CHAPTER 2- Uchiha Itachi
I sigh as I wait for the rest of my team to show up. While I wait my mind wonders back to the mission briefing we just had.
Since I am the team leader it is my job to give the Hokage a summery on how my teams' mission went. As I was talking a messenger jutsu floats in through the window waiting for the Hokage to open it.
"Would you like me to leave?" I ask.
"No, stay here. It doesn't look too important." the Hokage mumbles, "Open." the Hokage commands.
"Target dead. Team is dead or captured. Requesting backup. Location, village 6km past the Sound boundary. Send." It takes me a few seconds but I finally figure out who the voice belongs to, Haruno Sakura.
"She is the pink haired medic-kunoichi from my younger brothers' team." I think to myself.
"How soon can your team leave for another mission?" the Hokage suddenly asks.
"Immediately" I hear myself reply.
"Good," the Hokage replies, "get Genma and Shino and report back here for your mission briefing."
"Hai" I reply.
I race through the village looking for Genma and Shino, I find them both at a bar. "Come, we have a new mission and we have to leave immediately."I say, frowning at how breathless I sound.
"What! Already" complains Genma. I nod my head in confirmation.
"Yes, this does seem quite sudden, Tiashou." says Shino.
"It is an emergency." I snap. What is wrong with me, I never snap! Genma and Shino look at me like I am a completely different person but they follow me without question out of the bar.
They shot questioning glances at each other all the way to be Hokages office. "If you have enough time to shot glances at each other you can run faster." I hear myself order.
"Hai, Taishou." they reply as they speed up.
I don't bother taking the stairs when we reach the Hokages building, it would take too long. I direct chakra to my hands and feet to help me climb up the side of the building, Genma and Shino follow my lead. The Hokage doesn't seem surprised to see us climb through her window. She replays Sakuras message, then looks at us.
"Your mission is to retrieve Team 7 even if there are only bodies. Do you understand?" questions the Hokage. We all nod our heads and leave the Hokages office.
"Be at the gates in half an hour." I order my team.
"Hai." they both reply.
I was brought back to the present by Genma blowing in my ear. "You must be really worried about your little brother to allow me to sneak up on you like that." smirks Genma.
"Hnn" was my only reply. Of course they would think it was my little brother that I was worried about, but actually I was more worried about his teammate Sakura.
We would soon be approaching the town where Sakura sent her message from, I motion for my team to stop. I activate a jutsu that allows me to find and track Sasuke, my little brother's chakra. "Follow me." I instruct after I locate his chakra. I follow the pulse of my brothers' chakra to a cliff wall.
"Where are they? There are no caves here. Are you sure this is where Sasukes chakra is coming from?" questions Genma.
I give Genma a long cold glare. "Sorry. I know you don't make mistakes but there is nothing here." Genma mutters.
"No it's a genjustu." replies Shino.
"Let's see you find where the cave entrance is then." taunts Genma.
"Of course," states Shino, "I am a genjustu expert. Just give me a second and I will be able to find the entrance."
I feel two unfamiliar chakras approaching us. I quickly whisper to Genma and Shino "Two enemy shinobi are approaching. Maybe they will lead us to the entrance. Genma hide in the bushes to the left of the cliff. Shino hide at the top of the cliff and I will hide in the trees to the right of the cliff."
The two enemy shinobi walk up to the face of the cliff face and stop. They perform some hand seals and the face of the cliff shimmers. After they step through the cliff face it returns to normal. Before I can do anything Genma sneaks out from his hiding place and performs the same hand seals and disappears through the cliff face. Having no choice Shino and I jump down from our hiding places and rush after the bakka. Genma is waiting for us just inside the cave.
"What took you guys so long?" smirks Genma, "Hurry up or we will lose the enemy. It was your plan to let them lead us to Team 7, wasn't it Tiashou?
"Hnn." is my only reply.
We follow the enemy shinobi down a labyrinth of tunnels. Every few steps I leave a mark on the wall so we won't get lost on our way out.
The enemy shinobi stops before a room. Only one of them enters the room, the other stands guard outside the door. After awhile the shinobi standing guard knocks on the door and asks if everything is alright, BAM.
