NLS101-104

Chapter 101

"You sound like a concerned parent," she smiled.

"More like an older brother taking care of a stupid younger brother then

almost always get's into trouble," I chuckled.

Moe nodded, "I would like to meet him. Now...what do you think about

Hawkgirl?"

I blinked, "what do you mean?"

"I mean, doesn't her character seem a little harsh to you? Like, she'

nothing like Diana."

"Most women aren't," I shrugged, "She has been held prisoner and

tortured for some time, of course she would be grumpy. Plus she's an

alien, maybe on her world women are expected to act differently."

"Hm, makes sense," Moe nodded, "but what about-"

"-Wait, madam Socio, stop talking," I jumped on my feet, threw my

hood up and face mask on. I closed my eyes and felt them, four

unknown chakra signatures just inside my sensory range. One was a

high level chunin, maybe jonin and three others, chunin for sure.

Damn, I don't know who this could be, I can't tell from so far away! But

they are so fucking strong!

"Yami, what's wrong?" Moe asked getting up as well.

"Four enemy ninjas are approaching," I felt them approaching us, 290

feet and closing fast. I made a ram hand seal and sent out three bursts

of chakra that would alert Ko and the others of danger coming.

I turned to Moe, "you need to run and hide. Do you have a panic room?

Some sort of secret tunnel?"

Moe nodded, "yes," she ran to the bookshelf and pulled on a black

book, causing the shelf to collapse inside to reveal a staircase going

down stairs.

"Alright, go down there and hide, don't come out unless I come down

there for you. And even then, don't believe it's me, thy could be

transformed to look like me. Ask me a personal question, like: who

gave you the dusty red book not worth burning? I'll answer Lee and

that's how you'll know it's me. Go it?"

Moe was shaking, but she steeled herself and nodded, "y-yes!"

"Good, and one more thing," I took out a fanged dagger from my

inventory and gave it to her, "if you're in trouble and need my help, just

throw this dagger and I'll be at your side immediately. Don't lose this

dagger and don't throw it unless you absolutely have to, understand?"

"Yes," she nodded.

"Good, now go!" I told her motioning her to the stairs. She nodded as

she ran in, the shelf closing shut behind her.

Just then the doors were thrown open as Ko, China and Zumo ran in

wit Gowa and five of his guards behind him.

"Where is mistress Socio?!" Gowa demanded.

"She' safe in the panic room," I told him before turning to Ko, "four

ninjas, I think it's a team. One with high chunin level, maybe jonin and

three other chunin.."

Ko's eyes went wide, "are you sure?"

"You know about my chakra senses right?" I asked him, "yes, I'm sure."

"Damn it!" Ko hissed, "we aren't ready for this!"

"We have no choice," Gowa said turning to his men, "you five come

with me, we'll go into the panic room and keep the mistress safe."

"Right," I opened the secret passage, "when you go down there she ill

ask you a question, the answer is Stan Lee, understand?"

Gowa looked confused but nodded as he and his men went down

stairs. I closed the passage way and turned to Ko, "what's the plan?"

Ko activated his Byakugan and looked around, "I see them. You were

right, three person cell, jonin, three chunin, hm, but they look newer.

They look like they are from Iwa, there are two female chunin and one

male. The jonin is male. And they are scouring the walls, mapping out

gaurd patterns and the like."

"Wait a minute! Are you telling me we are going to be fighting a squad

of chunin?!" Zumo cried out, "we barely survived fighting off rouge

untrained ninja from a minor land!? Ko sensei, we can't do this!"

Ko narrowed his eyes, "yes. But if we don't at least try, we're all dead."

"D-dead?" China looked white as a sheet. I groaned, I didn't realise she

and Zumo didn't have Gamer's mind like me letting me think through

this without pressure.

I sighed, "China, look at me," she turned to me as I placed both hands

on her, "we will survive this, do you understand? We will live, and we

will return to Konoha as proud ninjas who kept our word. I promise you,

I will do everything in my power to keep you alive. Do you

understand?"

"Y-yes Yami," she nodded weakly.

Ping!

Quest Alert!

Fighting off the Iwa ninjas!

Rewards:

+5 skill scroll

+ 5 stat points

Failure:

Death of Moe, automatic failure of main quest.

Do you accept?

Y/N?

