Kazuo's eyes were fixed on Shikaru for a few seconds before he removed his gaze only after the man gave a nod in acknowledgment which he returned.
"Minato, you're here." Shikaku Nara said as he gave Minato a nod who similarly returned it with a smile on his face.
"Its been a while Shikaku, as much as i would love to have a nice chat, it seems we dont have a lot of time on our hands." Minato said as the smile on his face dissaperead and his expression regained its serious look.
"That's right," Shikaku said before motioning for the group to come to the table where a large map of the surroundings was placed.
"Minato will be the head of this operation and he will also be the one to assasinate Arasoi Yotsuki. The three of you will be tasked with causing a large distraction whilst all of this happends. Even Minato will have a hard time infiltarting on his own." Shikaku said as his eyes turned to Kakashi, Kazuo and Rin who quickly nodded their heads.
"Nohara Rin will be staying back though not at the base. Her job is to wait out and if anyone returns injured then to heal them back so that they are atleast able to run away." Shikaku said before pointing at a small clearing on the map, clearly showing Rin where she would be stationed at.
A quick nod from the young kunoichi later, Shikaku continued his explanation.
"I've seen that Kazuo has possibly the greatest affinity to the hiding like a mole technique in the entire hidden leaf village, that was also the reason as to why i asked for him to come to this misison." Shikaku said as he turned to look at Kazuo.
'It was Shikaru, that fucker.' Kazuo thought for a brief split second before nodding his head toward the commander.
"Yes sir,"
"Good, I like your confidence, your job will be similar to your past escapades," Shikaru said as he pointed to a location encircled in red.
"Head to the edges of the enemy camp and plant as many explosion tags as you can before running away."
At his words, Team Seven's beside Kazuo's eyes widened.
"That..." Rin however chose not to continue her words because she knew that she wouldn't be able to change anything.
Kakashi's expression had dimmed aswell whilst Minato's remained the same, clearly having more experience in holding a poker face than Kakashi did.
"I know that what we are asking you is practiclly a suicide mission Kazuo, however currently you are the only one with the capabilities to do it." Shikaku said as he continued looking at Kazuo's expression.
However contrary to what he expected, Kazuo had a slight smile on his face as he nodded.
"It's allright sir, if my acts can help in ending this miserable war in any way, then i will gladly do the mission." Kazuo said, his voice was tinged with a pang of sadness however his conviction clearly shined through.
Inside his mind, however, Kazuo's thoughts were drastically different.
'Fuck you, you fucking bastard, what do you mean that im the only one, you just mean to say that im the cheapest in the base, and you would rather sacrifice me alone rather than an entire team of Jonin?' Kazuo thought to himself however he didn't show any outward malice, in fact showing the complete opposite of his thoughts.
Inwardly however he knew that what Shikaku had chosen was the correct decision. It was better to sacrifice a single chunnin.
"Good, next is you Kakashi, you will be stationed next to Nohara Rin and protecting her from any harm during the mission." Shikaku said.
The mission plan wasn't complicated.
After all, Kazuo already knew it was a complete sham.
'Kakashi and Rin aren't needed at all. They only wanted Minato and me in the mission.' Kazuo thought feeling like releasing a long sigh however his expression remained hardened.
"The mission begins immideatly." Shikaku said as he straightened his back whilst still looking at team seven.
"Yes," Minato immediately replied before motioning with his eyes for the rest of team seven to follow after him.
The team headed out of the commander's tent without another word.
However, as soon as they were out, Rin turned to Kazuo.
"Kazuo, you..."
"It's alright Rin, I'll come back alive," Kazuo said, his voice sounding wrong, it sounded too carefree considering the situation that he was in.
Tears seemed to well up in her eyes however they didnt drop, the young kunoichi knew that she couldnt show weakness, for fear that it might affect Kazuo in any way.
"All right, don't die. It's a promise." Rin said, causing even Kakashi to nod toward Kazuo.
Minato meanwhile was simply looking at the interaction with a look in his eyes.
'Pity toward me wont change the fact that you are allowing your student to head off toward their death. This conviction of yours toward the village. Its annoying.' Kazuo thought before Minato finally spoke up.
"Let's head off."
*Fsh* *Fsh* *Fsh* *Fsh*
A split second later, all four of them disappeared from their spots, appearing tens of meters away before their figures flickered once more.
A few minutes later, Rin and Kakashi split off, and finally a while later. Kazuo stopped.
"I'll be heading off Sensei."
Minato stopped before handing Kazuo a kunai, it was his signature three-pronged one.
"As soon as I complete the assassination, I'll be there to save you Kazuo."
"Don't worry about it Sensei. Im not that easy to kill." Kazuo said with a light smile before vanishing from his spot, already flickering away.
His speed was much higher than when he was running with team seven.
Minato's eyes widened slightly before a soft smile appeared on his face.
"Little Rascal."
A moment later, his figure vanished as well, his speed multiple folds that of Kazuo.
It was like he had turned into a yellow flash of lighting as he passed through the forest toward his destination.
