"Very well then, since your Sensei thinks you capable, I have a C-rank which should suit your team rather well." Minato replied as he reached for a recent request that had just come in, a simple protection job for some bridge builder in the and of Waves.
"Looks like you will be going to the Land of Waves..."
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It was later, during the afternoon, that Mito felt a slight disturbance with her sensory abilities. Looking around her, she scrunched up her in confusion as she could clearly feel two people with high reserves of chakra nearby. High reserves of chakra could normally only mean one thing, and that was other Shinobi.
What was more concerning for Mito was that these Shinobi were stationary, lying in wait, and due to their proximity she could only conclude that they were lying in wait for her and her team.
With that Mito's pace slowed slightly as she concentrated the two chakra sources. Her blue eyes flickering side to side as she looked for where these Shinobi might be hiding.
Noticing her pace slow the other members of her team also naturally slowed down a bit so they remained in the same formation. Sasuke and Sakura her team mates shot her questioning looks at her actions, something she ignored as she instead looked over to Kakashi wondering if he too could sense the nearby Shinobi.
The grey hared man didn't even look up, despite the fact Mito knew that he knew she was trying to get his attention. Instead he just continued to casually walk down the road, his pornographic little book in hand as he did so.
Looking forward once more Mito's eyes narrowed as she noticed to puddles lying innocently in their path. They were small innocuous little things, pools of water that Mito under normal circumstances would just walk by not even noticing them.
But with her sensory abilities, an ability she inherited due to her Uzumaki heritage, and probably enhanced by the Bijuu she knew she had sealed in her gut, she knew that something was not right. Those puddles were emitting chakra, and also a little bit of blood lust.
Reaching slowly for the pouch attached to her belt, Mito very carefully drew two kunai. Making sure to do it in a way that would not attract attention, these innocuous puddles were not simply innocent pools of water, no they were a Genjutsu, a subtle illusion hiding two Shinobi who were lying in wait.
Looking once more over at Kakashi Mito frowned as once more it didn't look like he had noticed.
Continuing on next to Sasuke, Sakura, and Tazuna as they walked right past the puddle, none of them sparing it a glance at the two hidden Shinobi, Mito caught a glimpse out of the corner of her eye of Kakashi glancing ever so slightly at the puddles as she passed.
Seeing this caused Mito to let out a slight sigh of relief, at first she had thought she had been the only one to see it. But if Kakashi had seen it, and he hadn't said anything to any of them, then maybe it was just a test or maybe they were supposed to be there.
It was as Mito was thinking that thought that she felt the sudden spike of chakra as two men appeared behind his team, bursting forward from where the puddles had previously been each a little farther back and to the side of where Kakashi was currently stood, just behind the rest of their group.
Mito's eyes widened in shock as she noticed the look of surprise on the Jonin's face as two serrated chains wrap around him. Whirling round her kunai already drawn, Mito's faced showed her own confusion over the situation, she had been sure that Kakashi had noticed them, but the look of surprise she saw on his face, did not look fake.
"One down." Their two attackers said as the three genin's eyes widened and the chain wrapped around Kakashi suddenly squeezed sending bloody scraps of Kakashi splattering across the path.
"K-Ka-Kakashi!" Sakura yelled as she broke the group's formation and began backing away her eyes locked on the two men who were attacking them with abject fear in her eyes. "They got Sensei!"
Sasuke though like Mito was already in motion, drawing a shuriken and kunai knife, he tossed the shuriken at a tree as he launched himself into the air. Tazuna the bridge builder they were supposed to be protecting, backing away in horror at what he saw.
Dashing towards their attackers with Sasuke at her side, hoping to make up for Sakura initially breaking the formation, Mito noticed that both of their attackers had breathing masks on their faces covering their mouths, noses and chins with scratched forehead protectors resting across their foreheads with metal attachments that looked like horns.
One had spiky hair while the other's hair fell across his head closely resembling a mop. They both had chunin flak jackets, symbolizing their rank, and camouflage pants leading down to their Shinobi sandals. The most glaring object on the both of them though, was the clawed metal gauntlets they were both wearing that had a chain connecting the two of them.
Mito held back a moment as she saw Sasuke's shuriken slam into a tree, piercing one of the links in the chain that connected the two men to the tree as well.
Sasuke reached a certain height and flung his kunai knife just as the two men began to rush forward,
"Two down." The same man from before said as both he and his companion released the chain connecting them before they rushed Sasuke, aiming to kill him whilst he was off guard from throwing his shuriken
They didn't get that chance though as Mito chose that moment to strike, using her small size and speed she manage to get within the guard of the first attack. Dodging under his clawed gauntlet, she slammed her small but powerful fist into the man's sternum, knocking the air out of his lungs with the blow.
As the man staggered backwards Mito followed up with a slash of her kunai, aiming for the man's throat. But by then the man had recovered enough to jump backwards, this led to the blade missing its target and instead slicing through his shirt and giving him a small cut on his chest.
