As they travel through the forests of Hi no Kuni, everyone in the Konoha group as they remained silent as they ran, since they had much to think about after what they saw and learned yesterday. Even though everyone was thinking about a different event yet all the things had one two things in common, they involved The Raikage and Kumo.
Also Kureani, Choji, Sakura and Lee were all have a sense of déjà vu of last month when they were travelling back to Konoha, after being recued from The Hold by Kumo. In which like before they could only wonder the reaction of the Hokage and the Council, especially certain members like Koharu and Danzo, when they learned what happened in Nami no Kuni and what they had seen yesterday.
And like before it was certain Konoha was going to be in for a big surprise very soon.
- One Day before the Battle of Nami no Kuni -
A day before the Battle for Nami no Kuni (Wave Country), Jiraiya was travelling through the valley that Kumogakure (the Hidden Cloud) was situated in, he was planning on sneaking into the village and gather as much Intel as he possibly could on it. Although he had gathered some interesting information about Kumo's new ANBU divisions like STORM, SHOCK, BOLT and CIND along with some other things.
But still travelling through Kaminari no Kuni (Lightning Country) had not been easy for Jiraiya since on more than one occasion he had been nearly sighted and caught by patrolling Kumo-nins on the boarders Kaminari no Kuni and in Kaminari no Kuni itself. This was something he could not afford to happen, since Konoha needed him for the War. As he travelled on to Kumo he found that he was crossing into less and less patrol squads, which was the opposite of what he had expected to happen since he had expected more and it to be harder when nearing it. It was because of this, that Jiraiya kept his guard up as he got closer, since after the many years of being a Shinobi, Jiraiya had developed a sixth sense of when danger was near and right now his sixth sense was going on full blast warning him of danger, but he continued on.
Soon enough Jiraiya arrived at the spot where the village was situated, but when he got there, he could not believe what he was seeing, instead of seeing the great walls around the village and the village itself along with the mountain that The Raikage tower was built into which he had seen during the few visit he made to the village. All Jiraiya saw was the ruined remains of the wall, along with the ruins of buildings and a massive crater that was in the centre of the village, which covered about a third of the village. But the most shocking thing that Jiraiya saw was that the mountain that The Raikage tower was built into was gone as if it disappeared and all that was left in its place was another large crater.
"What the hell happened here?" thought Jiraiya in disbelief since he could not understand what had happened here.
As Jiraiya looked around he could clearly see that this destruction was not recent as their was no bodies or smoke and the ruin's were old where moss, grass, flowers, weeds and other plants had already grown and covered much of the area in the ruins. As Jiraiya looked around he continued to wonder what had happen here, obliviously there had be some kind of battle here from the Civil War, since judging by how old the ruins were. But still he wondered what could cause such destruction and want kind of Jutsu's could destroy an entire mountain and destroy a third of this village. Not to mention, how could Kumo even exist if the village was destroyed during the Civil War, but he quickly realised that the people and Shinobi's of Kumo had obliviously moved and rebuilt the village in a new location, but the question was where did they move to?
To answer this Jiraiya started to look around the ruins in the hope of finding some kind of clue, that could lead him to the location to where this new Kumo was built and tell him what exactly happened here.
As Jiraiya looked around he soon felt several unknown Chakra signatures nearby and could tell that whoever they were, they were watching him nearby. Jiraiya did nothing at first and pretended to not notice them, since he wanted to know their intentions. He guessed that they were Kumo ANBU-nins and Jiraiya had to admit that the ones who were watching him were very skilled to keep themselves hidden from him for so long. Since he guessed that they had been following him, ever since he entered the valley of the mountain range that the Kumo was built into or maybe longer. The only reason he had been able to notice them was because he was on guard, when he thought it was getting too easy as he got closer to the village. Had he not been on guard and had been lax, he was fairly certain, that they could have sneaked up on him and killed him before he noticed them and do anything to stop them.
After a few minutes and finding nothing of use from the ruins, he decide to end the charade and see if he could get any answers from the Kumo-nins themselves.
"You can come out now I know you are there and have been watching me for a while…..so why don't you come out so that we can talk face to face…all of you", spoke Jiraiya out load so that they could hear him.
"As expected from the famed Toad Sage Jiraiya, and member of the Densetsu no Sannin (Legendary Three Ninja)", spoke a women. Who then appeared on top of the remains of a ruined house along with four other Kumo ANBU-nins who wore standard ANBU outfits and wore Yellow and Black masks showing they were from the SHOCK ANBU division.
The women that had spoken,was a relatively short and petite woman with lightly tanned skin and Black hair and had a slightly curvy body and was the only one that did not wear a mask. She wore sleeveless white haori and a Yellow obi tied around her waist with a Tanto sheathed horizontally behind her lower back hanging by a rope. Underneath it she wore a tradition Ninja outfit that had no sleeves and didn't cover her back. Her hair was worn short with two long braids covered in cloth each ending in a large golden ring.
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