Of course there is. This has not been a day for simple. If she makes it through the night, maybe she can take tomorrow off. She drops back to earth.

"I found him. Far south. Can you use your crystal ball to see that far?"

"Yes, though currently there's a ward on him blocking me," he says, already bringing it to life, "But I can also make it show a map, like so - can you identify where he is on here? I will then try to narrow down the view and circumvent the ward."

"Here." She indicates the location.

The scry zooms in, and then fades in and out and back, seeming to almost wobble around - until it finds a passageway low on the mountain, which is oddly blurry and indicated more by incongruous shadows. The Hokage runs through a few more tests, narrows his eyes in focus, then says, "There are minimal guards. There are presences, but they seem to be projections rather than visitors proper. I cannot sense anything that would indicate the shadow man, but I can locate Naruto's signature. Can you move other people with you when flying?"

It's likely their best bet is actually going to be subverting their original attacker - who he's already been informed appears superficially to be the missing-in-action Uchiha Obito - and utilizing his knowledge and teleportation abilities, but he prefers having options.

"Up to three. That trades off against response time."

"How quickly could you move with two, given expectation of a fight at the end?"

"An hour, with a stop partway through. I'd also want to bring Anneia, given the threat here is contained. She can likely bring a single passenger."

"Hm. Another possibility is subverting our original attacker - and the situation is either likely so dire an hour is too long a delay, or, more likely, it won't get worse on that scale." He pauses, and, "We will fortify and recover here, until our original attacker awakens and more is known. You are not one of my soldiers, though, so I will not stand in your way if you wish to go on your own."

"I will wait for a time. But we ought not let him languish too long."

"That is my sense as well," he says agreeably, then turns. "I will let you know if there are any changes, or if the prisoner wakes up. I would ask you not go past any guards who bar your movement, but otherwise you are free to roam."

"Understood."

She goes to find Shisui.

He's talking to Itachi and Sasuke, mostly about options for getting Sasuke home.

(The kid glances over to Tasara when she approaches and then waves, tugging on his big sister's shirt.)

She waves back.

Itachi looks at Sasuke first, smiling slightly, then follows his gaze to Tasara. "Hello," she says. "Is there word on our next course of action?"

(Sasuke stops waving and just stares somewhat seriously at Tasara. Words are hard right now, but he knows there's some kind of question or thing he should say.)

"I found Naruto. The Hokage wants to wait until the attacker wakes up before going after him."

"That's sensible, even if I'd rather take off. I should probably go find the Hokage soon, then, I'm one of our best bets with questioning. And I'll want to see if the he wants someone else who can use Izanami."

"Do you know how long it usually takes to wear off?"

"Since we started keeping reliable records, it's been used all of twice before this. One case took thirty minutes. One took seventeen hours. There's no real telling."

She nods. "Then I will wait up to twenty-four hours before going myself, with Anneia. If either of you would like to come along, we can bring you."

"I'm going to be needed here, unfortunately. The Hokage might also want to send along someone more powerful than either of us - we have a few top jounin who could maybe make a difference, though it seems you'd be better served by a genjutsu specialist."

Itachi nods, and says, "If Hokage-sama okays it, I wouldn't object to going with you."

She nods.

"What have you had Anneia doing?"

"We asked her to help with some of the clean-up after debriefing, and mostly with keeping an eye out for further intrusions."

"Good. I'll need to bring her up to speed. Is there somewhere-" else should go unspoken, most like, "-we can stay?"

"Yeah. Either the place from earlier - which is a bit out of the way, not the best in case of an emergency - or my house is empty and undamaged, or there's official rooms for visiting guests, but it's harder to get from those in an emergency." And they're also monitored to hell and back.