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Chapter 6

Cold black eyes stared out at the young man standing at attention behind his dark mahogany desk. Suited in the customary ANBU garb, the pale skinned agent had his eyes cast down while his short inky black hair stayed tucked behind his ears.

"Sai."

The young agent lifted his head revealing a pair of eyes the color of the midnight sky. His gaze was just as emotionless as the rest of his features, completely blank and devoid of any feeling whatsoever.

A perfect minion of the ANBU guard.

"Yes sir?"

Folding his rather large hands together atop his desk the man motioned with his chin for Sai to sit down. Taking a seat in the chair provided for him, Sai turned his gaze back at the official and waited for instructions.

"I am sending you out on a mission." The man's voice boomed within the office walls. "This mission is a matter of National security and must be dealt with as swiftly and carefully as possible."

"I understand." Sai answered back quickly.

Nodding his head at the agent, the man reached out his hand and pressed a small button on the speakerphone sitting on his desk. "Bring me the file."

Within two minutes the heavy doors to the office opened admitting a clean shaven man with wide rimmed glasses and shock white hair. The hunched over young worker fixed the glasses sitting on his nose before quickly shuffling over to the official and handing him a crisp manila envelope. Then giving a hurried bow to his boss he left the office without a word.

Picking up a letter opener the official broke the seal and handed the opened envelope across the table to Sai.

"This is so be a solo mission. You are to track down that man, find him and terminate him. If there happen to be any agents or suspicious persons around him, you are to terminate them as well."

Sai stared at the headshot of his target. The young man staring out at him had a dangerous aura circling around him like a cloud. Something easily determined from the penetrating black eyes peering at him from the photo. Clearing his throat, Sai quickly took in every single detail from the ivory skinned complexion to the slightly navy tones exposed in the man's ebony black hair. Pulling out another page from the envelope, Sai looked over the man's statistics.

Name: Sasuke Uchiha

DOB: July 23, 1988

Height: 168 cm

Weight: 52.2 kg

Blood type: AB

Affiliations: ANBU

Specialties: Jiu Jutsu, Taijutsu, Judo

Is able to hit a bull's eye from 200 meters. Proficient in knife fighting, swimming and weaponry.

"When am I to leave?" Sai asked, putting the papers back into the folder and handing it back across the desk.

"Immediately."

Nodding his head, Sai stood from the chair and bowed. "Yes, sir."

Upon Sai's quick departure, the official took the envelope from his desk and grunted. Opening a drawer in his desk he removed a lighter.

"Goodbye, Namikaze."

:::

The fluorescent lighted hallways were full of agents walking to and fro from all areas of the complex. Sai kept his gaze pointing straight ahead as he marched along with the throng, catching snippets of conversation as he passed. Picking up on a familiar face in the crowd, Sai graced the agent with a familial smile before turning the corner and coming face to face with the steel elevator that would take him down to the surveillance unit.

Sliding out his identification badge Sai swiped it across the touch screen on the wall. The computer gave a chorus of beeps and chirps before a green light blinked and opened up the doors to grant him entry. Stepping inside the unit, Sai pressed a button and patiently waited for the elevator to close.

Down it went, not stopping for any other waiting worker until it reached his destination. After arriving on his floor, Sai marched out and continued down another set of hallways, these much less bright than the ones on the above floors.

There were no windows, just shuttered doors and blank walls to ensure that the information hidden within these rooms remained secret. A bulb flickered above as Sai turned the corner and walked through a yellow painted doorway. A set of sliding metal doors stopped him from going further. Pulling out his identification card once more, he swiped it through the available slot.

"Access granted." A computerized voice said as the metal doors parted.

Without a moment's worth of hesitation Sai walked through and headed to the first empty computer he saw. Logging in at his commandeered station he automatically began his search on the whereabouts of Sasuke Uchiha.

Clicking open a program he typed his target's name into the search box and waited. It took the computer only thirty seconds to bring up the file. Sai skimmed through all the reports, reading everything he could about this man. After sitting there for a good forty minutes he logged into the search database and looked up Sasuke's GPS coordinates.

He was not surprised when the map of Fire country came up with no matching results. There wouldn't be any problems if this Sasuke fellow was an idiot. Sai had already presumed that the Uchiha had smashed his tracking device. This wouldn't have been a matter of National Security otherwise.

Cracking his knuckles he decided to take a different approach. Sai opened up another tab in the tracking program and opened up Sasuke Uchiha's Coordinate Log. A black screen popped up with hundreds of coordinates glowing bright forest green. Scrolling down the page Sai went to the very bottom to see where his target's last GPS coordinates were. An eerie smile plastered itself onto his pale face as he stared at Sasuke's last known coordinates.

