Naruto Of The Shadow Clones

Chapter 39 Strike Against The Sound Part 3

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fter the Kaguya had been taken care of, the task force ran into no further trouble and were soon had the sound base entrance in sight.

As the groups spread out into a semicircle surrounding the base the assassin squad got ready to take care of the two guards standing on top of the stairs.

With Naruto's group, two foxes poured chakra into the tails causing the fur on them to stand up on end with each hair arcing out like a porcupines quill. The two foxes then spun their tails in a full circle unleashing five of the hairs which flew at the guards like Frisbees before going through the foreheads and out the other side. The guards dropped to the floor like puppets with their strings cut, their brains shredded by one of the thinnest things seen by the naked eye.

Sarutobi nodded to Naruto's clone that was acting as the groups radio to free up the original who nodded as well before sending out the message to all the other clones to move out. Eztair then nodded to his squad who nodded as well before splitting up to join with the other groups as support with Eztair staying next to the original.

The outward groups moved to areas above the base that were mapped out by the living members of the Sound Four as storage areas and sank through the ground using earth style justu to reach them without leaving a trace of their passage while the foxes fazed through with a similar assassin jutsu. Once there, they headed to their objectives taking out anyone they came across.

The two remaining groups then headed to the stairs and began descending to complete their own objectives.

Naruto's POV

I frowned when no one came to check on the two guards after Eztair and another one of the fox assassins had killed them. Eztair frowned as well and I could hear him muttering about there being no guards near the bottom to come check that the foxes could deal with in a similar manner. Something about security not being worth guarding a donut shop.

The old man then nodded to my clone that was to act as our group's radio who nodded back. I 'heard' him send the message to the other clones and then sent the part that monitored the link between me and the clones to the back of my mind. Our clone would tell me if anything came up over the link that I needed to know. Right now I had more important things to focus on.

I sensed the four outer groups taking off to their insertion points while my group and the group next to us sprinted as quickly and stealthily as we could to the stairs taking positions where we wouldn't be seen on each side of the staircase by anyone coming up close to the entrance of the base.

Sarutobi than looked across the staircase at the other team where Jiraiya-sensei was and flashed through a sequence of battle code hand signs. Jiraiya-sensei nodded and gave a signal of his own to his group before they dropped down in a crouch and entered the building.

Sarutobi held his hand up for a minute telling us to hold before the clone received a radio message and nodded to him. Sarutobi dropped his hand and we dropped down as well before heading into the base our selves.

The base was dark and gave most of us the creeps. Personally it reminded me a little of my mindscape before I had changed it after the invasion to resemble the forest behind the Hokage Monument.

There was two main branches fifty feet from the entrance. The clone signed to Sarutobi that Jiraiya had taken the left as ordered to which the old man nodded.