Chapter 74 - Conflict begins

The village head went to find Pakura to follow my instruction. Right after that, I summoned Jukan (missing-nin) with the summoning scroll containing his blood.

"You know what to do, right? You are currently in the house of the village head. Your targets are resting at the guesthouse west side."

"Yes, Genji-san. I have to make Kiri shinobi involved in the hide-seek game between Suna and me, right?"

"Just to let you know, Pakura will surely bring most of her troops and barge in there to capture you. Make sure she will have firm misunderstandings between you and Kiri. Here is the tip. The leader of Kiri shinobi is a beautiful woman called Mei Terumi. Use that intel wisely."

"Alright, but right after Pakura barges in, how do I escape? Even with my unique skill, I can't avoid so many eyes."

"No, you will let them chase you and bait them to the mountain where remaining Kiri shinobi are. Thus causing Suna and Kiri to fight each other while you retreat slowly. Here is the smoke bomb so you can escape when they barge into the room. Don't worry about Pakura. I am sure she will stay behind and battle with Kiri leader."

"Alright, Genji-san. Just promise to keep me safe from Suna after this."

"Yea, yea. The village head should be informing Pakura anytime soon. I will distract the Suna spies in this building, go hurry. With your unique skill, you won't get caught before reaching the guesthouse of Kiri shinobi."

Jukan nodded to me and was about head out.

"One more thing! If there is any chance of you betraying me or not following my plan, remember that I can summon you anytime anywhere and chop your head off."

I could see the sweat dripping on Jukan's face when he heard my threatening. After warning him, I left the mansion and went out to lure Suna shinobi into the village head house.

I made sure they watch me going out of the village clearly, so they could be great witnesses that I am not involved in the chaos that's going to happen.

I summoned several eagles and ordered them to supervise the Kiri shinobi in the mountain and notify me immediately if something happens.

'Hehehe, now I just have to wait for my pawns to deliver the result. I will just lie down somewhere and wait.'

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Jukan sneakily reached in front of the Guesthouse of Mei and Kiri shinobi. He knew there were Suna shinobi somewhere, spying on Kiri shinobi.

Jukan walked up and knocked at Mei's room. He was awed by Mei's beauty, just like any other males, when Mei opened the door to see who it was.

"Who might you be?"

"Could we please talk inside? Talk in the corridor is a bit..."

"Sorry, I don't let strangers inside my room. Now, if that is what you have to come, then sorry."

Mei interrupted Jukan and was about to close the door just before Jukan spoke about mine.

"Wait a bit. I know you are Kiri shinobi and are here to find chakra metal ore. Don't even bother trying to deny. I have come to make a deal."

Mei sharply looked back at Jukan. She then checked around if anyone was near to eavesdrop and let Jukan in. Jukan didn't hesitate and entered immediately.

But as soon as Jukan entered, he was quickly pinned down by Ringo. Mei locked the door.

"Tell me, where did you get that intel? Who told you? Now spit it!!" Ringo urged.

But Jukan, who already expected this rough treatment, didn't panic and just smiled a bit. Ringo tried to punch Jukan, but Jukan also dodged and escaped from her clutch.

"Hehe, I have come to help you guys, but is this how you treat your guest?"

"Oh, we don't need your shitty help. Just tell told you about us!!" Ringo said.

"Hehe, you naive idiots. If you are looking for a bandit hideout, then it's too late. They are all dead by Iwa shinobi, who are here for a bandit extermination mission. So even if you go to their camp, you can't find the location of mine at all."

"Bullshit, stop lying. Mei-nee, let's capture and torture him now." Ringo excitedly asked Mei.

Unlike Ringo, Mei and her other bodyguards stayed quiet after hearing Jukan. They definitely heard that Genji finished his mission during Genji and Pakura's conversation. Mei thought for a second and spoke to Jukan.

"It seems like you know the location of mine. I don't know how you got that intel, but even if you want to help us, we can't trust you."

"My name is Jukan, an ex-Suna shinobi. Currently, Suna shinobi are stationed here to capture me. But I didn't expect Suna will send this many shinobi, So I need you all to help me escape, in return I will tell you the location of mine."

"So it was all your damn fault that Suna shinobi are everywhere. Piece of shit, we don't need your help. We can find it by ourselves fine. Instead, we can capture you and send you to Suna." Ringo replied back.

"He~Try it! Then. I will tell Suna about you all."

