[Kaguya Toru]

if i'm a danger to myself Just think what I could do to you Ren Ishida Shoyo

To say that Toru was not frustrated was, to put it mildly, not because it had been particularly hard to find the seals. But because of how far apart they were placed. He would climb down from the tree and create three clones with his shadow clone technique grumbling before sending them off. One towards the furthest one away, and then to two others that were also placed further away from the main spot itself.

"Go to the seals, remove them when you hear my whistle."

Now, he would return to Shoyo.

"Stay here. When you hear a whistle, remove the seal here."

And with that, he would go towards the one that was about eighty meters away, the first seal he had found previously.

Once everyone was stationed - clones and Toru and Shoyo - he would wait a moment and put his hand to the seal. Then wait another moment before letting out a rather shrill whistle. He was quite used to these types of whistles due to a genjutsu technique he knew, and of course how he communicated with his wolf. So this came off as quite natural.

He knew that all of his clones would be ripping the seal at the same time - since they were connected to him in some facet - and hopefully Shoyo would be in tune as well.

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NAME: Katon Kage Bunshin no Jutsu [Fire Release Shadow Clone Technique]
CHAKRA USAGE: High
CLASSIFICATION: Ninjutsu
ELEMENT: Katon
DESCRIPTION:
A mix of the elemental cloning techniques and the standard Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, the user creates a clone out of flames, which takes on the exact appearance of the one casting the technique. Because these clones are Shadow Clones, they retain the ability to think, react and perform techniques on their own, with independent chakra systems. When struck however, these clones explode in a large inferno, presumably burning all around it and setting alight anything in the area.

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With the aid of his Shadow Clones, Toru was able to be in four of the five locations, instructing everyone to remove the seals the moment they heard the whistle. Shoyo could hear and follow the instructions properly, and the Shadow Clones, being Toru himself, were able to do so as well, and with the removal of all the different seals, the barrier was destroyed.

And there wasn't any sound or further traps.

Seemed like whoever placed those seals there were quite confident nobody would be able to break through it to add further protective measures. A mistake they would be paying for soon enough. Now that the barrier was removed, they could move in through the hatch towards their hideout.

[Kaguya Toru]

if i'm a danger to myself Just think what I could do to you Ishida Shoyo Ren

Toru felt a bit of relief when nothing else happened after all of the seals were removed. He would disable his clones returning them to him, since it was not their being destroyed they did not explode like they normally would and make a huge amount of noise when they dissipated.

He would return back to where Shoyo was, planting himself near the other male.

"Alright, let's head down the hatch we found." He would follow his nose straight to it again, where the seal had originally been and pry the hatch open. He held it open to let Shoyo jump in first, motioning the other to do so before he would jump in after him. Making sure to carefully close the hatch just above his head so it didn't make any loud noises, his silent killing should be plenty to aid in this silent movement.

Once both were inside - wherever it was - Toru would begin looking around, and if he could not see his nose would do the trick. He would follow the scent from up above all the way down here and begin to follow though also keeping track of if he smelled anything off about the area including potential traps that could smell different. Each step was measured.

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[Ren]

After getting rid of all the seals and making sure there were no further safety measures attached to them, Toru released his clones, rendezvousing with Shoyo and proceeding to descent the stairs and get into their hideout. The stairs were long, and it took a few minutes to reach the bottom. Once there, the shinobi were faced with an ill-illuminated corridor. It was rather narrow as it only had room for two people to walk side by side, with an inch or two between their shoulders and the wall. Definitely not the best place to fight. Noticing that, and worrying about the risk of the enemies attacking the city in case they were not in the base, Toru sent Shoyo back to the town, so that he could stand guard there; it was not like having more people would really help given the space available.

The Mizukage would proceed with great caution, following the strong scent he had noticed before and this scent would lead him towards a fork. The smell would guide him towards the left side, but the right path seemed to have a door he could see a little less than a hundred metters away, while the left side continued for more than his eyes could see with how dark it was.

