Naruto: Send Her In

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Chapter 3: Rescue?

The forest had an eerie silence to it as Sasuke rushed forward; leaping from branch to branch. But the forest was the last thing on his mind. Sasuke's mind spun with memories of the day's events. The rouge ninja mission from this morning, splitting up from Kakashi, facing down the group of ninja, and most of all, that girl; she filled Sasukes mind. She filled his mind with questions. Where had she come from? How had she been able to kill so many that quickly? Who was she; no better yet, what was she? These questions whirled in his mind as he followed after Kakashi.

As is sensing his student's thoughts Kakashi asked "Puzzled Sasuke?"

"That would be an understatement. You know her don't you Kakashi?"

Kakashi kept moving forward without saying a word but then sighed.

"I don't know her personally, just of her." He said keeping his eye forward.

Sasuke waited for him to continue, when he didn't "…and?"

"And technically there's a lot of red tape wrapped around this matter." Said Kakashi, jumping down from a branch to the ground, Sasuke followed.

Kakashi leaned up against a tree and looked up to the sky that barely peeked through the treetops. Sasuke watched his master, "Just spill it Sensei! If I'm going to help with the mission I should at least know more about the target." he said getting annoyed.

Kakashi looked at Sasuke; it was that same calm calculating look he always wore. Folding his arms over his chest "That's fine, but just know I can't tell you everything Sasuke, this matter is one of the Leafs greatest secrets, got it?"

Sasuke nodded.

"Her name is Naruko Uzumaki, and she is a very important person, both the Leaf and the world as a whole." Sasuke thought about the name, it sounded familiar but he couldn't place it. He found that at the same time he was entranced by that name. Kakashi continued "from the moment she was born she has held a great power, one that could change the village. But at the same time of her birth, her parents both died in the battle against the Nine-tails."

Sasuke felt a pang in his chest. Hearing about the loss of one parents always irked him the wrong way, filling him with anger. He took a breath and continued to listen to Kakashi.

"At this time she was put under the care of the village, cared for by friends of her parents. But when she was three there was an attack in the village, and a fire started. Her guardians and her were caught in the fire and perished, or at least that's what we thought."

Kakashi sighed and rubbed the back of his neck "There were bodies and evidence, everything even…" Kakashi paused for a moment "well anyway we had no reason to believe that she was alive. She was considered a casualty. But now eleven years later we have proof that it was a cover up."

Sasuke's eyes widened a bit at this news "What do you mean? Is this why the Hokage was so angry?"

Kakashi nodded "When you stated that it was ANBU that had her, we knew who had to be behind this. Danzo; he's the only one who could pull this off inside the village."

"And he is?"

"A high ranking advisor in the village, and at one time the leader of an ANBU faction called Root. These guys were the elite of the elite, trained from birth to be the perfect shinobi. When it was disbanded I lost track of him but he's been here, in the shadows working for the Hokage and the elders. He has connections everywhere and is a very capable ninja." Looking back to the sky Kakashi continued "With ANBU at the scene and acting outside the knowledge of the Hokage, we know that he has to be tied into this somehow, most likely running it. He was the biggest supporter of her becoming a weapon for the village back in the day."

"Is that the power you mentioned, the one I saw earlier?" Sasuke asked.

"It's part of it yeah, but there's more to her then just her destructive abilities."

"Part of? And the other? Sasuke asked.

Kakashi pushed off from the tree "And the rest is moving into the red tape area. I don't have all of the details myself but anymore isn't really mission related….yet."

Sasuke sighed knowing he wasn't going to get any more out of him, truthfully he was surprised he got that much, normally his master was much more tight lipped.

"Let's get moving." Kakashi said jumping back to the trees, Sasuke followed suit.

Together they made their way back to the clearing where Sasuke had witnessed the battle. Landing in the center of the area he was surprised to see there wasn't any bodies.

"This the place?" Kakashi asked which Sasuke nodded to. Taking a look around they did see some blood but that was it.

"Why take the bodies? Evidence?" Kakashi mumbled to himself bringing his hand to his chin and thinking. Sasuke ignore Kakashi as he continued to look around. Walking over to the fallen tree from earlier he ran the memories through his mind again. The more he thought about it the more he was certain, she had cried, if but for a moment, before running off.

Sasuke cursed mentally at himself "What does it matter?! I'm here to find her not…." He thought. Sighing he couldn't deny the feeling in his gut. He wanted to know more, why, hell if he knew, but…

-Meanwhile in the ANBU Compound-

Danzo sat at a desk inside a dark room illuminated with a single candle. Besides Danzo himself one could see nothing in the room. He sat there going over the report from earlier. She had been seen, had failed to kill all witnesses, and even his own man had let the Uchiha get away. Even if he was a star of the village letting him get away after seeing her was going to cost him. Danzo sighed.

