Open Casket (Kagura and Xi) Private

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It was October 9th and the climate was gelid ranging from low to mid sixties in degrees. The time was 1:00 am, and the firmament was retrained by a battalion of luminaries. Hazama Hyuuga rolled his anatomy out of bed as he withdrew his company from the warmth of his bed. The massive Hyuuga washed his face, while brushing his teeth one tooth each at a time. As he exited the bathroom he formed a single hand sign to produce a swoon of smoke. As the swoon dissolved The Kageken’s attire would be compartmentalized over his flesh. He donned a black Anbu Mask with traces of gold motifs upon it’s crown. Upon the sockets laid artificial emerald green optics that hid his Kekkei Genkai. His Anbu armor consisted of prosaic variety but held a slight bespoke tint granting him the color of the shadows. His gauntlets, and grievers mirrored the ebony tint of his chest plate his hair was untied, and continued to flow over two meters in length. Over his Anbu attire the shinobi covered himself behind a cloak and hood further disguising his true existence. As Hazama pulled his cloth upon his glove he walked over to his bride, and stroked her hair gently as her siesta forced her to be in a hiatus.

“I will return my love.”

He said as he ejected himself from his domicile and into the night air his mass began to descend towards the realm of mortals. His paces were steady and slow as he crushed the autumn leaves underneath his heel. Hazama forged his way through the empty cobblestones before arriving upon a vacuous vertex. His eyes became focused on an independent vixen. He had heard of this shinobi, and even seen this shinobi but had never met the damsel in person. Blue locks formed to the length of her shoulders and her attire was in synchronization with her hair, but harbored a splash of ivory as her leggings. Hazama kneeled with his left knee connecting with the earth.

“It’s a pleasure, Lady Hokage”

Hazama said with his crown tilted downward before he arose to his feet holding erect. Hazama looked at the sign above their village as he overlapped his arms before speaking to his superior.

“The parcel we are contending with are a Jashinist following. It is said to have twenty members, and is rumored to have some Jounin with in their ranks. They are within our land, and must be swept out before they cause any trouble.”

The time was now 1:17 am, and the degrees remained the same but the waft blew a bit in their direction as Hazama waited for the Fire Shadow’s retort.

Kagura yawned as she awoke to a loud banging on the door to her house. Empty bottles of sake and vodka littered her floor and clanged together as she moved around to get up and a dull grey smoke wafted through the room originating from a group of still lit cigarettes piled on her coffee. Kagura felt as if a kuni had been stabbed right into her skull when she stood as she was rocked by a terrible headache that was only intensified with the knocking. Kagura stomped towards the door being careful to watch the numerous bottles, and yelled loud and irritated, "What!?" as she ripped open her door. She was surprised on what awaited her.

Awaiting at the door was a member of the anbu. "Madam Kage I am sorry to awake you at this hour, but it is urgent. A mission has come up the requires a ninja of your caliber and the captain himself requests you partner with him on it." Kagura groaned with irritation and dread, but took the mission file from the anbu anyways, slamming the door in his face after she took it. She would place the file on her counter and move to go to her bathroom to freshen up. As she walked past she noticed a tall dark skinned man sprawled out on her living room carpet. The man looked rather muscular and masculine and had a long dark beard. The only thing that took away from his masculinity was the fact that he was only wearing a midnight blue colored woman's thong and had two bright pieces of metal clamped tightly on his man nipples. Next to him was a woman with short brown hair dressed in all leather, with a black strap on tied around her waist. Yup, it was definitely another Thursday for Kagura.

Kagura stepped silently out of her house into the night air. She had managed to wash out most of the alcohol and shame from her light blue hair and it now cascaded down her back naturally. She had on her usual outfit consisting of a blue coat like dress with a high collar that reached all the way down her legs, but with slits on both sides that reached all the way up as well revealing her porcelain white legs and parts of her thighs. The dress was garnished with an incredibly light, almost white fluff that was around the sleeve cuffs, neck, and it also ran across the top of the dress, just above her slightly above average chest. She wore a brown belt around her waist as well, equipped with pouches to hold items like kuni, shuriken, a hair brush, a flask and chap stick. She also had on her Russian styled hat of the same color as her dress, complete with same colored fur trimmings garnished around the bottom of the hat, and a clip attached to the lining of a white lily. Her dark brown boots made soft taps as she walked through the darkened village.  She had read over the file as she had gotten ready and knew she was supposed to meet the anbu captain at the village gates.

