They Mean Business!

Rank: B Rank
Description: A trio of Ninja started to appear in the outskirts of the village. They hide in a forest location and from our reports, were seen in the heart of the forest with a small river located next to it. From what we have gathered the team is based on Water and Earth Ninjutsu, and highly talented in them at that. Also our medical ninja examined some of the previous victims to have wounds and cut marks around them signaling that they have Weapons with them.
Assignment: To go after the duo of Ninja and stop them from hurting more villagers. It is recommended that you should go with a squad but if you’re cocky enough you may go at it alone. Remember if you do there is a high chance that you will be hurt. You can decide to either exterminate them, or preferabbly subdue and capture them for interrogation. If captured, contact Anbu Captain Shouhu Mu of Squad #1 to properly handle the prisoner transport. 
Shinobi Assigned: Yoshizen Hatake, Zabura Dragonteil (Both of you will complete this mission seperately, NPCing any team-mates you choose to bring along if you decide to do so.)
Minimum Requirement: 2,500 words for each Shinobi involved. Be sure to stay hydrated, The forest outside of Konoha is vast and it may take you awhile to find the trio. You are allowed to NPC the trio, but please try not to make them look like pushovers. You may name them if you wish. Edit your response into the log below.
Log: Yoshizen.::. 
Yoshizen slapped the empty plastic bowl down onto the table and let out a loud, satisfied sigh. She had just finished eating her second bowl of instant ramen, or perhaps more accurately finished drinking the broth, kimchi flavor. She always ate more than usual when preparing for a mission, the last treat she's going to have for a while, and it's best to prepare for the worst. She grabbed a carton of milk and went back to her bedroom and started getting dressed, debating about whether or not she wanted to have a third bowl. She pulled off the long white t-shirt that functioned as pajamas and tossed it against her bed, sliding on the black tight sleeveless undershirt and black shinobi pants, her ANBU tattoo clearly displayed on her left bicep, clearly revealing her station within Konoha without having to wear a Konoha headband. She flicked the hair tucked into the tight shirt out, letting the bangs fall around the front of her face, drapping over her eyes, shock white in colour to clearly indicate her heritage, as white hair was common to the Hatake family. She pulled the padded white vest over her torso on top of the black undershirt, another part of the ANBU uniform, proceeding to slide the black elbow length sleeves ending as the wrists and the ANBU bracers, the same in colour as the ANBU padded top. Yoshizen put on her rebreather, a function of both her combat style, a safety measure, and a tool to conceal her appearance all in one. It kept foreign gasses from entering her system, and allowed her to breath normally in environments with limited oxygen, which she frequently found herself in. She wrapped bandage around her right thigh and ankles to keep her pants tucked away, pulling up her black calf boots with high platforms, letting her black painted toenails poke out, her fingernails painted black as well. Yoshizen put her shuriken pouch around the bandage on her thigh, containing 12 shuriken stacked neatly, and put the two hip pouches against her back. Her pouches contained 3 kunai, her bingo book containing information on her targets and all the current intel she had on them, 3 Explosive Tags, 6 Military Ration Pills, a scroll, and a Leaf shinobi headband with blood smeared on it. She drapped her Jian sword over her shoulder across her back, a large Jian sword she frequently used with the kanji for "Shinobi" carved into the scabbard. She also attached a gourd to her hip full of water to keep hydrated. Finally she grabbed her ANBU mask, shaped as a cat with Purple triangles adorned on it, pulling it over her face on top of the rebreather, allowing it to fit comfortably above the rebreather's notches. Yoshizen finally finished preparing and sighed, exiting her house and walking towards the city gate, pulling out her Bingo book and cracking it open, lazily reading through the pages to go over all the facts of her mission once more, reading it as she walked. Her destination was to go to the Southwest, the last area that they had been seen and find their camp, taking out the 3 Earth and Water shinobi, or more preferably capturing them. She continued her casual stroll, nodding to the people she passed and finally made it to the gate, clapping the book together and sliding it into the pouch, staring towards the Southwest as she stood outside the exit.
