Chapter 140 - Infiltration 02.

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Third Person POV

Land of Sand, Year 38.

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Minato, now disguised as a ninja from Suna, moved quietly through the camp as there was a flow of people here and there, each engaged in their own business as they continued walking to their destinations.

Minato quickly joined a group of ninjas walking by, while carefully surveying the area without showing curious eyes; after all, someone could easily notice this as he continued to look around to see how the camp operated.

"Will you be on watch tonight?" asked one of the ninjas walking alongside Minato.

"Yes... we'll be in the desert all night..." another responded.

As he continued moving through this group, through the camp, he kept monitoring the entire place to see how it functioned.

''That is the...'' Minato was surprised as he looked at a highly guarded tent with over 20 ninjas around it, his haki unnoticed by the ninjas, as he scanned the area and spotted an old man, bound in fuuinjutsu lines.

''So this is the Shukaku's Jinchuuriki... if he is here, these guys plan to use him soon...'' Minato thought as he looked at the rest of the site, he tried to look for Chiyo, but she wasn't here, or he didn't know how to find her, after all he had only seen her when she was old, and at this time, she should be middle-aged.

He soon separated from the group as they headed for the mess hall, since he did not plan to go there and went to one side of the camp, walking quietly and making sure no one noticed him amidst thousands of enemies around him.

Minato hadn't spent the last years just fighting or taking care of the camp, Jiraiya-sensei had taught him a lot about espionage techniques at the camp most specialized in it throughout the war, despite this, Minato never needed them until this moment, due to his direct attack missions except for a few in the Phantom Division.

Then he quickly started mingling with a crowd of a group of ninjas without them noticing his suspicious approach, while calculating his trajectory.

"You finally arrived! Now get to work!" A man who would be a jonin wearing the official uniform of Suna spoke to the group with a stern tone.

"Let's go... before the boss punishes us..." spoke the Kiri ninjas in a tired tone.

"Yes... I want to rest as soon as I can." another also complained.

Minato continued following the group as they joined other Suna ninjas sitting at the site, creating some seals on the ground, while all those with Minato sat down on the ground, he stopped to watch some of the other ninjas making the seal.

It was an intermediate seal, while he easily memorized it perfectly and the flow of chakra applied to it through his senses. Compiling and capturing perfectly how to do it just by looking.

"Hey, what are you doing?! Sit down and start making the seals!" The jonin saw Minato the only one standing and he nodded, sitting in his spot, he began making the seal picking up the chakra ink with his brush in the middle of the camp while the sun beat down on them, but protected by the clothes.

This group continued making several seals, while Minato had some difficulty, after all with the use of chakra in the ink... he could feel his area affected with the poison a tremendous pain... but with gritted teeth and avoiding exposing his pain face, he maintained the same flow of time as them, even though he could be more than 50 times faster in fuuinjutsu, he couldn't draw attention by his speed or pain felt, much less help the enemy village, the leaders continued watching them to see if they were doing the work right while talking with other Jonin colleagues, this team was a group of Chuunin with some knowledge of Fuuinjutsu, but not much.

It was after hours of continuous work that they were called by the leader once again. "Hey, you guys, finish this quickly. It's time for us to go put this on the puppets," one of the ninjas said.

"Well, folks, let's go," another ninja called them as everyone began to get up following him to another place, which was a kind of giant shed, as everyone entered with the seals made.

Minato looked around the place and, as he sensed with his observation haki, faced countless types of puppets being constructed on the site, at least thousands of models under construction, with many Suna ninjas working to assemble them and create their parts from wood.

''A puppet factory... I never expected to see this in this war...'' Minato murmured as he continued among the Suna ninjas.

"Now that you are here... let's start putting the seals on them to bind them." Another jonin approached as he began to lead the group.

The group started to disperse with their seals; this fuuinjutsu was a binding seal, something that kept one part attached to another, used by the Sand Village to keep the puppets' parts connected in high-intensity battles.

As Minato moved to one, he glanced at various models around the place, there were all types with animal or humanoid shapes, constructed from wood, and even models that Minato had destroyed when they attacked, seeing the huge shell in a corner, the one that sprayed poison at the south camp and only a rasenshuriken to completely destroy it.

He sighed and began to focus as he studied them, observing how the other Suna ninjas did it, beginning to practice. As before, any mistake or something extraordinary could attract attention, so he followed the pace of his colleagues on this free puppet. He continued placing seals between the joints and on the fixing of parts of this puppet while studying its body with interest. There were blades hidden all along the arms to be released in a fight, as he had seen on the battlefield.

His gaze fell on something at this site, while there were also large cylinders with red liquids next to the tent, which possibly were the poison that would be placed inside the puppets to attack enemy ninjas more lethally.

Occasionally someone took some of the liquid and went to one of the puppets, storing it inside tubes within the weapon itself... Other ninjas were storing a large number of throwing blades like Kunais and others, using devices that would make the puppets launch them.

More sophisticated puppets had storage seals inside them, able to store infinite things.

