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Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf	By : Pokemaster12 Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 8578 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 11
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Chapter 10: Traitor

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

Arashi and Choujuro sped through the forest at a breakneck pace as they ran towards the town of Gokiwa. Even without knowing the directions to the small village it would have been easy for them to find due to the smoke that was rising from its general direction.
When the two burst through the treeline and into the town, both of them stopped cold. What had once seemed like a very peaceful settlement was now in ruins; fires were burning everywhere, buildings were gutted out or had collapsed completely, and bodies filled the street. What made the whole scene worse were that the bodies of the dead were not shinobi, no, they were civilians. Innocent woman and children who had done no wrong, who's only crime, according to the Mizukage, was being born into a clan with a bloodline. Arashi could feel his entire body shaking as he stared at the terrible scene before him.
"How could someone do this?" Arashi's voice came out as a harsh whisper. After everything he had been through in the past few years, he had thought things like death couldn't affect him. But the sight before him, a scene of woman and children who had been cut down where they stood, made his blood boil like none other. "What kind of monster is the Mizukage?"
"Careful," Akane's voice came over their link, "if you let your emotions slip you may end up accidentally channeling some of my youki. You can't let people know that you hold me."
Arashi heard Akane's words and closed his eyes, taking several deep breaths. His shaking stopped and he unclenched his fists, feeling liquid on his hands the red head looked down and saw that his nails had been cutting into his flesh. Sighing, he wiped his hands on his pants, the wound had already healed over.
"A-are you ok, Arashi-san?" asked Choujuro. He was a little concerned when he saw the way the other man was looking, while he himself was angry and saddened by what he saw, his emotions were running no where near as high as the ones Arashi had.
"No, no I'm not," Arashi sighed, "how could anyone be ok when they see something like this? But I'll give." A hardened look entered his eyes, "come on, lets see if we can't find any survivors."
The two walked through the town, Arashi made several dozen Kage Bunshin to bring out the bodies so they could be sealed into scrolls and returned to their loved ones for a proper burial. As he continued moving through the burnt out buildings, occasionally checking the inside if it looked safe enough, he heard a sound that he had not heard in a while. It was the sound of crying.
With his enhanced senses Arashi was able to easily find the source of he crying, in one of the gutted out buildings. It was a two story house, and the crying was coming from the second story.
Arashi walked into the house carefully, with how torn down it was, even the slightest mishap could cause the entire house to come down around his ears. After moving around the house, going through a door and into a hallway, he found the staircase leading up. Several times, Arashi had been forced to take a step back as he walked up the stairs, they weren't all that sturdy and a few of them had given out on him when he stepped on them. Because of how cautious he had to be it took several minutes to get to the second floor.
The crying was closer now, coming from the door to the first room on the right. He made careful, precise steps, letting the sound of the creaking floor wash over him in order to hopefully give him an advanced warning when the floor was about to collapse. When he got into the room with the crying he was surprised to find the area was mostly intact; the wall to the left had crumbled, there was a whole in the far right side of the room, but other then that it looked much more whole then any of the other places he had seen.
In the left hand corner there was a small crib that Arashi walked up to, the source of the crying was inside. A small baby with dark brown fuzz on his head and brown eyes. Arashi gently lifted the little newborn into his arms and tried to sooth the thing by rocking it back and forth. "It's ok little one," he whispered as the baby began to stop crying, "nothing can hurt you now, your safe."
The baby must have spent the last several hours tiring itself out with his crying, because after a few minutes of Arashi having picked him up, he went to sleep. Not wanting to risk injuring the baby by going back down through the house, Arashi formed a clone and had it kicked out the window. He jumped down and channeled chakra to his feet, cushioning his fall. He stood back up from the crouch he had landed in and looked at the house he had found the baby in, then shook his head and began moving on, searching for more survivors.
He made a Kage Bunshin and had it take the small baby, that way he could continue his search without having to worry. "Go and find Choujuro," he told the clone quietly, "stick with him as much as possible." The Kage Bunshin nodded and went off.
Arashi went into one of the few houses that was still standing, standing being a relative term. The house, like most others was completely gutted, the back wall had been destroyed and rubble from the walls and furniture was strewn about all over the place. There wasn't much there and so the red haired swordsman moved to the back, and it was there he found something interesting.
There was a very small amount of chakra in the air, it was small enough that only sensors would be likely to notice it. Arashi was thankful that Akane was sealed inside of him because she was far better than any sensor type shinobi, and had noticed the chakra almost immediately. He placed his hands in the ram seal and sent out a pulse of chakra in order to dispel what was most likely a genjutsu of some kind. A frown made its way onto his face however, when nothing happened.
