The fact that a woman who could teleport could manage to be late for anything was a miracle, but thanks to Nova’s persuasion she’d stayed behind “getting ready” in bed for a quite bit longer than she should have. Izumi hurriedly slid her way into the tight fitting suit that was a part of her current persona, Zhizhu, an assassin from an unnamed foreign land that had made her way to the world of ninja. While the name was similar to her old persona it was somewhat by design. Izumi had created a web of information and travel unseen in centuries. “Zhizhu” had blonde hair with pink highlights which was mostly obscured by her hood, much of her face was obscured by the scarf that covered her neck and mouth leaving her eyes visible. Izumi gave Nova one last kiss before making the seal of confrontation and appearing at the border of the country her current contract took her to. Izumi often accepted the odd dubious mercenary contract that sent her here or there, where it was and what she was doing mattered little to her. Her true mission was to extend her network of seals allowing her influence and range to increase. Izumi was to have help this mission but doubted they’d find anyone else of her caliber for the price they were offering. Izumi definitely was not in need of the petty sum her contractor offered for razing whatever poor hamlet she was about to be unleashed on.

Izumi figured if this was a mission given by a village it would be classed as C rank, the contract detailed what defenses she’d expect and to call them defenses was like calling a collection of three trees a forest. Nothing would be able to stop her from leveling the village and incinerating those who dared try to stop her. She expected much of the “defenses” to flee once she got started. Not that they’d have a chance to escape, but tracking them down was half the fun. Izumi would not take long to reach the rendezvous point even without being able to teleport directly there she was in possession of incredible natural speed. When Izumi arrived the action had already begun, her “partner” probably had figured she’d be getting double the ryo. Izumi made a half snake hand seal as she approached and her raiton chakra began to flood the area, telling her the locations of living things in the area. Izumi snapped into focus as she had many times before, she could sense another shinobi being chased by the samurai who held this poor hamlet in his clutches. The shinobi had used her speed to pass them and was starting to try to destroy the first building to no avail. The contract mentioned three buildings but there were much more than that and Izumi was unsure which she was to target so obviously the answer was to just destroy them all. It had been too long since she’d used her flames to devour a town. Izumi made a half tiger hand sign as she approached the outskirts of the town. The heat emanating from her caused it to explode into a raging inferno immediately. The explosions chained from building to building as it all lit up like giant pile of tinder.

Izumi emerged from the inferno grinning satisfied in having an excuse to cause a raging holocaust once again. Yosei usually kept her on a short leash when it came to collateral damage but this was not one of his ordered missions. This one was of her own taking and she’d be as savage as she chose. The men who had been yelling at her now visible companion turned in panic to see what all the commotion was to see izumi standing at the edge of the now burning town glaring at them. “Let her have her fun boys. After all I don’t think she’s who you should be worried about.” The man closest to her wiped the sweat from his head and swallowed hard, he had been the one yelling in the obnoxious voice at whoever this woman she was coming to the aid of was. Izumi didn’t wait for them to react instead sending out a wall of flame that left them screaming on the ground. Into Izumi’s left hand was unsealed a kunai that had kanji stained on to it from her hand in the form of a seal. She flung it towards the silo when it was inches away she made the seal of confrontation and appeared next to it. Drawing her sword from her back it crackled with raiton chakra and let the song of a thousand birds sing. With a single swing Izumi tore a hole down the center of it as she dragged the sword along its side running up to the base while the contents of the silo exploded into gouts of flame behind her. Izumi approached her “companion” slowly removing her hood and lower her scarf to expose her mouth, “Sorry I’m late sweet cheeks, did I miss anything?”

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Izumi’s destruction of what was once a hamlet was absolute and brutal. There were only a few people left and even they had severe burns. Izumi even felt a little bad about what she’d done to the poor people here what had they done to deserve the wrath of Izumi Karisuma? Izumi had finally got a good look at her companion and couldn’t help but notice how little she was wearing, her eyes slowly made their way up her form. The curvy woman was definitely Izumi’s type, but the blonde woman was happily spoken for by the beautiful and deadly Kazekage in waiting. Still, Izumi couldn’t help but let her eyes wander. Izumi got a fleeting glance at some sort of dojutsu that the young woman made a hurry to cover In the moments in which Izumi approached. The gorgeous young woman asked Izumi if she was there for the contract, to which Izumi replied with nothing more than a giggle. To her second question concerning why someone like her was doing a mission like this Izumi had words, ”I do it for the fun of it. You can have my pay if you’d like I have little and less need for money from … that.” she said gesturing towards the man who was practically drooling at the pair thinking he was beyond notice and out of sight. When she made her gesture the man didn’t even flinch evidently he had long given up on decency. “In fact my own personal business would be more concerned with someone like you. Was that Byakugan? I’ve never seen it in person. You seem … talented.” Izumi’s emphasis on the word talented came with another trip up and down Hina’s barely clad body. “How’d you like to work for me cutie?” As she finished her last sentence the shrieks of her employer began to cut the air. Izumi took a deep breath through clenched teeth before turning to face him with a look that did little to hide her rapidly growing anger.

“What the hell are you doing!? I asked you do destroy a very specific set of buildings and just a couple more if you had the time… and you destroy the whole bloody village! You idiot! The whole point was for my boss to sell construction services to these people and now there’s hardly any people left! And the survivors are fleeing to the next town. Who knowns what kind of trouble this is going to cause!? I’m going to go back to my superior and you better hope that he doesn’t have you executed!” This man had very little going for him, he was ugly he was short and he was angry. He also had made the mistake of addressing Izumi with his petulant little tirade. Izumi drew up to her full height, which in her boots put her at a good four inches above the man. The look of anger and entitlement quickly gave way to fear and regret as he found himself facing down a very angry and very cruel Jonin. Izumi back handed the man, striking him with enough force to send him to the ground. “Kiss my feet you stupid fucking peasant and maybe then I’ll consider leaving with you some teeth to chew your way out of the hole I bury you in.” The man was sobbing and begging for mercy but he’d find none from the angry blonde woman who’s foot met him in the jaw with a sickening crack that was followed with something like a moan from the man trying to speak with a broken jaw.

Izumi knelt down beside him and rifled through his pockets while he cried and begged. Producing her own payment and that of her partner from his pocket and then some Izumi handed the ryo to Hina. The man had begun to try to crawl away from the pair, Izumi laughed as she walked up behind the man and put the heel of her boot to his spine and steeped down pinning him to the ground. Izumi raised her voice so that the remaining villagers, “The one you have to blame for what happened here is this man. He told myself and this beautiful, brave, young woman that here we’d fine a scum of vile men and their demon spawn. Truth is as he just told us, he planned to come here and destroy your silo and your forge in order to sell you a worse building at a price you could barely afford. I’ll leave him here with you, I don’t take kindly to being mislead.” The man had again began to crawl away Izumi grabbed him by his ankle and turned his foot around to face the wrong direction. Satisfied that he’d not be able to escape he fate she’d consigned him to she turned again to Hina. “So… where were we again? Right, how’d your sweet little ass like to come work for me?” Izumi was five inches taller than the woman and looked down on her with a smiling face that would never hav e betrayed the capability for the violence she’d just unleashed on this place and the unfortunate man who’d called himself their employer.

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