Last time, team 9 made it to the mining village in Tsuki no Kuni. After dealing with the missions statements, they spend the night in the village, which unbenouced to them there was a hidden force waiting to attack and seized the riches of the village. How well team 9 handles the situation.
With team 9
Once Killer Bee, Karui, Omoi and Samui had gotten ready, they all left to find Naruto and to see what's going on. Once outside, they heard the villagers screaming and things about the village being under attack.
Killer Bee quickly took command and told his genin team to help the villagers that can't fight to help them get to safety while he went ahead to help out the defense line. After giving his orders, Killer Bee went ahead to the defense line while the others went to help out the villagers from getting hurt.
Samui followed Bee about half way were any citizens that were still trying to get away from the chaos, that was coming from the defense line. Omoi went to Samui's left side to head for northwest of the village, while Karui went southwest.
It took only a few moments to get to the defense line, where Killer Bee quickly saw a bunch of bandits carrying swords and such with them. He counted that there were at least the 50-60 bandits striking at the village. He then saw a few of them coming towards him, which he then rapped, "You fools are truly fools, thinking you can take on the rhyme master Killer Bee." Which he then unsheathed all seven of his swords from his back and held in his own kenjutsu stance. Once they were in range, he did his amazing and quick moving sword fighting and took them all down. As he was busy helping the villager's defense line, his genin were also doing their thing.
Samui was currently taking on 3 bandits by herself as she let a few housewives with their children leave quickly. Once they left, Samui went all out and took them out quickly but kept them alive so to question them later on.
Omoi was currently helping a bunch of injured people, from working at the mine, to leave the area that was close to the battle area. Karui was taking on a few bandits that pass the defense line.
While the others were busy, Killer Bee was finishing up on taking care of all the bandits that were on the defense line with the defense guards. It was then that Killer Bee was ambushed from behind. Killer Bee would have been caught, but with years of experience on his side, he easily evaded. He looks to see that it was the woman with a small scar on her left eye.
Killer Bee looked at the woman and knew just by looking at her, she was a dangerous. Before he can get started on his rapping rhyme questions, 2 more shinobi came out from hiding. It was the buzz cut and the bold guy. It was then that Killer Bee saw them holding Naruto, who was unconscious. Killer Bee was now thinking on options on how to rescue him, when the woman spoke.
"You're this kid's sensei, right? If you are then I will tell you that you'll hand over that scroll you've got with the village's mining treasures in it. But of course, the scroll well be handed over with another member of your team, to make search you don't try anything sneaky." With a confident, smirking, shrieking voice.
She then told him where the place to make the trade, which was outside the village, about 7 miles south from the village near a river that leads down from the country to another. After she finished explaining on the location, she dropped a couple of smoke bombs to the ground to cover the area they were in. Killer Bee could only watch as the 3 escaped with his student and fellow jinchuriki as their hostage.
Killer thought, "Oh boy… big bro is going to be mean once he hears Naruto's been schemed."
"Especially when he hears that you slept when he tried to wake you up before all this chaos happened." Said Hachibi, while Killer Bee sweat a bit, especially when Samui hears about this.
Morning
Once everything in the mining village have been settled down, with all the bandits captured and such, Killer Bee got his team together to inform them about what has happen the last couple of hours. After Killer Bee helped out rounding about the bandits, which he was able to find out from them, later on, that they were hired men.
As Killer Bee got his team together, they notice that Samui was carrying a bow behind her back. They looked to see that it was Naruto's special bow, which they wondered why Samui has it since Naruto isn't irresponsible enough to leave his weapon behind in event like last night. It was then that Killer Bee started too explained on what happened to Naruto and his encounter with those three people.
"So those 3 people are the ones that organized the attack last night." Stated Samui
"Yup… their few but they are no fools." Rapped Bee
"They captured Naruto in hopes to get the jewels that the village has dug up." Said Omoi
"That sounds about right." Replied Samui, which she then asked something else, "What about the bandits that were captured… do any of them know what those 3 were planning." Which Killer Bee answered
"They're just pawns for them to use. they cut the lizard's tail, to claim the prize from what I can tell." Bee rapped, which the others didn't get which Samui explained.
"Sensei said that they were just being used. The enemy just hired them and promises them that well share the wealth. But in the end, they were abandoned knowing that they would be either captured or killed and used them just to capture one of us to get all the jewels for themselves." Said Samui
Omoi nodded while Karui said, "They're just cowards. They probably did it since they knew they couldn't beat us."
"I wouldn't be too sure since they did beat Naruto, and we both know that out of all of us here, he's the strongest one here, besides sensei." Said Omoi
Karui only pouted at what Omoi said, since he was right considering what she know on what Naruto can do. It was then that Killer Bee explained to them on where the thugs want to make the trade the jewels for Naruto. It was then that Samui suggested that they make a plan on how to deal with this. As they tried to figure out on what to do, someone else was starting to wake up.
