章 109: Caught
Upon feeling the earth beneath his feet quake, and hearing the low roar of the explosives as they detonated, Mizuki broke the thin layer of dirt separating the tunnel they were in from the outside world.
Having prepared a plan beforehand, Mizuki darted to the nearest cover, in his case a large tree, one which was more than large enough to shield Mizuki from any potentially prying eyes.
As he was the first one to emerge, Mizuki was tasked with confirming that there was nobody within the line of sight of their basic position. Easy enough.
The tunnel went underneath the feet of those who were waiting to ambush them, continuing for another kilometer before finally surfacing in the middle of the forest.
Surely enough, after scanning his surroundings for half a minute, and even using Slithering Pursuit to attempt to detect the heat signatures of any potential hiding shinobi, Mizuki came up with nothing.
Lucky for them.
Soon enough, around half a minute later, Neko emerged alongside his ninken, Usagi. Who also needed to hide behind his own tree as well, due to his sheer size.
Similar to Mizuki, they both also hid behind trees quickly.
After all, even if they could not detect any enemies nearby, it would be downright stupid to throw all caution to the wind.
Mizuki nodded in acknowledgment to Neko before the Tokubetsu Jonin completed his task.
Focusing his chakra to his nose, alongside his ninken, they both tried to detect the scent of Kumo nin anywhere nearby.
However, similar to Mizuki's search, they came up short. Not so much as a single Kumo Nin insight.
Finally, after confirming his findings once more, and waiting for even more time to pass, Guy emerged as the last shinobi from the tunnel which they had dug, as he had little to no sensory techniques.
Neko: "God Damn It. Our mission has been a failure. Their double agent probably informed Kumo that it was us all along in the first place."
Mizuki: "Maybe, but these fuinjutsu scrolls may serve as a massive advantage in the future"
Neko: "Yeah, but not enough to offset the fact that now we are also probably going to have to deal with Kiri in this war now as well."
Mizuki: "True. Let's retreat now though. No way in hell that us sticking around can lead to anything good."
And so, the group of three shinobi (and one nineken), utilized the body flicker technique to distance themselves from the chaos that they had caused, unaware of what was to follow.
. . . . .
Mabui was pissed off.
This was supposed to be an easy mission.
Their double agent had made sure that the team did not contain any members of the bingo book, nor did it contain any legendary ninja, such as the son of the infamous White Fang.
Her mission's objective was simple.
To capture the Konoha shinobi, ideally alive, and strip any information out of them she could.
Jutsus, Names, Places, it didn't matter.
Anything and everything could potentially be useful, all the more so if it was directly related to the war.
They even made sure to bring enough shinobi to outnumber the leaf shinobi twenty to one, all but guaranteeing their success.
At least, that was how it was supposed to play out.
Unfortunately, their double agent had to disclose the location of an actual fuinjutsu facility, as they could not risk the shinobi realizing something was amiss and bailing on their mission.
If that were to happen, it would all be for nothing.
Kind of like right now.
. . . *Flashback to the Explosion* . . .
Hearing the unmistakable sound of the hissing of paper bombs ringing through her ears, Mabui let loose a curse before using her raiton in order to dig deep into the ground.
Followed by doton to seal herself in an earthen shell, pumping all of the chakra she could muster into the ground around her to reinforce it.
*BOOOOM*
Mabui felt the ground around her quake, accompanied by a loud rumbling in her ears.
Luckily for her, her quick thinking was able to spare her life.
Although, upon arriving at the scene of the explosion through launching herself up the shaft that she dug herself, she realized that some of those shinobi who was in her squad were not so fortunate.
Half of her squad was not able to react on time, and so, joined the ever-growing list of those who were slaughtered in this blood bath of a war.
Mabui ground her teeth thinking about what kind of character would orchestrate that kind of trap, not realizing that very moment would mark the beginning of a path that would change her life forever.
Mabui, however, was quickly snapped out of her thoughts as she saw members of the team outside of the facility rushing down, clearly trying to inquire what was going on.
Samui: "Mabui?"
Mabui turned to see her best friend and fellow disciple and nodded.
Samui: "Cool. What happened?"
Mabui quickly explained how they had been played, and their enemy leaving behind a "gift", alongside the body count of shinobi that it had left.
Similar to Mabui though, although Samui was disheartened by what had occurred, her neutral expression had never left her face.
Despite looking normal though, Samui was lost in her own thoughts, as she felt something about this situation to be familiar, although she could not determine exactly what.
Like when a word was on the tip of her tongue, yet she could not quite get it. Like when her train of thought had been interrupted, and she could not regain it, however, she was never able to fully make that connection. At least for now.
Samui: "Well? You said that the tunnel was only recent, correct?"
Mabui: "Yes"
Samui: "Cool. Any chance the soldiers can assist?"
Saying those words, both Mabui and Samui glanced towards her soldiers, who, although alive, were in no condition to engage an enemy.
Seeing their condition, Mabui and Samui could not help but let lose a morbid chuckle at her previous statement.
Mabui: "Apparently not."
Mabui: "Ok, so, looks like it will be just like old times. Just the two of us."
Samui: "Cool."
Samui: "All able-bodied shinobi, stabilize the condition of those who are injured"
And, with those words, Samui and Mabui body flickered away, now in pursuit of our protagonist.
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Disclaimer: I am NOT going to be coming back rapid-fire releasing like 80 chapters.
As I stated last chapter, I was only just able to stabilize my grades (Math and Physics is a bitch, when will I ever need to know about Harmonic conversion. FUCK MY LIFE.)
So, we gonna take things nice and slow.
So, in other words, you might wanna pour your power stones on somebody else, bc they won't really do you any good here lol.
Anyway, that's about it. See ya.
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