Prophecies, Puppets and Pandemonium

Digging Your Own Grave

Last Time:

Minato growled, "What if they got to the Daimyo?" He went to his desk and wrote a note that was placed on the leg of his personal messenger hawk ... the bird flew off taking a message to the assassins standing by ...

XXXXXXXXX

Obito frowned as he, Fu and Yahiko saw something odd blocking the road up ahead of the Daimyo's caravan, "That is not the usual checkpoint." The Daimyo was a person of certain habits and it seems even after so many years Obito's knowledge from previous guarding missions before Madara possessed him was still correct. The spot was not a checkpoint, but a blockade stopping the caravan.

A woman from behind the blockade screamed and the Daimyo's guards moved forward to help. Yahiko signaled that he would help the guards, while they stayed back to watch the Daimyo. The woman who screamed ran towards the caravan in terror trying to keep her shredded clothes from falling off her.

The guards stood in front of the tearful female to protect her from the three men who came out from behind the blockade. Most would think six guards against tree thugs would be a simple win however that was not the case ...

"Shit." Yahiko cursed as four guards were killed in an instant courtesy of a blast of fire from one man and forced Yahiko back. The remaining guards and the woman backed away to the caravan and to try to evade the three killers. Just before the thug who fired the blast of fire had the chance to attack again Yahiko blasted him with a powerful bullet of water killing him instantly.

"Bastard!" The last two thugs slashed towards Yahiko with a sword an axe. The orange haired ninja ducked the sword and stabbed the man in the throat with a kunai just in time to sidestep the axe. The thug swung again and smirked as his axe became embedded in the ninja's chest ...

*poof* The ninja vanished in a puff of smoke revealing a log ...

"Dammit." The remaining thug was punched hard in the stomach forcing him to his knees. He wasn't done it seemed because despite being winded he gripped his axe and attempted to swing at Yahiko. Just before the axe could separate the ninja's head from his shoulders a crushing blow smashed the thug's shoulder. The thug screamed in pure agony and dropped his axe. Yahiko just leaned his head to the side letting the axe fly by and wedge itself in a tree.

"Thanks Fu," Yahiko commented as the former ROOT agent who decided to jump in "Are these the ones sent by Minato?" He asked.

Fu frowned, "I'll see, hold the crying baby still." Yahiko chuckled and pinned the only living thug to the ground. Fu sat in front of the thug and placed his hands in a hand sign. A moment later Fu went limp, but a second later he shot up and screamed "GET THE WOMAN!"

The Daimyo's guards spun around as the warning sunk in, but it was too late. The door to the caravan was open and the previously frightened woman was holding the Daimyo down on the carriage floor by the throat. She was about to stab the political leader with a dagger that she pulled out of her shredded clothes.

No one could move in time ...

She assumed she won ...

The dagger zipped down ready to tear open the Daimyo's flesh, but she suddenly froze ...

A sliver of blood fell from her lips and she fell forward revealing a kunai lodged between her shoulder blades.

"Well that was close. Are you alright, Daimyo-sama?" asked Obito as he jumped down from the trees ... he was the one who killed the woman.

The Daimyo was assisted upright by his guards and checked for injuries, "Yes ... yes I am fine. Who are you three?"

Yahiko frowned, exactly how do they answer that, "Would you give me a moment, sir?"