A.N.B.U.

Chapter Fourteen: Another trip to Memory Lane

No one should ever make fun of an ANBU captain... Right? Because after all we are supposed to be the best of the best... Kakashi TRAINED me... How the hell didn't he put the two and two together, he still thinks I'm a worthless idiot, cannon fodder... I can't really blame him though... Inoichi-san would have made sure he wouldn't remember the identity of his friends in ANBU... Probably dissociated Fox and Naruto... He remembers Tenzou alright... Might be because they spend a lot of time together... I'm sure he doesn't know Iruka's in ANBU even if he met him at Ibiki's... Pretty sure he just assumed Dolphin was someone else... I mean come on, word puns !? I guess the commander wanted to have fun whenever he read our names... Whatever... I'm getting bored! Can't the idiotic Uchiha just ask the banshee for help? It would probably help, but no... Stupid Uchiha ego... Well, he would probably need a few more hours... Which meant I could 'treat' myself to another trip to memory lane... Now, now... I couldn't help but think back to the time when our team had gotten into real trouble... Well, guess I'll have to go on a 'forgiving myself and moving on' trip, as Inoichi-san called those anyway. After all, I had a lot of time on my hands, it wasn't like Sasuke had any luck getting the hang of tree walking in 10 minutes... It was on one of those nights after a hard mission, I think it was after a bad mission... Probably one of those who didn't end well... Come to think of it, it was probably the one on which we lost Blue Mouse... We were mourning, well as much as we could be... We had lost a teammate, a comrade, a brother... One who had gone to hell and back with us, but he didn't come back that night... His life and dreams had been stolen from him... His entire self has been erased by an Iwa nin... His blood still stained my uniform, I didn't really want to change... That blood and the broken mask were all that was left of the young, almost carefree nin, that used to write a lot of Fanfiction on other members... All of those will remain too... He will live on through his writing and through his ideals... His death would not be in vain... During my internal struggle, Dolphin had finished writing the mission report and was ready to turn it in. It could have gone well, we could have given the report, gone to Inoichi-san's office, and gotten a good night's sleep... But an idiot from alpha just had to annoy Snake... Who promptly punched the guy in the face, starting an all-out brawl... Which got us, both squads, in real trouble... Normally a fight like that would only get us a good scolding from our captain but sadly the one who interrupted the brawl was none other than the commander... Who promptly sent all of us to the Hall in front of his office to deliver swift discipline... A.N.B.U. discipline... Now, most of Konoha's ninjas would say that A.N.B.U.s are stuck-ups and don't have a need for any real discipline but like a very famous saying goes: " the more powerful the ninja, the crazier..." Most operatives usually could stay out of trouble for almost a week but it was just a show of how painful the punishment could get... When it finally was my turn to get inside I was already thinking about every time I had been in this office...

I was taken out of my thoughts by the sight of a very smug Uchiha sitting on a branch... He looked at me, smirking before saying: " Hn... Dobe!" He jumped, and landed on the ground before leaving me alone probably to go and brood in front of a heart-eyed Sakura...

Well, I guess I can just mark the top of the tree and meditate until tomorrow morning... It's not like they expect me to achieve tree walking today anyway...

~Luciolle24