Re: Killing two, or six, birds with one stone.

Sun Jul 29, 2018 8:11 pm

Higuto was on a direct course towards Big Ma'am, his rotation fast and accurate, as Big Ma'am seemed to prepare for the incoming weapons. Her arm grew massive as she made to catch the Shuriken which is exactly what Higuto had been expecting. Just as her fingers were about to surround the Shuriken Higuto detached from his position at the bottom of the original and zoomed past her grip and down along the arm as he continued to make his way straight to her body at full speed. Just before reaching her at about 2 meters away he would release his transformation, his body rotating clockwise with his katana poised at the ready in his right hand, as lightning was crackling along the blade and birds sang what seemed to be a final song for their target. Higuto's blade would come quickly towards Big Ma'am's blade, the steel shimmering from the speed of his swing, as he would make to chop off the MN's head. He would say one thing to her before doing so that would be the last thing she heard if his swing proved successful.

"Farewell."

He would thus deliver the blow that would cause her body to crumple and remain still, even as he caught himself on the same trunk she stood on just above where her body stood, with his blade not even covered in blood as the lightning he channeled through it seemed to evaporate any that touched it. Chakra coursed it's way into his feet to allow him to stay along the trunk as he would thus slowly place it back into the sheath that he kept at his hip and upon placing it completely inside would be when her body seemed to finally move and fall as the weight of her body leaving the trunk seemed to cause a groan of relief to come from the tree as he heard it crumple to the ground while his eyes were still closed. Higuto had done something that he had never done before: He had killed someone. Even if they were his enemy, even as they held no hesitation in killing him or his teammates, he had actually killed another and that thought alone would hit him harder than he had thought possible. The preparation he had felt prior to committing to his action couldn't have prepared him enough to what he was feeling now as he opened his eyes and looked at the lifeless corpse of his victim. Memories of the past would flood into his mind as he brought a hand to his head due to the pounding that now occupied it. Was he the same as they were now? Would his life take a turn for the dark?

His mind would be so preoccupied by these thoughts that the chakra he channeled through his feet would falter as he fell to the ground. Instincts kicked in as he would direct his feet and catch himself with his hands and legs. However he would land right next to the ninja's body, a puddle of crimson forming where her head used to be, as he quickly crawled away from the body before his back touched the trunk of another tree. His hands would come to grip the sides of his head, more memories causing his head to feel as though it was splitting, as he would break into a cold sweat and pant rapidly from the pain. For this moment he was a kid again, not a ninja in training, as his mind would cause him to forget everything about plans that he had made with Allegro and Akane for a moment. He would sit here and try to fight his thoughts.

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Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:49 pm

Akane was proud of herself as she saw that she had succeeded in throwing such heavy shuriken, Higuto included, straight at Big Ma'am as she could only hope that Higuto would take care of the rest. She wound up landing right on the trunk of the tree as she began to run up along it and saw Allegro taking the lead. She knew it wasn't a good idea to be separated as there was a chance that the ninja residing at the top would chance another attack against them. She thus caught up with him and sustained a distance of about two meters away from him on his right as she focused up the path to see if anything suspicious was about to happen. It was here that she noticed, the two's ascent up the trunk having reached 80 meters away from the top, her eyes caught what seemed like the telltale signs of what seemed to be strings of chakra sticking to different portions of the tree about 30 meters away. She would speak to Allegro through their mental link.

'Watch yourself, Allegro! I think we're about to walk into a trap! Puppet strings at twelve o' clock about 20 meters ahead! Hang back a bit!!'

This would cause her to quickly form the Horse seal as she rushed forwards to come to a stop in front of Allegro just as the two had reached 10 meters away from the puppets who were in the process of revealing themselves and were ready to attack. This would lead her to take a deep breath as she channeled her chakra towards her mouth before blowing a large destructive cone of flames towards the puppets.

'Katon: Great Fire Annihilation!'

If the puppets had decided to go for their original plan of attack with their saibamen tackles and sendon showers the flames would surround them, senbon and all, before burning them all. She would keep these flames up as she reached into her weapons pouches and pulled two kunai out in case any stray puppets or senbon were to come at her as she would sway her head side to side while keeping track of everything with her glowing crimson eyes. Including any incoming MN bandits from atop the tree.

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Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:37 pm

Allegro’s thoughts were with Higuto for just a moment as he and Akane made their way up the impossibly large tree in the middle of the Fire Nation’s biggest forest area. He had faith in all of his teammates, but he could not help but worry for the youngest on the team. Would he be okay handling a woman with such destructive power on his own? After thinking about the destructive power Higuto himself had in his arsenal, it gave the Uzumaki a reassuring sense of relief. He did not have time for his mind to wander for too long anyway, as Akane gave a warning of the trap that she detected with her sharingan.

