Days in the snow....[Infiltration]

Garuda would be looking out of the window of the apartment he was in, renting this place with Nana and Shana after shortly arriving to Yukigakure. They have been there for a couple of weeks gathering Intel on the ninja within the village, Shana being the person doing most of this, and their defensive's. They were doing this because they had nothing else better to do within this village at this moment, even though Gaurda travel here to seek a new path. But his initial plans had changed due to what has happened in those few weeks of being within this village as Garuda had returned to his old self, in more ways then one. He no longer was weak from having his eyes removed from his head and also no longer felt sad about the things he has gone through in his life, and once again knows what his true purpose is. "This land isn't as pure as I thought it would be...." Garuda would say after sighing deeply, saddened at how this place was. On his shoulder was Nana the small bird looking out of the window with Garuda, happy that it's master it's friend was back to his old self. At this time it was only theses two within the room as Shana was elsewhere within the village, not collecting Intel but out buying groceries. Garuda would begin to scratch the back of his head as he continued to just look out of the window, bandages still over his eyes. "I can't see....So why am I standing at the window?" Garuda would say a loud not understanding what he was doing.

"Making me worry. That is what you are doing." Shana would say after entering the room, having entered right when Garuda began to talk. Even though Garuda was doing better and was like his old self Shana still told him he should stay in the bed for about two more days, as he still needed to rest in his mind. But she wouldn't make it that much of a big deal as no one really can order Garuda around, as he was a hard one to control. She would place the groceries she bought on the table and sit in a chair, pulling out a small Black Bingo Book. Reading it in the silence of the room, Garuda not responding to what she had said earlier from him not hearing her. She would place her book down on her lap and look over to Garuda, puzzled. She would get up and walk over to the closet and grab a blanket, and going to sit on the bed."Garuda-sama, how are you not cold?" She would ask as she would wrap up in the covers and the blanket she had, awaiting to hear what he would say.

Garuda would turn around and have Nana lead him over to the chair Shana had been sitting in before going on the bed, "Hmm, warm thoughts..yea that's it warm thoughts. Or it is because I am just ignoring the cold." Garuda would say as he would lean back in the chair and turn his head to the ceiling. The room wasn't that cold actually, Shana was just not used to being in this place and was just finding something to complain about. She not really liking this place but since Garuda wanted to come here she didn't have and objections. She had to protect him no matter where he went."When can I take these bandages off?" Garuda would ask as he would pet Nana, who was now resting in his lap. Garuda was not liking how the bandages were feeling on his face and really wanted to take them of; but since Shana had said it would dangerous for him to remove them so he didn't. She wouldn't answer him right away as she would move and grab something from underneath the bed, a small jar. She would move back to her spot and look at the jar with sad eyes,"Not yet...not yet...Garuda-sama."She would tell him as she would continue to stare at the jar. The liquid within the jar was too murky for anything to be seen within. Garuda would sigh after hearing what she would say. He would slowly raise to his feet, placing Nana in the chair he once sat in. Garuda would then slowly make his way to the closet, he would soon return with a anbu mask on his face. "Since I can't take the bandages off...let us continue our mission. I don''t wanna be stuck in this room...." Garuda would say as he would wait for Shana to respond. "Okay." Was all she would say. The two would for the next ten minutes get all suited up, anbu attire under their regular clothes and then finally white cloaks that they would be using.  Once all dressed they would make their way to the roof of the large hotel they were in, crouching as to blend in with the large amount of snow on the roof. This minor village at the moment has no one on the streets due to the snow storm that was happening at this time, but it was slowly dying down. But before it would completely subside Garuda wanted to have the Land of Snow with in the hands of Kumogakure.

"Garuda-sama....it is time..." Shana would say in a low voice as their operation was now about to start, but that wasn't all. Shana was giving Garuda the go ahead to remove the bandages covering his eyes. Slowly removing his anbu mask first and holding it in his right hand, he would use his left hand to start removing the bandages. Slowly the bandages would fall to the snow, but Garuda would keep his eyes closed. He would place his anbu mask back on and then begin to speak."Let us begin then." He would say opening his eyes. He didn't have empty sockets as his eyes had been put back in by Shana a few days ago. This because of Garuda needing them to finish this invasion, he actually didn't want to put them back in. But Shana had insisted he do so so they could be a full power.

