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((Mission: Giant Metal Dragon Cont.))

Reck rolled from behind the broken crate next to the factory wall in the shadows and flipped onto the side of the roof landing on his hands and knees being sure not to make a sound. He then crawled over to the other side of the roof staying near the center of the roof and lied down near the end of the roof right over a group of guys wearing red and black who were chatting around. "Heh. This is gonna be the easiest money we ever made in our lives guys. I'm still surprised that none has suspected anything, haha. But even if they did, there probably to scared to check it out thanks to our giant metal dragon. Hahaha!! We still got alot to do so let's hurry up." After hearing a bit of there conversation, Reck leaned back after they went back to work and moved away from the ledge of the roof. "There has to be something here that will give this away. What's happening?" He then jumped off the roof staying in the shadows and moved over to the wall hiding behind a stack of barrels.

((Mission: Giant Metal Dragon Cont.))

Acting quickly, Reck jumped up to the celing of the building grabing a thin pole that reached from one endo of the building to the other and tucked his legs up to his chest while holding himself up. The warehouse quickly filled up with the people in red and black and holding himself from a thin metal bar was putting a strain on his hands. A man wearing a long black coat and a red shirt then walked up infront of the croud of people and raised his hands making them all go silent and he laughed out loud. "HAHAHAHA!! This is the big one! The weapons are almost complete and ready to ship out tonight! This is going to be the big one!" Reck's hands were becoming weaker and weaker by the moment and eventually he would fall into the croud. "...aww man..."

((Mission: Giant Metal Dragon Cont.))

Reck felt his hands slipping off the pole but right when he was about to fall, he pulled himself up a little making his hands lose all the grip they had and leaving him in mid air for a second and he quickly gripped the metal bar again. 'That was close...' He then looked back down into the croud to hear if they would say anything incriminating that he could bust them for.

Hitomi covered Mai against the dirt and dust sent up by the huge explosion "What the..." Hitomi's eyes went blank. Her pupils shrunk in their sockets. Her hands clenched in white-knuckled fists, she sat paralyzed. Visions of flames, the sounds of screaming... Kiki throwing her through the window... And then that same, horrid, terrible sound... Her entire body began shaking, her muscles clenched so tightly that her gums were beginning to bleed with the force her jaw was exerting. Her knuckles were beginning to split... And then she went completely limp. Her body gave as her brain was completely overwhelmed by the rush of memories. They had passed the hastily built wall that she had erected to prevent just this from happening... Her vision swam, and then all went black as she lost consciousness.

((Mission: Giant Metal Dragon Cont.))