She arrived first and decided to warm herself by lighting a cigarette. Just as she sucked in the first puff of smoke she heard foot steps approaching and quickly exhaled. Hazama Hyuuga, the man who had taken over her former position greeted her by kneeling to her on the ground. "Yea, yea same to you. There's no reason to kneel to me Hazama."

As he stood up Kagura would take another long drag from her cigarette before listening to man talk about their mission details.
"Yes let's get on with it then, it shouldn't take long, the mission calls for total genocide after all, no need to take time trying to extract information or capture one of them. I want this done as swiftly and efficiently as possible." She would say nonchalantly before walking outside of the gate towards the location that the Jashinists had last been seen at in order to gather information.

Hazama began his expedition outside of the Konohagakure. He would walk directly about one meter ahead of his Hokage. His height would indeed hinder her vision as he was Eight Feet, and Six Inches. The sky itself still branded with darkness. Hazama had a decent cover for the abyss he worked under would be perfect for assassination. Hazama’s foot crushed the autumn leaves with each step he took, he wasn’t really one for small talk, but he believed team work was partially essential with communication. This was the first time he had met the Hokage in person, and his view was she wasn’t anything like he expected. She seemed hasty, and possibly a tad bit ignorant about other individual’s views or opinions about her. The way she spoke, and the way she held her cancer stick gave off shallow hints of information, however Hazama wasn’t one to judge a book by its cover. He halt his pace for a moment as they had arrived inside a small merchant town that seemed to cater to excursionist. Hazama gathered a bit of his income he got from his Anbu duties, and as Clan Head of the Hyuuga Clan. He proceeded to purchases a dozen grilled eel.

“Hokage, do you trust me? If so you need to eat. I plan to be in full sinew when I bring my wrath down upon them.”

He said as he placed their entrée before a small wooden bench and table. Hazama was way to huge to even bother trying to sit, if he did it would probably collapse beneath his weight. Hazama proceeded to buy a green tea mochi mochi ball. He devoured it’s provision swiftly before placing the rest of their meal in a scroll.

“We have are about an hour away, and still have the advantage of night fall. I suggest we strike while they sleep.”

Hazama stated as he began his migration towards the Jashin’s Head Quarters.

As they walked Kagura expelled smoke from her mouth at a constant rate, she would watch it waft through the area and enrich the cool fall air with its scent. She did not have much else to do as the big lug in front of her was blocking her view of the path so she couldn't get a good view of anything. Thankfully she was a sensor type shinobi so she was still able to pick up any suspicious activity as they walked even though she couldn't see in front of her. She would think that a ninja would be a bit more polite to their kage, especially the leader of the hyuuga clan as they are always talking about manners and poise and that kind of shit. She would need more cigarettes than what she brought if this guy continued to test her patience.

Her boredom was finally interrupted when they reached a small merchant village. Kagura took a seat at one of the old wooden tables in the area, putting her cigarette out on the wooden table top while the anbu captain went to get food, without even asking what types of food she liked! Kagura's patience was wearing thin with this guy, especially when he came back and demanded that he eat the gross eel that he bought for her, Kagura did not even like eel it was far too slimey! "No thanks Hazama I am not a fan of eel and I ate before we left on the trip anywways." She would say nonchalantly before taking a drink from a water bottle she had packed. She would wait for the guy to finish his own meal before standing up and taking another cigarette from her ninja pouch, she would light it up by using her katon chakra nature to spark and would deeply inhale as the anbu captain talked about striking while they were sleeping. Exhaling a great deal of smoke into the cool air Kagura would think before finally speaking.
"Very well let's get going then, daylight or nightfall makes little deference to me, the only thing I ask for is that we do not completely massacre them before I am able to extract some information, after that we are free to finish this genocide."