Quickly the two would make their way off of the building their preciseness hidden by their anbu attire. The two moved in unison as they knew where they were going and the route they were going to be taking to get there, the snow storm being the only other cover they need. Their destination was going to be the Daimyo's of the Land of Snow's palace, or what every type of building it was called as it was the only largest building within the village of Yukigakure. Not matter what it may be called it was pretty big and from Shana checking the place out it had a descant amount of guards, but only a few being skilled. This was a minor village and not many well trained ninja could be produced from a place.  No guard were outside of place at this time due to the snow storm, but even though that was true Garuda and Shana wouldn't be reckless when they finally would make it to the palace. The would two would lean against the right wall of the palace as lamps were lit at the front steps and front entrance, so they most likely would be seen if they went in through the front door. Also their actually were a few guard out guarding the perimeter of the palace, which Garuda and Shana didn't expect but felt it wasn't going to be a problem.

They had come to kill the Daimyo, and only those who posed a threat in stopping their goals. Gaurda didn't believe there was a sensory within the palace yet as their presence hadn't be alerted to everyone yet, but he could be wrong. Thy knew their weren't many highly skilled ninja within the palace, but they didn't know they skills of anyone but the Daimyo's. Garuda would look over to Shana and give her a signal to go to the other side of the building. She would nob and do as he would say, making her way passed the few guards she would see walking around the perimeter of the palace. As she made her way passed them she made a mental note that they weren't one of the power ninja that guarded the Daimyo, but more likely the large amount of grunts with little training just keeping an eye out. Now they two had to get into the building and take care of their target. Shana would begin to place five bomb tags on the wall she was at, she would then move back and let them explode. This explosion leaving a good sized hole int eh side of the palace and also alerting everyone, who felt the explosion within the palace,  that something has happened. Shana would remove one of her Katana's she had and enter the palace through the hole.

Garuda would be able to faintly hear the explosions from where he was, the signal to being to attack making him use his chakra to scale the wall and make his way tot he top of the palace. He wasn't completely sure on where the Daimyo was but didn't believe it would be that hard to find his was to the guy.

"Eh?" Garuda didn't plan on dealing with mere grunts and when the all screamed shoot he would move back, at top speed, to get off of the roof. He would rather go around then waste process time dealing with the guards that had fired at him. Now that he no longer was on the second floor but on the second he would begin to run over to the side Shana had been on. He was going to have her do all of the fighting up until he met up with the Daimyo, the one who really needed to die. Garuda was going to save all of his energy so he could go all out on the Daimyo; him only going to go out before that if Shana dies or becomes unable to fight any longer. Since he wasn't going at full speed it would be a minute, some time, before he would make it to the area Shana had been in. Due to how skilled he is in sensory Garuda would make sure to avoid anyone who was within two-hundred, seventy-five of him.

Once inside the hallway she would quickly notice that a group of guards had already made their way to where she was, being about 10 meters away. This caused her to start kneading chakra in her body and pulling out four sendon, this happening about the same time the guards would throw their chakra-enhanced spears and swords. Even if they were thrown to miss Shana wouldn't just stand their but move forward, the chakra she kneaded within her body being expelled as a chemical substance that would almost instantly mix with the air. Shana would blow the poison toward the guards as she had her mask on, but it should quickly begin to fill the room. But if the guards, specifically the three women, would stop what they were doing and move out of range of the mist they could get away from it if they were fast enough. If they didn't Shana was prepared to throw the sendon she had in her hand at a their necks, one for the two on the sides and two for the one in the middle.

It seemed the storm had grown more ferocious as Garuda cold feel that it had got extremely colder then earlier, and all the clothes he had on weren't doing much anymore. But he wouldn't let this stop him from keeping forward as he had a mission at hand, and getting to Shana was needed to finish this mission. He could feel that she was close and also that there where a few others with her, but couldn't determine how skilled they were. He wasn't going to be using the second floor t get into the building unless it was absolutely necessary, which it could or couldn't be as he didn't know the exact layout of this building and would gave to get that information. And another would be he didn't want to have to kill those guards that were on the second floor, as they could be used after the Daimyo is killed.  As to Garuda the only ones that needed to die today were the Daimyo and those who were extremely loyal to him, and the rest could be used in the changing of this country after it is taken over.  Garuda would stop those thoughts as he was near Shana, about twenty seconds away from her exact spot. So he wasn't at the hole she had entered through yet.

