Falling Water

Yuko was about to go on her first mission as an ANBU. This mission was particularly tricky. They needed to steal information regarding some kind of immorality jutsu. Because of its hidden nature, it will likely be guarded by ANBU from that village. This mission is intended to be stealth but if they were discovered, it would be a False Flag operation. The ninja going were to be disguised as Konohagakure ANBU. After a few days of rowwing their boats, they snuck into the coast of the Land if Waterfalls. They then disguised themselves as villagers using the Transformation Technique.

It felt like any old plain morning for Kengai Makanmuri, who sat in his father’s soba shop smoking from his straight pipe. Through squinted eyes he scanned the open street restaurant, which was full and thriving with customers. “Fuck, this new shit is gaaaaas bro...”

Fukurami, a toad summon who remained at Kengai’s side at all times as his partner, lifted his face up from a bowl of soba. Noodles slurped up into his nostrils as he turned to Kengai, propping a pipe into his own mouth. “Hoy. Give me a light, yeah?”

Kengai reached out with his hand, touching his fingers to the end of Fukurami’s pipe. His fingers twitched together, emitting a spark of fire that resurrected the mechanism in the pipe, giving it life. Fukurami took in a long drag, puffing out a fat cloud of smoke into the shop. “Ahhh~ you’re not wrong, this shit’s pretty good!”

The group made their way towards the restaurant seeing the odd pair but paid no mind, they decided to stop for breakfast and listen for information. They were still disguised as common folk.

With his dad still locked up in the kitchen with the countless orders he received that morning, Kengai thought he would give him a hand by addressing the new customers. They couldn’t let business get away from them after all.

“H-Hey guys. Sit down anywhere y-you like.” He coughed and wheezed into his hand. “S-Sorry. Sit down anywhere you like. I’ll be right with you.”

The ANBU captain would speak with a warm voice that would somehow cause a strange sense of dispair. "Thank you boy." They would take their seat at a couple of tables near eachother. Yuko would be pretending to play with a doll.

Sensing despair in the voice of the stranger, Kengai got a bad feeling in his gut. He eyed Fukurami, giving him ‘the look’.

Kengai and Fukurami stood up at once. While Kengai went over to place a few menus on the table of the new customers, Fukurami instead left the shop.

“We have our morning special going on right now. All you can eat soba.” He eyed Yuko with a smile. “Children eat for free.”

Yuko would smile like a child and made her order, though something felt off not like it was fake but it was masking something very wrong. Soon, the others made their orders too.

Kengai smiled warmly at the bunch. Suddenly another customer from behind him touched his back, gaining his attention. “Kengai-san, our order is still not out yet.”

“Takamori-san, my dad’s the only cook in the kitchen this morning. We’re sorry for the delay. It’ll be out shortly I’m sure of it.”

There wasn’t a person in the village whose face Kengai did not know. His father’s shop was practically famous after all. He had come to know of every villager that there was thanks to it. He’d easily recognize a face that he hadn’t seen before.

“Thank you! Your orders will be out shortly,” \*he said turning back to Yuko’s table, “where did you guys say you’re from, again...”

Another ANBU would speak. "I don't believe we ever did state where we were from. We are traveling musicians from The Land of Fire on our way back after performing in the Land of Sound."

“Musicians?! Wow, no way! Sing for us, come on! It’ll be a good way to pass the time until our orders arrive,” Takamori said turning around again. The people of the restaurant all chimed in, increasing the demand that the six perform for them.

Kengai took the menus back and went away into the kitchen.

The six got up and used Fuinjutsu to summon some instruments aside from Yuko though the fifth gave her a flute. One of the female ANBU began to sing while playing a banjo.
They did so with strait faces but it was clearly comedic.

Fuinjutsu to summon tools? Next to a terrible performance like that? Who were these guys kidding. They couldn’t have made it any more obvious that they were shinobi from an opposing village. Kengai who reappeared from the kitchen only hoped they were not from one of the five great shinobi nations. That would be a pain to have to deal with.

He had sent Fukurami away to call fire backup already. In case a fight broke out they would be ready with superior numbers. But his father’s soba shop was not where he hoped to do much of anything.

The audience began to boo the performers.

The sensory would perk "Screw it they know."

With that the threw paper bombs in all directions and released their transformation jutsu puting on their masks. They appeared as Konoha ANBU but this was yet another disguise. Yuko would speak with a distorted voice. "Told you this was a bad idea... But no, you wanted Sushi.."