He tried several more times, sending out larger and larger pulses of chakra. Each time he was met with failure. He wondered why the jutsu wasn't dispelling, normally, when an area wide genjutsu was used it took a pulse of chakra larger than the one powering the jutsu to dispel. Arashi was easily using three times more then what he felt being used here, so it should have worked.
"Hang on a second," Akane said, speaking up as she began channeling her youki into Arashi's chakra coils. "I'm directing my youki through, I want you to channel it to your eyes."
Arashi raised an eyebrow in curiosity but shrugged it off, said, "got it," and did as instructed. The world began to move into focus, his sight got sharper, everything became clearer, and he could see small particles of blue floating through the air. Is that chakra? He wondered in shock.
"Yes," Akane answered him, "What you see are chakra particles that are being emitted in the air by what ever jutsu is being used here. Now, hurry up and find out how to dispel the jutsu, my youki hasn't fully integrated with you yet so channeling this much to an organ as sensitive as your eyes will damage them if given enough time."
"Right," Arashi began looking around for something that may help him determine why he couldn't dispel the genjutsu. It was then he noticed something looked out of place under all the rubble, this house was made of brick, but there was some wood sticking out from under all of the refuse. Moving over he began throwing the large chunks of brick away from his discovery, and soon found that the small piece of wood he had seen was actually a part of a large door that was set into the ground, obviously leading towards a basement level. And on the door was a fuiinjutsu he had not seen before, but he could make out what it was and did thanks to his knowledge telling him that some of the seal matched one of his own genjutsu seals.
This one was obviously to make this door appear invisible to others, it was a genius move to be honest. A genjutsu was easy to dispel, so long as one could sense the foreign chakra in the area it could be broken. But a seal was near impossible to dispel unless one found the seal and broke it with their own fuiinjutsu. It also explained why the genjutsu was still up, part of the seal he saw was actually designed to draw in nature chakra and use it to power the rest of the seal. It wasn't the best work he had seen, but its application of seals was rather impressive.
He quickly channeled chakra into his hand, unsealing a very beautifully crafted calligraphy brush with several seals running along the handle. He channeled chakra into the seals, creating a soft flow of ink as he began to draw along the seals, adding his own counter-seal. When he was finished he resealed his brush and channeled chakra into the seals he had created. There was a soft blue glow before the genjutsu seal began to hiss, the ink started to steam as it melted away, soon leaving nothing to show that it had ever been there.
With nothing left but to open the door, Arashi did just that, grabbing both handles and heaving the doors open. The inside was pitch black, but thanks to his enhanced sight he could see a set of stairs. He cautiously made his way down the steps, keeping his footsteps as silent as possible. When he reached the end of the stairs he was met with a door, trying to open it proved useless as he found it was locked. He could of course smash it open, but he didn't want to startle anyone on the other side, if there was anyone. So he raised a hand and gently rapped on the door with his knuckles.
There was a soft gasp that his hearing managed to pick up on the other end, he heard a shuffling of feet, then a small slit in the door opened and a pair of green eyes peered out. "W-who are you?" asked a female voice, she sound young, maybe around her mid teens, and petrified.
"My names Arashi," trying put the girls mind at ease he gave her a gentle smile, "I was sent here by Mei Terumi when we heard your town was under attack."
"How can I trust you?" asked the girl.
That was a good question, Mei hadn't given him any way to show his authenticity, he had no proof that he was who he said he was. "I suppose you can't," Arashi said slowly, "however, if I had been sent here to kill you I would have just broken down the door." He paused for a moment to let that sink in, "now why don't you come out of there."
the slit shut and there was a moment when nothing happened, Arashi wondered if he had scared the girl away. However, a minute or two later there was some more shuffling, then the sound of bolts being unlatched. A second later the door opened and Arashi saw a young girl, with odd silvery blond hair was out of place on someone in Kiri, green eyes and a dark blue Yukata. She was currently holding a small boy of about four in her arms.
"It's good to see more people alive here," Arashi said, smiling at her. "I've only found one other survivor and feared there was no one else." The girl looked at him with mistrust and more than a little fear, "relax," he said, "I'm not going to hurt you."
The girl stared at him for several more minutes before deciding that she really had no choice but to trust the man in front of her, she gave him a nod and stepped further outside. He gestured for her to follow him as he began to walk up the stairs, when they reached the top the girl had to use one hand to cover her eyes as the sun showed through the mist.
"How long have you two been down there?" asked Arashi, noticing her slight discomfort at the light.
"...Since the attack had started," the girl replied, "we were getting ready for dinner when we heard explosions outside. Kaa-san, she... she..."
Realizing what the girl was trying to say, Arashi placed a hand on her back and rubbed it consolingly. "I'm sorry for you loss," he spent a moment giving the girl some time to get herself together before saying, "come on, we should meet with my partner."

