For Kumo! [mission/p]

Dray sat in his couch. He looked at the clock on the wall. It was eight o'clock in the evening. Dray's mind was troubled. The raikage had called for him. Upon getting to her office, she assigned him to a mission that was to be executed tomorrow. Dray was to finish up what he encountered on a mission while he was a chunin...

It all happened a few years back.. Dray had been going round the village to collect taxes. He looked up to the sky and figured the time was about three o' clock. The hour of the monkey. Dray looked at his list and all together, twenty four taxes had been collected from different people, just for today. Just this last one and he was done making it twenty five taxes collected all together.
Dray moved to the location of the last tax to be collected. Upon getting to the building, he gasped as he looked at the list again. He knew this building, so well like the back of his palm. This time, checking the name correctly. It was Rigo- sama. His sensei while he was a genin. Dray braced up and knocked on the door of the medium sized bungalow. The door opened slowly as dray walked in. Nobody was behind the door. Dray took careful footsteps as he got to the center of the room.. "Hello" he said as his greeting was replied by someone in the corner... "Hi"..... Dray looked to the direction but the person was gone.. The voice came from another angle and quickly dray turned but it was gone.. "Hhh.." and before the voice could complete the hi greeting, a kunai was stuck in the wall right beside his face due to the fact that he managed to shift his head to the side or he would have died for pissing dray off.... "Wow.. Nice shot" the person said as he came out of the darkness.. "You have gotten better, Dray".
"Rigo- sama" ? Dray was puzzled. He had not seen him for a while and for his name to suddenly be on a tax list was baffling.
"Yes, you are not just here to collect my tax. What you are here for, you'll know when the time comes.." He said as he threw a wad of cash on the center table. As dray looked at the falling motion of the money, his sensei was gone.. Dray picked up the money and counted it.. A thousand ryo and it was complete.
Dray left the house and headed for the raikage's office....
"Brilliant work" the raikage said as dray submitted all of the taxes to him and reports too.. "You need not tell me about the sparring center neither do you need to tell me about Rigo- sama cause I know it all after all, I sent you on this mission. Go home now, you'll be called for later.. As of now, all you did is complete a tax collection mission..."

Exactly the next day, dray woke up to see two masked men at his door. They were anbus of kumogakure and he was to be brought before the raikage. The previous raikage, that was. Dray began his training in the anbu, showing exceptional skills that earned him respect, despite his age. After years of rigorous training, dray was ready. He had become an S- ranked ninja of kumogakure no sato. Ready to defend the village whenever. The previous raikage of course would have handed over his preivious files and knowledge of the village to the new raikage, Juri Han.
The new raikage had gotten information from kumogakure scouters and this information had corresponded with what happened few years ago and that had to do with dray's sensei- Rigo sama, leaving the village.

Dray looked at the mission scrolls and their labels. One and Two. Two missions he was to execute. The raikage gave specific informations that only after the first mission was completed successfully could the second be embarked upon. Therefore, the second scroll should only be opened when dray had finished the first mission. Dray unfolded the first mission scroll and read it's contents again like he had done before.
"Dray Yuki. I am well aware that Rigo Ken was your sensei when you were a genin. This person has left the path of kumo. He sold our information to the land of blood. We heard rumors that he is walking past the borders of the land of lightning. It is time to put your feelings aside and be an anbu for kumo. Dont forget. He was once your sensei, a legendary ninja. A master in ninjutsu and sensory skills. An adept in taijutsu and an intermediate in fuinjutsu. Notwithstanding, Eliminate him!"

It was something of grief. Even though he had no strong attachments to his Rigo sama, he was still his sensei. Dray looked at the clock on th wall. It was twelve on the dot. Twelve o'clock midnight. Dray flopped on his bed, dispersing any and all thoughts from his mind even though that was nearly impossible.
Whatever tommorow brings, he would have to face it.
The night was a normal night. The night was not very cold and it was not very hot either. Everything just seemed to remain in place.