[Kaguya Toru]

I would know him in death At the end of the world Ren

Toru continued forward quietly, his step was silent and he himself was not one to make a great deal of noise and kick up dust. If someone was watching, they could very well miss Toru from the way he moved. So ghostly it was almost eerie, it certainly made for an interesting Mizukage who snuck up on council members and dignitaries when they thought to speak ill of him behind his back. On numerous occasions now, earlier on in his rather short career - thus far - had he heard naysayers speak doom and gloom upon the decision of making Toru the leader, and Toru heard it all, and he worked harder to make sure it never happened again because he would prove them wrong, strictly with action.

Now, as he often was. He was faced with a decision. To the left. To the right. The scent went to the left, a door was visible to the right. Toru sighed to himself, inward before creating another clone.

It veered to the right towards the door, Toru continued further into the darkness following the scent. The scent was important here because it was the only lead, the door could provide more intel. It was best to check on both. His clone would be more than capable of fending for itself.

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[Ren]

Opting to explore both paths, Toru created a clone of himself and send it towards the steel door at the end of that hall, while the original one went to the left where the smell continued to grow stronger the closer he got. The clone would approach the door and be able to examine it. It was made of solid steel, almost like the door of a safe. It was almost impossible to be forced open by most, but that door was not beyond Toru's abilities, if he made an effort. Obviously it would create quite some noise. Speaking of which, he could hear someone mumbling on the other side of it. Due to how thick the door was and the fact that they were underground, it was hard to understand what was being said, but if he focused enough, he would be able to at least notice that there were a minimum of two different voices, it was a conversation.

Meanwhile, the original Toru continued down the hall for a minute or so, until the path he was walking on became a bridge of sort. On the floor below, six large steel tanks with a neon-green liquid inside of it. Occasionally, the liquid would bubble up, and a thin fog came out of it. Those tanks, more specifically, that thin fog, was the source of the smell he had been following so far.

The room was rather large, the ceiling seemed to be at least 10 metres above the walkway Toru found himself at. The walkway continued through through this room, leading to a longer path, but it was too dark to see the end of it. The room below, where the large tanks of boiling liquid were seemed to have a door at the right side of it, near a computer of sort that seemed to be controlling the temperature and other functions of the tank.

[Kaguya Toru]

I would know him in death At the end of the world Ren

The clone inspected the door, and immediately determined it was made of some sort of steel. The clone did not try to pry it open, instead he noticed the muffled noises and leaned in, his ear against the door listening in silence. It was a bit hard to hear what was going on from the ambiance of the area. There were no many options the clone had so for now it would just remain by one of the cracks of the door trying to listen for even just key words in the muffled mess of two voices. Of course, if nothing came to fruition there would be a need for more action taken. But it was best not to disturb enemies right now.

The real Toru kept traveling along quietly, actually, in perfect silence. He didn't even disturb the air around him. Finally, he entered some kind of atrium area with two tanks that were bubbling away. He knew without a shadow of a doubt based on their scent that they were likely the source of the fog that was being injected into the village of Hoka no Mura. He would need to destabilize these. He continued further into the walk way. Could he get away from here without a great deal of battle?

Perhaps, perhaps not. But he couldn't destabilize these pods yet, he needed a perfect exit strategy that wouldn't end him up getting his outfit burned off by some acid or something.

So he started to look around, his nose and eyes looking for people and other things to inspect, even paperwork.

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[Ren]

After inspecting the door, the clone placed its ear against it to try and hear what was being said, and although he managed to pick some words, it was still hard to properly listen. Among the words picked were, in this order:

Destroy... Village... Fog... Incomplete... Kagamino... Coup...

Meanwhile, the real Toru had found the atrium where the fog was being created. As he continued further into the walkway, he would come across a door, but it wasn't locked. With no real sound coming from it and his stealth abilities, he managed to sneak peak into the place, and found a spiral stairway going down and to the right. He would catch the smell of a human being and the sound of glass and wood, as if someone was working on experiments.

