The minutes of waiting dragged painfully slow, but I decided to combine the useful with the useful, and instead of wasting time, I plunged into meditation and came out of it only at the third hour of the night, when sleep was the strongest.
The peace of mind that reigned in my soul did not prevent me from giving the order to begin the operation. The moon peeked fully out of the clouds, providing enough shade for the clones to move with ease not only outside the house, but inside as well.
While the first placed disks in the corners of the plot, creating a square, the second entered Rasa's bedroom for a few seconds and left open vials of poison behind the dresser, disappearing as quietly and quickly as he had appeared.
Living up to his reputation as an S-rank shinobi from the last war, Rasa woke up one minute, thirty-two seconds after the poison had been delivered to the room, though I was still no closer and the clones were undetectable by normal senses. And they weren't exactly on a mission to attack.
Nevertheless, the source of the sleeping man began to match the awake one. Nothing happened for a couple dozen seconds, and then I felt a shapeless surge of chakra, and at the same moment I rushed forward toward the house on the outskirts of the neighborhood, while the shadow clone activated the kekkai, sealing the space inside and immediately using the kage bunshin extracted from the scroll as a storage device.
Nothing changed in the target's sense of the world around them, but those outside would now have no way of knowing what was going on inside the black cube, even if there were S-class fighters fighting there. And anyone can enter it, but only the creator can come out. Now Rasa wouldn't be able to escape anywhere!
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I jumped over the fence, flew across the dark surface of the erected kekkai without the slightest resistance, and used my speed to slam into the wall of the house, smashing through it with a rumble.
The armor of golden chakra that had appeared on my body a moment before I hit the tree protected me from the possible consequences of such a rough penetration.
I continued to move toward the source of the chakra, ignoring the furniture of the room I was in, and with one powerful push I smashed through the inner wall, flying straight into the former Kazekage's bedroom.
I was met by a wave of sand glistening in the moonlight, but Samehada's sweep of the barrier turned it from a deadly weapon, albeit not as powerful due to the poison as the last time I met Rasa, into just heavy metal sand that crumbled to the floor.
- You!? - the shinobi exclaimed, recognizing the weapon a moment before that very sword came crashing down on him.
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