"HOKAGE-SAMA!" A terrified voice shouts. "Please I need a mission! Any mission! Just get me away from her!"
"Ino what the hell are you wearing?" Tsunade demands and explanation.
...
Ino's attire has drastically changed from what she normally wears. She's the first of the gennin to switch into their Shippuden style and her bottom half shows that. She's wearing a purple skirt with added slits for maneuverability and skintight black shorts beneath that. She has protective mesh on both her elbows and her knees and the standard black shinobi footwear. But that's where her normal attire ends, she's wearing a deep purple trench coat and her arms are holding it closed.
"Are... are you wearing anything under that?" Tsunade asks the question that everyone is thinking.
"She wouldn't let me!" Ino starts to tear up. "She said it was for training and forced me into this!"
"Ino!" Anko calls out in a sing song voice. "Where are you?"
"Hide me!" Ino pleads as she dives behind the Hokage's desk.
"I know that you're excited to learn my trick but I recommend walking before you run! You wouldn't want to give everyone an eyeful." Anko skips into the office with a predatory grin on her face. "Hello everyone, have any of you seen a gennin in a custom made purple trench coat in here? I seem to have misplaced her."
"We're in the middle of a mission briefing." Tsunade pointedly looks at Anko. "One you're not going on."
"Tsunade your knight in shining armor has returned!" Jiraya bursts into the room and strikes a gallant pose. "How about a kiss to welcome me back?"
"Yeah there's no way that's going to work." Naruto walks past Jiraya to enter the office.
"Naruto?" Several voices call out. One suspiciously comes from behind Tsunade's desk.
"Who the hell is Naruto?" Anko looks at the orange boy and something clicks. "You're the one I cut during the second exam!"
"AH!" Naruto shouts as he points at Anko. "You're the crazy kunai lady!"
"You two have the worst timing." Tsunade sighs and rubs her temples.
"Oh no!" Naruto turns to Tsunade with fear in his eyes. "She's not coming with, right? Please say she's not!"
"Everyone in the room will be going on the mission." Tsunade growls in anger. "Since my office is apparently no longer a private place and you all barged in here you get to go too!"
A whine comes from behind the desk.
"All of you idiots saw Naruto here so you've got to go with. I can't risk one of you letting slip that he was here and will be returning shortly. So here's how this is going to work. Shikamaru!"
"Yes!" Shikamaru straightens up at the authoritative tone his Kage is using.
"You're team leader. This is your mission. Don't screw it up." Her intense gaze shifts to the next person. "Kakashi!"
"Hm?" Kakashi lazily grunts. He's been yelled at much more severely than this by numerous people, including Tsunade herself.
"You're around to step in if shit goes wrong. Otherwise differ to Shikamaru." Tsunade's glare jumps to the next victim. "Anko!"
"Yes Ma'am!" Anko stands at attention.
"You're just along for the ride because you heard too much. Listen to the team leader." Tsunade's eyes soften a bit for the next shinobi. "Naruto!"
"Here!" Naruto excitedly says. "What do I get to do? Do I get a cool job?"
"No. You're going to treat this like any normal mission."
"Lame." Naruto says to himself. "I wanted a cool job."
"Ino!" Tsunade moves onto the next person.
"Y-yes?" Ino stands up from behind the desk. She's still firmly hugging herself to keep the coat closed.
"Same as Naruto. This is your punishment for busting in here. Have fun." Tsunade shoves her over to the rest of the group.
"I knew you were around here somewhere!" Anko throws an arm over Ino's shoulders. "And we're going on the same mission now! You can test the things I've taught you and I'll be there to watch!"
"I don't wanna." Ino cries in defeat. "I don't wanna go anymore."
"What about me Tsuande-chan?" Jiraya giggles lecherously as he walks up to the Hokage and leans his cheek outwards. Then he taps it. "I didn't get that kiss yet."
WHAM
Tsunade punched Jiraya in the face with so much force that he sailed through the air. Thankfully there was a bookcase that caught him. The bookcase didn't survive.
While lying in a pile of books and splintered wood he flashes everyone a thumbs up. "Worth it!"
"OUT!" Tsunade shouts. "ALL OF YOU OUT!"
...
Southern Base, Just outside Alvarcus's Lab
"Dude, what's gotten into Maiko recently?" Sora asks his two other teammates.
"You mean how she's been going off on her own an awful lot lately?" Seiji asks for clarification.
"Yeah that! What's up with that?" Sora asks.
"I don't actually know." Seiji admits. "Though there has been an interesting rumor going around."
"Hm?" Katsuo grunts out. He's a man of few words.
"Apparently someone is hitting on Alvarcus. Orochimaru's kid." Seiji informs his teammates. "Like hardcore hitting on."
"You don't think..." Sora trails off.
"That's why I brought you two down here." Seiji reveals. "I want to ask Alvarcus about it. See what his intentions are towards our teammate. Maybe threaten him a little if we have to."
"You do realize he can kill us in seconds, right?" Sora points out. "He wouldn't even get in trouble."
"I'd like to see him try." Katsuo grips one of his many blades eagerly. "I want to test myself against him. See if he's as good as everyone is saying."
"That makes one of us." Sora bluntly says to his dumb teammate. "So... who is going to knock?"
All three males look at the closed door to Alvarcus's lab.
"I can." Seiji says. "It was my idea so I'll -"
Two things happen in the next instant. The first isn't too unusual for a base full of shinobi but where it happened is. An explosion so loud and so strong that it shakes the floor came from inside the lab. The next thing to happen is very strange even by shinobi standards. A body sized blur crashes through the door – reducing it to splinters in the process – and slams into the other side of the hallway so hard it goes through that wall too.
" - knock?" Seiji finishes his sentence while everyone is staring at the new hole in the wall.
"Ow." Alvarcus's voice comes from underneath the rubble. He sounds... less than pleased. He rises up from the rubble and dusts himself off. Upon closer observation the three shinobi see that it's not just dust coming off of him, he's smoking from whatever explosion happened. "So that didn't work. This is starting to piss me off."
"Let's come back later." Seiji says to his teammates. Neither of them oppose his idea.
...
Hokage's Office
"When I said get out that included you." Tsunade growls at the one person who didn't leave her office like she ordered. He's also one of the few people she respects and trusts above all others. Even if he's a pervert. "What do you want Jiraya?"
"I have information on the Akatsuki. New information." Jiraya seriously says, the time for jokes is over. "I've found someone willing to feed me information about them."
"Finally." Tsunade's shoulders sag in minute relief. "What have you learned so far?"
"There are currently nine members." Jiraya says the exact same thing as the letter he received.
"Currently?" Tsunade brings up.
"I thought that was a strange thing to specify too." Jiraya sends Tsunade a smile. Even if he's the spymaster that does not mean that she's a slouch. "Turns out there used to be ten but one of their members left and hasn't been replaced yet. Something about leaving with a specific item that they need to give to the next member. I think that was it, my contact got vague in that part."
"Anything else to add?"
"No." Jiraya replies. "Not yet at least. I'm working on getting more. It was a struggle to get that much, I don't know how often I'll get information from my contact."
"Good." Tsunade turns even more serious. "Let me know when you do. Now get out of here, don't you have a mission to do?"
"Life threatening! Why does everyone keep forgetting to add that? It's a life threatening mission!"
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