No Prisoners, No Worries

Missions To Be Completed:

Within the gates of Konohagakure, Hanabi had received a mission to defend a nearby village of Konoha, being set with the same person as before. The thought of his name made her shiver from the bugs but she shook her head and slapped her cheeks firmly, leaving some redness around the area she slapped. ‘No need for a hug fear. You got this!’ She would say to herself. Her amber eyes looked around for the tall man known as Anzo, watching out for him to see if maybe she would see him first and call out to him. Though despite the bugs, he was quite a gentleman. Her once ring that layer on her finger was now around her necklace that showed a Gold Flower that rested next to it. It was perfect for Hanabi in her circumstances with her Genjutsu and Sharingan. She ended up leaning against the gate wall and sighed, exhaling slowly, closing her eyes and waited for a few. The mission was important, they needed to get their fast. What was taking so long? Her hair draped over her shoulders, her body slowly dozing off until she felt a slight itchy feeling on her exposed abdomen. “Hmm?” Her eyes went down and had seen a fairly large mosquito, sucking her dry from the stomach. With a quick slap, she returned to her doze, thinking Anzo was nearby and decided to wait a little bit longer.

Anzo frowns at the information of the mission. Time was of the essence, and he and Hanabi were paired up together once again, although he had to wonder if perhaps somebody , though likely not the Hokage, was aware of Anzo's history, or rather his late parents' history, with the Uchiha and Hyuuga clan. Regardless, despite Anzo thinking of Hanabi as something of a delicate woman, though he realizes it's somewhat unwarranted. She had been surprised by the bugs. He pulls on his gourd, flooding it with enough of his Kikaichu that it's filled with 500 of them before coming to the Konoha gates.

He sees Hanabi there, and he runs at the red silk sash of the gourd, wondering if he should try to avoid using his Kikaichu at all, and eventually coming to the conclusion that he should refrain from using them again unless it's necessary, or at least not doing it in front of her if he can avoid it. But civilians' lives are on the line, and if using the Kikaichu will save those villagers, then he won't hesitate. He finally approaches Hanabi, keeping his hands in the pockets of his red leather jacket as he makes sure to clomp his feet on the ground a bit harder than usual on his way to her, ensuring that he's not creeping up on her.

"Let's get to saving those villagers. I'm going to crush as many as I can with my Earth jutsu; with any luck, they'll be terrified back to their hideout and we can follow them there."

Anzo walks as he speaks, though he makes sure to try and match his long gait to not leave Hanabi behind, taking their difference in height into consideration almost instinctively. Granted, after seeing how quickly she'd been able to move to apprehend the last criminal they'd been tasked with retrieving, he was certain she could run circles around him, but he also seemed to be entirely aware that they were rather late to get to the village, and they couldn't afford to stop and chat for long. Regardless, he notices that the ring that had been on her finger was now being worn on a necklace, along with a charm. He opens his mouth to ask about it, but decides it would be extremely rude, especially if something bad had happened since they last met and she hadn't had time to become adjusted. Instead, Anzo opts for the less intrusive but still concerned question.

"Are you all right?"

Hanabi stretched her arms out, letting on arm straight out and her other wrapping around it, pushing it in, stretching her shoulders and such as well. She nodded to Anzo’s declaration and give him a confident smile. “Indeed. Time is essence here. Quicker we can do this, quicker we can turn these missions in.” She smiled at him as she easily kept up with him, despite their height difference. Long legs did help in situations like this but Hanabi had trained her speed for a bit so she could run a bit faster and walk a bit faster than most people. The charm shined in the light, reflecting a sharp bright light as she walked with Anzo, bouncing softly against her chest. Her eyes would look up to Anzo from his question which made Hanabi think for a moment and shrug it off. “I’m fine.” She would say more stern than anything.

Necklace:

Hanabi kept her hands behind her back, softly skipping along the way to this mission. Her eyes kept forward, a more serious look on her face, focusing quite hard at the distant mission that lies ahead of them. “I’ll let you attack first. I want to try something.” Her eyes then would look to Anzo and she simply said with a very off-putting tone.


“Close your eyes when I tell you to.”


