Battle in the city of Keishi

"No means no. I want a higher rank mission. I won't listen to you anymore, Kaa-san." In the Hokage office, Naruto sat on the floor before Minato while Kushina is trying to make him given up.

As Naruto became adamant about it, Sasuke also said, "honestly, Hokage-sama, I think we are ready for a Higher rank mission." Kushina then glared at Sakura, who was about to open her mouth and then after seeing Kushin'a expression, Sakura said, "well, both are right in their views."

"Naruto, stop behaving like a brat. Get up," as Kushina ordered him, Naruto looked away, "no way. I won't get up until I get what I want. I even worked together with this jerk and completed the mission successfully for the past two weeks, this time, you should listen to me Kaa-san.

Minato then stood up and replied in a mild tone, "Now, now, Kushina-chan, Naruto-kun. Please behave your selves. This isn't our home. Let me see if there are available missions that'll satisfy both of you, okay?"

Minato then looked at the papers in front of him, one by one. After a while, he said, "found it. How about a C-rank mission. It is a bodyguard duty to the Land of Waves. The client is on the 2nd floor, Waiting-Hall."

Naruto immediately jumped high in excitement, "yay, thanks, dad. We can even meet Uncle Rai, Ikari and Imari on the way and perhaps enjoy a vacation at Keishi, hehe." Kushina nudged him from behind and he immediately bowed, "*cough* I mean we'll escort them while we return. Yes, that's it."

Reaching the waiting hall, they saw a few clients and a few teams who got assigned to them. They went towards the old man, who was sitting in one corner, shaking his legs continuously in nervousness while drinking, "Tazuna-san? We're the team assigned as your bodyguards."

Meanwhile, at Keishi, the Capital city of the Land of Fire, Ikari, and Imari tightly hugged Raiga and screamed in fear as well as in excitement as the roller coaster moved in a complex track. After that, they walked around the exhibition while buying everything they want and sealing them in scrolls, meanwhile, a woman around his age, in jonin attire was accompanying them as their bodyguard.

While walking, Raiga thought, "if not for the money I earned from my seal shop, I would have already got broke because of these two. Sigh... can't do anything but listen to them when they ask me with their big adorable eyes. Is this what they call Uncle's heart?"

"Uncle" "Uncle" both of them tugged his shirt to bring him out of his thoughts, "can I buy this cute teddy bear, please?" "Uncle, can I buy this toy kunai that looks just like Father's?"

A while later, as they were non-stop buying a few things for the family as well, the jonin suddenly became serious and gestured Raiga, who nodded in return, indicating that he knew it. Then, he said, "kids, let's stop for now and return to the inn, okay? We will buy the rest, tomorrow. It's already late."

"Aw, okay, fine," Ikari replied as they returned to the Leaf Inn with Tomoka. After reaching their room, he looked at Tomoka and said, "good night, Tomoka-chan. I hope you'll stay in the room and watch over them as usual." Tomoka replied with a worry that appeared on her face, "but there are..." Raiga immediately put a finger on his lips and gestured with his head, not to speak one more word before the kids, and all of a sudden, he was hugged tightly by Imari, which surprised him.

Looking at her, he asked, "Eh? Imari-chan?" She immediately looked at him and asked, "Must you go? Can't we just directly go away to Konoha, right now?"

Tomoka and Raiga got taken aback in a shock hearing her response, as Tomoki tried to confirm her suspicions by asking, "what are you talking about?" Raiga looked at her and replied, "we will talk about it after I return. Until then, sleep tight, Imari-chan. You too, Ikari-chan." Ikari said good night too while wondering about Imari's and Raiga's conversation.

After closing the door, Raiga immediately made a few hand seals, Sheep>Snake>Boar>Ox>Sheep, "Fuinjutsu: Illusion Barrier." Suddenly, the seal tags placed on the four walls, floor and ceiling activated. Then, Raiga opened the door and found Tomoki and the twins are missing. He nodded with a light smile, "good, it worked," and then his expression turned serious as he sat down on the chair as if he's waiting for someone.

It's a space-time fuinjutsu technique, upon activation, the whole room was transported into a dimensional void and yet connected to the real world while replacing it with an empty room. Like Raiga, even if anyone comes into the room, they can only see nothing but an empty room. Although it sounds like a great one, it has its major weaknesses. Like for example, the user can only use it other others, not himself. If a person, the user is hiding exited the room in meantime, they'll appear themselves outside of the door in real-world and the jutsu will be dispelled. Of course, killing the user will also dispel the jutsu. It took three full years for Raiga to create this skill again while touring around the world.

After Raiga put off the lights and waited in the dark for 30 minutes, four ninjas with masks enter the room through the windows, silently to finish the job but got shocked as they were paralyzed immediately on the spot as soon as they landed on the floor. The lights inside the room then switched on revealing Raiga sitting on a chair, putting his leg over the other while a golden chain was returning to him from the switchboard after turning on the lights.

Raiga looked at them, who were paralyzed by sealing tags containing Pertifying seals, placed all over the room in advance so and smirked, "I don't who you are but you are really looking me down too much, to come after me with just four of you." As Raiga's face turned serious, Adamantine Sealings released from his body and tightly wrapped their necks, and made his way towards one of them, who he released from the jutsu and removing his mask, "Now, tell me. Who is your employer and what is your objective? Is it me or is it the girls?"

The ninja in the mask stayed silent and didn't speak at all despite Raiga increased the strength of his golden chains, and his veins on the side of the neck were bulging out. Raiga then put his hand on his chest and petrified him again before moving towards the other three, who were immobilized by the trap and then was getting suffocated by his Golden chains that are around his neck.

A minute later, Raiga sighed, "are all of these mute, deaf and dumb or something? No, they don't even feel like a human. They are just like puppets without any life. Neither of them is feeling pain nor they were talking about anything. It's as if they were brainwashed..." Raiga stopped thinking and immediately walked towards one of them and pulled out his tongue with his Sealing chains and saw a seal placed on their tongue.