107. What phantoms do pt1

Konoha, a week before Tomoka’s trip to the spider’s domain.

Moka-37 crawled around Konoha’s library. The reason as to why she is crawling instead of walking is simple. Currently she is in the form of a worm, even her wooden body is in the same shape. Moka didn’t understand why the original is so insistent on having the library assigned phantoms be worms. Either way it didn’t matter much, and would matter even less in a few days once her assignment is done. 

Moka-37’s mission is simple. Infiltrate Konoha’s shinobi library and ste- *cough* borrow as much information as possible. Of course the original wouldn’t be satisfied with Konoha’s general library so there were other phantoms “borrowing” information from the library’s of each clan in Konoha.  

The job was overall boring, or at least that is what the original believed. Moka knew what boredom is as all phantoms share their knowledge with the original. However, unlike the original, they were unable to feel emotions, something all of them were thankful for most of the time. 

Most of the time Moka would become active at night when there were less chances of being caught. She would peruse the different books and tomes then she would extract the useful information, catalog it and store it in the original’s mental library. As of yet the most useful thing she had found were a few scrolls on fuinjutsu. 

Unfortunately, the amount of information on fuinjutsu stored in the scrolls was meager. All she found was a few theoretical basics and instructions in the creation of explosive seals as storage seals. Overall it was useful but basic. It is sad that this was the most useful thing she found in the library as everything else was just scrolls on basic jutsus.

Another boon, albeit less useful than the fuin information, was the scroll on iryo ninjutsu. Unfortunately it was just the basics and didn’t contain anything about the mystic palm technique. If the original wanted that information then she would probably get it from Moka-34 which is in charge of “borrowing” information from the senju.

If it wasn’t obvious by now the Moka series of phantoms are Tomoka’s intel gatherers. Their job is to infiltrate and gather information from all possible sources. They are also the ones in charge of infiltration. Most if not all of them possess none-humanoid bodies. Some, as is the case of the bookworms, have this none-human shape as a joke.

Now let's look at another Moka series, this time the Moka-14. 

“Say, 17, when do you think we will get another lead?” 14 was feeling depressed… not. Even though the phantoms couldn’t feel emotions they still took it upon themselves to act as if they had them. The phantoms had decided to create their own personalities using Tomoka’s knowledge and acted in accordance with those personalities. 

“I don’t know but this has been the third base we have found. That snake is really slippery.” 17 couldn’t help but sigh in annoyance. Their mission didn’t have the highest priority but it still annoyed 17’s created personality. 

The mission was simple: find and contact Orochimaru if at all possible. Unfortunately for them, the snake was too slippery. The hidden bases they had found were abandoned… not. Some of Orochi’s subordinates still remained and they were aggressive. Because of this their team had suffered casualties.15 and 16 got their bodies destroyed and dispelled… again. 

“Really, we could already have found another base if it wasn’t for those two idiots choosing such bothersome personalities.” 14 couldn’t help but grumble as they continued to move. 

16’s chosen personality was that of an air headed idiot. As for 15’s she was a muscle headed idiot. Because of this they would fight recklessly and would more often than not get their bodies wrecked. Worst of all was their reasoning for choosing such bothersome personalities. 

“Since we already have a depressed girl, and a nerdy girl then we need a jock and an idiot to make things balanced!” That is what they said. Sometimes 14 wondered if the original had anything to do with that decision. 

“Come on, let's keep moving. Let's enjoy the calm and quiet while those two get back here.” 17 said as she saw 14 depressed expressions. Hearing this, 14 had to agree.