Naruto Shippuden -H-: Chapter 005: The Operation of Abraham Begins
Antoine and the platoon of soldiers from Abraham began to quickly traverse the area around them, closing in on their destination outside of the barrier of Konohagakure.
"Yes, Kakashi, we will have our go-around soon enough, but for now this plan is of utmost importance." said Antoine with a grin as he used the body flicker technique to quickly teleport to a distance within ten feet of the barrier surrounding the western gate of Konoha.
Sheppard and eight other soldiers decided to surround the outside of the eastern gate, while, the other eleven decided to join Antoine with covering the western gate.
"Time to notify Jesei, sir." said one of the soldiers that was in the company of Antoine.
"Yes, he will be approaching the southern border, where he will use his jutsu to create a false point of entry in order to create a diversion long enough for Sheppard to place his one thousand explosive tags on those walls." said Antoine to the soldiers of Abraham that were with him.
"Sheppard, this is Antoine, contact Jesei on radio and tell him that we are ready, it is five minutes till noon after all." said Antoine as he contacted Sheppard via radio.
"Yes sir, this will be the true opening act." said Sheppard as he searched for Jesei's access point.
"Jesei here, I am in position just far enough outside of Konoha's barrier that I cannot be detected." said Jesei as he was using the Hiding in Camouflage Jutsu for extra security.
"I assume you are near the southern gate, and you are now going to use your jutsu to create a diversion for me?" asked Sheppard over radio.
"Yes, just wait a few minutes, and while we are at it, be wary of any surprise ambushes from those of the leaf with advanced sensory skills." said Jesei as he prepared his jutsu for activation.
Meanwhile, Shizune had arrived at the location of where Tsunade was staying, around a mile from the southern border. Shizune walked in to see that the room that Tsunade would usually deal with her business to be flooded with clothes and in complete shambles.
"I see you do not excel at home cleaning." said Shizune who was used to finding Tsunade's room in such condition.
"Hey, I had to listen to all kinds of different pleas for ideas concerning the Allied Chunin Exams yesterday, 'bout drove me insane, by the time I got home, I fell asleep directly." said Tsunade as she was looking through the window that was in front of the table she was sitting at.
"Ever since you took the spot of Homura and Koharu, you have been under extra pressure." said Shizune with concern.
"Well, that is what they requested before they retired from the position, I was to take up their mantle after I gave the title of Hokage to Kakashi, and in doing so, I decided to take on a new job, being the sole member of the Konoha Council." said Tsunade with a serious tone as she continued to browse what she could see from out the window.
"I am glad to see that you are taking this seriously, but I have some news of my own, just around two hours ago, I was in Kakashi's office speaking with him on some of the reports that were to be filled out that day, but anyway, a messenger hawk flew in and gave Kakashi a scroll that was from Sasuke." said Shizune.
"Really, this is interesting indeed, tell me more about this, and while you do that, I will start preparing my chakra just in case something is amiss." said Tsunade as she sharpened her focus.
"Based of what Kakashi read from that scroll, Sasuke notified us that he detected several disturbances from within the vicinity of the village, although he was not yet able to specify on what they were." said Shizune with concern.
"Really, well since I have nothing better to do right now, I will join Sasuke in this hunt, anyone that tries to undo the peace that we were able to achieve must be put out of commission before they can do any lasting harm." said Tsunade as she prepared to leave her apartment.
"I will notify some of the other shinobi who are on border duty, as well as alert the sensory department of this occurrence." said Shizune.
"Good, be sure to act quickly, if I can find out what is going on out their before an invasion or sneak attack begins, we will be in good hands." said Tsunade as she walked out of the door and quickly leaped over the buildings that were in her path.
"Time to get to work, better notify Sakura, Sai, and Naruto as well, they will come in most handy with tracking down a possible intruder." said Shizune as she began to act.
Jesei was ready to activate his jutsu on the vicinity of the Southern gate of Konoha.