“I’m going on ahead, Akane. I’ll grab the hostage. Burn the whole tree down if you have to!”

While Akane wove hand seals to cast her Great Fire Annihilation jutsu, Allegro would weave his own and body flicker at a great speed of 225 past the Puppets before they revealed themselves. With the heat of Akane’s jutsu at his back, Allegro would continue on his way up the tree, this time winding his path so that he climbed from the other side of the tree from Akane. He knew that by switching sides of the tree trunk, he would avoid being affected by the flames as much. He was also on the side of the tree that the setting sun did not reach, allowing him to be enveloped in shadows. With this cover, he weaved more hand seals and slapped his open palm on the trunk of tree once he reached the top. When the white puff of smoke cleared, a long black snake slithered between the sleeves of his robe awaiting its command.

“Apep san….There’s a hostage hidden inside. This is strictly get in, and get out”

He spoke with solemnity in his tone, allowing the snake to understand the situation. After slithering her forked tongue a few times, Apep could smell the burning flames below and the scent of the hostage located inside. “Asssssss you wish, Allegro” the snake replied when she was fully abreast of the task at hand. With his chakra presence suppressed and his footsteps muted completely with chakra, the ninja flipped from under the bottom of the treehouse and hung onto the very same edge that Phoenix was once looking down at to view the proceedings of the match against Big Ma’am. Simultaneously as he did so, he would stay on high alert and immediately responsive to any attacks that might be aimed at him while he made his move.

In an instant and with impressive reaction speed, Allegro spotted the hostage in the center of the room. He could sense the individual’s chakra. It was low and worn, as if he had just finished fighting for his life. The blood on his clothes on top of that made it clear to Allegro that he was truly the imposter. As quickly as he could, Allegro threw the jet black cobra like a whip. Apep would wrap around the hostage and pull with all his strength to bring him and the hostage together. If he were successful, the now freed hostage would be on his shoulder, and with the tree now burning from the fire cast by Akane, the clock was ticking.

'Higuto! Do it NOW!'

From the moment he gave Higuto the okay via telepathic command, Allegro would simply fall into a sky dive. Soon, the tree would come crashing down, and all within it would be burnt alive and crushed to death under the resulting debris. As he descended from the skies, Allegro would crack his snack whip one more time. This time, Apep would wrap firmly around Akane’s waist and drag her into the free fall along with him and the hostage. After Higuto succeeded in chopping this ridiculously sized tree down, Allegro would realize that he had no plan for how he would land. Unlike Big Ma’am, he definitely did not have the durability to withstand such a fall. With this realization, Allegro began to panic frantically, flailing around helplessly as they approached the ground.

“Higutooooooo!!!! A little help here?!"

Allegro sure hoped his teammate had something in mind, because his, Akane, and the unnamed hostage would all be squished like roadkill from the impact of the fall. Once Apep had reeled Akane in so that they were holding onto each other by the arm, Allegro fell into a carefree attitude, as if in shocked that everything would be working out okay. He only hoped that their emeries had simply fallen to their fiery, crushing demise.

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The Nara and the Yamanaka shinobi laid carefully in wait for one of the genin to infiltrate while the Sarutobi shinobi was approaching Akane to stop her from burning the tree to smithereens. After noticing Allegro’s arrival, Doll maker summoned two more puppets to replace the 18 that Akane had burnt to a crisp in the flame that was quickly engulfing the entire treehouse. How foolish he had been to underestimate this particular group of shinobi from the Leaf. He did not expect a kunoichi so young to be capable of such strong Katon techniques. That would be the last time he underestimated the Uchiha clan. Meanwhile, operative Hades teleported in the blink of an eye and reappeared in front of Allegro before he had finished retrieving the hostage. The plus side about all of this flame that Akane had produced, was that lots of shadows danced alongside the flames, putting the Nara in his element. He would immediately weave hand seals at 75 speed to begin manipulating his own shadow. It would be the speed of his shadow against Allegro’s to determine whether he would be bound to Hades as the two of them fell to their demise. Finally, Doll Maker’s puppets would close in and pierce the Uzumaki on either side of him with sharp bladed tools.

