2 hours was nowhere near as long as I'd of liked it to be. All too soon we we're on the move, carefully avoid the busiest parts of the village. By the time we arrived at the prison it was noon, and tensions were running high.
"I still think this is a bad idea" I said to Yahiko as we took our position and waited for our men to return from setting the explosive tags.
"I know, you've told me this atleast three times since we set off, but we NEED those men, otherwise we don't stand a chance" he replied
"We don't stand much of a chance anyway" i said bluntly, drawing a pair of kunai in one hand and 3 shuriken in the other.
"We'll soon find out..." he stopped suddenly "...Here they come." He stopped and looked at me, his face betrayed his true feelings. He was scared. "Don't let me down Nagato. And if something happens to me, you're in charge" but before i had a chance to reply he had lept out of cover and ran straight towards the building, passing our men that had just left the building on the way, and quickly dissapeared out of sight.
I sensed someone approach me from behind.
"You know full well that he can handle himself aswell as you can" Konan said, crouching beside me. Shi and her two men soon followed and took cover a little further behind.
"It's not just him i'm worried about. Something doesn't feel right, it all seems way to easy." I said, looking over my shoulder i caught Shi's eye and smiled. I looked back to Konan, her face was as cool and collected as ever, she never seemed to be daunted be dangerous tasks.
"Well don't jinx us, lets go before he gets himself killed" she said calmly, and a second later she had set off, her two followers in tow. I signalled silently to Shi to move up a little behind me as we broke cover.
I jumped out and ran as fast as I could, Konan we to the right just as we'd planned, and I was headed left, straight towards the most densely populated part of the building, ready to open the cells and eliminate the guards there.
We got inside without any resistance whatsoever, and found the cells easily enough, but something was wrong.
The cells were empty, their was blood all over the place, and discarded weapons littered the floor.
I got a very bad feeling all of a sudden.
"What the hell's going on?" Shi whispered "I thought this prison was supposed to be in use?". I thought exactly the same. Then it clicked. It WAS going to be in use. It was going to be ours.
"The cells aren't empty, i can see ninja hidden in them, but i don't think they've spotted us yet. We need to find Everyone and get out of here, now" I said, realising the severity of the whole situation.
"What? but how? our intel was spot on." she replied. Her hand was shaking slightly, and her breathing had sped up.
"Deep breaths. I need you to get out of here, and tell everyone to fall back to safehouse C. I need to find Yahiko and stop him from using that flare. All it's gonna do is let them know were he his so they can kill him"
She nodded and quickly kissed my cheek
"Please be careful, I don't know what i'd do without you" she said worryingly,
I kissed her on the forehead, her skin smelt devine, and said quietly but firmly,
"Go". She did. I turned and counted the hidden ninja. There were six of them, five down on the lower level and one directly opposite me facing just of to my left. He was first.
I threw one of the Shuriken across the room, It caught his neck and he fell silently to the floor in a heap.
Next, the two furthest from me, each shared the smae fate as their comrade upstairs. The other three quickly turned around, just intime to see me flying towards them. I threw one of the kunai i was holding at the one closest to me, hitting him square in the eye. I landed on his shoulders and pushed off of him, landing on my left hand i spun around and kicked the next one square in the jaw, sending him flying in across the room, he landed in the doorway and let out a blood curdling cry, I guess he landed on sonething sharp, i didn't bother checking, seeing as it stopped just as abruptly. The last one ran at me and caught me in the stomach. Bent double, i made the first hand signs that came to mind. I straightened up and looked him square in the face.
"Katon: Gokakyu No Jutsu" as the fireball engulfed his head, and eventually his entire body, his headband flew off and landed at my feet, and i noticed that it was not a Rain headband. I picked it up and looked carefully.
These men were Rock Shinobi. What the hell were rock shinobi doin in a Hidden Rain prison?
I turned and ran out the doorway, over the one i had kicked, and down a long corridor. I could hear fighting not to far ahead, so i slowed down and kept to the shadows. At the next doorway i saw who was fighting. It was Yahiko, and Konan was with him.
The two men ordered to follow Konan were laying on the floor. There eyes were wide, blindly staring, without any life in them.
I clenched my fist hard and anger surged. We had walked right into a trap, hook line and sinker.
I saw who They were fighting, and my body went numb.
It was Hanzou.