"This should do the trick, this jutsu I will project into the minds of every member of the sensory and barrier department of Konoha, it will cause them to hallucinate and see that there is one intruder that has intercepted their ranks, when in reality, it will be all of us." laughed Jesei as he performed the Ram, Monkey, and Tiger hand signs quickly.
"Mind Release: False Aptitude!" said Jesei quietly as he closed his eyes and focused on the location of the sensory department, all the while being sure to stay out of the range of the barrier.
The barrier and sensory department were not particularly busy that day, most of the jonin that were accompanying them have began to play a game of cards to pass the time.
"Sure does make the day go by slow when nothing of interest is going on." said Aoba as he was frustrated with loosing his previous game.
"Well, let's be glad that things have gone this smoothly for the past six months, and you should also try to focus better on which cards you shall play" said Raido with a grin.
One of the barrier-nin suddenly seemed to detect a disturbance from the location of the southern gate.
"I have detected an intruder, from the position of the southern gate, only one though." said Baraku, the chief senior officer of the barrier department.
"Oh geez, seems that you have jinxed us again Aoba." said Shikamaru as he happened to stumble by the premise of the department a few minutes prior.
"You said one intruder, okay, Raido, Genma, Shikamaru, and Ebisu, you all come with me, I want to settle this as quickly as possible." said Aoba as he and the other shinobi that were present headed out in the location that Baraku pointed out.
"Hmm, seems those fools fell for it, such a simple illusion, yet such a brilliant trick, now for Sheppard and his platoon to undertake their portion of the mission." said Jesei as he re-activated the Hiding in Camouflage Jutsu and quickly left the area.
"I will notify Sheppard now, would be best to also be on the lookout for those amongst the leaf shinobi that may have seen through my ruse as well, I cannot assume that everyone will fall for this trick, especially Naruto, with that Negative Emotion Sensing of his." said Jesei as a drop of sweat dripped from his brow.
"Sheppard, this is Jesei, I have completed my part, now I suggest that you hurry and do yours, place no more than one thousand explosive tags on the eastern and western gates, within the next ten minutes." said Jesei as he made the radio transmission as quick as possible to avoid being detected.
"Yes, I shall, and to ensure that I meet the prerequisite goal, five hundred explosives on each gate shall do, and then I will merely release the jutsu and bam, we have a commotion." said Sheppard as he instructed the soldiers that were with him to cover his area as he prepared to activate his jutsu.
"Multi-point Exploding Tag Formula Jutsu." said Sheppard as he instantly created one thousand tags with an explosive sealed inside.
"Good, now to quickly place them all on this wall, and then we will head to the other, once the eastern and western walls are taken care of, the konoha shinobi will surely realize what the real situation is, their could be casualties, are you men, the heart and soul of camp Abraham ready?" asked Sheppard with an excited tone.
"Yes, there is no better honor than to purge the heathers who are ignorant to the ideals of the Apathetic Judge, revolution starts now." said one of the soldiers with a passionate tone.
"Then it is game time, let's all place these tags quickly, then we will use the teleportation jutsu to quickly move to the other side of the village, and do the same their." said Sheppard as they began to act quickly.
Elsewhere, Aoba, Shikamaru, Raido, Genma, and Ebisu had arrived at the location that the barrier-nin had specified that an inturder were to be found.
"There is no one here, could it have been a fluke?" asked Ebisu as he looked around, but could not seem to detect a presence anywhere.
"I cannot find anything either, surely we were not fooled again, like that time against Pain!" said Raido with a furious tone.
"It would be best to alert other shinobi of this false alarm and assume the worst has taken place, let's all continue our search and contact those on border duty as well, the more help the merrier." said Aoba as he ran off in the direction where the southern gate's door was.
"Yes, we need to act quickly, I will use my Shadow Strangle Jutsu should we encounter an opponent who is hiding from a distance." said Shikamaru with confidence.
"I assume that Tsunade and Shizune are here for the same thing, see, they just arrived." said Genma as Tsunade was quick to arrive at the scene of where a false intrusion was detected.
"Aoba is going to check and see who is on border duty right now, the rest of us our trying to figure out what is going on here." said Raido with confusion.
