The Way of Ninjutsu: Part four

December 16, 2005 by Angel Tear
Filed under: Novels

Monday: 26th Sept

”The past ten days have been the hardest I’ve ever had to live through. Sometimes I wish it would all come to an end.
I’ve had Iruka take all of my weapons, telling him they remind me of the dream. He knows I’m lying, but it’s better to try and recover before giving up completely. I have to find out who is doing this to me, as I am fully aware that Naruto could soon follow. His identity as the carrier of the demon fox is well known, the reason why so many people despise him. For his and Sasukes sake I will carry on.
But life seems so dark now, almost as dark as that room.
Whenever Iruka or the Hokage visits, I have to force myself to tell them I’m fine. But I just couldn’t face worrying them more, I have to keep the secret, I cant tell them that –“

”Tell us what?” demanded the Hokage, slamming his desk hard, he was old, but powerful.
”That’s where is ends, Hokage-Sama. At this point, I would’ve thought he was too tired to carry on writing. But he wasn’t even there, I also would have waited…But…But I noticed something damn obvious”
The leader of the village felt he needn’t say anything as Iruka moved closer, and tossing the diary onto his desk. It slid around ninty degrees, and was still.
With a small splash of blood mingling with the ink.
”Gather all of the Jounin’s and Chounins. And Iruka, bring the three Genins, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto and Haruno Sakura, the members of group seven”
”Hai!” He bowed low and left slowly, respectfully before breaking out at his terminal velocity to alert everyone.

Talk, suggestions and rumours spread through the crowd in the courtyard as Sasuke moved through to the front. At times going unnoticed, the throng would push him back, but soon he caught sight of Sakura’s light pink hair.
”Sasuke!” Naruto jumped up and waving wildly.
”Over here! Do you know why they called us?” Sakura asked while looking around nervously at the higher authorities shouting instructions.
”No idea, Iruka-Sensei never said” whispered Naruto, everything was getting quieter as the Hokage appeared, they all bowed and watched as he walked by and paced back again, holding his head up to talk to them.

”My friends, it is well known of what has happened to Hatake Kakashi, but I’m afraid the situation just got worse.”
The ninjas tried to converse again but their leader silenced them. The tension was killing Sakura, she knew now that it wasn’t good, from when they went to visit him and there was no sign she had known something was wrong.
”Kakashi-Sensei…”
”I’m very concerned, he has gone missing. More accurately, he has been abducted”
”WHAT?!” Naruto burst out, setting off the others.
”I thought he was sick”
”I thought he was on vacation”
”I didn’t know anything!”
”So what are you going to do about it? No one else is safe, and Kakashi may already be…” Sasuke couldn’t bring himself to finish his own outburst. He wasn’t an optimist at the best of times, in fact he wasn’t much at all, just a presence that people hardly noticed, but couldn’t do without. But the impact he had made was incredible. He hadn’t even intended to cause a silence, his question was the same as everyone else’s. So maybe they were just as curious.
”Hmmmm” grunted the Hokage and positioned himself before the three.
”You three, will do absolutely nothing. I want you to make sure you keep yourselves safe, and don’t bother going to the academy for some time. Leave it all to us for now” He then turned away from the three staring at one another and began to give instructions to the remaining ninjas, to search the perimeter of the town and the forest.