Chapter 16: Chapter Fifteen
I've been itching to walk up to the Daimyo and torture the answers I needed from him, but I was able to restrain myself. And now I was perched up on the roof of the only temple in the capital watching the Kumogakure delegates enter the capital with the Daimyo's Kuge accompanying them.
'They are more than I thought,' I muttered, seeing the twenty Kumo shinobi with an older-looking man clad in traditional Japanese attire leading them.
'Is the alliance that important to Kumogakure?!' I wondered.
Staring intensely at the Kumo shinobi with my Byakugan activated, I paused at one particular shinobi.
'Who is he?' I wondered, wary at the identity of the Kumo shinobi.
'His chakra is massive. This might be trickier than I'd originally anticipated,' I mused, staring at the tall, dark-skinned man with a full head of white hair, and then the kanji for 'lightning' tattooed on his right shoulder.
Seeing the man turn his head to the temple roof I was perched at, I quickly hid from his direct line of sight.
'How did he notice me? My chakra was being suppressed,' I asked myself, reinforcing the wariness I felt towards the Kumo shinobi.
Teleporting back to the inn, I was going to begin my mission tonight so I wanted to get a good rest in preparation.
A few hours later. Dressed in my Anbu gear, I covered my face with the now-familiar kitsune mask. My targets were over a hundred, and they were spread out all over the capital. I wasn't expecting any resistance whatsoever from them as they comprise of third-rate clan members, and then civilians. I could create over a hundred shadow clones to carry out the assassinations, but I wasn't going to do that as I expect resistance from the Kumo shinobi, and I needed to be in my utmost condition so I can't needlessly expend my chakra. So I divided the capital into five sectors, and I was going to send five shadow clones to each sector.
"Take the Daimyo alive," I said to the five clones assigned to the area the Daimyo's mansion was located.
"Hai" They replied, teleporting to their sector.
I brought out my tanto and then returned it back to its original size. Strapping the tanto to my back, I teleported to the rooftop of the inn. Looking at the west of my current location, I could see the mansion that accommodated the delegates from Kumogakure. Suppressing my chakra, I started running on the roof of the buildings with my destination being the compound the Kumo shinobi resided.
Crouching on the fence of the compound with my Byakugan activated, I mapped out the current location of the patrolling Kumo shinobi.
'Ten of them outside patrolling, five in the west wing...five of them in the central part of the mansion.'
'Where is he?' Looking around the compound, I couldn't find the shinobi from earlier.
The current location of the Kumo shinobi with the 'lightning' tattoo was worrying, but I quickly expunged it from my memory and got to taking care of the shinobi right in front of me.
'I would worry about him after I'm done.'
Unsheathing my tanto from the strap on my back, I waited for the nearest Kumo shinobi to walk right below me before dropping down to the ground.
"Wh..." the Kumo shinobi muttered, but it was too late as the blade of my tanto turned red from his blood.
Flicking the blood away from my tanto, I body flickered to the next shinobi before slashing his neck and then dragging his body towards a dark corner to hide. Within the range of my Byakugan, I could see another patrolling shinobi walking towards the spot I was currently holding the dead man at.
'SukunaHikona'
With a flash of yellow, five black rods created new holes in the body of the patrolling shinobi just as he entered my sight. Flashing right behind him, I supported his falling body to ensure it didn't make a sound and alerted anyone.
Focusing on the shinobi within my byakugan range, I made a mental map on the position of the patrolling shinobi. With a deep breath, I teleported and appeared behind the closest shinobi, with my tanto separating his head from the rest of his body. I couldn't delay anymore, as one of the clones I sent to the sector with which the Daimyo's mansion is located just dispelled and its memories transferring to me.
Appearing amid two shinobi, I stabbed the one on my right side before pirouetting to behind the now-dead Kumo shinobi.
"Wh...."
The other one tried to say, but a black rod went through his open mouth, his entire life ending as just another statistic.
*Thud*
The dropping body of the shinobi echoed around the courtyard, destroying the peaceful silence that prevailed before I arrived, and alerting everyone else in the process. In just a second, a could already see the remaining shinobi in the courtyard running towards my location. With a straight face hidden behind the kitsune mask, I flashed towards the approaching shinobi. The warm blood from the Kumo shinobi splashed on my mask as I swiftly cut them down.
Due to the sound the little massacre was making, the other ten shinobi located inside the mansion ran outside with their weapons ready for a fight.
I flashed to the opened mansion door as the last shinobi came out. Creating a black rod beside me, I grabbed it with my left hand and slammed the black rod into the head of the unlucky shinobi, nailing him to the mansion door.
I did a backflip as a massive mace slammed on the spot I was standing, sending wood everywhere. Shrinking myself in mid-air, I directed myself to land on the shoulders of the muscular man.
"Where is he?" they all shouted out, searching frantically for my location.
With a flash of yellow, I appeared behind another Kumo shinobi with my tanto in his chest, and black rods skewering the muscular shinobi.
Raising my sword, I deflected the sword before the attacking shinobi was sent flying by the chakra rods that penetrated his body. I quickly dispatched the last shinobi and then prepared for the last five that came out of the mansion's west wing.
With a roar the five remaining shinobi charged at me, frowning slightly at the noise they were making, I stretched my hand as black rods impaled the five of them. The pupil of my right eye flashed yellow, as the black rods I'd used vanished from the position they were located.
Having taken care of every shinobi in the compound, I was tempted to leave and just label my mission as complete since I felt how powerful the tattooed Kumo shinobi was, but I knew I had to kill him here or else he'd end up being an unnecessary headache for me later on.
Ensuring my chakra was suppressed, I gathered the bodies of the Kumogakure Shinobi and heaped them together, before hiding inside a small shrub right at the entrance of the compound. Although it felt like a long time, it took less than a minute for me to kill all the Kumo shinobi after my clone was destroyed.
The tattooed Kumogakure Shinobi entered my Byakugan range and was streaming towards the compound at a rapid pace.
'Is that a lightning cloak surrounding him?' I was fascinated by the jutsu, but I kept that feeling of fascination at bay, not letting any distraction enter my mind.
'I have a powerful shinobi to assassinate,' I whispered, drowning myself in the deafening silence and the slight rusty smell of blood that lingered in the air.
My pupil-less left eye twitched slightly as I slowly tracked the Kumogakure Shinobi that stormed through the gates of the compound and then paused at the heap of the body of his comrades. I could see his body tremble slowly, as the lightning aura surrounding his body went out of control.
Taking a deep breath, a summoned the black rods and sent them hurtling towards the Kumogakure shinobi. The black rods returned to their original size less than 100 centimetres before shrinking the man, but he turned around and grabbed the rods mid-air surprising me slightly.
I frowned as I saw this, only someone stronger than me or relative to my strength can react to the black rods. Catching them right as they were returning back to their original size was even more frightening as only Tobirama, Hashirama, and Hoki could do that. But I wasn't discouraged, Hashirama could block the black rods the moment I released them, and it took the Kumogakure shinobi up until he was about to be stabbed by them to react, signifying he was weaker than Hashirama by a long mile.
I was forced to shrink myself and escape as the Kumo shinobi sent a streak of black lightning hurtling towards my hiding spot.
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[A/N:- Didn't have the time to read this true, so point out the mistakes so I'd correct them]
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