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Mito walked towards the Hokage's office to report before going on the mission, she had prepared everything, she knew that Minato wouldn't let her go by herself, but that didn't matter, these missions were easy, and she needed time more than anything. Time for the things to calm down in Konoha, time to think what exactly are her next moves, how fast she should take actions. Also there was always possibility that something unexpected happens. She also had to know what is happening in Rain, but that was too difficult for now, maybe she should focus her spies on the missing ninjas and rogue ones. Mito finally walked into the office. She bowed as Minato looked at her, he looked rather fresh, Mito didn't want to comment that though. She simply smiled at him, asking :" where is my escort."
Minato smirked :" do you really need one."
Mito shrugged :" not really, but it would be best if you gave me on to please council."
Minato nodded :" well that is true, however the escort i picked few days ago i wasn't satisfied with his performance, so i am sending you to meet with your escort, i thought since you were already going to help them, you might as well bring them with you on mission."
Mito was confused :" i am sorry, i don't think i am following you, when you say i will have to get the escorts on my own do you mean i will have to go on detour. "
Minato looked at her smugly:" don't tell me, you didn't plan on going on detour on your own."
Mito shake her head :" that wasn't what i have planned, i was going to held out my end of deal. "
Minato then sighed :" so Kushina was wrong. But that was something that you would usually do. "
Mito looked at him :" do what. "
Minato answered :" help the team stuck in raining storm. "
Mito nodded :" i know about that team, but i don't know their location, i am not allowed to know the details of this mission. And i was too busy with clans to really investigate it."
Minato sighed :" well i forgot about that, anyways, your escorts are trapped, we need you to go to little bit north of your original plan, you will help them rebuild the bridge, with your wood release that won't be a problem right. And then you will head towards your original mission. "
Mito sighed :" so i am getting 4 escorts. "
Minato shake his head :" well one of them will go straight to Konoha to report, while three will stay with you. "
Mito looked at him :" just to let you know that you spoiled my plans of relaxing. "
Minato laughed :" like i would believe that. "
Mito looked at him straight in his blue eyes :" listen, i was planing on planing my next moves there, and now i will be constantly thinking about something else. "
Minato nodded :" and what is that. "
Mito answered :" about the three boys that will stay with me. Who knows maybe something will happen there. Well i must go now. "
Mito shushined out the Hokage's office. While Minato had the shocked expression and started yelling :" wait, i will assign other shinobi to be your escorts. I won't let those brats to touch you. Hey how dare you shushin in front of me. "
Before Minato could go after her, Shikaku entered the room with paperwork than the Minato had let him take care of, Shikaku wasn't usually revengfull but today was different. Shikaku didn't have much sleep yesterday because Minato decided to have fun night with Kushina, Naruto was left with Uzumaki clan and the workload with Shikaku.
Shikaku spoke :" Minato, you have work to do, this is not time for playing around."
Minato stopped, well there was no way he would let Shikaku take care of his business for two days straight. He sighed and cursed :" i can't believe she got me once again."
Shikaku nodded :" just relax, there is no way that Mito would let them da anything she doesn't want."
Minato sighed :" i guess you are right."
And with that he returned to his chair and started to read the documents that were already taken care of.
Meanwhile Mito was already out of the village, she wasn't super happy about this situation but she would rather have a escorts that wouldn't bother her. She went as fast as she could towards the general area where the bridge was supposed to be, it would usually take her half a day travel to get there, however from the beginning she could feel that the weather wasn't that great, well the clouds were getting closer abd closer, and the heavy rain was coming along, the wind was starting to pick up and Mito knew that others can't really move much under these conditions, so it was possible that she would need more time to get to bridge and then some more time to fix it. She sighed and she wrote down a message and sent her frog messager towards the direction where the bridge was. For the frog this kind of environment wasn't that bad. She thought that at least the team she was recurring needs to know that she is going to be there in few hours.
As she runned there, she had applied a repelling seal on herself, as soon as rain had hit her, so she would stay dry and wouldn't need to worry about anything. The only problem she faced was the darkness even though it was around noon. She also had to be careful of the creatures that had lurked in the dark, however luckily there was no problems. She relaxed few hours later when she received some of her chakra, which meant that her message had arrived to the team.
