While waiting for the documents she had requested to be delivered at her desk, Risu was looking at a few old reports and papers that had peaked her interest. It seemed that two people who were once thought to be part of the mysterious Aoi Bara organization and who had been under some kind of monitoring, had vanished from both the ANBU and the CID's radar ever since Lord Mitsuo had left the ANBU in disarray: Uzumaki Tsuneo and Hyuga Tsuyo.

According to some sources she had been using, it seemed that neither had left an obvious trail, though the fact that Uzumaki Tsuneo was a murderous psychopath did raise the question to who was responsible for the many unexplicable deaths in Takigakure during the chunin exams and the fact that Tsuyo was mentioned by Mitsuo as one of the people who had managed to subdue the treacherous Senju known as 'the collector' and had been in need of medical assistance.

The only lead the young ANBU had, was a medical expert going by the name of Guanyin Nanashi or the Pestilence of Iwagakure. A man who had made a name for himself as an expert medical nin, using some sort of corrosive chakra rather than the actual healing properties, which apparently had peaked not only Risu's but also at some point the Black ANBU's interest.

She hoped that when she would be getting there, that man could be so complient to teach her how to use her own chakra in such a way, because she was going to need it if she was ever going to be achieving her goals and fullfil her ambitions, which were not so small after all.

There was however something more important than any of those things to be found somewhere in Iwagakure or around it: the infamous crystal user responsible for the death of a previous hokage and perhaps the only person who could be a danger to Risu's future plans. As known, he only attacked the Hokage on the ground of that man being a burden to the Shinobi world, but Risu did not know how that man would act if she were to do what she was planning. To avoid something like that murder from ever happening, she had to find him and perhaps even take him out if reason were not to work. So much work for what was supposed to be a short trip.

After she had been given the documents she had requested, the young woman placed her mask over her face, assuming her ANBU Identity Lamya once again, as she made her way out of the village towards Iwagakure on what was by far her most interesting mission so far.

During her run through the trees of Hi no Kuni's forests, Lamya halted for a moment, after having checked her surroundings to take a look at the map containing the papers she had requested.

documents:

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