"Speaking"
'Thinking'
(Author's note)
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Flashback No Jutsu continues....
A week flashes by since ken recieved his assignment for promotion.
Today's the day ken has decided to set off for the mission.Ken was standing near Konoha's gates while waiting for his sensei.
His attire consisted of a brown flak jacket with green cargo pants,the reason for his choice to be able to help him blend in with his surroundings.
Ken taps his foot impatiently on the ground and sees a green blur approaching him.
"YOSH!, I AM HERE MY STUDENT".
"I'd rather not waste time sensei so lets get moving"
Gai notices his student's impatience but doesn't comment on it, He nods along to ken's suggestion and starts running .
They cross the land of fire unhindered with 2 hour breaks and ate soldier pills to sustain themselves throughout the journey.
Three days later...
A chain of mountains greet the early rising sun while its enormous shadow falls upon its surroundings ensuring shade and a perpetual veil of darkness to those travelling through the forest.
On a nearby hill which provided a vantage point of the surroundings, Ken and Might Gai can be seen camping at its top.
"So,My disciple how are you going to approach this mission"asked a curious guy.
"I'm going to watch and find out the timing for when Han leaves the bandit base and kill off the canon fodder."
Might Gai hums thoughtfully.
"A straightforward but still a flawed plan, Shinobi should not rely on things like luck,We study and plot on how to take down our targets in the dark and when we are sure of our success strike with utmost lethality".
Gai surprises ken with his view on how shinobi work, while truthful,hearing it from someone like him caused a sense of incongruity from ken.
"I'll be sure to remember that sensei, but luck is still a deciding factor as all plans can go from a near success to failure in an instant".
The duo fall silent after that and wait for two hours when ken spots han along with 4 others moving out of the base.
'Those must be the genin in his group, Good, I can dispose of the normies while they are away and set traps along their path of return'.
Ken turns to Gai who nods back at him, recieving the green light from him, Ken starts descending to the bandit base stealthily while plotting the next steps of his plan.
'I'll plant explosive seals on the inside of the corpses of everyone and block han and his teams path of retreat'.
Ken reaches the base and wastes no time in following through his plans.
He encounters two bandits on watch duty and before they could alert the others Ken swiftly decapitates them with the wind release:Rotating Shuriken jutsu, A C rank jutsu which infuses wind-natured chakra into shuriken, the user can make them spin, as well as control them in the air.
He swiftly catches the falling bodies and lay them down and continues onwards to the next target, A wooden tower camouflaged among the trees on the opposite side of where he entered from, while two bandits where looking for anything suspicious among the surroundings.
Ken stealthily climbs the tower and wait till the bandits are facing the same side, finding the right time he jumps and punches the back of their heads with the strength to crack a boulder, effectively killing them.
He uses the tower to reconnaissance for finding the rest of the bandit's locations , He jumps down finding everthing he needs and starts sprinting across the base.
He encounters his targets and kill them either using rotating shuriken jutsu or by a punch straight to the throat as he is physically stronger and faster than the scrubs.
Ken finds himself standing in the base's centre with corpses strewn around the area.
He pants with exhaustion but still moves to plant explosive seals he bought in bulk for the mission.
An hour later....
"Haha, You should have seen the look on that fat pigs face when Han lifted him up by the throat". Laughed one of the genins with the others laughing along.
Han,The leader of the group walks at the forefront of the group while the other four genins are carrying the loot for the day.
He reaches the bases entrance and finds no one manning the gates.
"Tch,I left for an hour and these lazy assholes think that they can have fun".
Han moves toward thes gates when his instincts warn him of danger.
Without hesitation he jumps away while warning the Genins.
"Move outta the way, It's a Trap!!!".
The genins slow to react to the warning are engulfed in an explosion with all of them being taken out.
Han overcome with rage screams.
"Come out you bastard, I'll skin you alive for this".
Only recieving reply in the form of a dozen shuriken thrown at him from different angles.
Han dodges them while seeing a figure flicker towards the base's inside.
He gives chase and finds the area riddled with corpses of his lackey's.
He reaches the bases centre and finds a boy looking at him.
Han wastes no time and performs handseals and executes:Earth Release: Tearing Earth Turning Palm,causing the ground surrounding ken to spiral inwards on itself, trying to bury ken alive and crushing him.
Ken jumps up while releasing ten
rotating shurikens which curve when closing in on Han,meanwhile as a counter Han uses the Gale palm jutsu to push them away.
Ken retaliates by using water release: Hail jutsu,gathering water into large clumps in the shape of massive orb-like formations and then dropping them from the sky onto Han.
Han uses Earth release rock protection to cover himself up and while dong so is standing next to a corpse.
Ken seeing his chance strikes at Han by blowing up the exploding tags attached to the corpse injuring han and exposing him to the Hail causing further damage.
Ken swiftly approaches the befuddled han and engages in a taijutsu bout where han is quickly placed on the backfoot, Cornered and enraged han uses all of his chakra as a last ditch attempt to cast Futon:Atsugai.
(A/N:Wind release:Pressure damage)
The result is a circular rotating sphere of wind blowing off everything in the surroundings with the ground appearing to be filled with deep gashes by the wind blades from the jutsu.
A disheveled Han can been seen standing a little futher away from the point of impact while breathing heavily.
He suddenly feels pain and looks down to see a kunai sticking out of his heart and senses Ken's presence behind him.
Han falls to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut and bleeds out to death.
Ken can be seen looking down at Han while sporting several rips and tears along his body.
He had substituted himself at at the last moment to make han let his guard down.
Might Gai appears next to ken while looking at ken's face and not finding him in a daze pats him on the shoulder pulling ken out of his reverie.
"Ken, You have completed your mission, Let us head back, clean up the scene and take Han's head we need to leave fast".
Ken nods to Gai's order and hurridely cleans up the scene and places Hans head in a storage scroll.
He wraps up everything and loots anything of value and leaves with Gai.
Flashback No Jutsu Ends....
To be continued...