Italics indicate thinking

Bold is for attacks

Kale's POV

"Great work everyone." Tsunade said as we all stood in her office "But there are still many members of Akatsuki remaining, don't let your guard down. For now…take a break, you earned it."

Everyone else filtered out but I took a seat.

"It went well for the first mission." Tsunade said.

"Took out two Akatsuki, we all made it back alive in one, slightly bruised, piece." I said "And I got this cool scythe."

"Be careful with that thing." She sighed "Why are you even keeping that?"

"I'm gonna make it into my next staff." I smiled "It's got a handle so it passed the main criteria!"

"You're just as weird as your Uncle you know that." She sighed louder.

"Don't talk about me when I'm not here." Uncle said walking in.

"So about Fu…" I said "How long are you gonna keep her grounded?"

"She's been a good girl." Tsunade said "Probably just a few more days, but she'll have to be watched like Naruto."

"Understandable." I said standing up "Well I'm off, I promised Fu I'd take her to lunch when I got home."

"Oh here take this with you, I found it in the closets when we were cleaning the office the other day." She handed me a staff with a dragon holding an orb in its mouth "Figure you can use it…just get it out so it's not cluttering the place up."

"Sure." I took the dragon staff and headed into town.

Later

"Fu will be allowed on missions again soon!" the girl cheered "Yay!"

"Yeah it'll be fun to work as a team again." I smiled.

Fu and I kept eating, it was nice to just spend time together.

"Oh hello Fu." My mother walked by "You two are eating together, is this a date?"

"Mom!"

"Sure…" Fu shrugged."

"How cute." Mother waved walking off "See you later."

"Fu you…"

"You called it a date the other day." She pointed out "Fu was just repeating your statement."

"Oh…"

"But Fu would like this to be a date too." She smiled "Fu um…likes spending time with you."

"Yeah." I smiled "I like spending time with you too. Although it would be better if those three weren't watching us."

I pointed over to the bar where Naruto, Sakura and Sai were eating and watching us, strangely Sai was attempting to feed Naruto since the blonde boy had a fracture in his arm from the Rasen Shuriken.

"Fu likes spending time with our friends…even if that means we don't spend time alone." She laughed.

Later

"And done." I sighed picking up the Dragon Staff and strapping it in with the others "That brings the count up to seven…it keeps growing."

I was all excited for my day off but Tsunade was calling our whole team to her office for something. When I got there Naruto and Sakura were also arriving.

"You're late." Tsunade said.

"Sorry Naruto was eating and…" Sakura panted having run all the way here.

"Hey Pervy Sage!" Naruto waved.

"Naruto." Jiraiya smiled "How are you."

"So why'd you call us here this early?" I asked.

"It's about some information that's been floating around." Uncle explained.

"Information?" Naruto tilted his head.

"Orochimaru is dead." Tsunade explained "Sasuke killed him."

"Are you…serious?" Naruto asked.

"I got that information from a reliable source." Jiraiya nodded "It's true."

"Then…" Sakura smiled.

"He'll come back right?" Naruto asked.

Tsunade just sighed.

"And here comes the bad part." I nodded.

"It would seem that's not the case." Jiraiya said.

"Why not?!" Naruto yelled.

"Probably cause he doesn't want to." I said "He's obsession has taken root in his heart and won't think about anything but revenge."

"He likely won't stop until Itachi is dead." Uncle spoke up.

"Him again." Naruto growled "Then we need to form a team to move out now, the mission is still to take out Akatsuki right?"

"Yes." Tsunade nodded.

"To get to Sasuke we need to go after Akatsuki." Naruto explained "We need to find Itachi."

I see, if Sasuke is going after Itachi by getting their first we'll cut him off.

"If we capture Itachi we can force Sasuke to come to us." I said "And it's not illogical seeing as Itachi is a wanted ninja in this village, plus catching him will give us intel on Akatsuki."

"They're not talkers." Sensei said entering the room "up to this point capture has been too dangerous of downright impossible."

"Then what are we supposed to do?!" Naruto yelled.

"Just what you said, our best bet is finding Itachi." Sensei walked over.

"Let's say you find him, then what?" Jiraiya asked.

"Hmm…" I hummed "Hadn't thought about that."

"Well we can't do it as just a single team, especially not with Fu grounded like she is." Sensei said.

"What does that mean?" Naruto asked.

"We'll need a few teams working together if we want to capture Itachi." Sakura explained.

"A platoon of two teams should suffice." Sensei said "And communication will have to be good so, we'll need a team we mesh with…actually I already picked a team to help us. Oh and I'll need you to give Fu the all clear to go back into the field."

"Alright consider it done." Tsunade said "I think she's learned her lesson for now."

"We'll meet at the gate in an hour." Sensei said "I already told Sai to meet us, so get your things so we can go."

Later

"The weather is pretty lousy." Sensei said as the rain pattered around us "But it'll cover our tracks."

"Come on let's go!" Naruto yelled.

"Fu is ready to get back in the field!" she cheered.

"Maybe the rain will cool those two off." Kiba laughed.

"Hmm…Shino nodded.

"Naruto please calm down." Hinata sighed.

AN

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