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[Konoha Security Agency - Fire Tree Training Building - Two days later]

-It wasn't your day- Ibiki-sensei says to me.

-Well i wasn't very good in simulations...- I say.

We keep walking down the building, when Ibiki-sensei begin to speak

-The KSA just call me, we have a problem in Iwagakure...-

-What kind of problem?-

-...A big one...-

I stare at him for a second.

Moments later, we are in the Fire Tree Operations Center. Ibiki-sensei leads me to a magic sphere. It starts to glow, then images appears.

There are some ninjas pushing civilians, threatening them with kunai and swords. There are many debris scattered around, along with many corpses and burning objects. The people there looks like in a damaged building.

There's a man standing in front of a knelt man wich wrist are tied with a rope. Wait..i know him... he's the Shark boy i've see at the refuge two days ago. He grabs a sword and lifts it above his head. The knelt man is begging him...SHIT, Shark Boy has decapitated him. The head of the man is rolling now on the floor...

I stare at the image. Rage mounting in my mind. The Shark Boy is now watching in my directiosn, as he can see us through the sphere and smirks.

Suddendly, the images changes and shows a boy with two red marks on his cheeks. He's sitting on the floor, and he's tied, like many other prisoners there.

-Hey, what the hell is doin Kiba Inuzuka there? and where's Akamaru?-

Ibiki-sensei looks at the image then speaks.

-The dog, luckily, has escaped from the embassy. Some ANBU has find him in the woods, with a message scroll. It was written by Inuzuka-san, requesting help, before the sound ninjas captured him.-

-You haven't answered my question yet, sensei. Why he's there?-

-That's exactly what you have to find out, Naruto.-

[Ten hours later]

-Naruto, welcome back to the front.- Ibiki-sensei says through my earbuds

I've been displaced in Iwagakure. This is not a normal operations, so instead of a regular ninja team or ANBU, they have sent a Ghost Leaf, or me, to deal with the Sound Ninjas. Yeah, sound ninjas. It seems that they have taken control of the Fire Country Embassy in Iwagakure, killing many people there and takin hostages. The local authority has sent a request of help to Konoha. So here i am, standing on a rock, watching the Embassy by far. It's eleven o'clock in the Night and it's very cloudy here. Fine. This will make my job easy.

-Let's work on stealth- He says -your guns should always be your last resources. Invisibility is your best weapon. Your uniform has been improved. We have put a network of chakra photocells on your suit, connected to the seal placed on your right arm. The seal is a visibility meter. There are three circles there. If the visibility reaches the third circle, it means that you are visible like a christmas tree in the desert.-

I look at my right arm. Now two of the three circles are glowing. It means that i can nearly be sene by enemies. I must stay away of lights sources.

-Before you infiltrate, let me introduce Nara Shikamaru. Our inter-agency consultant. He's ANBU and has an update for the mission.-

-I know him. He's a friend of mine.-

Another voice enter in my hearing range. It's Shikamaru.

-Hey Naruto, i'll keep it brief. Tsunade-sama and her advisors want this mission kept non-lethal...and alarms at flat zero. We can't endager the hostages.-

-Understood. And with some due respect, leave anything Ibiki-sensei can say, to Ibiki-Sensei. I don't the voices in my head tobecome a crowd.-

-Get inside the embassy -Now is Ibiki-sensei speaking -This situation is delicate and large to unknown so walk softly.-

[Two minutes later]

I am now in front of a locked door, near the Embassy complex. I pull out my kit and break the lock. Then i go in and climb a pole. After reaching the top, i find a grid, then i open it and slip down it.

It's dark here, with no light. My mask is very usefull now. I activate the Night Vision mode, sending chakra to my eyes. Oh, here's the exit. I creep long a wall then i stop. At my left there's the entrance of another passage, and there's a ninja sitting on a chair against the wall. The only light there is provided by a near lantern.

-You have no choice tht knockin this guard. Dont' forget to hide the body to avoid alert.- Tenten says

I grab my kunai then i whistle. The guard seems surprised, and start to walk in my direction. After he turn the corner, i knock him out with the kunai's butt, the hide his body.

I keep walkin through the corridor, then i'm outside. There's a smalldirt pathway and i follow it. I feel something wrong, then i discover why.

-Paper Bombs Traps can spoil my pleasant disposition.- I say through the microphone

-Heaven forbid that, Naruto. Activate your Thermal Vision to spoil them.-Tenten says

I do what she ordered to do, then i found many traps along the path. Carefully, i dodge them all, and i reach another empty building. I'm passing through all the empty building and alleys around the embassy complex in the village to avoid major troubles and possibilities to be spotten by sound ninjas before i can get in.

-Tenten's found you a backdoor- Ibiki-sensei says, then is Tneten who's speaking

-Avoid the main door at all cost. Our maps show an ornamental water stream running beneath the entrance. Looks like a viable way in.-

After three minutes of sneaking, i find the main entrance...Damn. Tha main gate is blocked by large burning debris. It's impossible to pass through it.

In front of the gate there's the stream, a small ornamental river. A Sound shinobi is patrolling the area near the gate. I slowly creep in the water, moving through the dark spots...Fuck, i'm too loud. The guards seem alerted by the noise. I instantly stop and crouch down.