The customers were now trapped. They began to panic, screams and shouts being heard through the village. But they could not move. Not when there were paper bombs ready to erupt.
“Those masks... they’re Konoha shinobi..!” Kengai muttered to himself under his breath. “I’ve gotta get these people out of here. But how?”

Kengai’s dad came out from the kitchen with bowls of food stacked up in his arms. “Okay, now who ordered the sushi?” He said in a jolly tone.

The paper bombs began to detonate around them ready to pop the whole resturaunt open like a rassberry.

The entire restaurant was immediately compromised. Tens of lives lost in an instant. Innocent children, younger than Yuko even. Who had never even had the opportunity to ever learn to wield a kunai in their hands. Mothers and fathers alike were blown to bits by the countless paper bombs, losing their lives far before they could even see the walls of the neighboring buildings cave in and collapse over their corpses.

Kengai had tackled his father back into the kitchen instinctively. As the explosion went off, tens of Takigakure shinobi surrounded the site. They outnumbered the six supposed Konoha shinobi by five to one. They were unable to rescue the civilians or the shop but they would be prepared to deal with them at a moment’s notice.

“K-Kengai..! Shit, please make it through..!” Fukurami said in disbelief upon witnessing the destruction of the shop.

The group of ANBU were smiling under their masks, but Yuko. She was actually shaken by the fact that they just killed innocent women and children. All of them... Civilians. What she just did went against her ninja way. The ANBU stared down the enemy Waterfall ninja surrounded them. The ANBU began weaving the hand seals necessary for a wild water wave with acception of Yuko due to oathkeeper and began spouting at them while Yuko created a couple shadow clones.

The many countless shinobi had all been forming hand signs as well. Before Yuko’s group could launch another attack upon their beloved village they worked together to erect a powerful barrier around the destruction site. With more than twenty shinobi from Takigakure maintaining this barrier from the outside, it would be very difficult to break it from the inside.

Only Kengai remained inside the barrier. Fukurami soon joined him, slipping through the barrier from the outside to represent his village. He arrived at Kengai’s side, moving some rubble from around him to free his partner. Kengai was laying on top of his father’s corpse. He was traumatized.

“Kengai! They’ve already raised the barrier. You know what we have to do next.” There was no time to cry over their fallen comrades. Kengai stood up to his feet, tears spilling down his cheeks.

“Konoha is going to pay for this!!” Kengai roared. He and Fukurami formed hand signs and bumped their fists together. A large cloud of smoke covered their bodies.

Yuko would notice Kengai and used Body Flicker to grab him and put a sword to his throat to use as a hostage.

The other ANBU quickly made their way to their position as guard forgetting the frog.

There was considerable debris looming through the barrier, making it difficult for Kengai to be seen immediately prior to the smoke that covered he and Fukurami. By the time Yuko arrived through the smoke, Kengai was no more.

He and Fukurami had joined bodies using the combined transformation jutsu. There was now only Ogata, Toad Warrior of Mount Myoboku.

The large toad eyed Yuko as she held a sword to his throat. He responded by opening his mouth, but not a single word was uttered. Instead an extremely powerful poison was emitted from inside his mouth in the form of a dark purple cloud.

The cloud of poison began to quickly spread through every corner of the barrier. It was extremely dense and tough to dispel even should they resort to more explosions or Wind Release.

The sensor inside would be able to inform Yuko that this toad possessed a chakra signature comparable to her own.

Yuko jumped off of the toad and she was quickly injected with an antidote the ANBU were in a tight spot now. The captain knew their mission was complete. They just need an escape. Yuko used her sharingan to analyze the battle field. Her particular mask had a heavy shaded visor to prevent anyone from telling she had a sharingan she then used Sharingan: Genjutsu to cause the Waterfall ninja to stab themselves.

There was no antidote that could have possibly been prepared to deal with this level of poison. This was a secret formula from the toads of mount myoboku which these ANBU would never have seen before. As the poisonous smoke covered the entirety of the barrier, there would be nowhere left to run where the ANBU could go to prevent inhaling it.

The poison was contained inside the sac of the toad. If Yuko had slit its throat she would actually have released even more poison from the sac and likely compromised herself due to not understanding the anatomy of this specific toad.

Time was running out for the ANBU who began to stab themselves. Though the toad could not see this happen as the thick poison cloud covered them and blinded his vision at the same time.