Reck jumped off the ceiling down at the crowd of gangsters and landed on ones shoulders then immediately jumped on top of a stack of wooden boxes full of illegal weapons. He looked down at the crowd then slowly averted his gaze to the leader of the group. “Oy! You’re all under arrest for making illegal weapons and disturbing the peace. Will you come quietly?” The large room went silent for a moment then laughter filled the room, the boss laughing the loudest. ”HAHAHAHA!!! Look kid! We have no time to play games with you but since you know our plans now…KILL HIM!!!” With his words, the closest two rows of gang members charged at the stack of boxes Reck was standing on and pushed them over. Before the boxes fell, he jumped off the one he was standing on to the main entrance and landed on his hands then flipped to his feet looking back at the room of gang members smiling. “If you wana kill me, you got to do better than that.” They then charged out all the exits towards Reck ready to kill him the second they had a chance to. Reck was soon surrounded by the members and in groups of 5 they attacked him from all sides. He simply took out each group of 5 with hard punches and kicks to the head and stomach knocking each member out one by one. After he took out about 25 members, they ceased charging him and stepped back a little but he grinned and held one arm behind his back. “Moving back? Were not done yet.” He vanished and appeared in the middle of the group using his Body Flicker Technique then took out all the ones around him with a spinning kick. He crouched down and was about to charge another group until he noticed a shuriken flying directly at him. He stopped and ducked just dodging the shuriken and brought his leg over kicking another gang member in the chest and to the ground. He then began to jump around the crowd landing and punching one member then jumping to another spot and doing the same thing over again. After doing this about 4 times he jumped up high onto the fake dragon’s head and looked down at the cluster of gang members. “This is getting boring. Will you give up now?” A few members then began to throw shuriken and kunai at Reck and he pulled out a kunai and deflected half of them and dodged the rest. “Have it your way. Kai!” He made a hand seal and called out making the exploding tags he placed around the crowd when he was jumping around go off blowing almost all the gang members away and dealing serious damage. After the smoke cleared revealing all the members in the crowd either out cold or unable to fight anymore, he jumped down off the dragons head to the center of the field and looked around a little. “I think that’s about it…hack!!” From out of nowhere, a hand grabbed the back of Reck’s neck and picked him up off the ground choking him. It was the boss of the gang and he continued to squeeze tighter and tighter on Reck’s neck in a powerful vice grip. “I’ve had enough of you! You wasted enough of our time already! Time for you to die boy!” Reck struggled around off the ground trying to get out of his clutch but his grip was too powerful for him to force his way out of. He was beginning to lose cautiousness and in about a minute, it really would be the end but out of nowhere came Gomma, Reck’s pet beetle, and landed on the bosses face and poked him in the eye with his horn making the boss lose his grip and release Reck dropping him on the ground gasping for air. Gomma then quickly flew away before the boss could catch him and crush him and left Reck to take care of the rest for now. While the boss was still holding his face from the attack to his eye, Reck managed to catch his second wind and got to his feet looking at the boss. He then dashed at him throwing a kick to his chest and when the kick made contact, Reck was knocked back a little and the boss didn’t move at all from where he was. “What the?!” Reck jumped back some and took a better look at the boss now seeing that he was wearing dense body armor around his torso area. The boss then recovered from his eye injury and looked at Reck smiling and cracked his knuckles. “Now your dead! With my super body armor, there’s no way you can hurt me!!” Reck tilted his head a little and pointed at the boss. “Well, what about your head, or your legs, and the arms?” Not even listening to Reck’s handy suggestions, the boss charged at him pulling out a katana and slashed it at him relentlessly. Reck rapidly stepped back trying to avoid the slashes as best he could but it managed to cut his body some and got a deep slash into his left arm making blood gush out. He then jumped back onto the roof of a building holding his injury and looked down at the boss holding his katana. “Fine then! I’ll play your game.” Reck reached on his belt and pulled out three sticks connected by a chain and whirled them around affixing them into a staff and got to his feet. He jumped down towards the boss and swung his staff and he blocked with his katana. They both went on attacking and blocking each others attacks with their weapons and neither one was getting an upper hand in the fight. They clashed together again and the boss managed to overpower Reck pushing him off balance and pulled his sword back like he was going to thrust the blade strait through Reck’s gut and from his current stance, he couldn’t block or evade the attack in any way. When it all seamed over, who would come out to help out again but Gomma who again flew directly into the bosses face throwing him off and making him miss Reck completely. Gomma then was about to fly away but the boss acted faster then he could fly and punched at Gomma knocking him to the ground hard and he lied there motionless. Reck stood there looking at his partner lie there motionless and his eyes began to water some as he looked back over to the boss and folded up his staff and put it back in his belt. “You…you killed my friend. I can never forgive you for doing that. The boss smiled and held his katana in a position so it would be ready to slash and Reck held his arms to his sides flexing them a little. “Mmmmmm…First Gate, Gate of Opening. Release!” His body then let out a settle shock that surprised the boss and made him step back a little. “Second Gate, Gate of Healing. Release!” Upon releasing the second gate, the cuts that were on his body healed quickly and he seamed like he was full of energy again like the fight hasn’t even started yet. The boss shivered a little and took two more steps back like he was about to run away and Reck glared at him giving him a look of pure rage. “You won’t escape!! Third Gate!! Gate of Life!! Release!!” With that gate, he released a powerful wave of energy and his skin turned a slight tint of red. Some of his veins were bulging out from under his skin showing his increased blood flow and he moved a foot vanishing in an instant and coming up in front of the boss and released a wild fury of punches all over his body at such a speed that his arms weren’t even visible anymore. Each punch he delivered chipped off a chunk of the boss’s body armor and within 3 seconds, the armor was completely destroyed and left in ruins on the ground. He then quickly kicked the boss up into the sky and jumped up above him looking at him and rearing his fist back. “No! Please! I’ll do anything you want!” Reck completely ignored his cries for mercy and punched him with all his strength down into the side of the dragon completely demolishing the giant scrap metal dragon and taking the boss of the gang inches within death. Reck landed back on the ground kneeling and the gates effects wore off leaving him in a completely exhausted state. He fell back on the ground looking to his side at Gomma who was still lying motionless and he managed to move his hand near him and touch his shell lightly petting him. Gomma then twitched a little and turned over to his feet and shook a little. Turns out the hit only knocked him out for a while instead of killing him like Reck thought. Gomma then flew onto Reck’s chest and looked at him as Reck smiled that Gomma was still ok and very slowly got to his feet right after opening 3 inner gates. With Gomma on his shoulder and all the gang members out cold, he walked back to the client’s house and knocked on the door in the middle of the night. The man opened the door and saw that it was Reck and he grabbed his shoulders and shook him a little. “Well?! The dragon! Did you take care of it? Is it gone?!” Reck then put his hands on the man’s shoulders calmly then shook him yelling in his face. “DRAGON’S ARE NOT REAL!! GO TO SLEEP!!” And he turned and walked back to the mission’s office to report the Metal Dragon Gang’s doings and update his mission.

