William is taking notes and reading a book on puppet building. Jake is working on a few kata to practice his close combat. Sam is doing pushups with the book bag on his back. Ibiki watches this as he converses with yugao while everyone waits for the assault squad. Ibiki notices william stiffen.
"What is it?" ibiki grunts.
"Four chakra signatures are approaching. They are: kage, anbu, mid chunin, low genin. They are approaching from the village and should be here in five minutes. I assume they are the assault squad we requested. From the chakra levels I believe it is team seven." William reports. He puts his books away.
Everyone stands and awaits the squad. Kakashi leaps out of the trees followed by naruto and sasuke. Sakura leaps out after a momentary delay and she is panting hard. Ibiki and kakashi greet each other and the two jonin turn to face the six genin and one former anbu.
"Alright kids. We have two missions. Team seven is going to guard tazuna and do the heavy hitting. Team thirteen is going to eliminate gato before moving onto the higher ranked targets in his employ. Any questions?" kakashi drawls. His eyes on a small orange book.
"Why do they get the easy part? Shouldn't they do the harder work since this is their mission?" sasuke demands. His tone drips with arrogance and derision.
"Actually we are doing the harder part. We are an assassination squad. While your squad faces down enemies and focuses on fighting. We will have to sneak into a highly guarded location and eliminate gato himself. A man who possesses enough money that he will have highly paid guards that are most likely to be highly trained as well. A man with that level of income will only settle for the best. Why are you protesting? Your squad was made to be the hammer to our scalpel." William informs Sasuke calmly.
"What does that mean?" Naruto questions. His jumpsuit nearly blinded others with its bright hues.
"You are an assault squad. Your job is to charge the enemy and fight armies. Your squad will suffer in the stealth department but you make up for it with raw power." Jake explains.
Naruto nods with a smile. Ibiki barks orders to his squad before they all vanish into the trees. All that is seen are blurs bouncing through the treetops as team thirteen heads to their mission area.
"Jake! Get up front and use those eyes! I wanna know what's coming for us before they smell us! Sam gets in the middle! You and yugao are the line breakers! If there's a defense I want it melted and cut into pieces! William stayed in the back and used those bugs! I want a five mile perimeter! Nothing farts unless I know! Move!" ibiki roars to his squad.
Jake springs forward to lead the group as veins bulge near his eyes. Sam and yugao join ibiki behind him as William follows with bugs flowing from his body. Everyone flies through the trees as they approach the island of waves. A few minutes of tree hopping later and William speaks up.
"Four and a half miles ahead. There's a river, two hundred meters across. A bridge extends half way from the otherside. The shore is populated with men wielding swords on both sides. Chakra levels indicate they are hired thugs with no ninja training. Orders?" William reports.
"Jake fell back. Sam and yugao you're up. We are going to sneak past but we are not slowing down! If they want a fight then break a hole and slaughter them!" ibiki barks.
Jake falls back as Sam and yugao both leap forward. Yugao draws her blade as Sam starts to trail drops of lava. There are a few tense minutes before they break through the tree line and the thugs shout. Sam flows through hand seals before he spews a river of lava that swallows the poor bastards ahead. Yugao vanishes in a blur and the thugs who survived are swiftly cut down with their necks smiling red. The team charges past the bodies as they swiftly reach the river and run across the surface. A simple chakra technique allows this.
Ibiki barks an order and the team vanishes before they resume tree hopping. They pass a town and continue their charge with William leading the way. The team stops and crouches on branches as the compound of gato comes into view. William and Jake both form hand signs and then report back.
"Eight thousand square feet. Several rooms contain barracks. There are three rooms in the basement containing slaves. Gato is in his office in the northwest corner of the mansion. There appears to be a high quality safe on the floor under his desk. Two hundred men with blades are either patrolling or guarding the interior with twenty standing at the main the guards and the barracks i estimate his force to be in the low five hundred to high four hundred range." William reports.
"Slaves are all women and some of them are being used for pleasure. Gato has three guards. High muscle density and calluses suggest seasoned samurai. The guards are all civilians but there is a man with the musculature of a ninja and a woman with similar musculature. She is less defined and has lower callus build up. Likely low chunin in strength. William, southeast tower middle room.'' Jake reports before directing his teammate.
"Found them. Man has high jonin reserves, woman has low chunin reserves. The man has a slashed mist headband and a large sword. Sketching it now." William states before he pulls out a notebook. His hand flies across the paper as he draws the sword.
Ibiki looks at the sketch before opening a bingo book, bounty book, and leafing through the pages.
