Chapter 59.5- One Thousand Hands

With the woman under Inoken’s control, his movements shifted again. Where with the first man, he had shrunk in on himself trying to avoid attention and make sure that no one noticed him, with the woman it was the exact opposite. Like he expanded himself to take as much space through the road as possible, and despite that, no one touched him. The woman was given a wide berth, the kind of which that would make sense for a pariah, not the respected Jounin that she had to b to be entrusted with being the Jinchuriki’s sensei.

Walking behind Inoken’s stolen form and hidden under a tandem genjutsu— this time from both Kizuru and Toshiro to make sure that there was not even the vaguest chance of their presence being noticed, they walked into the hospital. Inoken went straight to an elevator and seen in the crowded hospital, she (he) was given a wide berth. For the rest of them, Shika had to employ some genjutsu of her own. She wasn’t a once in a generation prodigy like Toshiro, or from a clan of genjutsu monsters like Kizuru, but her jutsu relied heavily on yin release so it was not like she was a complete novice.

It was a simple enough thing to convince every civilian or nurse who brushed, or almost brushed into them in the crowd into thinking that the had been nothing but a figment of their imagination. They entered the elevator after Inoken and instead of pressing any of the buttons, he reached for the control panel and flipped it on its side revealing another button. This one, he pressed. And instead of going up, they went down. Of course the hidden layer in a village of earth release practitioners would be underground.

“Well, that’s fucked” Toshiro whispered to them as they kept going underground. A quick escape was going to be impossible once they took the jinchuriki. At least, impossible through conventional means.

“Our extraction is not an issue” She said.

“In fact, you could say our mission is almost complete” Shiba whispered with a smile on his face. She gave him a skeptical look. He had no idea what Shori had planned so why was he so easily able to guess that their role was almost complete.

The elevator dinged to a stop and as the door swung open there were three anbu operatives waiting for them.

“Lin-san, explain yourself. Your presence here has not been approved by Tsuchikage-sama” One of the anbu operatives said. While the other two instantly took apprehensive stances. Good instincts. Even with their genjutsu, they could feel something off, well that was why it was time for them to strike.

Her shadow caught all three of them at once, and in a matter of seconds they’d run each other through with their blades. “Shadow possession: mutual suicide dance” she whispered to herself as an alarm started blaring and her team swarmed out through the doors.