Like I had a choice. I pressed yes and turned to Ko, "what do we do

sensei?"

Ko looked around, "we can't bring Socio out, it would paint her as a

target and even if fighting them will distract a few of them, it will only

take one kunai to kill her. She stays where she is...for now..." he looked

around, "we'll set a trap."

I nodded, "right. Let me be the bait."

"Yami no!" China cried out, "you can't!"

"I have too," I used the henge and turned into a perfect copy of Moe,

complete with the smooth finger and confident eyes, "sensei can hide

and the moment we spring our trap he can take on the jounin while we

hold off the others. Hopefully his surprise attack along with the trap will

be enough to take them down quickly."

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"I...I agree," Ko nodded, "that is a very bright idea Yami. Fine, but we

need to trap them as well."

"Leave that to me," I grinned as I took out a scroll from Moe's desk and

a brush. I quickly began to create my fire suppression seal. I then took

out a vial of the flammable oil I gained from Charmeleon in the level 5

Dungeon and explained the plan.

Ko was hesitant, but after I assured him I tested the seal he agreed.

We set the trap up and got into place. Ko hide under the balcony with

Zumo while China waited outside the room doors, waiting for the trap

to go off.

I took my place as the bait, picking up Moe's Justice League book and

placing the seals inside it. I then began pacing around the room

reading it, then ten minutes later I felt the Iwa ninjas move.

With the Iwa ninjas:

Yaki Nii was the explosion specialist of the team. She had dirty blonde

hair cut short to her shoulders and a curvy figure for a girl her age. She

prided herself with being calm and determined in a fight, her skills

earning herself the right to become a chunin at the age of 14.

Her team had been assigned an A rank mission, their very first and

very important. The Tsuchikage himself had ordered this mission

carried out, as it was a high priority.

Her team had traveled for two weeks to get here, taking their time,

disguised as a family of traveling merchants. Finally, they managed to

gain entry into Hono, and that night they launched their plan into

action.

They stood outside the compound walls tracking the guards

movement. Each wore a black white mask and a dark cloak with it's

hood up.

Naegeli Oil, their jonin sensei used his rat summons to map out the

grounds. The man stood at 5 feet 8 inches tall with the dark skin found

common in Kumo. His hair was light brown and his body was ripped

with muscles.

Yaki's two chunin teammates however were much shorter than the

man, a male and female. The boy's name was Waki, fair skin like hers

and black hair. He always had a smile on his face, happy going as they

come with a strong sense of protectiveness over his comrades.

And the last member of her team was Chio, Chio Rege, fair skin with

bright yellow hair. She was an embarrassment to the word konichi if

anyone asked Yaki. The woman spent more time on her face then in

their field. The only reason she even passed is because her father was

a friend of the Tsuchikage, fucking spoilt princess.

"So we just grab her and move?" Chio asked once more as she looked

at the compound. Yaki knew Chio hadn't paid attention to the briefing,

too concerned about meeting a cute guy in Hono.

"Yes," Oil grumbled, "we can't risk being seen, so remember, if

anything happens and you get caught, the pills are a last resort," he

took out a white pill that make Yaki shudder, they had been training for

over a year for this mission, she really hoped they didn't have to resort

to that option.

Suddenly Oil perked up, "my rat summon just messaged me back. The

target is alone in her room reading a book. A female konoha genin is

standing gaurd outside her room. There appear to be...some sort of

trigger seals on the windows, Waki, think you can disable them?"

Waki took out a brush and and twirled it around, "ain't no thing big

boss."

"Good," Oil nodded, "once inside Yaki will secure the target while Chio

and I deal with any resistance like the guards of the ninja team. If we

get separated remeber to meet back at the designated secure area,

understand?"

"Yes sir," Yaki replied along with her teammates. The explosion expert

gulped, she hoped they would all come out of this alive.

They moved, jumping over the compound wall easily and sneaking

around view the bushes. They then leaped and landed on the girl's

balcony and looked inside from the shadows.

The girl was pacing around the room with an eager looking smile on

her face as she read through a book, the title being covered by her

hand. She kept chuckling, completely oblivious to them.

'Waki, go,' Oil motioned using his hands. The young boy nodded as he

moved to the window sill and looked inside the room, finding the seals.

He blinked, not moving for a long time.

