"I'll be giving you all helping hand don't be alarmed." Tsuki would state, as she'd perform a quick handseal. Her Maximizer puppet fanning open a little, as she'd summon a small troop of her helping hand and stick bug combo. These two puppets together made what looked like arms, an arm for each shinobi in her team. As well as two for herself, she'd have these arms leap out to her comrades. The helping hand puppet pinching thumb and pointer to create a loop attaching to each shinobi, they'd pick spots like belt loops, button holes or simply collars to latch onto. Almost to simply hang as an accessory upon the shinobi.
Her JITE would know what these puppets did, they'd be extensions of her range and enhancements of her skills at that range. Hopefully those who didn't know simply wouldn't mind, as ultimately they'd all be her puppets when most advantageous. They'd been ordered at the explosion and not Sanosuke had relayed the information about opposition.
"Numbers, Direction and spread?" Tsuki would ask her Ame Lord, as she'd attempt to spot out anything through the camera's of her motherbirds. Using the answer to these questions as guidance, she'd hopefully be able to give her JITE the right orders.
"Junpei attempt to intercept them, I'll do my best to back you... Here, this'll help." A final scroll would be within drawn and given. It'd be the one for her steamed powered puppet. If this lunatic really was that crazy to put his neck in the fray, then she'd reward the madness with her best support. This though obviously wasn't the mission and her operatives would know, if there was someone with a Kekkei Genkai or Hijutsu, it was her protocol to attempt to capture and if kill retain the body. Granted to those who worried of the JITE's protocol disobeying it might be the safest bet.
"Haruko focus on clearing anything blocking our targets path. Shintori focus on supporting Haruko." In absence of clearer commands, she'd not let her team get away with slacking. The success of the mission with her as the JITE Captain meant something, it wasn't enough to genuinely consider risking her shinobi. However, if she could, she'd love to see this mission done successfully and better yet quickly. Unlike her JITE operatives eager words for combat, she hadn't the slightest interest in killing any of these shinobi. Vendetta's were an awful thing to worry about and Konohagakure wasn't some laughing stock village. There'd be trouble, there was already trouble, but with focus perhaps they could prevail?
Us JITE need to do this on our own, if Konoha gets hands on Sanosuke or Squeakers, then this whole thing will have been an unwitting surrender by the village. IF we're fully compromised, do I save them? Both, one. A villages weapon or it's new leader. Only one life mattered ultimately to the elite jounin, but she'd pre-emptively ask the question. Began proposing the variations of this mission playing out, it'd always be best to conserve until the real action. So instead of wasting their time traveling, she'd began preparing her hundred plans. Her present goal was merely to get within puppetry range of their target. Once that was accomplished she could start the real preparation.
SA:
Puppet Goddess
Tsuki's abilities with puppets is amazing, it can be argued as the greatest puppetry thanks to her performance of a hundred puppets. Her puppets are almost all unique constructs of her own design, she mostly abandoned the standard build of the wooden goofy haired puppet. Tsuki not only controls a hundred puppets though, she uses them as if they were a living army and overwhelms even small divisions of shinobi or large militia of angry bandits or civilians.
Amazing Chakra Control
Tsuki's chakra control is beyond amazing as she not only casts hundreds of chakra puppet strings, she controls them in such away to re-invent puppeteers. Her abilities going beyond even puppeteering though, as she's able to call upon her advanced element of Joton a less flashy but still impressive feat. Tsuki's chakra control is easily comparable to that of someone in clan known for having great chakra control.
Incredibly Intelligent
Tsuki is highly analytical and is quick to look over many details and still save the majority to her memory. Her brain erases and stores information almost effectively as a computer, as she often replays camera feeds to relive memories, to know she wasn't fooling herself with over confidence. She also almost always thinks out her own personal missions, she's they type of person whose thought ahead not only many moves, but has consider a few cheats along the path.
Advanced Engineer
Tsuki is not only good at making up plans on the spot or deciding a course of actions to be taken, she's also quite smart when it comes to fixing things or designing trinkets. Tsuki's skills go from steam engines, puppet mechanics and even some computer designing. She knows how to work with all of her equipment excellently and is even capable of repairing certain things on the field. Tsuki's know how and know who, makes her a lot of villagers go to for technical assistance. Tsuki's also the most capable in the village at working the different designed surveillance gear, as she's taken it into her personal protocol to fix any of the broken technology in Amegakure.
Jutsu:
NAME: Kugutsu no Jutsu - [Puppet Technique]
RANK: C
CHAKRA USAGE: Very Low [Continuous]
CLASSIFICATION: Ninjutsu [Puppetry]
ELEMENT: N/a
DESCRIPTION:
The fundamental and most used technique of the style, Kugutsu no Jutsu allows a puppeteer the ability to use puppets in battle. While the degree in skill determines the number of puppets that can be controlled, for starters the user can control only one. By making near invisible strings of chakra from each of their ten fingertips and attaching them to their puppets they are able to control the puppet from various distances. However there is a delay between the puppeteers orders and the puppets movements, meaning puppet movement will not be instantaneous, and the response time increases based on distance.
NAME: Kugutsu Kuchiyose no Jutsu - [Puppet Summoning Technique ]
RANK: C
CHAKRA USAGE: Low
CLASSIFICATION: Ninjutsu [Puppetry]
ELEMENT: N/a
DESCRIPTION:
A useful technique for puppeteers, it allows one to seal a puppet within a scroll and summon it at will on the battlefield. Depending on the scroll they seal it in, they can seal a number of puppets away at a time.
Items to Note:
fallenblades.proboards.com/thread/3702Helping Hand & Stick Bug x7 (one for each person on her team, plus two for herself.)
Maximize is being worn
Motherbird puppet 2x summoned.
Scrolls for each stealth snake type have been distributed among the team.