Operation Nightfall

Part One: Roaming Outlet

The group advanced through the gates of a small village around ten miles from Konohagakure. Keeping in formation, the Jonin called for them to stop. " you three in the back, front and center!" moving like blurs to the untrained eye, the three academy students appeared in front of their commander. " You three will be going to the shopping district to meet our informant in this village. Collect the scroll and make your way to the village gates. You have one !"

"Wait, how does the contact look like sir?" Asked a confused Kenta. The three academy students looked at the Nara Jonin. "Tall, Long blonde hair. Now get going. We don't have all day to wait on you Gaki."

The trio began to walk off with Kenta in the lead and Anko with Hiro flanking his sides. "Kenta...do you even know where you're taking us..?" Anko asked cautiously. Hiro looked at Anko with realization in his eyes. Kenta stopped walking and sighed. Turning around he spoke up. *Sigh* " God Dammit, Why didn't you ask him Hiro?!" Hiro looked at him with the infamous Hyuga stare and began walking past him. "We will just have to find it on our own."

The group moved past the increasing number of people walking through the now crowded streets. "We came at the worst time ugh!" A frustrated ANko said. "No its perfect for meeting undetected. There's too many people for us to be tracked or located easily." said Hiro. "That's why we are here to locate the informant it's been chosen carefully"

2 hours later

"We're so fucked…" Anko said aloud to no one in particular. "Kenta...we have to go back...we just have to tell them we lost the informant…" *Sigh* " Let's get going Kenta..we've been gone too long." Hiro said with reluctance oozing from his voice. "Okay, let's go back to camp." Kenta said with resignation.

From the shadows, someone slowly made their way after them.

The defeated trio made their way back to the gate to find that their caravan was not there anymore. Only Soka was there sitting down beside a guard post. "HEY! You three. You're LATE! You were supposed to be here an hour ago."

"Sorry sensei.. We failed to procure the information. There were too many that fit the description." Kenta looked away. " HAHAHAHA you were never supposed to find him. We said that to track anyone who might have been following us out into the open. The information we wanted is now in our hands." Soka said still stifling his laughter.

"Soka-sensei if we couldn't find him, then how did we get the information? Asked a curious Anko.

"We used you as the signal of course. He saw you from a distance and simply went to the predetermined spot that we had been told and collected the info there."

"Why didn't you tell us that before we went out and made fools of ourselves!" yelled a now angry Anko. Hiro and kenta went and began to restrain the purple-haired girl from attacking their sensei.

Soka began to laugh again. " We had to make it believable. Any experienced shinobi would have seen through a ruse if you three were in on it. Besides we accomplished that part of this mission. All we have to do now is get to the outpost and deliver the supplies." Soka ended the conversation and began walking out of the small village.

The man stepped away from the shadows and followed them from a distance.

That Night

Six shadows blurred through the forest. Moving faster than the untrained eye could see. Leaping from tree to tree, they fell down to the small clearing below them. A single shadow emerged from the ground.

"Update" the single shadowed echoed into the dark night.

"8 shinobi. 2 Genin teams and their respective leaders. There taking unkown supplies to an undisclosed location. The party stopped in a small town before they split up. One party went north to the Kumo Lines with one wagon and a new shinobi that tagged along. The other party stayed in the village for a few hours and headed west toward our front lines. Another shinobi was seen shadowing their movements".

"Could you identify any of the shinobi?" The tall shadow spoke.

"Yes, we identified a Yamanaka, a Nara and a Hyuuga. The Nara and the Yamanaka were heading north. The Hyuuga was a small genin, seen without a seal heading west."

"The first three of you, follow the westbound team. Their supplies must not reach their forces. With our own attack soon coming we must stop them from supplying the Suna and Konoha shinobi. Follow and attack when they settle down to make camp." The first group of shinobi scattered into the trees.

"The remaining group. You must take word back to headquarters. The Tsuchikage and the council will want to know what's happening on our end." The shadow reached into his jacket and pulled out a scroll. Handing it to the nearest shinobi. The team scattered and the Shadow disappeared in a swirl of leaves.