Morning came in a quick manner. It looked like dawn did not open at all. Something more like the sun teleported straight to the sky and started shining it's damn light. All these just to say that the morning itself was in a haste. Dray got up from bed smartly. He got into the bathroom and was out in five minutes. All the while, his left eye was closed due to the thing in his socket. He quickly changed into his clothes. A black long sleeve vest first, black shinobi pants and sandal followed by his anbu shin guards on both hands and his chest plate anbu armour. Dray sheathed his A- ranked anbu katana as he armed himself with some kunais, shurikens, senbons, explosive tags, smoke bombs and the rest of them.. You never know when they might come in handy.. Dray lifted up samehada with ease as he strapped it unto his back.. The beast was going to have some nutrituous meal today. Dray's mind was made up. He was one of kumogakure no sato and his only option was to execute the mission. This sensei of his betrayed the village hidden in the clouds and sold out information to the land of blood. Of course, he deserved to bathe in blood..

Dray looked in the mirror. His right eye's gaze was focused on his left. Such tremendous power locked away in their for the right time. Only in required situations would this power be unleashed, dray concluded as he picked up his anbu mask from his drawer. It had been quite a while since Ice was around. Dray looked at the mask for a while. His right eye traced the blue markings that gave the mask it's wolf appearance and way to the side was a distict engraving that portrayed the mask as a shark... Slowly, dray raised the mask to his face level as he put it on.. the mask seemed to close shut and in that instant, ICE was born....

Ice exited the house and embarked on his mission. The information was that the target would be passing the borders of the land of lightning. Ice was to intercept and eliminate him. Getting on his toes and moving in the shadows, Ice exited kumogakure no sato. Getting out of the village, he activated his sensory skills. Whoever was around would surely need to be checked. Ice slowed down as he got to the vast border of the land of lightning. Away in the distance was somebody in a hood and of course, he was passing through here. Ice took a few more steps forward as he stopped the person in the hood... He removed the hood and found out that that was not his target.
A few more checks and Ice was becoming impatient yet he stood his ground...

"I knew this day would come"... Said a voice in the distance as he walked towards Ice... "You know better than to keep me waiting, Rigo.." Ice replied with a stern voice.
"So this is what they have turned you to, a killing machine..." He continued...
"Whatever they have turned me to is none of your concern traitor, today is the day you die. Submit gently" Ice replied.
"I won't go down easy you know.." He smirked as he jumped backwards to create a twenty metre distance between him and dray. "That's one thing about human, they never listen.." Ice concluded as he always referred to himself as a god.

Taking little steps, Ice would increase them as he would charge towards his sensei while drawing his A- ranked katana. Removing three kunais from his ninja pouch with his left hand, dray would throw them with beautiful precision towards the traitor. One kunai aimed for his arm, the other for his lower rib and the last for his tigh. All attacks directed to his right side. If all attacks were to hit, then the opponent's body would tilt to one side all through the battle as blood would constantly be lost.
Due to his bukijutsu mastery, he hardly failed. The attacked was swift enough but he knew his sensei was not a slacker. A master in ninjutsu himself. Clapping his hands together, Rigo sama released a gust of air from palm and the projectiles were directed towards dray. Of course, Ice knew that such attack was useless but not completely useless. The thrown kunais were a distraction as when the opponent tried to counter it, dray had performed a water clone and sent it underground using the hiding like a mole technique.

As the projectiles were directed towards Ice, he parred them off effortlessly using his A- ranked katana.
The gap between the two was closing down to fifteen metres as the opponent once again performed some handseals.. Katon: great fireball, he shouted as he spat a large fire ball from his mouth but Ice was unafraid as he switched his katana to his left and withdrew samehada with his right as the little creature ate up the fire ball and increased in size.. Now was the time to act. Ice signalled his clone beneath the earth to proceed as the clone tunneled it's way to Rigo sama but this man had gotten better. His sensory skills seemed to have improved as he quickly pin pointed where the clone was and threw five kunais with explosives tag on them into the ground. The expolosing caused the earth to break and fall on the clone that was then dismissed immediately.

All this was to exhaust the opponent before landing a true blow. Sheathing the A ranked katana and returning samehada, Ice performed some handseals as he made the Katon: pheonix sage jutsu with shurikens hidden in them. Little volleys of fire were headed in the direction of the opponent and as dray expected, the opponent countered. He spat up a volume of water that to quenched the fire and later fell to the ground...
"Yes, You fool" Ice shouted and before the water could get beneath his feet, he made some other handseals.. Raiton: wave of lightning inspiration as he dipped both hands into the water. The lightning travels all the way to the opponent, electrocuting him but not enough to knock him out.... "Impressive" he said calmly as he looked at his burnt clothes. With two movements of his hands, he tore his shirt, revealing his body that was filled with scars.. "Let's dance.." He said..