Her words, if they did, would feel more like a tight jab at one’s self, making them feel uncomfortable or fearful even. She would continue walking towards the mission, seeing the town up ahead, ready to take on what may be there. “Start with your Doton attacks and DONT be afraid to use your bugs. If anything, it might help us in the long run.” She said as she got behind a tree when getting closer. Bandits were everywhere, about 12 of them, swarming the town, holding hostages and leaving them to be bait or used for other things. The town was pretty open but the buildings were close together, giving Hanabi and Anzo a good chance at keeping low. “Ready when you are.”

Anzo ends up turning it into a run as Hanabi explains that time is of the essence in regards to this first mission, not wanting to get there too late to help the population fight them off again. He lets her put up walls of her own after he's asked her if she's okay, especially with that serious look on her face. Anzo instantly feels almost bad for whoever she was engaged to, especially now that he notices that her ring finger is empty. She hadn't been married after all, and it seemed the proposal was now off the table. He hopes momentarily that she won't get too aggressive towards the bandits, but there's not a whole lot he can do if she does end up getting particularly pissed. The warning to close his eyes when she orders him to actually makes him snap his head towards her, eyebrows furrowed. If she's going to be using the Sharingan's genjutsu on a large mixed population of both bandits and civilians, he's also not sure he can just let her, and for a moment he considers giving her a direct order not to do so, but he doesn't outrank her, and he doesn't think it's in their best interest for him to give orders just yet anyways; they're not even fully aware of the situation yet.

Anzo grunts softly when Hanabi leads them behind a tree, with the somewhat limited vantage point of seeing that the bandits, a dozen strong, are already assaulting the small village and the citizens at close range, making Doton techniques rather less effective unless he can make sure he's only hitting the bandits and not both bandits and civilians. And while the buildings being close to one another does allow them the option to keep hidden, they also give the same option to bandits, giving them plenty of opportunities for surprise attacks.

"Change of plans, Miss Hanabi. I might have to use some Aburame techniques after all. I'll still close my eyes when you tell me to, but an aerial assault is going to be better for my more accurate Aburame techniques, especially when they're in close quarter combat with these villagers."

Without waiting for her response, he commands a full 1000 of his Kikaichu to form a small, square platform for him to stand atop, with his gourd still full of about 400 Kikaichu prepared for combat and already beginning to multiply with one another to keep their numbers up. The platform begins to climb into the sky, and he turns to use the index and middle finger of his right hand above his right eyebrow to wave off a salute to Hanabi.

Almost right away from this vantage point, he can see several bandits actively using the tight back streets as ambush points to attack some villagers, and with a quick set of handseals, he suddenly floods those tight back alleys with a full river of mud, wiping those alleys from where Hanabi had started all the way forwards to ensure she wouldn't also be swept along with the mud. With how tightly packed the alleyways were, the forceful rush of the mudslide was only further intensified, leaving little chance for the bandits to try and avoid being washed away out of the village and buried in mud thick enough that they couldn't easily break out. Anzo takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly; at least six of them were already down, and he could only count six more peppered through the village, and he checks with the Kikaichu in his gourd to see how many he could spare to attack a few smaller, singular targets while allowing Hanabi to do her own work.

OOC: 150/150 Earth Flow River
250/250 Secret Technique: Insect Platform Technique

Bug totals: 1400 - 1000 (Insect Platform) + 50 (passive Kikaichu Regen) = 450 remaining

