Chapter 254: Lightning Country & Vault Raid
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The Land of Lightning. That's where the Village Hidden in the Clouds is located. A really beautiful place, this country. It went with the description of martial worlds from Chinese fiction.
The tall rocks, hills and mountains were covered and surrounded by clouds. The environment was a soothingly cool one here.
The land itself was much higher up from the surface level, and huge rocks were coming out of the ground – reaching as high as the clouds. The Hidden Cloud Village was built on top of countless tall rocks positioned close to each other. Each rock had buildings built on top of them and was connected with other buildings by wooden bridges.
Neji wondered just how many people died each year by slipping and falling to their death. Not very practical, but he supposed this did provide a very efficient natural defence for the village. The people got used to it too, sooner or later, and most of all the great environment made up for everything else.
Neji was 9 kilometres away from the village as he observed the area. His eyes could only see the outskirts of the village since their range was 10 kilometres in all directions. He noticed someone interesting on the outskirts, making him smirk.
That person's presence would help in his plans.
After observing the area a bit more, enjoying the refreshing wind breeze by him, Neji released a soft breath.
"I like this place," Neji said as a miniature planet floated on his shoulder. "Don't you guys agree?"
Neji could, beside him, materialise the [Planetary Dimension] in the real world when he is out of it. That allowed the people inside to watch the outside world if they wished – like that of a TV. This was a moving-house on steroids, and Neji loved it.
"I guess," Temari's voice came out of the planet. "Better than where we are living right now at least."
"That's what I thought," Neji agreed. "I will copy this area's terrain once I am inside the village. Then paste it on our Planet." Neji said. "Just hang on for a bit."
"Sure. But what's the plan?" this time, Hanabi asked. "Do you observe for a few days? Or what?"
"Plan?" Neji shrugged. "I don't need a plan. I go there, steal the jutsus I want, and return."
"Oh! Oh! Can we keep watching, boss? It's boring here!" Toga's energetic voice begged from inside the planet.
"Yeah, I support! Neji, don't close the TV!" Tenten begged.
…Did they take him for a Twitch streamer?
"Alright, alright, you guys can watch." Neji waved his hand, making the planet invisible, along with himself. "Just don't make any sound, people outside can also hear it. Let's go."
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Unlike what Neji had said, he did have a plan. Samui was still pretty shaken, but a few healing spells allowed her to think straight again. Though she still was loyal to Neji – more than a dog ever would.
He followed behind her while under invisibility, watching her casually pass through the gates of the village and head to the Raikage's office.
Oh, he just got a quest related to this heist. Nice.
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Raikage was in his office, doing paperwork while his assistant Mabui was busy under his desk. Honestly, it just felt great working like this.
He was pretty sure he was the only Kage who enjoyed working on paper works, because of the girls that worked under his desk when he did. The other Kages weren't so lucky, given two of the five Kages were women, one was an old man and another one was just a brat. His life was nice.
In his nice life, the only recent problem was Samui.
She was supposed to deliver news from Konoha every week, unless any exceptional event played out in which case she was to deliver the news right away. But she didn't do that. It's been 8 days since her last report, and not only that, she also didn't report the 'Strange Tailed Beast Attack' that Konoha had sent a letter on to every great village but actually refused to elaborate on the event. What's the point of a spy if she didn't do her job properly?
Raikage made a mental note to correct that slutty thing's manners the next time they-
-Knock Knock!
As knocks fell on the door, Raikage shook his head from these useless thoughts and patted the girl under his desk to stop. The girl nodded, wiped her lips with a tissue, and quickly went to sit on a chair in the corner to pretend she was working on papers.
"Come in," Raikage said and as the door opened, he realised sending the girl away was meaningless because the person who just entered was already used to his tactics. "Aha, look who it is. If it isn't my Samui?"
He got up, walked over to pull her by the waist and prepared to peck her on the lips. But she just smiled and pushed him back.
Hm?
Raikage frowned.
"Raikage-sama," Samui said before he could project his dissatisfaction. "There is something of more importance here," she said, and hearing that he just grumbled but decided to ignore her rude gesture. For now. She will be paid for that tonight.
Samui continued. "The reason I didn't send any letters was because my identity was discovered by Neji Hyuga, luckily before he could do anything to me he decided to leave the village for some reason. I had to quickly leave behind him so I had no chance to inform you."
Raikage hummed. "Did you succeed in following behind him?" He asked before quickly shaking her head. "No, you clearly failed. That's why you are here. Ugh, Samui, it was your job to seduce him! You spent more than two weeks on a boy still wet behind his ears! Why couldn't you succeed?!"
Raikage growled like a beast while Samui stayed calm. "Please, calm down. I actually have been following him for the past few days. I never lost sight of him. But on the way I decided not to engage and seduce him because there was no need for that." she said, making him look at her in confusion. "Neji Hyuga is… in our village at this moment. I didn't engage with him since I could tell he was coming to our den."
