-----YOUR POV-----
I carefully took the dove from Kouda and thanked him.
"No problem."
I took the note attached to the white bird's leg. I scratched its neck before setting it free watching it fly away. I opened the note. It was small and the message was short.
"Tsunade?" Gray asked.
"Yeah.."
"What is it?" Uraraka asked.
"Is something wrong?" Midoriya asked looking concerned.
"Its nothing guys. Just an update that i need to take care of." I said standing up taking another bite off my food and grabbing the sandwich at the side for later.
"You're not going to finish that?" Sero asked.
"Sorry. I have to handle this first." I picked up my tray to empty it. "Come along Gray."
We exited the cafeteria faster than usual. I didn't want to face any of my schoolmates. Like hell I'll ever do that. I know they're up to no good no matter what. So i went straight to the classroom sitting in my seat, sandwich in hand, Gray on the table and the bingo book between us.
"How many are they again?"
"So far we know 13 members but we only have records of six people in the group. There's Itachi, Sasori, Hidan, Kakuzu, Deidara, and Kisame."
"But four are dead, right?" Gray asked.
"Yeah." I lifted the piece of paper i had received earlier. "And this one makes five." I flipped the pages until i reached the correct one.
"Deidara of the Hidden Stone."
"So how did his one die?" Gray asked.
"I don't know but i heard Kakashi and Naruto was on his tail."
"Okay, so who's the last one?"
"Kisame Hoshigaki of the hidden mist. According to Guy sensei this one wields a strange chakra eating sword. "
"Well thats gonna be trouble."
"Yeah. It is." I paused thinking about the six unknown members of the Akatsuki. "There's that blue haired woman Sunagakure mentioned and those six guys with piercings. The ones i fought in the camino ward." I flipped through the pages scanning it. "None of the ones listed here look anything like the guys in camino."
"So we literally have no clues as to who they are?"
"Sadly..." I sighed closing the book. I opened my bag and pulled out my notebook, a pen and a photo i took from Fukusaku.
He curiously walked to me eyeing the photo i had in my hand. "what's that?"
"The last thing Master Jiraiya wrote before he died. Its some sort of code. Maybe it can help us with the Akatsuki."
I sat there trying to decode whatever it was Master Jiraiya was trying to say before his untimely death. I tried several types of codes but the message just didn't add up so i scratched that and start over. Ive been at decoding this for so long my classmates have returned from the cafeteria.
"Heya (y/n)!" Hagakure said sitting on her chair in front of my desk.
"Hey." I smiled glancing up at her before going back on my the decoding.
"What cha doin there?" She asked.
"Just something im solving."
"Some sort of code?" Mina asked.
"Yeah. It's my Master's last message before he was killed. Whatever this is could help us with the Akatsuki." I sighed. "If only i had some clue on how to solve this." I stopped and yawned.
"Hey let me give it a try." Kaminari volunteered.
I pushed the picture to Kaminari. "By all means."
"You cant even answer in math, good luck solving that." Jiro teased Kaminari.
"Hey!"
The others laughed while he continued on guessing. Soon enough a small group of my friends huddled over trying to solve the code. Meanwhile i was thinking to my self reciting the code over and over.
"9, 31, 8, 106, 7, 207, 15."
I scratched my head and sighed picking up the bingo book fishing for the note between the pages that i left.
Deidara's dead.. Kisame is still out there and based of Fukasaku-sama's words, Master Jiraiya was fighting against the Pains in the land of hidden rain.
(Or pein. But imma stick with pain lol)
How are we going to catch someone without knowing anything about them?
"Another one?" Midoriya asked beside me.
"Yeah but this one was from the Akatsuki."
"So there are 8 others out there. Although we only have information on one member."
"Where did the other six come from?" Midoriya asked.
"The piercing guys i fought in camino ward. Intel says there are six of them currently out there but thats it. No other information.
"And the last one is that masked guy right?"
I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion. "I never heard of anyone in the akatsuki with a mask aside from Kakuzu."
"Not him, there was another man in an orange mask during the fight in camino ward."
I stopped and looked at him. "What did he look like?"
"He had short black hair and an orange swirled mask with one eye hole."
"I don't remember..." i paused in thought. "Anything else Izuku?"
"Well, i remember those Akatsuki disappearing. Then he looked at us before vanishing into thin air. Unlike Kurogiri, this guy sucks them in an unseen vortex of some kind." He trailed off.
"I wonder if Kakashi-sensei knows anything about this masked guy." I stood up and opened the window slightly ajar and whistled, prolonging the sound just for a few seconds. Then a bird came in. The same white dove from earlier. Sitting back down on my chair with the bird in hand i quickly took another piece of paper and wrote on it containing the new information i had learned. I rolled it and placed it in the small container around the bird's leg before sending it off to Konoha.
"What was that?" Midoriya asked.
"I had to send the information back to Lady Tsunade. So they'll keep their eyes of for that masked ninja.
Soon the next teacher walked in to start the next class. We agreed to continue it later.
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-----NO ONE'S POV-----
"I don't get it. We've tried every single decoding system in existence!" Kaminari exclaimed leaning back.
