Play To Win [Rewrite] || Naruto Fanfic

Run

"Suna no Tamako, you are hereby arrested by the Joint-Committee of Konoha and Suna for conspiring with an S-Ranked Missing-nin Yuga no Hidan and Iwa no Deidara."

Tamako's heart stopped beating when those exact words slipped out of Kakashi's mouth. Ice cold water seemed to douse her from head to toe at his words. "W-what!?" Two voices echoed, disbelief and a shift of clothing. She couldn't tell from the way her head was angled into the ground.

Kakashi sighed, shaking his head, "To think that someone of your standing would conspire with S-Rank Missing-nin... betraying your village." The gray-haired man trailed off in disdain. "And for what? Distrust?"

She struggled against his hold, beaming a smile. Okay, act cool. Probe for information, I can always go back to a previous save.

"Taicho! Surely you jest." She tilted her head to the side, keeping the beaming smile up, "Please unhand me and we can talk. Who's Iwa no Deidara? I haven't met anyone named that."

She wasn't lying, she really hadn't met him, yet.

Kakashi eye-smiled back, not flinching when he detected her words' as truth by the touch of her heart-beat. "Mission oh-oh-five-six. Six months ago, you took a mission to Yugakure in hopes of discovering information about the massacre that took place seven years ago. You managed to find Hidan, instead of attempting to kill him or flee, you talked him into a deal, while the vast majority of details were left unsaid, the spy planted on you got the gist. You planned to meet with Deidara in a few months."

She did not sense that spy. Glancing over to her save files, she groaned. That was almost five months ago, it's not like she can just go back to undo! Then she paused.

This could be a good thing. Leaving the village.

She dropped her candy smile and glanced at her former taicho. "Then tell me this, Kakashi." She paused, gathering her words and forgone her nickname of taicho, "How long?"

The man sighed, recalling details. He would tell her, he was fully confident that she couldn't escape. People in power loved to monologue, and no doubt he was doing this in front of his students to teach them a lesson. A lesson to not trust anyone.

"According to your files, you were marked after your answers in the Academy Test." He narrowed a single eye. "They had S-Rank secrets. You were then put on the watch-list after a particular series of answers on Kirigakure. Finally, you landed yourself at the top of the flight-risk list due to your actions during the Konoha Invasion."

Her blood turned to ice at his words. The Academy gave her away? She cursed at her low INT and WIS of her childhood. Of course her answers were suspicious. They think she's a planted spy! It adds up, now that she has the INT and WIS to fully compute everything.

A stupid one at that. They probably think she's the one who was feeding Orochimaru information from the inside, killing the Kazekage.

She curses, "Shit."

"Hyuuga Affair, Kirigakure's inner workings— that wasn't something you should have been privy to. Tell me, who's been feeding you information."

Oh great, Konoha thinks she knows their spy. The spy snuck in Orochimaru and killed the Hokage.

She has a deep feeling that if she stays here any longer, he'll knock her out.

"Kaka-sensei!" Naruto finally snaps out of his stupor, "Tamako's weird, but she's not a spy!" He takes a step forward with a clenched hand, "She helped us take down Gaara. There's no way!"

Her years at slaving away at the Kazekage, trying her best to show her worth and over exerting herself to say, hey! Don't send me out as canon-fodder! I'm important!