-Be careful Naruto. Your use of stealth is crucial for this operation- Ibiki-sensei says.

After sneaking the stream,i found a door and open it. Now i am in one of the many wood-building courtyard near adjiacent to the Embassy external walls.

Suddendly i hear some cries. Tenten's voice break my hear range

-The situation is getting worst in the embassy. They seem to kill hostages now.-

I spot a man down the courtyard. I cannot sneak past him without getting discovered.

I press the communicator in my throat to speak with Ibiki-sensei:

-I've got a man in my way, Ibiki-sensei. How flexible is my "Zero Kills" orders?-

-As a rock. In fact, we want you to make a new friend. Our intel says that man is a Orochimaru's lieutenants. Interrogate him. Find out what he knows about Orochimaru's defense parameters. Our informations sounds bad, but we lack specifics-

Making new friends? Ok, let's do that!

I sneak behind the guard, using the shadows, then i grab him placing my kunai under his throat

-I need information.-

-I don't know what are you talking about- He says

-I bet you know...- Then i clutch him more

-Ah-ouch...Ok..i know a little bit...-

-Good to hear. I'm going inside to meet your friends. Anything i need to worry about?-

-They have guns.-

-I'm shocked and amazed- I say sarcastically -What else?-

-My men planted the papers bomb all the way out. We have to escort..ahem, defend the village.-

-Escort who?-

-Nothing!-

-ESCORT WHO?- I clutch more and more, slipping my kunai on his throat

-Aghhh...Nobody! I've made a mistake...-

-ESCORT WHO?- I repeat again. Then he collaps.

-AAAAGH...I..don't know his name..somebody important to Orochimaru-sama. He's got a Konoha headband and black hairs. Dead Glance.-

-A Konoha Hitai-ate?-

-Yes...c'mon..go ahead and kill me. It's all i know...-

My mission requires no victim and casualties, so i stun him and hide his body in the darkness

I've jumped a wall, so now, i'm into the Embassy perimeter. I'm talkin with Ibiki-sensei via radio

-Fire Tree's notes confirmed there was a hostage situation. Sound Shinobi- I say

-Yeah, but hte hostages are somebody else's game. You're here for infomation, and especially the information held by Kiba Inuzuka. he's your objective we need to know how much data was lost- Ibiki-sensei says.

Now i'm sneakin against the wall under a window. There's a ninja surveilling the landscape with a binocular upon my head. Then i reach another window. I was going to sneak under this too, when, suddendly, Ibiki-sensei break in my hearing range.

-Freeze Naruto. Don't move a muscle. Orochimaru is right on top of you. if he sees you, the mission is over-

Shit, Orochimaru is here, in the embassy. And he's right above my head... I literally freeze all my muscles and listen to what is happening inside. I hear a desperate voice, maybe an hostage, and then Orochimaru's voice.

-W-why me? I-i've seen anything...- The hostage says

-But did you hear something...- Orochimaru says

-N-no...Just... "Fire Will"...and other things i couldn't understand-

-Ah...give me your whirsts...-

-I...i... thank you- The hostages says. Maybe he think Orochimaru is gonna release him.

Then, the hostages screams in pain. Shit. The Snake Bastard has killed him... Damn! Now he's speakin to another persona, one of his ninja

-Is Inuzuka Kiba safe and separated from the others?-

-Absolutely. Gin doesn't open the door unless i told him via radio. We should break the Inuzuka fingers if we want him to talk...- The ninja says.

-Yes...maybe. But do it quietly. And slowly.-

It's time to move. I sneak under the window and reach a pipe, that i clim to reach the other side of the roof. After doing that, i jump on a balcony. Good. Seems that i've landed in front of Inuzuka's holding room. He's there, with a Sound Shinobi interrogating him.

-Talk, damn you. Where is it?- The Ninja asks

The i hear some smacks and moans. He's punching and slapping him hardly...

-I've only have to keep you alive, not to keep you comfortable. Don't tease me- The ninja says

I sneak behind him, ready to grab his neck and stun him.

He was going to say something when i do what was must to be done. After hiding his body, i reach Kiba, then untied his whrists.

-Kiba. It's been a while...- I say

-Uzumaki? Kami, man, you're dead old!- he says, shocked to see me there

-You still want peace?- I sarcastically say

-Where's the rest of the Team?-

-I'm working alone. I've been chuunin for a decade-

-Then who you with?-

-I'm here for damage-controll. Just came to smash some information.-

-Thank Kami..or should i say ANBU?- He tries to guess what unit/corp/department i belong.

-Keep guessing, Kiba.-

-I've tried to destroy the scrolls with the information, but i was too late... Who you work for? ANBU Root?-

-No. Stay in the darkness, Inuzuka.-

-Uh-uh- He nods -Maybe i'm start to get used for this stuff..-

-How about giving me the scrolls?-

-Yes..just whas your hands when you're done- He gives me a scroll, that i open, scan with my mask, so the Fire Tree Analyst in Konoha can see the content then i hide in my pocket.

-It was encrypted with one of Sounds secret codes. Easy stuff, altough..- Tenten says.

-Good job Naruto. Time to come back home...-

To be continued