If he chose to approach it, he would start seeing a laboratory of sorts, with blackboards filled with formulas, and some paper on the walls with blueprints of the tanks he had just saw. The man in there, a fat, bald man in a white medical coat seemed completely oblivious to the boy's presence for now.

[Kaguya Toru]

I would know him in death At the end of the world Ren

The clone was very interested in what was going on, he couldn't hear a WHOLE lot, but just enough to get some information. At least enough to put pieces together. If there was more to listen to, he would keep his ear to it. Otherwise he would step away from the door in silence and wander away to disappear from existence and return to Toru granting him the information that the clone had collected. It was clear, there were people behind that door, but to fight them would cause an alarm which meant a potential issue... Silence would be best in this situation.

Meanwhile the real Toru was wandering. He found an unlocked door that opened to a staircase which spiraled down. He took it there, keeping an eye out for any particular exits, or anything that he should keep an eye out on... The smell of a *living* human came to be known and he poked around the corner to see who it was. Just a old bald man in a lab coat.

Toru couldn't be too careful here though, he could very well be trained for battle. Toru took note of the blackboards and the blueprints. But he didn't pick anything up. His goal was to destroy and stop the operations. He could destroy the blueprints, he could remove any future attempts at operations. So, he wandered forward, keeping himself silent and occasionally ducking behind tables if the man turned. Trained in being completely silent, and having fast reflexes this should be something he could pull off easily.

For now he was just inspecting as to what the man was doing more than anything. If it was of note he could kill him, but for now he wanted to wait to avoid causing a fuss if someone did walk in to see a corpse.

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[Ren]

The clone tried its best, but it couldn't make up any other word being said. The people on the inside seemed to continue a conversation, where sounds similar to the previous words he could understand seemed to be repeated. Satisfied, the clone would dispel itself so that the information could travel back to the original. Whatever it was that they were planning, it did seem big.

Meanwhile, the real Toru was sneaking into what seemed to be a laboratory of sorts. The blueprints and information on the blackboard were very technical, but it didn't take an expert to link it to the chemical inside the tanks he had just passed. Keeping himself silent like death itself, the young man evaded the scientist's sight even as he turned around. The scientist would then go through some papers, then move to a panel and press some buttons there. "Well... That should stabilize it... I told them I needed more time, but they don't listen. Idiots... But I will pull this off." the man mumbled to himself.

Looking around the room, there was only another exit for it, which would likely lead to the area where the tanks were located. Some pipes could be seen going through the wall and in that direction, the same type of pipe that seem to run through this whole facility thus far.

[Kaguya Toru]

I would know him in death At the end of the world Ren

With the information back to Toru. A coup... Kagamino? Strange. He couldn't imagine why they would be heading towards Kagamino after this area of the country. But perhaps this was a test village, to go into the capital. Ah, that definitely meant he had to stop it now and stop it here. The clone had dispersed in the middle of a conversation, which also gave Toru indication that whoever else was here was quite far away and likely wouldn't be coming out any time soon since they seemed to be having a conversation.. Which could take an indefinite amount of time.

Good time for him.

As the man turned away, Toru would call forth some of the bijuu's chakra. Not enough to coat him in chakra, only to turn his eyes redder than before. It was so that he could manipulate coral, it would creep across the table slowly towards the man while he was turned away but before he could turn around the coral would manipulate itself around the man's face to silence him from shouting or screaming, and soon after he would attempt to grow polyps of toxic coral within the man's mouth. If he was successful, the man would get poison dripped into his throat likely killing him quite quickly and if that didn't work and he was trying to fight it well - Toru would definitely end it quickly by having the coral extend with sharp spikes into his mouth and into his throat thusly.