Yoshizen pulled out the scroll from her pouch and unwinded it, laying it on the floor before her to display the summoning pattern, digging her teeth into her thumb to draw blood and lowering her body to drop on one knee, stamping it into the center of the scroll's seal and slapping her hands together, performing a Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey, and Ram seal, moulding her chakra into her hand and slapping it onto the scroll, attempting to summon her Ninken. A puff of smoke appeared before her, finally fading to reveal the Eight Ninja Dogs. "Oi Pakkun. Oi Bull. Oi Urushi. Oi Shiba. Oi Bisuke. Oi Akino. Oi Uhei. Oi Guruko." Yoshizen smiled at them under her masks, though they certainly wouldn't be aware of it. She reached out to all of them and took short turns patting them on the heads, Pakkun speaking out as the spokesman. "Oi Yoshi-chan. What do you need?" Yoshizen would reach down and curl up her scroll, sticking it back into her pouch as she spoke, pulling out her Bingo Book and quickly turning to the appropriate page, turning it to them to show the Ninken the pictures of the targets. She stuck the bingo book back into her pouch and pulled out the blood smeared headband, letting all nine dogs take a sniff of it. "I need to find those three. This headband was from one of the people they killed. They're on the outskirts of the village hiding somewhere. Once I arrive I'd like you guys to stand by in case something happens, they're Earth and Water users, if any of them goes underground I'm going to request you to use Tracking Fang. I'll make sure you'll get their scent before hand." Yoshizen stuck the headband back into her pouch and pushed off the floor to stand back up, cracking her neck to the side as Pakkun spoke. "Right." Yoshizen jumped forward into the brush and trees before her to quickly travel in the general direction they were last seen, only leaving enough time to utter "Go." before she jumped forward and started kicking off each of the trees, taking long strides in her jumps to arrive as quickly as she could, seeing no issue with rushing since the mission was relatively close. The dogs spread out on her command, sniffing out the scent of the blood and traveling through the trees as well to find where the men were and scope them out, able to easily find Yoshizen and return to her upon finding them as the contract was made with her blood, a scent they could easily follow. A few hours passed as the leafs and branched ruffled beneath Yoshizen's feet without any word from the Ninken. She jumped down from the tree for a second to take a quick break to regain her stamina, taking a few sips from her gourd of water. She sat down and leaned against a tree, hearing ruffling in the bushes nearby after a few minutes. It was Pakkun, quickly landing in front of her and speaking "Oi, we found them. Three guys in black robes, the other 7 are waiting nearby, they're about 30 minutes from here. Let's go." Yoshizen pushed herself up and followed after Pakkun as he jumped through the trees. "Hai, hai!"
Pakkun and Yoshizen finally arrived 150 yards away from their camp where the Ninken were hiding, her body dropping down onto her knees just after Pakkun landed. Yoshizen tossed back a few sips of water and took a second to breathe and recover, asking for a clear description of the area from the dogs. Pakkun slowly explained going every detail while Yoshizen sipped her water. Pakkun explained that their camp was quite simple, A room made out of rock walls with a fire out front. Due to the nature of the Rock Walls the Ninken were unable to find out what was inside. The pseudo-home as beside a small stream, flowing gently beside them which most likely serves as both a source of fish for food and water for related jutsu, if so accurately confirming that these shinobi were indeed Earth and Water users. The surrounding area was covered with dense forest, serving as both a benefit and problem for these shinobi. It kept their rather bulky camp quite shrouded in the forest, difficult to find for most shinobi with the benefit of sensor types, but also covers approaching opponents, letting people easily track their movements without detection if the men were distracted. Yoshizen instructed the Ninken to follow her as she got closer to the camp to inspect the men, walking carefully and slowly. These men had supposedly been attacking people by the roads were all the bodies were found, ambushing them and stealing their valuables, leading Yoshizen to believe they're not accustomed to noticing others sneaking up on them. When they realized Konoha was on to them they probably moved into the denser woods for cover, hoping to not be found. Despite this action to exit the area, the Shinobi were proven to be rather capable, not simply killing passerby merchants and citizens, but killing several shinobi was well, some of whom were as high ranked as Jounin. These Shinobi would definitely prove to be a capable fight, which is why Yoshizen was glad she didn't have to go it alone - She had her Ninken. As they got closer the light of the fire flickering between the trees got Yoshizen's attention, dropping to a knee to peak through the woods and watch them. She saw the three hooded figures standing by the fire. Yoshizen had left mid-afternoon to arrive at the crack of dawn, hoping to use the guise of night to gain the upperhand on them, a plan that worked successfully as it had just passed sunset and it was dark out. The hooded men were curious in their actions, bobbing up and down on their knees in the same rhythm, humming loudly. It almost looked as if they were performing some sort of cult ritual, but she stood there watching for several minutes and nothing ever happened - Was it possible this just was what they did with their free times? In any event, it was clear that these characters were going to be colourful. Yoshizen pulled out 3 shuriken from her leg pouch and tacked her previously bitten thumb with them to cover them in her blood, letting them sit in her right hand between her fingers.