"Oh… poor Danzo, did you make a boo boo in your game." said a voice from the dark.

Danzo sharpened his senses and scanned the room, as always he could never locate the person. "I don't play games, and if you wish to survive I suggest you come out now before I make you."

Before Danzo could move a white gloved hand came to rest on his shoulder. "Now Danzy, don't make a promise you can't keep, you'll make me blush."

Danzo's eye shot to the man beside him. The man there literally was coming out of the darkness that was the room. A handsome young man completely white from his skin to his clothes, the only color came from his round glasses, which were a metallic red and they hide his eyes completely. He wore a white suit along with a long white leather jacket that hung loosely from his shoulders. His hair, also white, was pulled back into a short pony tail held together by a sliver clasp that looked like a snake. "Where have you been the last three years?" asked Danzo.

The man gave Danzo a smile, but it held no emotion. "So Danzy?" he said cheery and ignoring the question, but then his tone turned cold "What have you done?" he said without taking his hand off of Danzo's shoulder.

"She was seen, and the witness likely has reported back to the Hokage by now." Answered Danzo, never taking his eye off the man.

The man in white moved from his spot to stand in front of the desk, as he walked he put his hands into his pant pockets. "Danzo, after all this time now you screw up, just when we are getting the results we want. Tisk tisk."

"Don't talk to me about progress! Maybe if you would actually do something about the gir…" Danzo never finished the statement as the white man's hand grabbed Danzo by the mouth and pulled him closer.

The man brought Danzo close to his face "I gave you the girl and the charms to contain her, do I have to do everything for you Danzy. I gave you a task and you have yet to complete it."

Danzo squirmed a bit but couldn't break free. Danzo was then shoved back into his chair and the man twirled around then sat on the desk looking away from Danzo. Danzo coughed to get his breath back.

"However… this does strike an interesting new idea." Danzo looked at the man with a questioning look. The man looked back to Danzo with a most wicked smile "Let's get her ready shall we?"

Danzo just bowed his head and answered "Yes, Snide."

-Back in the clearing-

"Summoning Jutsu" Kakashi said as he hit the ground, a large boom of smoke appeared, once it was clear Sasuke saw Pakkun sitting there. "Again? Just can't get enough of me today guys?"

"Well of course." Kakashi said; Sasuke just ignored the statement. "Need your help again, we need to track a girl, but I don't have anything for you to go off beside the area. The only other thing is I think she was the only other female in the area beside Sakura earlier." Kakashi looked to Sasuke for a confirmation, to which Sasuke nodded.

Pakkun nodded and started sniffing around but as soon as he did he crouched down and covered his nose "Oh damn! What the hell, I've never smelled so much anger, hatred, and rage before in my life. What the hell happened here?"

Sasuke looked at the dog curiously "You can smell emotions?"

Getting up pakkun nodded "Yeah, unlike regular dogs, we ninja dogs are trained to smell out all kinds of different things that normal dogs don't, emotion being one of them. Anger and hate, those burn, but never like this before. What's going on here?" Kakashi gave Pakkun the short version of the story and when he was done Pakkun walked around and sniffed a bit more.

"Well if all this anger is coming from the girl it won't be hard to follow her, its way strong, prolly won't fade for days."

"Alright lead the way." Kakashi said just before he stopped and looked to the north "About time."

Then two figures jumped into the clearing then "Guy, Asuma, glad you could make it."

Guy and Asuma gave Kakashi a wave "Yo Kakashi no problem, pops said you were going to need a hand." Asuma said.

"I can let my rival beat me in the power of youth, OF COURSE I CAME!" Guy said pumping himself up.

Sasuke looked to Kakashi "Friends of yours?" Kakashi gave a lite laugh "Yeah, something like that. Anyways we need to get moving, Pakkun will lead." Everyone nodded and followed after Pakkun who sped of to the west. Moving quickly through the forest Guy and Asuma asked for more details.

"We didn't get much from Dad, just that you were going to need help with a rescue mission?" Asuma said. Guy nodded from behind him.

"Well…" Kakashi started "we have reason to believe Naruko Uzumaki is alive and being held by Danzo."

Both Guy and Asuma had shocked faces at the knews and asked for more details. Sasuke told the short version of his tale to the Jounin.

When he finish Asume just said "Thats… hard to swallow. He took her, but even if she has the F…"

"Down!" Pakkun said. Everyone went silent and jumped down into the bushes to hide. Sasuke looked out the bush ahead of them. There ahead they saw a single ANBU standing in front of a large tree.

