25(McCollough Mountains Range, Las Vegas - 15:00 Hours)
"This place is just too hot for its own good," Naruto Uzumaki said as he laid onto the sand looking through the scope of his weapon at the extraction point about 3 miles from him. He wore an olive tank top and tan cargo pants with an orange bandana around his head under a camo colored helmet and black goggles around his neck. On his feet were brown boots that stopped mid shin and olive socks to protect his toes. He was currently on a mission to apprehend this big informant for his agency. He was to take the guy and drop him off in a suite on the strip . His team would take care of the rest.
Behind Naruto was a deep trench where he set up shop as he was a couple miles from where his target would arrive. There was already a black van there waiting to transport the guy so all he had to do was wait for the man to come. As he waited, Naruto just couldn't help but think about how much he loved his life. He has a beautiful wife that his parents adored. A nice job killing bad people that the FBI, CIA and other agencies couldn't touch and he had a wife that travelled more than he did. He was also the best in his group of twelve. The 'Jinchuriki Conglomerate' was comprised of 12 of the world's best and brightest Assassins. While he would usually be doing this job with Gaara, one of his best friends, the man was currently retired and out of the field as he was now Vice President of the organization with his Godfather running the entire show. They had most recently been taking out this criminal organization called "Akatsuki," So far, Kazuku and Hidan had been taken out but this next person was one of the secret members who knew a lot more than he let on.
As he watched three black Yukons pull into the transport spot, Naruto got up. Slinging the weapon he had on him, A M4A1 carbine with red dot scope, he jumped down into the trenches and placed on a weapons belt on his waist. On the left was a Desert Eagle with three magazines for reloading and on the right were a handful of throwing knifes and a wicked jagged blade with an orange handle.
"Rather safe than sorry," he mumbled. Getting on the bike and starting the engine,he put on some wireless earphones and put the volume all the way up to get his adrenaline going. As loud Heavy Metal began drumming in his ears, he placed the goggles on his neck over his eyes, his sight instantly changing as the shades activated, giving him a view of the body heat signatures going off in the Yukon cars.
"9 people …"
(5. 9 Miles away from extraction point)
"Per car…"
Hinata Uzumaki sat on a lawn chair with her legs crossed sipping wine as she peered through her binoculars. Dressed in a straw hat with green cargo shorts and a white tank top under a cream linen robe and brown sandals, she was relaxing as she knew there was no rush at all for these men. They would take the target, place him in the car and she would be right there to kill all of them and then she would take the target's dead carcass and deliver him to her agents currently waiting at the airstrip in the city.
Sipping her wine, she was ecstatic. Today was the three year anniversary of her marriage to her husband and she could not wait to get back home to him. She loved the fact that he traveled so much as a sports agent. He was always coming home from these trips worn out and tired, she didn't know that he took an investment in training with his athletes, and he had many clients that ranged from Boxers, to MMA Fighters to even swordsman, if the cuts he would come in with every now and again were any indication.
He was even willing to accept the fact that she took ' Classes' daily to train her body and stay in shape, as she would come home littered in cuts too. When she told him she would be helping to decorate a new hotel opening in Las Vegas, he smiled and said he would be in Vegas too! They arranged for dinner and a show later in the evening as they knew the other was busy doing their job. As the cars pulled up to the meeting point, Hinata finished her wine before throwing the glass over her, letting it fall behind her. It was sand, nobody would be over here anyway.
As she prepared her set up, dropping the binoculars around her neck and moving her sinper rifle into position of the awaiting vehicle, she took a knee and lifted back up the binoculars, running down the men in the car using the sonar power feature to detect heart beat rhythms, allowing her to identify everyone.
"Total of 27 men, my target is…"
"Located in the second car, looks like he's…" Naruto remarked as he looked at the group from the dirt bike.
"Sleeping, most likely drugged…" Hinata saw through her scope as his head was swaying with the direction of the car.
"Well ok." Naruto started the engine up.
"Time..." Said Hinata as she crouched down on the nice blanket she placed in front of her weapon.