Yoshizen performed a Tiger handseal with her left hand, using only the single hand to create a water clone from the stream behind them it raising slowly from the water and jumping beside them, calling out loudly in a sing song voice. "Oi, oi! What are you guys up to?~" The three robed men turned to the Water Clone and turned their heads, staring at her for a long time before pulling their robes off and tossing them aside, revealing their outfits and appearances. They all continued to bob in the same motion they had been, humming the same song with giant phony smiles on their face. Yoshizen would accuse them of being creepy if not for the fact she constantly wore masks and barely spoke. One of them was very large and fat, a maul strapped along his back and a large black curly mustache and bald head. His only clothing was plain brown sandals and a bright neon green onsie. The sheen on his head reflected the fire and Yoshizen's own appearance as if he had waxed it, his arms and leg so hairy despite him being bald it was hard to believe. He was roughly 6 and a half feet tall, towering over the other two, with hair poking out of the collar of his t-shirt, leading her to assume his entire body was covered in this thick carpet. Yoshizen couldn't help but think "If only I had fire jutsu, I could ignite him like a wick." The second man was tiny and thin, roughly 4 and a half feet tall, so bony you could practically see his skeleton in his legs and arms. He wore a bright neon blue shirt and shorts, completely hairless on his body. He also had a large curly mustache and very long hair pulled back into a ponytail, his hair all platinum blonde. He had two daggers strapped to his back hip and strangely wore a pair of women's high heels, the same bright blue as his clothing. The third man was average height, about 5'10", but was in very good shape. He had a very atheletic swimmer type body, not rippling biceps but rather in truly natural good shape. He wore a neon purple fishnet vest and hakama with a longsword strapped to his hip. He had short curly brown hair as well as the exact same large curly mustache that his counterparts had, seemingly of one mind that the mustache didn't look as stupid as it actually was. All 3 of them had thick eyebrows and beady eyes the same colour as their clothing, very distinctive appearances indeed. The blue man spoke out in a strangely happy high pitched voice. "Hey! That uniform, you're an ANBU!" The fat green man cut in with his own gruff low pitched voice. "Aw, that sucks, I was just about to poo!" The green man continued to speak, pointing his thumb at himself "I'm Guy 1 and this here it Guy 2!" He pointed over to the Blue Man as he switched his indication. The purple man cut in "I'm Guy 3 and we're going to defeat you!" Yoshizen's clone groaned and spoke out, keeping them occupied as the real Yoshizen jumped out from the trees and threw all 3 off the shuriken at the men's spines while they were distracted. "You guys are just going to keep rhyming, aren't you?" All 3 of the men perked their ears as the bushes ruffled behind them, attempting to sidestep to dodge the impending attack. Guy's 2 and 3 easily dodged the shuriken with a speed side-step but Guy 1 didn't seem to be as fast, pegging him in the back of the left shoulder as he tried to sidestep the shuriken, respectively covering him with her blood to allow the Ninken to track him. The other two shuriken pegged the grass in front of the men. The purple man lunge forward and jammed his sword into the water clone, watching carefully as it exploded into a puddle in front of him before all three of them turned to the real Yoshizen. "Guy 1 here, hitting hard with a maul! Always looking to have a ball!" He spoke in his gruff voice. The low-pitch one cued in "Guy 2 here, smooth like some butter! With my daggers I'm the fast cutter!" Finally, the relatively average Guy 3 cued in "Guy 3 here, I have a long sword! I'm so strong fights make me bored!"
