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Third Person POV
Fire Country, Year 36.
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Minato woke up the next morning and joined the girls for a shared meal in his room to avoid raising too many suspicions.
"Good morning!" Minato greeted.
"Good morning," Mikoto commented while Hanabi nodded.
They were eating something brought by the inn while Minato reported on the mission updates. "I spoke with Jiraiya-Sensei yesterday... He informed us that we will have reinforcements soon," Minato commented.
"That's good," Hanabi commented.
"What are we going to do?" Mikoto asked.
"For now, nothing. We will wait for the group of jonins to arrive before we start acting; we must stay hidden until then so as not to alert our enemies," Minato said, and the girls nodded.
They stayed at the inn the whole morning, until Minato's observation haki warned him about the jonins entering his sensitive field. Since Minato had informed them of his current location, it was not difficult for them to arrive at the inn, knocking on the window.
Naruto opened it and was faced with the 3 jonins from Konoha who entered the room; they were Jirion Uchiha, Veiur Kol, and the squad leader, Kurel Nara.
"Finally, some action, we were getting bored going from town to town..." Veiur commented as he looked at the children.
"Tsk," the older Uchiha just shrugged.
"Well, let's go over the information you found; this was quite quick, kids," Nara commented, and Minato nodded, taking a step forward before starting to detail everything they found following the suspicious kunoichi.
"I see, there's a large group of ninjas in this location..." Nara commented with a thoughtful look. "We'll scout the area after the sun sets; I want to look at the terrain before we act, after all, given such a large group, there must be Jonins." He reasoned, and everyone nodded.
Minato was no longer in command of the mission, which was quite normal given the Jonins joining the group, and he had to respect the hierarchy.
The day passed while they remained hidden, until night fell and they decided to act, leaving all 6 outside the town, studying the enemies' hideout.
"We can't see from here... but we certainly can't get any closer..." Nara said as he analyzed the mountain in front of him. He turned to the Hyuuga girl and asked, "What do you see...?"
"Two sentinels... but it seems there are fewer people today," Hanabi commented, seeing that there were 3 less.
"3 less..." He began to scratch his chin. "You mentioned that one of them had gone to town as a scout..." Nara turned to his partner. "Is there a town near here like the last one?" He asked Veiur, who had studied all the geography of the area.
"Yes, a bit further away, but still much closer than the others," he said.
"I want to study the terrain before initiating an attack to have the best strategy," he said, unable to chase the 3 suspects while they are scouting the area. His gaze returned to the boy with blond hair. "Jiraiya informed me that I can trust you with tasks even dangerous ones, so I would like you to investigate; I would send one of our jonins, but with a threat level in the cave, it's better we have all our power here," Nara said, and Minato nodded.
"I can do this with my team," Minato said, and the man nodded.
"That's good, see what they are doing and if you can take them down without the main group suspecting, do it," Nara said, setting his condition, after all, they still wanted the element of surprise, but also didn't want a group of enemy ninjas wandering around on their own.
Minato nodded, and he looked at his team, picking up the map and seeing the city they would go to, "Let's go!" He said, and all 3 jumped, heading in the direction of the third city.
It took about 3 hours for Minato and his companions to reach the city, which was even larger than the last and quite peculiar. It was still dawn as they snuck in, trying not to be noticed by any enemy sentinels in the area, landing on one of the houses and taking a better look at the moonless city sky.
"This place is beautiful, isn't it?" Mikoto commented, looking around, noting that even in the dark, the city seemed unique.
The place was filled with rivers bisecting the city, with a large rock in the middle of it with a waterfall cascading down and filling the rivers.
"Yes, but we should focus on the mission," Hanabi said.
Minato looked at the city, trying to find anything. But, as his observational haki did not cover that entire range, he decided to start moving.
"Let's go, try to be discreet as we look for anything, and stay alert," he said, as he jumped across the rooftops with the girls moving behind him.
"Hanabi, you have the best field of vision among us three, any suspicion in your eyes, let us know," he commented, and she nodded, activating her Byakugan.
They began to move, house by house, entering the city, maintaining their discretion by hiding in the shadows of the night. Until, at one point, Minato felt something on his radar, his haki, now more evolved than before, could tell they were being watched.
"Stop," he said, and they quickly ducked into an alleyway in the city with the girls following him.
"We're being watched..." he said as they landed on the ground with Mikoto and Hanabi by his side.
"How do you know?" Hanabi asked, a bit worried as she hadn't seen anything so far.
Minato looked towards where his haki had alerted him, and it was that huge rock with the waterfall in the city, "Look over there," he said, pointing his finger.
Hanabi immediately began to sweep that corner, peering through the city walls until she spotted an individual on top of the waterfall with a magnifying glass in hand, watching them after seeing them jumping across the buildings.
"There's a ninja watching us!" she said, noting the posture of the person with the magnifying glass. Minato nodded upon hearing this.
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"He's seen us, but we can still deceive him," he said, creating 3 shadow clones, transforming two of them into disguises, with one each of Hanabi and Mikoto, while they went back to jumping towards the building they were heading towards before, while the man with the magnifying glass followed them.
"He's looking at the clones!" Hanabi observed.
"That's great, let's approach from inside the city," Minato said as they used the opposite side to advance towards the waterfall.
They then began to move towards the ninja's blind spot, while he still continued to follow the 3 clones, unsuspecting that he had already been detected by the children.
As they got closer, Minato felt his presence on his radar and also saw another 2 members hidden a little behind him as they watched the city.
