Intel Gathering

Mission:

How long had it been? So long he barely recognized his former self, that's for sure. He had lost his rank, but gained immense power. A fair trade, and one he would go through again if needed. If falling down was a prerequisite to get up stronger, he would take the fall a thousand times over. He took the fall when Zento challenged him and grew stronger with the power of the Uchiha and the sight of the Hyuuga, and took a knee to the Raikage to rise with the born skills of the Hiyu. No, taking the fall was hard, but getting back up more than made up for it.

Today, it was time to make someone else take the fall. His slumber had been interrupted by the clattering of his door's mail slot having a scroll shoved into; typical lack of consideration by the ninja responsible for distributing the missions. Within the scroll, instructions on his assignment; he read about it while enjoying a cold glass of freshly squeezed orange juice, contemplating how to go about this mission. He got his black sleeveless tight fitting shirt, pants, weapon pouches and weapons, fitted his eyepatch over his right eye, and tightened his headband over his forehead.

In order to go about this, he came up with a neat plan. He still had the corpse of Ban Uchiha in one of his Corpse Storage Scrolls, and it would be coming in handy. He dropped by the hospital to get a few… supplies, let's say. He then made his way to the holding cells where the brothers he and Kira arrested were being held. It was a ways far off the beaten path, quite removed from the village itself with a few warning signs for any intruders wanting to make a surprise visit. Upon reaching a certain point in the visit, he heard a voice say "clear skies". Without a moment's hesitation, he stated "judge my vow". He didn't bother enabling his byakugan, but the Anbu that tested him for the countersign had already taken off as silently as they had crept up on Kaito, as though they had never been there. If Kaito had hesitated or not known the countersign, he would've likely been dead by now.

The facility itself was disguised as a small hill, with plenty of fake foliage in front of the reinforced steel door. Kaito banged the door a few times, with the free hand in his pocket nonchalantly. He refused to enable his Byakugan in this instance as well, lest some sensory ninja on the other side warned off the others and they offed Kaito. It would be best to wait the few seconds he was warned about, and eventually the door rumbled open. He stepped through and went in slowly; two masked ninja awaited on the other side. Kaito nodded at each one, but there was no reaction in return from either of them. Going down the stairs in apparent haste, turning and going down, turning and going down again, and then a couple times more, he finally made it to the underground bunker. The structure was heavily fortified, and very difficult to get into unless you were a very powerful ninja. Luckily, Kaito had the invitation. He made towards the warden, and slipped him the scroll. The warden read it carefully with an apathetic look, tilted his head at Kaito to indicate for him to follow him, and both made their way through the doors and corridors of the structure.

[thread on hold due to Kage Summit]