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

"I see, so there were only a dozen survivors," Mei closed her eyes and gave a heavy sigh as she leaned back in her seat. It was times like these that she wished someone else could take up the mantle of leader for the Bloodline faction.
"Y-yes, Terumi-Sama," replied Choujuro as he gave his report. He and Arashi had just gotten back to the base about twenty minutes ago, and after taking the survivors they found to the small hospital had made their way here. "We found six children between the ages of one and eight, two teenagers, and four adults, all woman. Most of them had managed to hide themselves as the attack started."
"Thank you Choujuro, you may go," Mei said, not bothering to open her eyes. Choujuro nodded and left, he paused at the door and looked at Arashi who he had expected to follow him. The red haired swordsman gave the his blue haired companion a shake of his head before jerking it to Mei, indicating he still had something he wanted to talk to her about. Choujuro nodded before leaving.
As the door shut Arashi coughed, getting Mei to open her eyes and blink as she saw Arashi still standing there. "Is there something more you wish to discuss Arashi-san?" asked the auburn haired beauty.
"I was hoping to get a team together, and with your permission begin an investigation in order to root out who ever betrayed us to Yagura," said the man, not feeling like beating around the bush.
"What?" asked Mei, her eyes widening slightly.
"I want to begin rooting out the traitor among your ranks," Arashi repeated. "We can't launch any offensives until we know who the traitor is," half of his reason for coming here was so he could gain experience in combat and war. But he wouldn't get any of that if they were unable to actually make any battle plans for fear that some traitor would over hear it and inform the Mizukage.
Mei listened to the young mans words, she was a little shocked by his request but was also thinking about it carefully. She knew that they needed to root out the traitor as quickly as possible, the longer they sat there the better chances Yagura had of defeating them. In truth she had already planned on trying to root out the spy anyways, though she had been planning on getting Ao and maybe a few others to do the task.
The problem was, Mei wasn't sure if she should just trust Arashi to root out the traitor. She knew he was not the spy like Hisagi had said, after their initial encounter Mei had done what she could do dig up information on the name Arashi Kazama. There wasn't much, in fact, most people knew next to nothing about him. However, there was one man who worked in a weapons store that was decently acquainted the red haired swordsman. Apparently, Arashi had come to Konoha about a year and a half ago, looking for a place to sell his seals. Other than that there wasn't much known about him, but Mei had only gotten the idea to request aid from Konoha a month before she left. There was simply no way someone could have predicted she would do that a year and a half in advance and send someone there to integrate themselves into her forces.
No, she knew Arashi was not the traitor, but she still was unsure whether he had any skills available for rooting out espionage. He was strong, there was no denying that, he may even be as strong as she was, but rooting out a spy was different that battling a horde of enemy ninja. It required much more subtlety.
"And how do you plan on capturing this spy?" asked Mei. She wasn't going to write anything off yet, he may be able to help and she couldn't afford not to use any resources she had at her disposal right now.
"I need to gather information on all of the people who knew about your plan to ambush the Quarterly Caravan," began Arashi. "Chances are who ever betrayed you is a member of that group, when I find out who has the most to gain from such treachery I'll want Ao's help to keep an eye on my suspect."
"So you can catch them in the act?" asked Mei.
"So I can learn their habits," corrected Arashi, "whoever just betrayed you isn't going to do anything to bring attention to themselves right now, they'll want to lay low. However, most people usually let some information slip in the way they act when not on duty. Once I find my suspect I'll place a tracking seal on their person, and a voice recording seal in their room."
"I see," Mei tapped her fingers on the desk in a random pattern as her eyes gained a thoughtful look. Eventually she looked at Arashi and in a calm voice said, "I can't let you do this." When the young man opened his mouth to protest the auburn haired leader held up a hand, silencing him. "Because you are an outside I can't do this for fear of being seen as letting a foreigner do all the dirty work. However," she opened a drawer and reached in, pulling out several files which she set down on the desk. "Should you happen to come into some information on your own, and discover who this traitor is," the woman shrugged and smiled, "well, there's not much I can do about that."
Arashi shook his head and let out a chuckle, "clever, giving yourself plausible deniability in case my investigation goes south." He picked up the files and sealed them into a storage scroll.
"Hisagi's not the only one with an isolationist view," Mei commented with a tired frown. "Unfortunately most of Kiri prefers isolation, it's something I hope to change when I become Mizukage," the look vanished a moment later. "However, until then I have to play by these rules."
"I understand," Arashi said as he straightened up, "should you need me for anything you'll know where to find me." Turning around the young swordsman left for his room.
Mei watched him walk out and sighed, "don't betray the trust I'm giving you, Arashi."