"The man is zabuza momochi. The demon of the mist. He has the headcleaver sword. He is a member of the seven swordsmen of the mist. Mid anbu threatens and likes to use mist to hide before slaughtering his foes in the mist." ibiki reads from the book.
Everyone hops away and they convene on a large tree half a mile from the compound.
"Alright. Zabuza would hear us coming if we sent in jake. His mist usage has taught him to focus on hearing and it's on par with a dog. That means we send in William's insects. How many stings before it's lethal?" ibki grunts.
"For a civilian five. Then a ten minute delay before the venom causes a fatal stroke." William replies.
"Alright. Here's the plan. William is going to send twenty insects. Five for gato and fifteen for the guards. Then yugao enters and seals the safe before she gets out of there. Sam and jake. Help me guard William in case we are attacked. Go!." ibiki orders.
William sits on a branch with a view of the compound and clasps his hands as a small group of insects emerge from his collar. One of them has glowing yellow eyes, William is seeing through this one's eyes, the insects buzz away and yugao follows them as a blur.
Gato signs some papers and groans. Next time he takes over a town like this he is just gonna hire some goons! Gato grumbles about the paperwork as his guards remain silent in their positions. Two behind him and one standing by the door. Gato grabs a glass of liquor and takes a sip before he resumes signing the papers. A sudden pain makes him snap out a curse and he slaps a hand to his neck. His hand comes away with the twitching forms of five bees. His guards are stung in various areas and their slaps reveal bees as well. Gato raises a brow and shakes his head. Great. Now there's weird bees near his mansion! The man grabs a sheet of paper and jots down orders for fumigation to clear these bees before he resumes paperwork. Minutes tick by and gato continues to sign papers. Alcohol helps calm the short man as he grows frustrated with the amount of paper. A sudden pain makes him gasp. Gato falls to the ground clutching his chest as his guards do the same. They all groan in pain and gato watches as a woman with purple hair enters his office through the window. She pulls out a scroll and places it on his safe before the half ton box of steel vanishes in a plume of smoke.
Yugao watches as gato writhes on the ground. His expensive clothes do little to hide the man they wrap around. Greasy hair atop a scalp that is pockmarked and red. His beady eyes show pain and lust in equal measure as he eyes her form lecherously. Chubby hands grope his chest as gato moans in pain. A final gasp escapes from his lips before gato falls still. Yugao looks around and spots the well made katanas on the hips of the guards. She takes them and they vanish in smoke before she does the same.
Yugao appears next to her team and reports success. Ibiki nods and then turns to william.
"Use as many bees as you can. If they aren't slaves then they die." ibiki orders.
William nods and a black cloud flows out of his body before the buzzing mass floods into the compound. Shouts of pain echo and soon fall silent before a much smaller cloud returns to the heavily covered boy.
"It is done. I am down to ten percent of my hive however. There were more men than anticipated in the compound. I must rest here and restore my hive. I shall join you soon." William informs his team.
They all nod and enter the compound. William fades into shadows on the tree as he hides and focuses on restoring his hive.
Ibiki walks through the compound and heads to the north side. He ignores the bodies and reaches a room with a sturdy lock. A chakra enhanced kunai shatters the cheap metal of the lock before ibiki opens the door and enters the room.
Expensive looking rugs and tapestries are rolled up and stacked on one side of the room as paintings are leaned against the wall. The quality of the paint and the delicate silver trims on the frames show the value of the art. High quality bottles of liquor are placed in crates that are stacked haphazardly on the floor. Ibiki smirks and unrolls a scroll as he chuckles.
Sam gags as he walks past bodies in the halls. He groans as he opens another door. Why did he get the east side? It's just food! He grumbles as he starts to seal away the food.
"Why did i get the fucking pantry? Everyone else is probably gonna find fucking cool stuff like gems or a cool sword. I just find fucking food. Who even needs this much food!? Dude could feed a fucking nation for a year! " sam exclaims as he seals up food.
Sam moves a crate of potatoes and something clatters to the ground. It's a large scroll about three feet in width and it has ornate designs depicting flames. Sam raises a brow as he unrolls the scroll. A few names are put on it in what looks like dried blood and he shrugs before cutting a finger with a knife. Sam writes his name in blood before closing the scroll. The large roll of paper suddenly vanishes in a poof of smoke and in its place is a lizard.