The door is blown off its hinges and a very pissed off looking Naruto screams "You bastards! What did you do to my teammates?" Naruto is so focused on the shinobi that was guarding the door he forgot about the shinobi that was in room. The second shinobi stealthily creeps up behind Naruto and jabs a pressure point in the side of his neck. The kid never had a chance, he is knocked out instantly. A blank look cross's his face, his knees buckle and collapse under his weight, the rest of his body following. He is dead to the world. Shino moves forward to help Naruto but stops when I grab his arm. Turning his head Shino gives me a puzzled look.
"Wait until they lead us to the rest of Team 7, then we can take them out." I explain. Shino sighs but nods his head in agreement.
"That kid sure packs a punch." comments one of the enemy shinobi rubbing his jaw where Naruto had punched him, "Thanks for knocking him out."
"No problem," replies the other enemy shinobi, "we better go and check on the other prisoners and make sure they stay knocked out until the boss is done with the kunoichi."
"The kunoichi, they must mean Sakura! What is their leader doing to her? If he hurts one hair on her head I am going to rip him limb from limb!" I growl to myself.
We follow the enemy shinobi as they check on Sasuke and Kakashi. I am relieved to see that my brother is unharmed, in fact all the members of Team 7 that we have seen so far are unharmed.
They have just been knocked out. The two enemy shinobi stop in a common room and start talking to some other shinobi who were already there.
"How are the prisoners?" asks one.
"Sleeping like babies." jokes the one we have been following. They all laugh at his reply.
"Hey does anyone know how Leader is doing with the kunoichi?" questions another shinobi.
"Yeah, I was just with Leader." admits another shinobi, "The kunoichi isn't talking and Leader is getting pretty pissed off at her."
"Hey I got a great idea to make the kunoichi talk!" shouts one of the shinobi that we were following, "Let's bring her teammates to her cell and torture them in front of her and if she still doesn't talk we can kill one of them!"
"Shino, Genma I want you to go back and release Naruto, Sasuke and Kakashi from their cells. Get them out of here and back to Konoha." I order.
"But what are you going to do?" questions Genma.
"Find out why these shinobi just want Sakura and who their leader is." I reply.
"Have fun." mutters Shino as they leave. While I watch their retreating backs I notice a movement out of the corner of my eye. All the shinobi in the room are standing up and bowing towards the figure that has just entered the room.
"Leader has the kunoichi talked yet?" questions one of the shinobi.
Glaring at the shinobi that questioned him Leader mumbles "No."
"Leader I came up with an idea that would make the kunoichi talk." says another shinobi. He stops talking and looks to the Leader for permission to continue.
Leader nods his head and sighs, "Continue." he orders.
"We could bring her teammates into her cell and then torture them in front of her until she tells us what we want to know and if that doesn't work we could start killing them!" he explains excitedly.
"Hmmm, that is a good idea. The reason why I stopped torturing the kunoichi though was because I am hungry, so I am going to eat and then we will try out your idea. Since you came up with this plan you can guard the kunoichi until I am done with my meal. You may do whatever you want with her. All of you are dismissed until further notice." orders Leader as he walks into a separate room.
"Ha! That's what you get for being such a genius. While we get some time to ourselves you have to watch over that kunoichi." gloats one of the shinobi in the room.
"Obviously you weren't listening to what the Leader said where you. He said I could do whatever I wanted with her until he was done his meal and I plan on having lots of fun with her." smirks the shinobi.
"You're sick." laughs another shinobi, "Have fun!"
"Ohh don't worry I will." laughs the shinobi as he walks away. I follow him down a tunnel. I notice that this tunnel is even more damp and dreary than the other ones. He starts humming as he walks down the tunnel and I have to restrain myself from sneaking up behind this sorry excuse for a human being and ending his miserable life right now, but I need him to lead me to Sakura. I mean who hums while they are going to go torture someone? This is a really sick individual! I would be doing the world a favor by killing him really. Fortunately for this sick individual I needed him to find Sakura. Finally he stops in front of a door.