Chapter 25 - twenty five

After chatting with each other and sparring for some while, the members of team nine had a better understanding of each other. Orochimaru devised a plan according to each members strength and weakness. They were all set for the next day to make their journey to the destination of their mission.

As everyone left for their own home, only Tsunade was a little sad since jiyuu have been giving her the cold shoulder through out the entire discussion. But it was only the first crush of a young girl.

The next day all of the members of team 9 met up at the village entrance and left for their destination. Their target was around 80 Km south east from the village hidden in the leaf.

They reached their destination by evening, it was an ordinary village. As they got close to the entrance of the village, some vigilant villagers surrounded them, holding farm equipment's like weapons.

The leader was a middle aged man he asked.

" who are you, what are you here for..?"

Seeing the hostile gazes of the villager, team 9 remained calm, only jiraya gave a small harrumph in dissatisfaction. Orochimaru stood forward and took out a scroll and said

" We are shinobi's from the hidden leaf village,here to complete the C rank mission of clearing the mountain bandits... please inform your village head "

With orochimaru dealing with everything, the talks went smoothly and team 9, was invited to stay in .

....

But unknown to them two hawk like eyes were keeping watch on team 9 from afar. The person watching them had green eyes and he used a special jutsu to watch team 9, from afar. He wore a mask and a flak jacket that was slate grey with neck-guard and elongated padding over the shoulders, it was held together with straps from the sides.

The person disappeared as, team 9 entered the village. He moved fast hopping through the trees and reached a densely forested hill, where there was a wooden cabin hidden from the plain view of the outsiders. He entered the wooden cabin, the sight inside was gory there were 12 dead bodies inside, most of them had their heads separated or hearts punctured, blood was all over the place. If the villagers saw these dead bodies they would be frightened as, these were the same savage bandits who had been pestering their village and the travelers or business caravan that passed by this area.

A beautiful woman who wore a black kimono, showing a little of her beautiful white shoulders sat in the center of the room holding a tea cup and drinking from it slowly. Her calm demeanor made one feel like the entire gory scene was a lie. Her blue eyes looked towards the entering ninja with a questioning gaze.

The Anbu scout got on one of his knees and said.

" Tsumugi sama the intel we got was wrong, The third hokage is not with the team that arrived, only his disciples and a new kid had come to complete the mission..."

The beautiful lady paused for a second and her elegant demeanor changed to that of a cold and heartless woman.

" Are you sure Aito "

An Anbu standing behind her came forward and said.

" Why don't we wait for Haia's team to return to coform this matter, Tsumugi sama..."

Tsumugi " No need, we will meet up with them on the way, we need to conform this matter as soon as possible. This could probably be an ambush setup by the Konoha... we need to be careful "

As she stood up one could see a peculiar sword strapped behind her, it was a narrow longsword that greatly resembled a large needle, with a long thin wire, tied through the eye located at the base of its hilt.

The people in the cabin disappeared just like the morning mist....