Chapter 5: Attack On Madame Gao

"What the hell?"

A ninja dressed in black slowly backed away from me as I approached him in the dark alley way. He seemed a bit nervous from the sight of the unconscious Hulk on my shoulders.

"Are you a part of the hand? I heard an old hag is making drugs from a warehouse around here. Mind showing me the way?"

The ninja kept his silence and pulled out a sharp katana from the sheath hidden in his black robe.

"Is that a no?"

He completely ignored my words as he sprinted up to me before swinging his sword up into my neck.

I lifted two fingers and easily caught the blade with just the lightest sound. He struggled to pull the sword away from me but once he realized I was too strong he just let go of the sword and jumped back.

"Won't you become my obedient little dog?"

I body flickered right next to the ninja and lightly patted the top of his head before he could even react to my movements.

My fingers tugged away at his mask and the face of a middle aged man with white hair and a scar over his right eye was exposed.

"You're a bit ugly but you'll do. Tell me where Madame Gao is and I'll reward you with a new job as an actual shinobi and not some second rate assassin."

Even when I spoke directly into his ear the man didn't flinch or panic. He only gave me a side eye glance while remaining silent.

"I really hate when villains have completely loyal subordinates. How am I supposed to get information like this?"

"..."

"If you don't fess up I'll have to kill you and find another one of the Hand's henchmen."

"It's near here."

"Hmm?"

"I said that the base is near here. Just a few streets away Madame Gao bought a warehouse from which we export heroin to other parts of New York."

"Is that the only warehouse that Madame Gao has?"

"Yes, that is our only base of operation."

The man side eyed me the entire time he spoke, never moving or showing any signs of lying.

'Fucking bastard. I really envy Madame Gao for having such good subordinates. Even if he is weak at least his other skills are refined.'

I already knew that Madame Gao was spreading her hands over New York. Although she hadn't gotten a complete chokehold on the drug scene yet, she was a rising manufacturer of heroin.

Eventually she would have a monopoly on the stuff by getting rid of her competition here in New York. Even small time drug dealers wouldn't be able to escape the Hand.

'Fortunately Madame Gao and the rest of the fingers aren't strong enough to completely eradicate the other top dogs of New York.'

Without my influence the other groups and organizations in New York wouldn't completely collapse. There were well organized and equiped gangs, vigilantes, and other villains in New York that could fight against the Hand.

New York wasn't as vulnerable as China or other parts of Asia. It wasn't just some cultivators and ninjas that the Hand had to worry about.

Everyday it seemed that another superhero, vigilante or villain was born. Hell's Kitchen only bred the strongest, even a few thugs could run a ninja's pockets.

That led me to why I was here in the first place, setting up the Akatsuki's first base of operations. If I wanted to make my presence known than I needed to knock out one of the strongest.

Overtaking Madame's heroin operation here and in China would also give the Akatsuki a source of money. I could just genjutsu some rich person but what I wanted was a full on monopoly that officially belonged to the Akatsuki.

The other reason was that I needed some low tier members to make up the Akatsuki's henchmen. Having man power on a large scale would allow for larger projects to be completed quicker.

There were also many benefits to defeating Madame Gao. With my genjutsu I could extract the information of chi out of her, and even the location of dead dragons.

All of the ninja under her could also be manipulated to serve as my men. Not only would I get a boatload of assassins I could even give myself an origin story of being a ninja.

Sasuke Uchiha. A child from an ancient clan of ninja who posseses the legendary eye called the Sharingan. Hailed as the strongest of his clan he set out to travel the world in search of powerful opponents and eventually joined the Akatsuki.

After the framework for Sasuke is made I could introduce any new members as if they had always existed and weren't fake.

Currently I only had Hornet but my collection would quickly grow. With the help of shadow clones and the transformation jutsu I could also pretend to be other characters from Naruto.

Kakashi, Itachi, basically anyone that has similar abilities to Sasuke could be faked as an actual person.

'I just need to do more roulette wheel spins and my life will be set for the next few years.'

There were multiple missions currently available and several of them involved the Hand.

[Character Profile]

[Card Slot 1: Sasuke Uchiha]

[Card Slot 2: Hornet]

[Card Slot 3: Empty]

[Missions]

[Attack On Madame Gao]

[Defeat one of the five fingers of the Hand named Madame Gao.]

[Reward: 1x Common Card]

[Attack On Alexandra Reid]

[Defeat one of the five fingers of the Hand named Alexandra Reid.]

[Reward: 1x Common Card]

[Attack On Bakuto]

[Defeat one of the five fingers of the Hand named Bakuto.]

[Reward: 1x Common Card]

[Attack On Murakami]

[Defeat one of the five fingers of the Hand named Murakami.]

[Reward: 1x Common Card]

[Attack On White Hat]

[Defeat one of the five fingers of the named Sowande, nickname, White Hat.]

[Reward: 1x Common Card]

[Destroy The Hand]

[Defeat all five fingers of the Hand.]

[Reward: 1x Rare Card]