CP: 135 - 3 (Earth Flow River) - 10 (Insect Platform) = 122

As Hanabi watched Anzo release his bugs, to help defend the village, covering about half of the bandits there already. She was visibly disgusted but she hadn’t freaked out like last time, giving her a big deep breath and exhaling out, shaking her nerves off. Watching as six of the men get down, she would slowly walk out, past Anzo, her hit flowing behind slowly. “Close your eyes and don’t look at me nor the necklace I wear. Unless you want to sleep that is..” She would mutter to Anzo while walking away. She had a fine understanding of Genjutsu which allowed her to understand this one particularly but she had never tried it. It wasn’t meant to hurt people but mainly allow any Shinobi to round up enemies. The remaining enemies would gaze upon Hanabi, her necklace in view, Hanabi making a simple bird sign with one hand. To Anzo, the enemies and any villagers that would see her and her necklace, would stare in awe, their eyes growing heavy. This Genjutsu formed the visual of Hanabi lulling them to sleep, lasting for some time. It wouldn’t hurt the prisoners nor the bandits but it would give them time to separate them. After they all had drifted to sleep, falling to the ground, Hanabi would close her eyes, deactivating her sharingan and glancing to Anzo. “You can open them now. Separate the villagers and the Bandits but we’ll need one to be loose to track them to their base. The mission calls for none left alive. Can you handle that?” She asked him while picking up a kid and placing them near a building to rest the villagers.

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CP: 110
Used: 5
New: 105.

Name: Special Technique: Golden Flower (B Version)
Rank: B/A/S
Power: Varies
Activation Cost: B/A/S
Upkeep Cost: one rank lower than activation cost
Range: 100m
Speed: S
Element: —
Skill: Genjutsu
Classification: Secret
Requirements: A golden flower of any kind on Hanabi
Parent Technique: —
Hand Seals: Bird
Description: After Hanabi forms the bird sign, the target is required to lay eyes upon the Golden Flower upon Hanabi. This jutsu has a 2 Post Countdown. At the end of the countdown, the target(s) will begin seeing golden flower petals floating down to the ground. The opponent will begin feeling drowsy with Hanabi sitting on the ground in front of them. They will feel compelled, in this illusion, to lay their head upon Hanabi's lap as her hands caress their face and begin to sing them a melody. As the melody continues to play in the targets' head, they will feel themselves sinking below the ground as they grow further and further into sleep. Upon the second post, they will fall into a deep sleep that will last for 3 posts.

Weakness: Due to the way this Genjutsu is set up, anyone outside of the jutsu's radius will be affected. One could bring a sleeping target outside of the range to instantly wake them up. The pain of an attack that is 1 Rank higher than the target's Constitution may awaken the target prematurely. (Does not include targets with S Rank Constitution -- those who cannot feel pain).

Anzo hears her tell him to close his eyes, and he rapidly does as he's been ordered to, trusting in her capabilities enough to completely close his eyes. Instead, he uses what information the Kikaichu can see and report back to him, letting him know that the villagers and bandits alike are willingly laying down and falling asleep. The Aburame has to assume that this is something the Sharingan is capable of, as he's never heard of such a genjutsu being able to affect so many people at once and in such a way as to leave them unconscious, and willingly lay themselves down to sleep.

Still, he keeps his eyes closed until Hanabi expressly permits him to open his eyes as he drifts down with the insect platform no longer needed, and he begins going between villagers and the bandits, easily separated by who had arms and armor clearly meant for fighting while the villagers had mostly armed themselves for defense with whatever they had lying about. After helping to separate the two groups and Hanabi makes it clear that they'll be killing absolutely all of the bandits, Anzo simply nods once.

"They lost all chances of a peaceful solution when they became aggressors against simple villagers. The highest amount of mercy they'll see from me is only a fast death."

Now that he's completed the work of separating them, he goes to each one, coating his fist with Doton chakra and then utilizing the Strong Fist style to thrust his fist straight through their chests. Though gruesome, their deaths would have been instant. He keeps going until he's gotten through enough to leave just the one remaining bandit, who he stands over and allows him to wake up slowly, completely surrounded by the corpses of his fellows.

"Wakey-wakey."

As he says this, Anzo simply kicks the bandit's face, ensuring he's instantly awoken.

"If I were you, I'd get to running."

OOC:

1400 bugs total unchanged

CP: 122 - 5 (Earth Release: Earth Spear) = 117

Jutsu Used:

With the statement Anzo made, she nodded with the agreement to leave none alive. Though his tactics were brutal, it’s was fast and merciful. She would gaze to Anzo and his work, while continuing to separate the citizens as well. Next, groans were heard from the Bandit, looking at Anzo with merciful eyes, pleading for forgiveness. As Hanabi finished up, she swiped her hands together, dusting off any dirt that may have gotten on her hands. “No need for that.” She would say as she tapped the temples on her head. Her sharingan was still active, looking directly towards the bandit. She would walk slowly over, her hips swaying with a tempo that she had gained after gaining some confidence over the months. Hanabi crouched down and grabbed the bandits hair and looking him in the eyes, saying two words. “Genjutsu, Sharingan.” They both would remain still while Hanabi began extracting information from the bandit as to where their hide out was and such. The man would fall back down, Hanabi dismantling the Genjutsu and slicing the man’s head off with her sword. The blood ran out from his neck, kind of pulsing out.