2:47 a.m. [33.510484°, 126.715622°]

With a few clicks he brought up another program and added those coordinates into the search bar. He was left staring at an empty parking spot a few meters away from a nightclub. Brows furrowing in concentration his fingers started whizzing over the keyboard as he tried to find all the cameras in that specific location. Upon finding three he quickly hacked into their company's database and picked up the video surveillance feeds. Feeling the excitement starting to kick in Sai took a deep breath to calm himself down before rifling through all the unnecessary footage.

He rewound the recording to the exact time where Sasuke Uchiha's signal disappeared and found himself staring at a black ANBU vehicle.

The license plate was obscured from the angle his particular camera was filming from so he decided to switch to another. This one proved to have a much better angle. Capturing the license plate he started up another program that would enable to him to follow the ANBU van all along the streets of Konoha, giving him a bird's eye view of everything.

Sitting back he watched as the van took off down the road, blasting past one camera and coming into view from another. When he would lose sight of the vehicle he would hack back into the database and pull up the feed of another camera within range. For the next half hour he followed Sasuke's getaway van, watching as it pulled into a large parking lot. He leaned closer towards his computer screen as a few people filed out of the van.

All but one made sure to keep his face hidden from any cameras in the surrounding area. Sai paused the video feed and zoomed into the face of the young blonde male. There was something peculiar about him…something different and yet familiar at the same time. Curiosity piqued he let the footage roll, watching as the set of agents and their blonde companion hurried into a large department store.

They didn't take long and were soon back at the vehicle. One of them quickly changed the plates on the van before they took off. Sai smiled to himself at that. He knew it would throw off the regular police but that little trick would definitely not work on a skilled and experienced ANBU agent.

Using the cameras positioned all around the area Sai tracked them down the highway, only losing them once they turned onto a side road leading out to the rural area of the town. Nothing but dense forests and hicks down that direction.

And unfortunately, no cameras to help him track down his target.

He sat back in his chair, hands folded in thought as he tried to come up with a reasonable way to track down the getaways. An idea came to mind, one that he put into action immediately. Taking note of the time they passed by the last camera, Sai began to fast-forward the footage it had captured. There was only one road in and out of the deep wood and if that van was coming back, then it would have to pass by him again.

Whizzing past an hour and a half of recorded video feed, Sai saw the van pass by the camera once again. He surmised that the van had been going at roughly fifty-five miles an hour, as the speed limit was marked by the side of the road. He presumed they would try to follow it so as not to appear suspicious, that was the whole embodiment of ANBU.

Take care of business without anyone knowing your business.

Taking that into account he calculated the distance the vehicle traveled. That gave him a pretty good guess as to where the van had gone, or a well educated estimate on where to start looking for the Uchiha.

Just to make sure that they did in fact drop off his target, Sai followed the van all the way back to base, watching as the group filtered out of the ANBU vehicle. He wasn't surprised to find the Uchiha missing but he was a little curious as to why the other male had disappeared as well.

Deciding it was none of his concern, Sai stood from his seat and erased all traces of his presence from the computer. Moving quickly he left the surveillance unit and made a dash for his car waiting in the ANBU lot above ground. The pack in his truck was all set and ready to go, all thanks to his ever ready-to-go sense and training.

Starting up his car he drove out of the ANBU base and headed down the road. As he passed by a traffic light he thought about how large of an area he would have to search to find traces of his moving targets. All throughout his two hour drive he pondered over his mission, only stopping his car once he entered into the 'target zone.' Stepping out of his vehicle he walked around it and opened his trunk. Reaching in he pulled out his pack and slung it over his shoulder before slamming the hood of the trunk closed. Then crouching down he removed the license plate from his car and shoved it into his pack.

The song of the cicadas played through the air as Sai began examining the outskirts of the forest, looking for any tracks or clues left behind by his agile target. Further and further he went from his car with not so much as a broken twig to let him know if he was heading in the right direction.

After scouring two miles worth of forest he decided to take a small lunch break. Pulling off his pack he reached inside and took out a bottle of water and some dried meat. Leaning against a nearby tree he sat and took a sip of the refreshing water and closed his eyes.

Searching both sides of the road was taking up much more time than he had originally thought. Things would have been a lot easier if he could just go and hassle the other agents with whom the Uchiha had held an acquaintance. However, he knew that would be futile. ANBU told no secrets, and besides he had to keep a low profile. Attacking other agents would point a large red beam directly at him.

Wiping the sweat from his brow with his sleeve, Sai finished off his meal and got back on his feet. After another mile and a half of hunting for any sort of lead he finally found one. A snapped twig and a small expanse of stomped grass. Crouching down he followed the hidden trail with a careful eye. Another eerie smile marked up his features when he spotted a depression in the dirt a few feet away. Walking over to it, Sai peered down and traced the faded indentation of a boot.

"Got ya."

