Kapitulo Bente-Uno

"No slacking!"

People wearing rags carried ore-filled basket to a warehouse near the mouth of a mountain cave under the pouring rain. People wearing coat yelled at them, some of the unlucky ones are kicked or punched for taking a break.

"Get your ass up!"

This is an illegal gold mining operation where civilians are forcefully used to provide labor. Since powerful shinobi often back this kind of operations, the civilians had no choice but to either cooperate or die.

*swoosh

Three shadows appeared near the gold mine.

"Let's finish this quickly. I don't really like this kind of weather."

He caught raindrops with his palm as distant memories flashed through his eyes. He quickly ran forward, short javelin-like constructs floated beside him.

Once he got close, he sent a barrage of the metallic thorns towards the cloaked guards of the mine. He managed to kill three of them and injured six more from the surprise attack.

The miners who witnessed it ran for cover and a huge commotion started. Soon, the mouth of the mine bubbled with screams of pain and shouting.

A few minutes passed and the place grew silent. A red hue mixed in with the muddy puddles on the ground. Pelted by the heavy rain it slowly vanished like smoke in the air.

"You two take care of the guards who escaped I'll head inside the mine for the objective. Leave no shinobi alive. We can't risk being identified and pursued by the enemy like last time."

The leader who is completely covered from head to toe gave instructions and moved to enter the mine while the other two made quick work of the remaining guards.

It isn't a battle. It's not even a fight. Bisected weapons and body parts littered the ground.

The leader threw paper bombs which attached themselves to the cave ceiling. He touched the ground and a burst of chakra flowed onto the ground.

He then stood up and shook his head.

"Almost done here. Any problem on your side?"

A voice can be heard from the helmet's built-in communication device while the one listening sat on the ground poking his finger on one of the puddles.

"None here. Come on up, let's hurry. Being single makes me hate this type of weather."

He whisked the water from his hand and stood up shaking his head.

[Hurry up, one of the guards is weird. He turned into liquid and vanished.]

A female voice joined in on the conversation and pointed out some kind of problem. Then some bickering followed but was cut off.

[I thought Kankuro said everything went well?]

"Yeah right. This lazy ass fool didn't even bother to release a CCTV for cleanup."

[And I am guessing you did?]

"Just hurry up or we'll lose this guy for real this time."

[I'm almost there. I knew I could count on you. You lead. Let's go.]

The leader soon exited the mine and the three quickly disappeared from the spot where they stood. The ground then shook as a series of explosions occurred inside the mine which soon led to its collapse. Years of labor down the drain just like that.

"How far is he from us?"

The leader, (Gaara) asked Temari while fiddling with the display on his forearm.

"About three kilometers. Here's the feed. What's the verdict?"

She shared the CCTV feed with her brother and awaited instructions. A middle aged man with blue-green hair ran forward with all his strength. Too bad he is too slow to escape the three sand siblings.

"We capture him first."

Gaara answered emotionlessly.

"I was hoping even the kill score on this one. What a shitty day for me."

Kankuro complained as he tried to keep up with Temari who held a double dagger on her hands. Her metal-shine black cloak and green visored helm made her look out of order with the scenery around them but she soon began to vanish like a ghost in front of him.

If not for his own sensors telling him that she's still there then he would have thought she flickered somewhere or something.

"Stop complaining and increase your weights you lazy bum. If you trained more than you complained then you'd be at a Kage level by now."

Temari took the chance to argue whenever it presented itself. Gaara sighed internally as he offered prayers to the lucky lad who will (probably) marry his siblings in the future.

"I'm already doing my best okay? What do you want from me? You are the abnormal ones not me. Like put me against anyone in the village and you'll see my point."

Kankuro wasn't lying. No normal jonin can match them ever since they trained according to Gaara's arrangements. He however liked making puppets more than he liked to train his taijutsu. Its more of a passion kind of thing.

Temari on the other hand always liked to bash things since they were young and it is no wonder she put her all into learning the two jutsu from Gaara. Her weapons and overall equipment also transitioned to the most advanced gears Gaara can fork out. Her pride grew endless along with her battle hunger, all in the name of pushing the gears to their limit which she obviously failed in.

Gaara took out a launcher from his inventory scroll when he saw that the indicator on his forearm screen stopped moving.

"Now what? Tired?"

Kankuro spoke first with ridicule in his tone. A net flew from Gaara's launcher but the guy dodged it with a substitute.

"As a matter of fact I am. Would you care for a swim?"

The man appeared a bit further and the smile on his face looked like he was about to say 'checkmate' loudly. He quickly made hand signs and touched the ground with both hands.

"Water Release: Destructive Tsunami!]

The ground rumbled and a huge tidal wave swallowed the man and soon came cascading towards the trio along with the rocks and trees that stood on its path.

"Hop on, quick!"

A steel platform formed from Gaara's iron sand, it quickly lifted them up and out of the tsunami's range.

"What the hell was that?"

Kankuro asked as he watched the water cascade below. It would have been difficult to escape from that without Gaara's ability to fly.

"It must have been his trump card, that jutsu is a real chakra well he couldn't have done it without prior preparation based on the amount of chakra he had left. Now we lost him for real. Do you think he died in there?"

Temari voiced her own deduction with a smile. It is pretty rare to find someone who can escape the three of them these days. So far, this blue-green haired middle-aged guy is the first one to do it. If she was alone she would have liked to cut that tsunami into sections with her daggers.

"Let's go, we got what we came for anyway."

The three scanned the area one last time and left.

On a random puddle then rose a human figure made from water. It is the middle aged man the Suna siblings has been chasing.

"Who the fuck are those freaks? Ughh I have to report this."

He observed the area where the three previously stood before disappearing like mist.