Oil grew worried, 'what's wrong? Can't crack it?'

'No, I can, it's just I have never seen anything like this before. It's a

simple enough seal thought, give me a moment,' Waki said taking out a

scroll and writing down a seal slowly, taking long looks at the seal

under the window.

'What's taking so long?' Choi asked.

'It's harder than I thought,' Waki admitted.

'Can you do it?' Yaki motioned.

Waki turned to her and nodded, 'I just did,' he held up a seal tag,

placing it on the balcony doors. 'Seals are down.'

'Good, move in now,' Oil said as the four moved as one.

Yaki took the lead, easily slipping in and rushing to the target. She

looked up and with wide eyes began, "who are-"

"-Sh!" Yaki quickly covered her mouth and slipped behind her, putting

her under a head lock. The target struggled, Yaki turned to her allies

and nodded.

They quickly came in, Oil moving to the target and taking out a seal

that would put the target to sleep. He moved to her, and suddenly, the

target stopped struggling.

And she moved like a blur.

Oil's hand was kicked away by the target's outstretched legs, the

sudden movement taking the jonin by surprise. The seal was stuck to

the bottom of the girl's shoe. She flipped around, easily breaking out of

Yaki's hold, before slapping the seal on the explosion girl's head,

causing her to drop instantly.

With Yami:

I smiled, "I've been expecting you," I made the ram seal causing the

balcony doors to slam shut.

"Get out! It's a trap!" the jonin cried as the three remaining member of

the team ran to the window, trying to break out, only for the glass to

throw their energy back at them.

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The seal kid who managed to break in was smart, he had to be if he

actually managed to slip past my seals in the first place. He noticed the

seals I had hidden underneath the carpet, he ripped the carpet off, "it's

reinforced!"

The jonin turned to me, kunai drawn and ready to attack. I knew it as

time.

I quickly formed made the tiger seal causing a third set of seals I had

put under the window sill to explode, covering the Iwa ninjas near it to

be covered with the flammable oil I had sealed inside.

"What is this!?" cried out a female ninja, "it's getting everywhere! Argh!

My make up is totally ruined!"

But I wasn't just going to wait, I took the book I was reading while in

character and slammed it on the ninja I had managed to put to sleep.

Immediately the seal began to surround her body, wrapping her up tight

like a mummy.

"We need to go! It's oil!" the smart boy cried out!

The jonin turned to me, I moved through the hand seals for a fire jutsu.

I could see his eyes behind that white mask widen.

He quickly moved through hand seals for a wind jutsu faster than I

could even follow,, "wind release: Great Breakthrough!" the wind blast

destroyed the reinforced glass, allowing them to jump out of the room.

"Fire release: Great fireball jutsu!" I smirked, they thought I was alone?

Did they really forget I was part of a team?

Zumo and Ko jumped up from underneath the balcony. Zumo fired off

the ball of flames right at them, they were in mid air from leaping

through the fire. The fireball didn't even get in contact before the oil

exploded, lighting them all on fire.

"ARGH!" the three cried out, the chunin immediately dropping to the

ground, trying to roll and kill the flame.

I quickly tossed two scrolls at them. They exploded out into large seals,

wrapping around them like I did for their friend and quickly killing the

flames and mummifying them.

The seal had three parts to it, one was the fire suppression seal I

invented. The second was a simple binding seal that I had adjusted to

wrap around their whole body. And the third was an immediate status

charm that would kick in, knocking them both out. It was like a giant

pokeball!

The jonin however still stood, he managed to ignore the fire on his

body long enough to move through a few water jutsu hand seals. "Eight

Trigram two palms!" Ko moved in, striking him hard.

It made contact, two quick blows to close the tenketsu in his forearm,

"four palms!" four closed in his right arm, "eight palms!" Eight closed in

his right shoulder, "Sixteen palms!" sixteen closed on his body, "thirty

two palms!" thirty two closed all over his form, "sixty four palms!" during

the final stage of the attack Ko's fists were so fast, I couldn't even see

what he was hitting.

The final strike however, hit the jonin so hard, he was sent flying back

through the now shattered windows and into the far side of the room,

slamming in the wall hard.

Ko and Zumo came to my side, "are you alright?" Ko asked.

"I fine," I replied.

