Shota slipped through the hallways like a ghost. The Camouflage Technique made him invisible and his Anbu training made sure that he made no sound.
Samurai marched past with heavy armour. Shinobi stood at corners with hands ready on weapon pouches. None of them saw the small invisible boy walking between them.
The A-rank stealth jutsu was truly overpowered against normal eyes. In a real shinobi village he would have been caught the moment he stepped inside because of barriers detecting something like this or hundreds of sensor ninja detecting everything within the village, but here it felt almost too easy.
He reached the centre of the estate and found the room he wanted. The door was open just a little.
He recognised who the room belonged to.
'Clever,' Shota thought. They turned the city lord's own bedroom into the trap room.
Anyone coming to assassin Tamashiro would walk straight into the strongest guards and the sensor. The sensor would have alerted the shinobi and then the assassins would have a surprise waiting for them.
The door was open a little as if to welcome the assassin. Shota moved inside still invisible.
Three masked men stood around a large bed. Plain porcelain masks. Black cloaks. There was no visible village symbols signifying their association with any shinobi village.
On the bed sat a middle-aged man in expensive robes. His eyes were closed. His fingers formed a hand sign. Chakra pulsed gently from him in steady waves. He was the sensor that was trained by the noble himself.
Shota focused on the masked men though.
His eyes narrowed behind his own mask. He recognised them from the show. Their attire and all the clues let to a single conclusion.
They were Root.
They were not real ANBU. Konoha's Root. Danzo's private army.
The outpost suna team had said the noble hired mercenaries from the Land of Fire. Shota had thought that were normal mercenaries which were paid for this.
At first he had thought that they were some village Anbu, the information gathered from the hidden Suna operators of the village said that the noble had hired shinobi from a mercenary organisation in the land of Fire called Silent Talon.....'then something clicked to Shota.
Of course they wore masks and hid their village. Of course Tamashiro believed them. No village ANBU took bodyguard jobs for a noble. Danzo had sent his disposable dogs to guard a greedy noble and turn him into bait.
Everything clicked into place.
Danzo wanted Suna back in the war. Konoha was bleeding against Iwa on the northern front. If Suna stayed out, more Konoha shinobi died. Danzo needed pressure taken off his village and also he was the current commander of Konoha against Iwa.
Starting trouble here would force Suna to fight again or lose face completely.
Shota felt cold anger in his chest.
Tamashiro was just a stupid pawn who thought he was the player. He was a pawn in Danzo's hand.
The sensor's head tilted slightly. He felt someone enter. But the chakra signature was only civilian level. He thought it was a servant bringing tea or food. He kept his eyes closed and stayed focused.
Shota moved silently across the room. He was still invisible. The Sensor did not even suspect it and did not open his eyes because he likely thought that if there was a threat his protectors would have already reacted and dealt with the threat.
He stopped three steps from the bed.
His right hand formed half a tiger seal. His eyes flashed open.
Erasure.
The Root shinobi's chakra vanished instantly.
The sensors expression widened in shock as he saw the chakra level of the servant increase.
He opened his eyes only to see a senbon pierce one of his masked man protectors who tried to defend himself with chakra coating but could not.
The poisoned needle had shot out faster than a blink. The senbon buried itself in his eye. He dropped without a sound.
The other two Root moved like lightning as Shota became visible.
Shota was already spinning.
A glowing blue sphere formed in his right hand. Rasengan.
He blocked the first tanto with a kunai in his left hand, and he spun on the spot.
He used the spin to add power, and slammed the Rasengan into the second Root's chest.
The spinning ball of chakra exploded against the man's armour. The impact sent him flying backward. He crashed into the bed and destroyed it completely. Wood and feathers flew everywhere.
The last Root ninja started hand signs for a jutsu.
His fingers froze.
His eyes widened as he felt his chakra disappear.
"The Eraserhead… of Suna," he whispered.
Shota's kunai slid between his ribs and into his heart.
The man fell.
The sensor finally understood. His eyes were wide in terror. He knew who the Eraserhead of Suna was. The infamous Anbu of Suna who can make a shinobi's ability to use chakra useless.
He never got to scream.
Shota's kunai flashed once more.
It buried itself in the sensor's throat.
The man made a small wet sound and toppled off the ruined bed.
Blood pooled on the expensive carpet.
Four bodies lay dead in less than ten seconds.
Shota stood in the middle of the room, breathing steady.
---------Author Notes--------
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