Dengen has just received information from the village Sensor Division explaining a breaking and entering. The culprit has been seen heading towards the outskirts on Iwagakure and is stated as being a formidable opponent. The Sensor Division last spotted the intruder heading west, more specifically towards the Wild West. The Wild West is an area that is rarely scanned by Iwa troops so it is an ideal place for someone to hide if they were trying to evade the authorities. The area in the West is known as a very wide area that has nothing but strong winds and very unstable grounds and every step is encouraged to be walked with caution. The unstable ground in the Wild West can easily crack with pressure and break only to fall into what Iwa imagines being a never ending pit; because of the danger in the area people are not allowed to travel near the area so back up will be highly unlikely. Dengen knew that this was a mission that only a Kage could do especially now that Iwa is on the verge of it Golden Age. The Sensor Division looked awfully afraid of the intruder so the strength of the shinobi must be beyond the ordinary scale so the Tsuchikage took it upon himself to find out what is going on. It was 2:33 am when Dengen decided to go out to the Wild West, saying that sneaking up on his opponent might make this a lot easier than it has to be. Iwagakure is a vast area and the Wild West itself is pretty far from the Tsuchikage Complex so travelling there took sometime even for the quick Kage.

Dengen noticed that he was near the West when the wind began to blow harshly from nearly all directions. This was a pain especially because Dengen has no wind affinity and is not used to having to control himself in that nature, and the dry lands with surprisingly muddy patches does not help speed the process up. Dengen began to feel like traveling to that area might have been a bad idea since fighting here could make for a huge disadvantage for him, but in reality the area must hold an equal disadvantage to the intruder since Senser reported him having Lightning and Water so also not wind. As Dengen ran in the harsh terrain he began to slow his pace and he actually started to walk with his hands blocking his face still going against the strong winds. Then Dengen hears, “I’ve been wondering when Iwagakure was going to send someone over here.” Dengen was looking down as he walked forward but when he heard the voice he had no choice but to look up. Like Division said, he was wearing the Kumo ANBU attire. “Who are you and what do you want from Iwa?” The shinobi then looked closer at Dengen and said, “Haa. I can’t believe this. You’re the Tsuchikage. I understand you are short on man power but you are going to make Tundra’s mission inevitable after I kill you." Surprisingly enough the winds stopped as Dengen stood straight up and responded to what the shinobi said. “I am the Rokudaime Tsuchikage. Killing me is not an option but I will find out why you are here.”

“That is where you are wrong Tsuchikage. Death is an option for all shinobis.” In the middle on his sentence the ANBU dressed shinobi disappeared only to reappear right behind Dengen just mere inches away. The shinobi moved to fast for Dengen to react so his movement was scarce as the infiltrator drives his sword towards the back of Dengen, there was no choice but to body replace out of the attack and so Dengen did and the sword stabbed the Tsuchikages long jacket as he left that behind as he always does. Dengen appeared where the shinobi stood before the attack to begin with and then began to compliment on the shinobis skill. “So where are you from? You are fast. We could use people like you in the village.” The shinobi smiled and laughed at the statement. “I know you need shinobis, Iwagakure is nothing but a child still not grown up. Now is when it is at its weakest.” Dengen knew that Iwagakure has just rebuilt its government and he is sure that the rest of the shinobi world knew as well but Dengen couldn’t help but feel that, that might have something to do with the shinobi being here. “So tell me, why are you here?” The shinobi didn’t say anything as he just tilted his head. Dengen noticed that the shinobi had an ANBU mask on that was all black so it was hard to see what exactly he was looking at and even his sword, being drawn out is nearly invisible to the naked eye because of its dark blade blending in with the night. Dengen checked the time and noticed it was 3:33 and when he looked forward again the shinobi disappeared again but Dengen was prepared this time. The Tsuchikage clapped his hands and immediately summoned the great Monkey Prince Ema, back to back to himself. This gave no room for a surprise attack from behind and Dengen knew that what the shinobi wanted to do and not to his surprise he showed up and luckily Ema was prepared for him. Ema knocked the shinobi in the face with the Kibba Staff while he was hunched over holding the sword ready to strike, breaking his mask while they stood there motionless. As the mask slowly crumbled away Ema noticed the shinobi behind the mask because he seen Dengen do work on the BINGO book. “Dengen?” then the shinobi dispersed into thin air leaving a trail of smoke, a key trait to the shadow clone technique. Dengen replied, “You got him?” and Ema sadly responded, “He is still h - -” Before Ema finished his sentence the shinobi appeared from the ground right under both Dengen and Ema and as he tried to grab both of their feet, both Dengen and Ema jumped dodging the shinobis decapitation styled technique. As the shinobi came up from the ground Dengen in midair made the clone hand seal and he summoned 2 shadow clones. The shadow clones were summoned aiming down torpedoing towards the intruder himself.