"Doton: Earth spiralling jutsu" as suddenly, the earth beneath Ice turned over, trapping him beneath the earth.. The air beneath was getting thinner but ice was holding his breath perfectly.. "Isn't he aware that earth is weak against lightning.." Ice thought as he performed the handseals for a raiton jutsu.. Raiton: lightning javeling... As ice broke out of the earth with a beam of lightning. Right in that instant, Rigo sama rushed at him with taijutsu speeds.. "I know" he said as he passed his sword through Ice and letting out a loud smirk but to his suprise, ice poofed into a log of wood that was tagged with explosives. It was the replacement technique. As the tag exploded, of course, Rigo sama used his taijutsu speeds to evade the attack but that was exactly Ice's plan. Ice threw a senbon to call his attention as the senbons brushed through Rigo sama's cheek, leaving a cut there. Turning to look at Ice, lighting illusion: flash of lightning pillar as a bright light emanated from ice's body and in that instant, the fella was caught in a genjutsu with no skills to break him out of it but.... Who knows what he was capable of.. Performing some handseals, four earthen pillars erupted in a square shape around the capture man...Lightning release: Four pillar prison! As bolts of lightning shot out from the pillar and cross attacked the defenseless target. In no more than few minutes, he was toast. He could not be recognized anymore. All of his body, his organs, everything had been destroyed.. Using the earth flow divide technique, ice split up the earth and allowed the body to fall inside it before crushing it and closing it back up.
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The first mission had been completed as dray heaved a sigh of relief.. The death of his sensei triggered him to switch places with Ice. His cold and anbu self who had little to no emotions. His sensei had gotten pretty tough after he left the village. Dray wondered what kind of offer made him turn his back on his village afterall, all shinobis of the village were paid for their duties on a certain basis.
Something baffled dray. "So this is what they turned you to.." the words of his sensei still rang deeply in his head. What did he mean by that statement. Was the statement some how attached to why he himself had left the village... Dray could not think straight. He tried to cancel out all thoughts that were filtering into his mind as he prepared for the second mission.

"Emotions won't get this mission done. I'll take over now.." a voice said within dray.
Ice reached into his ninja pouch and brought out the second mission's scroll. He unfolded it and read the contents as the raikage had commanded. She had said that if the first mission had failed, then there was no reason for the second mission but now that Rigo sama was dead, Ice could embark on the second mission. Whatever it was, Ice did not care, all that mattered was that this mission was an obstacle and to Ice, every obstacle needed to be overcomed.

"Now, that this traitor has been eliminated. Let's prove to this lesser people that we are not afraid of whatever information they have against us.
Go straight to the border of kumo and blow up the bridge linking our land to the land of blood but beware, you will find resistance in form of two A-ranked ninjas.
Our spies have gathered info. One of them seemed to be skilled in bukijutsu and a wields an A rank katana that has a lightning ability while the other one who is more calmer is skilled in genjutsu. Together, they are formidable but you are one of kumo. Do justice to them and stick their heads on pikes at our borders after blowing up the bridge. Come back and report!" Said the scroll. No wonder the first mission had to be completed first. The traitor had to die and the information with him too.. Well, doing them justice was cool but sticking their heads up on pikes was cooler.