It seemed they were able to figure out that the mist Shana had created was extremely poisonous, and two guards had fallen to it. This made Shana a bit irritated that only two would be taken by the mist. Once she had gotten out of the narrow hallway and into the big open room the sisters were, and throw down five smoke bombs. She would use the cover created from the smoke, that covered the side of the room Shana was one, to move to the right away from the hallway. It didn't take long though for the sisters to finish their attack though and the massive chakra beam fired would get rid of the smoke and destroy the hallway. That bright beam being able to be seen through the thick snowstorm outside. But the blast missed Shana by a hair as if she took any longer to throw down her smoke bombs would have been hit by the blast. Shana would jump to the ceiling of the room, using her katana to stay up there. From up their she would have a beautiful view of the guards, this making her pull out two sendon. She would toss the two sendon at the neck of the sister on the right, and then pull out a kunai and through it at the guard who was shaking nervously. The kunai having a explosion tag connected to the end of it. If her dodge and attack were successful two more, or more from the explosion from the kunai, would fall to Shana. If the sister had been able to dodge or block the sendon sent toward her the Kunai with a the explosion tag would have been sent toward her instead of the nervous guard. Hopefully from her being a master at the arts of killing with weapons her attack should land; but sometimes things don't go the way they are planned.

Shana would close her eyes as she couldn't see a way for her to get out of the pinch she was in,"I am sorry...Garuda-sama..." She would say as she closed her eyes and the following event would happen that left her lifeless and burnt to a crisp on the ground. Her only regret being that she couldn't fulfill the promises she had made with Garuda and also that she wouldn't be able to see the man take this Land for Kumogakure. But like all shinobi she knew very well that their life was short this truly was a cruel Shinobi World. Now that everything on her person was gone, destroyed by the attacks, her presence would completely vanish Garuda no longer able to sense her.

"...no....no....It can't be..." Garuda would think to himself as he no longer felt Shana's presence, this causing him to activate his sharingan. When he got their he wasn't able to see Shana fall to the ground and spend her last moments with him, something the two had promised each they would do if they were going to do. Garuda was at the end of the hallway but he could recognize the eyes of his friend that lay on the ground. The enemy with her foot near the , used to be, warm face that always made Garuda smile. Instead of breaking down from losing a friend and giving up on life Garuda was quickly filled with rage. The powerful ex-kage giving out a horrible killing-intent  that everyone within the palace should feel, the effect varying on those who would feel it and how far they were from him. So the women should begin to image someone force their heads through their chest and slowly crush their hearts. Everyone else in the palace, if the killing intent was able to, should feel that someone truly wanted to kill them; and if they weren't fearless should begin to start feeling nervous. Well that is what they should feel from Garuda's pure killing intention. As he did just lose someone very close to him which made him want to completely destroy everyone in his path.

Garuda made it down the hallway quickly appearing to be just a blur that would appear in front of Kobushi to deliver an elbow to the women's throat. The speed in which he moved and the impact from the blow should be enough to crush her windpipe and send her flying back. If his attack was successful he would look down at the body of Shana with complete disgusted, this only making him more and more enraged. As he couldn't believe she would have fallen so early in her life, as the girl had a lot of potential to be great and well known throughout the shinobi world. But it seems things truly don't go as planned. If the women and the other guards had been paralyzed by the extreme blood lust coming from him he would shut the eyes of Shana and begin to walk toward them; he wouldn't do this if he didn't kill Kobushi though. So if Kobushi was killed he would walk with his eyes set on the others at the other end of the room but if she didn't would have his eyes focused on that women first.

After the attack landed on Kobushi and she didn't rise after it he would indeed turn his gaze to the other women, who were responsible for the death Shana. As where everyone with in this palace, including himself, and they would all pay. Garuda movement were a bit numb from the storm outside he had journey through, but that wouldn't matter. As this man's determination and hatred were enough to let him ignore this for the time being and at this time he would have taken off his anbu mask, this being about a few after one of the women called out Kobushi's name after she was hit. He would see that they were performing hand signs and would proceed to do the same, but not to copy one of their techniques but to use a jutus he planned on using no matter what the women were going to attack with. At the time he finished his hand signs, Rat → Ox → Dog → Horse → Monkey → Boar → Tiger holding the Tiger Hand sign as he performed the jutsu, would be when the massive firestorm was heading heading toward Garuda. "Fire Release: Fire Release: Great Fire Destruction!" Garuda would say as he would inhale and then quickly exhale a massive stream of flames that would quickly clash with the firestorm, and due to the level of the jutsu would go straight through without much difficulty. Now what the firestorm had been present to Garuda back on the women but this massive sea of flames being truly more powerful. This attack should even be able to vaporize more than just human but also do some heavy damage to the building as a whole, as the stream grew larger then the room itself. As Garuda continued to expel the stream of flames he couldn't stop think about killing theses enemies and also their families. He was even thinking of destroying the village all together after he finished; as he felt he couldn't die here until everyone that lived within this land were dead. Even though those thought most likely could change drove him to not want to give up in this battle.

