Shota ran across the rooftops of the city, light and silent under the moon. His camouflage jutsu flickered on and off only when he needed it. The screams from the estate were already far behind him.
He was quite proud of his Yõkai Rasengan.
Shota looked at the jutsu and smiled. 'Thankyou Yamcha san for the inspiration for this jutsu.'
That's right Shota had made Yokai Rasengan or you can call it the demon orb in English by having Yamcha's spirit ball in mind. It was basically a faster rotating Rasengan which he could control.
And of course Shota could not just accomplish something like this easily. He was not a genius like Tobirama which could create up jutsus easily.
But Rasengan made the part of the orb that Shota had to shoot, it was just like the ball of ki in Yamacha's case.
As for how to control it, he took the inspiration from fire Style: fox fire jutsu.
He remotely controlled fire balls in that case. He used the same principle to this jutsu and thus able to control the Rasengan.
With it rotating much faster, it could generate lot more speed and kinetic energy, it was much more lethal and powerful than a normal Rasengan.
But as Shota moved out of the city, his mind was not on his jutsu but rather on something else.
There was a traitor in Sunagakure.
No other answer made sense to Shota.
Tamashiro had not just guessed someone might come for him. He had known. He had known exactly when the strike would happen. He had hired extra samurai weeks ago. He had brought in the Silent Talon right on time. He had turned his home into a perfect trap.
A normal greedy noble would worry a little and add a few guards. Tamashiro had prepared like he had a copy of the mission scroll in his pocket.
Someone had told him.
Someone inside Suna. No one else could.
Shota jumped from one roof to another and kept thinking.
Tamashiro would never trust a random Suna shinobi who walked up and said, "Hey, the Kazekage wants you dead."
That would be too obvious. The traitor had to hide behind a different name, a different reason. Maybe a merchant. Maybe a messenger from another noble. Something that did not scream "I work for the Kazekage."
But why?
Why would anyone in Suna want Tamashiro alive and pushing for war?
The answer came quickly.
Someone wanted the Kazekage to look weak in front of the daimyo. Someone wanted the village to lose trust and money. Someone who hated Rasa or wanted more power in the village.
Shota's feet landed softly on a clay wall. He crouched and scanned the dark streets below.
The traitor had to be high up. Normal jōnin never heard about missions like this. Killing a noble of the Land of Wind was secret. Only the Kazekage, Spider, Earthworm, and the elder council knew the full details.
His eyes widened.
The elder council.
Of course.
Old men who remembered the Second and Third Kazekage. Old men who thought Rasa was too young, too quick to kill instead of talk. Old men who wanted power back in their own hands.
A traitorous elder. Classic.
Shota almost laughed. He had read this story before. There was Danzo in Konoha. History loved repeating itself.
Then another piece clicked. The mission was originally going going to be done by a standard Suna Anbu assassination unit. A unit comprised of 3 jonins and a chunin who would be a sensor or an iryo nin.
Danzo had sent eight Root shinobi. Three of them jōnin level. Exactly the size of a strong ANBU assassination squad plus support.
Why eight? Why exactly that number when Konoha was fighting Iwa on multiple fronts?
Because Danzo knew the mission details too.
He knew Suna would send a team of four. He prepared double the force to crush them and leave evidence that pointed at Suna.
The daimyo would see dead Suna shinobi in his country. Suna would take the blame.
Danzo and the traitor were working together.
One wanted the Kazekage embarrassed.
One wanted Suna dragged back into the war to help Konoha.
Shota felt cold inside as he realised that the only reason the plan failed was him.
Danzo did not know that Raven, the ten-year-old boy with Erasure would be assigned this mission.
The mission was being given to another anbu unit but Spider had decided to give him the mission.
If the traitor had known Spider picked Shota for the mission, Danzo would have sent an Aburame, someone who could counter Shota's known abilities. Bugs did not need chakra to fly and bite. This Shota's eyes would be useless against them.
But Spider had kept it quiet. Only the Kazekage and Spider knew the final choice.
Spider had saved the mission without even knowing it. Or maybe he did know.
Shota decided he would ask the moment he returned home. He dropped from the roof into an empty alley and ran toward the city gate. The desert night was cool and quiet.
After a few minutes, he noticed two shapes following him . Two Root Root shinobi. They had picked up his trail after the explosion.
Shota stayed calm.
He knew the desert better than any outsider ninja. He changed direction suddenly, slid down a sand dune, and rolled into a dry riverbed. The Root lost sight for just long enough.
He vanished into the darkness.
He did not fight.
He could win against two jōnin with Erasure and Rasengan, but one of them might escape or send a message which he might not be able to prevent.
Danzo could not know yet that Shota Aizawa, the lazy boy from the orphanage, was now an ANBU assassin called Raven.
He already had enough problems in his lazy life. He wanted his quiet naps back.
---------Author Notes--------
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