naruto pov

"than-ks guy-s" i said my voice scratchy from misuse

there heads instantly swung to face me and for once audible giggles spilled out of my lips, itachi looked away with only a hn in reply.

shisui though reached forward and gave me a bear hug extremely happy i had finally opened up to them.

i sighed categorising in my mind what i knew

-20th of september i have to visit zabuza sensei and haku at the falls

- orochimaru has joined a group called the akatsuki

-the base is somewhere in the hidden leaves

-there is currently a revolution going on in the village hidden in the mist with a lava user as the head of the revolutionarys

-i'd revisited garra thanked him for the teddy and placed my new seal on him so that the racoon couldn't escape no matter what.

-there were two gay members of the akatsuki who were secretly in a budding relationship- sasori and deidara.

-the leader of the akatsuki was called pein and had acquired the rinnegan.

-i had met my godfather jiraya however did not reveal myself so as to see whether he would ever visit "me" in the village or if he'd abandoned me.

- id met my godfathers teammate and her friend tsunade who was afraid of blood which i helped her get over.

-id even seen the old anbu recruits id trained in the hidden sand village salute me instead of the general out of instinct which took a bit of explaining.

i groaned and i knew where the man we were looking for was, right outside the village hidden in the mist id seen him using a crystal ball to see things that were currently occurring and sending the information to the current page of the mist village allowing him to know what the revolutionary were doing.

the easiest way to complete the mission would be to take the crystal ball. however now it is a matter of priority go after orochimaru or the crystal ball.

i shrugged and told the couple what had occurred during the month and a half my clones were out.

they both quietly discussed what the best course of action was while i wrote down everything on the akutsuki and orochimaru that i knew.

after that was done they had made a decision- we would collect the crystal ball before the mist village takes action to protect it and we would return it to the leaf villager on our way if we come across anything familiar to the hideout area we go after orochimaru

we all new though that we'd only resort to that if he was alone and not gathered around 6 highly dangerous ss rank criminals.

heading out we easily used our speed to cover kilometres in a short amount of time, by midday we'd crossed the country and made it to the mist village boarder where the crystal ball man was camping.

creeping into the campsite I came up behind the "fortune teller" and placed him in a headlock with a kunai at his throat while the other two searched for the ball.

after acquiring it i dispatched the few guards that the man had and we made our way back before coming across the red haired revolutionist with a lava skill.

she also seemed to have realised exactly how the man was leaking info from her group and was coming to get it shit... she wants the crystal and knows we have it- run or fight, well running is out of the options she would kill us in an instant she is after all kage level and i'm not quite there yet.

i glanced to the others, teamwork was the only option, and i simply ordered them-(audibly) "alright guys we fight to disarm not to kill we need to return to base."

they nodded and she started throwing lava at us like it was nothing, i sent a wave crashing towards her in less than a second before shisui wrapped earth around her ankles itachi sent a piercing blade of wind at her legs

and i sent a bubble of water to cover her head allowing no air to enter her system.

before she lost consciousness a large spray of lava exploded and shisui took the brunt of it with burns up his arms.

i grunted as she collapsed and got to my feet , the scroll with the crystal was safely tucked around the blade of my anbu sword so as not to be found.

i placed one arm under shisui and itachi took the other carrying our injured teammate away before the lava witch woke up.

when we'd crossed the boarder safely into leaf territory we patched up shisui with my healing chakra and some burn salve.

i guess the mission really must have been ss classed if two war enemies were both attempting to get it.

it was basically a third party/enemy to both other sides that took the crystal/us and if they knew who took it we would place the leaf village at war with both sides of their war.

suddenly this mission took precedence to finding the hideout in the leaf that the akatsuki were using.

hurrying as fast as we could we made it to the leaf village by the next morning scroll in hand we headed inside and i replaced the genjutsu that was my anbu personality/disguise.

my caramel hair was back in place along with my hight being the same as shisui's making me seem older and my honey coloured eyes, my "naru" personoa was back on.

after debriefing to the hokage I gave him the crystal ball to keep safe not knowing that in the future it would become a convenient way to watch over the leaf village for the old leader.

the ss mission was finally complete we have just enough time to sleep for the next 2 days and then we will decide our next course of action