With a large explosion that engulfed most of the tent, Kazuos's body was incinerated and blown to pieces.

*Huff* *Huff*

Waking up once more, Kazuo got up and headed to the group of ninjas outside once more until the woman told him that Shikaru had called for him.

Replicating his actions perfectly Kazuo arrived at the same point in time where he was explaining the strategy.

This time, however, Kazuo did as Shikaru had and even explained the reason that Shikaru had given whilst integrating it with his speech.

The room was silent as they looked at the twelve-year-old ninja.

A Shinobi who didn't have more than three months out of the academy was capable of thinking up strategies at a level that only an experienced Nara was capable of.

*Clap* *Clap*

Shikaru clapped his hands as he kept a light smile on his face.

"Excellent, seems like my decision of making you my assistant wasn't wrong, in fact I feel like it will be quite a drag to think about what to teach you," Shikaru said whilst the Hyuga and Akimichi captains nodded their heads, clearly pleased that they had chosen a good prospect shinobi to stand behind.

"Since you already made the entire operation then I'll leave it in your hands Kazuo," Shikaru said before standing up and walking a few meters to the back of the tent and coming back with two sealing scrolls which he placed on the table.

"Take five hundred explosion tags and place them evenly on all spots, each of these scrolls can hold two hundred and fifty tags at a time. Go to the supply tent and get them before heading off immediately." Shikaru ordered as he looked at Kazuo with a stern commanding look on his face.

This wasn't the man who played mental games and set up traps for Kazuo to fall in anymore.

This was Shikaru Nara, an elite Jonnin of the leaf and the Commander of the entire North Cloud front.

Nodding his head, Kazuo took the two scrolls and tied them to his back, turning to the captains and the commander, he gave a light bow before using the body flicker jutsu and disappearing from the tent.

"Monster" The civilian captain uttered as he stared at the location where Kazuo had stood at.

Shikaru chuckled before shaking his head.

"I guess you can say that though I have this strange feeling about him," Shikaru said before shaking his head once more.

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"Never mind, let's start planning about the next portion of the battle after Kazuo finishes his job, there will be people left alive even if the plan goes perfectly. Our job is to annihilate those remains." Shikaru said, his eyes glinting as his mind whirred into action.

The Cloud forces wouldn't be having a nice time tomorrow, that was for sure.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the camp, Kazuo appeared in front of the large supply tent and headed in immediately.

The same woman as before was behind the desk however unlike before she had a long scar that ran through almost the entirety of her face, considering how red it looked then Kazuo guessed it was quite recent.

Taking his sight off of the scar, Kazuo gave the woman a soft smile before saying.

"Im here to gather supplies for a special mission, I need five hundred explosion tags," Kazuo said, his voice light as if his request was the same as asking for a basic supply of ten kunai.

The woman nodded her head before freezing on the spot merely a second later.

"Five hundred explosion tags?" The woman questioned, her eyes widening as she looked at Kazuo.

"That's right, here is the letter of permission written by the Commander," Kazuo said as he placed a letter Shikaru had written whilst he had tied the scrolls to his back.

Reading through it quickly, the woman nodded once she saw the seal at the end of the paper sheet.

"All right, please wait a moment, I'll bring them shortly." She said before heading to the back of the tent at some wooden crates where she started taking out the explosion seals.

After a few minutes and a thorough count, she placed all five hundred tags onto the desk and pushed them toward Kazuo.

Kazuo simply nodded his head before placing the two scrolls on the ground and opening them up.

Kazuo placed half of the tags on each scroll and made a single-hand seal.

"Seal"

And with a puff of smoke, the explosion tags disappeared inside the scrolls.

Rolling them up once more and mounting them on his back. Kazuo nodded and disappeared with another use of his body flicker jutsu.

This time his destination wasn't inside the camp but rather to the clearing where the battle would take place tomorrow.

'Should I have just stood silent?' Kazuo thought to himself as he flickered out of the camp and then proceeded to get farther and farther away from it.

Meanwhile, inside the Commander's tent, the captains had already left, and Shikaru had a pensive expression on his face.

'His file didn't show that he had any elemental affinity yet and it also didn't mention the fact that he knew the hiding like a mole technique, whilst he did use it on the battlefield previously, I never imagined that he had perfectly mastered the jutsu to such a degree.' Shikaru thought as the scene of Kazuo explaining his strategy flashed through his mind.

'It's like every time I meet him, he shows me something new about himself that I didn't expect at all, at first it's a new jutsu, and then his strategic abilities have grown leagues beyond what they were merely a few days ago.' Shikaru thought before releasing a long sigh.

"You really are a damn drag to deal with Kazuo," Shikaru mumbled to himself before laying back down fully on his chair and looking at the top of the tent.

'You're suspicious, extremely so however as long as you are of use, then I'll leave you alone. At least until this war is over.'

As Shikaru's thoughts ended, something unexpected to him happened yet again.

*Fshh*

With the sound of the wind moving, an anbu appeared inside the tent.

The anbu had a white mask with no painting on it at all.

"Master has told us to eliminate Chunnin Kazuo when the war stars dying down. He's a danger to the stability of the village."

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