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Chapter 6 - Arc 2 chapter 4

After that startling revelation we check each of the other captives. Only the blonds have the tattoo. Asking Kakashi about the fact that the byakugan can't see it reveals this isn't as unusual as we think it is, some high-level seals are apparently invisible, in case they need to be hidden from sight. In hindsight that's basically exactly how Naruto's seal works.

During interrogation all of them lie, meaning they are all brutally tortured as a result. The blonds crack the fastest, pretty much the instant after their first nail gets hammered. The others last much longer, of note is the grandma, who didn't actually tell us anything at all. That's solved when I use genjutsu to make her think we're her clanmantes, but the brain damage that causes her makes the info unreliable.

What we ended up finding out is essentially that:

-Their village specialises in seals. More specifically in storage seals and tattooing seals. Not all of them are proficient or even taught seals however, that honour apparently only goes to their village leader and his apprentices.

-Speaking of that. The two blonds, Karari and Kurari, are sisters and apprentices to their village leader, a chunin who is currently deployed at the front.

- The scroll we stole is their collection of seals.

- Those tattoo'd storage seals are currently holding various poisons inside.

Skimming their kinjutsu scroll reveals they did not lie. This does hold the instructions for a number of seals. The most interesting being their storage tattoo. The alarm that set off from the bookshelf was apparently them writing half of the seal on the bookshelf and half on the floor. When the seal got 'broken' it released the alarm.

The intel unrelated to sealing we got is also somewhat good. A lot of Kumo's production is situated in this area, far from any potential conflicts. This means constant convoys of various Shinobi resources. The Pièce de résistance being a convoy carrying chakra steel! It's not even that heavily defended. Two jonin and five chunin. A glance at Kakashi has him nod, approving of raiding it. Sadly we can't just raid the source directly, since there's like six jonin minimum stationed at that village.

The convoy will depart in four days. More than enough time to prepare.

Whilst Sakura is organising her new lab-rats, the sisters plead to be spared, offering to teach us what fuinjutsu they know. Before accepting, Sakura consults with Hinata and I, both of us agreeing. 

-next day.

Karari and Kurari join Hiragi in preparing breakfast, after we seal their chakra off and promise them a painful end if they try anything again. Watching them all interact is also kinda funny, what with Hiragi being a snitch and all. After eating we quickly make them begin explaining fuinjutsu to us.

By the time lunch comes around I've gotten some new ideas for the seal-bomb. It can probably be turned into a cluster bomb of sorts. 

-two days later.

I can confirm, the seal-bomb is now a cluster seal-bomb. The small bombs have three sealing tags, one wind, one fire and one earth. The tags are attached to metal rods and then coated in a small layer of metal, to delay their explosion. The main part of it is another rod with Wind release and Fire release, not enough to instantly vaporise anything nearby but enough to throw the smaller bombs around and heat them up. The tags will then burn from the heat and explode a small amount of time later. 

I've made seven of the things, hopefully they'll be enough for tomorrow.

-next day

We're all waiting for the convoy. According to what we know one jonin will be in front and the other in the back. The one in the back holds the supplies. Our plan is to kill the leading jonin and as many chunin as possible with the bombs, to prevent the guy holding the storage seals with the supplies from turning into meat-paste. If he proves to be dangerous, Kakashi will join us and take care of him.

Soon enough Hinata signs to us that they are close. And twenty seconds later they quickly step into our trap. The front jonin and two chunin are instantly turned to goo, another chunin gets his leg blown off. The remaining chunin and jonin are unharmed. Sakura goes to deal with the chunin while Hinata and I rush towards the jonin.

He begins swiftly forming hand-signs, I signal to Hinata to fall back once I realize what the jutsu he is using is. Once he is done all the land thirty meters in front of him is turned into dust by electricity. At least I copied the Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder.

After firing that off he begins preparing another jutsu, I make two shadow clones and begin doing the same. He finishes first, throwing a spear of lightning at Hinata! She barely dodges, escaping with only a large hole in her right arm. By now I also fire off my jutsu, three walls of fire surrounding us. I promptly create another two clones before Hinata and I go under-ground while we are out of his sight, one of the clones uses Henge to turn into Hinata. Once we almost reach him we feel something vibrating through the earth, closely followed by the four clones popping. 

We resurface before he can run away and get more distance between us. He tries to fire off yet another jutsu but stops when Hinata reaches him. She lunges towards him and he dodges sideways, the next exchange she takes a swipe at him and he dodges backwards. By the time they enter the third I also join in, taking a swipe at his head. Hinata takes advantage of this and lands a kick on his head. In the fourth exchange he barely manages to dodge my swipe and then gets bisected by Hinata. We both immediately back off just in case this guy also blows up.Thankfully he ends up just groaning for a second before promptly dropping dead. 

Looking around reveals Sakura has decapitated her last opponent. Searching the bisected jonin reveals a stack of storage seals. Just like the last convoy. Once we have it in our possession we burn all the bodies and proceed to fuck off asap back to our outpost.

Once we are finally back at our outpost we just immediately go to sleep. Well, they go to sleep, I got the first night-watch.

After breakfast, Hot curry, We begin to catalogue all of our loot. There's some miscellaneous items, like soldier pills, but the final storage scroll holds all the goodies we wanted. Three swords, twenty kunai and ten shuriken. All made out of chakra steel. Hinata quickly calls dibs on the kunai, telling us she needs it for her project. Sakura and I agree, Kakashi does not care either way, he's apparently too rich to care about this. Wait, aren't I also too rich to care about this? didn't I inherit the equivalent wealth of an entire feudal clan?

Am I stupid?

Haharu POV

The weak lead turns strong. A supply convoy was ambushed. They must be there. Searching the current zone has led to nothing. 

I ask for reinforcements, two more jonin. Konoha are deploying their young along with a jonin, to serve as their minder. If the culprit is Sasuke Uchiha then the jonin must be Hatake Kakashi. The Raikage offers me three jonin.

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