Chapter 3: Traitor

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Author's Note:

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Author's Note:

• I took liberties in introducing KISU and infusing it with Kumogakure's history

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• I took liberties in introducing KISU and infusing it with Kumogakure's history. As always, it's non-canon so it will be a different adaptation from the original source material.

• Sasuke won't appear in this chapter yet. I am still trying to build up the world Minako inhabits, her family dynamic, her work, and her friends.

Sasuke makes his first appearance in Chapter 10.

Intelligence - (as defined in the context of the story) is the secret collection and processing of information on valuable assets and foreign countries and conducting covert activities to aid in protecting Kumogakure/ Land of Lightning's interests.

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Fine. I admit it.

It was a tad melodramatic to run away like that. But I just couldn't stay there any longer knowing what will come next.

I am not ready to do The Talk people do after they break up. I am not ready to open that casket and do a post-mortem and prod and dissect exactly what went wrong with our relationship.

I don't want to think about the promises we failed to keep and the heated words we exchanged that night. Hell, I don't even want to think about what just happened this morning. I had a meeting to get to. With my future on the line, this was not the time to reminisce and look back.

Standing beside the entrance gate of KISU, I shake my head and take a deep breath to calm myself down and enter the receiving hall.

Bowing my head, I give a small smile to the guards on duty stationed there and open my satchel. I take out my ID badge and walk towards one of the turnstiles placed in the middle of the room which leads to the ground floor of the facility.

Holding the badge in my hand, I place it on the ID scanner beside one of the turnstiles and hear a small beep. The monitor displays my name, serial number, and position.

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