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Sano...A grunt could of been heard from the Raikage as the Kumo sensory network was tripped by several strange individuals. One, in particular, caused goosebumps to appear on his arms that he ignored passively. His anger was what kept him warm. It was the Mizukage herself. The anbu sensory agents that assisted Navi in establishing this network voiced their fears to the wasp who then relayed it back to Sanosuke. They were afraid. One would be a fool if they weren't afraid. Sending orders to Navi, he commanded them to focus the center of where these individuals did meet up.
The people in front of him were the councilmen and women of the village hidden in the cloud. He was sitting at the head of the table, with the Lightning Daimyo to his right looking rather displeased with the developments. The daimyo had come to him once word reached the lord that kiri fleets were approaching his country. Before the daimyo would reach out to the water daimyo himself, the elder man reached out to his general of the shinobi: the Raikage himself. Sanosuke, himself, believed that he could handle the situation before the daimyo himself could hear about it. And now the daimyo was not pleased and demanded an explanation. He had already distinctly voiced his annoyance of the situation to all members of the council. He wanted this fiasco to put to a hold now. When the daimyo learned about the kiri shinobi being detained had disappeared, amount of rage that escaped the elder man's throat reached biblical proportions. Currently, Sanosuke had his own ANBU agents searching for the shinobi to bring them back to the holding cells. The fact that nothing was reported bothered him, and angered the daimyo.
But then the Kiri forces themselves decided to approach his village with armed forces. The shinobi of the council could sense the pressure that were being released by the Mizukage. Uneasiness could be sensed from the room. So she made her move this boldly, and why of all times? At the moment there weren't much that could be done to quell the rage being emitted from Kiri's kage. But then Navi notified Sanosuke of another individual that was also there with the shinobi. The genin that he had taken under his wing: Satoshi. That was when his state of panic was shown: what was he doing there? If he had so much as harmed a hair on his head, Ayakashi will answer for this dearly.
"Sanosuke! Answer! What is going on?!"
The Raikage's attention was snapped to the meeting being held at the moment. All eyes were on him while the daimyo was glaring daggers at Sanosuke demanding answers. First the safety of his citizens came first.
"Takumi, Machiko, Hanabi. See that the safety of our citizens are secured. Genin and chuunin to all homes of civilians as safeguards. I want a medic ninja on every block." Sanosuke ordered his shinobi. They nodded before disappearing from the meeting themselves.
"Koga, Ren. Defend the daimyo, I want him protected at all times. Ko and Bo, see to the daimyo is informed of the current situation while ensuring all orders are executed." His advisers gave their nod of confirmation of his orders.
Before the daimyo could voice his disapproval of the sudden urgency coming from Sanosuke, he also dismissed himself in a flash of light as he appeared out of the hallway and walked briskly down the halls to the nearest exit he would encounter. Navi floated by his side as he shed his kage cloak and tossed it to a shinobi passing him. Just one glance was taken at the newly appointed chuunin to communicate that the robe would be taken back to his office. The aura building around him left no room for questions: execute his order, that is simple. On his body was cloth armor that had the same density and durability of plated armor, but looked like simple cloth armor. His boots from the wasp village quickened his steps to the point that Navi was beginning to fall behind.
Upon exiting the administration building of the village, his breath became visible from the coldness in the atmosphere.
Navi locate where Ayakashi is. Sanosuke mentally commanded Navi. It was thanks to the disease he was born with where the mental state of his chakra was contained in an object that he had around his neck in the form of a necklace, that left him virtually untrackable through normal uses of sensory techniques that were based on chakra detection. It’s not until he uses the energy from the necklace in sync with his body’s physical energy that chakra can be detected by normal means. Until then, he will have Navi be his source for sensory as Ayakashi and whoever she may be with will not be able to track him unless he personally uses chakra; thus, giving away his position to the hostiles in the area.
The second Navi informed Sanosuke of where Ayakashi’s forces were, all restraint that he had of the situation that were keeping him level headed began to snap apart at the seams. She had the audacity to bring these forces upon the same mountain that his office was: essentially scaring his villagers by sitting atop of his own head and daring him to do act. Who the hell did the woman think she was, and what act of disrespect commanded her to think she was going to do this unquestioned? Sanosuke could feel his blood boil to dangerous levels.
ANBU agents near the vicinity…approach the mountain and place a barrier. Nobody will leave the tree unless I permit it. Sanosuke growled mentally his orders knowing that Navi would relay it back to his ANBU agents.
Ayakashi you have made a grave mistake. Pulsing chakra to his feet, Sanosuke rocketed from the bottom part of the mountain in one bound. Wind blasted his face as futon chakra wrapped around his body to create an upstream that soared him to new heights. Silver energy leaked from his body as more chakra was used to shot him farther up the mountain of the administration building. For those already at the top of the mountain where the durian tree of knowledge was located would only see a shadow launching itself towards the clouds themselves. Winds would pick up from the draft of his movement. That alone would signify that these intruders' presence had indeed caught his attention.
His velocity slowed down once he reached the height of his leap. By looking down Sanosuke could see exactly who had gathered upon the summit; essentially barging into his home. Currently his chakra was what was slowing down his decent as he would eventually land right on the highest branch of the durian tree where he will be elevated as he will tell all company to vacate the premises less they face the wrath of the Raikage. His body was still rather high up that only those with at least jounin level could see the tiny spec that was Sanosuke as he hung high in the sky.
