Shibuki got a little scared, and asked, "B-but, who would send a fake messenger hawk?"
Kakashi thought a bit and replied, "If you are telling the truth, then it's either our enemy or your village's enemy, and they probably want me out of it, an elite Jōnin, might be a problem for them."
Shibuki looked at the kids and Genin before asked, "But why someone and for what reason..."
"I don't know!" replied Kakashi immediately and said, "They either are after you and maybe the Jinchūriki of my team or even your village's."
"Huh! Jinchūriki of your team, wait... that loud-mouthed kid, with whiskers, is he..." asked Shibuki while making a guess, which even he felt is correct.
"Yes, he is the Jinchūriki of Kyūbi." nodded Kakashi, after all it's not a big deal, since pretty much all great nations knows about it, so there's no fear of getting information leaked, when it's already leaked, plus Takigakure is in alliance with Konoha, and Shibuki is a leader of Takigakure.
"If whoever they are is after Jinchūriki, then Fuu is also in danger, but I think.." paused Shibuki, before glancing at Kakashi warily, "They might even be after Hero Water. What do we do now?"
"They probably want me out and wouldn't take action unless I am gone, so I will go and hide, and let them comes out, plus don't worry much, my Genin team is also very strong, unless enemy are Kage level ninja, they can easily fight them. I advise you to take them inside the village, I will follow behind in hiding." assured Kakashi, before turning to his Team, and called them out aloud, "Hey, kids. Sorry, I have to go back to our village."
"Did something happen?" asked Sakura.
"Nothing much, but an emergency meeting of Jonin, Hokage-sama summoned me." answered Kakashi, "But I will come back as early as possible."
"Yosh! You can leave the rest to Naruto here... the one who'll inherit the Hokage's title in future." declared Naruto aloud.
And seeing him like this Kakashi sighed, 'No matter what I do, I don't think I can have Naruto drop his dream of becoming Hokage. Phew, well whatever, that thing is still decades away.'
Kakashi then got up, and said, "Well, then take care of the things here." and glanced at Shibuki, gave him a nod, signaled him to stay alert and then instantly flickered.
"Say, What's Hokage?" asked Shizuku to Naruto after Kakashi flickered.
"Hm, Hokage is the top Shinobi in the Konoha, every other great villages have their own Kage." replied Naruto, enthusiastically. "To put it simply, he is the hero who protects the village."
"Hmm... then he's just like Shibuki-sama." said Himatsu with smile, while carrying out canes from the river.
"Huh! Shibuki?" Naruto looked at Shibuki, scoffed, "Hey, don't lump Kage's together with that guy! They are a totally different class!"
"Don't make fun of Shibuki-sama!" yelled Shizuku, at Naruto with a clearly annoyed look.
"He may be a little cowardly, but Shibuki-sama is a hero of Hidden Waterfall Village!" shouted Himatsu at Naruto as well, before both jumped at Naruto, who ran from them immediately, but straight jumped into a piece of dog shit.
Shibuki ignoring their antics, looked around the forest area, but was doubtful at Kakashi as well and thought, 'Was he telling me truth?'
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In a dense forest area, around Takigakure, sat many figures in gray, a three stood in front of them, all were looking at the one figure, who sat at the front, their leader, who has a goatee, long spiky hair, and a bandanna that held his hair out of his face.
"Can we really sneak in from a place like this... Suien-sama?" one asked, named Murasame, who has chin-length gray hair, spiked at the top, and a red line marking that goes over his nose.
"Trust me... I used to be a Jonin at Hidden Waterfall Village, I know all the secret passage to Takigakure." answered Suien calmly, before looking at a masked person and said, "Kirisame... No senseless killing, understand."
"Shall we move now, that Jonin from Leaf Village has gone now, my hawk has already returned." asked a woman, with short brown spiky hair, and sharp features, named Hisane.
"But why do we even need to worry about that Jonin, who wore the mask like Kirisame?" asked Murasame.
"Looks like you didn't recognize him when he entered at border of Takigakure with Shibuki and those brats." chuckled Suien and explained, "That was Konoha's infamous, copy ninja, Kakashi of Sharingan."
Murasame and Hisame gasped and asked, "Was he really Kakashi? I never saw him personally, so I didn't recognise him, but it looks like it was good to have him out, otherwise he would be a problem for us."
"Whatever... Let's just take over the village and get a hold of the Hero's water!" said Kirisame aloud, didn't care about any of this.
"The only one who knows the hiding place of the Hero Water is Shibuki, current leader of Takigakure after Hisen's death." said Suien before explaining. "And in order to make him talk, it's necessary to take the villagers hostage. Hmm... I must hand it to you Hisane, rumored shrewdest Ninja of Hidden Rain Village."
"That was long ago, Suien-sama, like you... We are all Rogue Ninjas now." said Hisane, crossing her arms over her chest, smirking.
"Alright, let's get moving!" announced Suien, getting up and started to move towards the huge waterfall mountain.
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Meanwhile back to Shibuki's side, he didn't do anything yet. He wasn't believing Kakashi, he thought that maybe it is a way of Konoha, getting the location of Takigakure's entrance. After Naruto washed off the clump of dog shit, he and others once again started to take out waste from the river for the next half an hour.
Kakashi in hiding sighed and mumbled, "He is quite sensitive about giving away the location of Takigakure's entrance. Well at least he is good at one thing as a leader, not believing things easily. However, if the enemy is from Takigakure, then he just wasted the time by not believing my words."
After the group managed to clean the river, and take the trash out, Naruto collapsed on the ground and declared, "Man... I'm hungry!" He then looked over at everyone and asked, "What do you say? Shall we take a break and eat something—"
"If you're going to eat, you can just leave, your job is done anyways." scoffed Shibuki, rudely at Naruto, after half an hour of contemplation, he has made his mind that Kakashi was just using tricks to get the location of Takigakure's entrance.
However, Kakashi already noticed a very small chakra signature, coming towards their location, with very slow steps. He frowned a little, 'Looks like there is really something going on!'