Separate ways

Guy told the manager the mission was given to them by their captain Yama that is why they were looking for Tsunade. The manager was a bit surprised but if Yama was the one who gave them orders it would make sense he would make them work as a bounty hunter.

After getting the bingo book and some information for free Kakashi and Guy left the black market. Now everyone was at the land of grass and they were looking for some shinobi with bounty while also looking for Tsunade and also moving towards the land of waterfalls.

Two more days passed, during these two days they didn't find any hints of Tsunade but all three teams encountered some shinobi with bounty. They didn't have any problems dealing with them because the people who they encountered were all only chunin level shinobi.

Pakura was a high Jounin and even Friday was at the level of High Jounin after his 3 months training with Yama so only Kage level shinobi would be a threat to them.

As for Kakashi and Guy, they were both around mid-Jounin level shinobi and maybe a High-level jounin would cause some trouble for them. But they had a bit of a problem finishing the job properly because Guy was hesitant to kill his opponent but thankfully Kakashi didn't care about that and finished the job.

And finally for Itachi and Shisui. Shisui was at the level of low-jounin and Itachi was mid chunin level. A mid-level Jounin would be hard for them to handle. Even Itachi alone could deal will all the enemies they met so far.

The 1st team to reach the land of the waterfall was Pakura and Friday.

The teams had been traveling and fighting constantly for a week from Konoha to the land of grass and now the land of the waterfalls. They were all tired, Pakura and Friday decided to take a rest.

After a couple of hours, Itachi and Shisui also reached there and the last team to arrive there was Kakashi and Guy but they were not late by a day, they had caught up a little and had arrived 5 hours after Itachi and Shisui.

The two teams also took a rest for a bit. Now all the teams were in the land of the waterfall. The next day they started to snoop around and search for some information about Tsunade.

They all saw each other doing the same thing but no one thought about working together. Yama who was secretly watching them shook his head.

After a while, they all figured out Tsunade was not in the land of the waterfall anymore. Now none of them had any clue where Tsunade could be.

They all had 2 options, return back the way they came and head to the land of Rain and the land of Rivers, or keep moving forward and head towards the land of sound or land of Hot waters.

The team of Pakura and Friday and the team of Kakashi and Guy decided to keep moving forward and head towards the land of sound.

Now Itachi and Shisui were the only ones who had not decided where to go.

"Itachi what do you want to do?" Shisui asked.

"I also want to go towards the land of sound but even if we go that way we won't be able to win, Pakura and Friday and even Kakashi and Guy are faster than me, they will find Tsunade sama before us."

"I agree, lets go towards the land of the Rain. While they go looking for Tsunade sama, we will spend our time collecting bounty and also slowly moving towards the land of Rain and land of the rivers.

"If Tsunade sama is in their direction they will win but we will also not lose because we will have the highest bounty collected. And if she is in our direction we will win both competitions."

After deciding to what was best for them they returned towards the way they came from.

Few more days passed. Itachi and Shisui were at the border of the land of Grass and land of the Rain.

"Itachi, to your right." Shisui yelled.

Itachi immediately jumped to the side. A big ax struck the ground where he was just standing. Shisui threw a kunai and it pierced the neck of the guy who was holding the ax.

"That's another 9 million done." Shisui said as he laughed.

"At this rate, it's going to be impossible for us to lose," Itachi replied with a smile.

"Not if you die before that."

The two of them heard a new voice and immediately jumped away. They turned around snd looked at the source behind the voice.

A green-haired guy, who was wearing a black cloak with red clouds and had a scar running across his chest, and his left was standing near a tree and looking at them.

Shisui and Itachi both were nervous, a guy sneaked up to the two of them without them even noticing.

"Who are you?" Shisui asked trying to sound as calm as possible.

"Do you know why a lot of missing-nin and other people with a bounty stay in this area? It is because this place is in the center of 3 big nations so the shinobies from the village don't really snoop around in this dangerous territory."

"We will quietly leave this area, we won't bother anyone." Said Itachi

The guy laughed loudly. "You konoha shinobi are hilarious, you want to leave after killing people in our territory?"

Both Itachi and Shisui's heart was beating very fast.

"Any last words?" The guy asked them.

Shisui and Itachi knew he was not joking. This was going to be a true battle to the death and they were scared.

"If you hurt us our sensei won't let you live anymore." Itachi yelled.

"Ohh, interesting can you tell me your sensei's name so I can kill him after I kill you guy"

The last tiny hope for the two of them was that hearing the name of Yama might scare him but that was very unlikely since he was not even afraid of Konoha.

"Our sensei is Yama." Said Itachi.