With Naruto
After being knocked out for a couple of hours, Naruto started to wake up to feel that he was tied up. He opened his eyes to see that he was in a hidden area, inside a cavern. As Naruto started to wake up, he could hear voices, 3 which were familiar, while 4th and final voice was unknown. He guessed that the 4th voice was from their leader.
"Gin… we captured the boy as well as informed the boy's sensei on where we'll have the exchange." Said the woman
"Good work Chianti. If we play our cards right, then not only we get the jewels but also have a chance to capture another hostage." Said Gin in a deep sinister voice
Naruto heard what Gin said, which he thought, "Another hostage?" It was then that he heard one of the other voices speak.
"Aniki… what do you mean another hostage?" said one of the other 2 men.
"Simple Vodka… to insure that we escape, we'll give the kid's team another problem for them to worry about then ourselves." Gin said which had a sinister sound from it.
Naruto got the jest of it since he figured out what Gin was saying. Gin wanted to use Naruto, and one of his other teammates to be put in a dangerous situation, that would force his team to forget about them and worry about him and their teammate. This way, they not only get away, but probably get rid of anyone one of them to lessen the search for them easier if their traps took care of any one of them. Naruto, of course, wasn't going to let that happen since he plans to escape.
While Gin was talking about his plan on how to get rid of team 9 from following them, Naruto began to see what he can do, which he moved his body around. His arms were tied behind him; his ninja tool pouch was gone along with his belt. Along with being tied in the arms, his hands and feet were also tied. Naruto kept calm since even though he was tied up, he still had options he could use.
Naruto maneuver his right hand a bit and press his nail finger on his thumb hard. He presses as hard as he can to get some blood out. After that, he did some handsigns as he moved his bleeding thumb to his left hand to hit a small seal in the inner part of his fingerless glove to bring out a small shaving razor blade. He then pulled the blade from the thumb part of his fingerless glove. He then started to work on cutting the rope or wire that had his arms and hands tied up.
Naruto quietly cut the ropes on his hands before trying to wiggle his hands free by trying to loosen the ropes that were tied on his arms so he can get out freely. Right before he free his arms, he heard someone walking near him, which he put the razor back into his left inner glove, while going back to his original position, but acted like he was waking up. He turned to his side to keep his cut binds away and hidden from the enemy walking towards him.
He looked up to see a man with long, dark bleach blond hair that covered some of his face while the rest of his hair fell back, all the way down to his back wildly as well as having an alright face. The thing that made Naruto worried was the look that this guy was giving him. He can tell that this guy was someone serious since he saw that the guy's eyes were piercing, cold, filled with killing intent and no regert on killing anyone. Naruto knew he was in trouble but kept his cool since he needed to take any kind of advantage.
As Naruto was thinking on how to escape, the man in front of him spoke, "Well, well, well… it looks like you finally woke up, huh brat." Said the guy which Naruto recognized the voice.
"So your Gin huh." Said Naruto
"Oh… I'm guessing you've must have heard our plans as you were waking up." Smirked Gin which Naruto narrowed his eyes as answering Gin's question.
"Well… even if you did hear us, you'll be worrying about something else since when we get another member of your team, we'll make sure that none of you well get in our way." Gin coldly stated
"I wouldn't be so sure of that since you won't get away. I guarantee that you sissy boy bastard." Naruto coolly stated
Gin didn't take Naruto's threat seriously since he believed that his plan would work and that he and his men can get away. Naruto saw Gin walk away, but stopped and talk with the bold guy, who was now wearing sunglasses.
"Kir… keeps an eye on him as you take him to the designated trap area. I'll meet up with you later on to meet with Vodka. Chianti will keep an eye on our other hostage to make sure that both of them are both taken out… at the very least make sure they don't come after us." Said Gin
Once Gin gave the orders, he planned out on what to do against the rest of Naruto's team as they'll try to not only save him, but follow and capture them.
As Gin plotted their next move, Kir went up to Naruto and blinded him with a bag over his head before lifting him up. While Kir was taking Naruto to the designated location, Gin, Vodka, and Chianti went to meet up with Naruto's team to get their 2nd hostage. As they were leaving, Naruto overheard.
"Gin… I'm glad that we have to kid since we don't have to worry on getting his blood to unseal it." Vodka happily said.
"No Vodka… we only have the lock smith… we need both the lock and key to get the jewels from them." Stated Gin
"What do you mean Gin?" asked Chianti
"Simple… from my source, the boy performed the blood seal in front of everyone, but the boy kept his back from everyone, while he wrote it. He didn't see the boy hand as he wrote the seal with blood. So taking that into account, I say the boy used one of his other teammate's blood to perform it since it would sense to insure not only safety but also security for the gems. If I had to guess, I say the key would have to be…" said Gin
Naruto overheard what Gin say and was now worried since Gin knew who it was that they needed to capture which he guessed that his team would send Samui to do the switch. With that, Naruto figured that Gin would have not only the lock but also the key at the same time.
Till next time