If the attack was successful and all those that were in it's path had been dealt with Garuda would walk over to the body of his fallen comrade, Shana, and place his hand over her face. Closing the once, and to him still, beautiful child eyes. He wouldn't shed a tear but his soul would be torn in two and the part that held his kindness and hope for a better world would go to the next with Shana. He wouldn't have time to bury his comrade though as after he would close her eyes would then wait to see if anyone, if everyone already within the room were dead, would come and be slain next. Since there can be a chance, by some miracle, the enemies within the room were annihilated he would stand at the ready to go with his next attack, getting into a crouched fighting stance. This was so that he would be able to move at a moments notice and added that his powerful eyes aided in his ability to dodge attack whatever would come at him he would be ready.

Garuda had no doubt his fire would be enough to take care of the women and the other guards on this floor; but the extra damage and destruction it brought didn't seem enough to him. He hoped it would even destroy part of the second floor but he wouldn't pay any mind to it for long, as he would quickly find the stair that lead to the second floor. He would run up them at top speed and once he was on the top floor he would run toward the grunt from earlier, if they still were behind the pillars. He would attempt to attack them before they could fire at him, hoping the attack he had done from the first floor and also his killing intent toward them would let him do this with ease. The attack he would do were simple as his strength and speed were above the average man and punching them in the center of their chest should knock them out, but if that wouldn't be enough he would add another set of punches to their throat. If his relentless attack on the guard was successful he would throw one of their bodies through the wall of the only place the Daimyo could be. That being the room they were guards were standing outside of. Everything he did was as quick as possible as he didn't want to be outside for too long as the snowstorm was starting to pick back up.

Everything went great as the guards that were outside were taken care of and also an opening was made, not from him throwing one of the guards at the door but the door being opened from the inside. And something else wonderful would happen as someone would carelessly step out and paid no mind to Garuda, which would prove to be fatal. Garuda would quickly reach out and grab the man from behind and enter the room. His eye locked onto the other man within the room, the Daimyo."You must be the Daimyo." Garuda would calmly say as he looked the guy up and down and then into the man's eyes. Once Garuda locked eyes with the Daimyo he would do two things; one would be breaking the old man's neck that he had and then make the tiger hand seal and would quickly attempt to take the Daimyo's sight, using the Bringer of Darkness Genjutsu. This technique exerts a hallucinatory effect upon the eyesight, effectively blinding the opponent. No matter how skilled an opponent may be, they are forced to wait helpless in this world of darkness, as this technique allows the user to attack unseen. Although it negates sight, it does not stop the other senses. If the jutus was successful Garuda would begin to charge up some chakra to perfume his next jutsu that would end this battle. And also begin to speak to the Daimyo, since only the man's sight had been taken away. "I hope you know that you are going to die today. And it won't be a pleasant death..as you should know that you will be unable to defeat me. As I have...."He paused for a moment as the thought of Shana came into his mind,"No, my team has take out all of your guards and even part of your village has been destroyed.  If you submit now I will give you a swift death though unlike the others and you can leave on in the afterlife. So what will it be? A swift death or...a death even god turns his head from." Garuda last words were extremely cold as he his words weren't at all false or halfhearted. As he had lost the last thing he held truly dear to him. Even though he, at this moment, didn't show that he was in pain and sieving with anger. As at this time he needed to focus on this opponent as this man was stronger than all the guards and almost at Garuda's level.

Enter Thread

"THEN COME THEN! DON'T HOLD BACK AT ALL YOU FOOL!" Garuda would yell to the man who had chosen to not look him in the eyes or for that matter at his face, he spoke with so much and and ferocity that it might even be heard throughout the village. He clinched his fists as he knew his genjutsu didn't work and due to that he didn't waste and chakra, as if true eye contact wasn't made the jutsu wouldn't begin. Garuda would clinch his right fist and would use the other to grab the life-less old man's collar before he fell to the ground. From the aura theses two men would give off would crush and other person as theses two powerful individuals had the sole intent to kill each other and nothing more, and the person who's drive was greater would come out on top. And to Garuda his was greater as he was fighting with what all great Uchiha used; that being their emotions and more specifically revenge and hatred. Suddenly the Daimyo would begin his attack, and Garuda wasn't able to use his sharingan to aid him in avoiding it. So it was going to have to come down to what the attack was going to be.