“I know where they are.” She would close her eyes and then her sharingan would deactivate. “Come on, no time to waste.” She would say as she stood back up and began walking in the direction to their base

Anzo is a bit surprised when she tells him that there's no need to make the bandit run back to their base, and he looks to her in confusion before he realizes the appearance of her eyes have changed, though they're still the same golden color. When he sees the almost hypnotic pattern that the dark spaces of her eyes have gained, he looks away rapidly. As curious as he is about the Uchiha, he isn't interested in becoming enraptured by the eyes himself as she leans down and states aloud that she's using the genjutsu of the Uchiha's Sharingan, and Anzo himself can watch as she uses eye contact with the man to extract information from him.

I'm going to have to remember that the Uchiha can do this... with their eye contact alone. What a strange and powerful clan.

When she states that she knows exactly where they are and that they have no time to waste, he gets up, ignoring the headless corpse rather than looking at it any further. He follows after her until they reach the outskirts of the bandit's base, where he stops, just outside of the edge of the vision where the bandits might see them between the trees at any point. Even with the thickness of the foliage and the scents of a dank forest, he can smell smoke, letting them know that they're near some form of campsite. He does little more than lightly touch her shoulder, though he's careful to let the sleeve of his jacket pull back so she can see quite clearly that there are no beetles anywhere near his hand, purely for her comfort. The gesture is meant to slow her back a bit before they come into direct contact with the bandits' headquarters.

"What's our battle plan? You know their positions and numbers."

Hanabi looked to Anzo and raised a brow. “Well for one, there’s about six more in total. If you can use your bugs..” She would say as she lifted her arm just a bit and pointed in the direction of the camp. “..you can get in there with no problem. See if you can take out three. There’s three in individual tents and three on the outside. See if you can go for the ones in the tents. I don’t want to be the main show here.” She chuckled to Anzo. “We’ll split up.” She said as she began walking slowly and quietly through the tree’s and to the camp. There were 3 tents, in a triangular shape, the fire in the middle with a boiling pot over a fire. She would quickly pull her sword out and disappeared from Anzo’s sights as she slid down the steep landscape, attacking one and immediately jumping to the others, slicing their heads off. She would flicker into view, at the middle. In Anzo’s eyes, he had seen her once and then the three men that were there, fall to the ground with their heads sliding off with Hanabi flickering back into his perception as she came to a stop. Hanabi glared to Anzo to let him know it was his turn to get the rest. She would be busy taking some form of proof to take back when she was done.

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Jutsu’s:

Name: Beauty In Disguise
Rank: A/S
Power: A/S
Activation Cost: 20/30
Upkeep Cost: —
Range: 75m
Speed: Instant
Element: —
Skill: Genjutsu
Classification: Secret
Requirements: —
Parent Technique: —
Hand Seals: Hair Flip (tell/sign)
Description: Hanabi can choose however many people to affect. With a simple flick of her hair to catch their attention, she is able to distract them, putting them in a tunnel vision like Genjutsu. With the sight of her hair flick, all their eyes are focused on her, anyone else disappearing from their view. To them, they are the only people with Hanabi. This allows anyone that was originally with Hanabi to make an attack unsuspected. This only lasts for a few seconds and does not have a count down but for time purposes, it will last up to one post.
Status Effects: -1/-1 (— —) to Perception
Weaknesses: Hanabi must remain in sight for this to work for another person. S perception can still see the teammate before they try and attack since this is more illusory than a real Genjutsu.