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Kazuo continued running through the forest, his figure flickering as his speed surpassed even Jonnin-level shinobi, his Shunshin Jutsu had already reached a level beyond what most shinobi were able to achieve in their lives.
It was an aftereffect of both his stubbornness as well as talent.
Finally, minutes later, Kazuo arrived at the destination.
Making a single-hand seal with one hand, Kazuo burrowed himself underground with the hiding like a mole technique.
'Time to get this shit started.' Kazuo thought to himself as he practically swam through the ground at high speeds.
He had already calculated the distance in his mind and thus he knew how long he would have to swim through the ground to reach the location where he would plant the explosion tags.
Of course, even if he did fail and miscalculated, he could just try again.
Arriving at the location in moments, he immediately pressed two fingers on his wrist guard, and in an instant, more than six hundred explosion tags appeared before him.
Because of the importance of the mission, Kazuo had actually been given one thousand explosion tags however he only used six hundred.
'A little stealing here and there is good for your health.' Kazuo thought as he immediately took out a stack of paper.
With a single hand seal, the paper converged together and turned into a long thin thread.
'This time, the range is even higher.' Kazuo thought as he turned around and swam back through the ground whilst using the hiding-like-a-mole technique.
He had kept up the rotation of the chakra for the technique during the whole time.
This wasn't as draining anymore as his chakra reserves had firmly become chunin rank as well as the fact that he had perfect mastery over the jutsu.
It would have cost him even less however he didn't have the earth elemental manipulation.
It was at this moment as he was running further and further away that he noticed the ground around him start to tremble.
'Lightning Jutsu' Kazuo thought before immediately jumping above ground and making a single-hand seal.
*Tiger Seal*
"Kai"
There was silence for but a split second as Kazuo's chakra went through the paper string and arrived at the explosion tags.
The very next instant, Chaos engulfed the world.
The ground shook terribly as six hundred explosion tags were detonated at the same time.
*Boom*
Explosion tags were usually exploded with a slight difference in activation time however to counter this, Kazuo had manipulated the paper string to attach to every single explosion tag.
Causing the explosion to fully reach its potential.
Without even looking behind him, Kazuo used the Body Flicker jutsu and vanished from his spot.
At the same time, his hands whirred into action as he got a substitution jutsu ready, using it immediately after his body flicker ended.
*Kraanng*
With the sound of wood breaking, the log that he had substituted with was completely broken in half.
Finally having the chance to look at his attacker, Kazuo saw someone he didn't expect.
Yo, it's Killa B, here to bring the heat, droppin' bars so hard, I'll knock you off your feet."
For a moment Kazuo felt the world freeze as he looked at the man.
"What?"
"Lariat!"
That was all Kazuo managed to say before he felt the world rotate on its head.
Darkness enveloped his vision instantly.
Waking up once more inside his home in the leaf village, Kazuo felt a headache.
'How the fuck am I supposed to deal with a damned jinchuriki who can control his tailed beast.' Kazuo thought in anger before his eyes widened.
'Isn't this an opportunity?' Kazuo thought for the next second.
The image of two cloud shinobi flashed through his mind.
Two people who had gained the power of the nine-tailed beast after they had eaten its flesh.
A small grin appeared on Kazuo's face.
'It's worth a try, if I can't handle the side effects then I can simply end the turn. The question now is how should I fight him?' Kazuo thought as he tried to come up with a strategy.
Thankfully, he had all the time in the world to do so, but it didn't take long for a preliminary plan to form in his mind.
Following the same course of action as the last turn, Kazuo and Minato finally split paths.
Kazuo however didn't head toward the location where he would detonate the tags immediately.
Instead, he calculated the time after he had started running off after placing the tags.
'I have around eleven seconds. That would place me here.' Kazuo thought as he arrived at the same location where he had died before.
Raising his hands, Kazuo used his newest paper-style technique.
'Paper Person of God Technique'
Four hundred explosion tags rose up into the air and flew to the location where Killer B had stopped for a moment.
The explosion tags are immediately camouflaged with the surroundings, making them completely invisible.
This process took ten seconds.
Immediately after, Kazuo ran toward the mission location once more.
Following his actions exactly, he followed the exact same escape path he had used before and the exact same jutsu.
"Yo, it's Killa B, here to bring the heat,
Droppin' bars so hard, I'll knock you off your feet."
Looking at the man, Kazuo raised his hand and gave the guy a cheerful smile.
This seemed to confuse Killer B for a moment.
That was enough.
Raising both his hands up, looking as if he was holding something back, Kazuo said with a cheerful tone of voice.
"Yo, You're about to go boom boom"
"Huh?"
This time, Killer B couldn't react in time as the ground underneath him lost its color, clearly showing the hundreds of paper tags.
It was however too late for even him to run away, His body falling through the tags as they completely engulfed him.
*Boom!!*
"Art is an explosion yo!" Kazuo said, his voice sarcastic.
*Boom*
And the world flipped on its head once more.
'I deserved that.'
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