"To get moving" Hinata and Naruto unknowingly uttered at the same time as Naruto revved up his dirt bike and began making his way down from the hills he was currently perched in and Hinata released her safety to begin shooting.
As Hinata was beginning to get her shooting on, she suddenly looked 8 miles away to see a figure on a dirt bike doing flips and tricks. She would've passed it off as a guy doing stunts practicing if it wasn't for the M4A1 on his back. It was obvious she was not the only person doing this mission. Nonplussed, she began humming a song to herself. Hinata got off the ground and walked back to the white tent she had perched up. Looking to her left, she found what she was looking for and grabbed a long olive tin crate before dragging it outside. Opening the lid, she began setting up the rocket launcher before lifting it onto her right shoulder, Looking into the scope attached, she found the next area he was sure to land and without hesitation fired off the rocket, watching it make its way to the man interrupting her mission.
" Uncouth men interrupting a woman's job. How unfitting." She mumbled as she put down the launcher, dropped down and crawled to her already mounted sniper rifle. She immediately began firing off rounds at the men looking at the explosion, killing three out of the 27 consecutively with headshots. The men were in the middle of moving the man, currently dressed in a black suit white a white shirt and a black linen bag over his head, to the black van when the explosion interrupted the transfer. The men placed their charge in the black van and instantly began driving off.
Or they would have if the tires didn't just pop, causing the van to swerve in the sand and flip over, sending the occupants tumbling around as the car tumbled three times before landing on its side.
( Miles away- seconds before)
Naruto was having a great time as he jumped and flipped in the air of his dirt bike. He watched the men begin to extract his target and began making his way over. As he was half a mile away, his goggles warned him of an incoming heat signature approaching fast. Turning, he immediately witnessed the grenade coming his way and jumped off the bike. A loud explosion occurred as he was sent flying many feet into the air and landing on his back, the gun on his back digging into his skin. As his ears rang and blood dripped from the side of his face from one of the pieces of his bike slamming into his face.
Naruto tried to gain his bearings as the sound slowly came back to his up, Naruto stumbled back into the sand again as he was disoriented. After counting to 60, Naruto's blood began pumping as he pulled his weapon from off of his back, crouched down into the ground, immersed in the smoke, effectively blinding him from being seen and aimed at the lady currently shooting at his target.
"I got a treat for you buttercup," He growled as he took the safety off of the grenade launcher to his weapon and aimed for the tent. While initially he thought to just fire at her, he decided to make her suffer the loss of all of her equipment and with her being close to the site, the reverberation would send her body rocketing away.
"I'll come back for you to finish you off doll. For now let daddy handle…" Firing off the launcher, he chuckled in glee as he watched the girl currently about to execute his target stop the pull of her trigger to look up at the rapidly approaching grenade coming her way. Hinata scrambled to her feet and jumped down the sandhills, causing her to tumble and roll through the sand as a loud blast reverberated throughout the desert land as her tent was torn to smithereens. Naruto's loud laughter died down as he witnessed a Yukon high tailing it out of range. Growling at his misfortune. He cut his losses and began running back to his trench, focused on telling his crew his assignment was a bust.
The first in his illustrious career ever.
( Meanwhile)
The first in her illustrious career ever. A failure. Thanks to some guy blowing up her tent ruining her focus of the mission at hand. It was obvious he was there for something. Whether if it was to kill her target or capture him it didn't matter. All that mattered was that when she recovered from her clearly dislocated right shoulder, broken right rib and the glass that ended up piercing her left leg, she would find that man and put a bullet in him. Watching the man run up the hills like a man possessed, she gave him credit for having a very strong body and legs to take on that kind of an incline. She took in everything with her eyes before they widened.
"Is that an orange bandana on his head?" Hinata instantly thought of her husband but dispelled it after a while. While he was in Vegas, she was well aware that he was looking into the new stadium project. Still, she pulled out her phone and called him as she had to make sure he was there.
