Chapter 318: 309. Infiltrating Land of Sky Part-1
Boom… boom…
The sailor shinobis and the sky shinobis engage in fierce combat.
Izuna calmly stares at the battle without making any move.
'My shadow clones will ensure the safety of the civilians, but I won't interfere with the battle.
This attack from Sky will serve two purposes. Lately, the ego of the merchants of the Benisu island has inflated a lot. They are manipulating the market of the world of the shinobi by creating artificial demand and supply leading to inflation.
This will serve as a lesson for them and will tone down their ambitions.
Secondly, well… it is an opportunity for me to earn some big cash to fund my organization.'
Izuna takes another sip of the tea and slowly places it on the table.
"Ezume-san! I am sorry but I have to evacuate from this place and I hope you do the same."
Izuna grabs his supplies and prepares to jump through the window.
"Wait!"
Ezume has a flustered expression.
"Izuna-san! You are a powerful shinobi, right?! Please lend the merchant association a hand." He pleads to Izuna.
Hmm…
Izuna stops in his tracks. He has a smile on his face as Ezume takes the bait.
"Well…"
Izuna turns around with a serious expression.
"Ezume-san! I am sorry to disappoint you, but I am currently in the middle of another important S-Rank mission issued by the village. Also, looking at the scale of this attack; it can easily be an above S-Rank mission. Such missions are quite risky and one can lose their life if they aren't prepared."
Izuna helplessly shakes his head.
"I… I…"
Ezume stutters as he is unable to refute Izuna's words.
"I may not be able to lend a hand, but I know a few powerful Konoha shinobis who are present on this island that might help you in your current situation."
"Really?!" Izuna's words spark some hope in Ezume's eyes.
"Yes! But they don't have any incentive to lend help. So, I am afraid it's not easy to convince them. You get what I mean… Ezume-san?!"
Izuna drops some hints at Ezume.
"Please summon them. I will convince them with handsome rewards." Ezume drops on his knees and pleads to Izuna.
"Please stand up, Ezume-san! Don't embarrass me like that!"
Izuna hurriedly stops Ezume.
"I will immediately summon them, but bear in mind all of them are S-Rank shinobis and their price might be a bit too high."
"It's alright! Merchant association lacks anything but funds!" Ezume nods his head.
"Alright!"
Izuna jumps out of the window and flickers away.
"I hope the personals of the association won't suffer any harm!" Ezume stares at Izuna's back with worry.
Whoosh…
Izuna flickers in a nearby alley.
Swish…
He makes a hand seal.
Poof… Poof…
Seven shadow clones appear in front of him.
"You know what to do!" Izuna signals to them.
"Just leave it to us!"
Swish… swish…
The clones transform into masked shinobis and flicker towards the merchant association.
"I will be making some quick buck if these clones follow the script."
Izuna has a sly smile on his face.
"My acting and scriptwriting skills have improved a lot. Now, I have to polish my directing skills. But for now, let me search for Ayaka and the rest."
Izuna closes his eyes and senses their chakra.
"Found them! They are on another island!"
Whoosh…
He flickers towards the group.
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In a small restaurant,
Ayaka and the girls are hiding under a table. They warily stare at the group of sky ninja flying through the skies.
"Why does it feel like a repeat of the previous incident?" Ayaka remarks.
"Because it is!" Yakumo nods.
"Ayaka-chan! Yakumo-chan! Do you know them?" Kanami asks them.
"They are the sky shinobis from the Land of Sky. A few days ago, they launched an attack on our village but were easily repelled by Konoha shinobis." Hanabi replies to her.
"So now they are targeting our nation." Kanami grips her saber.
"Your girls, stay here! I have to join the fight to protect my village."
Whoosh…
Kanami flickers out of the restaurant.
Mm…
"Ayaka! Do you think Sensei will be alright?" Hanabi inquires with worry.
"Of course! Sensei is strong! I heard he is even stronger than the Hokage." Yakumo nods her head.
Tap… tap…
A pair of hands poke their head.
Eek…
The girls freak out the sudden attack.
"What are you girls gossiping about?" Izuna appears in front of them.