"You bastards!" the Iwa ninja came back on his feet, his skin suffering

from second degree burns and his body covered with holes a few

inches deep, bleeding blood out onto the floor. He looked at us, one of

his eyes closed from blood seeping into it from a wound from his

forehead, "you fucking bastard."

"Please don't resist," I told him, "if I wanted you all dead you would be.

A stronger binding agent with the oil, maybe even some paralytic

poison and you would be able to do nothing except stand still in shock

as you felt your body burn. But I didn't do that, please, don't make me

hurt you."

Ko looked at me in surprise, but the jonin, he just laughed, "mercy?

You think this is mercy boy?!" he growled, grabbing his brown leather

vest common for Iwa ninjas and pulled it off revealing a hundred

explosion seals, enough to bring this entire house down, "I would

rather die than take Konoha's mercy! My name is Oil boy! Tell the

shinigami that I sent you to him!"

"Fuck!" Zumo cried out as dashed forward to stop him. But Oil was

slowly making the tiger hand seal to trigger the explosion. And just

then, there was a sharp hiss of steel being drawn from wood.

Wosh!

Oil's eyes winded as he saw blood exploding from where his right arm

used to be. He dropped down, his limbs cut off and laying down beside

him as his right shoulder bleed out. There were two steel blades to his

right, covered in his blood and standing above him was China, her

eyes focused and merciless.

"You will not hurt my friends," she said, and I have to admit, I think my

respect for her just went up by a hundred points. And judging by the

way Zumo looked at her I think his went up by a thousand.

"Y-you bastards," he coughed out, landing on his face in the pool of

blood.

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Immediately I ran to his side and began to cancel out all the exploding

tags by dropping ink on them to cover up all the kanji. I then moved to

his right stump and took out a new scroll righting a blood loss

prevention seal and splamning it on his torso. It was a simple sela

every medic needed to know, I just gave it a few tweaks to make it

more effective.

Slowly his breathing began to go back to normal, he had stopped

losing so much blood per minute. I moved back and sighed. I took out

another one of my special containment scrolls at tossed it at him,

sealing him up into a mummy.

Ping!

Quest Completed!

Fighting off the Iwa ninjas!

Rewards:

+5 skill scroll

+ 5 stat points

I turned to China who was on her knees crying with Zumo and Ko by

her side. Zumo hugged her, holding her tight as she cried into his arms.

Ko stood back, a proud smile on his face.

"China," I spoke. The girl looked up at me, "you saved us, all of us," I

couldn't help but have a smile come on my face, "thank you."

China nodded, "I just wanted to be useful."

I smiled and flicked her forehead, "dummy, you're a member of team

eleven, of course you're useful. You're the heart...and Zumo's the butt."

"What did you say you bastard!" Zumo cried out, "if I'm the butt what

does that make you?!"

I shrugged, "obviously I'm the brian."

"Actually I believe I'm the brains," Ko smiled.

"No sensei, you're the stomach, the part where chakra is created," I

corrected him.

Ko chuckled, "alright, I suppose that's true enough."

"What?! No it isn't! I'm not the butt!" Zumo cried out comically.

China gave a small giggle, I smiled, I'm, glad she smiled once more.

Kid doesn't need to cry all the time.

"Alright team, we need to pack up," Ko said slipping into his serious

mode, "Zumo, take the captured ninja and lock them in my room.

China, you and I will go on a perimeter sweep around the grounds one

more time, just in case they had some friends."

China nodded, "right."

"And Yami, I want you to cover this entire room and the compound

walls with your detection seals, I don't care what Gowa want, this is

how we are doing things. Move!"

I nodded and we all split up. It took me fifteen minutes to warm up the

entire compound. And when I was done Ko arrived before me, looking

very stoic.

I raised an eyebrow, "what's wrong sensei?"

"Why did you show mercy?" Ko asked.

I sighed, I sat down on the roof of the compound wall and looked out

into the city before me "this world has enough people living in hate. I

thought if I could spare them, I could at least stop one more person

from hating Konoha."

Ko sighed, "that's a very...idealistic way of thinking Yami...that sort of

thinking could have gotten your teammates killed today. If China hadn't

been there then that man would have killed us all with his suicide

tactic."

"I had it under control," I told him.

"How?" he asked, "if you had used a stronger mix and killed them all

then it wouldn't have even made a difference, but tell me, how would

you have handled it?"