Jukan was obviously bluffing. He was currently stalling time for Pakura and her Suna force to come.

"Stop it, Ringo. Jukan-san, I will trust you for now. But unless you tell how you knew about us, I am afraid our deal is off." Mei asked Jukan. She wasn't going to let him off until she knew the answer.

"Well..."

Jukan had trouble answering Mei. He couldn't just tell it was Genji. Genji didn't give him an answer to this unexpected answer. Just as every Kiri shinobi started to show suspicion on him, the lady of lucky saved Jukan.

*Bang* (Sound of the door, fȯrċɨbŀƴ opening)

Without loud noise, the door of the room broke. Pakura and a whole bunch of Suna shinobi could be seen.

"We finally found you, Jukan! I knew something was up with this strange merchant." Pakura spoke.

Pakura honestly didn't believe the village head's words about spotting Jukan at first. But she ȧssumed there was no benefit of the village head lying at her, so she decided to check it out, in which she was very glad that she did.

Jukan thought it was time for him to bail out now. If he couldn't now, he wasn't sure when.

"Shit, Suna found us. For now, I will escape. Let's regroup at rendezvous point D, Mei Terumi-sama. Hope you three bodyguards protect her carefully. She is the future of Kirigakure." Jukan spoke the bullshits.

After bullshitting, he pulled out a smoke bomb and threw it to the ground. Mei and Kiri Shinobi also used this chance to escape. While Suna shinobi were all panicked and searched for Jukan, Pakura's eyes were on Mei's.

"Mei Terumi-sama? Kirigakure? I didn't know Kiri is involved with Jukan. Damn, should have looked into further."

Due to the numbers of Suna shinobi, they quickly spotted Jukan, Mei, and Kiri shinobi after the smoke cleared. But Jukan was going the opposite direction of Mei's.

"Alright, listen. 10 jounins with me to chase Kiri shinobi. I will personally go and catch Kiri bastards. The remaining of all the Suna shinobi is to pursuit Jukan. We need a large number to counter his unique jutsu."

Since Jukan referred to Mei as 'sama,' Pakura naturally thought Mei is the mastermind and strongest. Every Suna shinobi obeyed Pakura's decision.

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I was lying down when one of the eagles came down to notify me about the chasing game between Jukan and Suna shinobi.

Just as I expected, Pakura chase after Mei and Kiri shinobi instead of Jukan. She knew about the strength of Jukan, but she didn't know anything about Kiri shinobi. I was sure she won't send her underlings to people with unknown powers.

After 5 more minutes, the second eagle came down to tell me that Jukan has successfully lured the Suna shinobi to the remaining 11 Kiri shinobi. Jukan just had said, "Kiri-shinobi senpai," then fights broke out. 11 Kiri shinobi were all confused, why Suna attacking them, but they still battled against Suna shinobi, roughly size about 70.

Another eagle came down and reported that fights were getting intense. None of them paid attention to Junko's slow disappearance due to his unique skill. On top of that, it was night.

I thought it was time for me to act now. I summoned Jukan to my place with the scroll. Jukan looked confused for a second but realized he got summoned quickly.

"Genji-san, I completed your plan flawlessly. Currently, Suna and Kiri are fighting each other to death. Now, you can vouch for me as Iwa shinobi, right?"

"Yes, yes, you have done a great job. Your task is finished, so go back to hiding. When I go back to Iwagakure, I will summon you."

"Alright, thank you very much, Genji-san."

Jukan turned around and was ready to leave, but suddenly felt a blade piercing his heart. His head turned around and looked at me furiously.

"YoU, bastard.... you promised to protect me...."

With that as his final words, he dropped dead, by my sword piercing his heart.

"What a naive idiot you are. There was no way I am going to accept shinobi who betrayed it's home. Besides, your loyalty is in Kumogakure for the girl. Onoki will kill me before he kills you if I bring you.

I also need your dead corpse as a gift to Suna."

I searched around his body and to see if he has something useful. Then I have found his diary inside his ċhėst pocket. I could see that he recorded almost every his spy activity in this diary. Suna is probably searching for this one too.

If I was an ordinary person, then I would take the diary with me. But I wasn't your average joe. I asked System to take down every his diary info to its' database. Next, left it back to the original place.

'Perfect crime, hehehe! Now it's time to clear out remaining Suna shinobi and blame on Tsunade.'