"Bitch!" The man grunted as he lunged forward again, ignoring how his companion had now engaged the young Uchiha in a fight, the two giving out and dodging blows as they darted around.
Raising her now bloody kunai, Mito brought her other hand up, creating a cross shaped hand seal, as she used a favoured jutsu of hers, one that her mother had taught her and her sister due to their excessive amount of chakra. "Shadow Clone Jutsu"
Around her five exact copies of Mito appeared, all five of them crouched low, identical kunai's held in their hands as they kept their sharp eyes on their attackers.
None of them had a chance to attack though as with a swirl of wind a completely uninjured Kakashi revealed himself. The grey haired man making a suitably dramatic entrance as he landed on Sasuke's attacker sending him crashing into the ground, before he darted forward in a blur and smashed into Mito's attacker, knocking him down and out with a single blow.
"Well that could have gone better." Kakashi said as he looked around at his students.
"Sakura you broke formation and ran away, Mito you did not think to warn your teammates that there was a nearby threat and Sasuke you did not bother to inform the others of your plan you just acted without though of the consequences."
Sasuke scowled at that before he looked away, glaring off into the distance.
Sakura seemed to shrink in on herself and avoided making eye contact with anyone else.
Mito however scowled at Kakashi before speaking up. "I saw that you had also seen it Sensei, and because of your lack of reaction or the fact you didn't inform the others I didn't either!"
"Ahh well you should always share information, as you never know when it may be useful or even save a life. That being said I can understand why you wouldn't' have in this scenario." Kakashi replied a little bit nervously as he realized why Mito hadn't informed the others.
"But anyway the good points were that both Mito and Sasuke took the initiative when they thought had been killed. Speaking of initiative, Mito and Sasuke can you secure those two so the ANBU can pick them up for interrogation later?" Kakashi said as she gestured to the two groaning Missing-nins.
Both Sasuke and Mito nodded as they got to work on disarming and then tying up their two attackers. Mito making sure to put one of her own Fuinjutsu seals on the men that would restrict their chakra stopping them from escaping from their bonds.
While this was happening Kakashi continued speaking "As I was saying before excusing your initial mistakes, you lot did quite well in the end. These guys are chunin level Shinobi formerly from Kirigakure and they are known for not giving up when fighting.
Now the question is why two Shinobi attacked us whilst we are on a simple bandit protection mission." Kakashi finished as he looked over at the client Tazuna.
Tazuna paled and nodded as he saw the dangerous look in Kakashi's eye and also how the red haired girl and the black haired boy were also looking up at him from where they were securing their attackers,
"It's true, this mission is probably more than what you knew about but I had no choice. I have a super bad guy coming after me. His name is quite famous." Tazuna said as he raised his hand defensively in front of him.
"Who?" Kakashi questioned a curious look in his eyes.
"The wealthy shipping magnate, Gatou." Tazuna said with a tired and exhausted sigh, seeming to shrink into himself at just the mention of the man's name.
"The same Gatou who is said by many to be one of the wealthiest men in the world?" Kakashi asked with slight surprise his mind already spinning at what this could mean. A man as rich as Gatou would likely have a lot of muscle to back him up, that included Shinobi muscle.
Tazuna nodded, "Yes, legally, he owns and manages a shipping business. But illegally, he sells drugs and other illegal items to others and uses ninja and gangs to take places over. About a year ago, he set his sights on our small country and quickly took control over all of our shipping companies.
He has complete control over what enters and leaves the country. The only opponent to his control is the completion of my bridge." Tazuna said and he was right his control over Wave was complete due to his control over who can enter and exist and what they can and cannot take with them. Tazuna's bridge though would break this monopoly.
"So, you're in the way?" Mito asked. "That's why he is sending Shinobi after you, to kill you so you can't break his hold on Wave?"
Tazuna nodded, "We aren't a wealthy country. Even the Feudal Lord isn't that rich. We didn't have the funds necessary for an expensive B-rank. I could only afford a C-rank mission." He said before adopting a slightly pathetic look on his face.
"Eh, but if you quit now, I will definitely die. It won't be a problem. It's only that my super cute little grandson will cry for days when he finds out." he said as he let out a loud fake laugh, "And my super beautiful daughter will just hate Konoha Shinobi forever, but it won't be your fault. Not at all."
he said as he turned away from them with a knowing gleam in his eye.
Kakashi looked at the man with a deadpan expression even as he felt the expectant expression on the faces of his students as they all looked to him.
Kakashi sighed at that knowing that they wouldn't leave him alone until he accepted. Rolling his eyes he said, "Well, I guess we can escort you to your country."
What Kakashi neglected to say though, was that if he deemed his students to be in danger he would happily abandon the mission and leave Tazuna to his fate. The lives and well being of his team superseded a lying client any day.
Grinning slightly at the thought of the exciting mission to come Mito joined the rest of their team as they set off heading in the direction of the coast, where they would be meeting a friend of Tazuna's who would take them over to the island of Wave.
The part of the coast they were headed to was a popular crossing point, as it was at this point that the Island of Wave was closest to the Elemental Nation's mainland.
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