ANBU TASK 1 - WASHI

((Task 1: There is a rebel organization trying to plant a bomb in your village. There are 15 members to the organization each more deadly than you could believe. They have to each be taken out with an individual assasaination move and you not be seen by them. We are counting on you to be able to perform this task in order to become ANBU. This is your first test, so don't mess up!))

Washi breathed silently as he watched the fifteen individuals getting ready to advance and proceed with their plan. They were outside the gates and in a nearby wood but they were finally preparing to move out and plant the bombs. The Hokage had warned Washi to be careful and take them out as silently and quickly as possible, all of this while not being seen. It was essential that the rest of the citizens and villagers did not find out about this as it would cause wide panic but it was also a test of Washi's skills.

He shuffled quietly from one tree to another, eyeing his closest target who was short and had red hair. With a flicker he went even closer, leaning behind a sturdy oak tree before throwing a kunai with an explosive note one hundred metres away to the side to act as an distraction. There was a loud boom and the bombers decided to investigate. His short target also began to move but in the confusion, Washi shunshined behind him and slit his throat gently with Kira before shunshining behind the tree again while grabbing the dead man.

He carefully examined the dead man before clasping his hands together and forming the hand seals necessary for a kage bunshin. Then his shadow clone quickly henged into the dead man and approached the rest of the group still confused at what had happened. Meanwhile the real Washi placed exploding tags beneath the dead man who was now lying on the floor as well as exploding tags underneath fallen leaves and twigs.

"I found it, a shard of metal!" exclaimed one of the rebels loudly and pointing excitedly. The clone at the back of the group quickly took the initiative and as nobody was looking back his hands blurred as he formed the necessary hand seals. The energetic rebel held up a part of the kunai but to his surprise it was nothing more than a twig and the others scolded him,

"Haha, very funny now get back to work you little piglet," said one of the largest rebels clearly annoyed.

"I swear it was a part of a kunai," cursed the energetic rebel quietly before pocketing the twig. Little did anybody know that Washi's clone had used a C-ranked genjutsu to disguise the kunai into a twig.

"Come with me for a moment, I have something to tell you," whispered Washi's clone into his ear before shouting out loud,"Hey guys I'm just going to punish this little runt. I will be back soon."

The shadow clone quickly led the rebel away from the group before suddenly turning and slicing him across the throat so that the pressurised blood jetted out on to his face. He wiped his face with the rebel's clothes who had made no sound except for a quiet groan as he died quickly. The clone returned to the group and shouted loudly for no apparent reason. The group of rebels turned their backs as they heard the loud noise made by the clone and started asking questions. Washi took this opportunity and thrust his kunai into the big rebel before shunshining behind another tree.

This time the rebels noticed what had gone on and as the big rebel was too heavy they saw his dead and stricken body and they panicked wildly.

"Someone is out there hunting for us, we need to find this assassin. Mojika and Keichi find him," roared the apparent leader of the rebels but he too was silenced as the clone threw three shuriken towards his throat while he gave out the orders. The group looked around, some panicky while others were simply angry and wanting a fight.

"Help us gods..." whimpered the clone as genuine as possible as the other rebels started spreading out.

"Wait a moment, didn't the shurikens come from your direction, Tozu?" said Mojika suspiciously as he pointed behind the shadow clone. However there was no need for Washi's clone to worry as all of a sudden there was another groan.

The real Washi had thrown a shuriken into one of the rebels who had begun to spread out and look at him. The rebel almost dodged but the shuriken managed to embed itself to the side of his chest. There was another groan as Washi threw another shuriken, this time towards the heart. The rebel fell flat onto his face as he died.

Knowing that his location was discovered from the direction of the shurikens, he quickly moved out and shunshined whenever possible to get away from his position before they approached. As Mojika turned round and hurried over to the groans of his comrade he was stabbed in the back fiercely by the clone. Blood gently flowed out from his spine as he fell onto the floor, not quite dead but paralyzed and helpless and dying of blood loss.

The other rebels didn't even notice and were too far away to have heard Mojika's cries. They walked over to Washi's previous position, finding the dead body of Tozu and the pool of blood beside him. One of them stopped and checked Tozu's pulse before his hand entire arm was suddenly blown off, the blood spilling around everyone horrifyingly. The other rebel who had stayed with him panicked and screamed his head off while the others had gone to look for Washi. With a grin, the clone clasped his hands together again and more explosive notes triggered, blowing the legs off the panicking rebel as the blood flowed everywhere.

