Creakkk...
Ao opened the mizukage's office door with a slow creak.
The moment they entered Enkai subtly activated his sharingan to see the chakra signatures that were hidden in the room.
'Three on the ceiling, one on each side of the wall.'
Even though he took a single glance at the room with his sharingan before deactivating it, it was enough for him to know that five people were hiding behind the walls and the ceiling.
All of them had jōnin level chakra reserves.
While, on one hand, this meant that they may or may not have to fight five jōnins, this also brought forth good news.
'Obito isn't here.' Enkai thought as he clenched his fist in excitement.
That was his last obstacle to getting a jinchuriki for himself. If Obito were to be here he would have had to cancel his mission, and give up on Yagura but that no longer seems to be a problem.
"What's the matter Ao?" Yagura – The fourth Mizukage, asked Ao.
"Lord fourth, it seems this shinobi here has found the executioner's blade." Ao respectfully bowed his head, though if one were to look closely then they would see veins near his right eye; he was using his byakugan to see if Yagura truly was under a genjutsu or not.
Unbeknownst to Ao's deeds, the mizukage turned toward the foreigner, "You don't seem to be from Kirigakure. Who the hell are you?" He looked at the enkai from top to bottom.
"Yes, I am a shinobi from the newly established 'Hidden Sound' village. I was on a mission in the land of water when I stumbled into Zabuza by chance, then we fought, and I won and took the sword."
Enkai noticed how sceptical Yagura looked when he heard this, but with a polite smile he continued.
"When I reported these events to our village elders they ordered me to return this sword to you in exchange for establishing trade relations among our villages."
"Hmm, show me the sword then," Mizukage said with authority seeping out of his voice.
Poof!
Enkai gave a slight nod and with a poof of smoke, Kubikiribōchō appeared in his right hand.
The sight looked quite comical because the sword itself was towering over his head, but his firm grip still held it in place as if it were a regular sword.
"That's legit, alright." Mizukage nodded, before starting to write on one of the papers, "Listen, I can't promise trade relations with a new Village like that, but here is a letter of appreciation for your elders."
When Mizukage finished writing the letter, he looked at Enkai and said, "Give them this." Then he turned towards Ao, "Ao show him the way. I will assign someone to put that sword in our storage."
After Mizukage finished his line, he tapped on his table twice and one of the jōnin bodyguards appeared and approached Enkai to pass him the letter as well as take the sword from him.
The mizukage was about to return to his paperwork when he heard something, "Mizukage-sama, one more thing."
Enkai said as he summoned a black fedora hat in his free hand, and placed it on his head, "Do you happen to meet someone called 'Madara' recently?"
The jōnin bodyguard who was just a hand away from Enkai paused for a second, Yagura's eyes shook and Ao saw the bodyguards hiding in the office flinching.
Enkai sneered.
"Tch," Ao clicked his tongue in disgust; they knew about him.
"Kill them!" Yagura ordered with racing pulses.
Sllach
The jōnin closest to Enkai immediately felt his neck sliced off, he looked towards Enkai only to see his eyes turn into fox-like slits as he grabbed Kubikiribōchō and threw it towards the ceiling where three jōnin were hiding.
"Ao, to the left!" Enkai pointed towards the lone jōnin hiding behind one side of the wall before blinking forward.
Woosh!
In an instant, beads of sweat formed on Yagura's face when he saw Enkai's hand inches away from his face. Then Yagura's expression morphed into a cold one as he mumbled, "Sanbi, Release."
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Like always, the Kirigakure was as dark and gloomy as ever. Everything had a deadly calm to it and anything that made excessive noise stood out; knowing that, everybody did their best to stay as quiet as possible in these parts of the world.
Boom!!
Everybody on the street looked towards the direction from where the sound came from, all thinking the same thing – 'Which moron is acting so loud??' with curiosity.
However, very soon, their curiosity turned into pure terror when they saw what caused that sound.
Under the moonlight, they saw a reddish-grey turtle with spikes in its body appear – its head facing up towards a masked ninja who looked too young to be provoking the beast.
"Run.."
"Run!!"
"Quick! Run Away!!"
Squash!
Run as they might, a tragic few, too slow in their flight, found themselves ensnared under the behemoth's crushing foot, their desperate sprint ending in a heart-wrenching silence.
But none of this mattered to the behemoth or the person fighting it.
Croaaaaack!!!
The beast screamed towards Enkai and was about to snap at him by accelerating his neck but Enkai blinked and got out of there.
"Damn it, to think lord fourth truly was under a genjutsu. Curse you, Madara!" Ao muttered under his breath as he landed somewhere safely after the mizukage building was blown to bits thanks to Sanbi's transformation.
Woosh!
He felt a gust of air to his right and turned to see that Enkai just blinked there. He noticed how a fountain of blood was gushing out of Enkai's ears and commented, "You're bleeding a lot."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?" Enkai screamed when he couldn't hear what Ao said.
"I said, YOUR EARS ARE BLEEDING A LOT!!!!"
"Jeez, why are you screaming so much? Do you want to attract Sanbi's attention or what?" Enkai said, his ruptured eardrums now completely healed thanks to Sanbi's brother.
Ao felt his eyes twitch as the angel and the devil sitting on his shoulder both urged him to hit Enkai, but he still controlled himself and said, "Why are you here?"
Enkai looked at Ao once before shifting his sight towards Sanbi, "Change of plans. Kidnapping him stealthily is no longer an option. We need to beat him and then treat him."
Ao looked at Enkai and frowned, the byakugan usurper feared that Enkai might try to run away while telling them to deal with the mizukage.
After a short silence, Ao asked, "So what do you want me to do?'' If Enkai showed any intention of running away then Ao will attack him even if it costs him his life.
"I want you to search around the perimeters and hunt down any ninja who seems suspicious of working for Madara."
Enkai said while storing away his white coat and summoning his black poncho from his gloves,
"Also, I want you to know that most of them are innocents who are forced to work for him by genjutsu, but we don't have the time to break them free and explain such things because if even one of them managed to successfully report the current events to Madara then I am afraid things will get out of hand, quick."
After he was done putting on his poncho he looked at Ao seriously and asked, "Can I entrust you in killing your comrades who have strayed from their ninja way?"
Ao looked at Enkai and nodded, "Yes, I understand." then he continued, "What about you?"
Enkai looked at Ao and smirked, he noticed the unsure tone of Ao, not because he had to kill his comrades, but because of the distrust he had towards Enkai.
Instead of saying anything Enkai just started walking forward as he took off his white mask and wore a black one then he turned around and said, "Me? I am just going on a Turtling."
Woosh and blinked straight towards the Sanbi.
Even though Ao didn't know what turtling meant, he felt reassured by Enkai's gesture and decided to use his byakugan to search and kill any traitors lurking inside Kirigakure.