Naruto Shippuden -H-: Chapter 004: Insurrection
Sasuke continued about his venture through the woods after sensing that something was amiss in the area surrounding Konohagakure.
"It has been a while since I started this journey to explore the world alone, but it was not until now that I had a feeling of unease to strike my eyes." said Sasuke to himself as he continued to run through the woods looking for any sign of suspicion.
"If I cannot find anything by morning, it would be best to notify Kakashi at once." thought Sasuke to himself as he stopped at the edge of a cliff to rest.
Morning came as 5 o'clock rose about, things in the leaf were running smoothly as they normally did in times of peace. Naruto had awoken before Hinata and decided to head out for a morning exercise.
"I do not want to wake her up right now, she seems to be sleeping peacefully." said Naruto quietly as he ran out towards the old training grounds where he took his bell test years ago.
"This should do the trick, I always love training here in the morning, it would be best to not go overboard though." said Naruto to himself as he started practicing using the most minimal force necessary.
"Hmm, looks like Naruto is still working very early, I guess he doesn't settle down even in times of peace." said Sai as he was sitting by a tree near the training ground were Naruto was at.
"Hey Sai, are you going to draw another picture of me training again?" asked Naruto as he noticed Sai in the brink of his eye.
"I guess your observation is also up to par, but no, I am just jotting down a list of things that Ino wants me to pick up by the end of the day." said Sai as he continued to just down a hefty list of items.
"Seems you have your own training to worry about, hahah." laughed Naruto.
"They don't make books for shopping, so I have to learn all of this stuff the hard way, oh, how did your honeymoon with Hinata go?" asked Sai.
"It went very well, we had a good time by the beach, and they had the best cajun seasoned ramen in the world their." said Naruto happily.
"It always comes down to ramen with you, hehe." laughed Sai as he finished up his list.
"Time for me to head out, it's close to seven in the morning, Ino is probably looking for me now, see ya." said Sai as he drew a large bird on his scroll and hopped on it.
"Take it easy now." said Naruto as he waved goodbye to Sai.
"Well, I better not be out here too long, don't want to keep Hinata waiting after all." said Naruto as he decided to finish up his morning workout.
Kakashi had arrived in the Kage's office around 8 o'clock and started to review the documents that he had finished the day prior.
"Everything seems to be going well right now, it will not be long before the Allied Chunin Exams begin." said Kakashi to himself as he finished his cup of coffee.
"Oh there you are, too busy to stop by, don't worry about it, seems you are busy this morning after all." said Shizune as she walked into the office with a package of new reports from the other four nations.
"Yeah, sorry about that, well it seems I have more work to do now anyway." sighed Kakashi as he got up to get another cup of coffee.
A medium-sized hawk suddenly flew into the window directly behind Kakashi's seat with a scroll firmly tucked between it's talons.
"Huh, seems someone else has a report for us as well this morning." said Shizune as she walked over to take the scroll and read it's contents.
"Another scroll, sheesh, I was not expecting this so early in the morning." said Kakashi as he sat down to hear what the scroll contained.
"Hey, this scroll is from Sasuke, here take a look." said Shizune with a surprised tone.
"Sasuke, he has not sent a scroll ever since he was pardoned for his crimes after the war ended over two years ago." said Kakashi who was also surprised by this new development.
"Here, I will read it, must be something serious if Sasuke decided to send one of his summoned hawks to bring it." said Kakashi as Shizune handed the scroll over to him.
"Let's see what it says." said Kakashi as he began to read the scroll's content for himself.
"It seems that Sasuke has detected a disturbance somewhere within a fifty mile radius of the gates of the hidden leaf." said Kakashi to Shizune.
"A disturbance, did he specify on what it was?" asked Shizune with concern.
"No, it seems he was not able to detect exactly what it was, but he stated in this document that he will notify me with more information as it comes about, by any means we need to be on the look out just in case." said Kakashi as he put the scroll in his desk.
"I will give this hawk a scroll showing that I have read Sasuke's report and I will ask him to continue to look for whatever may be brewing out their." said Kakashi as he quickly wrote a document and sealed it into a scroll before handing it over to the hawk.
"Get this back to Sasuke as quickly as you can." said Kakashi to the hawk as it flew quickly into the horizon.
"Should I notify anyone else about this right now?" asked Shizune.
"Not just yet, let's wait for a follow up report from Sasuke first." said Kakashi as he had faith that Sasuke could deal with it.
"Okay, well I am going to patrol the gates for a few hours, I will also notify you if I find anything." said Shizune as she began to leave.
"Alright, be careful." said Kakashi as he got back to his work.
"I should let Tsunade know of this at least, she has been bored being in the council and all." said Shizune as she left the Hokage's mansion.
Jesei and Lunesto had awaken from their sleep when they decided to inch slightly closer to the direction of Konohagakure.
"It seems that our soldiers from Abraham are stationed on the western border of the Land of Fire right now according to the allotted time that they gave us." said Jesei as he got on his radio to talk with someone.
"You should ask Antoine, he is in charge of camp Abraham after all." said Lunesto.
"That is what I am doing now." said Jesei as he was waiting to receive a frequency from the location of Abraham's outpost.
"Jesei, this is Sheppard, me and nineteen others are stationed exactly as you commanded around the western border of the land of fire." said Sheppard as he spoke to Jesei over radio.
