So This is Yuki?

Sora and Vigil would continue through the greats, it had taken a while, but they had finally made it to their destination. As the Uzumaki and secret S-Rank Shinobi came into Yukigakure, they had seen all the tents and equipment set up.

"What's going on here, Vigil? Is this a place for the army to set up a base before we attack?" Sora would question himself as well as Vigil. Sora looked around quite a bit, it was freezing here, even though Kumo was cold it wasn't as cold as Yukigakure was. There were piles of snow and most flakes would fly into his eyes or land on his skin before melting. After he stopped admiring the world around him he turned to Vigil.

WC: 129

TWC: 129

Vigil was there. Looking around he would respond to Sora. "I'm not certain, but probably. Let's ask around." There were Kumo people here, so they would probably help. The boy was also certain that this was Yukigakure according to maps and stuff, but the place was abandoned and ruined, a sight Vigil had not yet seen.

The village was empty, but as the two individuals approached and subsequently stopped more hustle could be noted.  In the camp tents figures slowly started to look out, but it clearly was that of a rear guard and workers.  The village still lay in ruins from the outside, but beneath the larger pieces of rubble command tents and strategists had begun to populate the waste.  As for the leader of the expedition, at this time he was no where to be seen.

Standing and moving towards the two was a rather tall man.  His black ANBU armor covered all except rather scarred hands.  His mask was that of a wild boar.  His voice was rough, and he walked with purpose.  Behind the two the remainder of the Yuki assault team would move into position.  Citizen soldiers, shinobi pulled from other duties, an entire 3rd of the Expansion forces now called the land of snow its temporary home.  The ANBU, one of the ones Maku had originally brought with him, looked at the two boys who had strayed from the rest.  "Name and ranks?"  He said rather harshly.  

While it would not have been noticeable at first, upon closer inspection parts of the encampment were scattered with crimson droplets.  Though no bodies could be easily seen.  The ANBU would continue to look at them through his mask with harsh eyes waiting for them to speak, only for a commotion to their western flank to interrupt either of them from speaking.  

If they looked they would see a guard pull out a katana, right before he was sucked beneath the ground.  Crimson sprayed out from the new hole, yet the shinobi was completely gone.  "GOD DAMNT!"  The ANBU would shout, and started directing by waving his arm.  More holes would appear, great brown creatures coming forth looking to pull in anyone in the immediate area.  Some where quickly killed now that the surprise was over, however some still managed to inflict some damage.  Though beneath the genin's feet the ground was shutter, no such creature attacked him.

Explosive tags wrapped around rocks were hurled into the trenches, some shinobi directed water or fire jutsu to fill the tunnels.  These were the same breed that had attacked a group of genin quite some time ago during what would become a rank up to chunin.  Without the main village, they had grown brazen, and more attacks were noticed.  The sparse population however kept the majority from being noticed.  

The battle raged for only a handful minutes, when an enormous quake rocked the area causing some of the surrounding structures to collapse.  around 10m from where the new arrivals had stood if they moved, or infront of them if they hadn't, a massive worm errupted form the ground.  Its face covered in a mucous like substance and tusks out from a bloody mouth.  Its screech was shrill and piercing.  It's body out of the hole was around 20m long, though the entire beast was clearly much bigger.  As its body made contact with the ground its many little legs propelled it forward towards the new arrivals and the ANBU who was drawing forth two long daggers.  His legs bracing himself for impact and a fight.  The beast made it about 5 feet from the man when a massive spectral gold foot stepped down and squashed it.

The resulting spray of the innards of the beast would cover any and everything that had not taken cover.  Wearing his mask, Maku could not have been detected by chakra.  His silent teleport in leaving his entrance sans the spectral colossus rather unimpressive.  They would only see the giant leg but for a second, as soon as they had time to focus they would simply see Maku standing in the innards.

"Seriously, I can't walk away for ten seconds....."  He would say sounding miffed.  As if scolding children for making a mess on the living room floor.  His robes wore the trademark red clouds that seemed to float across his body.  He appeared to be carrying a single bag, and a solitary sword hung loosely off his left hip.  Flicking the mask off the top of his head it would fall to hang and bounce on his back.  His blonde hair immediate being whipped around by the strong Yuki winds.  A soft snow starting to fall.