Phew…
They heave a sigh of relief.
"It's you Sensei! I thought it was an enemy for a second!" Hanabi takes a deep breath to calm herself.
"Alright girls! It's time to depart for the Land of Sky."
Izuna walks out of the restaurant. The girls closely follow beside him.
They look around but fail to notice a boat or ship.
"Sensei! The Land of Sky is on another island. How will we reach there?"
"We already have a boat!"
Izuna points towards the sky.
The girls raise their heads and notice the flying ship of the Sky.
"But that's the enemy ship."
"It sure is!"
Whoosh…
Izuna jumps on top of a building and grabs a flying Sky ninja.
"Shinobi Battle Skill #4 Deception"
Swoosh… Bang…
Izuna pulls down the flying sky shinobi and knocks him out.
Poof…
He transforms into the sky shinobi and ties the winged flying mechanical device around his waist and takes flight.
"You three have five minutes to follow after me. This is a test of your infiltration skills. If you can infiltrate the sky ship without being discovered and successfully reach the Land of Sky, then you will pass my test."
Whoosh…
Izuna flies away in distance and disappears from their vision.
"Another test?"
Ayaka grit her teeth in anger.
"Let's go!"
Yakumo takes out a painting scroll from her storage and makes some brush strokes.
"Genjutsu: Sharingan"
Ayaka activates her Sharingan and traps an enemy in her genjutsu.
"Eight Trigrams: Vacuum Palm"
Hanabi knocks out another sky shinobi from the sky.
Poof… poof… poof…
They transform into the sky shinobis and fly towards the sky ship with the help of the Mechanical winged devices.
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On top of the sky ship,
"Damn it! Where did these shinobis come from?"
The captain of the fleet grinds his teeth in anger as he stares at multiple masked shinobis wreaking havoc on his sky fleet.
"Retreat!"
He signals his subordinates to retreat.
"If I suffer a loss here, then I won't be able to face commander's wrath. Besides, we have already fulfilled our purpose."
He pulls out a crystal orb. The orb is glowing with dark purple chakra.
"This is enough dark chakra to power the flying fortress for another month."
He stows away the crystal orb and signals to his second-in-command.
"Order your men to do a thorough inspection of every shinobi. I don't want another case of the second shinobi war incident."
"Yes, Captain!"
The subordinate nods his head and leads his men to inspect every sky shinobi.
On a corner of the ship,
Gulp…
Three sky shinobis gulp their saliva.
"Do you think they will catch us?"
One of them asks the other.
"I hope not!"
The sky shinobis inspect every shinobi one by one. The guard arrives in front of them.
"You three! Present your chakra tag."
"Chakra tag?!"
The trio cluelessly stares at the guard.
"Umm… we are new recruits! So, we don't know what chakra tags are?"
"What?!"
The guard's expression turns ugly.
"You THREE!"
Before he could any more words.
"Genjutsu: Sharingan"
Ayaka quickly activates her Sharingan and places him under a genjutsu.
Hmm…
"What's the matter?!"
The rest of the guards turn towards the first guard.
"You three are fine. Next!"
The first guard returns to his senses and continues the inspection.
Phew…
"That was a close call!"
The trio heaves a sigh of relief.
At the other corner of the ship,
Another shinobi stares at the trio and smiles slightly.
"Looks like they have successfully completed the first step!"
He nods his head in satisfaction.
'Naruto world is all about a shinobi, a ninja who is a master of deceit and covert operations. Although in the latter half of the series, the skills of a ninja became irrelevant but these skills are still an integral part of a shinobi's growth. Who knows, they might come in handy in sticky situations?'
Izuna nods his head and stares at the captain, who is gazing at his subordinates.
Hmm…
"From his expression, it looks like he is surely up to something! Well, that's none of my concern, at least for now!"
Fwoosh…
Izuna hides his presence and fades into shadows.
Chapter 319: 310. Infiltrating Land of Sky Part-2
"What now?!"
The trio of the girls cautiously walks around the sky ship.
"We are already on the ship. Let's just wait until we arrive at the Land of Sky." Hanabi proposes.