Naruto, finally making it to his trench, began packing away everything as quickly as possible. He had to get out of here. He knew that agent wasn't down and out and he needed to get to his handler to let him know what happened. As he finished packing and headed to the Wrangler hidden from view, his phone rang. Looking at the name on the phone, he smiled as he answered.
"Hello?"
"Hey honey, just wondering where you were. I just finished my meeting ad figured I would give you a call to see if we are still on for the night." Hinata asked, looking at the man who also just happened to be on the phone. As she got up and began trekking towards her hidden suv, she watched as the man hung up the phone just as her husband replied.
"Oh we just finished over here. I am currently looking at the possible field. It's going to be a lot of construction to be done. Would you like some pictures? Maybe we can get you to interior design the inside of the suites! That would be awesome no?" Naruto asked enthusiastically. Hinata let out a shaky sigh as she felt relief that the man was not her husband as she watched him get into the car and drive off, obviously to tell his team he failed the mission.
"...hello?"
"Oh, sorry honey. Uhm, why don't you show me the pictures tonight over dinner," Hinata said as she threw one of the grenades she carried in her cargo pants over her head as she walked.
"I'll talk to you later one of my assistants just fell, Loveyoubye," hanging up, she strode with purpose over to the car as a blast reverberated, blowing whatever remained from that assassin's' bomb to a bigger crater of dust and lack of evidence. She had a new job. Find the man that ruined her record.
Then kill him.
(Moments later)
Naruto banged his hand multiple times on the steering wheel and screamed in a rage as he took off down the highway back to Vegas. This dumb woman ruined his streak! This was to be mission 100. He would have been the #1 agent since his mother to come along and complete 100 successful assignments. But no, some blue haired girl with a sun hat came along and messed him up. He would be looking through all of his connects to find that blue hair and he would be putting a bullet right between those eyes. While he couldn't make out her entire frame, he felt as if he knew her from somewhere.
Not to mention his friend just called him saying his wife was asking for him. It always helped to have someone actually doing your side job who knew how to impersonate you. Now that that was taken care of he had one objective.
Find this girl that ruined his perfect record.
Then kill her.
( 17:00 Hours, Westgate Casino - Lobby)
"MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE CHAMPAGNE!" Yelled a white haired older guy, He was quite a man, with a grey suit and white button down and really long spiky hair down to his back. With a green and red striped tie and a handkerchief of frogs slugs and snakes in his chest pocket, Jiraiya laughed aloud as he stood at the craps table, two girls on his left and right laughing with him.
"Blow on the dice baby, wish me luck!" He said to the girl on his right, as she blew, Jiraiya rolled them in his hand before looking at the girl on his left.
"Good luck," She whispered. Jiraiya smiled as he threw the dice. As the table erupted in loud cheering and celebration, Jiraiya decided to bow out as he collected his earnings and placed three big chips in the girls hand.
"Good luck always runs in the family doll,"
"Not today." Said a gruff voice. Jiraiya turned to see his Godson sulking as he leaned on the slots, a glass of whiskey in his hand. He was just as dapper as him with a navy blue double breasted suit and a white t-shirt underneath. On his feet were brown suede double monk straps and a black faced watch with an orange band on his wrist. The only shiny piece of jewelry was the wedding band on his finger. If one would've looked closely, they would notice that he seem to be leaning more on his left and was keeping him right arm very close to his body. Obviously an injury.
Instantly falling in step with Jiraiya, who excused himself from the ladies and made his way to cash out. His grinning visage melted into one of stoic appraisal.
"I looked at my sources, what I found is not good," Jiraiya said bluntly.
"Hit me." Naruto said. Jiraiya shook his head, letting him know that this was not the time for this discussion.
Receiving his money in a briefcase, Jiraiya handed it over to Naruto, gaining a raised eye from the boy.
"Wedding gift," Jiraiya said. Naruto smirked and nodded as they left to find a better place to talk.
