Summoner!
Chapter 2...
Troublesome!!
“What tracker teams do we have available?” she demanded straight to the point.
Shinzune looked thoughtful but in all honesty she already had the answer; she just did not what to seem nosy. “Unfortunately Tsunade-sama we only have one tracker team in the village at the moment and that would be team eight, but we have a few other ninja that we could send with them if that would help at all?”
Tsunade nodded slowly. “Ok, who else do we have spare to go with them?” she demanded gritting her teeth as the blue fire in her eyes glared at Jiraiya.
“Well we have, Kakashi and Sakura since they might need a medic with Naruto’s record,” she began thoughtfully. “And maybe Iruka since term has ended and you know how he feels about Naruto, they’re like brothers…”
“Is that all?” asked the Hokage.
Shinzune nodded sadly. “All that can be trusted to find him and bring him back safely. I would hate to think what would happen if we sent, the wrong people and they tried to kill him. He might not return after that.”
Tsunade nodded with a sad sigh. “Very well, Shinzune,” she said before looking at Jiraiya. “Asshole… you two go and gather them three, and Kiba, Shino, Hinata, and Kurenai and bring them to me for this mission, but don’t brief them just tell them I have a mission. And Jiraiya you’ll be leading one team. I’ll send you with Kakashi, Sakura, and Shino, both Kakashi and Shino both have tracking skills. Kurenai will lead Hinata, Kiba and Iruka as a second team, understood?”
Jiraiya nodded as he and Shinzune left the office in search of the two hunter teams.
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Shinzune was not sure where the two should start looking, but figured Sakura might be at the hospital. “Jiraiya-sama,” she began getting the concerned mans attention. “Sakura maybe at the hospital we should go their first.”
He nodded his head as they moved in that direction. “Yeah… I really am sorry I lost him. I’ve never misplaced a student before,” he replied with a nervous chuckle.
Shinzune looked at him with a small glare before sighing. “Its ok, I’m sure you’ll find him soon, you know Naruto, he can get into a lot of trouble but he always manages to escape. He has a weird way of getting people to like him; even if they don’t want to admit it… he has a strange affect on people. He’s probably made plenty of new friends, and learnt a lot about the world, and I’m sure he has help.”
Jiraiya smiled at the confidence she has in Naruto sadly. “I… I should have been here for him. I should have taken him with me all those years ago… but I was scared… a kid, me… could you see me bringing up a kid?”
Shinzune chuckled lightly with an understanding look. “Maybe you should tell him how you feel… how you felt when you find him. Its never too late to apologise and make up for what you did wrong… or didn’t do right,” she answered him understanding what its like to have regrets, all ninja did.
Jiraiya smiled lightly. “I guess you’re right… m-maybe, I should tell him… err, never mind,” he sighed as they walked into the hospital. It did not take long to find the pink haired kunoichi exiting a patents room.
“Sakura!” called Shinzune as they came to a stop by her.
Sakura smiled as she looked at them. “Shinzune, Jiraiya-sama… but where’s Naruto?” she asked interestedly. “I would have thought he would have come to see me already?” the seventeen-year-old girl asked hopefully.
“I um…” began Jiraiya nervously. “Tsunade-sama has a mission for you, if you could wait for us outside her office we have more ninja to find,” he answered instead of telling her he lost the boy.
Sakura nodded. “Well ok.”
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It had not taken them long to find the rest of the two teams, and after the briefing with Tsunade, Jiraiya found a lot of glares aimed his way. It was a little disconcerting as even the shy Hyuuga girl was glaring, though hers was more if you say one thing wrong I am so going to kill you for losing ‘my’ Naruto-kun.
“YOU LOST HIM!” roared Sakura suddenly. “HOW THE FUCK DO YOU JUST LOOSE NARUTO, HE’S SO GOD DAMN LOUD!” her furious glare made Jiraiya wince back in fear; he knew she could hit almost as hard as her teacher, Tsunade could.
“Um…” he chuckled nervously scratching his white haired head. “Well technically he ditched me,” he tried defending himself in a small voice.
“DITCHED YOU!” she screamed in his face clenching her fists as the others took a step away. “ITS NO WONDER HE DITCHED YOU, YOU PERVERTED OLD BAKA. YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE HIS SENSEI, NOT SPYING ON WOMEN WHILE THEY TAKE A BATH, AND NOW YOU’VE LOST MY SECOND TEAMMATE BECAUSE OF IT!”
“Calm down now Sakura,” interrupted Kakashi nervously coming to his idles defence. “I’m sure we’ll find Naruto soon… with two teams looking for him, it can’t be that hard.”
She glared at him with a groan. “Whatever Kakashi, it wasn’t like you’re any better… augh, I’m surrounded by idiot sensei’s who either loose their students or don’t teach them hardly anything useful.”
“Hey!” interrupted Kurenai and Tsunade together, offended at her accusation.
“I wasn’t talking about you two,” said Sakura sheepishly. “I was talking about these two perverts.”
“Yes well,” interrupted Tsunade. “You’ll be leaving in one hour, so get your supplies together and meet at the west gate, you’ll all be heading for Holei Town to search for clues before splitting up. Team Alpha shall be Jiraiya’s team of Kakashi, Shino, and Sakura, and team Beta shall be Kurenai’s team of Hinata, Kiba, and Iruka. I’ll be expecting weekly reports sent in code… dismissed!”
The two teams bowled before exiting but not before, she heard something to make her smile. “If something bad has happened to him,” growled Iruka as they exited. “I don’t care whether you are a sannin; I’ll kick your ass!”
“Me too,” added Sakura glaring at the white haired man.
Hinata just scowled at him, which suggested the pounding would involve her too.
Tsunade sighed as she sat back on her chair as the door closed behind them. She hoped Naruto is ok wherever he is, and hoped he has not gotten himself into any trouble. She knows the brat can take care of himself but that did not mean she was not going to worry, he was after all the only reason she even came back to Konoha, and the reason she became Hokage. Without Naruto here, she felt as if there was no reason to stay in the village herself, so prayed he was not going nuke-nin or she would just leave too, after making sure she resigns herself and Naruto first of course. She did not want hunter-nin hunting either of them.
To Be Continued…
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