Team A
The young noblegirl blinked slowly as the clearing's scorched haze dissipated, revealing Yamamoto standing calmly amid the smoldering remains.Some would have thought she would look shaken by this display bought who would have thought that she would smile and scowl at the ashes of her kidnappers, Yamamoto notices the scowl as he re-sheathed his blade.
"If I may ask why do you seem overly calm for someone who was just kidnapped, If I may add you also seem happy" Yamamoto asks in confusion as he approaches the woman noticing the faint trace of happiness in her eyes when she saw him
"Of course I'm happy, the moment i've been waiting for has finally appeared" The woman says as she fails to hide the hearty smile on her face making the situation even more confusing
seeing Yamamoto looking at her with a confused face the woman decided to deliberate " I mean that I can finally escape from that hell of a place called home" She says making the confused expression on Yamamoto's face change to one of bewilderment
"I think you will need to explain further miss" Yamamoto says as his expression turns back to normal looking at the girl in front of him seriously
"I want to escape from home. My father was planning to sell me off to the daimyo to secure his place with him, i don't want to be part of the daimyo's harem, i hear rumors that he treats his women poorly" The girl says as she explains her story with disdain in her voice when she mentions the Daiymo
"have you considered telling your father you don't want to" yamamoto says as he steps over the ashes of his opponents
"It's not like that old man loves me anyways, he only sees me as a political tool, i pray he chokes and dies" The girl says with anger in her voice saying stuff daughters aren't meant to say to their fathers
"How are you sure that someone will come for you" Yamamoto asks as he starts to ask himself what he was doing here
" i was sure my father wouldn't want for his 'precious' tool to go missing right when i am about to be sold, so he would have sent someone to retrieve me and if he didn't then no worries, i was the one who anonymously hired the kidnappers to take me i set the destination they were supposed to drop me at the border between the land of fire and the land of iron, there another group i hired would retrieve me and drop me at the nearest town" The girl explains causing yamamoto to be shocked at how meticulous and cunning this little girl was
"But i decided to change my plan after i saw you" the girl says earning a curious stare from yamamoto "I was planning to pay off the person that came to retreive me but it seems your not here for the money so i have decided" She adds as he get on her knees earning a shocked and confused look from Yamamoto
"Take me as your disciple, Sir!!" She says as she looks at yamamoto with a serious face which fails as her young and chubby face made her look funny
there was a moment of silence between the two, the girl had sweat falling down her face from anxiousness and worry while Yamamoto just looks at her with an expressionless face currently thinking something
"Whats's your name and how old are you" Yamamoto asks as he breaks the silence looking at the girl intently
"My name is Ariko and i'm 10 years old" She says as she introduces herself with a smile thinking that yamamoto had already accepted her "So does that mean that yo-""No" Yamamoto says as he turns around walking out of the vicinity leaving behind a stunned and confused little girl
"What are you doing follow along" Yamamoto says while walking as he notices the girl was still kneeling
"wai- wait for me " The girl says as she snaps out of her shock and runs after the running figure of Yamamoto
Team B
In the meeting room of the city lord mansion, you could see the clan representatives and the wandering ninjas all gathering around a table with a map on top of it with the city lords strategist in the middle of the gathered ninjas
"The army and ninjas hired by the city lord of Bunü will most likely pass this route to reach the city, so we will be using this path in front of them as the battlefield" the strategist says as he points at the red line connecting the attacking city with the current city
"Will will need two groups the vanguards and the assassins" the strategists says causing almost everyone present to be confused all except the representative of the Nara clan
"So you want the vanguards to got to the front line of the line while the assassins will attack from the back taking out the supply unit and disrupting the forces from the back" the Nara clan representative says as his words cause every confused person to realize the plan
"Yes, your intelligence is really envious." The strategist praises as he looks at the Nara clan representative with envy in his eyes
"The assassin group would be composed of the Hima clan since the smaller the better" the strategist says with a little bit of insult snuck into his words
No one seems to say anything about this as they see nothing wrong with this arrangement all but the Nara Clan Representative and Yasuke, they both knew this was just the strategist using them as sacrifice as the opposing city would focus most of their manpower in protecting the supply unit and the main camp "The Senju clan will also join the assassin group" Tobirama says causing a stir in the quiet meeting room while also earning a look of disdain from the Uchiha clan representative
"Are you sure?" The strategist says looking at tobirama in shock as this was not what he planned
"I am Sure" Tobirama Says as he looks curiously at Yasuke.
Tobirama had two reasons for this decisions, one because he had already seeing through the plan of the strategist and he didn't like this kind of attitude where you waste available resources because of your dislike and two because he wanted to see how capable this Hima Clan was and figure out if they were worth his attention
before the strategist could reply a man suddenly burst into the room panting heavily as he rested his hands on his knees gasping for air
"Sir, the scouts have spotted the enemy they are already on their way here and they are coming in big numbers" The man says as he looks at the city lord with sweat coming down from his face
"We don't have time anymore, I hope that you will be able to win this war safely and soundly" The city lord says cutting the meeting short as he immediately dismisses the ninjas present
"Yasuke-san, Lets move, if we go now we would be able to reach the enemy main camp by night" Tobirama says as he exits the strategist room with yasuke by his side
"But don't we have to go to the supply line" Yasuke asked as he follows Tobirama out calling Ren and yoru to his side
"No, we will be doing much better, I don't have time to waste participating in this pointless war, so we will end it immediately by killing the city lord and the commander of the army" Tobirama says as he joins the group of Senju ninjas before setting of during the chaos of the impending war followed by Yasuke and his group