Yoshizen began a flurry of hand seals, beginning with a Horse, Dog, Bird, Ox, and finally a Snake. The dirt started erupting beside her and she mumbled beneath her mask. "Earth Release: Earth Dragon Jutsu ..." The roaring dragon's head formed from the dirt and let out a loud roar as it flew towards the three men who quickly spread apart to dodge it. Guy 1 move to the left to avoid it, Guy 2 jumping behind him and enhancing his feet with chakra to stand on the water, and Guy 3 moving to the right. The Earth Dragon slammed into the ground between them as they spread, smashing a crater before falling apart as the jutsu fell apart, the loud smash of the Dragon echoing throughout the forest. All 3 of the men spoke out in a uniform voice "Water and Earth? That's just like us! But it's 3 on 1, so this is no fuss!" Yoshizen smiled under her mask, her plan working out so far. She purposely used Water and Earth alone up til now, hoping to keep her Lightning as a surprise to catch one of them off guard. The second part of her plan was to single them out, as it would prevent them from using group jutsu and if they fought as a unit Yoshizen could top each of them seperately, the edge going to her in single combat experience. Yoshizen wiggled her feet as the ground below her turned to soft sand and she slowly sunk, them watching as she went underground. "Oi, Guy 1, you got that right?" Guy 3 cued in. "Yes, Guy 3, that's the way I fight!" Guy 1 answered, Yoshizen finding out that he also used this technique and stopping with her waist covered. "Allow me to guess ..." Yoshizen started speaking, her voice muffled under her masks "Guy 1 uses Earth alone, as he has this Earth Jutsu and seems to be concentrated on heavy hitting techniques with his maul. Guy 2 is water alone, judging from the fact his immediately reaction to dodging was to jump to the water, where he would have the advantage. Guy 3 mostly likely uses both, based on the fact you're the self-proclaimed strongest of you three." Guy 3 answered quickly "Yes, that's true, 1 Earth, 2 Water!" Guy 1 cued in. "Guy 3 uses both, so for him it's no bother!" Yoshizen made a Tiger handseal, 3 Shadow Clones appearing around each of them men as she sunk into the water, detecting the fight above her with magnetic forces which was a standard part of the Hidden like a Mole technique. Guy 1 spun his maul in a circle trying to quickly take out all 3 clones, smashing the first one to make it poof before the other two stepped back out of the way. Guy two drew his dual daggers and lunged forward towards two of the clones, stabbing them before they could even react and leaving one. Guy 3 made 3 incredibly fast slashes of his sword, making all 3 poof easily. "It seems their names are appropriate ..." Yoshizen jested underground as she continued to watch the fights.  The two clones around Guy 1 attached, the first drawing her sword and slashing at his neck and the second stabbing for his stomach. Guy 1 smashed his maul into both of their swords and knocked them back, slamming a foot into the first clone to poof it and smashing his maul into the head of the second, surprisingly fast and skilled given his strength and size of his weapon. While Guy 2 stabbed the other two the leftover clone slashed as his back, attempting to give him a giant wound. However, before her sword was even fully drawn she felt his daggers sink into her chest, her eyes popping open as the clone poofed. "Well, that was a failure on all ends." Guy 1 started sinking into the ground below him, apparently to search out the true body of Yoshizen himself - Which was exactly what Yoshizen wanted him to do. As he lowered and started to search for her her let out a scream, 7 jaws sinking into his flesh and quickly pulling him up to the surface, the command of Yoshizen's Tracking Fang. He let out a scream as the jaws dug into his flesh and held him stationary, Yoshizen quickly drawing her Jian sword and popping up behind him using Whack-a-Mole, slashing her sword into his neck and cleanly beheading him with blood splashing out of the other side, making sure to slash in the spot the Ninken had left her. Guy 1's head rolled from his shoulder onto the ground and his body slumped over, Guy 2 and 3 watching with their smiles, seemingly uneffected by it. "Wow, Guy 2, she got Guy 1 good!" Guy 3 started. "Yes, Guy 3, he has no head for a hood!" Guy 2 finished, Yoshizen flicking her sword to the side to send the blood of of it before turning to the other two. Guy 2 and 3 spoke again, "You won't get us again with your dirty dogs! We'll stay up top with the grass, water, and logs!" The Ninken sunk into the dirt and made their exit, leaving Yoshizen in the proverbial lion's cage.