Pakkun wiggled over to Sasuke and Kakashi "That's it; the sent is coming from that tree."

Kakashi nodded then looked to the others, he signaled for them to hook up their head sets, channel sixteen. Everyone pulled out their headsets, and switched to the channel.

"Everyone here me?" Kakashi whispered.

Everyone responded with a "Hai"

"Pakkun, is that the only entrance?" Pakkun sniffed the air a bit then nodded to the left of the tree "Theres a little of the scent coming from over there, probable a vent or back entrance."

Kakashi nodded "Alright, Guy, Asuma, I want you to start out here and make a big entrance, make your way inside with a lot of noise. Meanwhile Pakkun, Sasuke and I will go around the other way and try to find the girl from there, with any luck we can get this done quick and pull back." Everyone nodded and moved into position.

Sasuke, Pakkun and Kakahi moved around and found the vent, just big enough for them to slide down. "Start." Said Kakashi.

KABOOOOM! KABOOOM! BANG BOOOOOOM!

As the three slide down the vent Kakashi gave an annoyed sigh "Damn it Guy….I didn't say to blow the damn place up."

Sasuke ignored his Sensei as he followed Pakkun. The travel through the vents moving silently as noise from above drew many of the ANBU inside out. They continued to move downward till finally Pakkun stopped "I think we got is, out here." he said pointing out one of the vents. Kakashi kicked it open and they all hopped out. They landed in a hallway, no one was there and it was very dull. Pakkun moved over to one of the doors "In here."

They ran to the door and opened it. What was inside surprised them. Nothing; it was an empty cell.

"AHH THAT STINKS! Pakkun yelled running from the room. Sasuke and Kakashi covered their noses but looked into the room. There was nothing but stone walls and floor with piles of human waste, and some straw.

They backed out of the room "That… must be where they keep her." Kakashi said a grim look on his face. Sasuke wanted to throw up but kept his cool.

"Sorry guys, the scent was so strong here I got it mixed up with where she is."

"Just find her this time." Sasuke said

"Yeah." Pakkun said as he sniffed the air "This way." and he was off. They ran after Pakkun, almost flying down the hallways and rooms. Kakashi was a little surprised that they hadn't run into and ANBU, even if Guy and Asuma were doing their job, it shouldn't be this easy. Then they turned into another hallway and stopped in their tracks; there was someone there, a man in complete white, except for his red glasses.

The man started to clap and dance around "Oh goodie the guest are here the guests are hear, oh happy day."

"And you are?" Sasuke asked pulling out a kunai.

The man stopped dancing and clapping, pulling himself back together he slicked his hair back into place "Oh how rude of me, so sorry, I didn't introduce myself." He waved his arms making both Sasuke and Kakashi ready for an attack, but he simple put his one arm around his back and the other to his heart "My dear friends, you may call me Snide. But enough of that, Sasuke, Kakashi, I take it your here for my little Naru?"

"How do you…" Kakashi started.

"Now now, its fine, she right down that hall." He said point to the right. "Your free to her for now, but if you're going to borrow her, please be sure to bring her back in the same condition, kay?" he said with a smile.

"Bastard!" Sasuke snarled.

The man made a little jump "Oh… oh ferocious. But I'm about done here for today so, have fun, I'll see you around, oh! I almost forgot." He threw a small paper to Sasuke.

Catching it Sasuke saw it was one of the seal the ANBU had used earlier. He looked at Snide confused.

"Just remember young Sasuke, when a fox hunts a rabbit, the only thing he can do is let the darkness come." was all Snide said before he faded from sight?

"What does that mean?" Sasuke asked Kakashi who just shrugged.

The three raced down the hall and turned to the right and there she sat at the far end, Danzo standing right behind her. She was blindfolded, gaged and wearing the same rags as before only now… they were covered in dried blood. She just sat there in a slump.

"Danzo, you are under arrest!" Kakashi yelled down at him. Danzo just ignored Kakashi then bent down to the girl.

Loud enough for the three to hear, Danzo told her "Time to hunt rabbits, my dear." At those words she seemed to straighten up. The red chakra from earlier began to slowly come out and cover the girl. Danzo removed the blindfold and stepped back into an open door behind him, the next thing the door closed and he was gone.

"Damn him, he's running." Pakkun said and was about to chase but then froze "Umm…guys, that girl, her eyes why do the look so… hungry?"

They looked and indeed her red eyes looked like they were eyeing up prey and as the last of her was covered by the chakra, she crouched up and got into what looked like a stalking stance.

Sasuke got the message "Oh Shit!"

Well guys hope you enjoyed and again I'm sorry for the long wait on this chapter. I'll try not to fall behind like that again. Plz comment and review.