Shota looked at the other three ANBU following behind him and sighed as they moved inside the Land of Rivers and headed toward their destination.
He was not sighing because he was being forced to run to another country again for a mission but because he was given responsibility of an Anbu team.
Spider had gone back on his word of him not giving him a team. Now he had to lead a team on a mission. Well, not that he had many secret abilities left that he had to reveal which was the primary reason for him not wanting a team. The only thing was the full capability of his Erasure which Danzo already knew about, so he did not mind it that much.
Apparently if Shota was to become a jōnin ever, he should have considerable leadership experience in his back for that promotion to be viable.
Shota was considering becoming jōnin was a drag and he should just say it to Spider that he did not want to become one but then he had remembered his goals which required considerable political power that would only come after officially becoming a jōnin.
So here he was leading a small team of assassin ANBU chūnin to a mission to eliminate some of Root assets.
Shota thought,'Who would have thought that wanting to become a Jonin would need some leadership experience? I guess some things stay the same between different worlds. Even on Earth, you would need leadership experience to reach higher positions in a company.'
Shota suddenly remembered
'If they are giving me leadership experience that means that they likely also would want me to take apprentices too when I become jonin. Ugh, that would be a terrible experience.'
In Suna, generally instead of taking a genin team likely in Konoha, a Jonin took apprentices. The apprentices were taken by the discretion of the jonin and the genin. Both the parties had to accept it. The Kazekage generally did not have the say in it like the Hokage when it came to the genin team.
Shota thought, 'At least, I can decide who I want to teach. And surely I would pick only the ones that would be less troublesome that what the Konoha 12 were like. There would be no protagonists, no troublemakers, no kids babbling about fate, no arrogant kids, no youthful kids, no useless love stricken girls....yes I am talking about you Sakura.'
When they reached the town of the auction house, Shota looked at the ANBU chūnin that was second in command whose codename was Otto.
"Otto."
"Yes, Raven."
"You would be keeping an eye on the merchant as well as his trading house for today. I need information about how many shinobi are protecting the auction house, how many employees working there, when is the next Auction and who would be attending it. And do all of this without going in too close with the Auction House, there surely would be root agents looking for Konoha shinobi."
Otto nodded and disappeared in a body flicker.
Their target was an Auction House.
Yup, an Auction House. Even this world had one. And this auction house was dealing with shinobi things.
It seemed that Danzo ran an Auction House. Of course not directly but under an undercover agent who had taken the role of a merchant or indirectly supporting the merchant and giving him funds to run the business for them.
They had managed to find it out because after Danzo left Konoha, the auction house started selling jutsu scrolls and other shinobi stuff, something that was frowned upon since no village wanted to give away even smaller of their secrets to anyone.
It seemed that Danzo was looking for new funds to relocate his Root now that he had left Konoha.
And surprisingly various rogue shinobi organisations, smaller shinobi villages, nobles and merchants had participated in these auctions to buy such stuff, giving Danzo large amounts of money and thus this auction house gained a lot of traction.
Their job was not only to kill the Auction House owner who was definitely Root but also to take all jutsu scrolls and other shinobi stuff to Suna for examination to see if they could find something good from it.
Spider had said that Danzo was an old player and he was making this much noise to attract attention.
Attention from other greater shinobi villages who would want some rare jutsus at a very large price.
That's why he believed that the auction house would have a lot more shinobi protection and that's why he was sending not only him but also a team with him.
Otto came back after some time and said, "Sir, it seems like that an auction is going to start tomorrow."
It was funny to see a middle-aged man call a child "sir" but Shota let it go. The man was only following protocol after all.
Shota grinned underneath his mask.
"So what are we waiting for. We will be taking part in it tomorrow."
'Well, I had read so many auction stories in various novels. Always wanted to be a part of it. Well, I guess I got my wish fulfilled.'
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