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Their employer wanted them to go and kill his competitor and make it look like an accident preferably by something that was consumed, those were the parameters given for Kazumi and Chimon. The two had travelled for two days across the Land of Fire to their target he was an aristocrat who had recently made a deal with a company in the Land of Wind, the deal would have him supporting a militant clan in Wind that their employer was scoping the deal for before being undermined. The siblings had reluctantly taken this job at the suggestion of Kyousuke who had also like Shirou and their mother given Kazumi a talk about using her Sharingan on jobs as they didn't want to word getting out that there was a blond running around with the Uchihas' signature feature. The target was living a day out from the border to Wind in a large mansion he often held parties for his own benefactors and friends, the siblings were going to be getting in as hired guards for the event as apparently, people wanted to take his life and he was being more cautious then he normally would be. They had the plan to drop poison in his meal or drink at some point if that was ever out of the question they would artificially create a situation using the Sharingan's Genjutsu that Kazumi had been working on to make him drink/eat the spiked things. If that of all things was impossible for them to pull off, then they'd have him fall from one of the balconies.
Right now the two were staying in a nearby inn changing out of their mission equipment into the guard outfits they were given, they were supposed to head to the mansion afterwards so they could meet the target properly and introduce themselves as well as get to know the other guards. The guard outfits were teal Kimono for the female guards and cobalt Kimono for the male guards. It took the pair roughly an hour to walk to the estate that the target owned upon arriving they were greeted with an enormous white stone structure that looked like it was marbled from a mountain, there was a large pathway that lead up to the building that had a fountain with a statue of a scantily clad woman garnering a jug in her had poured the water out into the catchment of the fountain, surrounding that was a garden and waist height hedges. Standing on the other side of the fountain that they could see from a large metal gate at the front of the property was three men and two women dressed in the guard outfits, as well as a man in a vibrant plum, coloured Kimono with short dark hair, he stood half a head above most of the men waiting in front of him. Kazumi and Chimon admired the building as they talked to a guard at the gate that let them in, as they walked over they heard the target talking to the guards about something they didn't quite catch before he noticed them and called to them.
"Ah! You two must be Shizuo and Akemi, it's wonderful to meet you! Don't worry you're not late I was just chatting with the others I hired for this job. Now that you're here though we can introduce ourselves formally, I'm Kuranosuke Fujimura just call be Kuranosuke though." He motioned for the siblings to introduce themselves.
"I'm Shizuo Fukami, it's a pleasure to work under you sir," Chimon said with a smile.
"I'm Akemi Fukami, it's a pleasure to under your employ, Master," Kazumi said sweetly.
"Now then how about the rest of you introduce yourselves while I go and talk to my servants." And with that, Kuranosuke left into the palace of a building.
The other guards turned to the siblings before one of them opted to do introductions first.
"Gyouku Hina" a man with dark brown hair and blue eyes, he was clean shaven and rather tall in comparison to the siblings who were a bit more than a head shorter than him.
"Asuka Toyotomi" a woman with soft blue hair and hazel eyes, she was rather curvy and spoke with a soft voice.
"Yuu Hashiro" a man with black hair, hazel eyes and a gruff voice.
"Naofuma Sushiro" a man with blonde hair and sage green eyes.
"Chikara Ako" a woman with red hair, with cobalt blue eyes. Kazumi noticed that Chimon was lost in Chikara's gaze.
After the introductions the group went into the building and waited in the foyer for their employer to come back, he arrived not after too long and gave them all a quick rundown of where they should be and what to do in the case of an intruder or anything suspicious. Chimon and Kazumi were going to be stationed in different areas but had overlapping patrol areas, so they would be able to chat a few times throughout, Gyouku would be in the main dining hall with Yuu and Asuka. Naofuma and Kazumi were to keep an eye on the kitchens and front entrance while Chimon and Chikara would be patrolling the majority of the building walking around making sure things weren't disturbed. Eventually when the guests arrived there was twenty odd guests that came into the lavish dining hall had an enormous table at the end of it with foods splayed out on it with Kuranosukes servants walking around with trays of drinks serving them to the patrons. There were tables with four seats around them in the room for after the initial gathering for the guests when the main course was to be served.