Meanwhile the team that was stuck in the storm with the bridge broken, were wet, almost out of food and freezing. So when team leader saw the unusual frog, he acted carefully, only relaxing when he saw that it had a message holding for him. The man looked at the frog and it gave the message and poofed, revealing to be a summon. The darkness didn't let the others notice the exchange. Team leader spoke :" it seems that someone is coming to help us and then will give us new orders."
The three man / kids next to him answered :" that is good."
Shisui was the first one to step forward out of three :" Sensei, do you know when they will arrive or maybe how many of them are there. "
Todo answered:" well the only clue i have is that they use a frog summon. Does that narrow it down."
Kakashi spoke from behind :" yes to three people actually. Well technically two. "
Genma tapped Kakashi on his left shoulder saying :" technically two, but we are aware who it is already. Her mission was supposed to begin today, since our is delayed it could be possible that Hokage wants her to help us. "
Todo looked at them asking :" i am the only one who doesn't know who is our rescue is. "
The trio said at same time :" it is Mito. "
Todo nodded :" of course. However i didn't think that yoi guys still would be this close of you are chasing the same girl, which is engaged to one of you guys. Isn't that weird. "
Kakashi answered :" not at all, besides we have spent so much time together that is almost normal for us to be together. "
Genma spoke after Kakashi :" the engagement does not really mean anything to us, since it was mostly political anyways. "
Todo was confused :" political. How, did you know about it Shisui. "
Shisui answered :" of course, it was done for my clan, as in that time we were seen as traitors, the savior of the village had to sacrifice herself to become engaged with me, well in political words that is, but Uchihas aren't traitors, and we have fellings for each other, that makes it easier. "
Todo then asked :" still i am confused, aren't you afraid that only one of you guys will together with her and the rest will end up hurting. "
Genma smirked :" no, not at all, since there is something not many know, something similar to the law how Mito can't enter any other clan then Uzumaki, there are also some laws about marriage of royals. "
Todo looked at them saying :" but you can't tell me them"
Shisui spoke :" well you do sometimes gossip."
Todo smirked :" so you want it to be a secret from others for now."
Kakashi nodded :" yes, that would be best, until Mito decides the next moves."
Todo spoke :" well i promise i won't say a word about it."
Shisui nodded :" well i can believe that, since you never broke the promise in your life. Well the thing is, as Mito is royal of clan, and in their clan laws a princess is allowed to be married with multiple men, to ensure that the royal family will continue to be present. "
Todo asked :" so how many people can she end up with in the end. "
Genma asnwerd :" that wasn't really described, but in clans history the maximum was 3 if i remember correctly. "
Todo then thought he saw someone move through the forest and froze the conversation.
Meanwhile Mito was getting closer and closer, she could feel the tremendous amount of chakra from surrounding, it was natural chakra and it was unbalanced which caused the storm, however she could also feel few human chakras in it, however because of the large amount of natural chakra she couldn't pinpoint which belongs to whom. She decided to rush some more just in case. It was getting darker and darker as she was in middle of the storm, if she had counted correctly, she had 2 hours of run more, she was expecting to be in the heart of the storm for a hour, which would leave her through the weaker storm for last hour.
Before she even noticed that she had exited the heart of storm, she could feel 4 familiar chakras and one unfamiliar that was lurking around them, from what she could feel they were aware of that chakra but most likely weren't able to pinpoint it. Mito decided to use some of her unnaturally obtained speed, she used a little amount of biju chakra to fuel the her legs. She was moving so fast that even the wind didn't do anything to her.
Four man squad was extremely careful, especially since Kakashi, Genma and Shisui spoke how they felt a chakra nearby. They would be careful even if they only saw the shadow, but now they were almost scared since the chakra was just like theirs in normal conditions, however they were exhausted and were freezing, so they were not in best condition, however they still were outnumbering the opponent, however they felt that the enemy wasn't likely to go out of the hiding to face them all together.
