Shino and choji were healed by Tsunade . But news of Sasuke's defection spread throughout the konoha . They couldn't believe that Sasuke defected the village and went to Orochimaru . The snake sanin is most hated rogue ninja in the history of konoha . After all he is the guy who experimented on various children and people of konoha .
Naruto and Kosuke are in hokage tower . Tsunade has called them for a special mission . When both of them enter they see Sakura and kakashi are already in the room .
" You both came just on time . Both of you will go on a mission to deliver two prisoner to mist . And kakashi is the team leader and you will be joined by few other chunin and jonin ," Tsunade said to Naruto . She is strict when she is doing her job .
" Why Sakura is here if only chunin and jonin are about to go for this mission ?" Naruto asked her . By the environment of the office he can tell Sakura is confused by her facial expression . Kakashi and Tsunade might have lectured her about her recent behaviour after Sasuke's defection .
" I am giving her holiday due to her recent trauma . She will join your remaining team in a week . After all it is not easy for her after one of her teammate suddenly decided to quit your team seven and became a rogue ninja ," Tsunade said to Naruto and Kosuke . She will not send a emotional distressed shinobi on the field . It will ruin their reputation and performance .
" You both can leave with kakashi and others tomorrow early in the morning . Kosuke rich experience will help you during this trip . It's a C rank mission if nothing goes wrong ," Tsunade said to them . Kosuke is literally a jonin level shinobi so Naruto didn't questioned about him . He has seen his potential with his own eyes during some C rank mission .
After they got the details about the mission all of them left the office . Sakura is in no mood to talk and Naruto didn't disturb her . She remained silent during their entire conversation . After she left to her house , Kosuke asked kakashi .
" It looks like Uchiha boy broke her heart by leaving the village . It will leave a mark on her heart for the rest of her life ,"Kosuke said to kakashi . He had seen her many times when she rushed to hospital to look after Sasuke even if he didn't care about it .
" That's why I requested lady tsunade to give her holiday for a week . I informed her parents about it . Her mother is furious on Sasuke for breaking her heart . I should have seen this coming for a long time . After all Sasuke changed after he tasted the power of curse mark . It gave him an opportunity to become more powerful under the snake sanin ," Kakashi said to them . Sasuke needed power to kill itachi and he grabbed the opportunity by leaving the village . He joined Orochimaru to progress faster which he will never achieve in konoha .
" You should not blame yourself for Sasuke's action . He always desired power and he didn't even hesitate to harm shino . He told him clearly that he is not coming back to konoha . He only desire revenge and nothing else matters to him ," Naruto said to kakashi . According to what shino said Sasuke threatened him after he tried to stop him . Most of his bugs were killed by Sasuke during the battle .
" It's been a long time we didn't go on a mission together . So be ready we will leave six o clock in the morning ," Kakashi said to Naruto . Kakashi has seen many things in his life and Sasuke's defection didn't affect him like Sakura .
" I am always on time . You have to worry about yourself kakashi sensei . Come on time otherwise we will leave without you ," Naruto said to kakashi . Kakashi is always late and nothing can change his mind . But he will come on time when it is urgent .
" I am your sensei and have some faith on me Naruto . By the way I have heard a new book of icha icha is released today . So don't search for me today . I will meet both of you tomorrow ," Kakashi said to both of them and with a quick shunshin left to buy his favorite book .
" Do you read that book ? I have seen third hokage read that book all the time ," Naruto asked Kosuke . He had not seen what Kosuke do in his free time . Maybe he is a secret pervert like jiraya and hiruzen .
" I read it sometime for entertainment . But I will not read such books in public like your sensei ," Kosuke said to Naruto . He mentioned kakashi without even telling his name .
" I will meet you tomorrow ," Naruto said to Kosuke . After that both of them said goodbye to each other and Naruto went to his house . Kosuke looked towards a bookstore after Naruto left him .
' Icha icha series I am coming ,' Kosuke said in his mind and entered in the bookstore . Kakashi is already in line to buy the book .
" I never knew you are also an admirer of icha icha series ," Kakashi said to Kosuke . He showed his eye smile to him . Kosuke smiled at him .
" I learned many things from third hokage . It's one of them . hehehehehhe ," Kosuke said to kakashi . He is little embarrassed about his secret entertainment .
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....Next morning ...
