From the Ashes

𝚃𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚒(1).

Nightfall befell the village of Kumogakure:The Village Hidden in the Clouds.Its inhabitants were made to adapt to the high altitude and the thin oxygen that the common mountains surrounding the land of Lightning Country,through the use of electricity made to power the entire village.

At the highest of the mountains in the mountain range stood a large blue structure,built directly into the mountain's stony terrain.Within its tall structure stood the Raikage Ay;the very head of this show.

It had been a long night,made a chaotic one as three of his best men returned from the mission he'd arranged.

"Report!" Was all that came from the huge dark skinned man holding the office of the Raikage,removing his gaze from the concerned one of his assistant.

Of the three men previously mentioned,Darui stepped forward...Darui is a fairly tall, dark-skinned man with black eyes that usually look bored, and shaggy white hair that covers his left eye...He wore a high-collared, sleeveless shirt with loose fitting pants, bandages on his wrists and the signature cloud white-strap-over-shoulder flak jacket of a Kumogakure shinobi.

"Sir,our mission to investigate the disappearance of Yugito...has concluded." He rolled his neck,hoping the familiar motion would make himself more comfortable before the quickly angering kage before him.

Ay was furious,and had made his displeasure obvious by way of driving his fist through the entirety of the large desk before him. "Damn it all!" Before he could fly fully off the handle, he reigned himself in long enough to ask a question. "Who?" Darui met the man's eyes in a second.

"We have no idea...but they've clearly ripped the Two Tails from Ms.Nii's body,which we discovered in a base not too far from our border...this is all we have discovered within the confines of said base." The blonde beside Darui stepped forward,handing something over to the man.

This the Raikage finalized,this was no simple mission.She had to have been a target,waiting for the woman to leave the village and his protection to approach her.Even then, the man cursed mentally.Yugito Nii was no pushover even in the slightest,having good enough synergy with her beast to enter her tailed beast transformation at will in conjunction with her blue flames that burned thrice as hot.

Someone else was responsible...Somebody immensely powerful,Ay concluded as he looked back to the three ninja before him."Lock B down! Tell my foolish brother that he is not to leave my sight until we get to the bottom of this..." Darui nodded swiftly and turned to leave.

Watching them all go,he turned to his female assistant,Samui.While she may have not been as dangerous a ninja as Darui or C beside him,Samui was skilled in areas paramount to their success as a village:Intel and Technology.

As such,she agreed with his wishes to not broadcast the loss of one of their jinchuriki,especially with the knowledge that they would now be the only hidden village without two of them.Yes, they had been well aware of the acquisition of the Seven Tails by Konoha,which had already been concerning.
But this,this brazen robbery of a tailed beast was even more so.

Who could manage such prowess, defeating a perfect jinchuriki and then unsealing its beast from the very same person in what was only a few weeks of searching?Unlikely to be another village still It remained unknown,and Ay preferred to know all of these things before he got to handing out Lariats to those responsible.

Unknowns made him uncomfortable.

Quickly Samui had left to carry out his wishes,as well as informing Yugito's comrades of her untimely death.The Fourth Raikage watched her go with a contemplative gaze,spinning in his chair to gaze out at the sky.