The lizard is a foot long without counting the tail that's as long as its body. It has a bright red underbelly and a dark back with lines of red that makes it look like the surface of a pool of magma. Its head is dark and has two protrusions coming from the corners of its mouth to make the head look like a shovel. Its eyes are twin pools of fire red that dart around before it spots sam. The lizard wastes no time in scuttling up his leg and settling on his shoulders. Its body heat makes it feel like a hot stone but Sam is used to lava being around him so the heat doesn't bother him.
"The fuck?! What are you!?" Sam exclaims.
A struggle begins where Sam tries to get the lizard off him but the reptile refuses to stay away from him. Sam gives up after a few minutes and sighs before he jogs off to find ibiki. Maybe he can help get the strange creature off our orange haired friend?
Jake wanders the halls and writes notes in a book as he finds room after room of beds. Seems he has found the barracks. Jake sighs and jots down another note before he spots something. This room isn't like the rest. It has clean white tiled floors and a sturdy metal bed in the middle. A cupboard hangs above a counter and the treasures within are revealed to be medical supplies. Jake chuckles and starts to collect the items. Bandages, painkillers, sewing kits made for human flesh, iv tube and needles, fresh syringes, various drugs in a liquid form and just waiting for a needle to pump them into a person, a library of notes on the various effects of poison that have been dealt with in this room, and a bonesaw of amazing quality are stuffed into a scroll and the smoke that flows from the paper nearly turns the room pitch black with the amount hanging in the air. Jake ignores the tickle of smoke in his lungs and continues to seal items into the scroll.
Yugao reads a book as she slashes locks and chains in a graceful dance. She flips a page with her thumb as her other hand weaves the length of metal in its grip. Slaves rush past and thank her but the woman doesn't acknowledge them. Don't get her wrong. It's always nice to free people from slavery. The rush of joy however turns to annoyance after the fiftieth time doing it. The woman is much more interested in her book and she is at a good part.
Her blade sings a last tune and the last of the cage is open in this part of the pens. One last cage remains. A presence appears behind her and yugao whirls to place her blade at its throat. William is standing behind her and he nods before walking to the final cage. Yugao sheathes her blade and follows the tall man. She sees that he is reading a plaque next to the last cage. William grunts before bugs flow from his body and they enter locks before clicks ring out. The door opens and William enters the cage as a multitude of chains and restraint clatter as his insects pick the locks.
A red haired man stands as the last of the chains fall. His blood red locks flow to his shoulders and inhumanly defined muscles move as he stretches. The man stands an inch taller than william and he is dressed in loose dark clothing that does nothing to hide his godlike physique. The man has a very strong jaw and high cheekbones but his eyes glitter with malice and a bloodlust that rivals that of a tick.
"Yujiro hanma?" William drones.
"Who's asking?" Yujiro replies with a cocky voice.
"Your new owner. The seals placed on you require an owner and seeing as i have placed my chakra into them through my insects. You belong to me now." William states calmly.
"Really? Well then boss. What's the job?" Yujiro says this with a vicious smirk.
"Hold on. William slavery is wrong! What makes you think I'll let you keep a person like an object?" yugao interjects. Her voice flows with anger and disgust as she glares at her student.
"His crimes and nature. The plaque by his cage showed his crimes. He is a mass murderer through brutal fights to the death. He craves combat and was only captured before being enslaved thanks to the efforts of a dozen anbu level close combat specialists and even then he nearly killed half of them and horribly maimed the other half. In exchange for his life he is forced to serve by having a seal placed on him. He fights for his master and gets his fix, the world doesn't lose its best fighter. I have been in need of a helper for when i go into the forest of death back home for pollen. He will do nicely." The heavily covered man explains this as Yujiro chuckles cruelly.
"He's right, girly. Fighting is a drug and I can't get enough. Actual fighting, none of those cowardly jutsus or those wastes of metal called weapons. Just knuckle to knuckle fights to the death. Besides, Kids right. Long as i get to kill something, i'm okay with the seal.'' Yujiro explains to yugao before standing next to william.
William nods and exits the compound with the others. Everyone compares what they have found and the lizard gets some weird looks.
"So let me get this straight. You found a scroll with names in blood and decided to sign it?" ibiki questions sam. The orange haired boy nods and yujiro chuckles.
"It's the fire lizard contract. My old boss had it before gato had him killed. Little bastards spew lava and fire like sprinklers and the upper tier ones are fun to fight. Hopefully the kid here can summon me a few to brawl with." Yujiro says with a chuckle.
Ibiki nods and everyone agrees to meet back at the bridge before they all separate to check the island for anything else important. William hands yujiro a note and tells him to head to the village hidden in the leaves before finding this address. The red head nods and walks away with his hands in his pockets.