𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐀 𝐇𝐘𝐔𝐆𝐀 𝐓𝐖𝐈𝐍

Sasuke Escapes

It had been around three weeks, and Hanara was finally getting the hang of this 'teaching' thing. The kids were nice, although Yui and Akane rarely payed attention. She honestly looked forward to going to school. Iruka-sensei was also a lot more understandable now.

Today started out like any other day. Hanara woke up, took a shower, ate breakfast, and went to school with some paper puppets of the five Hokage in hand. She was going to try something new today and act out the stories with them. Hopefully, Akane would focus. After spending so much time with Shikamaru, she knew Yui was a lost cause.
As the students walked in the class, an alarm went off. The pattern indicated that anyone with a Chunin rank or higher was to report to the Hokage immediately.

"Everyone, review the notes you took yesterday," Shikamaru said, dragging himself out of his chair.

"Uh... Haru! You're in charge of the class!" Hanara exclaimed as she ran out of the room.

All the Chunin and Jonin in the village (basically, about forty people) assembled in front of Lady Tsunade.

"Sasuke Uchiha has got past his guard," Tsunade informed them shortly, "He should still be in the village. I want you all to look for him."

"Yes, Lady Hokage," the Chunin and Jonin chorused.

"Go!"

They all left in different directions.

Hanara turned on her Byakugan.

'Now, if I were trying to sneak out of the village knowing that people were going to come after me soon, where would I go? Somewhere no one expects me to... Oh! The main gate! Under a Transformation maybe...? Let's check there first.'

Once the main gate was within Hanara's range, she searched for Sasuke, but couldn't find him anywhere.

'Maybe he wanted to get to the Rice Paddies quickly and went to the North Entrance instead...'

She switched directions and found him a few minutes later.

'If he notices me, everything will get complicated. My best bet is chakra threads.'

Hanara, who had been training with her threads a lot after the last Sasuke fiasco, wrapped her threads around him, although he was struggling against them.

"Hanara," he growled, "Let me go."

"I'm afraid I have to bring you back to Lady Hokage," she said pleasantly.

"Let me go!" he repeated, "I'm not going back! Not after they treated me like some kind of criminal."

"Well, you acted like one, so we treated you like one. You're going back whether you like it or not."

Ignoring the rest of Sasuke's protests, Hanara ran back to the Hokage's Office.

'Huh, I should be a retrieval specialist, if that's a thing. I'm good at this!'

"Lady Hokage, here he is," Hanara said, pulling Sasuke in front of her.

"You may release him, Hanara," she told her.

Sasuke dashed towards the door, but an ANBU stopped him.

"Sasuke, we gave you a chance to redeem yourself, but it seems like I cannot redeem you," Tsunade sighed, "We will put you in jail. Badger, arrest him."

"Yes, Lady Tsunade."

Badger tied up Sasuke's arms and led him away- most likely to the Leaf Strict Correctional Facility.

"Thank you, Hanara. You may go back to your class." Tsunade told her, smiling.

"Uh, Lady Tsunade... Shikamaru?"