Naruto : Chapter 94

The main problem was that they would have to get into Doto's fortress and that was damn difficult. The man was a security nut and it would take time to sneak inside.

Especially as there were few animals that Naruto could imitate to get in like he had done with Gato's hideout. Well, perhaps this could be a proper test for his mirage jutsu.

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Having enough of listening to Sandayu Naruto spoke up.

"That plan is doomed to fail, as Princess Koyuki isn't very cooperative right now. While she might be willing to take over the place of daimyo once this conflict is solved, she is no soldier and would be a liability in a fight," Naruto told them seriously.

"Finally somebody with a brain," they heard Koyuki's voice from the door, "I have no intention to risk my life in a fight I don't think has any chance of success. My father's soldiers were well-trained, but my uncle still managed to kill him and take over the country. What kind of chance would a rag-tag group of rebels have?"

"None right now, I'll agree with you there. We don't have enough information right now and should gather that before we plan any kind of attack," Naruto stated, "I suggest you go to a safe hiding place once we land and Haku and I go in to gather the information we need. We're the ones best-suited to deal with an information gathering mission.

Haku is in his element here and I'm a specialist in stealth. Team Gai will make sure that you're completely safe. Once we know what we're dealing with, and if possible we'll also perform some sabotage unnoticed, we'll come back and put a proper plan together."

"Yes, that makes sense. I agree with that, Naruto. How long do you think you would need?" Gai asked, being serious for once.

"Give us four days and we'll have everything we need. I'll leave one of my kunais with you to be able to get us out quickly in case they find us," Naruto told him.

"How do you plan to get inside that fortress?" Koyuki asked disbelievingly.

"Oh, that's fairly easy as long as we get close to it," Haku informed them, "I have a jutsu that allows me to travel through ice mirrors. I can create these mirrors anywhere within my field of sight. If I get one mirror into a window of the fortress, I can travel there and with one of Naruto's kunai he can follow me once I'm inside."

"So your reach has drastically improved on that jutsu, Haku. That's really useful. I was going to have to see what entrances the fortress had to sneak inside. But this plan is much better. Especially as your mirrors can hover in the air," Naruto complimented the ice user.

"Thank you, Naruto. Let's check our equipment and then get going. They won't expect us to get in on foot," Haku said.

Naruto nodded and the two boys left. They only heard Gai set up some guard schedules for his genin and tell the captain to halve the speed to deceive the snow ninjas when they would arrive.

Right now they were safer on the ship than on land where the snow ninjas would be able to use their jutsus more freely. After all, their two ninjutsu specialists were just going to get the information gathering mission done.

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Haku and Naruto easily reached the shore and thanks to Haku's abilities managed to get past the guards at the coast without being detected. Haku had simply called a snow storm to hinder their visibility. Once they didn't sense any ninjas close by, they increased their speed.

Both of them were naturally fast, so they made good time getting to the castle. Sandayu had told them where it was located when he described his plans to free Snow Country after all. They still needed a full day to get there.

They set up camp to rest for four hours before they would continue. Haku created an igloo for them to use and made it look like part of the landscape to not arouse suspicion from guards at the fortress.

Naruto meanwhile, after seeing that there were some crows around here, made two shadow clones and sent them to gather some information on where it would be easiest to let Haku enter the fortress with his mirror.

It wouldn't be good if he accidentally broke into Doto's throne room. The crow clones flew all over the fortress and got a good idea where the entry points were.

They looked through all the windows and finally decided that a window on the second floor that belonged to a bathroom would be a good place.

Nobody would after all think twice about a person coming out of a bathroom. They would only have to capture two people that went to the bathroom and take their positions for a while. Not that difficult.

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After having got five hours of sleep, thanks to having clones doing the watch, Haku and Naruto discussed the plan of what kind of information they wanted to get and how to proceed after they had entered the fortress. Both boys were used to infiltrating bases and decided that each would go for another area.

Haku would look for the sleeping areas of the ninjas and normal guards of the fortress to be able to take them out of the equation early on. Naruto would look for the data on the special armour that the snow ninjas used and find out what Doto planned exactly.

He had to have plans for Princess Koyuki, or he wouldn't have bothered trying to capture her. They needed to know what those plans were and what could be done to thwart them.

While Konoha normally didn't interfere in internal affairs of other countries, brutal dictators that killed rightful rulers of a country were a problem for everybody, as they tended to be power hungry and didn't stop at taking over one country.

They normally wanted to rule over everything. And that was something Konoha interfered with.

When the clones gave the signal that there weren't any guards around to see them, Haku started to create one of his mirrors in the bathroom window.

He precisely made the mirror the same size as the window, positioning it a few centimetres away from the window itself, and soon had a second mirror in front of him.

He stepped into the first mirror and pushed his hands out of the second one. Then he created a third mirror inside the bathroom. He switched from the second mirror to the third one and undid the mirrors with a wave of his hand.

He was incredibly glad that he had finally mastered this jutsu well enough to not have to jump from mirror to mirror. That had been the first stage of this jutsu.

But having the chance to properly work on his bloodline limit, allowed him to evolve the jutsu. Now he could travel to any mirror that held his chakra without having to leave the first mirror bodily. It was like teleportation, just that he had to have a mirror as a destination point.

He took out the kunai Naruto had given him and pushed some chakra into it, only for Naruto to appear a second later. They nodded at each other. The first part of the infiltration had worked out perfectly.

They jumped to the ceiling and disguised themselves with cloth that had the same colour as the ceiling. Now they needed to wait for a while until they had two persons that they could take over for.

Naruto and Haku only had to wait for half an hour before two persons entered the room. They quickly took them out and sealed them into a prisoner scroll each.

Interrogating them would have to wait for a while, as they worked on a tight schedule. Thankfully both had an identity card pinned to their uniforms. Probably to determine easily who was permitted to enter certain areas.

Each of them took the appearance of one of their captives, put the cards onto their chests in the same position where the ones they were now impersonating had worn them, and then they flushed two toilets and washed their hands to keep the appearance of simply having used the bathroom before leaving again. Each of them went into a different direction.

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