Zero Teams

> *"Silence is gold, Information is often more worth than gold."*
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> Motto of the Zero-Teams.
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The Zero-Teams are a specialist corps focused on espionage, in service of the Empire of Akino. Their name stands for zero: not existent. There are a few outside the organisation who are remotely known with the existence of the Zero Teams and even fewer outside the organisation that know how they work. If one can consider the ANBU and similar corps to be an elite assassination force, then the Zero Teams are the elite when it comes down to (counter-)espionage.

## Hierarchy

Unlike their ANBU-counterparts, the Zero Team members don't operate just only for the ANBU or spy commander. They serve the interest of the Empire of Akino and thus can be ordered by higher-ups instead of a single one. Ranks within the organisation might exist but remain unsure due to the amount of secrecy that shrouds the organisation's operations

## Recruitment and Training

The exact fashion on how the Zero Teams recruit their members isn’t known. They train their operatives in secrecy within various facilities. These trainings are focused on various fields that are almost constantly used by the Zero-Teams operatives. Subterfuge as stealth are the main fields but operatives are taught how to speak various dialects and languages, be competent at reading body languages and various other techniques to infiltrate and blend in to do their job. But they are also informed as taught about the history, habits and traditions of the locations that they infiltrate.

Some more experienced Zero-Team operatives are capable of posing as another person, such as a target of a previous assassination mission. They are capable of performing this to such an extent that even family members are usually clueless that their father, sister or relative is a Zero-Team operative in 'disguise'.

## Techniques

The secret techniques of the Zero Teams are designed to serve the purpose as operations of the Zero Teams. Though they are in no way deadly or competent in a fight, they are most useful in various other situations. With their techniques, the Zero Teams operatives have managed to elude enemy spies and operatives as faking their own deaths. All to further their purpose of completing a mission.

All the members are being drilled into knowing these two techniques. They are non-combat techniques as it is safe to assume that not every Zero-Team member is qualified for combat situations. They are spies and gather intel, not every single one of them is a highly trained assassin that could whim you out with his/her toenails.

 **Description** | This is a technique that was by a Zero Team member, though it’s unknown when he did it as his real face isn’t definitively known either. It’s an advanced form of the Transformation Technique that allows the user to take any human form for extended amounts of time without needing focus to maintain it. With each use, the chakra system’s color and signature changes, making it unrecognizable to sensors and sharingan/byakugan users, as it changes the user’s physiology completely.
 **Weakness** | his technique can be overridden, but it can’t be undone.

 **Weakness** | It can’t be used on beings with chakra in them.