𝑰𝑵𝑶𝑪𝑯𝑰 𝑵𝑶𝑯𝑨𝑹𝑨 :: Dauntless

6. THE SECRET MISSION

Inochi and Itachi left the house once his mother, Mikoto, came back from the market. Sasuke insisted on coming with them but Itachi flicked him lightly on the forehead and said his usual catchphrase " Later Sasuke".

Both decided to not discuss their theories from the interrogation session anymore. Even though they came to the conclusion that it was the killer who left Inochi at the village gates, they agreed to the fact that it was still too early to determine anything.

Both of them thus walked in silence down the road and sat down near the lake. It was sunny and gentle breeze was flowing. The weather seemed to dissolve every worry that both of them had and helped them to relax.

- "The interrogation was intense. Why was your father so keen to know about my Sharingan?" Inochi broke the silence.

- "He is the Uchiha clan leader. It falls on him to keep all the sharingan bearers under control. However I don't know why he suddenly got curious about your Sharingan specifically" Itachi did know why Fugaku was curious about Inochi's Sharingan but he did not want to ruin the weather with his worries.

Inochi noticed Itachi sighing the whole time but felt that it was probably the best if she let him relax under the sunlight rather than disturbing him with questions. "This is probably one of the last calm moments I get to spend" Itachi thought, just when he heard someone approach him.

-"What are you guys doing here?" Tenzo suddenly popped up from behind.

- "Tenzo senpai!!! We haven't heard from you for a week. Where were you?" Inochi jumped up in excitement. Inochi and Tenzo became best buds just after she joined the ANBU. Inochi loved going on missions with Tenzo as the missions did not feel to be as intense as it did with Itachi or Kakashi.

- "Where else? On a mission of course. I am lucky that it went smoothly without any troubles Tenzo gave out a relieved sigh. "Oh speaking of missions, Danzo-san is looking for you Inochi. There is a mission he wants to assign"

- "Danzo himself?" Inochi said quizzically.

- "To be honest, he is looking for both of you but only asked me to inform you Inochi."

- "Oh god, am I in trouble?"

-" I don't know. The last time he approached me, he was trying to kill me." Tenzo laughed nervously.

- "Let's go there quickly then." Itachi beckoned to Inochi and both of them left as fast as possible.

Inochi and Itachi quickly reached the headquarters and went their separate ways. Inochi entered a room with Danzo standing there with a deadly scowl on his face. Besides him two ANBU members were also present, apparently waiting for Inochi's arrival.

- "Do you know how late you are Aoyama?" Aoyama was Inochi's code name. She did not like it much as it was too long. She thus used to tell people to just call her Yama.

- "I AM SORRY, SIR!" Inochi said with a stern face and kneeled in front of Danzo. The two other ANBU shinobis kneeled too. Danzo gave a disapproving look at Inochi but soon started the meeting.

- "Not wasting any more time, let's start. Aoyama, Koshiro , Akira , all present?"

- "YES SIR!" All three of them said in unison.

-"You all are requested to carry out a very important mission. A while ago we got an anonimous tip that the three villages, Sunagakure, Kirigakure and Iwagakure have some joint terrorist group that is planning an attack on Konoha. So your mission would be to locate and spy on these groups."

-"YES SIR!"

-"Akira, you are to spy on Kirigakure. But don't set foot on Amegakure. Is that clear?"

-"YES SIR!"