113. Almost there


    <span style="font-weight:400">(T-01:00:00)


    <i><span style="font-weight:400">At a hidden entrance to root HQ</i>


    <span style="font-weight:400">“I want to be the one to kill him, Tomoka.” Nozomi stared at Tomoka with intensity rarely seen in a kid her age. She had heard Tomoka’s n and memorized it, in reality she was here only to witness the fall of the man that killed her n as she wouldn’t be doing much. Thankfully Tomoka had taken her feelings into consideration and offered to let hernd the killing blow.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“I know, and you will.'''' Tomoka said in a calm tone as she strolled through the passages of Danzo’s hidden base. As she did she couldn’t help but review the memories of her phantom''s infiltration into the ce. In a way it had been way too easy and hard at the same time.


    <span style="font-weight:400">The ce had been full of all kinds of traps and even had a self destruction mechanism. Thankfully Danzo shot himself on the foot by having his men be without wills of their own. Those flesh puppets made the infiltration easier actually as their chakra signatures were recognized by the many fuinjutsu traps. Like that Tomoka’s phantoms just had to possess them and walk around as if they owned the ce.


    <span style="font-weight:400">As of right now the Hawk team has reported that Danzo is still inside Konoha’s administrative building attending a meeting with the Hokage and other n elders. Who would have thought that infiltrating such ces would be as easy as possessing a rat and having it sneak inside the ce?


    <span style="font-weight:400">Truly the Phantom clone jutsu is a ridiculous jutsu capable of doing many things others consider impossible. Take what is happening right now into consideration, the phantoms can possess others and take control of their bodies, does it sound familiar? That’s right, the Yamanak’s n’s jutsu can do something simr. Then shouldn''t they be able to pull the same stunt? The answer is no.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Unfortunately for the Yamanaka n their jutsu can be easily detected by a good sensor-nin. The reason behind this is that the Yamanak n’s jutsu could be considered a genjutsu. Because of this a sensor-nin could detect the anomaly in chakra flow and warn others. Tomoka’s phantom’s possession works in a far more insidious way.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Tomoka’s phantom’s possess their targets by infecting their chakrawork. Like a virus they spread their chakra into the target’s taking control of their chakra flow. What follows is the rather horrible experience of having your body’s control taken from you while you are still conscious.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Using the target’s infected chakra the phantoms take control of the target’s nervous system. This allows the phantom to control the body and even mind of their targets. Imnting ideas into the target’s mind? A few electric signals here. Erase some memories? Delete some electric signals there. In the end the target will do whatever the phantom wants them to and they will believe that it was their idea.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Unfortunately, ninjas have strong minds and chakra. This makes taking absolute control of them as described before difficult to the extreme, specially so for the stronger ninjas. Fortunately for Tomoka and her phantoms Danzo’s meat puppets have little to no resistance to this kind of possession due to their broken wills.


    <i><span style="font-weight:400">Somewhere inside the HQ</i>


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Look at me, I’m a real boy!” A root ninja said, patting his body.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Shut it 73 we are on a mission right now.” Another ninja said with some annoyance.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“You are no fun 68, rx the infiltration job is finished anyway.” Said 73 with a shrug while ying with a kunai.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“That doesn’t mean we can goof around and risk the mission.” 68 couldn’t help but re at 73 with a frown. He couldn’t understand why some of them would choose such troublesome personalities.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Bah, as if anything would go wrong…” As 73 said that he failed to catch the kunai he was ying with only for it to fall on his foot making a nasty cut on it. Seeing this 68 couldn’t help but facepalm, this idiot would be the death of him.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Huh, so that’s how it feels to bleed.” 73 crouched and began poking the wound with interest while 68 gave up on life and banged his head against the nearest wall.