Angel of The Hidden Leaf

After recovering for a while, Team Seven went for their usual D Ranks. Since I'm no longer part of the team, I can't take the same mission as them. That's the reason why I decided to start off taking missions with some Chunin.

Now, you might be thinking that good old regular Chunin is enough. But nope! I am not taking any random Chunin as my teammate. I need someone good, someone awesome, someone who knows how to fight and battle.

I need the greatest Chunin Konoha can offer...

"Uh, Haios san, are you sure about this?" Iruka sensei said as I guide him through the air above the Konoha Village. "I'm just an academy teacher, I don't specialize in any field." He added with a nervous look on her face.

I smiled at him encouragingly. "Iruka Sensei, you are the master of the Three Basic Ninjutsu. It's not how much technique you know, but it's about how you use it." I glide down below the village gate and waved at the Chunins guarding the checkpoint. "Besides, this is just an investigation I don't think it's going to escalate into any fights."

Iruka sensei sighed a little before taking out the mission scroll in his hand. "It's says here that about ten men and women were killed in broad daylight." He took a closer look at it and cringed a little. "The bodies were all ripped apart and the organs were taken away by black mysterious tentacles..."

Ooh! A mystery, horror, crime! "What else do we get Iruka Sensei?" I asked him while making my way to the south of the village. "Where did that creature come from?"

"Hmm... There seems to be sightings of orange swirling portal around the village." He said while rubbing his chin in deep thought. "This could be an advanced version of Space – Time Ninjutsu..." Then he looked at me with a slight fearful look on his face. "Haios, this could be very dangerous, maybe we should call for backup?"

I shook my head defiantly. "Heck no!" We landed in front of the village entrance. "We just got here!" I added with confidence. "Come on sensei, let's get chummy with the locals and squish out some information."

After a few minutes of walking around the village, a man walked up towards us with a relieved look on his face. "Are you, the Shinobi of Konoha?" He asked. We nodded at him and he sighed a little. "Thank goodness, welcome to Kisaragi Village, I'm Nato the Chief of this Village."

I smiled at Nato confidently. "Don't worry Nato san! We've heard of what happen and we are going to solve everything!" I exclaimed in confidence. Then I looked at Iruka Sensei standing beside me. "Am I right sensei?"

Iruka nodded in agreement. "We'll try our best Nato sama. Do you have any information that can help us?" He asked.

"Follow me."

The two of us followed Nato through the main street of the village. Even though it's not nighttime yet, the street is already empty. There are stalls, people's house, and many more. But they're all deserted, as if everyone is afraid to even set foot on that part of the village.

"Dear god..." I heard Iruka gasping beside me. I looked into the distance and shuddered a little in horror.

Right in front of us is a pile of body. Broken, crushed, and destroyed remain of human bodies. Judging by the size alone, there were at least ten people killed. Not only that, but whatever killed them doesn't seem to care about who they are.

Men and women... I can even see a bloodied hand that seems to be the same size as mine. Whoever killed them doesn't have any qualms about hurting a child.

"No, there is no way a human would be capable of doing this..." Iruka muttered to himself.

"Yeah... definitely not a human..." I said in agreement. Then I looked back at Nato. "So, what did the eye witness say about the monster?"

Nato took a deep breath. "It was... A humanoid figure, but it can detach its body and shot out these black tentacles. It also uses Ninjutsu like ninja and seems to be able to talk." He explained.

"Does this figure wear anything?" Iruka asked.

"Ri-right... It also wears... Guhk!" His eyes rolled back to his head and he spat out blood from his mouth. I was only able to catch his body before he fell to the ground... lifeless...

Iruka sensei took out his weapon in alert as I gently put Nato's body to the ground. Then I quickly stretched out my sense to find out who has killed him. Suddenly, I felt a woman standing on a building nearby.

"Up there!" I exclaimed. Iruka sensei threw a volley of Kunai at the woman.

I watched with keen eyes when the woman made a circular motion with her hand. A swirling orange portal appeared in front of her. Inside the portal I can see myself but from behind.

Wait a second... I turned around and saw a portal inches away behind me with the weapons Iruka thrown earlier coming straight at me. "Whoa!" I used the force to deflect the weapons before looking at the woman above us warily.

I took a closer look at her appearance. She has long wavy brown hair, smooth white skin, and bright green eyes. She wore a silver pendant around her neck, a red cloak with black lining, and a little bow on her head.

"Hi!" She exclaimed with a cheerful look on her face. "You see, my friend gets a little bit carried away during his stress relief sessions and I went all the way from one of the greatest hot springs in this world just to make sure he doesn't spill the beans about our existence." She explained.

Iruka glared at the woman. "Is that why you killed Nato?"

The woman nodded with a sheepish look on her face. "Yeah... He almost tell you what our uniform is... Sorry about that, I wasn't expecting it to just stab right through his heart..." She put her hand together and slowly moved it apart. A translucent sharp object could be seen floating in her hand. "I mean, who knows a mirror blade can be this sharp?"

A portal suddenly appeared behind her. "Well, I don't want to keep Konan waiting so..." She turned around and walked into what it seems to be public hot bath. "See ya!" She exclaimed.

The portal closed, living no trace of the woman. "I think we're in trouble..." I muttered.

Suddenly a swirling portal appeared on the ground below Nato's body. Iruka and I jumped away in alert and I quickly grabbed Nato's body with the force. Powerful orange strands of energy shot out of the portal and pulled the body in. "Don't worry!!! I'll take care of this one!" I heard a voice coming from inside. "You take care of the pile of dead body!"

The portal closed and the body disappeared. "Nope, we are positively screwed." I said in slight fear.

Iruka and I spend the rest of the day searching for information from the villagers. Most of them were too scared to tell us anything. Even the upper class villagers are too afraid to even talk to us. It seems like the mysterious deaths and Nato's assassination is too much for a this little village.

But in the end, we managed to press some information and found out a couple of things. Apparently the first attacker is a missing nin from Takigakure and he seems to be killing those people out of sheer frustration because he cannot kill a witch or something.

"Well... A missing nin from Taki who has these weird wire-like appendages..." I muttered while looking at my notepad. "Any ideas sensei?"

Iruka rubbed his chin in deep thought. "I think I know who it is..." He muttered a little. "There's as S ranked bounty hunter missing nin who has a forbidden jutsu called the Earth Grudge Spear. I read it on the bingo book once."

I nodded a little. "Okay, so we have this S Ranked Missing nin, mysterious woman, a secret uniform, and other stuff." I looked around and realized that everyone in the village is overhearing our conversation. "Yep! We're done here. Mission Accomplished, let's get our pay!" I exclaimed.

"Eh? But we didn't..." I clamped Iruka's mouth shut with the force.

I looked at him with the most serious expression I can manage. "Sensei, this was a B Ranked mission. I had a C rank mission that escalates into an A Rank. I am not having a B Rank that escalates into S Rank." I folded my arms in front of my chest. "We found out what happen and that is it!"

Iruka nodded in agreement. "You're right, whoever it was must've been a powerful group of missing nin." He sighed a little. "I'll file the mission report to the Hokage. This is definitely an S Rank mission."

With that, the two of us flew back to Konoha to report this to the Hokage. I just hoped that whatever this is isn't going to be a huge problem in the long run. I had enough problems with the Chunin Exam tomorrow...