"Sir what will be the name of over team?" an Anbu ninja asked.

  "Shadow," Shisui said, not at all thinking about it, just saying the first thing in his mind.

  After discussing the 'pn,' team shadow went out of the vilge. Their location was nd of iron. There are two ways to reach there: either they have to cross nd of Earth and evade Iwagakure and one minor vilge, which is shorter but more dangerous route; oing through nd of sand and many more minor vilges.

  Since Sunagakure is an ally of Konoha, this path is retively safer, but sihey have to cross the rgest try and many minor vilges, this is the longer route.

  Normally a team would choose the sed option si was safer, but sihe mission was very urgent, no one in team shadow had a pn to take that route. They just directly moved toward Iwagakure.

  And even if they had any su, they would have still taken the same path since Shisui was their leader, and it was mandatory to follow orders of your leader during a mission. Failing to do so may result in termination of your ninja career.

  That is, if you are able to e back alive. Team shadow had en soldier pills till now si was not certain how much time they would o plete the mission, and if they take the pill and had a fight ohird day, it would be disastrous.

  That's why they kept on running toward their location, occasionally using movement jutsu like body flicker and then once again running till they recovered their chakra. Sihe plete team sisted of ninja who were specialized in movement jutsu ility in general, they were already moving very fast without the use of any jutsu.

  After 12 hours, they reached the border of nd of fire.

  "Sir, there is an outpost his area. I think we should take a rest there before moving further," an Anbu ninja said.

  Shisui nodded his head. Even though they were jonins ae jonin, running at their full speed as well as using movement jutsu so many times would drain energy and chakra like a hole in a pot.

  After seeing Shisui nod, everyone sighed in relief. From the urgend ahey had seen in Shisui's voice, they almost expected Shisui to order them to keep on moving till they reached the location of the mission.

  "We still have 4-5 hours of daylight. It will be foolish to go to nd of earth now; Iwagakure will surely be active now. Let's wait and take a rest for 8 hours and then tinue our journey," Shisui said, easily showing his subordinates why he ointed as their leader. With experience of war and hundreds of shinobi missions, Shisui already knew how to trol his emotions and not let them alter his deaking capabilities.

  They went to the outpost. After seeing Shisui and the Hyuga, there was no need for a thh check-up as it was very difficult to transform into someoh a w kekkei genkai.

  All of the members directly went to sleep except Shisui. It was ary for a ninja to always be on guard when on a mission, especially if that mission is an S-rank mission. No matter how secure of a pce you have found for the rest, a Ninja should always be on guard.

  Since all of his team members were tired, Shisui asked them to take a rest first while he stood guard, and they could ge roles after some time. After a sleep of 4-5 hours, the ninja switched the role and Shisui also rested. The food was arranged for them before leaving.

  At 9:30 PM, team shadow ehe nd of Earth. They naturally chose the farthest location from Iwagakure; there was no need for them to make any move against Iwa Shinobi without any reason.

  "There is a squad 15 km to our left. From the amount of chakra they possess, they all are in, most likely a patrol squad," said Satoshi Hyuga with his byakugan active.

  "Are they moving toward us?" Shisui asked.

  "In eneral dire, but I don't think they know about us," Satoshi said.

  "Everyone, hide your chakra signature and follow me," Shisui said.

  Since everyone present there was an Anbu ninja, they were masters at hiding their chakra, and the other two were elite jonin. So there was no way they would get spotted by a team sisting of in.

  With their chakra hidden, team shadow started running away from the path of the patrol squad of Iwa. With the help of Byakugan, there was no y Iwa Shinobi not particurly searg for them would be able to find everaces, let alone like the team.

  With the help of the darkness of the night, they swiftly crossed the nd of earth. By the m, all of them were almost out of the try, but sidering the amount of distahey had travelled, which was more than 17,000 km, they were more than tired.

  "We will take rest here. Satoshi, you will keep watch for any enemy. These two will be with you. Till then, we will take rest. After 3 hours, we will ge our position," Shisui said.

  "Yes sir," Satoshi replied.

  With him and Shisui beie Jonin along with their Dojutsu, they were the most suitable ones for keeping the watch. Si was still night, the responsibility lies on Satoshi's Byakugan. Naturally, no one objected to Shisui's orders.

  After taking the rest, they tiheir journey. As soon as they covered the border of nd of earth, the ge in terrain became visible. The rocky terrain of nd of earth started to get covered in a thin yer of snow. The vegetation, which was already sparse in nd of earth, became sparser.

  This was nd of iron. If not for its mineral-rich soil, this would have been named as nd of Snow, due to being covered in Snow all year long. The vegetation was very sparse in the region; they mainly bought food from other tries.

  Due to the terrain, team shadow ged their clothes, now wearing pletely white clothes.

  "Luckily the root base is oskirts. So this part should be easy," one of the fairly young Anbu Ninja said.

  "This is an S-Rank Mission, boy. This is never going to be easy. Always be on guard during such missions, no matter how good a situation looks," Satoshi said, slightly revealing a ssh mark on his hands.

  The Anbu Ninja nodded his head.

  "Enough talking. We are directly going to the base. Acc to Inoichi, there should be no outpost he base, but si is Lord Third's order, we will first check for any outpost in the area of 100 Kotoamatsukami around the base before taking any a."

  "Yes sir," the team replied.

  And they started moving toward the root base. After one hour, they successfully reached the location.

  "Satoshi, take three Anbu with you. You will be responsible for searg the east side pletely. I will sear the west side. If you find anything, don't engage in the fight uhey have spotted you, and if necessary, make sure no evidence is left behind. We will meet here in 2 hours. If any of us is not present at that time, we will search for that team, but one order is absolute: don't get captured at any price. Even though they don't have strength necessary to do so, if they mao capture you guys, Konoha will be in a very bad spot," Shisui said.

  "Don't worry," Satoshi said and took a team with him. Shisui did the same, and they searched the area around the root base thhly.

  After 2 hours, both teams met at the same spot.

  "All clear in the east."

  "Same for the west."

  With the preparation plete, it was now time to plete the mission.