"No, that won't do! We can't let them got away scot-free."
Ayaka shakes her head.
"Then do you have a plan?" Yakumo curiously asks her.
"Of course!" Ayaka nods.
She rummages through her storage scroll.
"Here!"
Ayaka forks out a stack of paper bombs.
"Paper bombs?!"
Hanabi and Yakumo stare at her in confusion.
"What do you plan to do with them, Ayaka?!" Hanabi questions her.
"What else! Blow up this ship, you dummy!" Ayaka places the paper bomb on one of the walls of the sky ship.
"These paper bombs are custom made by Kushina Nee-san!"
Swish… swish…
Ayaka makes some hand signs.
Swirl…
The paper bomb disappears in the wall.
"These paper bombs will disappear from sight once you plant them."
Swish…
Ayaka pulls out the paper bomb, and it turns visible.
"See!"
She replants the paper bomb and disappears.
"Wow!"
Hanabi and Yakumo's mouth turns into 'O'. The vanishing paper bombs surprise them.
"Here!"
Ayaka passes a stack of paper bombs to Hanabi and Yakumo each.
"Let's meet at the same spot after an hour. I will take the right!"
Ayaka walks towards the right side of the ship.
"Then I will take the left!" Hanabi walks towards the left.
"Guess I will cover the remaining area!" Yakumo turns around and starts planting the paper bombs.
An hour later,
The girls meet up at the same spot.
"Have you planted all the bombs?" Ayaka asks them.
"All done!" The girls nod.
"Good! We will prepare an Explosive Surprise for these Sky shinobis. They will get a taste of their own medicine for attacking our village. Hmph…" Ayaka folds her hands around her chest out of her usual habit.
"What are you three bantering about? Go and help the rest of the men to repair the flying devices."
A Sky Jounin happens to pass by.
"Yes… yes sir!"
The body of the trio stiffens, and they hastily move out.
Swoosh…
The Sky jounins undoes his transformation and turns into Izuna.
Sigh…
"These girls! How reckless they are?"
He shakes his head.
"Don't they know even the walls have ears? What if someone eavesdropped on them? Still… they are quite daring for planning to blow up this entire ship. It would be a good idea if this was a normal ship, but it isn't."
Izuna turns towards the energy room of the Skyship. He narrows his eyes.
There is a giant spherical orb at the location of the power source. It's pulsating with dark chakra as it powers up the entire ship.
"If this thing blows up, then I am afraid it will contaminate everything in at least a radius of fifteen miles. No wonder they don't use deploy these ships in the battle. The power core of this ship is so unstable. Even a tiny bit of scratch on this thing will make everything go boom."
"I saw a similar thing in the flying fortress Ancor Vantian of the Sky fleet." Roen leaps out from the shadows.
"This thing contains so many negative emotions that even staying around it will cause anyone to go insane." He remarks.
"It's the part of the reason that there are so many 'Evil Warding Sealing Talisman' around this thing. At least the Sky shinobis know the danger they are playing with. But how come they are so technologically advanced than the rest of the shinobi world?!"
'I never expected to witness a flying vassal in the shinobi world. There are many smaller nations whose technology is far better compared to Konoha, like the Land of Sky, the land of Snow, the Benisu Island, and many other smaller nations. Perhaps the feudal system of large nations has limited their achievements, and it only empowers them as a military force while ignoring all other aspects of growth.
Well, I will leave that headache to the future hokage. For now, I have to deal with this power core.'
Whoosh…
Izuna walks towards the power source of the Skyship. His body phases through the walls and he arrives in front of the core.
Ba-dump… Ba-dump… Ba-dump…
The energy core is furiously pulsating with dark energy as it pumps out the dark chakra towards every corner of the ship.
Swoosh… swoosh…
Izuna swiftly removes the protective seals around the core.
Swish… swish…
He makes some quick hand signs and forms a sealing Fuinjutsu around the core to hold it in place.
"This dark chakra could be useful for Ido, but I will have to slowly purify to make it usable."
He raises his head and stares at the giant orb.
"It will probably take me a few days to cleanse this much amount of foul chakra. Thankfully, on our way here I crafted a new seal based on my light chakra."
