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*Normal voice* Now, I hope you guys are having as much fun with this as I am!
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NOW on to chapter 5!
"Talking"
"Thinking"
"Bijuu Talking"
"Bijuu Thinking"
Chapter 5: Darkness of Shinobi
The newcomer stood before Cole and said, "Danzo-sama has requested a meeting Oracle-san."
"Well shit," Cole said under his breath. "You can tell Danzo exactly what I told Hokage-sama, if he wants to see me he'll have to come to me himself." Cole said as he placed his mask back over his face. Anko turned to the newcomer and looked at him with a critical eye, "I don't recognize you, you aren't Anbu."
"You are correct Mitarashi-san, I am one of Danzo-sama's ROOT agents." the masked man replied. "And Oracle-san, Danzo-sama gave me specific orders to take you by force if I have to. So will you come with me or will I have to drag you back?" the agent asked. Cole decided to weigh his options. On one side he could resist and report to the Hokage he had to kill a unknown nin in self defense and push the blame of the attack on Danzo. Or he could go along with the ROOT agent and take care of Danzo himself, but he didn't know if he would be able to defeat Danzo and his ROOT agents at the same time. Even without Shisui's eye Danzo is a high ranking veteran. Cole made his decision and said, "Hey Anko, wanna see something cool?"
Before she could respond Cole extended his had towards the agent and yelled, "Bansho Tennin!" Anko was expecting the agent to fly towards Oracle, but instead a large rock came right at the false Anbu from behind and smashed into him. "Gaahh!" Coles victim yelled before he fell forward and subsequently into Teki no Hocho. After cleaving his opponent in two Cole looked at his handy work. Under his mask he was a little green from his first kill and how brutal it was, but he wouldn't be able to dwell on that for long because right as he had made his move three more ROOT agents appeared and made their attack.
One wearing a Weasel mask threw a few shuriken at Cole while one in a Lizard mask drew a tanto and rushed him. The third one in a Bears mask just stood back and watched. "Shinra Tensei!"Cole exclaimed knocking away the shuriken and turning his attention to his armed adversary. He blocked the initial thrust from Lizard and dodged the follow up kick and gained some distance. "Anko!" he yelled forcefully. "Wait in the cave! I'll have this over in a few minutes!"
"What! No way am I just sitting back in this!" She replied and shot a shot a Sen'eijashu at Weasel. "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" Weasel blocked the snakes and charred them with a well placed fireball. Said fireball continued on its way to Anko who didn't have time to dodge.
"Preta path!" Cole shouted and absorbed the jutsu. "Listen Anko! If you wait in the cave I'll treat you to some dango, I can't go all out while defending you." Cole reasoned with her. "Fine, but if you live through this I'm gonna hold you to that!" She replied as she dashed for the cave.
Weasel was about to follow her but was stopped when he had to dodge a slash Teki no Hocho attached to a chain. Cole retrieved his blade and got into a Kenjutsu stance that had his left hand and foot in front of him with his right leg slightly bent behind him and his right hand holding his blade horizontally above his head. "It's me you want, so come get some!" he snarled at his opponents.
The trio formed a triangle around their target so he couldn't escape. Lizard was the first to make a move using his tanto to make a upwards slash at Cole who blocked it with the flat of his cleaver. Cole followed up with a Shinra Tensie which sent Lizard flying backwards but as he did so Bear shouted, "Suiton: Teppodama (Water Release: Gunshot)!" and several powerful water projectiles came at Cole. Cole simply activated his Preta path and absorbed the ninjutsu. "Is this all you elite ROOT agents can do?" he asked in disappointment. "Fine, I'll just finish this quickly," said before he rocketed towards a still recovering Lizard. Only to be stalled by Weasel as he shot another fireball at him. He had to stop for a moment to absorb the jutsu. With the moment it took Lizard got his distance and Bear came at him with s pair of tonfa. As Bear whirled the wooden weapons at his opponent Cole blocked each hit with his sword. Cole used the sheer weight of his over sized cleaver to off balance Bear and deliver a devastating ckakra enhanced kick to Bears chest. As Bear flew past his comrades Cole shouted, "Asura path: Chakra Pistol!" With that his index finger turned into a chakra cannon and fired a chakra blast at the still flying Bear.
