Naruto: The Toad Sages Apprentice

A Mission at Last!

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Chapter 88: A Mission at Last!

In Konoha most of the ninja were talking about what squadrons they were going to be in as they prepared to move out for war. As ninja were mostly sensationalized based on what style of fighter they were most teams were split up in terms of their commanding officers, but had been reunited when the personal assignments were given out. As it stood all that they were waiting for was the arrival of information declaring the whereabouts of the akatsuki hideout. They knew they still all had to travel to the Land of Lightening where they had constructed the Joint Shinobi Alliance HQ. They had chosen the Land of Lightening because that was where the jinchuuriki were hidden and they needed to be close should anything go wrong.

Elsewhere in the village Tsunade was in a meeting with Gaara. "Gaara-dono, how good to see you again" Tsunade said happily as Gaara entered her rebuilt office along with Kankuro, Temari who had also come for the trip to Konoha decided not to join them and went for a walk around the village.

"It is a pleasure to see you again as well Tsunade-dono" Gaara replied with a respectful bow.

"So what is this meeting about?" surely you must be preparing to head for HQ, you are after all the commanding general of the joint shinobi army" Tsunade said.

"Yes I will be heading there any day now, I am here on behalf of the puppeteers of my village" Gaara informed the Hokage.

"Is that so... we have no puppeteers in Konoha nor do we supply part's readily, so how is it that we can help?" Tsunade asked.

"Well, it might be better if Kankuro explains it" Gaara said.

"Very well, so Kankuro, what is your request?" Tsunade asked again.

"Um, you see there was this old watchtower out in the desert in the Land of Wind, that used to be home to a village filled with highly talented puppeteers. I think that there might still be some working puppet's there or at least rare parts that could be added to the existing Suna ninja's puppet's, this could be a great bonus in the war" Kankuro explained.

"I see, that does sound interesting, but how does it involve Konoha?" Tsunade asked.

"Well at current count Konoha has the most teams out in the field actively searching for the Akatsuki, the problem we have at the moment in Suna is we have not been able to put together a search party to investigate the ruin's or we risk falling behind in the preparations for war, I would ask that you please do us a favor and investigate this site as it could lead to an increase of the fighting strength of quite a few Suna ninja, and that could lead to more lives saved in the war" Gaara said taking over for his brother.

"Hm, it could be empty though, but I think I can help you, we do after all have five ninja who are currently just sitting back on an island somewhere just waiting for a mission" Tsunade said.

"Ah yes, an excellent idea, I believe a mission would do Naruto good, I am sure the more of these types of missions you can find the better, it will mean Naruto will be less likely to do something rash on the battlefield and will keep him sharp" Gaara said approvingly.

"Very well then, I will send a letter with the mission information to Jiraiya at once then I will send a carrier hawk to drop one of Naruto's kunai at the location of this tower" Tsunade said before taking out a map and waiting to be given a location.

(Turtle Island)

Naruto was currently working on more of his jutsu in his fox chakra mode. However while he was hard at work the same could not be said about Jiraiya and Yugito. That pair had decided to find time to relax and the fact that they had a bunch of genin from Kumo that had to do what ever they said meant that they had their very own butlers.