"Hello old man!" A small orphaned boy said as he and a few of the fellow orphans of Kumos capital, The city of thunder, ran past a old man with black shaggy hair who was sitting next to his wife on there porch who had grey hair but oddly unblemished skin besides the wrinkles
The old man smiled and waved as the kids past sensing they were gone he stood up and walked briskly into the house where a young man with long dark hair and pupil less eyes was.
"Neji have you finished inspecting the seals, we can't wait to long or our alibi with the children will expire" Said shikamaru who had let his hair grow out and become shaggier while performing a low chakra Henge to make his face look old, but still recognizable to anyone who had seen him before. That was the cost of a henge that couldn't be detected by sensor-nin.
"They will do" Neji said as he gathered them and placed them on the inside of a burlap sack that was soon filled with potatoes. As was the plant that grew round these parts.
It had been three weeks since they had arrived in the capital, and luckily for them relations between the civilians were…. Fragile at best, Hostile at most. This was due to information leaking that kumo had certain political figures killed to provide more funding for their army. Turns out this information was leaked by Sasuke himself. They found that out when they interrogated the spy that released the information directly to the town before they killed him to tie up that loose end.
The plan was for them to toss the bag into a cart scheduled to come into the city filled with fruits and vegetables, When it explodes and catches a few people in the blast the city will think that it country got it dragged into a war that it did not want nor had no choice in causing them to start openly hating shinobi especially those from kumo, because they couldn't protect them from war no matter how many security checkpoints they have. But it was the perfect plan because they would put the bag in the cart after the inspection so people would think the kumo shinobi to be so incompetent to miss something as simple as this.
Picking up the bag Shikamaru walked out the house in the same old man disguise but this time was wearing a grey wig and had made the henge on his face have a beard. He walked the path wearing the traditional farmers hat to shield his face from the sun and from on looking shinobi that were perched on the rooftop watching the crowds with lazy eyes, because after all the checkpoints nothing or no one could have snuck in without them noticing right?
As Shikamaru made his way down a slight hill and into the busy streets of the city he walked into the sea of people in the streets and that's when he heard his signal, the nay of a horse as two large carts were slowly being ridden into the town, where the sea of people parted like the ocean making way for a boat. But no one paid attention to the carts as they were a common sight so they just went about their day.
Then shikamaru saw the same orphan that waved at him earlier as a small smile came to his face
Everything was going as planned
"Cmon soka they won't find us over- ahh i can't stop" The orphaned yelled as his body seemed to move on his own. Running into the back of won of the carts and moving to latch enough that sacks of food fell out
"Oh boy, are you ok ? " the disguised Shikamaru said as he ran over to him dropping the burlap bag which was indistinguishable from the others.
"Yea thanks old man, Soka old people really are nice and that's the second one i met today" the boy said as he stood up and ran off to avoid being caught by the guard who was a civilian of course due to there fear that shinobi might try and poison there food to make them more docile. Not that it would have mattered because be it shinobi or civilian or even samurai he would have succeeded with his plan anyway
"Damn brats, the hell you lookin at old man get the hell outta here" The disguised shikamaru quickly nodded his head in fear as he picked up a identical bg and walked away
4 minutes later there was an explosion so horrific it did more damage then their infamous thunderstorms.
They called that night the day of lost limbs due to the amount of amputations that needed to be made to save lives and limbs lost in the explosion, and this was just the start, the start of a civil war. All because of a single shinobi.
Shikamaru returned home directly after. It helped that they didn't exactly live in a popular place and lived by one of the towns numerous mountain side lakes, the reason why many people didn't like to live there was due to the amount of mesquiteos because of the still water.
Sitting down in his chair he seemed to be just in time as a group of passing shinobi made ther patrol around the town and seemed to be extra precatious, lookng for sabetours no doubt. But they were all chunin and gennin with the occasional special jounin here and there. This was mainly due to most of kumos army waging a war and needed all of there jounin and anbu.
'Naruto and Sasuke must be giving them hell for them to not even protect there capital fiercely, maybe even sakura is helping she has changed' Shikamaru thought as he entere the house to find a pacing ino and a meditating neji
"What did she do"
This was sadly not a uncommon sight. When they were training together and een went on mock missions of the same caliber he would ussualy come back from completing the final part to find the two in this position. When ever ino was pacing like she ussually did she had in some form compromised the mission, ussually because she felt what they were doing was wrong and did not have the heart for it. Neji was meditating as to not attack her for putting them in danger. Plus he didn't want to make the wrong move since shikamaru is team leader and her litle slip up could benifit them
"She apparently told the child to stay away from the market place this morning after you went inside" Neji said thru gritted teeth as he glared at her
Now naturally she is someone who does not havethe heart for this and she should not be allowed on the team be=for this reason exactly but not only were her information gathering abilities beyond exeptional, how do you think they found out about the cart and how the checkpoints worked, but her father had personally vouched for her. And seeing how clan polotics worked he was going to be in deep shit by the time they got back. But as of right now they were on there own and ut off all communication to konoha because they wanted no word of there actions getting back to any enemies. The only way konoha would know of there deeds was thru the news paper.
" Dont act as if you understand neji your only really here for your eyes and to help us escappe if things go south"
"Your actions are starting to become detrimental Ino, if this continues it would be better to kill you before continuing…. I dont think you understand what will happen if we lose this war, not only is your father going to die especially since hes from a strong clan kumo will take all the women including your mother and making them breeding whores even the children, my clan, nejis clans, everyones clan, all because you were to weak, i knew that listening to your father wasnt the right thing" Shikamaru said with a sigh, His spy training trip with sasuke had changed every team had a training trip with one of the two, Seeing as how kiba was the lead tracker he trained under naruto, as he had th ehigher skill than sauke in tracking as sasuke did with spying
He had seen things he wished he had never saw and things he wished he would never forget.
"You know what i have to do know right?" Neji asked as he started to stand
"No you cant, hes just a boy!" Ino yelled as she stopped pacing
"You caused his life to be forfiet the moment you told him to leave the market place, which in fact he didn't listen. But numerous people saw him by the cart. And when shinobi come around, and they will, to start questioning the boy will come up and he will expose us. But if he dies any real shinobi will know that its connected that the boy who bumped into the cart turns up dead they will connect the two and guess foul play, the only way to make it seem somewhat beliveable that the investigating shinobi will have to dig deep enough to give us time to finish here is if he dies by a natural cause" Shikamaru said as he nodded to neji.
This was another reason why neji was with them, the Gentle fist it was possible to perform a move that would imitate a heart attack.
"What have i done" Ino said as she dropped to her knees
"You know where his house is right?" Of course he did. They kept track of every persosn who spoke to them just incase a "Crazy Sound shinobi " Needed to run through town accidentally blowing up those houses
Nodding neji stood up and put up a henge to makehijm a woman then he left to complete the mission with a cold heart.
"Dont let this happen again." Shikamaru said lowly as he walked out the house, still disguised as a old man and waved with a bright smile to a pair f passing shinobi who waved back, thank ful that there were still some good and cheerful people in the world. If only he knew.
A/N: So not a lot of fighting and the kidn. But thats not what tis group is about. I want this group to be more about the game in the shadows and how there consequences affect other groups like the dogs or the hawks. But i hope you enjoyed. Im going t start doiing these stories in sagas
