Prologue:

Retrieval Mission, Report for The Godaime Hokage Tsunade:

Mission: A Rank

Target: Team Hebi

Casualties: None

Injuries: Minimal

Subject A: Uchiha Sasuke:

Height: 6'2

Weight: 210

Age: 23

Injuries: rasengan burns, broken rib, minor concussion, dislocated shoulder, and minor scratches. (Teme asked for it.)

Status: grudgingly cooperative

Subject B: Karin (no name):

Height: 5'8

Weight: 120

Age: 25

Injuries: broken nose, several critical gashes, head trauma, minor bruises, and a small skull fracture, broken jaw, concussion. (Can I get a hell yeah for the kickers of fugly slut ass!!?)

Status: Uncooperative

Subject C: Hozaki Suigetsu

Height: 5'11

Weight: 200

Age: 24

Injuries: jaw fracture, broken bones.

Status: Cooperative

Subject D: Juggo (no name):

Height: 7'0

Weight 270

Age: 24

Injuries: broken wrist

Status: Cooperative.

Mission Status: Successful.

Sincerely- TEAM KAKASHI Believe it!

Amber eyes surveyed the short report before her. A smile touched her lips at the enthusiastic scribbles written here and there. These kids were still the same. "I guess it's time to break the news to them." she murmured. What a day for Team Seven this would be. What a day for Konoha itself. "So it begins." The older woman took another drink of sake. Things in the village were about to get interesting. For now there was the issue of dealing with these prisoners of hers. "Shizune!" she called, slapping down the file onto her large desk. "Hai Hokage-sama." the assistant came right away standing dutifully.

"Double the guard in the Konoha prison we have S-ranked missing-nins heading there now! And tell Naruto and Sakura to stop making all that noise outside." she smiled faintly at the sound of the Rookie nine going crazy in front of the Hokage Tower. Naruto's voice leading their chanting proudly and enthusiastically. "We're all happy about this success but we don't want to disturb the peace." she added softly. "I want interrogators to be ready for the Uchiha, after he leaves the hospital." she ordered. Shizune was attentively writing everything down as the Godaime spoke. "Subject D is mentally unstable according to Sakura and Naruto, they wish to grant him some amount of leniency, but they also say that his main problem is the curse-seal.. Kakashi confirmed that 'it's the seal that makes him dangerous'." she murmured. "Yamato says that he is not consciously a threat." Shizune nodded. "I need to learn more about his seal…do you think I can make it's power dormant?" she stroked her chin. "Perhaps the Uchiha can enlighten us." Shizune proposed. "Add that onto the info-list for the interrogation." Tsunade conceded motioning with one hand. "Hai." Shizune nodded again. "Good, and I want you to send escorts to take the hospitalized member so Team Hebi into their carefully built cells." she finished her orders. "Now go! Hustle!" she shooed her secretary away.

As soon as she was gone and her foot-steps subsided, Tsunade pulled an entire bottle of sake out from under her desk. With a mischievous chuckle she downed a mouthful. "Ha." she smirked. "Let's celebrate this success my old friend." she spoke to a picture of the deceased Jiraiya. She was the only Sannin left…it felt…odd, and lonely to boot. Well she was old, she'd soon be joining the Toad-sannin soon enough. "To more surprises and turns of events that will drive us all insane." she held up the bottle and downed some more. Shizune would scold her to death for this. The chanting outside still had not stopped yet. Chances were that Kakashi and Yamato had already tried to quiet them down the moment it started…but it was no use. They were happy and determined to express it. Once the Rookie-9 decided something there was no stopping them. It was never a truer statement than it was at that moment either. It went quiet every once in a while before they would start cheering and chanting something new. She'd give it few more minutes until she went out there to kick their asses herself. Perfect day. Now for some research.