Nothing Special

Chapter 55

The next day Aceso was tending to Kurenai and Asuma they had both gotten injured when they went to the prison last night. She was replacing the bandage on Kurenai's forehead. She glanced to the side to see Tsunade standing at the doorway, Aceso nodded and she walked in.

" I underestimated them," Tsunade admitted as she walked on and Asuma sat up. " Forgive me."

" Not at all," Asuma dismissed. " I brought it on myself. Let my guard down. I wasn't expecting all of the prisoners to have broken out."

" And if that weren't bad enough, all the prison guards were taken hostage," Kurenai added. " What happened after we were knocked out?" Tsunade shook her head. " This wasn't any random occurrence. There was obvious planning behind it. They knew what they were doing."

" With that many inmates running around it was pandemonium in there," Asuma explained. " He must have used the chaos to escape. Mizuki, the damn traitor." There was a thud and the flew open, three medical corp members were holding back Naruto.

 " Grandma Tsunade!" Naruto grunted as he tried to get free. " Come on, tell the truth! Orochimaru's behind all this! That's why you sent Kurenai and Asuma, right?"

" Huh?" Aceso asked as she looked at the three, they remained silent.

" Fine, forget I said anything," Naruto grunted angrily.

" Let him go," Tsunade ordered.

" Yes, ma'am," a medical corp guy said as he let go of Naruto and stood up. The rest followed and Naruto took off running.

" Continue up here, I will go off after Naruto," Tsunade ordered.

" Yes, ma'am," Aceso nodded. She did as she was told and worked diligently, after that she went to help other patients, and helped Sakura with her training, before going to the Hokage office, it was getting late. Aceso just set down the medical papers of the day on her desk when the door opened and someone informed her a medical place was attacked.

" What?" Aceso gasped.

" The Nara clan's research lab came under attack?" Tsunade asked.

" Yes, ma'am," the person confirmed. " We just received a dispatch from them a short while ago. According to this, the insurgent's physical characteristics match those of Mizuki's."

" Mizuki's?" Tsunade stammered. " It was a clever move targeting the Nara clan's institute. Not only is there a bundle of narcotics stored on-site, there's practically no security since it's holed up in the mountains." The Jonin had walked over to the desk.

" What was stolen?" Aceso asked. She had been up in the mountains to institute, she had to bring back medicine on a special occasion and bring ingredients up there.

" Well, the Nara go to great lengths to keep track of every substance they use. They were able to determine what was missing immediately," Jonin explained as he put the paper in front of Tsunade on the desk.

" Oh, uh, good work," Tsunade said after some silence. " Thank you. That's all. You can go."

" Yes, ma'am," the Jonin said before leaving. Tsunade ordered Aceso to grab a book, she did as she was told and the moment she put it on the desk, Tsunade opened it to a specific page.

" Well, I'm not taking any chances," Tsunade said. " There's not a whole lot I can do until I've figured out what his objective is. "

" As for the materials?" Aceso.

" Well, even if the materials don't tell me, there may still be a way of getting to the bottom of this," Tsunade hoped.

" Perhaps, the proportions of the formula, or the order in which they're blended," Aceso suggested as Tsunade flipped the page.