Description
Chapter 6

Cold black eyes stared out at the young man standing at attention behind his dark mahogany desk. Suited in the customary ANBU garb, the pale skinned agent had his eyes cast down while his short inky black hair stayed tucked behind his ears.

"Sai."

The young agent lifted his head revealing a pair of eyes the color of the midnight sky. His gaze was just as emotionless as the rest of his features, completely blank and devoid of any feeling whatsoever.

A perfect minion of the ANBU guard.

"Yes sir?"

Folding his rather large hands together atop his desk the man motioned with his chin for Sai to sit down. Taking a seat in the chair provided for him, Sai turned his gaze back at the official and waited for instructions.

"I am sending you out on a mission." The man's voice boomed within the office walls. "This mission is a matter of National security and must be dealt with as swiftly and carefully as possible."

"I understand." Sai answered back quickly.

Nodding his head at the agent, the man reached out his hand and pressed a small button on the speakerphone sitting on his desk. "Bring me the file."

Within two minutes the heavy doors to the office opened admitting a clean shaven man with wide rimmed glasses and shock white hair. The hunched over young worker fixed the glasses sitting on his nose before quickly shuffling over to the official and handing him a crisp manila envelope. Then giving a hurried bow to his boss he left the office without a word.

Picking up a letter opener the official broke the seal and handed the opened envelope across the table to Sai.

"This is so be a solo mission. You are to track down that man, find him and terminate him. If there happen to be any agents or suspicious persons around him, you are to terminate them as well."

Sai stared at the headshot of his target. The young man staring out at him had a dangerous aura circling around him like a cloud. Something easily determined from the penetrating black eyes peering at him from the photo. Clearing his throat, Sai quickly took in every single detail from the ivory skinned complexion to the slightly navy tones exposed in the man's ebony black hair. Pulling out another page from the envelope, Sai looked over the man's statistics.

Name: Sasuke Uchiha

DOB: July 23, 1988

Height: 168 cm

Weight: 52.2 kg

Blood type: AB

Affiliations: ANBU

Specialties: Jiu Jutsu, Taijutsu, Judo

Is able to hit a bull's eye from 200 meters. Proficient in knife fighting, swimming and weaponry.

"When am I to leave?" Sai asked, putting the papers back into the folder and handing it back across the desk.

"Immediately."

Nodding his head, Sai stood from the chair and bowed. "Yes, sir."

Upon Sai's quick departure, the official took the envelope from his desk and grunted. Opening a drawer in his desk he removed a lighter.

"Goodbye, Namikaze."

:::

The fluorescent lighted hallways were full of agents walking to and fro from all areas of the complex. Sai kept his gaze pointing straight ahead as he marched along with the throng, catching snippets of conversation as he passed. Picking up on a familiar face in the crowd, Sai graced the agent with a familial smile before turning the corner and coming face to face with the steel elevator that would take him down to the surveillance unit.

Sliding out his identification badge Sai swiped it across the touch screen on the wall. The computer gave a chorus of beeps and chirps before a green light blinked and opened up the doors to grant him entry. Stepping inside the unit, Sai pressed a button and patiently waited for the elevator to close.

Down it went, not stopping for any other waiting worker until it reached his destination. After arriving on his floor, Sai marched out and continued down another set of hallways, these much less bright than the ones on the above floors.

There were no windows, just shuttered doors and blank walls to ensure that the information hidden within these rooms remained secret. A bulb flickered above as Sai turned the corner and walked through a yellow painted doorway. A set of sliding metal doors stopped him from going further. Pulling out his identification card once more, he swiped it through the available slot.

"Access granted." A computerized voice said as the metal doors parted.

Without a moment's worth of hesitation Sai walked through and headed to the first empty computer he saw. Logging in at his commandeered station he automatically began his search on the whereabouts of Sasuke Uchiha.

Clicking open a program he typed his target's name into the search box and waited. It took the computer only thirty seconds to bring up the file. Sai skimmed through all the reports, reading everything he could about this man. After sitting there for a good forty minutes he logged into the search database and looked up Sasuke's GPS coordinates.

He was not surprised when the map of Fire country came up with no matching results. There wouldn't be any problems if this Sasuke fellow was an idiot. Sai had already presumed that the Uchiha had smashed his tracking device. This wouldn't have been a matter of National Security otherwise.

Cracking his knuckles he decided to take a different approach. Sai opened up another tab in the tracking program and opened up Sasuke Uchiha's Coordinate Log. A black screen popped up with hundreds of coordinates glowing bright forest green. Scrolling down the page Sai went to the very bottom to see where his target's last GPS coordinates were. An eerie smile plastered itself onto his pale face as he stared at Sasuke's last known coordinates.

