Pulling Weeds {M}

[Takeuchi]

Name: Weeds Creeping Among Flowers
Rank: "B"
IIC Length: 2 days
Difficulty: Hard
Description: Yuri the Kuskage has received information on the location of the meeting places of the rebel forces within Kusa. They do not agree with the appointment of the Kusakage, and have plans to rebel against the village and assassinate her. The location and time of their next meeting place has been found. The meeting is happening in the warehouse district of the village, that is ironically under construction by Yuri's orders to help improve the quality of life for the people of the village. They are calling for anyone who is not impressed by the new Kusakage to come and make their displeasure known. Number of participants is unknown. Some may also been leaning by not completely ready to rebel, or may just be curious. Proceed with caution not to harm innocence.
Objective: Infiltrate meeting, identify leaders if presents. Eliminate threat, bring back as many "Weeds" alive as possible. Identify Leaders, if they are present.
Reward: 50,000 Ryo

No word from any of the Genin, seems like the Uchiha was on his own for this one. Well, nothing new here and Takeuchi headed towards the location of the meeting, though he was still a short way away. As he approached the man checked his gear, with Banryu on his back and his shock enhanced leather gauntlets on his hands, the only things within the pouch at his hip were ten glow sticks, just in case, and forty exploding tags. He wore his tank top and shorts since he had not gotten a new suit tailored yet. It was time to pull some weeds, but he could not neglect gathering proper intel on the building first, at the very least he needed to know if there were people patrolling around and/or guarding the building. The man was within view of the building, but not too close, to make his casual observation less suspicious he bummed a cigarette off a passerby and smoked while watching the place.

(Observation 125)

[DJ Loki]

Takeuchi would notice that there were several ninja, of varying ages walking pass him every once in while. They all would seem to be heading in the same direction. They would go three buildings down and then turn the corner into the alley way. None of them would seem to be too concerned about anyone seeing them. After all it wasn't an uncommon sight for ninja to use this district for various reasons. It was an abandoned dump, that Yuri only just started to try and fix up. Zets would need to be as careful as he might think, as no one would recognize him as a former Kusakage thanks to his augmentation....... mishap.

[Takeuchi]

Well, there were ninja coming to and fro, and he wasn't being picked out, probably because of his physical alterations. It had been a possibility in his mind, but one never knew what leaks might be present, best to be cautious. With no one seeming to pay any mind, the Uchiha began to head towards the door to the building that his targets were currently making use of, he had a story all in place. Once he reached the door, the man would grab the door knob and open test it, opening it if it was unlocked and looking at it for a moment if it was. He had methods to get inside if the door was locked, but it was the man's wish that it did not come to that. It was time to see who, if anyone, would show up to stop him or see what he was up to.

[DJ Loki]

He would not be able to open the door, and a voice would echo from on top of the building. "Whoa, there buddy... hold on now. We can't just let anyone into our little club house." The Masked figure to walk down the side of the wall, tipping his hat to the hulking. "I've never seen you around before, but we do welcome new friends, if you are indeed a friend." The man skipped down the side of the wall and then landed on his feet, next to Takeuchi. He looked up at him and then pulled out a clip board, "Now bare with me there's just a couple of questions. "1. How do you feel about the current leadership?.... #2. If you are unsatisfied with current leadership, what kind of leader would you like to have in place? Final Question... How did you hear about this place?"

The last question had a tinge of killing intent laced within it. This was perhaps the most important question. He would need to be careful with his words here. There were plenty of wrong answer and as equal as many correct ones. The smiling, waiting to kill eyes could been seen over the top of the mask gas.

[Takeuchi]

Questions. Rapid fire too, the former Kusakage hadn't had much time between to answer, but he stumbled some things in between questions. "I mean, I dunno s'okay I gue- I dunno, guess would be ni-. Look, me boss sent me here to check the place and get rid o' some stuff wut ent suppos' ta be here. Gonna try en rebuil' tha place ya'know." The killing intent was palpable ans Mukuro was frankly just stopping to care. Looking into the man's eyes with a dumbstruck expression, he had enough and coal orbs suddenly shone crimson. "Be still and silent." Subtlety had never been the man's strong suit, it would be easier to just command the man for the moment and make him turn himself in. The Hypnosis State he used could help him along the way, but it was not infallible or all purpose, there were things it could not do.

