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  Kakashi had several ideas on how to proceed but he o know a few more things from the Daimyo.

  "You said the Toujin Fortress is important to the Tea try. So I assume you want us to plete the mission and make sure no damages e to the building."

  The tea Daimyo nodded his head. "Yes. It's another reason why I hired you ninjas. I want you to get rid of them before they do any damage and you have to plete this task without damaging the property."

  Kakashi nodded. "Then I'm going to he blueprints of that fortress. I assume you have them?"

  "I do. I'll have someone bring them to you quickly." The Tea Daimyo turo his attendant and nodded his head. The attendant quickly left to fetch the item Kakashi requested.

  "Why do you need a blueprint of the fortress?" Yukata asked the silver haired man.

  "If they see us ing a off any booby traps or paper bombs then that will definitely cause damage. Since we have to plete this mission without any damages to the building, we o take them by surprise. We'll have an idea of the best entry points if we take a look at the structure of the fortress."

  The Tea Daimyo nodded his head to the logic.

  At that moment Daichi asked a question that's been on his mind for a while. "Are you sure they haven't taken any hostages? It's surprising that they haven't taken any to hold leverage over you. If they do have any, then we'll have to rescue them."

  "Well see, the thing is, we don't know if anyone has been taken. There haven't been as thus far… But…" The man looked down and ched his fists as he thought about such a possibility.

  "You're not sure, are you…" Kakashi said in a soft voice. "We uand. If they have taken any of your citizens i, we'll rescue them."

  Yukata looked at the two ninjas and smiled. "Thank you."

  "It's what you paid us to do sir." Kakashi gave an eye smile and reassured the man.

  At that moment the Daimyo's attendant came in with several rge sheets of paper. He hahe sheets of paper to the Leaf ninjas and stepped back. "The blueprints for the Toujin Fortress as you have requested."

  "We'll take our leave ao work." Kakashi took the items and sealed them in a scroll.

  At that moment the attendant hahe Jonin a slip of paper with an address. "Your lodging will be at that Inn. I have already made the arras." Yukata informed the two ninjas.

  The Jonin nodded and the two Leaf ninjas left the small mansion shortly after.

  The Tea Daimyo wao ask when they would plete their task but held his tongue. 'They have their ways. I should just be patient.'

  —-

  "Don't you find this whole thing weird?" As the two ninjas walked through the streets Daichi asked his sensei.

  "Hmm..." Kakashi merely g Daichi and didn't reply.

  The Genin sighed and eborated. "The bandits attacked a pce so close to the Tea Daimyo's home. And they even looted several people here acc to him. That's a pretty stupid thing to do. They should have known that the people of Tea try or the Daimyo would hire ninjas to protect them. So why gh with something like this?"

  "You are right. It doesn't make much sense. But it could also be because of that unknown ninja. He could be trolling them. F them to do it or…"

  "Or they're just stupid."

  The Jonin chuckled at that. "Or that. The sad thing is, most bandits are people who don't have any formal education and e from poverty. So they take from others and slowly it bees a way of life for them."

  The two ninjas soon reached the Inn. They quickly got into the room assigo them and Kakashi took out the blueprints. He pced them on a table and started examining it alongside Daichi.

  "It's almost evening. We o gather some intel on these guys." The Jonin said looking out the window.

  The ninja duo created shadow es and thewo es transformed into civilians with nondescript attire. The two shadow es o their creators and quietly left through the window of their room.

  "Ok. So our priority is to plete this mission all the while making sure no damage es to the Fortress either by our hands or theirs." Daichi said as he looked at the papers with the building pn written on it.

  "We o make sure they didn't take anyone i. If they did, then we have to rescue them as well. And we also o know their number and strength. The number of bandits and ninja could be more than what the Daimyo has said. We should duct our own iigation." Kakashi said, rubbing his .

  "We o interrogate one or two of their members."

  The Jonin o Daichi's suggestion. "I'm pretty sure our shadow es came to the same clusion. We'll just have to wait for them to finish their work."

  "When do we strike?" Daichi asked his teacher.

  "If this were the usual mission where damages were acceptable, then this would have been a really simple straightforward mission. But sihe Toujin Fortress is an important ndmark of Tea try we should proceed cautiously. How would you go about this Daichi? How would you make your move?" Kakashi answered with a question of his own.

  The Genin was silent and thought for a few minutes. "This mission needs stealth. We'll have to infiltrate the fortress and onside we o make sure they have no hostages ao disable any and all traps they might have set up. And after that we strike them all at once. Sihey're on bandits they won't be any threat. The only ohat could be a problem is the ninja, since we don't know what he's capable of or if he had set up any traps beforehand."

  Kakashi nodded. "True. And you're right. This pn of theirs to atta the middle of a try like this… It's brazen and dht idiotic. They must have a reason. We should find out what."

  "I'm sure we get the info we need if ture a couple of them. We should infiltrate at midnight and once we firm everything we strike. At the test, an hour before dawn."