As Garuda watched the change in chakra conversion and also the water that would begin to burst from the water urns that were also to the side of him, glancing to both sides to see that the water that came from them would begin to form into many needles. He didn't look behind him but knew that the needles also were behind him since some moved to the front of him. "Tch!" what a bullshit jutus Garuda would think to himself as he began to bring up the dead old mans body, at the same time the needles came down toward him. He planned on using the body of the old fool for something else but right now he would have to use it to get out of this dangerous predicament he was currently in. Garuda had the old man's body held up so most of his body was behind it, to cover his vital organs and also most of his body, this was so he wouldn't take too much damage from the needles. And to help in that he would spin with all he had so that he could cover his back also. Due to him being very familiar with his own body and how to perform maneuvers that could get oneself out of almost impossible. With his little spin over the corpse of the old man was covered in needles, but Garuda didn't get out of the attack unscathed. His spin not doing much, but enough. As he had needles in the arm he had used to hold up the old man, which was around the guys neck, some in Garuda's left leg. Some being about ten to fifteen. The pain from the needles were intense but he couldn't think about that as the attack wasn't over, as a black metal trowel-like knife was sent toward his head. Luckily Garuda still had the man lifeless body up, but the that didn't mean the knife didn't make contact with Garuda. As part of Garuda's face was visible from behind the guy and the knife would hit that spot, the spot begins his right cheek. A deep cut that made blood drip down on his face and to the ground.

Due to that last attack Garuda would fall to one knee, the leg with needles in it caused him more pain as he stood on it. "No mercy shall ever be given to my enemy, nor to those under him." Garuda would mumble to himself as he would stand to his feet once again and letting go of the dead body he has used as a shield, it no longer being any us to him. Garuda wouldn't look at the hand he used to hold up the body as it was dripping blood, just like his left leg. "No mercy shall ever be given to my enemy, nor to those under him." Garuda would mumble that saying one more time. Through the pain he would begin to perform a few hand signs, Ram → Horse → Snake → Tiger, and a bright light would begin to emulate from his body. Lighting up the whole room no way for the Daimyo to avoid it, unless he closed his eyes before it started or did something that might stop Garuda . Which someone in the middle of an intense battle wouldn't do, as that would mean death. What he would make the Daimyo see ,if successful, is Garuda fall to one knee spitting up blood; using this to help the second genjutus place on the light be more effective. If the first part was successful the following would happen. Garuda would begin to be like glass and slowly start to shatter in front of the Daimyo, if the guy was looking at him.

This time it would be near impossible for the Daimyo to avoid this genjutus without closing his eyes, and if he did how would he know to do such a thing. Even though the light was extremely bright one would only close their eyes after seeing it and just a glimpse of the light is needed for both the genjutus to take hold of it's target. And since it was mostly that the Daimyo was looking at Garuda in some way would be another reason the genjutus would be able to take affect.  So if everything went as Garuda wanted he would begin to focus some of his chakra, as he still was preparing a jutus to put this battle more in his favor. At this time though Garuda didn't know of the backup that was within the area, Kansuke, and if the guy didn't pay attention he would also be stuck within the genjutus. As the light produced could be seen outside of the office if someone was at the door when it first started it.

There was the option, for Garuda, to stop his handseals after the violent twister-like blast started to quickly take up an enormous amount of space in the room. But he wouldn't just go a little slower so that he could make sure he would get the Daimyo in it, at this time just keeping the horse handseal. As he kept it he would begin to move backwards, since he still was in front of the door that had lead into the room. If Garuda was any slower he would have been hit by the violent twister-like blast, only barely getting away from it. At that time he had made it out of the door he had done the next handseal in his jutsu, snake. He didn't know the full range of the jutus though so he would stop moving back till he saw the blast stop, but not farther then 30 meters. And once it did he would scan around the second level he was on, no knowing if the enemy was around or not. But he would see two figures, and didn't care who they were, and would finish his jutus with the tiger handseal. This would light up the the area they were in now, happening at the time the Daimyo's second jutus started. Due to Garuda being quicker then the Daimyo when it came to movement speed, he probably would have made it out of the room a little after the Daimyo did. Also unknown to Garuda's knowledge his jutus might hinder the other person's vision in some way.