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

Arashi frowned as he continued reading through the files Mei had given him on the people who worked in Mei's inner circle, as it were. These were the people who she often consulted and spoke with when coming up with battle plans. Most of them were from once prominent bloodline clans, though many had been decimated by the many civil wars that had raged within Kirigakure. A few people however, were not members of a clan and merely held their positions on merits alone.
Ao was one such member. He was an experienced veteran, having been raised under the feared regime of the Bloody Mist and having fought in the Third Great Shinobi War. He had even fought some of Konoha's more powerful shinobi, such a Shisui Uchiha, known as Sunshin No Shisui (Shisui of the Body Flicker) due to his great mastery of the body Sunshin. It was because of the experience he gained from his past battles, and his ability to use the Byakugan, which he had taken after fighting a Hyuga at some point during his life, that he had been elevated to a high position of trust with Mei. Even if he did annoy her enough that she often threatened him with bodily harm.
Choujuro was another who had been elevated to a high position. Because of his skill with Hiramekarei, a blade that had belonged to a member of the Kiri Shinobigatana Nananin Shu, he had been appointed as Mei's personal bodyguard.
Arashi did know much about either of them as people, beyond what he had seen during his interaction with them, but he was positive that neither of them would betray Mei. That meant it was one of the other five possible suspects.
A tired yawn escaped his lips before he could cover it, looking over at the clock he saw that it was an hour past midnight.
"Why don't you get some rest," suggested Akane, "you won't be able to find anything if your tired like this."
"Yeah... I guess your right," Arashi rubbed his eyes and was just about to set the file he had been looking over on the desk, when his eyes widened in shock. This is...!

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

Hisagi found himself gasping for breath as he continued running away from the rebel base. He had no idea how long he had been trying to escape from his pursers but supposed it didn't matter. As the whistling sound of shuriken made there presence known, the man had to twist himself to dodge them. However, as he moved out of the way he caught a glimpse of one, and his eyes widened at the sight of an explosive note burning on it. The resulting explosion from the kunai destroyed the area Hisagi had been at, and only a quick Kariwimi had allowed him to get away. He growled as he saw his purser jump down from the trees and look at his hiding spot.
"There's no sense in hiding, ass hole," Arashi said as he glared at the mans hiding spot. "Why don't you come out and accept your death like a man." The red heads answer was several kunai being thrown at his head, however, before they could reach him, Arashi had pulled out his own kunai and blocked them. "I see, so that's your answer. Fine then."
Arashi threw his own kunai and went through several hand seals, "Kunai Kage Bunshin No Jutsu (Kunai Shadow Clone Jutsu)!" The one kunai sailing towards Hisagi soon turned into thirty kunai, forcing the lean man to jump out of the bush.
"I've got you now!" Arashi shouted as he appeared next to Hisagi, who gasped as he was kicked in the solar plexus. Despite feeling the wind getting knocked out of him, the lean-built man managed to grab onto Arashi's leg and spin around, letting go and sending the red head flying back.
Not that it did much good, Arashi managed to right himself in mid-air before his feet hit the branch of a tree trunk behind him and he pushed off, using chakra to blast off faster than humanely possible. Hisagi pulled out a kunai and readied himself for battle as Arashi came at him, a kunai in his hand. Jumping out of the way, the scarred man was just able to evade his opponents strike, and not wanting to give the swordsman a chance to recover began his own attack as soon as the mans feet touched the ground.
"Hisagi Shūhei, I am here to apprehend you for the crime of betraying Mei Terumi," Arashi said even as the two continued to battle. He came in with a reverse horizontal slash that was blocked by Hisagi's kunai, the two tried to push against each other, letting sparks fly as steel clashed against steel.
"I have no idea what your talking about!" Hisagi shouted as he managed to push the red head back, he reached into a pouch he had strapped to his waist and pulled out several shuriken. Tossing them at the Uzumaki swordsman who deflected them with ease.
"Of course you don't," Arashi said sarcastically, he threw his kunai at Hisagi's head, using it as a distraction while he came in hard. Hisagi blocked the kunai only to received a fist in the gut, causing him to gasp and spit out blood before he was sent hurtling to a tree.
As he slid down the trunk, Hisagi held in a wince and placed a hand near his gut. Hearing footsteps coming towards him he looked up to see Arashi looking at him with an impenetrable gaze. "You may think you've won, but if I go, I'm not going alone!" Hisagi pulled open his vest and showed Arashi that he had several hundred exploding notes attached to his body. He grinned as he saw Arashi's eyes widen, right before the notes went off with a large explosion.
The explosion rocked the ground for several meters, kicking up earth and destroyed trees as the intense heat from the fire burned away. Smoke billowed out from the epicenter of the blast, thick, black clouds that made it impossible to see anything inside the blast radius. When a stiff breeze blew away the smoke, all that was left was a large twenty foot crater and the only sign of Hisagi's passing.
"Damn it," Arashi muttered as he dropped down from the ground and walked up to the crater, "had I been any slower with my Kariwimi that would have killed me."
"You know without my training you would have never been quick enough to escape that," Akane said with a small grin. "Aren't you glad I gave you my training now?"
Arashi snorted, "yeah, I'm so glad, because having some babe toss me around like a rag doll is how I get my jolly's off."
"Oh, does it really? Well, maybe when this war is over and your back in Konoha we can get back to the grind," Akane said, her grin widening as she felt her containers fear.
"I-I was just kidding Akane-chan, hehe."
"Oh? So you don't like my training?"
Arashi could almost feel the pout on her face, and heard the slight danger in her tone. "No, I love your training, it's just – well..."
Akane giggled as heard her container sputter, "aw! Your so cute Naru-kun! I just want to eat you up when you get all embarrassed like that!"
"It's Arashi," Arashi muttered, feeling his face heating up at Akane's words. No matter what happened she always managed to make him embarrassed, "right now, I'm Arashi, not Naruto."
"You'll always be Naruto to me, Naruto-kun," Akane said, her voice an odd mixture of teasing and caring. "You'll always be 'my' Naruto-kun."Arashi felt an odd heat well up inside of him at Akane's words, there was something about the way she said that, that seemed different than the way she usually talked to him.
"Arashi!" turning his head Arashi saw Ao and Choujuro jump next to him, "I take it you got him?" Ao asked as he eyed the crater.
"Yeah," Arashi said, looking at the last place he saw Hisagi with a frown, "bastard blew himself up."
"Than let's go and inform Terumi-Sama," Ao grunted as he took to the trees again. Choujuro and Arashi quickly followed him as they made their way back to base.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