Two Days Later

"Where am I?" I had awoken in the middle of the night. I found myself blindfolded and tied up. "What happened? Where is Soka-sensei? Where's Kenta and Anko?" I asked myself. I tried moving my hands. I found out quickly that there was no way that I could even move an inch. My hands were tightly bound.

Smooth Flashback Transition

I tried to gather chakra and it was a bust. I couldn't form any of the hand seals to use any jutsu.

"I need to remember what the hell happened. Me and Anko were resting while Kenta and Soka-sensei kept watched. The next thing I know was I smelt smoke. So much smoke that I couldn't even breathe. Then there was the screaming. The movements outside the tent. Then the cry of Anko as she bursted into tent to grab me."

We had been attacked! I remember! I had gotten up and started to run outside to try and see what was happening. That's when I saw Soka-sensei and Kenta fighting off the three attackers. My body moved on it's own. Up until this point I hadn't really believed in muscle memory and the subconscious. I had always been forced to focus on exactly what I wanted to do in the academy. It was this moment that showed what the training i had been doing was working.

In less than a second my body had already began to throw a kunai as my body launched itself into combat. I didn't need to tell my body to do anything it just moved on its own. When a shinobi broke off from the group to engage me, my body brought up a kunai and blocked several of his strikes. When the shinobi used a Jutsu my arms and hands speed through hand signs of my own.

Real battling was very different than what I had imagined. There is never any time to think or have dialogue and conversations with the enemy. The way the battles are portrayed in the anime was fake. There was too many actions and reactions that talking was not one of them. The instincts ruled action. There was very little thinking in the pitch of battles. These battles happened much faster than what we were all lead to believe.

Time was also a finicky thing in the heat of battle. Every moment I saw myself do was slowed down. Everything the enemy did was slow. I knew that that couldn't be the case. As I looked at the Anko she had barely came out of the tent. Only a few seconds had passed. That was why shinobi often disengaged was to get enough of an opening to strategize or do other things like speak.

In my own battle, the shinobi kept pressing his attack. He was not disengaging to plan any course of action. He had to have been a Genin. Every slash and strike the opponent made was out of instinct. He was attacking like an animal, no grace in his movements. Anko had finally managed to join the fight and began to take his attention off of me.

That's when I realized how hard I was shaking. I took a deep breath and tried to gather my chakra. The effect was instant. I calmed down. Time slowed down even more. I felt my senses reach a higher plateau. The battle in front of me seemed to slow to a crawl. I settled into the Juuken stance. Gathering as much chakra as I could into both of my hands. "Anko! Move!"

"Hakke Kusho" (Eight Trigrams: Vacuum Palm)

I moved my palms out in front of me and released as much chakra as I could from the tenketsu points from my hands. The genin went flying from Anko as she had leapt away from the spot.I was not relatively unharmed either. Aside from using more than 80 percent of my chakra on that jutsu, it had launched me in the opposite direction.

"Oh crap.. That hurt." I looked up as I picked myself up from the brush that I had been flown to. I saw the Genin that I had hit start to get up. "Damn my useless eyes! I must have missed most of his tenketsu points if he is getting up!" I began to move toward Anko when I heard a scream. Looking and finding that Soka had been injured!

The next ten seconds passed faster than time had been going. In that moment my heart had dropped. As much as I wanted to move to help him, my body refused to move. No longer was time at a stand still. The world moved faster than I wanted it too. The Iwa Jonin turned his attention to Kenta. The Genin fighting Kenta began running to help the other Genin. Anko moved to Kenta's side.

I heard the screams directed at me to go help them. My legs refused to move. I continued to look at them with horror in my eyes as they began to fight against the Jonin. The two Genin then turned toward me and leapt up to fight me. All I could help to do was to keep thinking the same thing over and over again.

"Maybe I'm just looking too much into it. This should be a piece of cake."

A/N: Quick update. I have been busy with class and finals recently and didn't have much time to work on the story. I missed my weekend update schedule so I decided to stay up all night and bring this quick chapter to you guys. Hope you enjoy. Review please.