50 meters down the tree stalk, Phoenix dove through several curtains of flame, regardless of how badly it burned the skin. A sharp eye would reveal that each new burn she received healed at a ridiculously fast pace for an average human. With clearly a kamikaze style tactic in mind, Phoenix dove towards Akane with breakneck speed, only to emit a gaseous poison that would spread around the both of them. Even the slightest breathe could mean death. Whether it was the poison that acted first or the fall that ended them both, only time would tell.

If they were to fail in their attempts, it would mean this mission ended in failure. They would humbly accept their defeat. Preferring to die than to serve jail time in Konoha, they would burn together with the outpost like wood in a campfire.

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[6547 TWC, Will do Claims later]

Thu Aug 16, 2018 4:26 pm

Higuto was mulling over everything that had happened within the last few seconds on the ground as he finally opened his eyes once he heard the words of Allegro from above in his mind. He looked up at the tree as he calmed down slowly while keeping his eyes away from the corpse that remained at his feet. His team needed him. He could see giant flames spreading along the tree as he was wondering if that was friend or foe using them. He hadn't heard Akane's warning to Allegro through his mind due to being in his funk though he did hear Allegro's first call to him as he slowly got to his feet while picking up his blade, lightning still coursing through, as he took a deep breath while hearing the second call of Allegro. This was it... Do or die. As fast as Higuto was able he immediately got down into a stance ready to slash before dashing forth towards the tree. In the blink of an eye he would slash his sword from his side, the tip of his blade slicing straight into the trunk, as his blade would stay in the tree as his body rotated around the entire trunk. Upon reaching the point where his blade made first contact he would slash out and land on a nearby tree's branch before hopping off of it and jumping straight towards the tree.

With a single punch he would hit the tree in a place above where he had made his cut as the tree would start to fall from the force. Still moving through the air towards the tree he would flip over as his feet caught the trunk and he started to run as fast as he could up along the trunk towards his teammates all while his insects crawled up to reveal themselves from under his clothes. They would cling onto him until he hopped off of the tree as it reached an angle halfway through it's 'timber' period as he would stretch his arms out and allow 450 insects to fly out, 150 to fly below him in the form of a cloud and catch him while the 300 in pairs of 150 would do the same, as those pairs would try and catch both Allegro and Akane. Upon doing so, if successful, Higuto would command his insects to fly Akane and Allegro away from the falling tree and the MN as he would watch the entire thing fall right into the place where he had left the corpse of his first ever kill... Upon making certain all the MN were dead underneath the tree he would command his insects to float back down to the ground and allow Allegro and Akane to step off of the clouds as he himself would go back to the ground and allow his insects to flow back into him. Upon seeing the hostage safe he would walk away back toward the Leaf village.

{Exit}

(TWC=2,821)

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Sat Aug 18, 2018 12:41 pm

Akane was stunned to see, with the help of her Sharingan's RT, that Allegro hadn't held back as she had said but instead sped up as he bfed straight past all the puppets towards the top of the tree. She commenced with the fire style nevertheless as she wondered what Higuto was up to and if he had defeated the Akimichi of the group. She would hear the call of Allegro a short moment later to Higuto as she could see the body of Lady Phoenix travelling straight through her fire. Seeing this she would cancel it out, allowing the puppet's crisped bodies to fall, as she prepared herself to defend against whatever she was about to do to her. It would be here that she felt a rumble. The tree was falling! Even this seemed to take the falling Phoenix by surprise as Akane was able to avoid her attack completely while delivering a counter kick to her side in order to get her away from the tree and fall to the ground from their height. She looked down the tree to see Higuto running up the tree to catch up to them as she watched him extend his hands out to the two of them and she watched as hundreds of insects fly out of him and towards them.

She saw them form into a cloud below her as she had no choice but to hop onto them. It was so weird... and icky to her as insects weren't at the top of her most favorite creatures on her list. Her, Allegro, and Higuto would float above the tree as it fell and she kept a watchful eye at the remaining MN to see if they were going to do anything to get out of their situation as they all fell down into the woods. Allegro was carrying the hostage which meant that the mission was a success and that made her smile as the three floated down to the ground and she hopped immediately off and checked herself to see if any bugs got onto her. She looked over to Higuto as he walked away and she followed as she couldn't wait to get home and into a bath. Today had been such a strange day though she felt as though she had forgotten something... Oh yeah!! She went over to the tree and, away from any dangerous parts of the tree, she saw the unconscious body of Shinoskay safe as she picked him up and went back to the village with him carried over her shoulder.

{Exiting}

(TWC 2,637)

(Claiming mission complete! ^.^ Claiming 5 stat points, mission rewards, and Fuinjutsu Breaking)

Sat Aug 18, 2018 2:33 pm

Approved big dawg