Assignment to Guard the Outpost [cont.] (p, Renji)

Mission Specs:

[Continued from this thread]

Max would take the lead, since he had been to the forest before. They would speed through the swampy marsh all around Kumo, moving too quickly for the “Rot Zombies” to follow them in any type of real capacity. The Black Forest wasn’t too far away, but they were definitely running later than he had hoped. Senshi would not have approved, as he had always been incredibly early to wherever it was he needed to go.
 
It wouldn’t be long before they began to see the pitch black trees of the forest, their white veins clear as dark contrasting the black bark. “We are almost at the outpost. It isn’t too far now.” Max would say to his comrade pulling up the rear. “Renji, we are here to protect the outpost. This may sound a bit odd, but would you take off your headband and place it in your bag? I have a little test for our soldiers. We will pretend not to be Kumogakure shinobi and see how they react. If we don’t think that they have an adequate response we can make sure to address it and remedy their poor decision making.” If Renji was on board with the plan, he would go through with it. If Renji was not however, Max wouldn’t go through with it.
 
After what felt like maybe an hour of traveling through the forest, they would see a clearing and what looked to be a building. “We are here.”
 

There were a few soldiers keeping watch around the perimeter that had spotted the two shinobi rapidly approaching. “Halt, what brings you here?” The guard would ask before the one next to him pointed at Max and Renji and muttered something to the other one. Max sadly wasn’t able to hear anything since he wasn’t quite an “Experienced Fighter” and sadly couldn’t hear that far away.

WC: 312
TWC: 1155

OoC: What happens from here depends on if Renji was up for the test or not. Also, it is safe to assume that the guards are adequately armed, else they wouldn't be much of guards right?

Finally on the move, Renji would activate his byakugan so that he could keep an eye out for anything out of the ordinary. This being his first time going to the black forest, he would do his best to stay close to his blonde haired friend, but not to close, so that if they were ambushed one person could take them both out with one swing.

The journey was not a bad one, the rot forest was a lot closer to the outpost than Renji had anticipated.  As they were nearing the outpost Max would have a rather interesting idea.  He wanted to gauge the strength of the guards that were supposed to be one of the first lines of defense for the village. The young genin would agree with Max’s idea. As being the first line of defense, they should be ready for an attack at a moments notice, and this would be a great way of testing that. So Renji would follow Max’s instructions and takes his headband off, placing it in his pocket for safe keeping. “yeah, let’s do it Max. I think that’s a great idea.” The hyuuga would say while he was tucking away his headband.

They would run along through the forest for a bit more before Renji would see a huge open clearing in front of him. In the middle of which, there appeared to be the guard house.  “we are here” Max would say, confirming what the hyuuga boy had already assumed.

As he scanned out the surrounding area,  Renji would notice a few guards that were out patrolling. before Renji would have a chance to warn Max of the approaching sentry, the sentry would spot the two of them.

“halt what brings you here?” one of the guards would shout out. Renji would immediately shoot his hands up over his head in a non defensive manor.  A second guard would mumble something to the first. With his byakugan still active, Renji would use it to read the guards lips.

Over his telepathy seal, Renji would do his best to relay to Max what he had gotten from reading the man’s lips “He just told him that we don’t have headbands on and to play it cool till there backup came.  If we are going to make a move now would be the best time.” He would say as he still had his hands over head trying his best to appear as non threatening as possible while he waited for further instructions from his blonde teammate.

WC
424
TWC
424+857= 1,281

It would seem as though Renji was going to go along with their little test for the outpost. Good, this will give them a sense of how capable those guards are, which will definitely come in handy should there be some sort of attack.
 
Max would listen to Renji relay what he saw. “Okay, we go in to attack now. Just remember, these are our forces. Don’t do any lasting harm to them.” He trusted Renji would show restraint and therefore Max would simply use the telepathy seal and say, “GO!”
 
The pair would likely rapidly move toward the outpost, Max bringing out his skeletal puppet. The young blonde would dash forwards at right around 80 speed while his puppet would stay in front moving slightly faster. This should prove to be nothing too serious, but something that will surely test these guards.  The skeleton would pull out two kunai while around the halfway mark (unless something else occurred in the meantime that would cause it to change this action)
 
The guards would draw katana, and sounded some sort of signal notifying other guards of an attack. Good, there is some form of communication system in place. If not, that would be one of the first things that would have needed remedied. An informed unit is a strong and cohesive unit. Ideally they would have telepathy seals or some other form of silent communication, but such things weren’t able to be done by just anyone. It took an experienced Fuinjutsu practitioner to set up such a thing.
 