Before they could do a thing, all they saw was red hair jumping in front of them, she looked a little out of breath, buy otherwise she looked fine. Mito sighed :" well, the jump wasn't easy, however it was necessary."
Todo spoke :" you made it sooner than we expected." however he didn't let his gourd down, until Mito said :" hey, kiri Ninja, come out, what is so fun about jumping and hidding around in our trees."
The four men around her were surprised, how did she know that the man was kiri shinobi. However they didn't question her. So when there was nothing, not even reply, Mito sighed :" Momoichi Zabuza, come out or i will go straight after you. "
Within 10 seconds a man covered like a mummy jumped in front of her. Saying :" it seems like you know me, but i only remember seeing you once."
Mito nodded :" well that is true, however i know about you, because you are demon of the Mist, even if i only saw you once i can remember your chakra type clearly."
Zabuza nodded :" like i would believe that, "
Mito smirked :" that is up to you, but i was wondering what does a shinobi of Kiri doing here lurking behind allies "
Zabuza scoffed :" do you think that i belive that we are allies. Kiri and Konoha do not mix together."
Mito answered :" maybe that is your belif, however the treaty was signed and i watched it get signed, so i am pretty sure we are allies. "
Zabuza looked her saying :" how dare you say that, after stealing Isobu from us. "
Mito smirked :" i did that before the treaty, and such crimes were forgiven in one of statues in the treaty, also Kiri was forgiven for stealing countless Uzumaki treasures."
Zabuza was in flames :" i don't care, I wasn't going to be a shinobi just to sit around, and do a thing, be friends with anyone. "
Mito nodded :" don't worry, soon the enemy will reveal itself, so you can just go after them, if you are strong enough, just watch for sudden rise of rogue ninja. "
All five men there were confused about what Mito just said :" what do you mean. "
Mito shrugged :" you will, see, now please go, we must continue our journey. "
Zabuza smirked :" like hell, you guys are trapped here, cut of the village, do you think that they will find you guys here, you will end up here forgotten ."
Mito nodded :" that would be so, but only if you could beat us."
Zabuza smirked :" Mito - san, you must know that i am way stronger than Kisame right, i heard that you hardly won against him. "
Mito sighed :" i see, then shall we do this. Kakashi, Genma, Shisui and Todo - san, please back down, i have to teach him a lesson."
Mito then moved forwards and breathed out, she focused her attention in front of her and slowly fused her two types chakra, she would start with using the wood style, well she would use this as a distraction, while she is also rebuilding the bridge with her clone from the other side of bridge. Mito sighed as two large roots appeared right next to her ready to attack in any moment, Zabuza took his sword out, one of 7. Mito sighed :" od didn't think you will hold that sword so soon, but it doesn't matter."
Zabuza looked at her and smirked :" aren't you afraid, to face me without sword."
Mito smirked :" well of course, but who said that i don't have swords."
Mito let her roots attack Zabuza while she unsealed her two swords, the one that Genma had given her years ago, and Jisoo. Even though the one Genma used was old it was in usable condition. Zabuza was busy taking down the roots, while Mito was charging at him, with full speed. Zabuza smiled before he noticed that Mito had came in range of her swords. Zabuza only had time to block attack from jisoo, while the other sword blade had managed to land a solid hit to his hip area. However Zabuza didn't curse or yell from pain, he pushed his luck, he used all of his strength to push back Mito, using his sword. Mito seeing that she lost in that aspect jumped back. Smirking :" it looks like you won't be able to defeat me."
Zabuza rebuked :" don't be so confident." and in a second suddenly mist rose up, for Zabuza they were just out of range of storm, and it could stay there. Mito didn't curse, she thought only for a second what she could use. She smiled, two can play this game, she used her two seals, one to make her invisible and the other to make her presence dissappear, unlike Zabuza who could still be bothe felt, but in smaller manner, or found, but quite hard. Mito was pinpointing him as she would breathe in, she had found him, she knew that any movement would allert Zabuza as the man was looking for any disturbance in the mist. Mito focused her chakra to her feet and from there the chakra entered the earth.