When the blast made contact with Bear, the poor agent was blown into pieces and scattered over the area. Cole nearly threw up from what he had done but he couldn't slow down. He still had two enemies who were unfazed by the brutal death pf their comrade. Lizard sunshined towards Cole to close the distance and attack with his tanto. Cole however saw this coming and blocked with Teki no Hocho. "Haven't you learned you can't beat me with this level of kenjutsu?" he asked Lizard whose only response was to keep attacking while Weasel formed another jutsu. "Katon: Karyu Endan (Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet)!" Weasel roared as he shot a dragon made of flame at Cole.
Instead of absorbing the attack like the others, he used kawarimi to switch out with a branch of a tree. Once that was engulfed in flame, Lizard was also taken by friendly fire. Anko who had been waiting in the cave had heard the screams and she took a look out of the cave to see the entrails of one all over the ground while a second enemy burned to death slowly. She only saw a single enemy left and thought to herself that she was lucky to be such good friends with Oracle, or that could have very well of been her. "So, you gonna back down or am I gonna have to end your existence to?" Cole asked Weasel as he leveled his cleaver towards him. Weasels response was to throw down a few smoke bombs to give himself cover. This however, was the wrong choice. Cole simply spotted his chakra signature and reacted out his hand, "Bansho Tennin!" Weasel was retched out of the smoke and impaled by a chakra receiving rod. "Sorry," was the last word Weasel heard as he died.
Once his adrenaline died down, Cole calmly walked over to the stream and removed his mask. After he did so he proceeded to loose his stomach contents into the poor unsuspecting river. When he finished Anko made her way over to him and asked, "Was that..was that your-"
"First kill? Yeah, yeah it was." Cole interrupted her and began to shake slightly. "Oh, well..." Anko didn't know what to say at this point. She wasn't really any good at soothing people. She was more on the side of making people feel the exact opposite feeling. "Y-you get used to it, ya know," she continued. "Over time you learn to just shut it all out, stop being human for moments of time. It's how we shinobi do what we do, ya know. But a lot of us have to find ways of coping. I eat dango when I feel bad or I'm stressed, but hey, that's me." She said.
Cole looked up to her and grinned shakily, "Thanks Anko-chan. Why don't we go report this to Hokage-sama, and then I might just follow up on my promise."
"AH HELL YEAH, FREE DANGO!" She happily yelled. The began to make their way through the village. It was Cole's first time actually walking though the village without trying to sneak around. He liked what he saw, a lot of flowers, happy villagers, a perfect and happy city. That is, until he noticed the glares Anko was getting, and by extension, him. He was of set by this thinking how could a village that prizes teamwork and the will of fire above all things have such hate for one of their own?
As they continued to make their way through the village, Cole stopped Anko and asked, "Do you know anywhere that I can sell weapons? That won't treat you like you don't belong, I don't want to give any of them the time of day." Cole asked. this happened to make Anko blush a bit and she stammered, "Y-yeah, j-just follow m-me." Cole got a slight chuckle out of seeing Anko acting shy like this. He guessed that she didn't expect him to catch on that she was uncomfortable with walking through the center of town.
They arrived at a small ninja tool shop and entered. "Hey Tanzo! I've brought a new customer for you!" Anko chipped. They heard some clattering in the back room and a very large man with extremely muscular arms holding a toddler in his came out and behind the counter. "Anko! Long time no see lass, how have you been?" he asked in a jovial and deep voice. "Ah, you know, same old same old. I made a new friend! Here this is Oracle," she introduced Cole to the large man. "Nice to meet you Oracle-san. I'm Tanzo and this little ball of trouble is Tenten." The giant said in a happy tone as be poked his daughter in the cheek. "Likewise Tanzo-san, and you too little Tenten." Cole replied.
"So, Anko-chan says you're a new customer. You here to buy or appraise something?" he asked getting down to business. "I came to sell, and to also make a deal. Here hold on a moment," Cole said as he opened the long bag he had been carrying. He produced a solid black katana that seemed to glow slightly. "Well, what do we have here..." Tanzo whispered as he set Tenten down to go play with Anko. "What kind of metal is this? It looks like it was made by a master smith. Tell me, is the blade enhanced with chakra iron?" Tanzo asked in rapid fire. "Hehe, well the blade is made from pure chakra iron, not just enhanced. And the maker of the blade would be myself."
