I guess I got here earlier than I thought. The sun isn't down yet. It's getting colder though, so it will probably get dark soon.
Akane had no choice but to wait till dark. Getting inside a hidden village is going to be hard enough without the betraying sunlight. So she hid near the village's walls, and patiently awaited for the right time.
As the time passed by, she noticed the pattern between the guards shifts. According to my calculations, I'll have about 30 seconds after one shift leaves, till the arrival of the next one. That should be enough, not take-your-time enough, but I should make it.
As soon as the sun set, and the young moon started to rise, she made her move. Surprisingly, her theory was doable in practice, and she made it in the village. It was perfect. Well, if you don't count that guy she had to put to sleep with her Sharingan.
Now all that's left to do is find my target. And then she spotted the biggest object in the village - Kazekage's tower. Bingo.
She started to move between the shadows of the nearby houses, careful to mask her chakra (this is the kage after all). I need to be careful. Those idiotic, lame excuses for ninja were easy to pass by, now I'm getting to the tricky part.
Akane was dangerously near the tower now. I have to locate him first. Getting inside without knowing if he's even there would be a waste of time.
She began to focus. He should be the person with the greatest amount of chakra around. It won't be very hard to find him. Unless, he's hiding it. Please tell me he's not hiding it!
Unfortunately, she painfully (in a form of a headache) discovered that she was right. She couldn't sense any bigger chakras around. This is just great! Why in the world is he masking his chakra? He is in his own village for heaven's sake! He's either paranoid or incredibly aware of the villagers' pathetic guarding abilities.
And why am I just standing here wondering what he thinks? I should be planning my next move.
Maybe I should go back. It's not brave or honorable, but it will most likely save my neck.
What am I thinking? I can't go back now!
I need to focus. The obvious thing to do now is to search the tower. It's gonna be a pain, but at this point, there is no other way for me to find him. Assuming he's there. But how am I supposed to do it? I am an assassin, not a spy! Not to mention that I've never sneaked in something like a kage tower before!
Couple of hours later...
Aaaahhh! If I keep this up I won't get to do anything! That's it! I don't care anymore! I'm going in!
And with that thought, she ran to the building wall. Then she focused some of her chakra into her feet, and started to climb. It's not like I can get in through the door. Still, I'm far from being safe here. I need to find a good place to get in.
In that moment, like a gift from Heaven, she bumped in a carelessly forgotten open window. After making sure no one was there, she pulled herself inside.
Although the light was off, she could clearly see the insides of the room. It was pretty small, and full of papers, files and boring diplomatic stuff alike.
She approached the door and placed her ear on it. Nothing was heard in the hallway so she decided to get out. If she was going to be caught, it might as well be there, instead of being captured while hiding in that room – that would be humiliating.
She slowly opened the door and got out. Now she had yet another difficult choice to make: left or right?
As usual, using logic to get to an answer was interrupted by the unwanted sound of footsteps from her right.
Left. -That must have been the quickest decision she has ever made. She moved fast, not yet running, more like really fast walking. To her disappointment, the "intruders" from behind her gained allies in front of her. More of them? Now what? I'm so busted at this rate!
Fortunately, a door appeared on the wall to her left. No time to check for people inside. Who cares? If I don't go in I'll be caught anyway! She opened the door and ran into the room. It was empty. Yes! I'm saved!
Akane carefully leaned on the door. The two groups were bound to meet soon, and she might get to hear something useful from them.
"Anything unusual?" - A deep voice asked. "No, nothing." - was the answer. "Did you check the Kazekage-sama's house?" - The other asked again. "We were just there, Everything is in order." - Someone with a pretty serious voice replied. "Alright then, lets get moving." With that, both groups were on their way. Soon, they were out of Akane's hearing range.
If I'm right, the guy that said that they were at the kage's house was from the group closer to me. Which means, that I should go in the direction I was going before I went in here.
She exited the room, and headed towards where (hopefully) was her target. Although she has been going for only a several minutes, to her it seemed like hours. She was obviously inside the kage's privet part of the mansion. She realized that one after entering a couple of doors and finding that the rooms were different than the ones before. I was lucky not to run into anyone, guess everyone living here is asleep. So many doors and hallways... It's like searching for a needle in a...
She was in the dead end. Well, not completely dead – there was a door. It looked a bit bigger than the other doors that she saw along the way. But nothing special though.
Just...
Now what? I should probably go in. What's the worst that could happen? The way I'm going, it'll be morning again before I get any clue of Kazekage's whereabouts.
Not bothering to check for presence, she opened the door and went in. She quickly closed it and turned around – just in time to almost get a heart attack. I don't freaking believe this! And just when I was hoping not to find him! In front of her, in a large bed lied the Kazekage, apparently asleep.
Couple of minutes later...
What do I do now? Did I just think that? I can't believe myself.
Still, should I really be doing this? If a ninja should die before his time, it should be in battle, against a stronger opponent. But this... He's a village leader, I'm a simple jounin. If we were to meet in a fight, I would be the one to die.
She shook her head. What is she thinking? She killed many people before... It were all missions, just like this one.
Slowly, and as quiet as possible, she approached the bed. This is it... as soon as I'm done, I'll get out through the window and I'll be miles away by the time they figure out what happened.
She draw her sword from behind her back and in one swift movement she stabbed it in the middle of his chest. She had hoped that she hit the heart. If nothing else, she owned him a quick and as painless as possible death.
And then it happened. She didn't see it coming.