The four ninjas continued their running pace until they finally arrived at the Hidden Leaf army camp.
Heading inside of it, no one stopped them. With Minato Namikaze at the front, they have cleared a path and so they arrived at the commander's tent quickly.
The guards standing outside merely gave the four a nod before allowing them to head inside.
Walking inside the tent, the four were greeted with the sight of Shikaru and Shikaku Nara standing around the large wooden table whilst discussing strategies for their upcoming actions.
As soon as the flaps of the tent were opened, they turned their sight toward the group.
“Mission accomplished,” Minato said as he walked toward the duo.
“Great job as always Minato,” Shikaku said with a light smile on his face as he looked at his former classmate.
Shikaru, meanwhile, merely nodded before turning his eyes to the young ninjas behind Minato.
His eyes landed on Kazuo.
Kazuo similarly was staring directly at his former commander and sensei of sorts.
His lips curled upwards, and an expression that was borderline mocking appeared on his face.
“Give me the Report,” Shikaku said as he gazed at the group.
Kazuo nodded his head before walking closer to the man.
His back was straight and a calm expression on his face.
“After separating with Minato, I first headed further towards the location where I would be causing the disturbance. Before going there, however, I set up a trap with explosion tags before hiding it and then proceeded to make a shadow clone and give it the explosion tags.” Kazuo said before Shikaku nodded and told him to proceed.
“After which, my shadow clone headed closer to the location and used the hiding-like-a-mole technique to head underground. The real me turned around and headed farther away and hid myself. After Detonating the explosion tags, the shadow clone continued to use the hiding like a mole technique to flee, someone however was already on its tail.” Kazuo said before his voice seemed to shake slightly.
Trying to portray the grim situation.
“After finding the earth around it starting to give up, likely from a lightning release jutsu. The shadow clone escaped from the ground and continuously used body flicker and substitution to arrive at the location of the trap that I had set up.”
Kazuo paused for a moment, looking like he was gathering the rest of his thoughts as he recounted the situation.
“It was Killer B, the eight tails jinchuriki.” Kazuo finally said, his words causing the ninjas around him to raise their eyebrows and widen their eyes.
“I immediately led him into the trap and proceeded to explode the tags that I had set up there only to find the man completely unharmed, thankfully I used the substitution jutsu in time and managed to avoid a fatal strike to the shadow clone,” Kazuo said before taking a deep breath.
“His body was covered in a type of red cloak? It seemed to completely heal all of the explosion damage in moments before the man turned towards me. Thankfully I was only a shadow clone. After the Shadow clone was destroyed, I immediately turned around and started fleeing from the location toward Kakashi and Rin Nohara. The man didn’t follow after me. That's the entire report on my side.” Kazuo said before taking a step backward and giving a nod.
“I see, great job out there Chunnin Kazuo.”
After that, Minato gave his explanation of the events on his side.
There wasn’t much to say, the man had simply gone inside the enemy camp by teleporting before quickly finding the commander's tent in seconds and eliminating the target and all the shinobi advisors before teleporting to Kakashi.
It had been a flawless assassination, the enemy hadn’t even had time to react before the commander had his neck sliced. Especially with all of the commotion that Kazuo had caused. It had been as easy as taking candy from a toddler.
“Good job Team Seven, this mission will be considered an S rank in your resume. You are to head back to the Hidden Leaf village and report to Lord Hokage as well as to give these scrolls to him.” Shikaku said before taking out two scrolls from under the table and handing them to Minato.
A nod of their head later, Team Seven headed out of the commander's tent.
Inside of the Tent, however, a new conversation had started.
“Managing to escape the eight tails at only thirteen years of age. He’s quite the shinobi, just as you said.” Shikaku said with a light smile on his face however his eyes were cold, piercing as they gazed at Shikaru’s figure.
“Right.” That was the only thing Shikaru said in reply.
“Don’t do it again, I’ve tolerated enough. There won’t be another time.” Shikaku said afterward, his voice completely devoid of emotion.
“Good, you may head out,” Shikaku said he knew that the man before him needed to complete his own report as well.
His report to the Root that was.
A quick nod of his head later, Shikaru headed out before using a body flicker and arriving at his own tent.
Heading inside, the man released a few chakra signals by bursting his aura before an anbu member appeared before him.
“Mission has been accomplished. Arisu Yotsuki is dead. Side Mission Failed.” Shikaru said before the faceless Anbu gave a nod and disappeared once more.
The Mission of eliminating the enemy commander had been completed.
The side mission was the elimination of Chunnin Kazuo. This mission had been given by a commander of the Root Troops. It hadn’t been Lord Danzo however Shikaru felt that soon, the Lord's attention would be turned towards the young shinobi, it was only a matter of time with how fast Kazuo was rising up in the shinobi circles.
Releasing a soft sigh, Shikaru walked to his bed before lying down and closing his eyes.
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Here’s the chapter, Merry Christmas Everyone!
I did write the longer chapter but it's on so it will take a while to be out in public sadly but it should be out in less than 2 weeks for everyone.
Thank you to all of you for all the support, for the comments, for the criticism that helped me improve, and for sticking around for so long!
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