Under the now thriving Sand Village on the outskirts of the village proper sits the ruins which once housed the previous incarnation of the Sunagakure. Here the knowledge and wars of the previous generations was buried and mostly forgotten beneath the sand.
Within the remains of the former incarnation of Sunagakure, there was a gang of mercenaries. Many of them surveyed the immediate area, while some others were positioned around a pair of captives. Among the two captives was a very young boy, only seven years of age while appearing even younger. His hair was white as freshly fallen snow, with the consistency of a coat of fur. His cheeks were filled with air from his lungs, and his brow was furrowed as his purple eyes - devoid of pupils - closed tightly. "Lemme go! I gotta pee!" he screamed at his captors while kicking his legs about. This lad had been bound to a chair by his wrists, but aside from an apparent need to visit a restroom, he didn't seem to be struggling very much.
In a chair to the back of the young man, was another white haired individual. This girl's hair was freshly cut rather jagged and perfectly framing her face. A sigh escaped the young woman as she too was bound by the wrist, her sword currently in the possession of a man who was swinging it about like he'd never touched a weapon in his life. She sighed watching him do this closing her eyes, in disgust. One of the mercenaries, one closer to the small white haired boy kicked the chair he was in, enough to rattle it, but not enough to knock it over. "Pipe down. Every kid in the world says they have to go to the bathroom when they're captured. And the never do, if ya' did have to go, you would have done it when we caught ya'." The man said to a chorus of chuckles. "Now, be good. We got work to do." The speech finished and the white haired young woman who wasn't struggling at all, sighed again. "You should just let him go to the bathroom. Unlike most children he wouldn't lie about it." She commented before opening her eyes again. "And you, you're gonna kill yourself playing with that sword." she said to one particularly goofy young man who seemed to be older than she was. He didn't take kindly to being called out but didn't put down the weapon. No instead, he pointed it at the girl in the chair right in front of her face. "Shaddup, I'll kill you with it, if ya' keep it up." He threatened which caused the young girl to look up at him. This caused another man to being speaking instead, "Ya' know full well, that ain't part of the deal. Only the redhead head, and the white haired older guy die today. Stop it already, you're gonna have the hostages acting crazy. Calm hostages are good hostages," said a blonde haired man who was deeply tan. He didn't have any distinct markings but looked like those who belong to the Raikage's family in the Kumogakure. "He's right, ya' know."Aiko agreed as she looked past the pair who were speaking. "Okaerinasai, Onee-sama," she said as she saw a flash of crimson light. This flash would take place near the entrance of this ruin and the redhead who landed disturbed the sand which filled the floor of this place enough for her to wave it out of her face. "Sankyuu, Aiko-chan~ But you're captured. I've been home like 30 minutes, what on earth have you two gotten into?" Asked the redhead as she shifted her gaze from the white haired girl, to the boy tied up behind him, as if she expected him to answer her, without any regard for this room being filled with mercenaries.
The boy's plea yielded only a reaction consisting of his chair being kicked, and a denial of his order thereafter. This caused him to cease the outward kicking, as well as the screaming, as he glared toward the mercenary who spoke to him. "The last thing you will experience will be me pissing over you as the life leaves your pathetic body," he said in a tone most menacing, despite the childish voice he typically boasted. Moments later, his attention was pulled away from this particular mercenary. This was done by none other than the boy's own mother, the Kage of this very village. Her query would be given an immediate retort, which had in fact been taken from the mind of this boy's new "hate target" so to speak. "Some guys want to replace you and tou-san, so they want to kill all of us and make a push for the person they want as the new Kazekage. These peasants came to catch us for bludgeoning chips. It sounded fun at first, but now they won't let me pee!" he said while air filled his cheeks once more.
Something about the change in the small boy's demeanor rubbed the man in charge of watching him the complete wrong way. He was stunned such a small boy would even begin to threaten someone else, given the situation they were in. "Why you little..." the man started, jumping towards the young boy's chair again, only to be stopped by a different man. "He's literally fresh outta diapers, and we have bigger fucking problem's iffin' ya' hadn't noticed." Finished the more level-headed of this group as Benihime asked a sincere question of her son and received a perfect answer. Well, almost perfect. The small boy's slightly misplaced word made the young woman smile and a laugh escaped her, as those large orange moon eyes of hers darted across the room. "Not bludgeoning Little One, the word you're looking for is bargaining. They are going to use you all as bargaining chips. But nice bit of info. Am I to assume that was all to be gathered from the mind of your captor there?" said the red head of the small boy. Upon hearing what the young boy said to his mother, the white haired girl relaxed. All she was really waiting for, was to figure out why they were being targeted in the first place. With that information they had no reason to stay.
"Oh? Is that all... I've known someone in the village was trying to do that for ages. I got myself captured for this, ugh, if this wasn't still a reasonable training exercise for Haku-chan, I'd be upset." The white haired girl went on to mention. All of the mercenaries had wide eyes, because none of them could revealing in front of either of their captives the motivations of their higher ups. Only a few of them even knew that information to start with. They were basically all missing nin and swords for hire. Taking out a Kazekage wasn't really something they'd anticipated. But since they were receiving payment they'd try to collect on it with their lives. As if sensing their ill-ease. A singular scrawny brown haired young man appeared from the roof of the building. Dropping hanging upside down from a partially collasped rafter. "Don't worry about the details. I'll take her head. The rest of you get ready to move the other two." He said and his order was swiftly taken. The small redhead was surrounded and she could only smile at this group of people "Ara, I don't know if this is gonna be enough people. Nor do I know what I did to you personally kid. But... those two were captured 'cause they wanted to be. Feel free to make yourselves not bait." she said the final bit to the children present figuring they'd get themselves together without much prompting from her.
"... Bargaining chip..." the white-haired child repeated to cement the phrase in his mind. He wasn't certain where the phrase bludgeoning came from, but he knew its meaning... and thought it more appropriate for what he would do to the man who disallowed his restroom trip. On the other hand, that was a topic for another time. For now, the boy was asked if that was all the information he'd taken from his captor's brain. "This one's kinda dumb. I don't think he knows a lot about what's going on. The one that's coming down does," he said. As if on cue, the brown-haired male then descended from above to address Benihime. After a brief back-and-forth between this male and the Kazekage, the red-haired woman spoke of the captives freeing themselves. It was then that Hakudoshi vanished from the chair he'd been bound to, only to reappear at the woman's left side while pointing at the captor he'd spoken with previously. "That one's mine. I promised to pee on him while he died."
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