Hazama simply nodded to his Hokage’s request. His slight was going towards the pathways of destruction. Hazama’s job was to assassinate the cult members with haste. The hokage herself had said that she wanted to keep a few alive for interrogation. He wasn’t truly conflicted, but her previous statement before they duo had even left the village was that of total massacre. The Hokage denied the acceptance of the eel. Maybe she was a vegan, he had very little clue. Hazama wondered why she was smoking so much, was she nervous or stressed as there was some knowledge that smokers used their cancer sticks to relief themselves. Hazama continued towards the compound of Jashinist holding his tongue in silence. This was the Kageken’s first time meeting the Hokage, and it was all about business, and he liked that. Nothing seemed to be prying or even personal, they simply had a job to do, and that job was to protect the lives of their village. It had reached 3:01 am when the eight six Hyuuga took his first step into hostile territory. Hazama instantly dropped his mass to one with his right palm clasped around the vertex of the bow. The Hyuuga withdrew an arrow, and nocked it preparing to draw first blood. His Byakugan was still, and unstirred his acumen was still clean of trees, and layers of stone, and brick.

“Ready”

He said as he grip tightened as he pulled the nock back a bit. As soon as Kagura was ready to infiltrate he would begin the fray. Time had elapsed to 3:04, and the temperature was slowly rising as his dojutsu came forth lacing its veins across his sockets, behind his mask. As the zephyr roamed free Hazama’s fingers unlocked the restraint, and the projectile of death went sailing into the crown of its mark with enough force that it removed the man’s entire head from the rest of his body. One down nineteen more bodies had to be set free. Hazama’s position was about eight meters ahead of Kagura, while being two meters to her left.

(I left one for you to interrogate, but I've lost my excitement for this one.)

Hazama was on something of a killing spree. He continued to release his projectiles time after time with the victims unaware that their lives were being taken from them. The shinobi were taking their very last breaths, and they didn’t even know it. With each nock another arrow was released, and another person ceased to exist. Hazama bow, and arrow removed the flesh from their bodies, and the skulls from the rest of their anatomy. It somewhat appeared as if their heads were just vaporized from the Kinect force of each blow dealt, but Hazama’s skill sequenced well, one shot one kill. His Fire Shadow seemed to be a bit out of it unaware of anything but her cancer stick.
Hazama’s didn’t even exert himself, he was completing this mission alone, without any aid from the Fire Shadow, but he wouldn’t complain. It had been a while since the Hyuuga was able to use his bow in action. Using his Shooting Star was something of a rarity, but he didn’t truly enjoy killing as opposed to open discussion. However this wasn’t a time for diplomatic tactics. I was a time for elimination. Hazama body count had racked in a total of nineteen corpses. He was sure one of his victims was a sensory time, but there was almost nothing they could do about it. He had quickly and calculated which ones seemed to be aware of his presence by looking at a few of the following. Chakra activity, facial expression, and body language from the now deceased. At last there was a lone, and final survivor speaking to himself about Lord Jashin, it was very clear that this boy was oblivious to the events that had just taken place. The girl was now marked. Hazama’s Byakugan zoned in upon his final victim. He withdrew another arrow from the stock, gently injecting into the bow’s frame. He pulled upon his archery string with the tail between his two fingers, and released his sinew. The projectile flew with haste, and marked it’s target dead center. Hazama repeated this very action more than once, until the target’s body had become a hanging picture. They still lived to breath, as Kagura wanted to do some questioning. The target would bleed out to death in a total of twenty minutes, giving Kagura more than enough time to interrogate. Hazama made his slight into the artificial graveyard to gather his belongs.

After the Hyuuga had gathered his falling stars, he would separate from his Fire Shadow giving a brief nod of his head, indicating he was going back home.

“He’s all yours”

He said as he made his way out of the estate, to begin his expedition back home.
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