(17:00- Blue Man Group Backstage Office )
The Irony of meeting in a place named after blue men and her entire organization being an all women's movement was something that always made Hinata laugh. Entering the office, she ignored the greetings and went straight to the restroom. Closing the door, she flushed the toilet and held it for ten seconds and let go as the room began moving, the entire bathroom going down like an elevator. The movement continued on for a few seconds, slowly descending into darkness before the bathroom stopped moving. UNdeterred, Hinata exited the bathroom and ended up in a completely new room all white with twenty women , ten on the left and ten on the right, on computers typing away or on the phone with different agents. Directly across from her was a massive screen of the world with pictures of current agents either running, fighting, or killing their assignments. Looking at all of it was an albino lady looking at everything with a blank expression on her face. She wore a white business suit with white high heels. Her hair went down her back and she turned to the left and inclined her head, obviously calling her #1 Agent over.
Hinata, wearing a grey skirt with a lavender linen button down tucked in and purple suede high heels made her way over. After returning from her failed mission and getting patched up, she was being asked to wear a sling as she had dislocated her arm but refused as he husband would've been way too much if he ever laid eyes on her being injured.
The two stood in silence as they watched the screen for a moment before Kaguya turned and made eye contact with one of the people on the computer. Nodding her head, An image of her target and only failure popped up.
"Zetsu, was successfully delivered into the hands of our competition," Kaguya stated with no emotion behind her voice.
"I know. I am here for the identity of the man who ruined my successful mission rate. I want him," Hinata said, her tone sending shivers down the backs of the people who heard her and a frown on Kaguya.
Kaguya was fully aware of just who interrupted her mission and knew she could not interfere with this one. The boy was way too good or powerful to send any of her ladies upon him. Deciding to let Hinata come across it herself, she fibbed.
"He goes by the name Kitsune in many circles. He is a prominent member of another group called the "Jinchuriki Conglomerate."
Hinata nodded. If there was any group that was as formidable as the group she was in, it was them. Not to mention a few of the members from the Kaguya Agency used to be apart of the Jinchuriki Conglomerate, knowing Yugito and Fu to be past members. If her Intel was correct, there wasn't a lot of knowledge on who the members were.
"The power of human sacrifice," Hinata murmured to herself.
"What is the bounty on his head?" Kaguya turned her head slightly to see that storm brewing in her great-granddaughter's face. Unseen by Hinata, Kaguya smirked to herself.
'I cannot wait to see them go at it actually'
"100 Million Ryo Dead."
Hinata's eyes widened. That was the exact amount her head was worth.
"Give me a name and a picture and I will do the rest," Hinata said with resolve in her town.
Kaguya shook her head, clearing the screen and relieving the agent helping her of her task.
"Follow me."
(Meanwhile- Rooftop)
"She goes by the alias Usagi. She is the #1 Agent in the Kaguya Agency with over 99 confirmed kills. You just ruined her number 100 kill. So most likely, she is looking for you," Jiraiya said, leaning on the rails that protected the two from the long drop down to the ground but also gave them a view of Las Vegas.
Naruto took the information in with a smug look on his face.
"The feeling is mutual. This was to be my three digit kill," Naruto said. Jiraiya shook his head.
"You just don't get it do you?" Jiraiya said as he chuckled softly. The chuckles turned to full blown laughter as he reached into his pocket and pulled out an envelope. Placing it on naruto's chest as he walked off he said his final piece.
"Don't worry about this mission. Make up for it by dealing with this situation first. You best believe you will have your hands full. Good luck," Jiraiya said as he walked away.
Naruto grabbed the envelope and opened it. His face morphed into surprise and then shock as he registered just what he was looking at.
"NANI?!"
Hinata sat and looked at Kaguya in shock.
(Caesar's Palace- 20:00 Hours- Penthouse Suite)
Naruto came in to hear piano music playing and to see dim lights in their shared suite. Removing his Gray suit jacket, A 9MM handgun behind him and tucked into his pants, he removed the gun and placed it inside the coat. Placing the coat on the coat rack and entering the dining room, he made his way inside to see his wife of 3 years waiting for him with a lavender cashmere sweater and navy skirt that stopped mid shin. On her neck was the fox pendant he gave to her last year.
