The Uzumaki And Kurogane Clan - Chapter 18

The next day in the morning, we see activities in all the tents, in one of the tents, we can see Kira finished getting himself dressed. He wears mesh armor beneath his dark grey muscle shirts and his black jacket with dark blue fur in his collar. He also wears an ANBU pants with the left side of his legs bandaged in white with a black kunai holster and in his right hand is the seal with a Kanji for Scythe. His katana is in his back waist ( imagine the way Sasuke puts his katana in shippuden but with out the rope and using a seal to ‘stick it’ in his waist).

“Everyone ready?” Darui lazily said, looking at Kira, Naruto, Omoi and Bee. We all nodded at him.

“Then let’s go” Darui said and all of them left the tent.

On the way we met with the girls, but we can see them being serious, especially Izana since this is her first S-Rank mission.

We reach the tent and enter it seeing Mei, Ao, Chojuro and Ameyuri inside talking to each other.

“Kumo’s team, reporting in” Darui said.

Mei and the others nodded and we began talking about the mission.

Few minutes later since we are press for time, teams were decided.

The fortress team are Kira, Samui, Darui and Ao.

The River team are Mei (Since she’s the Rebel leader, she needs to be alive so it was decided by everyone that she’s in the team closest to the edge of the barrier), Ameyuri (Kira forced her to go with Mei), Chojuro, Omoi ( as a liason for Kumo) and Yugito (a just in case due to her status as a Jinchuriki)

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-Kira’s P.O.V.-

We where running through the woods, heading northeast where the fortress is.

I look at the sky while running and realise that it’s noon. We’d been running for four hours since this morning, so we really need to speed up to reach our location.

“Darui-sensei, we need to move faster, we have been wasting alot of time” i said with a serious look.

Darui nodded at me “alright people, we need to move faster, we only have until midnight to check if the Master Seal is there, otherwise we might not survive the trip back” he said with a grave tone. All of us nodded and began moving even faster.

three hours later, we reached our location, a destroyed fortress with mother nature ruling the fortress. There’s vegetation all around and the vines hugs the majority of the walls with some wall crumbling down.

We reach the fortress on our maximum speed, due to Fenrir i recovered fast, Darui and Ao due to been veteran recovered fast as well but Samui is gasping for breath due to the speed in which the went.

We all nodded and waited a minute, while waiting we ask Ao about the underground base and he answer.

He didn’t said much but the base has seals that blocks sensor ninjas for locating it due to the seals inside the walls. The base was used in the past to train ANBU’s for the third Mizukage. The three bases goes from easy training to hardest, though the ‘easy’ ANBU training is still harder than a normal Jounin’s training. The fortress ANBU base is where the ‘hardest’ training was held, Ao even said that hell seems cool to the training they where given here.

A minute later Samui recovers and we began moving inside. The fortress as a said was already conquer by mother nature and that’s how it looks inside with the same walls broken and crumbling here and there.

“Follow me” Said Ao moving towards the barracks. We follow him and once inside the barracks, we can see 50 bunk beds to the right and to the left and windows behind each bunk beds. Ao move towards the back of the barracks then he touches the wall on the left side of the barracks. We watch it happen not knowing what he’s going to do. Ao began touching the wall in different formations then he steps back and the wall trembles before moving towards the left, revealing a secret door with stairs going down.

We are surprise about the wall until Ao look at us “Let’s go, the Master Seal should be down there” Ao seriously said and we nodded at him and began moving down the stairs.

While walking down, i ask Ao “What should we expect down there?” Ao said “Many wooden doors but i know one place where the seal can be put on”

“Where?” Darui asked

“A place closest above ground” Ao said

“Above ground?” Darui confusedly asked with Samui also confuse.

