Naruto sat down, tapping his chin before Shizune placed a sheet of paper and a pen in front of him, "Ti has pretty much taken a sledgehamr to the minute details, but other than the unholy garbage I have on the Cursed Seal I have a few of his lieutenants' nas and the coordinates of a few bases spread out all over the place. That man really got around." He said as he wrote out so of what he knew on the paper provided.
Tsunade waited for him to finish before taking and reading what he had down, "This isn't bad at all. It's definitely more information than anyone else had been able to scrounge up on Orochimaru's workings for years before this. It's definitely settled then. You will be accompanying a contingent of Anbu on search and destroy missions against the bases you've just listed for us."
Naruto had to grin at that, "Finally." He mumbled out, "Are you going to promote now or what?"
Tsunade lowered the paper and frowned at him, "Maybe. We'll see when you get back. I'll summon you in a few days to get your full briefing for the mission. Tell no one what exactly you're doing. I'm sure you know this."
Naruto had a question, "What about my money? It's been two weeks and I never got my money for Sasori."
Tsunade rubbed her temple, "Since he turned his body into a puppet there was no biological evidence of it being Sasori himself despite his signature poison coating the weapons you sent."
Naruto blinked, "You need DNA? Why didn't you say so? I kept the tatters of the shirt I used when I fought him, it has his blood from my final attack all over it. I'll send it right to you before I set out on this trip. I want my money, Suna's not shafting on this one."
Tsunade sent a look to Shizune who nodded and left the room, probably to prepare correspondence to Kaze no Kuni. She then returned her attention to Naruto, "I'll handle it if you get the DNA. Now get rested and ready for the mission. No training, and get your affairs in order before you leave. This one's going to be a long one."
"Understood Tsunade-sama. Consider the bases raided and sacked." Naruto saluted her and exited through the window.
(End Flashback)
Night had fallen as Naruto made his way further in from the edge of the cliff he had just scaled and eventually ca upon a seemingly normal looking fracture in the rock wall, 'Pretty normal looking cave entrance. The man can certainly disguise his bases when he wants to.' The opening seed unguarded, but Naruto knew far better than that. This base was still active, that ant that there was a guard or two sowhere within easy sight of the entrance.
Naruto simply stood still and decided now was the ti to use one of his 'natural' advantages, 'Hey Kyuubi, can you help point out any sentries posted out here. I know they're here, I just don't really know where, and attacking one without having a bead on the other could blow my stealth before I even start the mission.'
He waited for a mont for a reply before receiving one, "There is one currently using Doton: Moguragakure no Jutsu (Earth Release: Hidden Mole Jutsu) about ten feet in front of the hole in the wall. There is another just inside the entrance, right out of your or anyone else's line of sight."
Naruto looked along the ground for a sign of jutsu use before acknowledging Kyuubi's assistance, 'Thanks a million. Alright he's close enough to the surface so that he can sense the movents of intruders, that ans I can use a move to get to him, but I have to sohow get the other guy first, or else he'll get wise to sothing strange happening and alert the rest of the base to my presence.' Naruto was incredibly grateful for the new moon being on this night as it left him with the perfect lack of visibility for him to pull this maneuver off.
Naruto created a Kage Bunshin and henged it into a spider before pulling out a spool of ninja wire. Naruto's spider clone took the end of the wire and walked off towards the cave, the underground sentry either not noticing or acknowledging the presence of the spider. As it entered the cave and saw the Oto shinobi posted to stand watch it moved up the wall closest to him before jumping off onto him and gently walking around the man's shoulder area twice, leaving slack to ensure that the wire would go unnoticed. Luckily there was no need for the spider clone to transform back as it found a recess in the wall that it could fit its body into and hold the ninja wire. Upon getting the wire fully situated and steadied it dispelled.
Upon getting the ntal cue from his clone, Naruto pulled on his end of the wire as hard as he could, feeling the steel wire tighten and run into sothing, the guard's throat. Naruto kept pulling until he felt the wire give a tug back, signifying that the body of his target had expired. Dropping the wire from his hands he then picked up a stone before tossing it directly into the mouth of the cave. The underground sentry feeling the vibration, jumped out of hiding and looked inside the cave, unknowingly turning his back on the direct location of Naruto who then proceeded to bury a kunai into the back of his head/neck from thirty yards out.
Naruto ran from his hiding place and pulled the kunai from the back of the man's head before holstering it and making a Kage Bunshin to clean up his ss outside while he continued on in with his mission.
Getting through Orochimaru's underground designed bases was a simple ga of 'What Deadly Trap Goes Here?' The first hallway, uninhabited, which ant, avoid the pressure plates that would drop the floor out from beneath you in a flash, dropping you into a pungi pit. An easy solution to this, run along the wall. Avoid the tripwires that were set up down the long staircase leading deeper into base that would end up with poison gas secreting from the walls and saturating the area.
The second branching corridor, Naruto proceeded to take a left, hoping that he was right in rembering that the first right turn in the original Oto base that he infiltrated lead directly to the barracks... not exactly the most fun start to a mission if he could accurately recall. Before leaving however, he stuck a charge on the ceiling of the exact spot where the three paths t, using the low light of the base to hide it. Orochimaru really needed to invest in so lighting in his bases. The torches gave the place a dark, creepy, sowhat intimidating vibe, but low visibility ant guys like him could sneak in all day and have the advantage, especially over Oto shinobi and their light grey usual uniforms.
Eventually Naruto ca upon a room with all kinds of communications equipnt. Oh yeah, this room definitely had to go if he was going to keep doing this. As he entered the room he had to ponder sothing as he moved along the wall. Why did every room with equipnt like this have everything facing away from the only door in there? Even one desk or table turned around would an that his way in would have been much harder.
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