunter-nin trying to calm down the Hokage, while inside of her head she was only thinking 'when I get back, Danzo you are going to die, slowly and painfully. How in Hell did I accept doing this mission. It looks like I'm going to do babysitting, even before we leave. If the Hokage is so worried about her little ninjas, why does she let them leave? It would be so much easier for everyone and I would be able to finish this mission in a matter of hours instead of taking days. God this is so annoying'.
-"Still I think you should take a medic-nin, I know you have Ino and Hinata, but even so…" – thinks the Hokage out loud.
-"In that matter you don't have to worry Hokage-sama. If you did your homework well you must know that I am a medic-nin for 5 years now. It's one of the many trainings that Danzo made me do, since I only do solo missions I had to learn how to heal myself." – says the Hunter-nin.
-"You only did solo missions in your entire career?" – asks Naruto impressed.
-"Well, as a Hunter-nin yes, only solo missions, but when I was a Genin, no in that time I did missions with my Genin team." – says the Hunter-nin with a voice, that even Naruto understood that she didn't want to talk more about that subject.
-"Well, back to what the Hunter-nin said, if she is a medic-nin, that's better." – says the Hokage still surprised that a Hunter-nin which job is killing our torturing knows how to heal.
-"Good, now if you are calmer, can we leave now?" – asks Naruto impatience like always.
-"Ok Baka. Your mission is going to take 1 month at maximum. One more thing, I want everyone alive when you get back, are we understood?" – asks the Hokage with a glare.
-"Yes Baa-chan, now can we please finally leave?" – asks Naruto once again.
-"Yes. Good trip and be careful." – says the Hokage while she sees them pass through the Gates with Jiraya at her side, both of them just looking and not a word between them is changed. After the Gates close, Jiraya looks at the Hokage and says.
-"You will see that everything is going to be okay Tsunade."
-"Yes, I know but I still have the feeling that something is going to happen, something that is going to change everything we know." – says Tsunade looking at him worried. – "It's the same feeling I had when Orochimaru left, when War came and when Sarutobi-sensei died. I know that something is going to happen. I just hope that they stay ok?"- said the Hokage still worried about the life has they know.
-"You will see, everything is going to be ok. It's the rookie 12 that we are talking about, and they grew up so much. They got stronger that we ever thought that they would, so don't worry about them." – says Jiraya trying to calm Tsunade.
-"The rookie 12 except Sakura." – says the Hokage with a sadness in her voice that couldn't be masked.
-"Yes. But she may not be here physically, but her memory will help them. Because those who love us never leave, not even in death." – said Jiraya with a sad smile while looking at the blue sky, with Tsunade doing the same.
-"Yes, she is always with us. I can feel her." – said the Hokage, turning her back to the Gates and walking to the Tower with Jiraya at her side, both of them thinking the same, 'she will never be forgotten she is with us, forever and ever'.
Outside of the Gates, running thru the forest, an ANBU team could be seen, and a blonde haired guy was thinking in his mind.
-"I will bring you back Teme and together along with Kakashi-sensei, we will bring back Sakura-chan and Team 7 will never be apart again. I promise.", thinks Naruto while e ran along with his friends and sensei, an ANBU and a Hunter-nin in direction to one more turbulent but gratified adventure.