((Mission End))

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Yokou shook her head in dismay. An outer view on the scene - the area was totaled. Actually, if totaled would even be truth enough to describe this...broken beams of wood, some still standing...splinters and fragments of rock everywhere... If Shikamori was here, he would've probably gloomily added how did their Sannin sensei get along in Konoha without making his clan bankrupt. Actually...speaking of Shikamori...she supposed she should go and scout for her teammate. And Yokou bet there was probably some...wounds to treat. Only one seal was necessary to activated her Byakugan before the Hyuuga head of family slipped off from the area.

She had no desire to see what the Iwagakurians would say...when they discover this utter mess...

((exit))

Seeing the lady of Hyuuga leave, Shinratsu assumed it would be a good idea that he does so too. For one instance, he had no desire to be categorized along with Zephyr...when the debtors come chasing. A nervous sweatdrop. He actually think he would have a pretty good idea of what they would say... And now that he seriously thought about it, the Hyouton clan head was seriously reconsidering about having Zephyr as his sensei.

I would not want to be that poor guy... Shinratsu winced internally, imagining just "how much" pain Shikamori would probably be in right now...

((exit))

So soon in the clearing the only ones left were Zephyr and Kai. The Sannin didn't stop Yokou, because he knew she probably went off to search for Shikamori...by the looks of her activating Byakugan. Besides, that was far from the point...true that Iwa was made of rock but...damn...this was a mess.

When Senju Zephyr comes to admit something is a mess...

That something got to be pretty bad...

''Ho!" A nervous laugh. "It...wasn't...my fault right...those crazy ANBU were the ones who made the rocks fall.........." Silence. No one could assure either because well, though it was the ANBU who made the rocks fall...it was because of him now that there's...countless holes, all greater and deeper than human size scattered across the area even after he dismissed his Mokouton. "Eh..." The Senju leader made a mental note to himself to learn Doton techniques sometime in the very near future. If he's to stay another day in this village without accidentally wrecking something, that is.

Zephyr scratched his head and sighed. "It's fine. We can leave her be. Yokou probably went looking for Shikamori...um...we can go elsewhere to talk." Looking being a gentler term than the bare truth because in actuality...Kai and the others had watched as that giant Mokouton fist accidentally punched Shikamori flying clear out of the area rather than the rocks. Zephyr gulped. The day prior, Shikamori had been furious when he punched him with the same said Mokouton obelisk fist...back at the curry stand.

...

He wouldn't be surprised if Shikamori would be out for his skin. Oh well. He'll just have to wait until the Nara's fury cool down.