The journey to the north-west, towards the Land of Waterfall continued, and after a long while, well it wasn't that long, they arrived at their destination. A huge, massive rocky mountain, and a large waterfall flowing down from a higher top, well it was quite a great view to be honest.
Despite the simple structure outward, it was still hard to guess which is the right way through inside Takigakure. Though the team has Shibuki, the leader of that village, and easily found their way inside, however they didn't directly go way inside Takigakure, Shibuki only have them at near entrance first.
"Wow! Look at that huge waterfall!" exclaimed Naruto, viewing this very view, stood in front of the team.
"We've arrived..." announced Shibuki, with a smile.
"So, this is the village hidden in the Waterfall." said Sasuke, though he was as surprised and gazed out at the huge waterfall as Naruto and Sakura. It was morning time, a sunny day, and looking at such a great view ahead, really makes the day for the team.
Kakashi himself was looking at the waterfall ahead with a gazed look, it was really a wonderful scene and thought, 'Well, looks like the mission is almost over, once Shibuki is sent inside the Takigakure. Yes, this is how a mission should be...'
Throughout the journey here, for the last few days, it was Naruto who continued to ask around the world questions, and had the chat keep going. Kakashi has also asked Shibuki, of why he gets so scared easily?
Especially when, their journey was also slowed down a little, thanks to Shibuki jumping at every Shadow of birds and small animals, and hiding behind Sakura many times... and for some reasons only behind Sakura.
To answer Kakashi, Shibuki proudly said more like explained in a way telling a long tale, that he is the leader of Takigakure, and after him, there aren't any good leaders who can lead the village currently, so he didn't want to die and take caution at every step. It really wasn't something to be proud of...
The team just scoffed at his response, if jumping at every Shadow of small birds and animals, is called cautious, then that would make even small kids be called cautious all the time.
Kakashi didn't personally know about Hisen, but from whatever he knows, especially the fact that he died trying protecting his village, losing his life later in the fight, this alone shows how brave and capable a leader he was... however Shibuki can't be said the same, Kakashi even doubts if Shibuki is the real son of Hisen.
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"Shibuki-sama!"
"Welcome home, Shibuki-sama!"
Just as the group entered Takigakure, two kids rushed over, waving hands towards Shibuki.
"Hey, don't come close. I'm the village leader you know! I don't have time to play with you." rebuked Shibuki at the kids, who stopped in front of the group, slightly huffing from the run.
"No, you're mistaken shibuki-sama, we are going to clean up this area." said the boy, with black hair, large eyes, named Himatsu.
"Hm, hm, mom told us!" chimed in the small, cute girl, with brown hair in pigtails, her bangs covered her left forehead side, named Shizuku.
"I see.." nodded Shibuki, crossing his arms, before smiling and turning to Team 7 Genin and said, "Then we can get help from the ninjas of hidden leaf village."
"Hey, wait a minute, we aren't—" retorted Naruto, but Shibuki immediately interjected. "We'll pay you! So, take this on as a part of your mission."
"Hey, we aren't handyman! You've gotta be kidd—" yelled Naruto.
"Thank You, onii-chan!" But the kids immediately cut in, looking at Naruto with expected gazes.
"That'll really help! The current's pretty strong, and it can be scary." said Shizuku.
"Hey, are we done escorting you?" asked Sasuke, who has no desire to be doing extra labor work.
"Well, this far is enough." replied Shibuki, with a nod, before looking at Naruto again with a smile.
"Urr.. Kakashi-sensei..." Naruto looked at Kakashi, expecting him to take them out from this extra cleaning job from the river.
Kakashi however, didn't even look at them, or their conversation till now, but was trying to sense another vast Chakra, after Naruto in Takigakure currently, trying to spot out Fuu, which was proven to be simple, and was looking at the direction at his left but several kilometers of distance away, directly inside Takigakure, as they are currently not exactly inside.
Hearing Naruto, Kakashi glanced at him, and asked, "What?"
But before Naruto could say, Shibuki said, "These kids are from my village, and asked you team for help in cleaning river, and they agreed."
"HEY!!!"
"Alright, if you want to help, you can Naruto, Sakura and... Sasuke you didn't look quite eager for an extra job, Shibuki will have to pay for this, and we can stay here for some more time, since it's already completed." Kakashi spoke, before again looking at the direction, where he was sensing another vast raw chakra of a Tailed-Beast.
'It really slipped my mind to tell Naruto about Kurama, and Tailed-Beasts history after Land of Waves mission.' thought Kakashi, 'But now that I remember, plus there is another Jinchūriki here, I can have Naruto meet with Fuu and can tell both of them about it. Maybe even Fuu can become a perfect Jinchūriki, after all Chōmei, surprisingly is quite an easygoing Tailed-Beast.'
"Haaa.. well let's help them a little, Naruto, Sasuke-kun." sighed Sakura, looking at Naruto and Sasuke. Who equally sighed, and took down their bags, later the group, following Shibuki, and two kids led, walked to the forest and then the river side.
Kakashi meanwhile sat on a rock, with Shibuki besides him, just then a messenger hawk flew over the sky came towards Kakashi, who raised his left arm and took out the message.
Shibuki, suddenly saw the Hawk, immediately jumped down, but Kakashi assured him with a sigh, "It's just a carrier kite of the leaf village."
Shibuki got up and asked, "What a messager hawk? Does it mean you are going?"
"Huh?! An emergency summon for a Jōnin meeting?" confused Kakashi, glanced at Shibuki, to answer then thought, 'What the hell it is? I am on a mission, with the village's Jinchūriki, and Sasuke, Hiruzen definitely wouldn't send such a message... Something's fishy here... plus this hawk can also be a fake one, used by an enemy.'
He then stared at Shibuki and asked, "Hey, be honest, is there anyone going to attack you or Takigakure? And you lied about the mission difficulty?"
Shibuki flinched for a moment, before replying with confusion, "No, no, why would I lie about the mission difficulty, I have enough money to assign even a S-rank mission, plus there's no one going to attack us. But... why do you suddenly ask that?"
"Because this message seems like a fake one. Sandaime Hokage, wouldn't send any message for me alone to come back, when I am on a mission with my team." replied Kakashi, with a serious tone.