Early in the morning Naruto and Kosuke meet with other five konoha ninja near the konoha gate . Hayama and Tekuno are among them .
" It's nice to meet both of you Naruto and Kosuke san . It looks like lady Tsunade wants to sign a peace treaty with mist village . If she is sending you ," Hayama said to Naruto .
" Who is going to bring the prisoners to us ? " Naruto asked them .
" It should be kakashi after all he is the only one who is not present here ," One of the chunin said . Naruto didn't know him .
Kakashi came with Ibiki morino and few other chunin who are here to deliver two prisoner from the mist . Naruto looks at them and he recognise them . They are the famous demon brothers of mist , Gozu and Meizu . Kakashi is the one who captured both of them during his journey to land of waves with Team 7 .
" Yo Naruto , I thought you left without me ," Kakashi said to Naruto . He gave him an eye smile .
" What do we have here kakashi sensei . The demon brothers must be very happy to know that their mizukage is dead and the rebel leader is about to become mizukage ," Naruto said to kakashi . When demon brothers heard it they became happy . After all if yagura is dead means they will be set free and live their life peacefully in mist village .
" Who is the new mizukage ? " Gozu asked curiously to konoha ninja .
" Well she is not appointed as mizukage officially but soon she will become the mizukage . Her name is mei terumi the dual kekkai genkai user . She is the one who killed your previous mizukage ," Ibiki told them . There is no use to hide the facts after all they will know about it when they will reach the mist village .
" I never thought she will be our next mizukage . But it is good that she is going to become our new mizukage . Our mist village will grow under her care ," Meizu said to Ibiki . He is happy that their hard work and sacrifice is not wasted .
Kakashi is the leader of this group and they have to successfully delivered the demon brothers to mist ninjas . Ibiki left after he brought the prisoner to the gates . He is very busy man so he can't afford to stay any longer .
After kakashi's group left the village . The started to run towards the borders of fire country . Mist ninja will pick them up from the borders . They are not chained but still according to konoha protocol they cannot leave the side of konoha ninja till they reach the borders .
" You are that brat whom we met during the time we got captured . I never thought you will become chunin after leaving the academy ," Gozu said to Naruto . He is surprised to see Naruto in chunin attire .
" I am surprised too brother . I remember the look in his eyes during our first meeting . It didn't look like an eye of a innocent child but it was something else ," Meizu said to Naruto . He is also surprised to see this boy again .
" I am the same person whom you saw during your last mission . I don't like to explain myself everytime . I killed a lot of people who called me a brat . So you better watch your tongue ," Naruto said to demon brother . He is not afraid even if it is for peace treaty . If someone will provoke him . He will not back down .
" Naruto please don't kill them like you killed so many ninjas . We have to safely bring them to mist ninjas . The new leader of mist village had asked for them specially to lady hokage ," Kakashi said to Naruto . He knows that if a foreign ninja provokes his student he will not back down .
" I just got curious , don't mind me . After all everyone loves freedom . It's been few months after kakashi captured us . We don't know a lot of things about current circumstances ," Gozu said to kakashi and others . He can sense all the chunin , jonins and a old man pay a lot of attention to Naruto . Even Meizu sensed it .
Rest of the trip all of them remained silent and they didn't take any break during their journey . Soon they reached to the designated place in few hours . It is near a sea port
" We are on time . The mist ninjas can arrive at any time . So rest for the timing and recover your chakra ," Kakashi said to everyone . He remained vigilant for the entire time . If they successfully delivered this two prisoner to mist ninjas . It will improve their relationship . It can also ruin their chances if demon brothers dies of any reason before they hand them over to mist ninjas . So far nothing happened in the journey .
Soon Twenty mist ninja came to the designated place . Zabuza and haku are among them .
" It is such a lucky encounter with you again kakashi of sharingan . You also brought your student Naruto uzumaki . You became quite famous among your rival ninja villages boy ," Zabuza said to konoha ninjas . He is happy to see his followers 'the demon brothers' .
" It been a month I saw you zabuza momochi . The situation is not dire like the last time. We also brought what your new leader requested from lady hokage ," Kakashi said to zabuza . He released the demon brothers and they joined the mist ninjas .
" It's nice to meet you again Naruto kun . Thanks you for allowing us to leave the land of waves safely ," Haku said to Naruto . He knew he allowed them to leave the land of waves alive . Even if zabuza never admits it openly he also knew it .