As the clones dove down, they most of fell to quickly for the intruder to react as they both successfully landed and latched on to him against his will. While trying to get them off one of the clones successfully got a handle on the intruder’s sword, knowing he is a specialist with the sword fighting style Dengen ordered the clones to try a disable that skill of his and the clones were doing it successfully until the unimaginable happened. The shinobi once again vanished into thin air leaving a trail of smoke. “It’s another shadow clone!” Ema stated abruptly. Dengen and Ema began descending from their jump and in order to be safe they both decided to land on a large rock big enough to fit the both of them. “It’s odd though.” Dengen said to Ema and Ema responded with, “What is?” Dengen was looking around somewhat suspiciously trying to find out what exactly was going on. “Iwagakure has one of the best militaries in the shinobi world, our Sensor Division is” top – of – the - notch” So I don’t know how they could have missed the fact that this shinobi uses earth release and that is apparent since these clones are popping out of the ground like that.” Ema looked at Dengen menacingly and said, “I see.” While Dengen and Ema spoke the two clones were standing back to back to each other waiting for the shinobi to strike. “It is amazing too.” Ema said and turning to look at Ema Dengen asks. “What is?” to which he received the answer. “Im disappointed Dengen. How can you miss what is going on. The kid is obviously fluent when it comes to the shadow clone technique and he came here dressed with the Kumo attire. He is the Missing Nin of the leaf, the Sarutobi Assassin.” Dengen questioned Ema’s words once again, “Sarutobi?” Dengen remembers reading about him on the bingo book but he doesn’t know enough to know what or who he could be working for but still Ema proceeded to speak. “Yes the Sarutobi. I noticed him when I broke one of the shadow clones mask with the Kibba Staff.” As they both got quite the feeling of unease was spread around equally and the soon Dengen broke the silence. “He can’t be gone.” When Dengen finished talking an all too familiar voice echoed out. “You are right Rokudaime Tsuchikage!” When Dengen seen where the voice came from he noticed the shinobi coming but this time he was split into three and they were all coming simultaneously. The shinobis technique was too fast for Dengen to keep up but luckily enough Ema was there beside Dengen as he always is to be a Guardian. As the clones closed in the attack was so quick that it mostly appeared in after image so it was impossible for all to have come out of the technique unharmed and one of the clones got sliced before it had a chance to react like the other did. As the first clone got sliced the second dodged the attack, while Ema used the staff to block the incoming attack that appears to have been the real shinobi after all coming from the top. “Dengen! This is the original!”

The shinobi landed as Ema struggled to keep the sword at bay, defending with the Kibba Staff. When Ema told Dengen about the shinobi being the original, he had a swing at him and when the punch got to make contact the shinobi disappeared. Replacing his body with a piece of wood was the trademark sign of the Body Replacement Technique. Dengens last shadow clone was able to escape the shinobi’s barrage of shadow clones and ended up escaping and getting near Ema and the original Dengen. Ema was in between the two Dengens as he pointed the staff towards the direction where the shinobi appeared after the Body Replacement Technique. When the shinobi appeared he had three shadow clones already released and they each got on to his side. “It’s four against three.” Ema said. Without any warning the shinobi stroke his sword on to the ground, breaking the whole battle field and causing it to tumble down. The strike was clearly a lightning technique and which lightning technique it was, was not clear. All that is known by Dengen and Ema is the shinobi must have pre-set a trap underground before the fight began and that is how he was able to travel underground, and it wasn’t sometime of hiding like a mole technique. When Ema, Dengen and Dengen’s shadow clone fell into the whole they each landed on the ground and likewise did the intruder and his shadow clones. “Dengen?” Ema asked. “Yes.” Dengen replied and Ema drastically stated the danger in fighting the shinobi. “This guy isn’t an ordinary shinobi. He may not be stronger then you but if you lose focus and underestimate that intruder then you death will surely come swiftly because of that sword. All of his strikes so far have been “kill strikes” so watch out.” Dengen looked at Ema and smiled. “You still don’t think im smart enough do you?” Before the question was even asked Dengen’s shadow clone charged ahead and broke the Mexican standoff that the two parties were having. Dengen’s clone didn’t have much taijutsu skills so going against the four shinobis alone was a sure loss so before getting near the clone created a jutsu. The Swamp of the Underworld made mud out of the battlefield and while Dengen and Ema knew this was going to happen the intruder and his clones were not so lucky. They all did get away but as the clone finished the jutsu he grabbed one of the clones by the ankle and dragged it down into the mud. It was a sacrifice needed to rid the battle field of one less opponent and it worked as now it was a three against two battle against both parties. The mud dried up quick since the jutsus purpose was met and when that happened Ema was the first to go to work. Charging at the enemy at full speed showed the enemy what true speed is all about, and as Ema began working his staff against the shinobis shadow clones Dengen’s plan to sneak up behind the original worked as now the fight became, Ema versus two shadow clones and Dengen versus the original.

