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3.pov
The next morning Mito walked from one friends house to another, she would leave note in their mailbox. Well she only left one in Minato's, Genma's and Hayate's. She knew that team 7 would learn from Minato and rest of genins would learn from Genma and Hayate. She then headed to Hokage tower and as soon as she entered, Hokage 's secretary let her inside of Hokage office. As soon as she entered the office she could see Jiraiya standing behind Hokage and three Anbu standing still. She could geuss that those were previously a root operatives. She came in middle of the and bowed in respect saying :" I will be in your care."
The root anbu returned bow and said:" Same"
Mito could clearly see that they didn't have any more of social skills. She smiled and asked Jiraiya :"may I seen the report."
Jiraiya hesitantly gave her a map with marks. It was oblivious that he was against everything that council decided this time. After all he was in love with Tsunade, no matter how hurt she was, or how she hurtled him, that would never change. Hokage watched carefully Jiraya's face. He know he had to say something before to Jiraiya but he did not find strength.
Finally Mito headed outside of village. The Anbu were in shadows. Mito firstly headed to place that was mark and closest to Konoha. She needed only 8 hours to reach it. When she came there it was a quiet village. She used her sensory ability and found that there wasn't any shinobi in village. She then headed to the next mark, which was close, only 2 hours of run. She used it again, and she couldn't feel any shinobi here either. She knew that there were relativity small number of shinobi on one civilian, but too find two villages with over 200 people in it without shinobi was surprise. She then decided to go to third marked area
She finally could sense a shinobi but she knew immediately it wasn't Tsunade. She decided to rest in this village. She wondered how many days she would search for Tsunade. Maybe 8 or 9. It depends how effective she will be. She still had 20 marked points on map. Ones of those were far away, but some she could feel from one two others and see if Tsunade was there. Continued her journey in morning.
Meanwhile in Konoha, Genma was surprised by letter in his mailbox. He usually didn't have any and when he saw that it was from Mito he was super surprised. However when he finally read what it said he was worried for Mito. He couldn't see her off. He didn't like how she was going on solo mission so soon of her being discharged. However he felt happy because she thought about him before going on it.
Kushina had reacted differently. She was mad and Minato didn't manage to stop her from going to Hokage. So both Kushina and bloodly Minato stood in front of Hokage. Hokage immediately started to explain to Kushina why it had to be Mito. Kushina after explanation was still angry. However she calmed down.
Team 7 reactions were actually worse than Kushina. Kakashi paled so quickly and almost had a panic attack. His head was filled with thoughts. Well how I am going to protect her now. She is on fricking solo mission. Rin was worried and Obito was too. However when they heard Kakashi say:" Do you think that Hokage would allow us to be her back up."
Minato honestly answered :" I don't think so, because it seems that this mission is secret, even I do not know what is about. But we could ask Hokage. "
However in that moment Hayate and Genma walked on training ground 3 and said:" Actually we tried that, but Hokage strongly refused. Saying she has already a whole team following her. And besides she was sent to search for something, and she will constantly move her position so we won't be able to reach her in time either way." Hayate said.
Kakashi was surprised to see those two with letters from Mito. He wasn't questioning the ones in Genma's hand but those in Hayate's did bother him.
Mito didn't want to waste her time with searching for Tsunade so when she would reach one of the marked points. She would meditate and sense a large part of her surroundings. She sometimes could feel to 3 marks on map. Sometimes she could feel less. She actually could feel a lot of shinobi but those mostly didn't fit description of Tsunade 's chakra, she learned from Sage.
She was done with half of marks on her second day and was now resting in inn. She was finally able to talk with Sage.
Sage finally managed to spot Black Zetsu trying to make contact with Kiri. It seemed like black Zetsu was using subtle things that surrounded Mizukage to control his thoughts. Sage learned about the letter Kiri sent to Hokage. Mito already knew what Hokage decided by sending her on this mission .
The third day she made significant progress but she didn't manage to sense her until her last mark of day. She still had 3 marks to check however she already knew that Tsunade wouldn't be there. Tsunade was surprisingly to the north of village Mito was in. However when Mito checked where Tsunade was located, she knew Tsunade wouldn't leave it until morning. So Mito decided to have a nice sleep and wake when sun rises. After all Tsunade was in casino, Mito could feel Shizune too, but her chakra signal was a lot weaker.
In the morning Mito confidently walked to casino. And stopped in front of it. She leaned on the wall of house across the casino waiting for Tsunade to exit. She didn't want to get any closer because she could throw up just by the smell of that place. She waited for half of hour when she could hear yelling. It sounded like Tsunade was loosing and the owner of casino was going to throw her out.
Shizune was the first one to exit the casino. Mito was surprised, Shizune wasn't much older than her. Shizune was probably 1 or 2 years older than her. The pig was present in her arms but Mito couldn't remember how was it called, Pinpon? Well it didn't mater because just few seconds later Tsunade furiously exited the casino, still arguing.
Tsunade suddenly halted when she realized she was watched closely. She immediately tried to pinpoint from where she was being watched. Mito raised her hand. Tsunade took notice of her but decided to ignore her, searching for the that owener of that stare. Shizune however immediately noticed the headband on Mito's left hand and the hair color. She tugged Tsunade and pointed to Mito. Tsunade looked again and said:" what is it brat . What do you want. You want money too."
Mito answered :" Well that would be nice of you, Tsunade - sama, but I am here to send you a message from Konoha."
Tsunade now seemed to change her attitude :" and what would Sensei want from me. "
Mito answered :" Hokage - sama, sent me as your last warning, he isn't in position to have any questionable decisions, so you have to chose either to return to Konoha or to become missing ninja. You have 3 days to decide. But that isn't only message I was sent to deliver. The other will surely frustrate you. "
Tsunade laughed :" When did Konoha stopped frustrating me. "
Mito didn't respond to that she after all knew what it meant to be coward, she was one for entire life.