"Good, we will wait until noon to make a move, no need to rush things, we are not looking for an outright conflict, we are just trying to give a little distraction to alert the top brass of Konoha, which includes Naruto Uzumaki." said Jesei to Sheppard.
"Okay, how should we approach the situation once noon rolls around?" asked Sheppard.
"Tell the other soldiers to use a barrier ninjutsu, preferably a high caliber one to mask you're movements." instructed Jesei to Sheppard and the rest of his platoon.
"Gotcha, we will do just as you command, anything else before I end this transmission, don't want the leaf to hijack us." said Sheppard.
"Don't worry about that, as far as I know, no one is aware of our location or yours as of now, just remember to use your jutsu to place no more than a thousand explosive tags on the eastern and western gates of Konoha" said Jesei.
"Okay, I will let the rest of the platoon know this too, farewell." said Sheppard as he ended his transmission to Jesei.
"Are you sure this will go smoothly, Konoha has got a top notch sensory division after all." said Lunesto in a teasing manner.
"Yes, I am sure this will turn out well, all that matters is that we lure out Naruto Uzumaki so I can give him an invitation from boss." said Jesei reassuringly.
"Why not just go to Konoha and civilly ask for his answer yourself instead of staging this small scale assault?" asked Lunesto as he and Jesei began to slowly traverse the forest to the north of their location.
"That would be a good idea indeed, but boss told me specifically to carry out our objective like this." said Jesei as he was getting irritated by Lunesto's constant bickering.
"Hey, sometimes the old man can be a little senile, eh, hahahaha." laughed Lunesto.
"Then why don't you say that to his face when we get back to Lazarus." said Jesei with an irritated tone.
"Eh, I was just joking, damn, take it easy." said Lunesto as he started to tremble a little from the thought of telling such a thing to his boss.
"Let's just wait here until noon, I will use my jutsu to create a false alarm alerting that someone has entered the southern gates of Konoha, that should capture their attention long enough so that our soldiers from Abraham can plant several explosives on the eastern and western gates." said Jesei as he was reviewing the plan with Lunesto.
"That does not sound half bad, but why not let me sneak in from underground afterwards to conduct a little espionage while the leaf shinobi are distracted by the ruckus?" asked Lunesto to Jesei.
"Hmm, you thought of a good idea for once, alright, but make sure that you wait until the soldiers from Abraham activate the explosive tags before you do so." said Jesei with a stern tone.
"Okay, I will use my summoning jutsu to unleash my own special blend of bats to conduct sonar sensing while I am traveling underground to detect any traps that those bastards may have set." said Lunesto.
"Alright, sounds like a plan, now all we have to do is wait two more hours and we can begin." said Jesei.
"I will start my underground travel now, it should take me around two hours to reach the gates of Konoha, of course I will go slowly to allow the rest of you to carry out the opening act." said Lunesto as he used an Earth Release technique to dig a tunnel underground.
"Remember what I told you, after I use my Mind Release jutsu, and after the explosives go out, that is when you are to act, no sooner, or later." said Jesei.
"Okay, gotcha captain." said Lunesto as he descended into the ground.
"Soon, soon we can kick off the world wide insurrection of Lazarus' main goal, to embezzle all of the five great nation's funding and cut their communications, hehehe." said Jesei as he waited for the moment to attack.
Elsewhere, Sasuke was still on the watch for the disturbance that he detected the night prior.
"It seems that Kakashi did receive my message after all." said Sasuke as his hawk had arrived at his location.
"I would be in a better situation if I were to use my Rinnegan to rapidly teleport and look for something that way." said Sasuke as he quickly vanished further into the forest where he sensed the suspicious activity.
The soldiers from the camp of Abraham were all preparing to erect their barrier to being with the mission.
"Sheppard, we have all made the required hand signs, the sensory department from Konoha should not be able to detect us now." said one of the soldiers.
"Good, I will prepare my jutsu which shall create 1,000 explosive tags to attach to the eastern and western walls as instructed from Jesei." said Sheppard to the rest of his platoon.
Suddenly, a man wearing a pair of sun glasses and a red suit appeared before Sheppard and his platoon.
"It would be wise for me to come along too, just in case things go south." said the man to the platoon.
"Antoine Keido, one of Lazarus' Knights of Dawn, it is a pleasure for you to join us on this escapade." said one of the soldiers to the suit-clad man.
"No problem, I am to believe that you were instructed properly on how to handle this assault from Jesei, right Sheppard? asked Antoine.
"Yes, do you know the plan as well?" asked Sheppard to Antoine.
"Of course I do, me and the other seven knights went over it many times for the past week, this plan will not fail." said Antoine with reassurance.
"Okay, it is eleven now, one more hour until we shall begin." said Sheppard with a menacing tone.
"Yes, as the will of our leader, our boss, our God, we shall not fail his majesty in what he has assigned to us, the dark serpent shall have his meeting with Naruto Uzumaki, and this, this is the first step in that plan." said Antoine with a tone of joy.
"Of course, I also plan on killing Kakashi Hatake when I get the chance as well, he will never see it coming." laughed Antoine as he and the soldiers from camp Abraham began to head out towards Konohagakure.
-To be continued next time with Chapter 005...-