Powerful Kunoichi

The Old Monk's Prayer

Aoba -No, it's not them.

Shinobi 2 - Okay Let's go!

Two old men were walking on the trail

Old Man 1 - Bandits!

They threw chops of wood at Ino and Choji

Shinobi 2 - You shouldn't be out here, old timers. You should have received a communication from the Land of Fire about the temporary curfew.

Old Man 1 - We thought we could be of use somehow.

Old Man 2 - We won't be giving in to you youngsters! That was a surprise.

Ino - That was scary

Choji - Yeah

Shizune - Using the twenty platoons, we are currently laying out a search net with a radius of 150 kilometers around the border and the Temple of Fire. Even an ant couldn't crawl out.

Shinobi - Excuse me.We have received a report from Platoon Three. No sign of the Akatsuki in border areas C and E.

Tsunade - No sign, huh?!

A shinobi burst through the door

Shinobi 2 - Reporting! Areas F and G are normal! The Akatsuki still have not been found!

Tsunade - Then Why haven't they been found? Have we heard from Team Asuma who went to the Temple of Fire?

Shizune - No report from them yet.

Asuma - *Chiriku*

Asuma, Shikamaru, Kotetsu and Izumo finally made it to the Fire Temple

Shikamaru - What's this?

Old Monk - You are from the Hidden Leaf Village, right?

Asuma - Yes.

Young Monk - We were contacted by the monk who is in your care.

Old Monk - I am the head monk of the Temple of Fire. I had been out of the temple for a while. When I heard about what happened here I rushed back as quickly as I could, but It was a terrible sight

The two monks led the team to the destroyed fire temple. In the clearing next to it laid hundreds of boxes filled with bodies

Old Monk - We asked neighboring temples for help recovering the remains.

Shikamaru - This is awful.

Asuma - Where's Chiriku?

Young Monk - Actually we have been unable to find Lord Chiriku's remains.

Izumo - Umm Captain Asuma. I don't really want to bring this up But Chiriku has a 30 million ryo bounty on his head on the black market.

Shikamaru - 30 million ryo that's quite a large bounty. A bounty If those guys from the Akatsuki know about the bounty

Asuma - Yeah

Shikamaru - A collection office, huh? So that basically means the enemy is carrying the body, right?

Kotetsu - Izumo, where is the collection office?

Izumo - Including the closest one, there are five locations in total. Now the nearby teams can rush right to the other four exchange point locations.

Asuma - All right, let's hurry.

Old Monk - Please wait a moment, Lord Asuma Sarutobi. Please allow me to say a prayer for all of you who are about to fight. Please

Asuma - Okay. *Chiriku, Chiriku. Now I'm the only member of the Guardian Shinobi Twelve left, huh? I wanted to talk the night away with you one more time. There were things I wanted to talk to you about. And things I wanted you to hear.*