[DJ Loki]

The man that stood there before the giant man, tilted his head to the side in confusion barely understanding what it was the man was saying. He tried to lean in to hear what he was saying, "I'm gong to need you to speak clearer big fella." When he said this he heard what the man said next and his eyes widened as he saw the Sharigan forming. "Oh shi-" before he could finish he was completely under the effect of the Sharigan eyes. He stood there completely silent, waiting to be given his next bit of orders.

[Takeuchi]

Well, that one went well. Next was the tricky one, getting him into the tower without ordering him to do something he wouldn't. It was all about the phrasing, well Vladimir knew of the mission so this should work. "Go to the Keep and tell Vladimir that Takeuchi sent you. For the good of the village." That should do well enough for him to obey without triggering a resistance, hopefully. Though there was always the fallback of making him try to steal Vlad's book with the Obsession genjitsu if he didn't obey. Regardless of the outcome, the Uchiha opened the door and peered inside, listening for any noise that may alert him to the presence of others.

[DJ Loki]

"Yo..." The masked man said as he started to walk towards the tower. He seemed to be rather focused as he walked off, ignoring most everyone else as he walked pass. When Takeuchi peeked into the the door. He would see a mostly empty warehouse, with a large group of people gathering towards the middle of it. There was a stage resting there with several lights casting down on it. Everyone in there was chattering, and talking to each other, as a gentle with a silver-ish suit with White hair stood in the middle of the stage. Takeuchi would recognize him as Aisu Kaishin. He was one of the more talented Jounin within the village. The crowd started to cheer at his presence and he began to quiet down the crowd.

[Takeuchi]

Looks like there was quite the crowd that had gathered inside the building, and lookie there. Up on the main stage was a Jounin, Aisu Kaishin. Well, no one had noticed the Uchiha just yet, it was time for something of a sneak attack. His quota for survivors had been filled already. His hands moved and danced through a series of hand seals as he stood in the back of the crowd before his fingers made a circle in front of his mouth. Blowing through the ring of chakra a great ball of flame was expelled from his mouth, rocketing towards the center of the crowd. The Goukakyuu shot forward and, at the center of the crowd, exploded. He had made sure to keep himself out of range of the blast, and was aware of the carnage that would ensue, "Party is over. The reckoning has arrived."

[DJ Loki]

The Fireball Jutsu would explode into the crowd, and several people were killed instantly, while other were heavily wounded While others went into a panic, and began to take off. They were all Ninja, so their movements were far more organized and crisp for a panic'd crowd. As the fire began to rage and the budding rebels began to flee. Aisu flipped his hair out of his face, "Do you see? The fake Kusakage, sends her dog to do her dirty work, we are simple protesting our displeasure, and this... inelegant beasts, danes to kill us. Corrupt..." As he said this the ninja that were beginning to run away stopped in there tracks and turned to face him. They all began to murmur, "Corrupt... corrupt..."

Aisu jumped off the stage and as he did so, the entire warehouse would go ice cold. As Aisu walked forward and the flames began to fade away as he stepped forward. "I wonder... Should I make an example of you... beast?" The Man stood there, very nicely dressed in a white suit, with well kept white hair he gave the former Kage a toothy grin.

[Takeuchi]

Aisu was quite skilled at playing the crowd, at the very least. He managed to quell the panic and turn their fear back into hatred for the current regime. Well, the fire continued to spread and he went on about the Uchiha being a beast. "You don't seem to have changed much, Ice, still obsessed with elegance. I wonder if you remember what I told you before." The Uchiha cracked his knuckles and grinned at the Jounin, "Remember when you asked about my broken stapler? There's nothing beautiful or elegant about killing and death. It's brutal and merciless. Now come on, the old man hasn't has a decent fight in a long time. Think you can give me a workout?" Mukuro had begun walking as he spoke, giving the Jounin ample time to act. Now how would he react. Could he discern Takeuchi's identity with that?