"Not really, all we did was look for anything online or by book." Jirou said putting down her phone and pencil.
"Yet theres still nothing." Momo said with a book in hand.
"Exactly." Kaminari said.
"But what if it isn't known?" Midoriya asked.
"Huh?" They tilted their heads confused.
"Think about it. (Y/n) came from a place we never knew existed. We never knew about people who can wield chakra yet here she is a living example. What if you have your own type of decoding mechanic. Maybe we can make sense of it there." Midoriya said with an encouraging smile.
(Y/n) scratched her head and sighed. "That's what ive been doing. Ive beed through several but nothing that i can make sense of. I've even thought, "what if its a code within a code?" And tried to go through it again. I still have nothing up to now." She said slightly irritated.
"But you can't give up yet. We're here to help."
She looked up at Midoriya then scanned the room. Her classmates were encouraging her with a smile. She chuckled. And then she laughed.
"Now how the hell am i going to stop when you guys are giving me a determined look like that." She paused. "I have several books and scrolls in my room. I'll go get them. You guys look what you can do with the code." She placed one of her special kunais on the floor and out her hands together then she disappeared.
Aizawa walked in on his students sitting in the living room, some occupied the sofas, while the others occupied floor surrounding the table. With scattered paper and their mentally exhausted state, they looked like overtime office workers who were constantly banging their heads on the table complaining about the paperwork due tomorrow.
"What are you all up to?" He asked slightly concerned and more confused about the state of his students.
"We're helping (y/n) decode this code her master left." Kirishima explained.
"We've been at this since we came home. Even Kaminari is done, he didn't even used his quirk on anything." Sero said pointing at Kaminari's bubbling idiot state.
"Yay." Kaminari said exhaustedly with his thumbs up.
Aizawa walked towards the table and picked up the photo, eyeing it. "How is it?"
"We've tried everything!" Mina huffed out.
"Everything we know. Even anything online but nothing." Iida said lowering his head in disappointment.
"So (y/n)'s getting whatever reference she has in her country." Midoriya said.
Out of nowhere, (y/n) popped up with books and scrolls in hand. "Oh. Hiya Aizawa sensei." She greeted the tired looking teacher. She placed them on the table amd took one for her self and bent down picking up the special kunai she left earlier.
"Where did you get this?" Aizawa asked about he picture.
"From Fukusaku-sama. Actually, thats a photo of his back."
Aizawa placed the photo back.
"Continue on." He walked away, retreating into his quarters.
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Time went on as the students worked hard and diligently but they getting nowhere near solving Jiraiya's code.
"It's getting late. Are you sure you guys want to continue?" (Y/n) asked looking at her classmates, some could barely keep their eyes open, some were tiredly writing trying to solve.
Uraraka, beside her yawned and nodded her head before continuing what she was doing.
(Y/n) smiled at their determination. She stood up decided to clear the table.
"What are you doing?" Momo asked as she yawned.
"Clearing is up so you guys can go up stairs and sleep."
"What were arent even tired yet." Kirishima said.
"Yeah we can still help." Jirou agreed.
(Y/n) Chuckled. "Thats sweet, really but i think you guys should really go to bed."
"Says who?" Kaminari asked rubbing his eyes.
"Says you who cant keep your eyes open." She placed the papers aside and tried to wake up Uraraka but she refused to wake up. Looks like she already gave in to sleep, leaning on the table. (Y/n) shook her head and snaked her arms under Uraraka carrying her.
"Come on. I can tuck you guys into bed if you want." She joked.
"That sounds nice." Mineta said.
"Aha. Aha. Ha. Ha. I was joking." (Y/n) let out a sarcastic laugh.
"Wait. What are you doing with Uraraka?" Hagakure asked.
"She wouldn't wake up so im putting her to bed."
"So you're tucking her in but not us?" Jirou asked.
"Thats unfair mon ami." Aoyama yawned. Someone from the boys played dead, or "collapsed".
"Don't even think about fooling me into tucking you guys in. Now get upstairs and tuck you're self to sleep." She said in a commanding voice watching the boys climb their staircase to their rooms.
She shook her head, soon the girl went to their respective rooms. Momo volunteered to help (y/n).
"She must have been really tired." (Y/n) whispered covering Uraraka with he blanket.
"Must have been if she didn't wake up all the way here." Momo turned on the AC and placed the remote back on its holder.
"There i think she should be good by now."
"Alright. Lets go?"
The two walked out and quietly closed the door, both of them went into their rooms to sleep.
They tried whatever they could to solve the code but there nothing, no clue to what it could possibly say. As frustrating as it is she may have to solve it on her own in a few days after tomorrow, everyone would most likely to start packing for the one week break. Which means she would have a week to solve it, train and continue the research that she had been putting on hold fot several weeks now.
She looked at the study table where her experiments were and sighed already feeling the boredom and frustration she would face soon.
"One step at a time.." se sighed walking out to her balcony to where the eagles perched. "Lets start with you shall we?"
She took an eagle in and started writing a letter with a small package for her brother.