Man this isn't good why'd I get stuck with this girl… how am I supposed to focus when she's around this must be some sick kind of joke. I know mother was joking around with Kazumi about her finding a partner but c'mon Fate why must you torture me so. I was brought forth from my thoughts when the woman in question said something I didn't catch.
"Shizuo, Shizuo? Are you listening?" she asked looking at me with an arched brow.
"Uh.. yeah sorry I zoned out this place is quite beautiful so I'm still taking it in, so what was it you were saying Chikara?" her arched brow lowered and was replaced by a smile.
"I was just saying how if all things go as planned this should be an easy job right? And yeah this place is expensive I feel like I'll have a lifelong debt just for putting a smudge on this stuff." She turned her head gesturing to the many Vases and other items on the pedestals around us.
"One can only hope, right? Plus Kuranosuke is paying us far too much for this to not be worth it" I said looking out a window that we passed as we walked a long corridor.
It didn't take us that long to walk around the huge mansion checking for anything out of the ordinary when we passed through the kitchen to where our routes overlapped with Kazu's she was in the middle of ignoring what Naofuma was saying, I think he might have been trying to hit on her but he jumped out of his skin when I said Hello to them. It didn't really take much time to realize he was trying to hit on Kazumi, I left it as was because she deserved this after what she did to me for making fun of her for using her Sharingan to copy Mums cooking skills. Naofuma seemed to enjoy guard missions the most from what I gather from the small interaction we had before we all had to go back to travelling the routes, before that though I did get a word in with Kazumi about potential locations for Kuranosukes trip and she told me about the kitchens and how his meals were separated from the other people's so we had a chance to poison it if we wanted.
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This is really boring, I wish he'd just stop. I have nothing against you Naofuma but you really don't interest me in any way and just because Chi isn't here anymore doesn't mean that I care anymore or less about your attempts to court me. We're on a mission as well how can you be so blasé about this.
"Hey Sushiro, how about we get back to patrolling the route and checking our designated spots." I'm so sick of his shit.
"C'mon this job is piss easy what idiot is gonna try to kill this guy this place has guards crawling all over it including us, plus they got nothin' to gain from his death." He made some gestures with his hands as we walked.
"Well someone must be stupid enough especially if he hired everyone" I slowly started veering off to the staircase that leads up to the balcony Chi mentioned, Naofuma either didn't notice or didn't care.
"I guess but I just don't get it, the man's rich sure and he does hold a ton of land in the area but he's pretty fair with shit" Naofuma put his hands behind his head and looked up at the ceiling.
"Hey look at this for a quick second…" right as he looked me in the eye my Sharingan flared knocking him out, I caught him before he hit the floor. I dragged him over to the window next to us opening it and gave one last look around then shoved him out the window head first.
Y'know I wish I was sorry but I'm not we have a job to do and you're in the way.
I closed the window and deactivated my Sharingan, turning away I thought of what excuse I would use to explain his disappearance. Maybe he went to use a bathroom and hasn't come back.
sigh
"Where are you now little brother…"
"I'm really sorry about this" my fist impacted the back of Chikara's skull knocking her unconscious, there was a closet of some kind behind us off to the side of the hallway. Dragging her into it, there was a few brooms and buckets in the closet and some cans on a shelf.
I closed the door behind be freezing up when I heard footsteps, I turned pulling out a kunai hidden in my Kimono. My eyes met with green framed by a pale face with platinum blonde hair. Realizing who it was I lowered my knife and hid it again. Those same green eyes rolled with a smirk flashing on her face before she spoke.
"Dearest little brother pulling a knife on me, how could you!" she feigned taking an arrow like Jun had done to them all those years ago.
"Right, well you did sneak up on me after I finished up with Chikara." I watched her smirk grow.
"On a first name basis already? My little brother isn't so little anymore and finishing up? What dear do I ask did you finish? I hope it wasn't inside brother, that's how strays are born." She laughed at her own joke slapping my shoulder as my face flared a deep red.
"I-I…Uh…" Damn her.
"HAHAHA! Your face! Your face! It'd too good! Oh, my gods!" Kazumi was doubling over laughing, after a few moments the blush faded, and she stopped laughing.
"I guess you noticed then?" She wiped a tear from her eye looking at me.
