Chapter 44: 44. Information
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'Uhh, where am I? My head hurts,' Yumi internally said while looking around. It seemed to be a dark cave or something.
'Did I somehow get captured by the enemy? Or is this a test by Yukio to escape while being captured by them?' Yumi thought about an edge-case scenario while looking around in the dark room.
'I should first surpr-' Yumi's thoughts stopped as something was splashed on her.
Due to that, she shrieked backwards, leading to her head hitting the stone wall behind her.
'OUCH!' Yumi internally yelled but didn't make a sound.
She didn't know whether the other party was present or not, or if they knew she was conscious.
'This isn't burning, nor can I feel sensations, so it can't be fast-acting poison. I have to buy ti-' "Oh, she was already awake. I wasted the water over here." A very familiar voice made Yumi's eyebrows twitch and a vein appeared on her forehead.
She weaved hand-seals and spat an icicle which Yukio swatted away with the back of his hand.
Itachi opened his eyes and looked at the three people present along with an icicle on the ground.
He was a smart child, so he didn't talk with Yumi.
"It seems our information was leaked, plus they were weirdly prepared to capture us for some reason," Itachi said while getting up.
"Exactly," Yumi nodded, and this was one of the rare times when she didn't slightly reject his words from a different angle.
She felt wronged and was looking righteously at Yukio to take care of the person who leaked their information, making them suffer physically, emotionally, and mentally.
She wanted violence.
"Nii-chan, do you think that Danzo guy leaked our information, maybe due to enmity with us or with me, leading to this?" Itachi said after thinking for a few moments.
He couldn't think of anybody else who would do this to him, other than somebody completely unknown.
"No," Yukio shook his head.
"Why do you think so? Isn't that guy responsible for most of the covert operations of Konoha?" Yumi demanded answers from Yukio.
Miyuki was leaning against the wall of the cave while looking at the scene until now.
She couldn't stand straight due to being "old," so she had to take support.
This also made her look cool from an outsider's perspective.
She picked it up from Kakashi who does this.
"Yup, but this wasn't caused by him. I'm sure about this," Yukio said while picking up a stick and drawing something on the wall by enhancing it with chakra.
Itachi and Yumi closely looked at his actions, expecting this to be some sort of explanation or clue as to who leaked their information.
Yukio dropped his stick after a minute and then leaned against the wall.
After a few seconds, he sat on the ground.
Standing was a pain even with support.
"What do you think?" Yukio said aloud, asking nobody in particular.
"Sick, but I think it lacks some more curves. You could make it a bit curvier," Miyuki chuckled.
"Uhh, isn't this just a stickman? Even that is bad," Yumi commented.
Itachi had the same question, but he thought he might be missing something that needed to be noticed.
"Isn't that obvious?" Yukio said something obvious.
"YOU-" Itachi held back Yumi from rushing at Yukio.
"Jeez, such a short temper. What would I do with you?" Yukio shook his head.
"So, nii-chan, who was the person who leaked our information?" Itachi ignored the stickman drawing beside Yukio.
He would rather ignore things whose meanings were complicated and pointless to know.
"Oh, it was me."
"Oh..." Itachi just said.
"Uh?" Yumi stopped.
"Anyway, we need to go back to the village. I have other tasks to do too, let's go," Yukio said as he got up from the ground.
"Wait, that answers nothing! Why? Were we baits or something? Or was it a test?" Yumi asked him.
"Well, you guys were a distraction of a distraction which was done with another distraction, both being distractions to another distraction," Yukio said after thinking for a while.
"..."
"..."
"Anyway, let's leave this place. I have places to be, also have to give old man Third a report of what happened."
Yukio walked to the other two and placed his hands on their shoulders.
He then looked at Miyuki who sent a chakra string attached to Yukio, and they disappeared from the place.
They appeared at Yukio's house. Yukio took his hands back and both of them disappeared again, this time reaching the terrace of the Hokage tower.
The ANBU were startled but calmed down when they noticed the pair.
The last time directly teleporting into the office hadn't amused Hiruzen or the ANBU.
So, Yukio decided to give them grace by doing this.
Okay, that is a lie. It was Miyuki who changed the coordinates a bit as Yukio had the original intention of teleporting inside the office again.
Yukio pouted due to that.
"No," Miyuki put one finger on his puffed cheeks.
"Kinky."
"What?" Miyuki said with a baffled expression.
She had just poked him in his puffed cheeks with her finger.
How did that equate to her being kinky?
Even the ANBU watching them were confused.
They were used to putting up stoic facades in front of many scenes, including couples making out.
So, this wasn't stimulating enough for them to feel embarrassed.
Yukio would definitely be happy to make their stoic facade break if he wanted to, but Miyuki wouldn't let him.
Well, normally, maybe she would agree and take part with him if she were in a good mood.
They moved to the office, where ANBU had already moved out and Hiruzen enabled the silencing seal.
He obviously could tell when Yukio came as it would definitely come to his attention when a chakra signature suddenly appeared in the tower.
"Oh, wasn't it a solo mission with the other 2 genin? Why are you tagging along with her?" Hiruzen narrowed his eyebrows.
He for some reason felt a foreboding feeling.
Something made him say that his paperwork on the desk would increase by a few folds in the near future.
He didn't like it one bit.
He had better things to do, like use his crystal ball to see cut- cute children doing their training to become ninjas at training grounds which don't contain any water.
"I was missed, so I went," Yukio shrugged.
"So, how did the mission go?" Hiruzen ignored Yukio's answer completely.
He wasn't even giving a convincing answer.
So, Hiruzen wouldn't even bother acknowledging that statement.
"Well, we failed it, or we fulfilled it, I guess," Miyuki took out a scroll and threw it to Hiruzen who opened it, expecting it to be a mission report.
It seemed the mission was too complicated to be explained verbally.
He noticed that it wasn't and was something else.
"Th-this is amazing," Hiruzen was made speechless by what was in front of him.
He had information about the records of all ninjas in Iwa.
This... This information was supposed to be guarded very closely as if this information fell into other villages' hands, it would lead to a massive hit, as information is power in the ninja world.
Well, Iwa was going to face a crisis in the future if Konoha used this to declare war as they could match the Iwa ninjas against ninjas who specialized in their weaknesses.
It would be tragic, to say the least.
"How did you even get the information? Wasn't your mission to retrieve the information from the spies... Don't tell me that spy was that capable," Hiruzen's eyes widened in shock.
Did that person hook up with Onoki's son or daughter to get this piece of information?
"Nah, it was me, old man. Now praise me," Yukio said.
Hiruzen turned towards Yukio and looked blankly at him.
"Hey, don't take the credit yourself. I was also there. Without me, it would have been tough for you and would have taken you very long," Miyuki elbowed him in the gut, which made Yukio fall on the ground and dramatically clutch the part where he got hit.
The other two people in the room blankly looked at him.
Even kids behaved in front of Hiruzen and didn't do childish stuff to act mature... and here was Yukio.
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