"So, someone is really out their, it must of been them who were able to create a false detection on the part of our sensory and barrier department, dammit." said Tsunade.
"I know, and after all of the pride we took with being considered an unimpenetrable nation." said Ebisu.
"Forget that, let's be swift, Shizune is also almost here, she has sent out word to some more backup as well, I believe." said Tsunade as Shizune also arrived in the area.
Meanwhile, Lunesto was still burrowing underground with Earth Release: Hiding Like a Mole Technique.
"I am almost at my position, I seem to detect a large number of shinobi with considerable chakra gathered around the southern gate, seems Jesei was successful in his part after all, now all I have to do is wait for Sheppard and the others from Abraham to carry out their part before I can emerge from the ground, right in the middle of the village." said Lunesto as around ten bats were also flying in front of him in the dark secluded tunnel.
"I might be able to even find Naruto while I am in the village, if so, that will wrap up this mission much quicker than expected, at least I hope so, we do not want to start a full-scale war in any case." said Lunesto as he continued to close in on his position.
Sheppard and the platoon of soldiers accompanying him had finished placing five hundred explosive tags on the eastern wall, and were now ready to quickly progress to the western side to do the same.
"Good work, now let's use this scroll that Antoine gave me a few days prior to ensure that we do not waste more time than necessary getting to the other side of the gate." said Sheppard as he and the rest of his platoon activated a fuinjutsu that quickly moved them to the same location as Antoine and the soldiers stationed with him.
"I assume that you have placed the tags on that side?" asked Antoine.
"Yes, and now while the leaf is still distracted, time to do the same on this side!" said Sheppard as he and the other soldiers were quick to finish with their part in the plan.
"Good, it took only about five minutes to place all one thousand, now let's get some good distance from this gate before we activate the jutsu, would not want to get caught in the crossfire after all." said Antoine as he and camp Abraham moved into the woods further back from the Western Gate.
"While everyone is in a state of confusion, let's go!" said Sheppard with joy as he activated his jutsu causing the explosive tags on the eastern and western walls of Konohagakure to explode, collapsing them, and leaving the Leaf Village in a state of panic.
"What the fuck was that?" yelled Aoba as he could see the Eastern and Western walls collapse after a loud explosion.
"So, it seems your suspicions were right, someone is invading the village again after all of these years." said Sai as he arrived in the area via one of his ink birds.
"Were you able to see who it was?" asked Raido as he also arrived outside of the southern gate where Aoba and Sai were.
"No, I did see the walls collapse at the same time, must have been a kind of exploding tag, or a jutsu that employs the use of them." said Sai with a worried tone.
"I see, well, we need to find Sakura, and Naruto." said Shizune as she also arrived on the scene.
"I hear you loud and clear, the rest of you stay here and continue with the search for those intruders, I can handle this." said Sai as he quickly flew off using his Super Beast Scroll Jutsu.
Sheppard and his men stepped out of the forest and saw the Eastern and Western walls collapsed.
"Yes, this phase of the plan is also a go, now all we have to do is wait for the golden hero to take the bait, then everything about this mission will be a success." said Sheppard.
"Sir, let me venture out a little to see if I cannot detect a sighting of the golden hero, he could be headed towards this location for all we know." said one of the soldiers, who was willing to take the initiative.
"Alright, but me and Antoine will be on the lookout for anyone who may be aware of our own location." said Sheppard with a cautious tone.
Jesei had also witnessed the collapse of the Eastern and Western walls of Konoha.
"So Abraham was able to do it after all, Antoine must be over their too, and Lunesto should be about to dig his way straight into the Leaf, yep, things have ran smoothly after all, and without a moment too soon." said Jesei.
"Really, well, this part might add a little of a change to the summary once you return." said Sasuke as he immediately appeared behind Jesei with his sword the the suit-clad old man's throat.
"Don't be a funny man, one word, and you die!" said Sasuke as he had also detected the presence of camp Abraham as well.
To be Continued next time with Chapter 006...