“Konoha’s wall has a seal barrier on it’s wall, blocking people from entering through there or wall running it, it’s the reason why you need a very powerful attack to break through Konoha’s wall due to the barrier, the only way to enter Konoha is through the Gates and in the middle of the Gates, you’ll be question like all other villages, although there are loopholes you can use to enter but in order to enter a village you have to enter through the Gates, as foe the barrier, it keeps people trying to sneak in out and even alerts the Hokage and it’s ANBU” i said with a thought ” but all villages are the same, their barrier seal are always above ground, just like Kumo and it’s wall, Iwa and Kiri”.

Ao nodded at that and said “if you use a barrier seal underground, it will work but it’s a bother, finding a place to dig up and put the seal as well that it has to align with the other seals to create it, it’s a waste to do all that, not only that it leaves small holes in the ground which can highly affect us negatively like a cave in” i nodded at him while Darui and Samui understands the reason.

“Even though it’s closest to the surface, the roof must be smooth that even a B-Rank jutsu could destroy it and i know just the place” Ao said.

“Where” asked Darui then Ao stops and looks at him and said “The only place you, as an ANBU can practice jutsus below A-Rank and not worry about the surrounding walls caving in, due to the seals preventing it and the roof being smooth for you to punch through or use a jutsu if the seals fails” Ao began walking down the stairs and said “The Jutsu training area”

We raise our eyebrows at him “The Jutsu training area?” Darui question, Ao nods “The only place you can practice your jutsu below the ground, the area is wide (imagine four soccer fields fuse in a square way), the walls have seals that blocks sensor abilities and also silencing seals for no sounds outside the area. There’s a lake that runs through the area from the surface, that lake has detection seals just in case someone tries to sneak inside from there” All of us nodded at his word.

That area is the highest chance of the Master Seal being, now let’s hope Yagura doesn’t did anything and hope the seal is in there.

We finally reach the bottom of the stairs and after walking forward for a bit, we enter into a corridor that goes right and left. In both sides are wooden doors with silencing seals and Seals that negates sensors.

“This way” Ao said and began walking to the left as we follow him.

and after at least 10 minutes (and passing at least 100 wooden doors), we reach our destination.

We all nodded at his words. Ao bits his thumb, drawing little bits of blood and places his blooded thumb on the door.

After a second, the door glows and instantly stops before hearing a sound of the door unlocking behind it then Ao puts his hand in the handle and twist it, opening the door.

‘Fenrir, is it possible for you to be our Sensor inside here?’ i asked her since the seals negate and decreases my own Sensor ability.

‘I’ve been using it from the start, cub but i haven’t found anything, i’ll inform you if there’s someone around.’ she said nonchalantly.

I mentally nodded and enter through the door behind Ao. The torch in the walls, began getting alight up one by one from my left and right and the little i can see, i see the huge wide area and the sounds of water. Ao wasn’t kidding about how wide this area is.

While i was walking forward little by little, Ao went to the right, following the torchs getting alight while checking the area. He’s serious while waiting for the torch to alight itself. Darui went to the left, checking the ceiling whioe walking alongside the torchs getting alight and he’s equally serious as Ao. Samui followed behind me, checking everything that we can see.

While i was walking, getting awed by what i was seeing, i heard a scream from Fenrir.

‘KIRA STOP, THERE’S SOMEONE IN FRONT OF YOU!!!’ i suddenly stop, turns serious and look in front while entering a battle stance holding my hilt inside the sheath.

When i did that Samui was surprise about me doing that as well as Darui and Ao “Husband? what’s wrong” she asked me warily.

*clap* *clap*

We hear claps and a small laugh coming our front while the torchs alight thenselves little by little reaching to our mysterious enemy.

Once the torchs illuminate little by little to our front, we can see our enemy. Blue-grey skin with a distinctive shark-like appearance, Blue hair atyled like a shark fin with Kirigakure’s headband that covers his ears, eyes like a fish, 3 set of curved liie markins below his eyes, gills on his shoulders and shark triangular teeths. He’s adorned with dark sleeveless shirt paired with matching pants provided with a waist guard, stripped arm and leg-warmers typical for Kirigakure. Behind is a greatsword cover in bandages.

After i saw who he was, there’s only one word that came out of my mouth.

I sigh and said in a bitter voice “…Shit”