[DJ Loki]

Aisu began to laugh as he heard the Uchiha talk, "Oh... how deliciously perfect. You outsides reflect the hypocritical sludge of a man your were on the inside. Look upon the face on a former Kage. He left us to crumbled, and now returns to serve the unworthy princess." He spit out to the side as scoffed at Takeuchi. She then held his hand to his forehead and began to laugh again as Takeuchi inched froward towards him. "And other than that gravel you call a face you haven't changed either. Still so eager to do everything alone." Aisu stood there with his hand extended out at his side. As he did so two breath takingly beautiful ice daggers appear in his hand.

The people that were there began to surrounding Takeuchi as well. It would seem indeed Aisu was not alone, and even alone he would be difficult to deal with. However, this lot was much more than fodder they would hardly be any sport for the former Kage. Aisu would know this, so why was it that he was so confident leading this bunch of weaklings against the raining regime. Perhaps he really did see Yuri in such a negative light.

[Takeuchi]

Takeuchi heaved a sigh as he moved, "Just like always, you've got some skill when it come to abilities... Yet still, your intelligence makes you nothing more than an incompetent mouth-breather that needs directions to tie his own shoes." He was surrounded, but the Uchiha didn't pay them much mind, they were fodder. Less opponents than obstacles. "I mean come on, were these suppose to be your troops to take down the Keep? I could tear through them like wet tissue paper. Hell, you're little more than a cardboard box in my path, it'll take a bit more effort than the others but you'd break just like the rest." His fingers dashed through the seals, there were very few of them and he unleashed his technique upon Ice. A simple C Level Genjutsu that, if successful, would deprive the Kaishin of both sight and hearing. The Uchiha was done humoring him, and if his enemy couldn't even defend against this weak, unaided Genjutsu then they weren't even worth calling a target. Just another bump on the road Mukuro walked.

[DJ Loki]

"You wound me old man. Your words and actions... they sting." Aisu sad as he got into a fighting stance shrugging off Takeuchi's genjutsu he was a genjutsu specialist, the thought that such a simple thing would work on him was insulting. "Yes they are pawns... pawns willing to risk their lives for the cause. And we both know, when used correctly, even pawns can take the King." Aisu said wit a devilish smile as the ninja that surrounded Takeuchi would go in for the attack. 4 of them stayed on the outside and and weaved hand seals, while 4 more rushed in on the old Kage. Each of them moved at the speed of a D rank taimaster, and would send rather dodge able attacks. Aisu on the other hand would be moving on the outside of the men there, re- positioning himself.

As he stood now the stage was behind him and the light form his light reflected his shadow towards Takeuchi. He found this unfavorable at the moment. As he moved he would fade into the shadows of the men attacking Takeuchi. He knew that the Sharigan would beable to spot him through this poultry genjutsu. However, he didn't care. He was cunning, devious and when in the face of something her found ugly or inelegant, he struck with deadly and quick precision. He was clearly up to something. He continued to maneuver himself behind Takeuchi, perhaps in an attempt to flank him.

[Takeuchi]

"Is that your boss's hope, Ice?" The Uchiha responded while forming hand seals, "That you will be able to accomplish something?" As he completed the series his hands smashed together and streams of fire flowed from him and circled both himself and Ice as well as many of the 'pawns'. Of course the attackers were not hindered in their actions, but their attacks were fruitless. As the melee attackers struck his body moved with the blunt strikes as his natural ability reduced the damage to almost nothing. Grabbing the attackers he the proceeded to use the people as shields to stop the incoming jutsu the casters were sending his way. "Come on, Ice." He said, his eyes following the man even shrouded by his illusion. "If you don't make a move soon, I'm going to be getting bored and bring the fight to you." With the B ranked ring of fire surrounding both himself, Aisu, and some of the fodder the Uchiha began to advance again. It was getting about time to end things.

[DJ Loki]

His ring of fire was put out by one of the men who used a water jutsu he was perparing for a direct attack, but targeted the former Kage's fire jutsu instead. The next volley of jutsu flew towards the Kage, but his use of the attacking men as shields was effective in blocking the attacks and reducing the number of attackers. During all f In the ground before them a one of his daggers were implanted into Takeuchi's shadow, and another was planted in his own. Takeuchi would find it impossible to move, from his spot. However, he could still move his body part, he would just be stuff in that spot. "I've learned quite a few things since last we met." Aisu on the other hand was this moving into position. Takeuchi would have no choice but to take his eyes off him while he dealt with the pawns.

