Yuura was the Jonin who had original been in charge of the guards who watched the gate into Sunagakure, four years ago he had managed to work his way up towards the position on the advisory council. Yuura wore councilor robes and wrap around bandana, he had spiky bangs that covered half of his face and a small beard.
"The Chunin exams are coming soon," one of the councilors stated as this was Suna's year to host the exams, "I am looking forward to the results."
Yuura stood from his seat to garner everyone's attention, "as am I however… I have received some rather disturbing information on a rumor that has come up recently…"
"What kind of rumors?" asked Baki as he looked at the man.
"This information is from Jiraiya of the legendary three," Yuura stated getting everyone's attention. "Have you all heard of a group called Akatsuki?" mumbling surrounded the announcement of that name, while many people knew of them most thought they were a simple mercenary group. Gaara looked at Yuura as he continued, "they seem to be a powerful group made of nine S class ninja who are after a specific group of people, they are after Jinchurikki…"
The noise in the room increased as everyone began to talk about the information, many of the advisors were looking at Gaara who remained impassive at the information.
"Furthermore I believe that because of the threat these people pose I think it would behoove us to tighten security during the Chunin Exams, just to be on the safe side," Yuura continued.
"Do you believe these people pose a serious threat to Kazekage-Sama?" asked one of the other council members.
"The information itself comes from Jiraiya-Sama," Yuura said in answer, "if he feels that they are a threat I believe it would be best to ere on the side of caution."
"You make many good points councilor Yuura," stated Gaara who had up until this point been silent. When the young Kazekage spoke everyone quieted down, it was a rare event for Gaara to speak at the meetings but when he did they were often said with a wisdom not usually found in one so young. "We will do as you suggest and up the security measures during the Chunin Exams, it would also be a good show of strength while the other nations shinobi are here. I would like you to handle the security detail, can you do it Yuura?"
"Of course Kazekage-Sama," Yuura said with a bow.
The rest of the meeting was mainly listening to the various pieces of information about the chunin exams, as well as the security measures Yuura was going to take.
"Then this meeting is adjourned," Baki said as the members of the council stood up to leave.
Gaara stood up as well and began to make his way to the Kazekage tower, since he could not sleep he might as well finish the paperwork.
Yuura began to walk through the halls of the council buildings with one of the other members, "well done Yuura," the man said. "It is a fine idea to tighten the security on the village, even Kazekage-Sama seemed to think so."
"I'm just glad I could help my superiors that I've been working for for the past four years," Yuura said in a humble tone. "Besides this information came from Jiraiya-Sama himself, so I had to make a decision quickly." Stopping Yuura's eyes widened as he felt an intense head ache, grabbing his head the man bent down as he tried to get the pain to leave.
"Hey are you alright?" the other council member asked.
"I… yes I just haven't been getting enough sleep," Yuura said straitening up the Jonin councilor shook his head and began to walk again. what was that? Wondered Yuura as he continued walking.
Deidra and Sasori continued their trek across the hot desert of Suna, Deidra looked over at Sasori and had to wonder how the man could not be bothered by this stifling heat. Looking out over the desert Deidra decided to make conversation, "so those people Orochimaru tricked are up ahead yeah?" Deidra asked. When Sasori didn't answer Deidra looked out across the dunes, "it seems that for some reason he leaked our information and turned into a traitor yeah."
"We don't have a choice it seems," Sasori said after a long moment of silence, "I don't know what he's like after using that jutsu either." Sasori spoke, referring to the body possession jutsu the snake Sennin had made. The puppet user looked at Deidra who had grabbed a bag from his pouch, "will you be alright with just that bag, our opponent is a Jinchurikki after all?"
"I wouldn't worry about me," Deidra said as he unzipped a pouch on his waist and stuck his hand in. "My jutsu are all artistic, so I came up with my favorite, number 18 yeah. Because our opponent is the one tails yeah," Deidra brought his hand out of the pouch to show that the bottom of his hand had a mouth on it.
As they continued walking they eventually came upon the gates of Suna, along the walls were several dozen guards who were currently staring at the two figures that were coming their way in surprise. Before any of the shinobi had a chance to react Yuura who had come up just moments ago killed them by activating several traps. Walking to the front of the gate Yuura got down on one knee as he bowed to the two of them as they walked up.
Sasori and Deidra walked up to the bowed down figure, "Well done," Sasori said in his gruff voice, "do you remember me?"
"Yes sir! Of course Sasori-Sama!" Yuura said still in a kneeling position.
"Good, since your memories have returned you are my faithful servant," Sasori stated pleased to see that his slave seal had done it's work properly.
"Alright." Deidra said, "If you'd forgotten I might have had to use my jutsu… yeah." Deidra looked at the mouth on his left hand as it finished chewing the clay he had it eat, "alright then here we go." the mouth coughed up some clay and Deidra began to mold it into a bird, "Sasori your husband should watch to yeah," Deidra said in a teasing voice. He threw the bird into the hair and held his hands in a hand sign, there was a puff of smoke and when it cleared the little bird that Deidra had molded was now twice as large as Deidra himself. Jumping on the bird Deidra threw off his hat and grinned as he looked back at Sasori, "What do you think of my artistic modeling yeah?" Deidra asked Sasori as he flew into the air not giving the man a chance to speak.
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