TBF it's possible we never actually got to that part.
Good point. Let's try and find out
Don't worry - if we haven't done it before we certainly have now.
I favor both.
I'm probably the least risk adverse regular and I think trying to extract Hana from mist is not an idea that should be on the table right now. What I'm hoping for is finding out that she has been sent on a mission somewhere in the area and we can locate her without facing much ninja opposition.
Yeah, at the very minimum we need approval from Jiraiya, otherwise he'll kill us for going off-mission to do something extremely risky.
That's actually pretty strong against us politically, you're right. We probably won't be able to wash away the prejudice (that's probably going to be helped along by PEoJ) for a long time, especially considering we were responsible for screwing up Hot Springs, but at the same time, no one except us has a good chance of pulling off the extraction mission, because Hana has no reason to join with any other Leaf team except us. This mission is also likely time sensitive, based on how long it takes Mist to get it's shit together, and it'll all be contingent on Jiraiya's approval, because the presence of hostile jonin will bump up the threat rating to an A-class mission.
Like to point out that this isn't the whole truth here.
Depends on how long it'd take for her to get back into shape. I sincerely doubt she'd be stupid enough to go missing-nin until she got her Jonin strength back.One possibility to consider - what if Hana has decided to become a missing-nin herself in order to go find Hazou? With the Mizukage having been kidnapped (and possibly killed), Zabuza, Mei, and several other jonin dead Mist is going to need every resource it still has available for things other than watching suspected traitors. (well, unless they double down on paranoia) But I could see the situation giving Hana an opportunity to flee on her own, as the village wouldn't necessarily have what they needed available to track her down quickly. Hell, I could see numerous Mist-nin abandoning the village - with Yagura missing and Zabuza dead, anyone who stayed out of fear alone might have decided that it was a good time to get gone (especially with the increased likelihood of Mist's total destruction due to lack of S-class fighting power) - so she could just be one of many taking advantage of the chaos.
...or she could have been declared Mizukage, because why the hell not? Mebbe nobody else wanted the job in the current political climate, so they picked a jonin that is a political nobody.
We kinda need to hope that this isn't what happened. If it is, our search for Hana is not going to work, at all.
In that case we don't even need to. Just publicly announce that Kurosawa Hazou joined Hidden Leaf, Hana will show up by the end of the week.
Twenty years of that didn't do shit to Tsunade once she found a purpose, why do you think that'll hurt Hana at all?
You're comparing Hana to Tsunade, the S-rank medical Sannin?
I was thinking more of how Tsunade probably just regrew her atrophied muscles in a minute or some equally hilarious bullshit, but yeah, I'm surprised Momma didn't get "accidented" on a mission to cleanse the Kurosawa Clan or clan honor blah blah blah.
If there was that much support for her you'd imagine Hana would have avoided the whole thing through political shenanigans. Jesus, Momma, are you a Jonin or not!?
No, I mean that those among the elders who believed that she ought to have been killed for her actions ought to have had enough power to have killed her while she was on a mission, and make it look like a mission fuckup/intel failure/etc.. Don't need full clan support for that.