"Thanks to Arashi-san and Ao's efforts we were able to discover that Hisagi was in fact the traitor who gave away the information about our ambush to Yagura," Mei said as she stared at the people gathered around her. Most seemed to be in a state of perpetual surprise, not that she could blame them. "Thankfully, now that we have rooted out the traitor, we can begin making preparations to resume the war."
"Thanks to one of our informants within the ranks of Yagura's forces we have discovered that there will be a change in the guard at one of Yagura's fortress on the northernmost outlying island. This will prove to be the perfect opportunity to attack and capturing the base and gaining all of the stock piles of weapons within it." Mei held up a map that showed the plans for the base she was giving her plans for, "as you can see, the island is small enough that the base covers the entirety of it. Because of this, Yagura troops can only gain entrance to the base via a dock located on the inside."
she drew everyone's attention to the design of a large steel door, "This door is how the boats gain entrance to the inside, it has a pulley locking mechanism that requires a lot of manpower to move, due to the fact that they never upgraded the machinery on it."
"Our plan of action will be to attack the boat before it reaches the base and commandeer it, once we gain entrance into the base it will be ours since no one will know that we are not with the Mizukage's forces." Mei looked around the table to see everyone looking at her with varying emotions, "are there any questions?"
"I have one," asked a man appeared to be in his late thirties, perhaps early forties. He had a few wrinkles on his forehead and under his gray eyes. The thing that stood out the most to Arashi was the scar that ran from his right cheek down to his neck. He had a faded light blue hair, which Arashi was beginning to note was a common color in Kiri. He was dressed in the standard Mist jonin apparel that was slightly beat up and had definitely seen better days. Of course that was very standard with the war, most people had to make do with what they could find. All together, the man looked like your average shinobi.
"Yes, what is Koi?" asked Mei.
"Do you think this is the right time to strike?" asked Koi, "I mean no offense, but we have just suffered from a serious defeat, one third of our forces were lost in that last attack, either due to injury or death. I'm not sure if we have enough troops to launch an attack."
"Which is why this isn't a true attack," Mei replied confidently. "The ship that will be carrying the shinobi replacements only has a total of thirty ninja in it. The island is quite small, and truthfully, not that important in the grand scheme of things. However, it will give us a closer reach to into Kiri and some of the other fortresses. It's the first step towards reaching our goal of freeing Kiri from Yagura's tyrannical rule."
Koi seemed to accept this as he nodded and Mei turned to the assembly of people, "our plan will commence in three days, in which I will choose the team I feel is best suited for the job. All of you are dismissed."
one by one the ninja and advisers left, speaking in low, hushed tones. Arashi, with his enhanced senses managed to pick up several of the conversations but paid it no mind. When everyone else was gone Mei looked at the red haired Uzumaki, "I'm risking a lot with this plan. Are you sure it will work?"
"I wouldn't have suggested it if I wasn't sure," Arashi said with a shrug, "however, if it helps you feel better Ao is keeping an eye on things to make sure everything goes according to plan."
Mei nodded and sighed as she leaned over the table, "I really hope this works, my people can't afford to suffer any more losses than they already have."
Arashi was silent for a moment as he saw the woman looking a lot more tired than he usually saw. It was obvious this war was taking its toll on her, even though she put up a strong front for her people. "I'll do everything in my power to make sure this plan works," he said in a determined voice.
Looking up at the man Mei gave a tired but grateful smile, "somehow, I figured you'd say that."

