In a time when the Konoha village's resources were reduced greatly from almost constant warfare, all but a few of the Hyuga family of Konoha were wiped out. To protect their only chance at bringing back their clan, Konoha gathered their remaining ANBU squad members (Who had been reduced by the wars) to protect the Hyuga heiress from enemy that would try to abduct her. One night, the ANBU weren't enough and she was kidnapped, the ANBU killed.
In response, Konoha had to call in a unit of ANBU from a smaller village that was renown for their Assassination units...
" I apologize for the lack of accommodation..." The Konoha Jounin said. "Our resources are limited and this mission must not be known."
"I understand..." The Foreign ANBU leader replied, noting the look of anxiousness on the Jounin's features. The six man ANBU squad crouched in a forest just outside Konohas great walls.
"From my understanding we need to get this on the road, Its best to brief us now..." He urged. The Jounin didn't like the fact that he couldn't see the ANBU's faces as they were concealed behind their ghostly masks. They could be from some other village and could be after the Hyuga heiress for themselves. He had no say over this, He had to trust them, if not for his orders than for the simple fact that he was outnumbered six-to-one.
"As You know, the heiress of the famous Hyuga clan has been kidnapped, We suspect its the handy work of the recently killed Orochimaru." he shifted his weight nervously from hearing the name escape his own mouth, As thought it would jinx the mission or call the Senin to them. "Our remaining ANBU were the bodyguards for the heiress, which were killed during the kidnapping. That is the reason the village of Konoha has hired ANBU from our allies. As for the target, her name is Hyuga Hinata, and it is your units sole duty to retrieve her at all costs..." The ANBU captain noticed tears well up in the Jounin's eyes for a second before he hid them. "It doesn't matter what you do to her captors as long as Hinata-sama is brought back alive." The Jounin knew that the ANBU would probably leave no whitenesses to their mission.
"I understand, is that all?" the ANBU captain inquired.
"Indeed!" With that the six man squad diapered.
Nanen looked over the ANBU squad he had been assigned to since he was fourteen years old, and knew them as well as he knew himself. The only remaining one though was Daikoto who adopted Kobujutsu as his mastery, encompassing Kama's, Bo staffs, Tonfa, and the Nunchaku. Nanen himself focused more on his Ninjutsu but also focused on the Ninja-To. The other four members, Nanen didn't know but he was assigned to their team, and they were to lead. Still two days away from there objectives location. Nanen had plenty of time to get to know them. Although, it's not likely that any words will be exchanged until there back in Konoha with their objective...
Several Hours later, they stopped for "camp". Thats what its called anyways, to reduce chances of being fallowed, There would be no tents or fire, and they would eat in the morning when they leave and hide any refuse or garbage in the trees that they would be sleeping in tonight. Once it was too dark to see, they stopped and took to the trees as was protocol.
In the morning they ate small portions of there rations consisting of rabbit jerky, and "broke camp". This pattern continued again the next day without any sight of another human being, luckily for it would delay them a moment in order to evade the bystander. Soon enough, they came across a sentry near their objective, hidden in a tree. He didn't seem very tough. From a distance, one ANBU performed a sleep technique and another ANBU caught the falling sentry as to not make noise when hitting the ground and finished him there.
The Objective location was an underground shrine This was Orochimaru's ex-hideout, but someone had to kidnap the Hyuga heiress. Which is the reason for the number of ANBU on this mission. For a mission like this the average ANBU would have been 3-4, but because of the chance of Orochimaru being involved, the reason for the extra ANBU was obvious.
The plan was to send three in first than the other three, If the first unit fail to clear out the location, than the enemy might think that there is only the first unit, and be caught off guard and fatigued for the second unit. So in went the first three ANBU, if theres no response in twenty minutes, than the second unit was to go in. Daikoto was in the first unit and Nanen was to be in the second, and in they went...