Raikage blinked twice before his frown deepened and he walked over to the window, looking outside as his eyes searched for anything odd.
"Are you certain?" a moment later, he looked back and asked her. "Do you know why he is here?"
"I am certain, and I think he is after the Eight-Tails." Samui suggested, walking to him as he frowned.
"Bee…" Raikage muttered. "Bee is on the outskirts of the village. I am going there to back him up, you summon your team and come back us up." Raikage said and jumped from the window, immediately a cloak of electricity appeared around him as he ran to where Killer Bee was.
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When Raikage left, Samui turned to the other girl in the room. Mabui. She reeked of cum. Poor girl, having to suck Raikage's small dick.
"You," Samui said to the girl. "Go tell Darui, Karui and Omoi that Raikage had summoned them to the western outskirts of the village."
Mabui didn't protest, too frightened at the idea of an invading Ninja, as she nodded and left. The Black-Ops of Kumo didn't stick around the Hokage office, due to 'certain reasons', so with the woman leaving only Samui remained in the office.
Along with Neji beside her.
Samui felt an invisible hand pat her shoulder. "Good job," Neji's voice said. "Now, lead me to the vault."
Samui nodded happily and went under Raikage's table. After disrupting a Genjutsu placed there, she found five red buttons appear there. She pressed them in a certain manner just as the wall in Raikage's office parted, revealing a library of jutsus.
Samui got out from under the table as Neji's body became visible. "Lead me in," he ordered and she did so – feeling satisfied to be living up to his orders – she carefully cancelled any and all the protective Jutsus to stop intruders and then stepped inside. No attack happened, no trap activated, no siren buzzed, and Neji followed her.
"Good girl," he smiled and patted her head. She liked it like the dog she was.
"Rest is up to you, baby boss." Samui let out a moan as he gave her a short spank, making the world ripple rapidly, the fabric of space twisting as she found herself inside his house again. Having been teleported by him.
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With that out of the line, Neji stepped into the secret chamber and closed it from the inside. Now it was time to raid.
The library or Jutsus was smaller than Konoha's, but he wasn't complaining. Rows after rows of bookshelves laid around the room, and the Jutsus placed nicely with the alphabetical rankings. Neji walked over to one of the shelves and touched a scroll, immediately a system message popped up.
[Would you like to learn Jutsu, "Lightning Ball"?]
[Y/N]
Nice. He immediately clicked 'Y', feeling the information on the Jutsu rush to his head and it also registered on his system's Jutsu List. He touched another scroll, and another, then another — and essentially started to empty the entire vault.
[ Would you like to learn Jutsu, "Lightning Dragon Tornado"?]
[Y/N]
[ Would you like to learn Jutsu, "Lightning Flash"?]
[Y/N]
[ Would you like to learn Jutsu, "Lightning Fang"?]
[Y/N]
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S-rank: [Black Lightning].
A-rank: [Limelight].
B-rank: [Thunder Bomb].
B-rank: [Electromagnetic Murder].
These four and the initial four were the only notable Jutsus. The others weren't bad, but these were the strongest. There was also the "S-rank: [Greatest Taijutsu Attack Set]" which consisted of the techniques that Raikages used while in Lightning Cloak (eg; Hell Stab).
It hadn't even been five minutes, yet, by now his clones had filled the room and touched all the scrolls, thereafter absorbing all the Jutsus and causing the scrolls to vanish in thin air. Now the library was as empty as the starless night sky. He didn't do this in Konoha since he knew most Jutsus there anyway, but this was different.
Three minutes in, he had finished raiding the Cloud Village for all its worth.
The problem was he didn't find the Lightning Cloak here.
Of course, he didn't.
Raikage didn't keep that with his other Jutsus, given how only the Raikages were supposed to learn it.
"Does he keep it to his person all the time?" Neji asked, hearing Samui's answer flow from his pocket dimension.
"I don't think so. If he did I would know, given, you know…" she trailed off, ashamed of her past, and he nodded.
Then where?
A secret chamber?
Oh gosh, he should have raided the Yamanaka clan before leaving Konoha. If he did, he could just beat Raikage up and then read his memory of the Jutsu's whereabouts directly from Raikage's mind, and if a scroll never existed in the first place and the Raikages taught each other the technique from memory, then mind reading was the only answer anyway.
Then again… couldn't he just go raid the Yamanaka Clan any day?
Some of his clones were still in the Land of Fire. It would take them a few minutes at most to fly to Konoha with a burst of their dragon wings.
Oh well, guess he will do just that. In the meantime, he might as well go and say hi to Raikage and Bee.
[A quest has been generated!]
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Master4thWall Note: Is it too late? Or will Neji make it in time? If he does—will clones be enough against Pain and his gang? He also can't do fusion since he did that last night to revive Samui 🤔 perhaps it is better if he is too late? Also, what is the quest about? To save the village or to fight Raikage?
(Low key the most cliff-hanging ending I remember writing)
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