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

Koi calmly walked towards his room, being sure to keep a calm and steady pace. It was difficult, what with the news he had just received when Mei had unveiled a new pan to try and get back for the defeat her forces had suffered. He had thought that she would not have wanted to take any serious action for a while now, but apparently, he had been wrong. The thought that she was going to launch another strike against Yagura made Koi excited.
He walked into his room and closed the door, locking it shut and moving over to his desk. He fumbled around for a moment as he unlocked the door to one of his drawers, opened it, then opened the secret compartment within that drawer. He pulled out a piece of paper and a pen and began to write:
Mei's forces will be attacking the fortress on the northern borders of Mizu No Kuni in three days, during the changing of the guard.
The message was very basic but it got it's point across, Koi decided. He walked over to his window and pulled a small whistle from his pocket, blowing on it. No sound came from the whistle, at least none that he or any other human could hear. The whistle was not made for human ears.
He only had to wait for a minute before a dark gray hawk flew onto the windowsill. Koi rolled up the letter and sealed in inside of ring that he then placed on the Hawks leg. "You know what to do," he told the Hawk, who, whether it understood him or not, flapped its wings and flew off.
Deciding he would get some rest, Koi stripped down to his undergarments and laid down in bed. Soon, this would all be over.
Soon, the Bloodline Rebels and Mei Terumi would die and the war would end.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

"Your sure?" asked Mei as she listened to Ao give his report.
"Yes Terumi-Sama," Ao said, "I was watching as Koi wrote the letter and read its contents. The hawk he used is a special night hawk that is used only by the Kiri hunter ninja squad when sending either the head of a missing-nin, or special information so they can receive more directives."
"Seems Arashi was right after all," Mei laced her hands together as she placed her elbows on the desk, "Wouldn't you say, Hisagi?"
from behind her, a wall opened up, one of the many hidden passages that was hidden through out the base in case it ever fell under attack. From within the secret passage Hisagi Shūhei stepped out.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

