Protect the Heiress

Chap 002

Their twenty minutes were up. Without a word, the remaining three ANBU entered abandon shrine. The first thirteen rooms were empty, and void of any furniture or life. Nearing a doorway at the end of the corridor, Nanen suddenly felt Malicious intent directed at him, instinctively leaping forward and spinning in midair, Nanen pinned two kunai to the shadows of his two teammates, Paralyzing them in place. The two ANBU had their weapons drawn, One with a Kama, the other with a collapsible Naginata.

"Whats this about?" Nanen demanded drawing his Ninja-To from his back.

"This is our true mission, We were the kidnappers in the first place. You know our village completely lacks any bloodlines, With one we could exploit it, and become powerful! Therefore we either need to study it, or breed the Byakugan into our village. We were also ordered to kill you and your friend Daikoto, but weren't told why..." The Ninja with the Kama explained.

"With your treachery ends your usefulness!" Nanen plunged his sword into the shadows of the helpless ninja, and wounds opened up in the respectful places on their bodies and they collapsed. Nanen sheathed his blood free blade and continued on his way.

In the room at the end of the corridor was the teams objective. Tied up in the corner sat a female figure with a bag tied over her head, identifiable only by the Konoha headband hanging around her neck. Nanen couldn't understand the reason for the bag, since well known tales spoke of the Byakugan's ability to see through solid objects.

Next to the objective was the mangled remains of what Nanen recognized as Daikoto, a single Tonfa gripped in his cold, disembodied hand. In front of him stood two ANBU masked individuals, one Nanen knew as Tsukage, the team Capitan. The other Nanen only recognized as part of the team. From his body posture, Tsukage looked annoyed.

"I see the dumb bastards failed to kill you..." His annoyance showed in his voice.

"I already know our true mission, but why do Daikoto and I have to die to complete it?" Nanen inquired.

"I don't see why I have to tell a corpse anything!" With that the ground beneath Nanen began to distort, and the area around him began to darken. He realized what was happening in time to leap back as an enormous clawed arm exploded from the ground and smashed into the ceiling, and finally dispersing.

In a blur, Nanen flung a Kunai at Tsukage's shadow, which was deflected by a weighted chain that Tsukage wore around his waist as a belt. Now it stood wrapped around his wrist.

"What! Did you think I would trip over your kunai!" Tsukage taunted.

"What an ass..." the other ninja sighed. The two ninja charged, the second had drawn a katana from his side. Suddenly Nanen's mask exploded from his face, as the ninjas blade nearly cleaved his skull. Distracted by this attack Nanen failed to notice the chains that were loosely curled about his legs. With a sharp heave, Nanen was forced to the ground. On his way down, he cut deeply into the katana wielders shadow, severing his wrist from the rest of his arm. The pair leaped back to a safer distance.

"What the hell was that?" He screamed, clutching at his wrist. During this Nanen quickly regained his footing, and seemed to disappear.

"Dance of the Crescent Moon!" The unarmed ninja seemed to explode in a shower of limbs and entrails. Tsukage attempted to attack, during the pause at the end of Nanen's technique, but couldn't move! Looking down, He could see a Kunai sticking out of the ground before him.

"Thats what the kunai was fore!" Tsukage realized remembering the kunai that would have missed him earlier. "A Shadow Paralysis Technique..."

"Now your going to explain to me why we were set up!" Nanen threatened.

"I don't see any reason to tell you,seeing as if you kill me you'd never know." Tsukage grinned. "Although I do believe that you should know, since your own village is betraying you...You two were to be killed to prevent Konoha from suspecting us of kidnapping the Hyuga girl. Seeing as we wouldn't kill our own villagers, we could get away free with small sacrifices and huge gains. But now your mission is still unchanged, You just have to return the Hyuga to Konoha, and keep the honor of our village, maybe even make it stronger. But your dead either way, if you don't return, you'll be hunted, and if you return, you'll be killed."

Nanen towered over the shivering shape that was the Hyuga. "Are you hurt?" He asked as he took the bag from her face. He could see that her kidnappers had struck her face once or twice from the bruise on her cheek and the dried blood under her lip. She looked up at him with knowing eyes, and knew that this was the first time that anybody from outside of his village had ever seen his face, from his dark pony tailed hair, to his brown eyes, it was a true honor and pleasure. She had heard and seen everything of the fight and the scenario that this Member of the black ops had before him.

"Why would they have struck you?" Nanen inquired.

"I was noisy..." she whispered. There were better ways to silence someone Nanen knew. To strike someone so valuable to everyone, Tsukage must have been quite a vain individual.

"Whats your name?" He asked.

"Hyuga Hinata..."

"For this mission, you can call me Ichimonji...We had better return you..."

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An interesting fact i found on about ANBU is as fallows:

A.N.B.U. Ansatsu Senjutsu Tokushu Butai, Translated into English, it roughly means "Special Assassination and Tactical Squad".

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