Yoshizen made a Tiger handseal and created two Water Clones 20 feet away from Guy 2 on either side to keep him occupied while she occupied Guy 3 in one on one combat, jumping forward towards Guy 3 to engage him one on one. Guy 2 started kneading chakra in his stomach and made a Tiger handseal, collecting chakra and quickly turning to the first clone, spitting a giant ball of water at her to try and quickly take her out before running towards the other clone with her daggers, rather quickly closing the distance. The first clone jumped forward over the ball towards Guy 2 and started performing handseals from Boar, Ram, Snake, Horse, and to Dragon. As Guy 2's daggers slammed into the second clone's chest and she exploded into a puddle, the first clone landed and slammed her hand into the water, channeling her lightning chakra into the water and mumbling "Lightning Style, Electromagnetic Murder." The lightning surged forward in the water and rushed towards Guy 2 while he was distracted, the lightning channeling through and running up Guy's 2 ankles and surrounding his body, burning him to a crisp and burning his insides as she continued to channel it, Guy 2 screaming and falling forward onto his chest. Guy 3 said "Oh no, Guy 2, you got caught, too!" Guy 2 answered "Ahh! I couldn't help it Guy 3, she had lightning too!" as his body collapsed with a splash and the jutsu ended. The clone rushed at Guy 2 and slammed her sword into the back of his chest through his heart to immediately kill him before Yoshizen cancelled his water clone and it splashed on top of Guy 2's corpse into the water. "You got Guy's 1 and 2, so it's just me now! I'll punch you in the face with a big ol' pow!" Guy 3 shouted with his maintained smile. He lunged forward and sent his fist right to Yoshizen's face, her pushing the fist past her and sidestepping, attempting to send her foot into his hip to kick him. Before the kick connected Guy 3 grabbed her leg and span around, slamming Yoshisen hard into the ground with a loud thump, Yoshizen letting out a loud yell and quickly rolling away, grunting as she pushed herself to her feet. Guy 3 and Yoshizen both performing the same handseals simultaneously in the form of Rat to Dog to Ox, drawing forth the water to the stream in a long line and Yoshizen mumbling "Water Release: Water Whip!" They proceeded to fight with the water whips, clashing together and wet echos slapping as they tried to get the upperhand, the whips finally wrapping around eachother and entwining, Yoshizen channeling her water chakra through to try and electrocute him before he quickly cancelled the jutsu and dashed forward towards him while she tried to, slamming his right fist into her face heavily, quickly cracking the ANBU mask as it fell off, her rebreather maintaining it's conditioned as she rolled backwards with a broken nose, rolling away and bouncing off the dirt with a groan. She struggled to push herself up and looked at him as he spoke with an excited tone. "Hah, I got you! A big punch in the face! ... Wait, another mask?! That's such a disgrace!" As blood started to leak from Yoshizen's face she rubbed it away and he continued. "What do you look like, what's what I wonder! If only my punch wasn't such a blunder!" Yoshizen answered him with curiousity through her heavy breaths "W-what do you care about my appearance? doesn't seem relevent." She swayed his body happily and continued "At the end of this fight one of us will be dead! So show me the face at the front of your head!" Yoshizen decided to humor him, pulling her rebreath off and showing him her face, him throwing his arms into the air and balancing on his right leg excited. Yoshizen popped her mouth over and channel her Lightning chakra, an extremely bright light and loud bang popping from her mouth as the words "Lightning Release: Flash Jaw!" cracked from her mouth, the sudden flash catch him off guard and blinding him with his ears ringing, as he slumped over without the benefit of his vision and hearing.
"My eyes! Oh no! I can't see at all! Surely this will be my downfall!" Guy 3 yelled, Yoshizen sinking into the ground and popping up right behind him using her Whack-a-Mole, an extremely faster way to move to him in her limited time frame. She quickly grabbed his right arm and palm striked him, snapping his elbow and breaking it. "Ow! Ow! You broke my arm! That's what I get for seeing you harm!" Yoshizen jumped to his other side and broke his other elbow. "Oh no! Oh no! Not my other arm, too! Now what will I use to wipe after a poo!" Yoshizen sighed and moved to his leg, lifting it and slamming her foot into his knee. "Ouch! Ouch! You got me right in the knee! Now how will I kneel when I'm drinking tea!" She moved to the other leg to finished the grounds, quickly stomping into it again. "Ah! Ah! My other knee, as well? You don't take risks, I can certainly tell!" Yoshizen put her rebreather back on and stripped his weapons, tossing them to the ground and speaking. "Now, I'm going to give you a choice. You can either come came to Konoha with me and go to jail for interrogation, or I can kill you here." She sent clones to destroy Guy 1 and 2's bodies as Guy 3 regained his sight and hearing, looking at the woman who's nose he had broken, leaking blood as she smiled at him under her mask, waiting for his answer. 
Log: Zabura.::.
Log: Shouhu (If involved.)