  Kakashi nodded and the two fell into fortable silence as they studied the blueprints. A few mier Daichi spoke. "Hey sensei. I've been thinking about something."

  The Jonin looked at Daichi who had a serious air around him. "What is it?"

  Daichi let out a deep breath of air and looked at his teacher. "I'm thinking about creating a jutsu that bines ge in chakra form with ge in chakra nature."

  Kakashi's one visible eye widened as he heard that statement. He immediately knew what Daichi pnned on doing. 'I knew he might one day try it but I didn't think it would be so soon.'

  "Yoing to bihe Rasengan with a Chakra Nature aren't you?!"

  Daichi looked at the man and nodded. "Yes."

  Kakashi was silent for a few moments and then spoke. "Daichi, something like that has never been done before. The Fourth Hokage, the man who created the Rasengan, had theories that the jutsu he created could be bined with a Chakra Nature. But he passed away before he could try and aplish it. And I've tried to follow his work. I've tried to bine Lighting Nature with Rasengan. I've always failed. A jutsu like that… I'm not even sure it's possible… Are you really going to attempt it.?"

  "Yes." The quick resolute response surprised the Jonin.

  "Whie? Whiature are you going to try?" Kakashi asked because he knew Daichi had already mastered the sed step of all 5 basiatures. He had a feeling it was going to be water nature but he didn't want to assume.

  "Water. It's the one I'm most profit in. I'm going to bihe Rasengan with the Water Nature chakra. I've beeating and ran several simutions in my head. The jutsu that would be created from such a bination… I already have an idea as to what it would look like and it's effects."

  Kakashi was shocked by that statement. 'Even before attempting the jutsu, he already knows what the finished product would look like and it's effects? Such fht. His intelled shinobi talent is on a pletely different level than mine. With each passing day, it feels like I 't even measure him.'

  "When do you pn on starting?" The silver haired Jonin asked his student after several seds of silence.

  "Soon. Ohis mission is pleted I'm going to take some time off to create the new Rasengan."

  The Jonin nodded with that idea. 'If he create a jutsu like that, then it'll prove that adding Chakra Nature to the Rasengan is possible.'

  The two ninjas discussed pns for the ing weeks as they waited for their es.

  —-

  The disguised shadow es left the building and quietly ehe streets of Tea try from a nearby alley.

  "Split up and gather information. But do not engage if you find the enemy. We don't want to take away the element of surprise." Kakashi gave his instrus and his student nodded. Both of them went their separate ways as they collected intelligen their enemies.

  Daichi iigated the pces that were robbed by bandits and got some of their features. As the Genin spoke to the people, he uood ohing. 'They wore masks and dark clothes to cover their identifyiures. So they're afraid of being reized or hunted down. They rob different locations and go to their fortress for a few days before they do it again. They looted several stores yesterday so they won't be active today.'

  Daichi asked around araced the steps of the bandits. He visited various homes where the bandits struake sure they haven't kidnapped any Tea citizens without anyone knowing.

  'Based on the info, these guys haven't killed or even seriously hurt ahe most they did was bruises and a few broken bones. And the doctors here took care of that. How strahey are restraining themselves. A bandit group with morals or is it an order from the ninjas trolling them?'

  Hours passed by and it was night time. Daichi in his stealth mode was the Toujin Fortress from a distanbsp;'There are a few on guard duty. Keeping an eye on any intruders no doubt.'

  As Daichi stood there looking at his target he sehe presence of his sensei ing near him.

  Kakashi walked up to his student and looked at the t structure. Both of them were in the cover of darkness and the bandits on the lookout towers couldn't evehem.

  "Based on what I found, they haven't caused any serious injuries or death. And they haven't kidnapped anyone as far as the people know." Daichi reyed what he found out.

  "Hmm… Same here. They only struck high value targets and busihey were after money and took precious jewels but that's it. And their leader. The unknown ninja. He rarely leaves the fortress." The Jonin said as he looked ahead and he position of the Toujin Fortress.

  Both Daichi and Kakashi observed the Fortress and movements of the guards and an hour before midnight they dispelled themselves, reying their memories and chakra to their creators.

  Daichi was meditating and Kakashi was reading his book when they got the memories of their Shadow es.

  The Jonin closed the book and got up off his chair. "Looks like they did excellent work. The ces of a hostage is low but we should still be cautious. We'll interrogate one of their men once we infiltrate the Fortress. And if there aren't any traps set up then we proceed to capture."

  "Sihese guys haven't caused anyone any serious harm, lethal measures aren't needed right." Daichi asked the man.

  Kakashi nodded his head. "Yes. Incapacitate and capture. Let's move."

  Author's note:

  I wao post this chapter yesterday but certain outside factors prevented me from doing so. Anyway, a few of you guys did ask why this mission is a k mission instead of a B Rank, the answer will be given in a couple chapters.

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