Chapter 151: Chapter no.151
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"In this case, it would only hinder us completing our mission. Wouldn't that be a worse case for representing our village rather than not wearing a piece of metal strapped to some cloth?" Naruto asked rhetorically and he pulled the storage scroll out of his chest pocket and sealed away his flak jacket and his hitai-ate.
Narumi nodded in understanding and began to untie the Konoha hitai-ate that was around her forehead, albeit a bit reluctantly. Natsuki, who had been listening to the interaction between her older brother and her sister, smiled at Narumi's compliance. Normally, Narumi would have stood her ground and continued to argue, but it seemed that the recent events had caused her to doubt her parents' teachings...Natsuki felt the very same way.
Seeing that the entire team was now free of anything linking them back to Konoha, Naruto felt that he should continue with his orders. "Now this part of the operation should take quite a bit of time. You are to locate any and all chakra signatures and determine whether or not they are foreign shinobi. If you determine they are, in fact, enemy shinobi trespassing in Hi no Kuni, you are to deal with them just as before...Do not eliminate them in the middle of the street or open area, rather, tail them until they are in a secluded area then finish them off and hide the body. Understood?"
Naruto received affirmative responses from the four women now standing before him.
"This isn't a time sensitive mission as it was before, meaning there is no need to rush or blow your cover." Naruto spoke, giving his final words of advice to his team. "You'll be investigating these people and, if you deem them a threat, are to tail them where you'll eliminate them. This process will be slow and will require the utmost patience. Regardless of whether or not you've investigated all your targets or not, meet back at this location in exactly four hours to check in and report your progress. You know your assignments, move out."
Not a moment later were there four gusts of wind and swirls of leaves where the four kunoichi had previously been, signifying the simultaneous usage of the Leaf Shunshin to reach the outskirts of their designated sector in order to inconspicuously enter the town.
Naruto gave one last glance to the town before fading out of sight in his own Shunshin.
Southern Sector - Shopping District
Naruto could be found walking down the length of one of the streets within the southern sector of the shopping district. For a town with such a small populace, it was far larger than he had anticipated from merely studying it from so high up on one of the Banana Rocks. Though this may only have accounted for his sector, as it was the main attraction of the town and where the townspeople spent their day when they found the time.
It had been close to two hours since he had parted ways with the rest of his team, and he had already encountered all of his predetermined targets as of now. He had located at least a dozen chakra signatures when he had been scouting the town for his team, six of them were located in the southern sector, three in the eastern, and three in the western.
Naruto had set the four hour time restriction because he knew it would take the other two teams longer to do their parts. He had only had such an easy job with this because of his sensor-like abilities and his Kenbunshoku Haki, though for some reason his Haki wasn't able to reach a certain area, or perhaps it was being cancelled out. That couldn't be right because no one else should be capable of using Haki due to it being such an ancient art. Naruto chose to push it to the side for now and merely chalked it up to him having not mastered his Haki yet.
Those six he had been tasked with investigating turned out to be quite a disappointment, or perhaps this was the better outcome, it really depended on how one looked at it. His first target was an old man at about ninety years of age with dementia. He couldn't even continue living day to day life like he once had, let alone continue with shinobi duties. The second target had been a muscular man in his late forties who was clearly used to working in the fields. Chakra is a life energy that all living beings now possess, therefore, those who are accustomed to strenuous physical labor with have higher chakra levels than ordinary civilians, even if they haven't unlocked their chakra yet. The third was merely a child, not even seven years of age yet, who had been abandoned as a child and left at the orphanage just after he was born. He had lived there ever since. The fourth was in a similar condition to his first target, only instead of dementia she was in her final stages of cancer. The elderly woman would likely be dead by the end of the month. The fifth target was a pregnant woman who was in her final stages of pregnancy, there was no possible way that she had participated in the invasion of Konoha while in that kind of condition. The sixth and final target was a teenager, about the same age as Naruto, who seemed to be nothing more than a common street thug. It appeared that even small town such as this one were not immune to crime.
It turned out that not one of his targets had been any shinobi from the remnants of the Suna/Oto army. That cemented the reasoning that investigating the town was purely a precautionary measure.
Currently, Naruto was simply walking the length of his sector to kill time and to finalize that there were no foreign shinobi in the town. Though, he couldn't help but feel that he was overlooking something crucial. Perhaps it was connected to his imperfection with Haki when he came closer towards a certain area of the town...
Or perhaps it had to do with the feeling what someone was constantly watching him as soon as he stepped foot in town...
Not those odd looks he was getting from the female population from only having a mesh shirt, that was almost see-through, covering his upper body nor was it from the townspeople or the targets he had been tracking. He didn't know why but he felt an ominous feeling in the pit of his stomach once again.
He shook his head breaking him away from such thoughts. He couldn't afford to have his mind clouded at the moment.
Perhaps the rest of his misfit team would be able to find what he couldn't. He would just have to put his faith in them for now.
As he brought himself out of his inner thoughts and looked up at his surroundings, he noticed that he had travelled from the outskirts of the southern sector all the way to the middle where the Town Square was located. What was strange though, was that compared to the bustling streets he had been traveling earlier, there was not a single soul in sight.
What was even stranger is that Naruto could hear the crackling of lightning around him when there was not a single cloud in the sky for miles, it wasn't the sound of that lightning chakra that shinobi use, but natural lightning itself.
As soon as Naruto realized that the cause of the noise was that the electrical sound waves that transversed the air around him had been turned into actual electricity, it was too late as the explosion of a thunderclap resounded around him as well as through the rest of the town.
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