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Name: Blade Pulse
Rank: A
Power: Weapon Damage
Activation Cost: 20
Upkeep Cost: —
Range: 5m
Speed: Instant
Element: —
Skill: Kenjutsu
Classification: Secret
Requirements: Genjutsu, Kenjutsu
Parent Technique: Beauty In Disguise, Chakra Flow
Hand Seals: —
Description: While opponents are under the effect of Beauty In Disguise, Hanabi can use this time to make an attack, giving her an extended reach with this ability. Upon activating this technique, Hanabi is able to use her blade within a short range and pulse out chakra from her weapon, causing A rank damage. She can choose to use the chakra or simply slice. This is only effective under Beauty In Disguise due to the debuff in perception. The amount of time allows Hanabi to dart forward, making an attack with no issue.
Status Effect: +1 to Strength
Weaknesses: Higher Perception than the attack, If hanabi performs this ability outside of the designated range, the opponent has the ability to counter and or dodge but with a disadvantage due to being caught off guard. (They would probably get some sort of superficial wound) This can only be used under the effect of Beauty In Disguise

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Name: Blade Warp
Rank: S
Power: S
Activation Cost: 30
Upkeep Cost: 20
Range: 0-100m
Speed: Users Speed
Element: —
Skill: Kenjutsu
Classification: Secret
Requirements: Kenjutsu
Parent Technique: Blade Pulse (Combo)
Hand Seals: —
Description: Hanabi is able to use this Technique in relation to Blade Pulse and can only be used with Blade Pulse for its full power. Using it without blade pulse is an automatic 1 rank debuff (A rank). From any point (in air, on ground), Hanabi is able to let off a series of slashes, which does not affect the opponent until Hanabi has landed, making the Opponent have a misconception that they have yet to be hit. Once Hanabi lands, the target will be affected by weapon damage. Successful combo will result in the target being affected by -1 Tier to their Constitution while this jutsu is maintained and will give 2 advantages to Hanabi’s Speed. the user may bounce around from target to target within the 100m range.
Weaknesses: Cannot be used to the fullest without Blade Pulse, Higher Perception and Coord to successfully block/dodge this attack. People who are aimed next can have a chance reaction to dodge out of the way. Without Blade Pulse, the attack will be -1 rank lower than weapon damage and only cause 2 negatives to the targets con.

Anzo nods once when he's told there are six more bandits in this camp, with six in their tents and six milling about, likely on watch duty. He's given the order to take out the ones in the tents, and he raises an eyebrow when she tells him she doesn't want to be the main show, but he stays silent for now; he works his way through the rest of the forest with her, preparing his bugs for an attack if any of the wandering guard bandits decide to sneak a little deeper into the Senju Forest, such as for a bathroom break. Luckily they reach the camp without meeting any resistance, and he seems to fade back into the foliage, sneaking about before she seems to completely disappear from him, and only a moment later he sees her silhouetted in the cooking fire before he's even managed to get his Kikaichu into the first tent.

Anzo himself slips inside the first one, simply to ensure that the first bandit is already being drained entirely, with the large man too deep in his sleep to feel the insects draining his chakra. He slips a bit closer as the bugs drain his chakra until he's completely unconscious to the point of a near vegetative state. Instead of simply making a kunai from stone this time around, he decides to try out a new high level technique, one that doesn't even require handseals, but shows great control over Earth chakra. After sending quite a lot of Doton chakra into the earth, he thrusts his middle and index fingers upwards, focusing on the exact motion he wants as a thin spike of earth shoots up through the bedding as well as the bandit's chest, spearing him and ending his life instantly. Anzo moves on to the second and then the third tent, pointing an arm at each tent individually to send his bugs out in simple columns of shifting, meandering, shadow arms to latch his Kikaichu onto the bandits in their individual tents.

With their chakra being drained before he even makes his way over to the tents, he's able to quickly and easily spear them with his newly trained Doton technique, providing the Aburame with plenty of practice with such a high level technique until he's fairly certain he'll be able to use it quite quickly in the future as a surprise attack, as well as maintaining control of his insects through the Arm Formation technique. Anzo slips back out of the third and final tent and looks directly at Hanabi, ignoring his own momentary sensation of a chill running down his back while he puts on a fearless expression, even as he gazes directly into the three tomoe Sharingan, oddly golden in color rather than the typical red that he was somewhat expecting.

