GaaSaku: Saving You

Chapter 3: Akatsuki's Plan

Back in the hidden sand village, Baki bursts in through the doors of the Kazekage tower building to inform others. "Send out a pursuit team to follow Kankuro immediately! And send an urgent message to the hidden leaf about the situation! This is an emergency!" 

"Roger!" The jounins exclaimed in unison.

"I have a bad feeling about this... Something. Something is beginning," Baki said nervously in mind while his face was covered in a bit of sweat.  

Outside of the village near the main entrance was Deidara telling his other companion, Sasori, about how strong Gaara really is when he fought him. Although, they did not know that Kankuro was following them until he saw several jounins brutally murdered relentlessly by one of the traitors. He got infuriated by this after seeing their bloody, dead corpses on both sides of the area. He clenched his fists tightly and dashed forwardly towards the enemies who were walking away. He yelled at them. "WAIT!" 

They stopped in a halt calmly and turned around to face him.

"Return Gaara to me!" Kankuro declared strongly.

"Deidara... Go on ahead," Sasori said briefly and turns over to look at an angry Kankuro, who pulls out the three heavy scrolls from his back. 

He swooped them over the front, which summons three different puppets. 

"A puppet jutsu?" Sasori questioned in surprise. 

"Right. I'll head on, yeah..." Deidara agreed. 

"Like I'll let you go!!" Kankuro cried out as he moved the puppets with his fingertips and starts congregating them to attack his opponent. 

However, one of his puppets was caught by Sasori's grasp of the tail and said in a deep tone of his animatronic voice. "Since I don't like waiting or making people wait, I'll end this quickly."

For the time being, Kakashi and his two students were gathered on the sidewalk, whereas other citizens are working diligently with their lives as usual. 

"You're late!" Naruto said annoyingly at his sensei.

"Well, this time I was delayed by filling out the paperwork for the new team," Kakashi sighed tiredly, rubbing the back of his head.

"Today, we start our first mission as a new team! Be enthusiastic! Kakashi-sensei, you've been like that for ages!" The blonde-haired ninja 

"Oh, let it go! There's nothing he can do about the fact that he has a face devoid of any enthusiasm!" Sakura retorted back defensively at her friend. 

"I'm... losing my dignity, aren't I?" Kakashi cringed in a sweat-dropped in thought. 

Sakura, on the other hand, was looking over at her wrist with a sand bracelet on and questioning, whether it will still continue to go on to bleed or not. She hopes it would not. At least, that's what she had in mind. 

Then, he noticed a messenger hawk flying across the sky and hovers over towards the Hokage tower building for further information. 

One of the jounins pulled out a letter from the hawk and exclaimed in shock. "This... This is the sand's fastest one, Takamaru! Code team, hurry and come here!" 

They rolled the scroll over to see what the message was and they knew that it was terrible news. 

"Something definitely has happened!"

"Understood, I'll decode it right away!" 

Inside one of the mission rooms, Team Kakashi was in front of the tables where they were still trying to get assigned a new mission by Lady Tsunade.