The poison smoke was so thick and because it contained chakra, Yuko’s Sharingan would not be able to see through it, making it hard for her to analyze the battlefield in the way she wanted.

It was better at blinding the Sharingan than even the mist of Kirigakure due to its considerable thickness.

Yuko began to feel its effects "I thought that was an antidote."

"Its an experimental drug."

Yuko realised the fog had chakra and used benzaiten to clear the fog, attack the enemy ninja, and break down the barrier using the smoke as a catalyst for what was about to turn into a fucking nuclear bomb.

Yuko would speak with a distorted voice. "heh, the more...poison you release, the more powerful the explosion this jutsu would cause. You will doom your village." Yuko began coughing.

The blue flames of Benzaiten would quickly appear from Yuko's Mangekyo Sharingan, working to clear the cloud of poison at a rapid pace. The flames grew bigger as they consumed the chakra that was contained in the poisonous cloud. But Ogata continued to release more and more of it, even after hearing from Yuko that it would be counterproductive.

Simply put, the toad did not care. Yuko had already taken in much of the poison, as evident by her cough. The poison would quickly begin to numb her body, making it harder for her to move if not outright paralyzing her and causing her to faint. It would be considerably more difficult for her to move, or to wield hand signs and summon her chakra at any point in her body. And the jutsu of the Mangekyo Sharingan which took a large toll on the body would almost be suicidal to use under these conditions.

The toad awaited Yuko and the rest of the shinobi to fall unconscious to the effects of the poison as the blue flames continued to eat the chakra cloud.

Yuko would use the last of her ckakra to Kamui out of there though the Benzaiten still ate at the poison and began to break out of the barrier Yuko had teleported to Kumogakure. This caused her to pass out completely.

She was smart to have teleported to where she could be immediately found by her comrades. A shinobi who was present immediately came to her aid, but upon touching her body the poison on her clothes spread unto him and he too fell unconscious almost instantly.

The flames had eaten away most of the poison inside of the barrier by now. Ogata could now see five corpses laying on the ground as well as the mass of blue flames that sat around in the barrier. But with Yuko now in another village and unconscious, she would not be able to trigger the fire to detonate.

"T-They did it," one Jounin commented, growing tired from maintaining the barrier. "There are five confirmed casualties among the enemy."

Ogata marched around inside the barrier. The transformation that was surrounding them had been undone following their deaths. He would send these back to be studied.

As he did the Benzaiten flooded out of the barrier spreading out and setting the ninja on fire and a large area of the village.

The Kumogakure shinobi had come with the intention to "steal information regarding some kind of immorality jutsu" that Takigakure possessed. They were unable to do that. And they were also unable to pit the blame on Konoha as the transformation jutsu around the five shinobi was undone and upon studying their corpses it would very likely pinpoint their origins to Kumogakure.

This was a failure on part of the Kumogakure ANBU. Yuko would be fortunate to survive with her life. She laid in her village, unconscious. Not knowing that she now was spreading the poison from Ogata through her own village.

At the same time the blue flames of Benzaiten ate away the barrier, forcefully dispelling it.

Although the flames would never detonate without a trigger, they still caused further destruction to the village.

The shinobi who were present attempted to douse the flames with water style jutsu but the flames only grew bigger.

Ogata dispersed back into Kengai and Fukurami. There was still no time to mourn the deaths of the innocent lives that were lost. They had to do something about the fire immediately.

More shinobi were being eaten alive by the Benzaiten not just them either, but civilians as well. The flames only grew bigger as they made attempts to douse the flames and people were being consumed and killed.

The flames also got brighter too. Even if Yuko doesn't detonate it herself, it could self implode by itself.

More shinobi were being eaten alive by the Benzaiten not just them either, but civilians as well. The flames only grew bigger as they made attempts to douse the flames and people were being consumed and killed.

The flames also got brighter too. Even if Yuko doesn't detonate it herself, it could self implode by itself.

In the end, over hundreds of lives were lost. Countless streets and buildings destroyed and consumed by the blast that resulted from Yuko's Benzaiten. Yuko who was at odds and even felt guilty when the innocent people inside of Kengai's father's soba shop were killed, turned around in the next moment and essentially killed her own comrades en route to claiming possibly up to a thousand lives. Hundreds of lives lost in Takigakure. Tens of lives lost indirectly in Kumogakure just by her arrival there. She was to blame for all these casualties, even if indirectly.