2:47 a.m. [33.510484°, 126.715622°]

With a few clicks he brought up another program and added those coordinates into the search bar. He was left staring at an empty parking spot a few meters away from a nightclub. Brows furrowing in concentration his fingers started whizzing over the keyboard as he tried to find all the cameras in that specific location. Upon finding three he quickly hacked into their company's database and picked up the video surveillance feeds. Feeling the excitement starting to kick in Sai took a deep breath to calm himself down before rifling through all the unnecessary footage.

He rewound the recording to the exact time where Sasuke Uchiha's signal disappeared and found himself staring at a black ANBU vehicle.

The license plate was obscured from the angle his particular camera was filming from so he decided to switch to another. This one proved to have a much better angle. Capturing the license plate he started up another program that would enable to him to follow the ANBU van all along the streets of Konoha, giving him a bird's eye view of everything.

Sitting back he watched as the van took off down the road, blasting past one camera and coming into view from another. When he would lose sight of the vehicle he would hack back into the database and pull up the feed of another camera within range. For the next half hour he followed Sasuke's getaway van, watching as it pulled into a large parking lot. He leaned closer towards his computer screen as a few people filed out of the van.

All but one made sure to keep his face hidden from any cameras in the surrounding area. Sai paused the video feed and zoomed into the face of the young blonde male. There was something peculiar about him…something different and yet familiar at the same time. Curiosity piqued he let the footage roll, watching as the set of agents and their blonde companion hurried into a large department store.

They didn't take long and were soon back at the vehicle. One of them quickly changed the plates on the van before they took off. Sai smiled to himself at that. He knew it would throw off the regular police but that little trick would definitely not work on a skilled and experienced ANBU agent.

Using the cameras positioned all around the area Sai tracked them down the highway, only losing them once they turned onto a side road leading out to the rural area of the town. Nothing but dense forests and hicks down that direction.

And unfortunately, no cameras to help him track down his target.

He sat back in his chair, hands folded in thought as he tried to come up with a reasonable way to track down the getaways. An idea came to mind, one that he put into action immediately. Taking note of the time they passed by the last camera, Sai began to fast-forward the footage it had captured. There was only one road in and out of the deep wood and if that van was coming back, then it would have to pass by him again.

Whizzing past an hour and a half of recorded video feed, Sai saw the van pass by the camera once again. He surmised that the van had been going at roughly fifty-five miles an hour, as the speed limit was marked by the side of the road. He presumed they would try to follow it so as not to appear suspicious, that was the whole embodiment of ANBU.

Take care of business without anyone knowing your business.

Taking that into account he calculated the distance the vehicle traveled. That gave him a pretty good guess as to where the van had gone, or a well educated estimate on where to start looking for the Uchiha.

Just to make sure that they did in fact drop off his target, Sai followed the van all the way back to base, watching as the group filtered out of the ANBU vehicle. He wasn't surprised to find the Uchiha missing but he was a little curious as to why the other male had disappeared as well.

Deciding it was none of his concern, Sai stood from his seat and erased all traces of his presence from the computer. Moving quickly he left the surveillance unit and made a dash for his car waiting in the ANBU lot above ground. The pack in his truck was all set and ready to go, all thanks to his ever ready-to-go sense and training.

Starting up his car he drove out of the ANBU base and headed down the road. As he passed by a traffic light he thought about how large of an area he would have to search to find traces of his moving targets. All throughout his two hour drive he pondered over his mission, only stopping his car once he entered into the 'target zone.' Stepping out of his vehicle he walked around it and opened his trunk. Reaching in he pulled out his pack and slung it over his shoulder before slamming the hood of the trunk closed. Then crouching down he removed the license plate from his car and shoved it into his pack.

The song of the cicadas played through the air as Sai began examining the outskirts of the forest, looking for any tracks or clues left behind by his agile target. Further and further he went from his car with not so much as a broken twig to let him know if he was heading in the right direction.

After scouring two miles worth of forest he decided to take a small lunch break. Pulling off his pack he reached inside and took out a bottle of water and some dried meat. Leaning against a nearby tree he sat and took a sip of the refreshing water and closed his eyes.

Searching both sides of the road was taking up much more time than he had originally thought. Things would have been a lot easier if he could just go and hassle the other agents with whom the Uchiha had held an acquaintance. However, he knew that would be futile. ANBU told no secrets, and besides he had to keep a low profile. Attacking other agents would point a large red beam directly at him.

Wiping the sweat from his brow with his sleeve, Sai finished off his meal and got back on his feet. After another mile and a half of hunting for any sort of lead he finally found one. A snapped twig and a small expanse of stomped grass. Crouching down he followed the hidden trail with a careful eye. Another eerie smile marked up his features when he spotted a depression in the dirt a few feet away. Walking over to it, Sai peered down and traced the faded indentation of a boot.

"Got ya."