The puppet would move in to engage, slashing at a mere 60 speed at what could only be seen by an observant eye as terrible targets. The boy was aiming for spots to cause the least amount of damage to these guards, aiming more for the spots that are clearly armored or their weapons, depending on how they react to the pair of shinobi’s presence.

WC: 322
TWC: 1477

Hearing the word to go from Max, would cause Renji to jump into action. He would bring his arms back down to there normal position as he  immediately begins to follow close behind Max’s puppet at a speed of 83. They had never practiced formations before so this would also act as a test for the two shinobis’ themselves on how well they worked together as a team. “I got the one on the right.” Renji would say as he ups his speed a bit so that he was on the puppets right hand side by time it pulled out its kunai.

It was around when the pair of shinobi  had made it to the half way point that the seemingly nervous guards would begin to react; reaching for their katana’s to defend themselves. They would also blow an extremely loud and annoying whistle. The sound was so annoying and disturbing that Renji just knew it had to be some type of warning signal for the rest of the outpost.  “ahh, points for having the signal. But they can do for a silent alarm system.” The hyuuga would say to Max through his seal in response to the signal.

As they are coming up to their targets, The hyuuga would quickly active his hidden arms technique and stealthy flips out a Kunai at the last minute in order to Perry the guardsmans feeble attempt at a slash. Using the momentum from the slash to help carry the guard past him. As the guard was falling off balance past Renji, he would take two fingers and jukes in into the guards neck. The attack would only have enough power on it  to knock the guard out for a short period of time with a well placed tengetsu needle.

Once he had taken care of his guard, Renji would look to Max for further directions. As he waits, he would use the time to take a full scan of the area through his byakugan, looking to get the number and positioning of the remaining guards.

WC
343

The skeleton would lunge at the guard, the kunai aimed straight for the armored shoulder of the man. The guard would note the attack’s placement, pivoting slightly and slashing at the exposed arm of the puppet. Max expected as much and would have the puppet use the other kunai to block the slash with an upward motion. Max would smile and have the puppet kick out the man’s now unprotected lower half. The puppet would kick at the back side of the guard’s leg, causing it to buckle under the force of the blow.
 
The guards footing would now be compromised and Max would use this temporary distraction to press advantage, pulling the exposed arm of the puppet back and shifting the force of the parrying blade so that the katana harmlessly strikes at the ground. The puppet would step on the haft of the katana, disarming the man and then pressing the kunai towards his neck. “Get up. You are coming with us.” Max would say as the puppet put away the additional kunai and gripped the arm of the surrendering soldier. The skeleton would lift the man, placing the controlled arm behind his back and bent into a chicken wing grapple position. This would hopefully limit what the man could actually do with it, and the knife pressed against his neck likely would prevent much resistance.
 
Renji looked to be able to dispatch the guard he called out with haste, taking only a single parry and wasting no motion to drive his own offense and knock him out. Renji was indeed a specialist in hand to hand combat, making such a thing seem fluid and easy. Such was clearly the difference in their skillsets.
 
Renji was the perfect scout, able to use his Byakugan to detect forces and positions in both the immediate vicinity and in a larger range if needed as well. “How many soldiers do you see?” Max would ask his Hyuuga partner.
 
This outpost was smaller, and after the last time they had encountered trouble with Maku the outpost realized that it probably should focus more on notifying the main village when a threat comes than trying to face it head on themselves. If it hadn’t been for Max, Reizo, and Senshi, this outpost might not have still stood. And the team went in blind, completely unaware that a MN threat had attacked. Max couldn’t allow such lax defenses to be permitted now. No, they would need to be much more than what they ever were if they plan to remain in a position of power.
 
There wouldn’t likely be more than a dozen soldiers here, counting the two they had just dispatched. Unless they had been preparing for an assault, this place would need to run with a relative “skeleton crew” as Kumo’s military might had likely been spread across their claimed territories.
 
“We have a hostage, and it would seem we have the upper hand as far as skill goes against them.” Max would say out loud, making sure that the guard held against his will heard them talking. Silently with telepathy seal Max would address Renji with his real thoughts. “These guards aren’t a primary attacking force, else we wouldn’t have handled them quite so easily. They are likely making their way to send word to Kumogakure and request aid in this threat. Look for a messenger bird, or perhaps a scout dashing off while we are distracted.”

WC: 576
TWC: 2053

OoC: Considering that Renji has been afk for a few months now and I cannot complete this mission alone (I've already done this mission, I could only repeat it if I lead a squad which I no longer am). I will be ending this thread.

If I can:
Claiming 2053 WC towards Charm of Chakra (Man Exp.) [2053/6750]

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Approved of WC, buckaroo