Dengen took went to punch the shinobi in the back of the head but the shinobi soon realized the incoming attack and dodged it, but only to be bombarded by a combination of techniques made by Dengen. The shinobi was doing a pretty good job at defending against the bombardment but the same couldn’t be said by the shadow clones as Ema looked to have been having fun against them. The shadow clones looked strong, as they were able to take a couple hits, it was surely a constitution thing as these clones took serious pain. Ema was striking without stop and even when he missed Ema used no movement be left unused as he would use it for another technique. The final shot that got the clones by surprise was the fact that Ema had his staff spinning like a propeller and not only that but he was rotating the propeller all around his body leaving no space for the clones to attack. One of the clones decided to be foolish enough to try and hit Ema while he was working the staff in such a masterful way and when he got to close, the staff’s rotation was stopped by the clones face and again breaking the ANBU facemask but this time the hit was hard enough to fling the clone back. Rotating uncontrollably in the middle of the air the clone disappeared and Ema again got in his signature fighting style as he taunted the clone to get closer.

Dengen looked at the shinobi as he witnessed two of his three clones already disperse and Dengen decided to dispatch some word to remind the shinobi of the situation at hand. “So looks like the fight has gotten even now. You got one more chance to follow common sense. You are destined to loose this match.” As the shinobi stood with his sword he slowly lifted it on to his shoulders and it appeared as he took a deep breath as his chest looked like it inhaled and exhaled as well. The last shadow clone then got beside the original as it stayed in a fighting stance ready to strike. As Ema got beside Dengen the shinobi went on to take off his mask. “My name is Julius Sarutobi, but it appears your ape friend already knew that.” It takes a lot to make Dengen show a facial expression and here this young Sarutobi kid surprised the Rokudaime Tsuchikage. “Ahh So now you decide to show your face.” Dengen said before Ema cuts in his speech by saying, “He is out of chakra.” Ema said to Dengen and Dengen smiled as he spoke to Sarutobi once again. “So is that true Sarutobi?” Julius couldn’t help but laugh a little at that one. “You have a smart summon there Tsuchikage.” Then Dengen corrected him as he look at Ema, “Yea, but he is my Guardian.” And when Dengen looks back at Sarutobi he gave him his final warning. “I know why you took off your mask. You know you are not getting out of here alive. This is it and you want to go out your way right?” Sarutobi said nothing to that. “It doesn’t have to be like that.”

“Believe me when I say it must end that way Rokudaime. I will die here if that’s what destiny chooses, but I will tell you this about the people who sent me here; their name is Team Tundra. They are meeting me at the bridge any minute now this month.” Dengen looked disappointed at the choice the young Sarutobi made and soon after Ema used his signature move as he merged with the Kibba Staff and landed on Dengen’s palm. “I really wish you would have chosen a different path.” After saying that Sarutobi squared up to fight while Dengen charged at him with the Kibba staff in hand. Sarutobi launched his shadow clone first and when Dengen felt right to do so he quickly planted the staff into the ground lunging him forward and over the shadow clone coming at him. This technique certainly surprised Sarutobi as Dengen came down on him like a Silverback Gorilla on his pray. Luckily Sarutobi had his sword out and his sword was a worthy one at that or else it would have broken with the force that Dengen put on it to hit him with. The clone wanted to catch up to the fight but before he reached Dengen was already having his way with Julius using the staff. Of course the hits weren’t landing since Sarutobi’s speed is way beyond Dengen’s mastery of the Kibba Staff but still Dengen kept him deprived of any offensive techniques, and this proved even more true when the shadow clone got near, Dengen took his focus off the original and made quick work out of dispersing it. After the last clone was out Dengen clearly had the upper hand with Ema still merged so he went with a basic yet effective move; Dengen charged at his opponent with full speed and then jumped as he cocked the Kibba Staff back and as he swung the staff at Sarutobi he easily dodged it, but to his surprise Ema extended his fist outside of the staff hitting Sarutobi when he thought he had the technique clearly escaped. Simple punch but because of the staff being swung so hard and the attack being such a surprise to Sarutobi, the punch ended up knocking him unconscious. This perfect time Dengen took to take Sarutobi in to custody.