"Tanzo looked up at him and said, "the best I can offer you is 30,000 ryo. Anymore and I'd risk going bankrupt." Cole liked the offer but decided to make his own, "how about you do 20,000 ryo and you make me a sheath for Teki no Hocho here." He said as he brandished his cleaver. "I'd also like to make you a deal," he continued. "I can give you a large supply of these blades and variants of the blade and we split the profit sixty:forty. Sound good to you?"
Tanzo didn't need to think twice, "Done." They shook hands and Tanzo gave him his money. "If you would let me hold onto your slab of iron there for the next couple of days I can make your sheath." Cole hefted his blade up and placed it on the counter. "Alright, but not a scratch okay?" he said with sarcasm thick in his voice. Tanzo laughed and said, "Of course, but if I may, where did you get the iron or the skill to make weapons like these? They could probably rival the blades of the seven ninja swordsman of the mist."
"Secret~" Cole taunted the blacksmith. "But if you must know, I have a lot of skill in both making blades and using them." Tanzo laughed and said, "I don't doubt that." Then he tried to remove Teki no Hocho but found it took even him a considerable amount of effort to lift the blade. "Geez kid, how can you even use this!?"
"A lot easier that you think," Cole chuckled and made his way out of the shop and had Anko follow as she said her goodbyes to little Tenten. "Don't tell anyone, but that little Tenten will be a very powerful weapons master one day," Cole said to Anko. Anko looked at him and said, "I don't doubt it, if she's anything like her dad she'll grow to be a weapon fanatic. Also, when did you make that sword I didn't see you bring it." Cole let loose a little giggle and said, "I made it as I reached into my bag. Asura path is great isn't it?"
Anko laughed and they continued to the tower.
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"And that is my report Hokage-sama." Cole said as he finished telling Hiruzen what had transpired in the forest. "Hmm, this is unsettling." Hiruzen said. "I told Danzo to put an end to his little ROOT program years ago. The traitorous bastard needs to be punished, not only did he go against my orders, but one of his agents attacked a Konoha nin. This will not go without repercussion!" Hiruzen fumed. He called to his secretary to have Danzo brought to his office as soon as possible.
About half an hour latter the grizzled war hawk entered Hiruzen's office. A brief emotion that seemed like rage appeared on his face when he saw Oracle, but he was quick to hide it. Not that hiding his emotions would help him in his current situation. "DANZO!" Hiruzen yelled. "You have gone against my orders for the last time! I told you years ago to extinguish all traces of ROOT and what do you do? You go behind your Hokage's back and even get to th point of having a civilian and a kunoichi of Konoha attacked! How can you explain yourself!" Hiruzen said enraged by the actions of one of his former war brothers.
Danzo merely looked at Hiruzen and said in a completely calm tone, "I don't understand Hokage-sama, what do you me-" He was cut off when Cole snarled, "Can it bastard. I already removed the seals on the corpses of your agents and their bodies have been sent to the intel division." Danzo didn't bother hiding his rage at this point, he tried to pull free the hidden sword from his cane but stopped when he felt cold steel press to his neck. He was instantly surrounded by Anbu blackop agents. "Danzo," Hiruzen started. "For knowingly going against the orders of your Hokage, and having one of your fellow Konoha nin attacked, your punishment will not be a slap on the wrist this time."
"Oh, and what will you do Hiruzen!? You were always too soft to be Hokage! You didn't have the guts to make the hard decisions. What will you d-" he was cut off again by Cole. But instead of using words to stop Danzo, he merely plunged a chakra receiver rod into his heart. All Danzo could do was cough blood as he looked wide eyed at Cole. "Danzo, for putting my mission in danger, as per my right, I sentence you to immediate death." Cole said with ice in his voice.
Danzo just stared into Cole's barely visible eyes. He just stared as he slowly died, standing and unwilling to move.
END OF CHAPTER!
(A/N) Alright guys that's chapter five. Cole got a little dark there. What will Danzo's early death do to future events? What will happen next? Can Cole afford a Anko eating spree? Find out in the the next chapter!
Btw, expect chapter to be either smaller, or slower to be released during the school week, but longer on the weekends. I don't want to slow down on the production of these chapters, but I also want them to be a good length, so I' m going to post whenever I finih a new chapter! See ya next time!