Chapter 12 The tale of two Ninja

When Kin makes it back to the Hokage's mansion he saw everyone paniking.

He then makes it to Tsunade who was trying to create medicine in the pharmacy so that she could treat the injured Ninja.

"So they failed." Kin said.

"Yeah. I was a fool for expecting something more from a recently promoted Chunin and a couple of Genin to accomplish a mission that a Jonin should be handling." she said.

A while ago.

"Knock. Knock." someone knocked on the door in the early morning while Tsunade was still doing her paperwork in her office.

"Go away. I am not permitting you to reform roots." Tsunade said.

"It's me." a familiar voice comes out from beyond the door.

"Come in." She said as Kin opened the door.

"What do you want?" She asked.

"I have something to report you." kin replied.

"What?"

"Sasuke Uchiha left the village."Kin said.

"Kintoki. What do you mean by that? This is not something that you should joke about." she said as she slammed her desk.

"He also used Lethal Jutsu which can kill an ordinary citizen against me and seems to be affiliated with someone outside the Village. My suspension is either Akatsuki or..."

He said.

"Orochimaru." Tsunade get what he was trying to say to her.

"Also Sakura Haruno also joined with him to attack me in the middle of the Village," he said.

"Sakura?" She asked.

"We need to immediately label him as a missing Ninja and eliminate him before he joined another village while still possessing Sharingan." Kin said.

"Do you have any idea what you are suggesting?" Tsunade asked Kin.

"Yes," he replied.

"Labelling him as a missing ninja means that we are giving away permission to kill one of the former residents who live in the village without any repercussion." She said.

"I understand," he replied.

"Fine. I will think about it. I will suspend Sakura as a ninja for a week and send a chunin after Sasuke first." Tsunade said.

"And if they failed?" Kin asked.

"I will label Uchiha Sasuke as a missing Ninja."She said as she sighed.

"Then pardon me," he said as he disappeared as his body become smoke.

"Shadow clone? Huh." Tsunade said as she smiled. She also noticed that after they arrived at the village he seems to be more and more defiant toward her.

"Knock knock." Then she heard another knock on the door.

"Come in," she said as Sakura comes into the room.

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"You were right. I was naive." Tsunade said.

"Anyway, how is your training?"Tsunade asked.

"I lost against him without being able to do anything." kin replied.

"Lost? I sent you to him to train not to spar. Anyway here catch this." She said as she throws a bottle of pills at him.

"Go and give that to Shizune. Then come to the operation room with me." Tsunade said.

"I am going to show you medical Ninjutsu."She said.

In the front of the emergency room.

"There is no use in Fidgeting." A blonde girl who has four consecutive pigtails with teal eyes said to Shikamaru.

"Sacrifice is an inevitable part of missions. Didn't you receive emotion training?" She asked.

"Training and combat are different. In a mission, you don't know what is going to happen. And I was the team leader this time. Because of that, I understand that I am not cut out to be shinobi." He replied.

"Unexpected fragility. Men are strange," she said.

"I should have not been the leader at that time. I just trusted everyone else and laid back. I wasn't strong enough. It was all my fault." Shikamaru said.

"Are you afraid of being hurt?" The girl asked.

"..." he didn't reply as he left.

"Shikamaru you are being talked down by a girl and running away?" his father asked.

"I don't want to argue. Because I am not a girl." He replied.

"Yes. But you are also not a man." Shikaku said.

"You are just a coward." he continued.

"Even if you quit being a shinobi mission will still occur. Someone will just carry out them. Your companions will just get a new leader. Then what. If the new leader is bad may be one of them will die. If you were the leader at that time with this time as an experience maybe you can carry out the mission with fewer problems. If your companions are really important to you think before you ran away. Consider you can greater for the sake of your friends." His father told him.

"That is what it means to be a real companion, you coward," he yelled at his son with anger in his voice.

Shikamaru thought for a moment as he stood still.

Then the door of the emergency room opened.

"It's alright now. The continuous cell destruction effects of the pill are stopped by an antidote that I put together. This time he was saved. It was a success. I used a special drug mixing manual from the Nara clan. There were some serious things in that. The result of the continual study?" Tsunade asked as she told the results.

"Tsunade sama. Hyuuga Neji. His condition has been stabilized." Shizune yelled out as she wiped off the sweat that is on her face.

"I also got some information. Just now Hatake Kakashi and Uzumaki Naruto have returned. Although he was injured his life was not in danger." she said.

"Two of them... Huh?" She said with a sad expression on her face.

"Shikamaru it seems that your first mission is a failure. But everyone is alive and that is more important than anything." Tsunade said.

"Next time. I will show that I can do it flawlessly," he said as he cried.

".... I should not have said that to him. Now he probably won't have a second chance." Tsunade said as she remembered that she told Kin that she will label Sasuke as a missing Ninja if Shikamaru failed the mission.

The blonde hair girl patted Shikamaru's back who was still crying as she said.

"Don't fail next time. It doesn't look good for me if a man that beat me has a horrible track record." then she walked away leaving Shikamaru with even more determination.