Master of Genjutsu

CH-27 Mission Time

Naruto's team was sitting in the hotel room Naruto had acquired for their assault. The new room was identical to the one they had spent the past four days in. They had only changed rooms because this town and hotel were closer to their attack points than the previous village. Their attention was centered on the slightly altered map in front of them. The only alteration that was on the map were the sets of arrows drawn between each of the camps. Two sets of arrows point away from the camps, heading towards the other camps, while the other set point towards the camp from the other camps. Next to each of these sets of arrows was a number which denoted the amount of reinforcements that each camp would send to their fellow camps when they sent out their distress signal.

As expected by the more experienced ninja, the bandits were well organized and fortified their camps accordingly when one would come under attack. It explained why they had been capable of keeping their numbers so high while skirting the borders. Naruto had been a little surprised when he found out that when he attacked the smallest camp, the main camp didn't send out reinforcements for just the smallest camp but also a contingent to check on, and reinforce the middle size camp as well.

"Okay, so are we all agreed to the plan?" Naruto asked.

His team nodded at him. Naruto let loose a small sigh of relief, his plan had been well recieved by his team, with only a small deviation on his original plan. Of course, his team had praised his plan as ingenious and intuitive. It also showcased the planning and effort Naruto had previously put into his pranks. As a side effect of this, it also impressed upon Yugao and Anko that Naruto has a very unique and creative mindset when he was pushed to come up with a plan, something which they quickly realized made him a formidable foe, or commander, on almost any battleground as he was capable of coming up with a new plan almost instantly when they had almost botched their escape during one of their raids.

It had been Naruto's mistake from the beginning, getting too close to the bandits which resulted in one of the chunin sized chakras managing to sense him. It didn't take long for that chakra to move towards him, a small but formidable-looking group of bandits following behind him when Naruto realized his mistake and froze for a few moments. Yugao, who had been staying near him to keep him safe as he tested their defenses, readied herself for killing the bandit group, when Naruto suddenly snapped his eyes to hers. She had seen his eyes flash before he seemingly disappeared into the shadows of the trees. She blinked slightly, wondering where he had gone when she realized that he had just successfully hidden himself from view and hurried to do the same herself.

Of course, Naruto's plan hadn't been complete as the group of bandits entered the small clearing where she and Naruto had been standing mere moments before, one man, a plain looking, brown haired and black eyed man looked around before frowning. Figuring that this man was the one with the chuunin sized chakra, Yugao watched as they stood there for a few moments more before one of the bandits complained about being away from the fighting, and supposed easy loot. Right as he finished his talk, however, Naruto had walked into the clearing. Yugao had to keep herself from jumping into the clearing next to him as he smirked at the group of bandits then turned around and proceeded to run away on the ground. The bandits, and the chuunin-sized chakra guy all gave chase almost immediately, only the chakra person had taken a lingering look at the clearing before heading after his fellow bandits.

While incredibly simple, much like their attack plan, his plan had accomplished a few things that Yugao's attack would not have. The first, and most obvious, was that the guys now chasing Naruto were none the wiser to anyone other than Naruto in the immediate vicinity. Not that any of them would have been capable of reporting back, there was a chance of them figuring out that Naruto wasn't alone by the difference between their kills as Yugao used a sword. The second was that they were now disillusioned as to whether or not Naruto had real ninja training or was just a one trick pony with his clones. Finally, it served to avoid causing a fight which may have drawn in more bandits from the camp if they hadn't been capable of easily dispatching their opponents, thus leading to a scale of fight which they were not interested in just yet.