Ayakashi was looking rather decked out for war as the Mizukage brought out all pieces of armor and weaponry she could find. The infamous war tiger she had was also there to accompany her. The former Tsuchikage also accompanied her by standing by her side, along with a member from the Legendary Swordsmen of the Mist that he had himself had fought alongside during the Seven Bells War, and there were two others he didn't identify with however one of them did look rather familiar. Maybe he had trained with the boy, but the woman was odd to him. If it wasn't for the current situation, he'd be perplexed. Finally the sword saint of konoha, Mitsuo was there. From even his high point in the sky, Sanosuke could make out the words he was saying.
How dare he? It was the only remotely comprehensive thought Navi could pick up from Sanosuke as pure rage boiled forth. Winds picked up in the sky as what seemed like violent winds were picking up. The coldness of the air was turning into something short of a storm at the Raikage's fury. White lines streaked across his eyelids as his hair turned black and twisted from the amount of senjutsu chakra he was taking in at once. Normally when he had entered sage mode, a light buzzing could be heard from the Raikage as the chakra would do its best to imitate the nature of the wasps. This time it sounded more like thunder crackling as all of those who were at the summit could hear the sounds of the chainsaw like buzzing.
It hung through the air as those who were bellow him would hear the wrath of the Raikage at those who would defile his village. More winds picked up the closer he got to them. Static electric pops filled the air, and got stronger and stronger for anyone in the vicinity. Considering the amount of raiton chkara that was being generated by Sanosuke, it was acting like a lightning rod to the skies as thunder could be heard from the skies themselves. It was as though the skies were coerced to follow the will of the Jyuudaime Raikage. His seals on his forearms pulsed with energy as it was circulating his chakra for optimum efficiency. It began to pulse as he leveled himself down as the storms between the senjutsu users, and kages, were being had as both auras were fighting for dominance.
Once he landed softly on the top branch of the durian tree, his eyes took in what he saw in greater scale. By the time he had landed, his ANBU would have set up the barrier that was strong enough to hold most chuunin leveled abilities in the barrier. One would expect his eyes to be cast on the Aisu user before him, but instead they were towards the sword saint who suggested he'd use his student as leverage. The demon tree was rumored to have contained demonic energy as a lightning rod to the village. That rumor held a bit of truth as his illness of having the phalactery was rooted to a demon itself. In fact the demon influences could be felt as he took in more chakra from his surroundings.
The energies played off his emotions of rage and anger as though it was a new toy. The energies whispered empty promises of power should he let it engulf him. Of course the sage wasn't going to let this power control him, he would use it for his own purposes. The seal of the demon, that normally would only appear on his right eye when he commanded it to do so, appeared now on both eyes. The eyes of the demon were being cast at the sword saint Mitsuo.
When he opened his mouth to speak, chakra was laced in his voice to have it echoed for all to hear that were close to the mountain top. Storms picked up as thunder roared to show just a small reflection of the rage that built up in Sanosuke for this rude arrival; plus the comment Mitsuo made. This was all before the veteran. Ayakashi could wait, his shinobi came first.
"Sword Saint....if you so much as harm a hair on the boy, I will personally send you to the heavens where you claim your title to be from." The archaic words lingered from his lips as each word resonated an even stronger buzzing sound per syllable.
"Satoshi, down the mountain. Now." The threat hung true as his gloves sparked into the form of his gauntlets as more chakra pulsed into them. His silver energy, now began to showcase shades of black from the demonic energy he took in. He would allow the boy time to escape to the ANBU agents bellow the mountain. There was no place for him here among these shinobi.
The sword saint had only seen him in combat during the Seven Bells war. That was years ago when he was a jounin and still a young master to the ways of the sage. His abilities now reach proportions that put his past abilities to shame. Mitsuo must have felt that already upon his entrance. Now his eyes looked at Ayakashi's form as her energy was still combating his own. This was the woman who was the cause of this. Kaekio's disappearance, that he knew was responsible for. The Kiri shinobi were being held to get her attention and come answer for her crime. She was also the reason for sending that kamikaze shinobi that was bathed into flames to attack the prison. He still remembered how hard it was to contain her rampage. And yet she let that loose on the same shinobi forces she was to liberate? It seemed close to a kamikaze attempt to look for a chance of war.
The time for games were over, Ayakashi would answer for her acts here and now. The other people here were of little significance at the moment, at the moment the only people he was cognitively focused on were Ayakashi and Mitsuo.
"Ayakashi...you come to my village. You and this sword saint. Threaten my people with your forces, have them cower from your presence. Sword Saint, you personally believed you would enter my home and raid it. Have both of you gone mad?" His voice was low but still carried to all parties. He had to take a minute to collect his thoughts as he tried to calm his instincts down to not lash out. The tree branch itself sturdy as more chakra blasted from his body. Anger glinted in his eyes as the eyes of a demon were praying upon Ayakashi to answer.
"WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT AISU?! SPEAK NOW!" A thunder clap from the skies signaled for another blast of wind to blast from him and onto those that were still on the summit. Little did Sanosuke know, that his former student was before them. This would be the first time she personally would see this side of anger: one that emulated that of a demon engulfed with a sea of rage.