The Way Through Stone Village (Naruto)

105: Kasasagi

[OP: "Thus Always To Tyrants"--The Oh Hellos]

Bakugo understood the assignment.

Once through the wall, he headed straight for the front door of the largest building of the compound.

Karin called to them that most of the bandits were in this building--most of them barely heard her, but Bakugo figured as much anyway.

He just blasted the door open.

The bandits (who were crowded inside the room that the team had used to use for their meeting area also), were holding their weapons and craning their heads to see out the window or to listen for the others, and they didn't think he would just burst in like that.

They all stared at him for a split second.

Bakugo, who was adept at noticing battlefield details if nothing else, scanned them quickly.

He noticed one man who was farther back and surrounded by a few people, as if they were guarding him.

That had to be Kasasagi.

He was a kind of scrawny guy for the leader, but he had a mean look in his eye like a rat might have. He was very dark, so the name made sense.

Bakugo grinned like this was all just as he wanted.

"Which one of you b-----ds is the leader?" he said. "I'm gonna kill you."

Bakugo didn't care in the least that the ninja would take that literally.

Kasasagi stared at him and then looked at the others. "Well, what are you waiting for? Attack him!"

Bakugo's hands sparked.

"Sure," he said, "who's first?"

"Sir," one of the other bandits who was at the window said, "all the others are coming right after him--"

The team came rushing through the door.

The bandits, as predicted, panicked almost at once.

Whether they really could have beaten Team Zoe or not, they certainly didn't believe they could. Probably they'd heard how powerful they were, and they saw so many people, it was easy for them to assume it was a small army.

While not all of them ran, at least 5 of them out of the maybe 30 in the room ran for the window immediately.

"Hey, where are you going?" some of their comrades cried. "Cowards!"

"I knew you all were bi--ches," Bakugo said. "Anyone else want to run, or should we get this started?"

"Who is that little upstart?" Kasasagi said, sounding annoyed, but Bakugo thought he sounded nervous too.

"If my guess is right, that's the one with the explosion jutsu," answered one of his closer elites.

Shoto, Suigetsu, Gaara, and Wally all came in right at that moment.

Gaara held up his hand, and sand swirled around it.

"I should tell you all we have this building surrounded," he said, in his straightforward, gravelly voice that made him sound much older than he was. "You have one chance to surrender."

"That's the Kazekage," someone said.

"Oh, no, really?" snapped someone else.

"Boss..." said one of the elites nervously, "what do we do?"

"He's just a boy," Kasasagi said.

"What do I look like to you?" Wally asked, insulted.

Kasasagi craned his neck. "All right, activate the fail-safe."