I wanted to tell him about the Flying Thunder god jutsu but...I couldn't,

not yet. He can't know about it just yet. If he did, the Hokage would

take it away from me and refuse to let me out of the village in fear

someone will capture me and torture i out of me. I needed to prove

myself worthy before that...I needed to prove I was a good enough

ninja without using it.

I sighed, "you're right. I didn't know, so I couldn't account for it. I'm

sorry sensei."

Ko sighed, he sat down besides me and placed a gentle arm on my

shoulder, "Yami...you have a light inside you that is kind and noble. I'm

not saying that is a bad thing, I would never say that. It's the kind of

belief that can inspire greatness in others. But. You cannot ever, ever

risk the lives of your allies for your beliefs, understood?"

I nodded, "yes, I understand."

"Good, now come, I believe Zumo has informed madam Socio then the

danger has passed and we still have Iwa ninjas to imprison," he stood

up and jumped off, I followed closely behind him.

We arrived in Moe's room, now looking like a battle ground with broken

glass and scorch marks littering the floor. China stood in one corner

with shifty eyes while Zumo and Owa's palace gaurd escorted Moe out.

The moment she saw me her eyes went wide, "oh thank goodness

nothing happened! I was sick with worry Yami."

Zumo blinked, "ow come you call him by his name but call me ninja?"

Moe looked at him with a raised eyebrow, "because he's cooler than

you."

China and I snickered at Zumo's heart broken expression, this shit was

priceless!

A month later:

My team and I stood straight behind Moe as her father listened to

Gao's report of the happenings of the household over the past five

months.

When he was done Dogino turned to us and looked at Ko, "so...it

seems your team was effective after all. What has happened with the

enemy ninjas?"

"Then have been sent to Konoha for interrogation sir," Ko explained,

"they were collected a week after the attack, I sent the lord Hokage a

missive about it, informing him about the details."

"Hm, I see, and I as I understand because of the inclusion of such high

level threats my mission for you has risen in rank to a B rank mission,

yes?"

Ko nodded, "that is correct sir."

The man nodded, "very well, give me the updated scroll jonin sensei,"

he extended his hand taking the scroll and quickly signing. Officially

closing our five month long mission.

Ping!

Quest completed!

Save the lady!

Reward:

+20 REP to all residents in the land of fire

New perk!

-10 REP for all ninjas off Iwa.

Ping!

You have a new perk!

Peace lover- +1 points for every enemy you spare.

Damn, that's not half bad. The perk was something else, something I

could really use and the -10 REP isn't all that bad, I half expected it to

be -30 or something.

Dogino nodded, "you have all done a fine job. Thank you for keeping

my little girl safe. Dismissed," he said casually without a second

thought.

We nodded and walked away, I went to my room to pack up and leave

when the door opened and Moe walked in with a smile.

"So you're just going to pack up and leave?" she asked looking at my

ready bag.

"Yes, I am, that's the life of a ninja," I quickly sealed the bag into a

scroll before pocketing it.

Moe looked at the scroll with an impressed eyebrow, "I really have to

learn how to do that."

I chuckled, "I'm sure you can hire someone to teach you."

Moe nodded, "maybe...Yami...thank you. And I don't just mean for

saving my life or making sure I didn't get swindled out of my money

but….for being a friend when I was lone. It was a very nice

experience."

I smiled, "you're welcome Moe."

She smiled, "that's the first time you ever called me by my name. It's

alway Ms. Socio or Madam with you."

I shrugged, "my mission is now over, I can call you whatever I want."

"Hm, I am still a nobel you know?"

I shrugged, "and I'm incredibly handsome." Moe raised an eyebrow,

"what? I thought we were staying facts."

She chuckled. She looked at me for a moment before she took out the

fanged dagger I gave her, "I spent a few nights with this under my

pillow. I knew you all were watching me but….I just needed to feel

safe," I nodded, "and...I was wondering, do you think I could keep it?"

I smiled, "of course."

Moe smiled. She put it away and hugged me, "I'll miss you Yami."

I hugged her back, "I'll miss you too Moe. stay safe okay?"

Moe nodded, "okay. Oh, and do me a favour, tell Lee that I love his

book. It's probably his best one yet."

I chuckled, "sure, I promise I'll tell him."