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The coral is jinch stuff. The toxic stuff doesn't have to work it's just me working on an SA

[Ren]

Tapping into the power of the three-tails inside of him, Toru's eyes glowed in a brighter hue of red as he gained the ability to manipulate coral. Waiting for a good opportunity, as the man turned away from him, the coral quickly wrapped itself around the man, immobilizing his body and shutting his mouth. Forcing his chakra to produce a toxin, Toru was only half successful; the man's eyes rolled to the back while foam started to form on his mouth. He was definitely poisoned, but it was not a lethal dose, so Toru had to use the coral to create spikes and end the man's life.

The scientist was dead, and all his research, blueprints and information were there to be either seized or destroyed, pending on what the Mizukage would choose to do. Regardless of what he chose, after a couple minutes he would hear the distant sound of footsteps approaching the area. By the sound of it, they should be at the walkway leading to the stairs.

[Kaguya Toru]

I would know him in death At the end of the world Ren

Toru did sigh inwardly in slight annoyance at the fact that his poison did not fully work. He would have to work on it at home, later. Right now, though, the man was on the ground. He would pull his body off to the side in a spot where his corpse wasn't immediately visible. Then, he would go about gathering the blueprints and destroying them, he pulled out Kouha and placed the blade against all of the paper that needed to be burned to ash, the blade itself was capable of burning basic metals so the heat of it against some paper would quickly obscure or destroy the blueprints.

Then he heard - and smelled - the creaking of the metal walkway. People.

With the scientist out of the way and his body hidden. Toru decided to transform into the man himself and start to wander out of the room itself in the downstairs area of the room moving towards the tanks.

"You know," He was going to keep the personality that he had gotten a hint of from before, he just needed to get close to the exit before he blew up the entire place. For now though he was just between the tanks downstairs, but also looking up towards the walkway. "I told you I needed more time!"

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[Ren]

Toru was a bit disappointed his toxin didn't fully work, but he was on the right path at the very least. With the scientist disposed of, he quickly made sure to move him to a darker corner of the lab, and since he didn't make much of a mess with the assassination, there wasn't much cleaning up to do. Then, with his sword, he destroyed the blueprints and research behind the production of the fog, taking care of that problem.

Finally, as he heard the footsteps and the smell of a person, he quickly used the transformation technique to take on the likeness of the deceased and pretend he was still working on the fog. The man who entered the place definitely looked like a shinobi. He had a sword on his back and he wore some armour, and a flak jacket that potentially belonged to a small shinobi village (Hoshigakure, if Toru is familiar), but he had no forehead protector or indication of his affiliation to a village.

When he heard the rant of the "scientist" he scoffed. "You had plenty of time already, old man. The boss' patience is running out. You better get this ready to go by tomorrow. So... What's holding you back now?" the man asked, folding his arms in front of his chest and looking rather impatient.

[Kaguya Toru]

I would know him in death At the end of the world Ren

The flak jacket was off-putting, but Toru did not make it known that this was strange somehow. He had to act like he at least somewhat knew this individual or had been expecting him to an extent. So, he played the role. Toru would not have been a good hunter-nin in the past, if he wasn't at least a decent actor. The 'scientist' so would wander out of the lab entirely towards the center piece of the entire laboratory to put his hand on the glass of the bubbling liquid.

"Ach! It's the compounds. Chemicals aren't easy to configure, don't you know that?" He argued in return, before looking towards the glass.

"It's the wrong color." He wasn't sure if that was true, actually he had no idea if it was true but surely someone with a flak jacket would not know any different. Then he walked to the computer that was nearby and started to fiddle with it. A few wrong button presses, there was even a little red button... That looked dangerous.

He made it seem like he knew what he was doing, but as if on purpose, the more he messed with it. The more he hoped would make the the compounds more unstable.

"What's wrong with this thing?" He hit the computer once on the screen from the side, folding his arms now. Perhaps if he made it unstable enough it would overflow... He was at the center now, and it would be an easy jump to the exit from here if he could pull it off.

"You know if the boss wants it so quickly, so bad, maybe he should pay me more!"

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