[7 dead]

"We need to stop panicking...we are exceptional shinobi. We can deal with this coward who hides in the shadows!" shouted one of the rebels courageously as he formed handseals.

"Finally someone who understands the situation we're in. I'll find him for us," replied a wolfish looking rebel as he whistled silently.

Suddenly two wolves appeared out of the forest, sniffing and barking viciously.

"Track this scent down and find him for us!" he commanded the wolves as they set off running fast towards Washi with the eight other rebels following.

Hearing the loud cries of the wolves and knowing that he would be caught eventually, Washi quickly set off a few traps around the perimeter, shurikens with explosive notes hidden underneath leaves and two kagebunshins who each hid silently behind a tree, both henging into Mojika. He himself henged into the big rebel he had killed earlier and climbed up the tree at the centre of the perimeter. Meanwhile his other clone had caught up with the other rebels and followed behind closely, now henged as the panicky rebel he had killed earlier.

As the wolves approached they were quicky confused at the smell of four scents. All four were the scents of Washi and they growled viciously, one of them approaching the tree Washi was on.

"That's him!" cried the wolfish looking rebel as he formed more hand seals. He quickly blew out a large fireball towards the tree, setting it on fire. Washi did a large back flip and while still henged as the big rebel, forming the necessary handseals and pointing towards the wolfish man. Using his Washi no Jutsu, the wolfish looking rebel stood still as if in a trance as the genjutsu affected him. Before the seven other rebels could even react, the other two shadow clones jumped out from behind their respective trees, each grabbing onto a rebel before Washi clasped his hands and they exploded as guts, flesh and blood flew around.

The shadow clone from behind quickly moved in while the smoke was still clearing and once more plunged his knife towards a rebel before being dispelled by Washi. The five rebels looked around as the smoke faded and as Washi disappeared into the shadows once more, even though they had managed to see him for a second or two he was still henged. They looked around at each other suspiciously but nevertheless focused on the problem at hand. Suddenly the wolfish looking man fell onto the floor, seriously fatigued and sweating before fainting. A kunai thudded into his neck as he fell.

[11 dead]

"Kaze No Yaiba!" scowled a man as he slashed with a blade of wind, felling trees rapidly while looking for Washi, "Come out, come out!"

He shunshined out of the perimeter looking for Washi and unknowingly stepping onto a shuriken. One of his legs were instantly blown off as his torso skidded towards a tree. The blood trailed out like a path as the torso finally skidded to a halt, all the blood leaking out of it.

[12 dead]

Washi quickly ran into the thicker woods, the trees were being felled quickly and he had very little places to hide. He threw Kira into the side of a large oak tree's trunk before continuing to jump and run in a circle around his targets.

"Fuuton: Daitoppa!"

The rebels attacked everywhere trying to find Washi as they blew fierce and powerful winds around them. Knowing that his game was almost up with very little places to hide and having only 1/4 of his chakra left, Washi bit his thumb and allowed a droplet of blood to hit the forest floor.

"Kuchiyose no jutsu!"

The huge toad Gamaken appeared, wielding his large shield and club before blasting out oil towards his enemies. They screamed and groaned as the toad oil went into their eyes and covered them head to toe, one of them using a suiton to wash away the oil around him but for the other two it was too late as Washi blew small fireballs, igniting the oil around them and frying them alive slowly. The suiton-user shocked at the large toad quickly walked backwards, before finding his way stopped by a large oak tree.

"Extend!" yelled Washi as Kira's blade extended through the trunk of the tree and into the other shinobi's heart. The last rebel of the organisation had been killed and Washi henged back into his normal self before dismissing Gamaken.

Those fifteen shinobi were dangerous and deadly and Washi doubted he could've handled anymore then 3 of them at the same time in an open battle but he had proved that silent assassination, trap preparation and knowledge of the battlefield gave him a tremendous advantage over his opponents who did not know the area and panicked.

With a slight grin, he walked out of the forest without a droplet of blood on his robes but leaving a forest full of blood and ready to tell the Hokage that his mission had been completed. No doubt that the Hokage would be impressed and perhaps impressed enough to promote him to Anbu.

[15 dead]

Word Count: 1776 words.

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