" I was too much focused on gato and forgot about both of you . No need to thank me about something which I never did ," Naruto said to Haku . He really forgot about them when he killed gato . It make no sense to go after them after he killed their employer .
" Haku no need to reveal such details in front of everyone ," Zabuza said to Haku . He is really embarrassed whenever he thinks about the incident of land of waves .
" Hai zabuza sama ," Haku said to zabuza . Due to the incident of land of waves Haku trained really hard and changed the way of his thinking . He saw the people land of waves became happy when the gato is killed . If one person dies who corrupts the whole nation it is not a bad thing in his eyes to kill such person now . Still he tries to avoid killing the people for no reason .
" Zabuza when your leader is going to become the official mizukage ," Kakashi asked him . He is curious about the situation of mist village .
" In few weeks you will get the good news kakashi . Now if you don't have any question . We have to catch our ship ," Zabuza said to Kakashi . He only came to take his followers who helped him to support the funds for the rebel army .
" If destiny allows we will meet again zabuza . I hope it is not in the battlefield like before ," Kakashi said to zabuza . After that they left to catch their ship . Kakashi's group rested for few hours in the secluded place to recover their chakra . Not everyone is stamina freak like naruto .
" This mission is very easy for a C rank . At least no one disturbed us ," Hayama said to kakashi . He is happy that it didn't turned into bloody war like one of his other missions .
" No one will attack us because the mist village is still recovering from the disaster they faced recently . Mist village do not pose any threat to other ninja villages now . So they didn't bothered by them . At least for now ," Kakashi said to Hayama . Mist village has faced a great disaster in yagura's reign as mizukage . Iwagakure and kumogakure are not bothered by mist for now .
" I heard the new leader of mist is a hot lady . But no one tries to approach her she is dangerous ," Tekuno said to others . He heard about her recently .
" Powerful ladies are very hard to deal in daily life . They all are control freaks and we should not be in their bad side ," Kakashi said to them . All the other jonin and chunin agreed with him . Naruto looked at them as if he didn't understand what they are talking .
" Naruto kun you will understand it later when you grow up and start dating girls ," Kosuke said to Naruto . He is quick to catch his reaction .
" I heard you have a aunt who is single ," Tekuno asked Naruto . He is very nervous in front of Irene . Some of his comrades are afraid to talk about her who approached her .
" Yeah she is single ," Naruto said to Tekuno .
" Don't ask about Irene to Naruto . She will beat you later if she will find you tried to take information about her from her nephew . She has already beaten a lot of people in konoha when they asked her on a date ," Hayama said in the ears of Tekuno . He has seen the beating of a fellow comrade who persistently asked her out .
Tekuno was shocked from what he heard from Hayama . He is a good friend of him for years and will not deceive him . He didn't ask about her anymore to Naruto .
Their group left to konoha after they recovered their chakra .
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... konoha.....
Kakashi's group reached the konoha in the evening and submitted the report to hokage . When they we're leaving some interrupted Naruto .
" Naruto kun , let's go for dinner outside the house . Tsunade and shizune are very busy today . We can eat the dinner together in a restaurant ," Irene said to Naruto . All the shinobi in the hokage tower looked at naruto for some reason .
" Yeah okay . I don't have a problem . Let's eat ramen today in ichiraku restaurant ," Naruto said to Irene . She nodded at him and put her hand on his shoulder and both of them walked out of hokage tower together .
" Well only Naruto can take her out for a dinner . He is one lucky guy and he doesn't know it ," Tekuno said to his teammates form this mission .
" Irene is his aunt and you are thinking too much . And every aunt loves their nephew and tries to spoil the children of their sister . I think she only stays in konoha to take care of Naruto and tsunade ," Kosuke said to them . He can see that Irene cares a great deal for Naruto .
" Kakashi san you never tried to date her . You can get lucky ," Hayama said to kakashi . Everybody looked at him as if why he never tried his luck with her .
" I have a phobia for red hair girl . She has recently beaten gai for yelling about youth in front of her . He is now admitted in hospital for scaring her . I don't want to be in the receiving end of her fists . She injured gai with her beating and I am not fool like others to put my hand in the tigers mouth . Just drop the subject and behave like we never talk about this matter ," Kakashi said to them . They got terrified when they heard gai got injured because of her beating . No one can injure gai physically . His body is like an iron defense .
They changed the subject and started to discuss something else .