Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 14 by cas42, literature
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Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 14
I started to bind up the wound in my side while I waited for them to return. In the far corner, Sasuke stirred. He looked around groggily and then his eyes finally settled on me. “Where is everyone? Why are you still here? he muttered at me.
“Because my Hokage ordered me to be. Probably because he knows that I’m one of the few ANBU in the village right now who would put in an honest effort to keep protecting your butt.” I tapped the dressing wrapped around my thigh. “I got that trying to save you.”
There was a long pause. “Why do you keep insisting you were there?” Sasuke snarled at m
Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 13 by cas42, literature
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Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 13
I woke up in a chakra restraining cell with two ANBU standing guard. Captain Kakashi was right on the other side of the bars, arms crossed over his chest. “Chizu,” he said softly as I blinked my eyes open. “Where is Itachi?”
“Captain,” I mumbled, my mouth full of cotton. “Am I glad to see you!”
“Are you now?” he asked in a tight emotionless voice as if he didn’t quite believe me. When I hesitated, he slammed his hands against the bars. “I asked you a question!” he snapped. “Where is Itachi!?!”
I had never seen him so emotional before.
Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 12 by cas42, literature
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Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 12
Once I was convinced I lost my pursuers, I moved more slowly, keeping my size small and sticking to the shadows. Stealth would help me more now. If the ANBU were using poison, I could not afford to get a scratch from some long range attack.
I was about a hundred meters away from Itachi’s family home when I heard the chase. The prey’s footsteps were small light and fast, pattering down the street, keeping ahead of a pack of heavier booted feet. Their quarry was fast, he flew by my hiding spot in a blur of arms, legs, and swept back mop of black hair. There was a hiss in the air as one of ANBU pursuers threw a shuriken.
Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 11 by cas42, literature
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Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 11
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I, Chizu Akimichi, Jonin of Konoha, ANBU in the service of the Third Hokage and my village, leave this message so that future generations will know that I was no coward… that I was no traitor. I understand that I am defying a direct order from the Third Hokage by recording this… but this is the only guaranteed way for an innocent man… a good man... to regain his name.
Besides… the Third Hokage does not command either my respect nor my loyalty anymore.
The Uchiha are dead. The entire clan has been killed on the direct order of ANBU commander Danzo Shimura with the assistance of an unknown masked
Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 10 by cas42, literature
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Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 10
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Do you know what? I actually think that the negotiations are working! I mean… I never would have guessed it, but everyone seems to have forgotten about the angst of a few days ago and is just trying to see what they can get out of the negotiations.
The only one who isn’t happy is Danzo Shimura. I mean... I thought Itachi was being shunned in the ANBU before… Holy crap. His locker has been set fire to so many times he’s just stopped keeping stuff in it. He can’t eat at HQ, he doesn’t dare sleep there. He can’t sleep back in the Uchiha district either… the last time he went th
Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 9 by cas42, literature
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Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 9
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Sorry again, I’m trying to write whenever I have the time… unfortunately, I don’t have that much free time these days… You see... when Itachi and Shisui told me they needed an ‘inside man in the ANBU’ I thought that they meant I’d just hang around HQ and spy and tell them about anything big that might be happening.
What they should have said was: “Hey Chizu, we need an extra person in our conspiracy… Wanna help us out?”
This is like no mission I’ve ever been on. It’s like instead of spreading death and destruction, we’re trying to make it li
Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 8 by cas42, literature
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Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 8
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Okay… I shouldn't even be writing this… I don’t even know why I am writing this… if this journal ever does become a book about being in the ANBU… The following bit will definitely be left out…
So… It was my day off. I was back at my grandmother's house, hoeing the vegetable beds, helping out with the pigs and gathering eggs… it was going to be a long day, I still had to milk the goat and finish up my other farm-type chores. I was super dirty and sweaty and looking forward to taking a shower… when as I came back from the hen house, I found Nana waiting for me on the por
Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 7 by cas42, literature
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Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 7
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Well, dear reader… Both Itachi and I now know what it is like to be heroes. Not heroes in the “Horay! Let’s throw a parade!” type of hero… I mean, we are ANBU after all ‘serving the Hokage and the village from the shadows with no thought of acknowledgement or personal gain…’ blah blah blah… But once Hiruzen-sama held that big meeting of all Konoha shinobi on the roof of the Hokage building and he read Itachi and my ANBU mask names aloud, thanking us for the pivotal role we played in the most recent crisis, everything changed.
Okay, so… you are probably saying to
Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 6 by cas42, literature
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Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 6
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Okay… for starters, please excuse my handwriting. My hands are bandaged and I’ve broken four ribs so it really hurts to move . I have so many burns that I feel like a piece of undercooked beef. Everything aches so much that I haven’t been able to sleep in two days…
Which is... almost a good thing because I’ve needed lots of time to think about some stuff.
Okay… So I should probably start at the beginning: We found the master of the hidden research facility.
I was on patrol of the base… (Okay… I was really returning from using the bathroom… There aren’t ma
Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 5 by cas42, literature
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Konoha Children's Crusade Chapter 38 Part 5
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As I said before… all stakeouts are boring, even ones that happen in underground bases that would be quite at home in a horror movie.
The first thing Itachi and I did was set out a series of tripwires attached to a series of glow tags. They’d go off silently, warning us that someone was walking about, standard ANBU protocol when you are in a position where you need an early warning system and also have to remain silent. Then we set up a ‘camp’ of sorts, an empty supply closet that was big enough for one of us to almost lie down in comfortably. Once we had taken better stock of our new home for the