several miles south of a small town in Mizu No Kuni stood one of the Mizukage's many fortresses. Unlike most hidden villages, where there was only one village and no real outposts or bases, Kirigakure was different in that it held several large strongholds due to the near constant civil wars they had been in. Likewise, due to Mizu No Kuni being made up of many small islands, the Mizu Daimyo did not have as large a Samurai force as other nations like Hi No Kuni or Kaminari No Kuni (Land of Lightning). This was just another reason why the Mizukage had gone unopposed for as long as he had.
This fortress in particular was the stronghold for one of the Mizukage's most feared generals, and one of the last living members of the Kiri Shinobigatana Nananin Shu that was still loyal to his village. The man known as Kushimari Kuriarare.
The fortress itself was large and imposing, a three story hexagonal building with a large stone wall that had barbed wire on the top and only one entrance. Situated along the wall were six guard towers that held two ninja, whose job it was to search the surrounding area with large search lights in case of attack. The entire area around the fortress for fifty meters in all directions was free of any vegetation that could be used to hide. In short, unless you had a large army that was capable of destroying the walls and/or gate, breaking inside was impossible.
Which of course was why they were sneaking in and not breaking in.
"Alright, you all know the plan," Ao said gruffly as he began to speak to his troops and Arashi. "The signal should come soon from our guy on the inside, when we get it, we're to head over to the guard tower on the left of the gate to get in and hook up with our spy. Afterwords, we are to take out all of the guards, quietly, meanwhile, Arashi will be going in to deal with Kushimaru himself." Every turned to the red head at those words and he just nodded solemnly. "Now, we wait."
The shinobi in the squad broke up a little as they did what ever it was they did when waiting for the action to start. Some spoke to each other, cracking jokes and telling tall-tales in order to relieve the tension they felt at the possibility of this mission going sour. Others were sharpening there kunai, checking their supplies and a few he noticed, were silently praying. As for Arashi himself, he was getting support from the one person who mattered most.
"Your worried," noted Akane as her container sat in a meditative position with his eyes closed and his breathing slow and even.
"Of course I am," Arashi said, his voice sounding similar to a soft breeze within the seal. "This will be the first time I go up against a ninja whose talent may equal or even surpass my own abilities, an A rank ninja, a true elite of the village. All of the other opponents I faced were standard B rank jonin, an A rank is several levels above that. I can't help but be worried."
"You'll do fine," Akane reassured her container and closest friend. "You have easily surpassed all my expectations during training and have gone beyond the level most normal ninja can reach. I have absolute faith in your abilities. However, should you need my assistance, you know all you have to do is call."
"Thanks Akane-chan," Arashi said to the person he cared more about than anyone else in the entire world. The woman, who Arashi often found too beautiful for mere words to describe, had always been the one to support him in recent years. She had done more for him than anyone else, training him to be strong, teaching him what he should have been taught at the orphanage, telling him about his heritage and helping him cope with al the hardships in his life. It was only because of her that he was the person he was today, and he would always be grateful to her.
"Oh my, stop it Naruto-kun, your making me blush."
"Y-you heard all that?" Naruto's voice squeaked across the mindscape.
Akane grinned, "seems you still have trouble keeping yourself from transmitting your thoughts." she could almost feel his blush, "you know it's quite flattering to know you think of me like that. Perhaps, some time in the future you can come down into the seal and "Show me" just how grateful you are."
"A-akane!" Arashi stuttered at the provoking thoughts and images her words invoked. He could hear Akane's tinkling laughter in his mind and was about to try and get back at her when a voice interrupted him.
"You ok, kid?" asked Ao, who was looking at Arashi's red face in concern, "your not looking so well, your face is all red."
"I'm fine," Arashi said as he tried to get his blush under control, "i just have a sunburn is all."
Ao blinked, "but there's no sun out."
"It's from yesterday."
"Yesterday was misty," Ao pointed out, confused about why the kid was coming up with such lame excuses as to why his face was red.
Arashi's right eye began to twitch violently as he glared at the blue-haired hunter ninja, "Ao, shut up, or I'll kill you."
Oh great, now he's copying Terumi-Sama, Ao thought with a sweatdrop.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

getting into the fortress had been easy enough, once the signal had been given, the light in the left guard tower moving skyward, the team of ninja had made their move. The race across the grounds between where they had been on stand by, and the gate had been easy enough, if a little nerve racking due to the fact that had this been a trap they would have all died. Thankfully there had been no mishaps and Arashi, Ao and the others had made it to the top of the guard tower, where they hooked up with Mei's informant.
From there the teams had split up into groups of two, Ao and a kunoichi's whose name Arashi never bothered to learn went off. While the two shinobi besides Ao in the squad had gone another way. That left Arashi with the informant, who was traveling with him after he had made some Kage Bunshin to replace the guards the man had killed.
"Kushimaru will be on the top floor in his office," the man told Arashi quietly as they snuck into the main fortress. The red head was thankful that they had not deemed it necessary to post guards at the door, believing that they were safe enough with the guard towers and large wall. "I would go with you, but I need to get back to my post or they may realize something is wrong."
Arashi nodded, "good luck."
"Same to you."
sticking to the ceiling and having Akane place a powerful invisibility illusion on him, Arashi made his way towards the end of the hall, made a right, another right, and one left before he reached the stair case. He dropped to the floor, using chakra to make his fall silent, and proceeded to walk up the stairs. When he got to the third floor there was only one door, and knew it led to his adversary.
Taking a deep breath he opened the door and walked in.
"I've been waiting for you to show up," Arashi looked at the man who was hailed as one of Kiri's strongest swordsmen. Kushimaru was both very thin and tall in stature, giving him an overall gangling appearance. He had long, shaggy white hair, and due to his service within the ANBU, his face is concealed by a white porcelain mask, with a darker-coloured triangle on its lower part, slits for eye holes and Kirigakure's symbol carved on its top. His attire consisted of a sleeveless black shirt, matching pants, complete with a waist-guard, and Kirigakure's striped wrist and leg-guards. He also wore bandages around his neck and possibly around the lower half of his face.
Attached to his back was a sword. The Nuibari, a blade itself was that of a narrow "longsword" (長刀, chōtō) that greatly resembles a large needle, with a long length of thin wire mirroring thread, tied to the eye located at the base of its hilt. Arashi had heard many stories of that blade and knew not to underestimate it or the mans mastery in its use.
"You were expecting my presence?" asked Arashi, as he summoned his blade to his hand.
"Of course."
"How did you know I was even here?"
"I sensed your presence the moment you and the others made it into my fortress," the man answered in an unconcerned manner.
"Your a sensor then," Arashi said.
"Yes."
"If you knew we were coming -"
"Then why did I let you in without alerting the outpost?" finished Kushimaru, turning around to face Arashi. "I have been waiting for a challenge since I took up my position within the Kiri Shinobigatana Nananin Shu, ever since I came to this position I have not been able to find a true challenge." Arashi couldn't really see the man's face, but he had a feeling Kushimaru's eyes were on his blade. His next words confirmed it, "you are an Uzumaki, one of the last, I suspect. The Uzumaki clan was a clan that was once feared for their Kenjutsu, and their powerful Kekkei Genkei." reaching a hand behind him, the white haired swordsman grabbed Nuibari and unsheathed it. "I have heard much about you since you came to Kiri, and since than I have wanted to test myself against you."
"Well don't I just feel special now," Arashi said as he slid into the beginning stance for the Issei No Ryuuken sword style. The red head smirked, "looks like we're facing each other for the same reason, I've always wanted to test myself against one of the Kiri Shinobigatana Nananin Shu."
Kushimaru got into his own stance, one that Arashi had never seen before, even in the scrolls in his house, "So it seems."
the two stared at each other, a silence that was merely the calm before the storm. As if on an unspoken signal they rushed each other, their blades sending sparks as they hit the others and the two began their dance of death.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