Swish… swish…
He quickly throws five sealing chakras around the dark core The seals glow with a bright hue and slowly cleanse the core.
"I will erect an illusion to prevent others from interfering."
Izuna makes his preparations and departs from the core room.
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Outside on the deck,
Hmm…
The captain of the ship takes out a pentagonal compass from his pocket. The needle in the compass goes haywire and flickers wildly.
The captain's expression turns ugly. He immediately turns to his second-in-command.
"Quick! Take a look at the power source. There are some energy fluctuations in the room. If that thing gets unstable, all of us will be blown to smithereens."
"Yes, Captain!"
The second-in-command dashes inside the power source room. He walks closer to the reactor room and looks around.
"Everything seems normal, but Captain said there are some fluctuations with the power source."
He walks closer to the power source to inspect it carefully.
In a corner of the room,
'They sensed the energy fluctuations in the core! How?!"
Various questions pop up in Izuna's mind.
"Anyhow, I can't allow him to get closer to the core and disrupt the process."
Whoosh…
He sneaks beside the second-in-command.
Swish…
Izuna silently assassinates the sky shinobi without even spilling a drop of blood.
He places a hand on the shinobi's forehead and recovers his memories.
"I see! So, they have a device to monitor the condition of the core." He nods his understanding.
Swirl…
He opens a Kamui rift and disposes of the body of the sky shinobi. There is a heap of bodies of sky shinobis in the Kamui dimension.
Swish… swish…
Izuna makes some hand signs and creates a shadow clone. The shadow clone transforms into the sky shinobis and walks out of the room.
"Everything seems fine, Captain! There is no need for concern." He assures the captain.
"Hmm…"
The captain nods his head.
'I still have a feeling that something is fishy.'
"I will take some rest. Inform me when we arrive at our destination."
He waves his hand and walks into his room.
"Yes, Captain!" The rest of the guards nods their head.
"Sate sate sate!"
The shadow clone turns towards the rest of the guards and smiles. The guards return his smile and stare at a distant corner of the ship.
At another corner of the ship,
The trio of girls is lurking in the shadows to avoid detection.
"We have been flying for almost sixteen hours. We are probably close to our destination." Hanabi counts the number of hours spent on the ship.
"Yes! As soon as we reach land, we will drop down from the ship using these winged devices, and then we will blow up the entire ship." Ayaka plans.
The trio is holding a winged mechanical device each.
Tap… tap…
The sound of footsteps falls in their ears as a group of guards walks towards them.
"Did they find us?" Hanabi panics.
"Calm down, Hanabi! Let's wait and watch their reaction."
The group stops in front of the trio.
"Hey, you three! I have been keeping an eye on you for a while. What are you lot doing in such a remote corner?"
The eyes of the guards turn to the flying device in their hands.
"And what's the deal with the flying device? Why is it still with you? Go and deposit it in the armory!" The guard yells at them.
"We… we…" Hanabi is flustered to hear such harsh words.
'They found us out!' She sighs helplessly.
"We are repairing our flying devices. During the earlier battle, it suffered some damage from the attacks of the Sailor shinobis."
Ayaka points towards a broken part.
"Also, do you have a problem with us?" She stares at the guard with cold eyes.
"Humph… whatever!"
The guard snorts and leaves with his friends.
Phew…
"That was a close call!" Hanabi sighs in relief.
Mm…
Yakumo also nods her head.
At the other corner of the ship,
Fwoosh…
The group of guards turns into Izuna's clones.
Haha…
"I had a delightful laugh there. Seeing them like that, I was almost about to crack up!" The clone burst out in laughter.
"Me too!" Another clone also cackles up.
"You two are quite mean, you know?!" another clone argues with them.
"Hey! We are the same person, so I don't know what are you talking about?" The first clone throws a sideways glance at the third clone and ignores him.
"…"
On the deck of the ship,
The real Izuna silently stares at his clones.
"Why do I feel like I will get split personality disorder if I continue to heat their arguments?"
He ignores them and enters the Sin Space where Kurama is beckoning him.
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