Mission.......start

For nine days it's been me, tsume, hiro hyuga and kakashi have been sprinting towards Kirigakure to help mei terumi finish of yagura who they have supposedly weakened. This bodes well for me as I can sample the three tails if he fully releases it.

The older jounin have warned me that I will be facing any ninja from kiri that remain loyal to yagura for some reason so I'm preparing myself to cut them down. Telling myself it's all for the food is mentally calming. As a distraction I focused on my gravity training for the last seven days to improve my body just before we meet up with them. I've also had kakashi train me in the body flicker as I will need it to face a jinchuriki.

My other jutsu that I've prepared for dealing with the three tails are ready for combat use. We arrived at the rebels camp, they are still called rebels as they haven't killed the kage yet. As we offered our identification which was obvious with tsume's ninken. We entered the tent and found maps of the local area where he could be hiding and found mei terumi herself.

She's easily one of the most beautiful women in naruto verse. Similar to myself and pakura she uses her boil style to cleanse the pores on her skin like we do with scorch style. Her dark blue dress that covers her sexily edited kiri chain mail uniform draws lustful gazes from any man with myself included. Thanks to the medical training and my enhanced attributes I've well entered into an early puberty as I've grown slightly taller than the rest of the people in my generation.

Mei's hair isn't as long as it was in Shippūden but the unique hair style that covers one of her eyes is still easily recognisable. She is surrounded by kunoichi and other rebels such as Ao and and chojuro.

"Ah good the leaf trackers have arrived. I'll have to thank tsuna-chan at a later date". She said playfully so as to lighten the mood. She was looking at me who is significantly younger than my peers with a gaze that contained interest and a hint of desire which didn't go unnoticed by tsume. "So Terumi-san have you got anything that belonged to the Mizukage that we can use". Tsume said drawing away her attention from me.

"Why yes we do, fubuki be a dear and fetch us some of his possession". The kunoichi quickly left and returned with several pieces of clothing, some old training gear and a Kirigakure forehead protector that was partially melted by what appears to be acid from the smell. I looked towards Mei after checking the band which she noticed. This must have been a test for me to see if tsunade's student was up to par. What through me for a loop was when she winked and licked her lips at me.

She's a shotacon lovely, can't say I'm not intrigued as she's a 10/10. Back on earth she'd trash any model in terms of looks alone. Her smell is also just like Carmel which I can tell is due to the poison her body produces in a similar matter to myself.

Kakashi taking the role of team leader began discussing the work details with her while I stayed quiet and checked over my gear diligently. I'm not talking ninja tools I'm talking cooking utensils. All the kunoichi were shocked seeing a young man preparing cooking utensils like a diligent house wife. One of them approached me "ano konoha shonen, why are you doing that we have rations if you need it". I chuckled " my names toriko miss and I'm good on rations, I'm just preparing for the wild game later".

They were confused and began asking each other what I could be meaning. The other leaf shinobi weren't laughing though as they knew what I was planning. Chojuro noticed this "hey hiro san what does he mean wild game? What's he hunting?"

The hyuga was flabbergasted as he didn't know how to phrase this. All eyes in the tent where focused on him while in the background people could hear me sharpening my knife on whetstone. "Turtle" was all he said which made the others more confused. Chojuro said "turtle? There isn't any turtle near here, we aren't near any oceans and we are about to hunt the mizukage who has the.....".

It dawned on him what I was preparing to do so he swing round to me exaggeratedly "you can't be serious toriko-san". I didn't even look up from him and replied " hotpot, soup, burger or ragoue. Decisions decisions". They realised what I'm planning to do. "Your going to eat" "turtle" I said cutting him off. He turned to kakashi "why doesn't he sound like he's joking."

Kakashi having been out on the spot chuckled nervously "he's not he plans to eat the three tails or as much of it as he can get". They looked like they were going to spit blood. "Are all konoha shinobi like that". He exhaled "no just the Yūhi clan".

Everyone simultaneously thought that there's a clan of these guys. One kiri ninja thought the kid was nuts and tried to bully him so he went to kick some of his pans. Before the foot could connect with the pan he suddenly fell over and began grunting in pain.

His foot was dislocated while toriko sat there checking his oils and sauces. After everything was set he put everything away and stood up. "So when do we leave" snapping everyone out of it.

Mei just sighed and had them take away the idiot while staring "we're leaving now toriko-kun. We think he's south from here so can you track him?" I nodded and left the camp with eight teams spread out with me and tsume at the vanguard while hiro was using his byakugan in bursts to check for traps and people.

It was 3am before they found some ninja near a waterfall. Mei quickly relayed orders for us to spread out and pick them off. Hiro identified twenty three with one massive signature which was yagura who was at the top of the waterfall sitting comfortably. The kiri ninja slipped off to attack him on top of the waterfall while me and my team along with three other teams where waiting at the bottom with dealers ready to transfer the three tails.

I went towards the water and put my hand to the water and used one of the poison style that shizune taught me. "Poison style- ruined water line". I said while my palm turned purple and spread purple poison which diffused into the water and became diluted to match its color. Quickly some fish rose to the top of the water along with two bodies of yagura's subordinates.

The other ninjas picked off his forces leaving six left while the team on top attacked him and threw a massive Shuriken that was a meter in length which dug into yagura's body sending him hurtling to the water.

Some blood stains rose to the top so the others sported small smiles. I didn't let my guard down as I felt we should be in for a fight, that and I didn't secure my meat yet. Hiro hyuga then said "that was surprisingly easy". Me and tsume just turned to look at this idiot like he just farted in an elevator while we were stuck there.

Suddenly a massive grey and scaly palm rushes out of the water and crushed hiro into paste. Sigh I looked towards a now fully transformed three tails and began to grin and release my intimidation while the others flared their chakra to prepare their jutsu.

I reached for my senbon pouch and fetched a fist full of needles and said "mission...start".