several miles outside of the main base for the Bloodline faction, Koi Sento was running for his life. His jonin vest and the shirt underneath were in ruins, torn to shreds by kunai and shuriken that had only just missed him. His skin had several lacerations from the ones that didn't. His breathing was erratic, the kind of breathing one had when they had been running for as long as he had. Yet he knew he had to keep going, he had to keep running or he would be killed.
He still had no clue how it had happened, but somehow he had been found out. Koi had thought that all of the searching was finished when that Arashi guy had killed Hisagi, mistakenly thinking that he was the traitor. Yet now it was clear that he had been played a fool. They had known, he was the traitor somehow, or had found out some time after. Either way it didn't matter, all that did was losing his tail and leaving.
Before he could get much further however, he felt the sharp pain of a kunai digging into his calf. He stumbled, his exhaustion, mixed in with the pain causing him to slow. It was all the time his purser needed to catch up to him.
"Your finished Koi, give up," Hisagi said as he stalked towards the tired man. However, Koi didn't seem to be finished as he attempted to go through several hand signs for a jutsu. However, Hisagi was in no mood to let this man finish, rushing him and slamming a fist in the older mans gut. As Koi leaned forward and wheezed from the loss of breath, the lean-built man smashed an elbow into his face.
Koi fell to the ground, unable to hold himself any longer; he had exhausted his chakra, his body had given out and he could hardly feel some of his muscles and only felt pain in others. He hadn't been in his prime for years, a lack of actually going on missions and not training himself anymore had caused his physical prowess to degrade. Now he almost felt like a civilian.
"How... how is it your still alive?" ask Koi as Hisagi stood over him.
Hisagi stared at the man as he remembered the events that had transpired to this moment.

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

Flashback...
"Your sure of this?" asked Mei, her voice a mixture of disbelief and shock.
"I'm one hundred percent positive," Arashi said as he handed her some files. "Koi Sento is the traitor, out of all the people he not only has the most say in most of your plans, but is also privy to more information than anyone else. I found those files in his room, it seems he has been giving reports to the Mizukage and receiving orders on what to do, and has been ever since he joined you."
"I can't believe he would do this..." Mei whispered, for once in her life she was well and truly shocked. "What does he gain from this?"
"The purging of all bloodlines within Kiri," Arashi's comment caused Mei's head to snap up and look at him. "It seems his family was killed at the beginning of the Civil War, during the Kaguya's attack on Kirigakure. Ever since than, he's hated people with Kekkei Genkei."
"I see..." Mei closed her eyes and sighed. She honestly couldn't blame the man for his hatred of Bloodlines, losing ones family is horrible, "I take it you have a plan to deal with him?"
"Of course," Arashi said.
"Then do so."

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

At hearing the knock on the door, Hisagi walked over to it and opened it up. "What do you want?" he asked with a sneer as he saw who it was.
Arashi however, didn't seem all that bothered as he grinned at the older man, "how would you like to help me catch a traitor?" he asked, causing Hisagi to blink.
Flashback end...

~Story of the Ten Tailed Wolf~

"I see," Koi said, closing his eyes. He knew he wouldn't be getting away from this alive. Perhaps I'll finally be able to see my wife and daughter again...
"This is the end, Koi," Hisagi said as he pulled out a sword and swung it down, cutting the mans head clean off. Sighing, he sealed the head inside a containment scroll, then burned the body with a katon jutsu. He looked at the sky for a moment before heading off to report his success at killing the traitor to Mei.
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