"So much for not wanting to be the main show here, Princess. But I'm better as a stage hand acting in the background to make the show a success, anyways."

OOC: 250/250 Earth Release: Rock Pillar Spears
200/200 Secret Technique: Swarm Attack, Arm Formation

Hanabi looked at Anzo and her sharingan returned to a normal pupil, waving to Anzo and letting him know all were done. However it seemed like one of them had managed to remain out of Hanabi’s sights, coming up behind her and poisoning her with a relatively weak poison that made her sluggish. “Nng…” She’d groan as she closed an eye, wincing. She’d hit the target with her head, causing his nose to bleed and unsheathing her sword, turning and slicing. Hanabi began panting as the target fell to the ground and bled out from the chest. She took a few steps back, sweating like she had ran a few miles. Maybe one of them got to her before she got them? It wouldn’t have activated this fast. She began coughing and fell backwards and onto her bum. “Shit..” Her breathing became heavier, getting harder to breathe. “A-Anzo!”

Anzo's eyes widen as a bandit manages to sneak in on Hanabi and slice at her with a small, short blade before he can intervene, though luckily Hanabi seems unwounded at first and instead strikes him once before slashing his chest to kill him. After a moment and a quick look at her, however, he can see that she's sweating, perspiring far more than what would have been necessary even under the stress and exertion of this mission. Then her breathing becomes heavy, and he sees that she's losing her balance, and he moves swiftly into action. Although he can't stop her from landing on her rear on the ground, he's at least quick enough to catch her head, keeping her upright so that the poison that entered her bloodstream from a wound on her stomach has to work that little bit harder to reach her heart and brain.

There's only one option for him now in this emergency situation, so he has to work quickly, without the assistance of anesthesia to stop the pain. He checks on her chakra signature, finding the poison just a little distance above where the cut had happened, apparently being somewhat suspended by gravity and her bleeding, so he works quickly to use the chakra scalpel technique and make a quick incision above where the poison is, before using his medical chakra to begin pulling out the poison, draining it out of her while his eyes are closely watching Hanabi's face, trying to ensure that she stays conscious enough to help fight off the effects of the poison. With this technique already working, he knows the pain is nearly unbearable, and so he lightly sets her down on the ground, taking a moment from the extraction to use the Temporary Paralysis Technique to keep her in place and stop her from possibly ruining the extraction by struggling. He immediately returns to the extraction, drawing out almost all of the poison until nearly all of it is neutralized, with a great deal of it suspended with his chakra using a canteen of clean water as his only method of storing it. It isn't really a saline solution, but it works in a pinch.

After several passes through the body with his medical chakra and the water, he sighs and sits back, now with himself sweating a bit from the effort of drawing out the poison. With the effects diminished, Hanabi should at least be well enough to walk on her own, though he feels guilty for not having caught sight of the attacker to protect her.

"Ugh... Let's get you to a hospital so they can make sure all of it is gone."

Anzo quickly hops up and helps Hanabi to her feet, should she agree to go to the hospital, and he leads her away from the bandit camp, ready to catch her if her footing falters on their way back to Konoha.

OOC: 200/200 Delicate Illness Extraction Technique

ATTEMPTED THREAD EXIT

With Anzo catching her as she almost hits her head on the floor, she’s able to try and start catching her breath, however her breathing is laborious. She looked up to Anzo, watching his facial expression show worry, a faint smile turning her lips. “Anzo… it’s just….. poison…” She coughed a few times, wincing as the poison went through her veins. As Anzo starts to drain the cut, Hanabi winces from the pain, causing her to cry out a quick moment, squirming and shaking. Everything was hot and the wound was painful. Hanabi was no longer able to move when Anzo set her down but she was still able to grit her teeth, grunting and groaning from the pain. Her breathing became less laborious however she was still panting as Anzo worked his medical ninjutsu, allowing him to take the poison out, well enough for her to stand and be able to walk to the hospital.


“Right…” She responded as she gained help standing up, slowly making her way to the hospital, missing a few steps here and there but never falling. Thanks to Anzo, Hanabi would be able to get the proper care she needed.




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