His gaze fell on a scroll of the structural design of the puppet he was working on, Minato understood much more than he had seen on the battlefield.

In the end, as soon as the puppet was ready, it was taken to some ninjas in a corner of the tent while studying it to see if there was any defect in it, if it was 100% ready, it was taken to another side where a team with greater knowledge of Fuuinjutsu worked on it immediately and was stored inside scrolls to be delivered to ninjas.

"So that's how these things work," he murmured, now understanding how the puppet creation process worked in this camp.

Soon his thoughts were interrupted by the entry of a group of ninjas into the place. Everyone immediately stood up and bowed. Minato ended up following the group, making the same gesture while looking at the ninjas, especially the one with red hair.

"How are the constructions going? We need at least 500 more puppets to deal with the ninjas from Ame and Konoha," he said.

"This place will soon have all the puppets ready, Commander Akasuna no Kai!" another ninja replied.

''That name... is he Chiyo's son and Sasori's father?'' Minato thought, looking carefully at the man in front of him.

"That's good... we've suffered a horrible defeat in recent months... although we are still winning the war, we haven't been able to penetrate the borders of Konoha... that's why we need to bring some results for Kazekage-Sama... he is getting impatient," he said in a harsh tone as all the jonins nodded.

"It shall be done, Commander!" they quickly spoke.

"That's good..." Akasuna no Kai looked around the site, while Minato felt an even more intense gaze from that group, being a much younger man next to Akasuna no Kai, he saw this man looking at him intensely and this quickly made him move a few millimeters almost imperceptibly in case he needed to act at this moment, as he might be discovered right now.

"Any problems, Rasa?" Akasuna no Kai said curiously, sensing his gaze on a young man there.

"Strange... the amount of chakra he has is enormous..." Rasa murmured, looking at Minato with surprise.

"That's... true..." Akasuna no Kai also murmured, studying Minato. "It's almost as much as my son, Sasori..." Akasuna no Kai couldn't help but be surprised, seeing the boy there with so much chakra... But what they didn't know was that Minato had 60% of his chakra impaired by the poison in his arm. "We'll see him later... anyway..." Akasuna no Kai turned his attention back to the group in the tent.

"We'll be waiting for the new batch of puppets soon. In the meantime, keep working," he said, saying goodbye to the place.

Minato sighed. He didn't have much time; he needed to find some identity for himself here, before they discovered he was a spy... he wanted at least the information about the poison or even where Chiyo was.

"Keep working!" The jonin exclaimed some time later as everyone returned to work again. After a few hours, Minato left the tent going to the middle of the camp. He had taken clothes from a ninja who would soon be reported missing within the camp, and he could be suspected, so Minato continued walking to the same tent, going to rest while waiting for it to darken, after all, he had the plan to enter the record tent and forge some data about him, not that it would work much, but it would give him a few days before he was suspected... he hoped at least to collect the information he wanted by then.

Minato waited, and his attention turned to the main tent, where there was a meeting going on at that moment, while Akasuna no Kai was with Rasa, which surprised Minato since he had seen him, after all, this young man, slightly older than him, would be the future Fourth Kazekage, father of Gaara.

"So I want you to deliver this to the Kazekage and set up a meeting for him to send us more funds for an attack against Konoha..." Akasuna no Kai spoke in a serious tone, he was quite active when it came to attacking Konoha.

"Yes... he released the Shukaku, but he still hasn't authorized us to use it on the battlefield... which doesn't make sense..." Rasa agreed in a dissatisfied tone.

"Maybe it's because the Leaf Village might use the Kyuubi... our Kazekage fears that we can't handle that beast unleashed on the battlefield," Kai said.

"Wasn't the fox transferred to a new host after the death of the First Hokage's wife? Why is he afraid of that?" Rasa continued mockingly, he didn't have much power yet in the village at this time, as he was a 20-year-old, although already considered one of the strongest ninjas, but politically, still weak.

"That's exactly why... being a new host, the Leaf Village might simply discard him, using the fox in the war... things haven't been going well for Konoha since the start of the war... so..." He murmured.

"Yes... still, I see no reason why we should cower... let's just attack them, and even with the fox, we have our bijuu and we will win," Rasa said.

Although Minato didn't like the idea of the Konoha village wanting to use Kushina to release the Kyuubi while she died in the process, but he could understand their reasoning, despite knowing they were wrong in thinking that the Kyuubi has the same power as Shukaku or even that the village would really use it, they never used it in any war in the original work, which made Minato dismiss this possibility, which relieved him, after all, he would never let Kushina be killed, even if he was treated as a traitor after that.

Minato let go of these thoughts as he heard something interesting from the meeting through his haki.

"So I want you to go to the village, Rasa... I also want you to give me the data on that boy... my son will be coming to the battlefield soon, it's time for you to have a team, maybe form the best team of this generation with my son and that boy... there's also that girl Pakura... who hears very well... maybe it's time for Suna to create a team like no other," Kai spoke while Rasa nodded.

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