D+102...

After the astonishing incident with Rin at the lake.. I went to where Asuma was waiting for me; I felt guilty, but I couldn't really help it. He was angry, but at the same time confused; I could feel concern in his voice.

"You've never been late to an appointment, are you okay?"

"Of course I am.. I just got lost in the path of life.."

He didn't understand what I meant, but it wasn't for him to understand neither.. I didn't really want him to know what happened at the lake, but still it'd have been suspicious if I didn't answer him back..

We were to meet up with the other members of the 12 guardian ninjas, Asuma didn't have a cigar on his mouth that day, so I presumed this meant a lot for him. We went across the Joo-Young forest with the Hae-Min River at our right. I didn't really like what was happening to the 12 guardian ninjas, they were currently divided in two and Asuma didn't seem to care about the other 6..

While on our way to the meeting place, I felt something unusual.. paper seals.. I didn't warn Asuma since he wouldn't have cared neither, I searched for enemy signals but, naturally, I didn't find anything.. I didn't want to use the sharingan in such place, so I called Pakkun, kuchiyose:doton:tsuiga no jutsu..! we didn't need words to understand the situation, he got what I wanted and after sharing a short eye-contact, he disappeared above our heads..

As expected from a shinobi dog, he didn't take long. Pakkun came back and spoke loudly on purpose, that's how Asuma knew what was going on. We stopped and put our backs together concentrating our chakra on finding where or how our enemies were hiding..

"How many of them?" he asked as he opened a new pack of cigars..

"Pakkun told me they were 10 otogakure shinobi; 9 and 1."

After lighting his cigar with a simple fire jutsu, he curtly said "You take care of the Pawns"

"That's what I should say.."

"..I wasn't asking." Just as he finished this last word, Asuma took out his trench knives and vanished.

Perfect, now he's ordering me around.. let's just get finished with this...

Instead of preparing my chidori as others would have thought, I took some pieces of paper from my backpack, folded them making little birds and flew them around simply pushing them with wind currents;
1..2..3... I counted the number of paper birds that reached their target. ...6..7...

As expected from qualified opponents, they found me; but when they've surrounded me my last 9th paper bird had already reached Pawn number 9.

"Joi Gin, ^^"

Naturally, they made a cofused face.. probably asking themselves 'What the f*** did this unbelievably handsome guy just say?'

"that's bye-bye in Cantonese" I explained them smiling..

Before they could make another silly-confused face, their bodies exploded with a neat and gentle 'boom'

Wasn't that just too easy?

Just as I finished, Asuma arrived with the dead body of the supposed 'Head' of this small squad.

"Why did you bring that disgusting corpse with you?"

"I was just wondering if you could find this useful.."

I certainly did, but I didn't think it was necessary to carry that kind of contraction with us so I waved my hand in sign of 'just leave it somewhere' and we kept moving on.