[Sealed to active Konoha shinobi] Backdated September 7th

[thebestuchiha]

[Enough was enough. He'd been patient. He'd been nice. He'd been lenient. Now, he was going to be angry. It was too far to expect him to be a nice guy when one of their own shinobi was kidnapped from inside the village. Much too far. The scrolls that got the message glowed a brilliant, angry crimson, so the moment it was seen it would be more than obvious that the Hokage was not in a pleasant mood.]

I expect to be contacted within three days by everyone who has had guard duty of any kind within Konoha over the last seven days. Any who don't who are not on a mission and who do not do so will be dealt with using extreme prejudice.

Uchiha Obito,
Godaime Hokage.

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[mokutonno]

Yamato took in the desk and Obito's tense posture, everything screaming disarray and what he was beginning to suspect was panic. He shot the other man a searching look.

"What's happened to warrant this?"

[thebestuchiha]

"Rogue nin got into the village and kidnapped someone and no one noticed until the girl was maimed." He took a deep breath, reminding himself to keep at peace, if he was flustered and freaking out he'd never get anywhere.

[mokutonno]

The dread that he'd been holding off, finally sunk into his stomach and Yamato was silent for a long moment before he could find the will to speak.

"No one noticed? Who's overseeing the ANBU roster for your approval? They should be hung out to dry for this!"

Yamato bit off a further outburst, mind reeling at the idea that the village had been left so vulnerable as to let an intruder in at all.

[thebestuchiha]

"You were aware of the security leak, the one we had before when I got on everyone's case about omissions? I still haven't tracked it down." He was about ready to visibly rip his hair out over that too. "I'm almost completely certain they're related, and this is- agh!" He gestured sharply at the mess of papers, sitting back.

"Clearly the person I have overseeing doesn't know what the hell they're doing."

[mokutonno]

"Still haven't..." Yamato let the words sink in, not entirely processing them immediately and his mouth dropped open in shock.

"Obito-sama, it's entirely possible that the person in charge is the security leak, if this is how they are helping you!"

He scanned the table, completely at a loss that Obito had been battling with this without a word until now and mind considering everyone he knew of any rank.

[thebestuchiha]

"Ha, they're already with Inoichi if that's what you were wondering about. Have been since I realized that the ANBU patrols had been as ineffective as the public ones. I've been talking with the Police force too... it's been a mess and more than a few groups are outraged it happened at all."

[mokutonno]

Yamato grimaced "I'm not surprised..The girl though, is she alright?" If word of this got out to the village proper, who knows what could happen? and they would be practically defenceless until the rosters were sorted and the leak was tracked down.

[thebestuchiha]

"Blinded in one eye. Thankfully word hasn't gotten out about her actual bloodline and it was just a rumor based dojutsu attack or we might not have caught up to them before they did something to her." He let out an aggravated breath. "She's a good kid, this shouldn't have happened."

[mokutonno]

He breathed a sigh of relief "Well that's some good news at least.." Yamato had seen the gossip that publication had inspired around the village, but he hadn't been aware that the rumours had spread so far so quickly as to inspire an attack..It was just as worrying as the security leak.

"Has anyone tracked down the source of this 'Gossip Magazine'? It makes me feel just as uneasy as the security leak."

[thebestuchiha]

"Difficult, but I'm sure with some more work we'll find the owner as well as the location the publication started at."

[mokutonno]

Yamato nodded, of course, there would have to be a printing press somewhere, or at least evidence of one, but the security patrols came first.

"What can I do to assist?"
Something so prolific happening a mere month after his reduced service from ANBU, made him wary and all the more insistent in being involved where he could.

[thebestuchiha]

He seemed to consider that for a moment. "Locate the ones distributing and track them back to the building and get a full list of what countries have access to the paper?"