Tossing the bag into the hands of the ANBU, he would watch the man catch it.  His red eyes shifting back to sky blue.  "Head of a Daimyo, Yuki is ours........Didn't even need the army.  A shame, but we will find something for them to do."  He would say in a sing song voice.  His walk was carefree, posture without an ounce of seriousness for the situation.  "Send the grunts to weed out the last couple villages, I think I need some sun and sand in my life after this......"  He would say coming to a halt by the ANBU, looking past the two new arrivals at the rest of the army flooding in.

Silence was all that greeted the Makukage. Which was fine, he had anticipated some applause, maybe a pat on the back, possibly someone to hand him a beer and offer him "special" favors. It was cool though, he didn't want any of those. Not like youka was around much for the favors anyway.

Still looking past the new arrivals as if they didn't exist he would shrug. "Well, clean the place up, finish the plan. I'm going to check on the other places. Reports tell me they were slow as hell to get out....". He would say with a lackluster tone.

With a final half smile a small crack could be heard and all traces of Maku's chakra vanished. His next stop was one he had already stomped to the ground. He had heard youka did the same, well third times the charm.

(Exit to the vaguely alluded to place above)

(Claiming that all of Yuki is now under Kumo control, and Yuki counts as Kumo land.)

It seemed the MakuKage was on a delayed schedule, as Sora and Vigil had reached the city everything was already in control of, this man standing in front of him was the strongest person he'd ever met. Being in his presence was just overwhelming, the boy quivered in his shoes as he literally walked past them and vanished.

"I-I guess we should set up base now?" Sora muttered as he calmly walked towards the tents and escorted out the rest of the survivors, "You need to evacuate the premises, this territory is now in command of Kumogakure if you do not heed our every word then your life will be taken in an instant."

A boy cried in the back of the tent his mother trying to hush him, Sora's heart clenched, he didn't want to be the bad guy but he couldn't help it.

Sora would escort the survivors of Yukigakure to a designated position and would bunch them all up as if they were cattle, "All the men get to work on establishing a base. You're now all under command of Sora Uzumaki and Vigil-" He stopped as he didn't know his last name, or if he even had a last name to go by.

"You take it from here, Vigil. I'm going to gather up the rest of the survivors," Sora nodded towards Vigil. He prayed that he wouldn't have to kill anyone.

[Exit]

The two were asked to identify themselves and this was rather tricky as Vigil did not really have an official rank. Well, he could always say he was support staff. Hopefully that would be enough. Anyways, the seal clone would not get to see if that were true as suddenly he found that the camp among the ruins of the village was under attack. Some strange creatures were coming from the ground and killing the shinobi of the Cloud. Holding his right hand on the hilt of his katana Vigil was prepared to respond to any attack, watching the ground under his feet if the creatures decided to come for him. But before that happened, a giant worm like creature breached the surface right in front of the two and almost in an instant it exploded into bloody pieces as Maku appeared from the thin air right on top of it, his massive chakra immediately shrouding the area. Although it being Maku only came into light once the dust cleared and Vigil could recognize the attire, as his chakra was always changing and hard to get a hold of.

It appears the current leader of Kumogakure's forces had single handedly taken over the country. Other than securing the area there was not much work to be done here, so once the commotion stopped and everyone started going about their business, Vigil found the tent with the wounded ninja and started working his magic, that is using his healing techniques to keep as many people in the world of the living as he could. While Sora did other stuff that Vigil was not all too interested in, the exemplar stayed with the wounded and the medical staff. It was more or less three days after that he finally left the tent realizing he was done, no more wounded had come in, there was no more rushing to save lives and stuff. The area was secured and the camp fully established, some were even working on rebuilding parts of the village. Vigil was not certain what to do next. He tried looking around for Sora or that other guy, Reizo or something, but could not find either.

421 words.
[Exit,
claiming 2 stats and
421 w. towards switching Med to be main spec]