Chapter: 7

Enemy Within.

My investigation into how the bandits I encountered during my first mission got their hands on Ninja grade armour just hit a dead end, well dead end would be too serious a term more like a snag I had been looking into it and found a possible supplier but the person who was supposedly the supplier has been dead for years.

Someone is using this person's name to do business, my informant notified me of a strange group of Ninjas using an abandoned mine as a base of operations, I trust his information, people tend not to lie to you if you can kill them in an instant, I asked for permission to leave the village, I had to make up a story of why I wanted to leave, I couldn't actually tell them what I was really going to do,

I follow an unmapped road used by people who wish to stay off of the main roads, once I reach the mine I notice two Ninjas guarding the entrance, they wear the same armour as the bandits did, these must be the ones who supplied the bandits.

What I have yet to ascertain is why, why would Ninjas from another village supply bandits with armour. Even though the small village I found the bandits in was a while away from Konoha it was still inside the Land of Fire, an extremely risky undertaking for an enemy of the Leaf to do business right in our back yard.

I incapacitate the two guards, I would rather just kill them but if I kill a Ninja from another village it could spark a war, I move quietly through the mine until I start to hear faint voices, there are four Ninjas conversing, one is holding a document the other three are listening intently.

Luck seems to be on my side, none of them are Sensory Ninja so they have yet to notice me, I wait for the most opportune moment to strike, the Ninja with the document turns around and walks towards a crate, the other Ninja's look at him, I move out from behind the crate I was using as a hiding spot and run towards the Ninjas, two of them turn when they hear me approach but it is too late I jump and grab one of them with my legs and the other with my arms, I spin and throw them towards the other two Ninjas.

One of the Ninjas I threw hits the third Ninja, the fourth one looks down as his friends are lying unconscious, as he looks up I grab his face and smash it into the ground, I remove the mask he was wearing, I stand up in shock, He is a Konoha Shinobi, I go back to each Ninja I took down, I remove each ones mask, they are all Konoha Shinobi, I return to the last Ninja I took down, I remove the document he put into his pocket, I read it, the document contains orders to move the last few crates of armour to their respective buyers and at the bottom I see the distinct mark of Root.