Ice advanced in the mission as he headed towards the bridge. He kept walking calmly as he saw the long and broad bridge ahead. Suddenly, he began to hear strange noises as the clouds seemed to cover the bridge in the distance. He heard hitting here and there as this confirmed the thought that the bridge was definetly under some kind of construction..
As the cloud would clear, Ice would see some people in the distance working on the bridge.
Some inches away from the people that were now visible.. Ice would now speak.."Fortifying the bridge won't stop me from bringing it down" as all attention would be directed to him. There were some muscular men who were probably in charge of the bridge, Ice counted up to seven..no, eight hefty men crunching their knuckles and twisting their necks and waists to make intimidating sounds but Ice was not one to be scared by the likes though of them he was not yet aware of what they were capable of but still, the bigger they are, the harder they fall..
"Sorry for your hardwork" he would say with his bad sense of humor "but that bridge can not be allowed to remain there for relevant reasons so you all go home while I destroy the bridge. As simple as that. Thank You.." Ice would finish saying and bowing but of course, he knew they would not listen. The builders got scared as they backed away while holding each other and cowering in fear.. Two of the men who were probably hired to keep watch started at Ice at devastating speeds. The movement of their legs were incredible and before Ice could know what was going on, he was sent aback by double kicks from the two men who flipped backwards. This attack moved Ice just a couple of feets backwards.. Landing a blow on him was an impressive feat but that just earned them a free ticket to die.. Filled with blood lust, Ice took a nice posture as he withdrew two kunais in both hands from his ninja pouch. They are fast, but he is skilled.
Ice started towards the two men as they also came at him. The other men were threatning the workers to continue with work. Perhaps, basic taijutsu would do the deal here. He leapt into the air as he launch the kunais to the ground using it to distract the two stupid fellas. As they looked down to see where the kunai would hit, Ice quickly retrieved four kunais from his ninja pouch and launched two each at the un- guarded jugular veins of the two men. Their only armours were chest pieces which would not help them in this situation.
Hitting the bull's eyes, the two men slumped as they fell on their faces. Ice continued unto the other men as he brought out ten shurikens with five on each hand that were launched at whichever of the men. Much to his suprise, the projectiles were stopped by the armour on the men's chests. Ice flipped backwards as another two of the men came at him with sharp spears... Before he could perfectly land his third back flip, a spear had bruised his right leg but not too deep did it go. It only scraped his skin. Spinning rightward, Ice landed a kick on both men's face but they only staggered few inches backwards and regained their consciousness. Ice withdrew his A ranked katana and both he and the men clashed weapons for a few minutes before he gutted both men at the cost of getting a deep cut in his thigh. With blood surfacing, Ice then used the healing hands technique to close up the minor wound.
Four down, Four left...
Ice walked forward and stopped some just a few metres away from the rest four men. Three of them had sharp spears with them while the last one held a fighting stance...
"I hope you do know how to swim.." Ice said as he smirked and separated his legs. The mercenaries looked at each other with fear on their faces. "Suiton: exploding colliding wave".. After building up enough suiton chakra in himself, he spat out a great volume of water that flush the men right into the stream.

This seemed too easy to be true.. The mission scroll only talked about two formidable ninjas. One being skilled in bukijutsu and the other in genjutsu. Nothing about builders trying to make the bridge stronger. How they got the information that Ice was coming was a mystery or maybe they just happened to do it co- incidentaly..
Ice activated his sensors and he could not sense anything. Everything around him was blank. Not even the tiniest bit of chakra could be sensed.. Ice's right eye opened wide as he held the tiger hand seal and shouted kai! He broke out of the genjutsu. He remembered in the scroll that there was a skilled genjutsu user but how he managed to capture him off guard was quite a fit. Once again, Ice activated his sensors but nothing yet. So, a double genjutsu eh.. And he figured out that the bridge itself was the trigger.. KAI!.. Ice shouted again as he now saw the two ninjas in front of him.. Both were not muscular at all. Skill was all the possesed. To the right was the one with a katana as Ice could see lightning sparks emit from the katana in his hand..
"Let's play" the one with the katana shouted as both ninjas rushed into action towards Ice.. Thrusting his sword forward, lightning bolts shot towards Ice at taijutsu speeds but he managed to dodge it.
Now, he had no time to waste.. Runing towards them, he created a clone. As he got within ten metres of them, he slammed both of his hands on the ground as he performed the crucification jutsu. Ice surfaced beneath the two targets and ice dragons quickly emerges and held them in place like they were being crucified.. The water clone that was behind, ran up as it stepped unto Ice's back and leapt into the air towards the targets..
Katon: Great fire ball jutsu.. As he spat a huge fire ball on the immobilized targets, greatly burning them..
Now, this ninjas would suffer the same faith the traitor of kumo had suffered as Ice released the dragon and in a swift bukijutsu motion, he passed through them flawlessly as both of their heads fell to the ground and as commanded, these heads were stuck on pikes and placed on kumo's borders.

From his spot, he used the same earth flow divide jutsu to destroy the edges of the bridge on both side as the bridge lost it's hold and crashed into the large river.. Just in case, Ice used this technique again to shift the land of blood's borders farther away from kumo. Making a bridge this way would be a hell lot of work as Ice turned to report to the raikage. Both missions were completed.
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