Chapter 67 - The Three Is (1/2)
〚Story by: ???????????????????????????????????? // Edited by: ????????????????????_????????????〛
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After what must've amounted to the same time it used to take me to microwave some popcorn, (oh how I miss popcorn...) I finally arrived at my destination: the Kaguya Clan 'military' camp...
And yes, you read that right. I said 'military'.
You see, I've been lurking in the shadows for about half an hour, not deactivating my Sharingan for even a moment...
After fully mastering it I've managed to drastically optimize its chakra consumption rates to a ridiculous amount, so I could probably use the Sharingan as indiscriminately as Itachi and not feel tired at all, despite not being an Uchiha.
Kakashi couldn't do the same simply because he didn't have the 2nd best chakra control of the Shinobi World.
My Mangekyou remains unaltered in its deteriorating effects on the user's eyes and body. Unless I get myself a pair of EMS, that's how it's gonna be, regrettably...
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Anyway... Back to the point I was making. I've been doing standard reconnaissance of the camp, evaluating risks and such...
But then I realized... That this looks more like a beer festival than it looks the camp of a feared Warrior Clan...
I mean, they've got large banquet tables with several foods (mostly meat) right next to a giant bonfire, carts with uncooked meat in some crates, and TONS of barrels of beer and sake...
Almost 90% of the ninja are intoxicated right now… I mean yeah, they kinda have patrols going on... but man, this is outrageous!
They don't even have a perimeter set up, just tents scattered everywhere and--
Ugh...
May I remind you, that these people have declared war on a Hidden Village?...
I mean WTF!!!! This must be some kind of trap or something... right?!
*Sigh*
The Mist camp I infiltrated had a similar vibe, with people celebrating and whatnot... But this is on a whole other level... They at least had a wall and weren't as close to their enemy...
**Sigh**
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These Kaguya bunch, I tell you. Besides being ugly as f*ck, they are also way too stupid. Even for musclebrain standards...
No wonder they got exterminated in the canon...
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Heh...
Now that I think about it...
It doesn't really matter...
They're living on borrowed time...
Their people have just been exterminated... Their compound burned to less than ashes...
And they don't even know it...
Let them have their drinks and delicious meat...
Maybe it's for the better. They get to enjoy their last moments on this accursed World of Shinobi...
A privilege that not everybody has...
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So, I've calculated their numbers using my enhanced Inuzuka senses and the Sharingan, with 100% accuracy.
There are 284 ninja scattered around the camp, with varying chakra amounts... 51 of them have jonin-level chakra...
Nevertheless, jonin-level chakra doesn't mean they're are all jonin level per se... But still, no matter how much I may look down on these savages, (I do... a lot) I'm also not willing to compromise the mission for anything.
Nope, not happening.
I'll make this another flawless mission on my personal record...
In any case, it's time I go back to what I do best: Hide for indefinite amounts of time while analyzing stuff, calculating stuff and planning even more stuff.
That's my ninja way.
I guess...
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After another hour of doing what I do best, I have identified the Clan Head's tent. It's basically the same as any other tent, so it was truly harder to find than your average 'command tent'...
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Hmmm...
Maybe they're not so irredeemably stupid after all...
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I also made sure that this wasn't a trap and memorized their patrolling itinerary (if you could call it that anyway).
That was the easy part, seeing as there are so few ninja on actual guard duties.
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I don't have much nighttime left, and I've got my targets identified… Not wasting any more time, I proceed to make my move...
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Firstly, I sneak close to one of the patrolling ninja. I'm already relatively close to the camp so it takes me a moment to reach him.
Just as he makes a turn around a shadowy corner next to what appears to be the armory, (unguarded by the way...) I use my patented senbon-to-the-back-of-the-neck technique with surgical precision.
This knocks him out cold and without any noise, as I prudently grab the unconscious body as it collapses.
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Then I make a shadow clone that instantly transforms into the ninja I just took out. The clone resumes the ninja's patrol in his stead...
Following that, I take the unconscious ninja further into the darkness of the forest and tie him up with some chains and put a gag on his mouth that I took out from a storage scroll.
Then I carefully pull out the senbon off his neck...
His muscles spasm a bit, whilst he instinctively tries to recover, making some muffled groans...
I immediately force open his eyes and give them a death-stare with both of my Sharingan...
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It's time I put my first original Sharingan skill to use. This one, I've been working on for quite some time, and have finally perfected it barely a couple of hours ago...
It was with the Clan Head's wife actually...
I didn't just torture her for the fun of it when I could've just used my hard-earned Sharingan to get any valuable information...
No... You see...
I was actually taking the time to make the most of my somewhat disappointing 'visit' to the Kaguya Clan compound...
Yes... I worked on her since she had an incredibly strong mind (for a civilian) that allowed me to play for a bit with all kinds of mental and physical pain… All to get the exact formula and translate the results into a master genjutsu that would put your average Uchiha to shame...
That was also the first in-depth field experiment I have conducted... And it was quite efficient as well since it bore fruit only 38 minutes in...
Now... What is that precious technique which I have developed? -You may be asking yourself...
Well, that is...
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<Sharingan: Memory Extraction Technique>
Or just 'Memory Extraction Jutsu' for short...
As I delve into his mind, the ninja's eyes gain a noticeably hollow look (that yandere-going-to-kill-you look)...
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This genjutsu is used to break the will of the captured target, to make them give as much information as possible.
And that's where the similarities with other interrogation-type genjutsus end.
You see... this a perfect hybrid of the most powerful interrogation techniques of the Shinobi World: the Yamanaka Clan's Mind Probe Technique and the Sharingan: Interrogation Genjutsu...
The first one I learned from a member of the T&I Force on my camp (the one that brought me the test subjects).
Using my proxy-clone as bait, I managed to copy his clan's secret technique when the clone 'accidentally' mentioned having created a new A-rank Jutsu... And faked regret after 'revealing' that 'secret'...
I knew he wouldn't resist the idea of probing the mind of his superior for his secret technique...
Oh, the irony...
In the end, what he found was images of me having dinner with Tsunade while she demanded the waiter to bring her more sake...
Hehehe...