"Yeah of course, how could I not? Though to be fair she looked like she might have enjoyed you as eye candy, so it was mutual, though I don't think this is what Shirou meant by 'hitting em' from behind' at least I don't think so." I watched her straighten out the Kimono before getting a more serious look.
"Alright your hormones aside I've gotten rid of Naofuma and the others are none the wiser we should be able to poison Kuranosuke's food confirm the death and skedaddle before they find the bodies, or corpse and unconscious girl." Kazumi walked passed me towards the stairwell that came out next to one of the kitchen entrances.
I followed her as she entered the kitchen acting as though her partner hadn't changed and subtly dropped a paralytic and a strong poison into the food that was being made for the target. We walked out the other side into the main foyer and loitered until the food was taken into the main hall, from there we watched from the shadows as the paralytic kicked in before the poison made his eyes roll into the back of his head. No one could tell he was dead until a minute passed and he hadn't moved an inch. Then the panic started, and we stuck around in the shadows until they realized he wasn't responding, Gyouku, Yuu and Asuka started to panic themselves after realizing what had happened, then they started the search and that's when I stripped the Kimono and Kazu stripped hers leaving us in the Shozoku we used for missions. We leapt from the roof into the forestry around the mansion and travelled through the trees back to the Inn.
when we arrived there we went straight to the room and collapsed onto the bed and going to sleep from there we were both too tired from the run to be bothered with anything else.
When I woke there was a distinct blonde head of hair slathered on me some of which was in my mouth… sighing I pushed Kazumi off of me and dragging myself into a sitting position on the futon then stood and started stretching, from there I made for my bag I'd brought and dug through it for the money I brought to buy food but before I found the money I found a letter.
'Hey, Kiddo!
not sure when you'll see this but preferably before the job is over, if you can try to avoid killing anyone that isn't the target and if you do then make sure the body is hidden well so that they don't have an idea of who it could be. Maybe try to make it seem like you two also got clobbered by the assailant, but yeah kiddo's stay safe and have fun!
From Kyousuke.'
"Fuck…kinda wish she had just said this to our faces." Putting the letter away I take what money I need, sixteen Shu… that's four thousand Mon or so, that should be more than enough.
Man makes me think about how well off we are we don't live in a wood, straw mud hut or anything we don't need to make ends meet with a rice patty and we haven't ever had to worry about affording things, huh. I think I remember Mum said she had roughly twenty odd Ryo before she started working again, that's a lot of money, to say the least.
rolling the coins around in my palm I pocketed them before getting up and moving to go buy food from the shop out the front of the Inn. There was a little old lady sitting at a desk with a metal plate and a fire under it heating the metal for cooking, she was in the middle of cooking several types of meat, what looked like pork and beef. She gave me a quick once over as I approached and pointed to a sign in front of the desk that read "grilled meat 100 Mon for 4 pieces a person" I handed her one Shu.
"I'll take two portions, and you can keep the change" she looked rather grateful even a little surprised to be paid in Shu, I moved to sit and wait on a chair at a table near the front of the stall/shop.
When it was ready she handed it to me in two separate paper bags, after thanking her I headed back up to Kazumi to rouse her for breakfast and get ready to head home, I'm sure she is as done with this mission as I am. It was meant to be our first without anyone helping and we had an unnecessary casualty, the situation with Chikara is bothersome I kinda hope I can apologize for that sometime in the future or just apologize to them all, after all, we did sorta ruin a good payday for them.
Entering the room Kazumi had rolled off the futon onto the ground and was lying on her back hair splayed out like a spiders web across the floor, it was almost cute, then I kicked her.
"Damn it! What the heck! Why?" she was sat upright rubbing her arm where I had kicked her.
"To get back at you for the joke you made at my expense, also because I have breakfast and we need to get ready to go home." I handed her the food and started eating my own.
"Whrat mas hat ting Himeno said to drou tap your heels together three times in a row and say-" Kazumi had food in her mouth and continued stuffing herself as we said in unison.
"There's no place like home."
AN: For the scene where Chimon is talking about money I used Sengoku Jidai currency and conversion rates between them, if you want to look into that more all you have to do is look up "Japanese Mon Currency" and it should be on the Wiki page. Anyway just from what I've been writing so far the "Second Volume" for this story looks to be a bit of a backstory and a little world building Volume so if that interests you look forward to it. Catch you later then.