Just as the last of the melee ranged fighter were dealt with Aisu chimed, "You relic... moves have already been made." Takeuchi would feel his feet unable to move from the ground. He could turn his head and move the rest of his body, but his feet be like that were clamped to the floor. Looking over his shoulder he would see one of Aisu's dagger with a tag on it stabbed into his shadow, the other dagger was stabbed into his own. Aisu was just using the peons as a distraction to maneuver himself so that he would be facing Takeuchi and the stage, as that was the only major source of light in this warehouse.

meaning in his position, Takeuchi's shadow was pushed closer to him from this position. Aisu began to laugh saying, "One on One... you are a difficult opponent, I dare not risk it if need be. But killing you here... oh wait a wonderful message it would send. Don't you agree, my Princess."

"Oh I do... I really do." Takeuchi would here a very familiar voice directly in front of him. She had the eyes of a Hyuuga, and she was already in a Jyuuken stance, preparing to close off Takeuchi Chakra Points and deal massive internal damage, while Aisu reached out with his shadow to properly control the former Kage to make sure he remained motionless. Before her finger could reach or the shadows touch, a mass of flower petals swarmed to area. It wrapped around Takeuchi in a protective layer, and it cause the Hyuuga woman and Aisu both to retreat. backwards. If Takeuchi hadn't already found a way to free himself from Aisu's bindings he would be free now.

"What the hell?" Aisu said as he heard the screaming of the other pawns as they were swallowed by the mass of flower petals. The Swarm of petals left nothing more than a bloody stain in their wake. It then raced towards Aisu, would amass a torrent of water that engulfed the petals and then froze over. An all but too familiar of figure then landed down on the ground next to Takeuchi.  Aisu spit at the ground, "Another relic." The Hyuuga woman smirked saying, "Vladimir Ikebana." Vladimir stood there with a cigarette in his mouth, clad in his usual attire. "We got the message... wasn't hard to get information out of him in the state you sent him in. Once we found out who it was we're dealing with, Yuri ordered someone to come an assist. I volunteered, this one can not be taken lightly. She Upgraded the Mission to an S, and says to compensate you as such."

Aisu looked at Vlad and scoffed, "Just another old fool.." "Would you look at that Mukuro... I believe it's Thursday already." Vladimir chuckled with Takeuchi as Aisu seemed to be taken a back, as his words brought back rumor's of Vladimir's ruthlessness, when it came to traitors. He looked over at the blood stains that used to be pawns and mumbled, "Bloody Thursday..." Aisu was confident that they could take Takeuchi together if he was alone, but even with the element of surprise that they had it would have still be an up hill battle for them. But with Vladimir there... there was no way, not with what they currently had. However, the Hyuuga woman looked unfazed by the arrival of Vlad, as if she held a well of power that even Aisu her royal follower knew not about."Vlad the Impaler, the Bloody, Bloody Thursday, and Mukuro the Slayer of Dragons, and form Kage. What tremendous pawns my cousin has. She's knows how to delegate I'll give her that much. But that little bitch is far too weak to hold the position she has. IT SHOULD BE MINE!!"

Takeushi would finally get a good look at the woman in front of him. It was Tessarei. She was a Branch Hyuuga and child of the Ikebana clan, much like Yuri herself. Unlike Yuri neither clan made any effort to protect her, she did not come any sort of noble blood. However, it was clear she possessed extraordinary talent, but she was mentally unhinged and hard to control. If noot for that she very well could have become Kage quite some time ago. Now seeing Yuri step into that sit of power infuriated her. She could admit the girl had endless depths of potential, that surpassed even her own, but she wanted nothing to do with being a ninja. She was tired of seeing everything being handed to her. "And I will have it!!!"

"By the order of the Kusakage, you lot have been designated as Missing Ninja. Come quietly or we will do this the hard, the way that doesn't guarantee you survive. Please pick the hard... I very much enjoy the hard way." Vlad smiled as a puff of smoke left the side of his mouth once again. Much like Takeuchi he enjoyed the direct approach and would much rather kill them now than give them a trail. "Go to hell." Aisu said with defiance in his eyes. Vlad, flicked his finished cigarette on the ground and smirked, as he pulled out another "You first." Just as he said this the entire warehouse blossomed into a field of flowers, expect for a space 15 meters around he and Takeuchi. The flowers unleashed a pollen of sorts and Vlad looked over at Takeuchi as he put the cigarette into his mouth, "Give me a light old friend."