"We have a problem," Minato commented, seeing a powerful enemy in the group. "There's a Jonin among them and we can't take him down without drawing a lot of attention. I can do it, but I'll use something special for this, after all, this mission depends a lot on discretion and we might even jeopardize it if we act rashly." He spoke, and the girls nodded, though Mikoto was still unaware of what it entailed, Hanabi had seen these abilities before.
"I'll use some abilities I never used in the academy, I want you to keep this quiet," Minato spoke with a more serious tone to Mikoto, who nodded though she was still confused.
"Take care of the 2 Chuunins, while I'll fight the Jonin," Minato instructed as everyone got into battle position, beginning to climb the place.
Meanwhile, above the rock, the chuunin with the magnifying glass continued to monitor the movements of the 3 genin through the city, while his two companions, a bit behind, were seated, also watching.
"So, there are ninjas in the area?" the jonin asked him.
"Yes, just 3 kids," the ninja with the magnifying glass replied.
"Don't bother, they must just be genins on some mission," another jonin spoke.
"Maybe we should care... after all, we could capture them and get some information," said the interested Jonin.
"There are two girls among them, we could have some fun..." said the man with the magnifying glass.
"See, it looks like this is our lucky day," the Jonin said with a sadistic smile.
They were laughing when a shadow emerged from one of the sides, throwing a kunai between the two behind, who quickly jumped away. This kunai had two small spheres on it, and before they could react, a smoke bomb exploded, filling the entire area with smoke.
"Have we been discovered?!" said the surprised chuunin.
"What is this? Enemy attack!" the jonin shouted, readying for battle.
The man with the magnifying glass quickly left his position and looked bewildered as the smoke also filled his vision. Mikoto used the waterfall itself and leaped up while targeting him with a kunai and her sharingan activated, which made him quickly drop the magnifying glass and swap it for a kunai.
In the midst of the smoke, Hanabi managed to surprise the ninja chuunin on the other side, hitting his shoulder with a chakra palm, making him lose movement but not falling as he screamed in surprise, moving back a bit to prepare for a fight.
The jonin, however, was alert amidst the chaos, seeing his companions being attacked by children, waiting for the last one to appear. It didn't take long, as a kunai flew towards him, which he quickly defended against by reflex, making a metallic sound and the kunai spinning slowly in the air. But this kunai had a seal attached to a paper, allowing Minato to appear at that moment using Raijin, leaving the Jonin a bit stunned by it and almost without reaction.
Minato wasted no time and kicked him at that moment with the only blow he could manage, as he was a bit away and only had reach to the ninja with his lower limb, but his kick was so powerful that it sent the ninja flying backward, feeling the blow while trying to defend.
The ninja Jonin felt immense pain but quickly returned to his fighting stance with his arm dislocated after trying to stop the child's kick. 'What's happening?! How did he appear out of nowhere and how can he be so strong?' He internally asked with clenched teeth. After all, he was caught by a child.
Unfortunately for him, Minato was no longer in that place, and before he realized, a glow appeared behind him, Minato using his Pika Pika no Mi was calmly looking at him from that position while lifting his foot, and this part began to glow.
"Have you ever taken a kick at the speed of light?" Minato asked calmly, always wanting to say this phrase since he came to this world.
The ninja couldn't even react as he turned in slow motion towards Minato, before he could react, he felt an impact of light power with that kick. Minato kicked him, and the man flew like a rocket, breaking the ground with such force that he fell unconscious, Minato nodded with a small smile seeing this with his Observation Haki.
The girls were still in their fights with a bit of difficulty, as they were fighting against two Chuunins. Hanabi was trying to hit the enemy who quickly engaged in a taijutsu fight with a numb arm. She was gaining advantage against the ninja, even so, Minato appeared at that moment, since she maintained a Raijin seal and he wanting to end the fight, hit him in the face with a punch without the ninja being able to react.
And before Hanabi could react, Minato had disappeared, appearing next to Mikoto, who was having more trouble. After all, the ninja was using a katana against her kunai. She exchanged blows with the ninja who, despite her using her sharingan, the enemy ninja had more strength and experience.
That was until Minato appeared next to her and kicked him in the face, making him fall to the ground. And he didn't stop there; feeling that the ninja hadn't fallen yet, he appeared above the ninja with his light travel and punched his head, making him fall.
"What was that?" Mikoto was surprised by that, seeing Minato travel while shining, but she looked up and thanked him.
Minato had no reason to keep hiding these abilities from the girls, after all, Hanabi already knew about it and always kept it a secret, and Mikoto was also someone Minato trusted.
"You intervened in my fight, but I understand..." Hanabi approached with a small smile.
"We need to be as discreet as possible, in the end, we managed to take them all down," Minato looked at the 3 fallen.
Mikoto, although surprised by Minato's abilities, remained silent about it. "So, are we done here?" She asked her leader about another matter.
"Yes..." Minato said, as he started walking over to each of the fallen ones and began to tie up their bodies with ropes and seals he was studying with advanced fuinjutsu, intended to secure them much more.
After tying them up, he placed them inside a scroll and returned to his group. "In a way, we failed our mission, since we were supposed to see what they were doing and ended up being found by them. However, we captured them alive, and that gives us some excuse," Minato spoke with his companions nodding.
"I'm sleepy," Hanabi commented while yawning. After all, they had spent the entire night on this mission, and the Sun was already rising in the east.
"Let's go back and rest a bit, after informing the others. Now, I want you to touch me," Minato spoke, as the girls approached touching his shoulder.
He made a seal and activated his Hiraishin, and they disappeared from the location, appearing near the city they were staying in, but not at the inn so the jonins wouldn't see his teleportation jutsu, wanting to hide the technique.
"Now, let's find the others and deliver our prisoners," Minato spoke, as they nodded their heads and went back to the city.
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