147 -=Spy cat among us=-
In the forest
Touka and Blizzard, this time the real ones, had been talking about their clones' fight with team 7
"But I need to say Nee-chan, your plan was awesome! Nya!" Touka said
Even though she is more of an instinct-based fighter, quite like OG Naruto actually, she can still see the value of a good plan
Blizzard on the other hand had a pensive look on her face
"..." She didn't answer Touka, who quickly noticed something was in her sister's head
"Something wrong, Nya?" She asked
"... Say nee-san..." Blizzard started after thinking a bit more
"Hnya?"
"What do you think happened so that we needed to end the fight earlier?" Blizzard had this feeling something wasn't quite right with that, and while she had enough time to do her plan, this still bugged her
"...hunya... I don't know... but we can ask Rimuru sama later, can't we, Nya?"
"... Sigh, I guess there is no need to keep thinking about this for now, if it was important Rimuru sama would have told us..." Blizzard concluded
"Exactly, nya" Touka nodded and they started to move in Uzushio's direction
They walked quietly for a while, enjoying the silence around them
Maybe because of the earlier fight, or maybe all the animals could feel Touka and Blizzard are dangerous, but there was absolutely no animal sound around them right now
...
A bit later, Touka and Blizzard's ears flickered at the same time, both being really good at detecting sounds, so they turned back to see the new arrival
""RIMURU SAMA"" Both exclaimed energetically as they approached Rimuru
Rimuru just smiled at them as they approached, to say he was proud would be an understatement
One truly needs to know that to beat the two kids loved by the universe, and both at the same time is no small feat
as they got close, Rimuru immediately started patting them, although the anime logic behind the scenes made their hair not get all scrambled up for some reason...
"You two did great out there, you have no idea how proud I am right now" He said with a big smile
"Hehehe" Touka laughed a bit at the praise
"Hmm Hmm" Blizzard nodded a bit while enjoying the headpats
You could say that she enjoyed the warm feeling they give, because she always feels cold, because of her skill, so it is her favorite reward... well, asides from her carrot treats, that is
"Right, Rimuru sama" Blizzard suddenly said, as if remembering something
"Yes?" Rimuru answered inquisitively
"Why did we need to finish things early? I got curious" Blizzard added the last part just to say that it didn't bother her but arouse her curiosity instead
"Ah, that? Lee stopped fighting Guy after he has already beaten Neji, so I told you two to finish up because Guy is a troublesome dude" Rimuru said, sounding like a Nara even
"Did Lee get hurt?" Blizzard asked, in her memory, Lee was a bit of a weird dude, he was a training maniac as many know, and she saw him every so often when she was walking around with her bunnies
"Nah, he is just... confused? a bit lost? I don't really know how to put it... I guess he is currently unmotivated... but it's Lee, he'll find his motivation soon enough" Rimuru didn't want to elaborate more, it is not his place to be talking about Lee, and the occasion is also not right for that
After some more small conversations between the three, they left for Uzushio
-=-
Konoha, Hokage office
Tsunade looked at the 4 people in front of her in disbelief
"This..." She couldn't put into words her shock
Team 7 had just reported the situation that occurred during their double mission with team 9, and it baffles her just how unlucky team 7 is...
their first C rank mission had them encounter Zabuza
then Luna entered the team, and her first c rank had them encounter Kaede, at the time controlled, and Rimuru for the first time (And Dygan, but that guy has been away for a while)
And now, on their first double mission, and Investigation mission, not only did they find trouble, but they almost died, all of them... if it was not for Sasuke, maybe they would have died...
and then they even encountered Rimuru again, discovered shocking news and worst even, a traitor among u- *cough* Among them
Being the war veteran she is, Tsunade obviously knew that there was no chance that this was all a coincidence, the attack was far too synchronized with Rimuru's arrival to be one
but that doesn't matter, even a toddler would know Rimuru was involved after what he did there... the problem is... How?
how did he know where and when the caravan would be at? the answer is simple: A traitor!
Was it Neji? no, of course not, Neji has been suspicious for a while, so even before he asked his team for a mission an Anbu was looking at his every action, and it wasn't him but his teammate who requested the mission, and it was a random one as well, so there are minimal chances that he is the traitor... well, he is ONE of them, but not the only one
A prime suspect would be Kaede, but like Neji, she's been under surveillance 24/7 since she came back, so the chances are even less likely
and that... is what baffled her... there is a traitor... yet no hints on who it is, just on who it isn't...
the worst part is, aside from knowing teams 7 and 9 left together, no other person should know their mission content, so this must mean the traitor is someone who can have access to the mission records...
this had trouble, with capital T, written all over it
'Fuck... I really need a drink right now...' Tsunade cursed the day she accepted this damn job while dismissing team 7, as at least Sasuke and Naruto still had to recover from their injuries
'But who could it be?' Tsunade just had to discover the truth, or else she wouldn't be able to keep calm all day, leaking mission information can have horrible consequences for Konoha, both internally and externally
variating from a huge rise in the danger factor of ANY mission outside Konoha, to the actual end of the missions, since no one would put their trust in a village that can't keep the secrecy of their missions... which would greatly impact the economy of the village
Tsunade is lucky she is also a medical ninja, or else the headache she'll get from this, would never go away
*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*
"Tsunade sama, Madam Shijimi is here requesting a mission to capture her cat again" Shizune's voice entered the office, bringing Tsunade out of her thoughts
"Uhg..." Tsunade hated to deal with that woman, especially since Tsunade was indebted to both god and the world, so she couldn't take lightly someone paying a B RANKED MISSION multiple times even, to capture a CAT...
If it wasn't enough she had to deal with a traitor from the biggest (alive) clan of Konoha, having to deal with the possibly irate Patriarch of the Hyuga because his nephew is in jail, and having to break her mind to find just who is leaking Konoha's mission details, she also needs to deal with a rich woman losing her pet... again...
'I swear they caught that cat yesterday...' Tsunade sighed
Tora is a demon, not a cat, not only is that chakra-less cat able to dodge chunnins and outrun them, but every damn time a team actually gets it, it makes a mess out of all of her paperwork, and she can't hit the damn thing because it's the pet of the daimyo's wife... infuriating
"... Send her up..." In the end, Tsunade had to let the woman in, the worst part of this job... or second-worst? she doesn't know or care anymore, this job sucks, and she wishes to find some idiot to do it in her place, and then give Hiruzen a proper beating for tricking her into this stupid position
While Tsunade was busy cursing her sensei, the Daimyo's wife and her cat, Neji and his betrayal team 7 and their bad luck, Jiraya for being a pervert (the dude is not even there), herself for accepting being the Hokage, and so on and so on... a small brown cat was happily jumping around Konoha using the roof of the various houses to parkour a bit
'Mhnya, I wonder if this mission is something important like the last one was...' Currently, Touka aka Tora is in a high mood as she jumps around, she recently got a really good mission out of her spy work which made Rimuru reward her, so she is working on overdrive to get another such mission
She stops at the top of a tall building, seeing team 7 leaving the Hokage building and heading to the hospital she wonders
'Should I follow them? The mission Rimuru sama liked was theirs... nya... should I?' While she thought about what to do, a crow flew above her head, heading straight to the top of the Hokage building while cawing
*Ahoo~ Ahoo~ Ahoo~*
Nd somehow, this made Tsunade even madder