"Happy Anniversary sweetie," Hinata said. Naruto smiled and kissed her on the cheek and pulled the chair back, allowing her to sit down.
"How was work?" Naruto asked as he eased himself into his seat, doing well to hide the grimace as his legs throbbed.
"It was great, the view was amazing. Cannot wait to begin making my alterations. So many things to cut out unfortunately," Hinata said as if talking about the weather.
Naruto nodded and took a sip of his water.
"How was yours? Was there any sand in the stadium?" She asked sweetly as she began eating the food in front of her.
Naruto shrugged and took another sip of his water, inwardly freaking out before coming up with a reply and a counter.
"Place is good, construction is coming along. There was sand everywhere. You know I prefer a more hands on approach so I helped out. These hands are useful for a lot of things, as I'm sure you know." Naruto said. He had to be pretty careful in his information gathering. He was well aware that he was in her domain. She most definitely had time to prepare the suite as he just got in since the morning.
Naruto smiled.
'Two can play that game cutie,'
"It's been a long day, let's start drinking." Naruto said as he walked over and removed the wine from the bowl in the middle of the table, using the napkin by her to begin to pour the drink.
"Let's have a toast,"
The bottle slipped out of his hands...
and was caught immediately by Hinata quickly. Inching his eyebrows, he watched as the bottle was released and crashed to the floor. The sound of the broken glass springing the two into action.
Hinata reached under the table and pulled out...
"Surprise!" Naruto and Hinata both shouted, presenting the other with a gift box, in Naruto's pocket and under Hinata's chair at the same time.
Naruto laughed and scratched his head.
"I thought I got you this year,"
Hinata shook her head in a negative,
"You know I always move faster." She said, sticking her tongue out in jest.
Naruto opened his present to find a new Phone for his clients and Hinata opened hers to find a new dress.
"Put it on, we're going to a show," Naruto said with a wink. Hinata nodded and made her way to the bedroom.
"I need some help." She said huskily. Naruto smiled. Taking a swig of the wine, he left the glass and brought the bottle as he chased after her, her laughter echoing throughout the halls of the room.
Naruto opened the envelope to find the next mission and parameters. Looking at his target, Gatou of the Gatou Industries, who he had to kill by next Saturday at 8pm on the dot, his eyes widened at the amount of zeroes on his bounty.
WHAT!
Kaguya sat down and got straight to the point.
"Your father wants to meet your husband."
Hinata's sat and looked at Kaguya in shock. She had not been in contact with her family for years since they decided to elect her younger sister as the head of the Hyuga clan. She made sure to separate herself from the clan since she picked up the title of an assassin just in case anyone ever got a hold of her information.
"When?"
"Next Saturday, you will head to Westchester, New York. We expect you to be there at 8pm." Kaguya said as if she was giving parameters for a mission.
Hinata turned nervous at this. Her family was a lot different from Naruto's family and she could only hope that there would be nothing said to get Naruto angry.
"Will you be there?" Hinata asked meekly. It was only in front of her great-grandmother that she would could allow her mask to drop and show her emotions and doubts.
Kaguya smiled.
"Of course. Dismissed. You have a dinner to prepare. Enjoy your anniversary and I look forward to meeting your husband."
(Deserts, Outside of City Limits)
Jiraiya Got out of his car and made his way over to the Parked limousine car waiting for him. Getting inside he sat across from Kaguya, who was currently sipping wine.
The two looked at each other for a few moments before Jiraiya Reached for a wine glass. Kaguya poured him a drink and the two sipped before getting to business.
"I imagine you got the contract too?" She said. Jiraiya nodded.
"Rejected it immediately," He said.
"I too destroyed the contract. However..." Kaguya handed Jiraiya the file, allowing him to look at just who accepted the hit.
Jiraiya shook his head in disbelief.
"I feel very sorry for them," He said sadly.
Kaguya nodded her head.
"I do too. They won't last 3 months."
The two continued talking, as Jiraiya's folder had one name as the agency that accepted the hit out.
'Akatsuki'
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