Vlad said not talking about the cigarette, but singling Takeuchi to set blaze to the flammable pollen spores he had summoned. They would explode with the power of the fire technique that Takeuchi used, with an additional 40ap of damage.

[Takeuchi]

Immobilization, but with something like a tagged blade stabbed into his shadow and no exploding in sight, the cause was obvious. He was about to take care of it when the insanity just brought out another. A Hyuuga girl the Ice boy was calling princess, just perfect. "Looks like we finally get to the meat of the matter." As they were preparing to act and Mukuro was gabout to escape, flower petals made their appearance around him. There was only one person this could be and when he showed himself, there was only one thing he could really say. "Dammit, Vlad, you just wanted to get in on the fun, didn't you?" He locked eyes with one of the peons and compelled him in an offhanded manner, "Oi you, kick that knife." Before returning his attention to the main scene.

"Has the desk job been that boring? You're the one that volunteered for it, I just put the job listing up." Of course he was smirking, those people were being shaken up just by the Vlad mentioning Thursday. Pathetic. His hands moved through seals during the girl's monologue, he knew what was coming. It was something that had been done before with Vlad, but it would not go off yet. One of the nearby fodder had an orange symbol appear on their chest, center mass. And when all the theatrics ended and the signal was spoken, the Uchiha spoke himself and winded up, "Keeping in line with the whole chess, pawn theme," He swung his fist and punched the marked man in the gut, sending him flying at Ice and possibly killing him with brutality of the strike that could crush bones.

"I would say I'm more of a Rook, Vlad... you're probably something like a bishop." When around the Kaishin, the symbol on the body would burst with the force of a B Class flame and set fire to the pollen. The burnt smell of flesh had already permeated the air, and it would only be freshened up by the latest burning body(s). Calling out to the blaze, "You guys dead, running away, or do you still wanna fight? I really hope there's some fight left here."

[DJ Loki]

"Nah, I just finished reading my book. Didn't have another one hand. Figured why not." Vlad joked with Mukuro, as he talked about him being bored with his new desk job. As the explosion happened around them Vlad walked over the the burning flames and stuck his cigarette into it. He placed it back in his mouth and inhaled. There was silence from the other two, but he doubt they were dead just from that. Just then a powerful gust of cooling wind blew through the warehouse, blasting away the raging fire. Aisu was still in his position, seemingly unharmed expect for the the burning of his cloths. The sight of his tattered clothing send him into bit of a fit. Tessarei on the other hand stood there unharmed. Her clothing having not even a cider on them.

"Aisu we are withdrawing. That explosion had drawn the attention of near by Anbu." She said as her Byakugan spied the area around them. "It is no matter, we have accomplished what we needed to do. Call yourselves whatever you like, rook, bishop. You serve a pawn with no Queen in sight. Such a waste." Vlad let smoke escape the side of his mouth, "Maybe, but a pawn is the only piece on the board that can become a new Queen. And that girl won't be pawn for much longer." Vlad Said as he disappeared in a burst of speed and was upon Tessarei with a rose in hand. That rose instantly turned into a sword as he slashed down. Tesserei manifest a rose blade of her own and parried off Vlad's Slash and then followed up with a Wind palm. The the wind blast knocked Vlad back but he landed on his feet and hardly hurt by the attack.

When he looked up, Tesserei was around gone, "Dammit..." Takeuchi would see that Aisu was already escaping through an ice mirror that he had created behind him. With that both of them would have vanished into the night. Vlad sighed, "Whelp... that's that I guess. At least we know who it is who's leading these rebels." Vlad walked up to Takeuchi, and then then handed him a stack of Ryo, inside of it was 150,000 ryo. "Mission Complete. Yuri might want to talk to you about that comes next. See you back at the Keep. " Vlad then kicked opened the door to see Anbu standing there, having arrived just a bit too late.... as usual. However, they seemed to be the hunters, if anyone in the village would be able to track where they slumped off to it was going to be them.

[Spectre of the Falls(Kuroki)]

Payout Complete