As a thief, a night like this would be considered a great day to do a job. The weather has called for a mild sandstorm, or so people said since there might be one. But, luckily for Maru that weather call was false, which meant today might be his lucky day according to superstitions the crooks at his village told him. However, tonight he wasn't doing some big heist for some of his no face no name clients he usually deals with, nor was he committing any crime at least to the eyes of Sunagakure… Tonight he would take down a human trafficking galore, he looked down to the place he was scheduled to invade tonight from the rooftop of building in front of the place he was going to invade. Maru was wearing a body he usually wears when he is doing a job as most thieves would call it. This body was dressed in all black, a black trench coat, dress shirt, ninja pants, and boots. He wore red gloves, with a black and white mask on similar to the mask you'll find in an English ballroom party. A crop of short and messy black hair hung down to the crooks neck, with a smug smile on his face he was crouched to avoid being seen looking down at the two goons who were keeping guard of the front entrance probably waiting to greet some guest or keeping a look out for any ANBU that would be lurking around. The way Maru chuckled to himself, wondering how much they buffed up the man power inside. He rolled his sleeve up, then checked his watch to see as the clock hit midnight. He nodded, then pulled his crimson gloves further onto his hands then he smirked. “Heh..” He chuckled then activated his active camo to make his clothing to blend into his environment by matching the surroundings. Seemingly vanishing but he was actually making his way to find a different entrance to this building.
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Maru had already ran pass the two guards staying posted at the front entrance, it wasn't as though they could see him since he was cloaked in his active camo so he didn't worry too much about getting by the men. When he reached the side of the building he pressed his back against the wall, keeping from being out in the open as he moved quietly along the wall to get a quick glance of the back entrance of the building… no one was around from what he saw but before he kept going he picked up a decent sized rock then moved from around the corner to toss it at a trashcan, knocking it over to deliberately make some noise.
“Oi did ja hear that?” A distance voice said, Maru using his transformation justu to blend into the wall behind him. Maru saw someone peek around the corner from the front entrance, probably one of the goons that was standing there by the door in. Feeling a bit uneasy goon one decided to walk into the alley to check out where the noise came from, goon two was right in behind him who was probably bored out of his skull looking for some action. Once they went around the corner to check out where the noise may had came from, Maru made a quick bolt to the front entrance. His transformation justu now taking the form of goon one so he could simply walk in without arousing suspicion. When he reached the entrance, he simply adjusted himself to make sure he looked authentic before he casually walked into the building.
The inside of the place had red leopard colored walls with different colored lights ranging from purple, lime green, to crimsons red. Music playing in the background, with half naked pictures of women on each door with a yen amount shown at the bottom of each female. Maru walked casually, as if he was actually one of the guards standing out in front. He was studying the hallways, looking inside each room to see if he could find where the gurls might would be. He saw a couple of goons coming his way, probably on guard duty too, they stopped Maru and the puppet master who wore the face of one of the goons who was standing guard at the front door kept his cool. “Hey, aren't you supposed to be keeping guard at the front?” One said, sneering at Maru but still he kept his poker face on.
“Actually I'm looking for the boss, I heard someone knocking over some trash cans out in the back and I got a good look at the weasels face.” Maru said, gesturing his thumb behind him."Thought the big man might would want to know that someone is snooping around here, or do give free tour's?” He added, a bit suspicious of the behavior of the man before them one goon nodded to the other. Then Maru followed the man to wherever he was headed, Maru kept his hand on his weapon pouch just in case things would probably go south. He knew that he didn't exactly seem like a guy that could be trusted so dances are that he would either be taken to the bosses office with a bunch of thugs waiting or they would figure him out and things for him would be bad from there. Lucky for him he had a few tools that would help him escape if he was attacked. Then finally he was where he supposed to be, he didn't know what lies behind the door but either way he was ready for whatever. Maru reached for the nob, then entered inside what looked to be the the office of whoever was in charge of this place.
As expected there were two men, who looked to be samurai and probably trained bodyguards who didn't see much action. They wore malicious grins as though they were itching to test their weapons on him.. But unfortunately, they won't get the dance. Maru used his chakra to boost his speed so he approach his targets in a close proximity before he attacked both goons with a shower of needles, then made his way around the front of the desk to draw his revolver from his weapon pouch to points it at the man who was sitting at his desk reaching for a headset. “Heh… maybe smaller than a sword but these babies can kill a man from 2200 meters away.” Maru said teasingly, the man's hand hovered over the headset. “I suggest you move your hand if you would like it attached." the man looked over to his side, seeing that the two guards he had at his side were cowering in fear at Maru. Probably because those needles had a dose of dreams wrath which cases his targets to feel fear, it looks to Maru that he had everything under his control.
Maru dispelled his transformation justu, aiming his revolver at the man while he slowly backed up then reached for the lock with his free hand and locked the door behind him. The man who was running this “business” was pretty short for the most part, he wore a dark suit and sunglasses. He looked pretty old too, and by the look of it he wasn't as skilled at fighting neither. He seemed like the type who would much rather hire a shinobi rather than actually be one to do is own dirty work, and out of all his years he would never expected that some young punk would come in shouting demands. The man believed that Maru was probably just some ANBU in training looking to get a quick rank up, however he wasn't I'm the position to be yelling at a some teen with a gun on him.
He held his hands up as a sign of surrender, trying to talk to Maru.. “Easy there cowboy.” the man began. “Why not put the gun down and we can talk man to man? Surely I could pay you way more than what Suna could ever pay you for my life.” Maru began to think on what the man said, the man did have a lot of dirty money to go around since he was running an illegal business. Why not help himself to some of the man's money if he was offering? “Sure we'll talk alright.“ Maru said, a sly smirk spreading on his cheeks, before the man would even have a chance to speak the gunman was giving commands. “You are going to give me every dime you have and free the beautiful women you have here, I know you got a safe around here somewhere.” he said in a mocking tone, but somehow the man knew that Maru wasn't paying around when he said that he wanted the women free and for him to give him his money. He knew of ANBU doing a lot of shady shit but armed robbery was a new.
The man kicked back then laughed, acting as if he was holding the cards now. “And what would your superiors think of you going around robbing people, I'm guessing you're the crooked cop type, eh? I already got–” Before the man could even utter the last word Maru had quickly turned his gun on each goon on the side of the confident man to fire a round each at both of them, his weapon being equipped with a silencer made no sound as each man had one bullet each to their heads covering the floors in blood, and brain matter. Then he aimed his revolver back at the man sitting at his desk again, before shooting at the mans right hand who looked like he was reaching for something. The man yelling in pain, holding his wounded hand looked at Maru as if he was insane but Maru smiled.
“Shame, I'm not even apart of this village. But you see here's the thing…” He walked over sitting on the edge of the desk, his gun trained on the terrified mans head. “The person who sent me here said, and I quote ‘They don't care what happens to their captures.’ And you seem like one of the captures he was speaking of. So! Here the deal.” He said getting up from the edge of the table, waving his revolver about but still he kept his weapon on the man. “You are going to use that headset to tell your boys to evacuate the women you got here, then tell them to meet you here. But before you do that I suggest you get to that safe and start filling up this bag.” He used his empty hand to pull out a empty potato sack from his coat then tossed it at the man, cocking back the hammer just in case the man got bold enough to scream for help. “Consider yourself out of business buddy.” Maru sneered, gesturing his gun upwards for the man to get up.
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The women were told that the boss wanted everyone evacuated from the building, they were simply told to wait out in the back to not run because they would find them wherever they would've gone. Most stayed put, others wanted to get that taste of freedom but none of them expected to be free… That was, until there was an explosion at the top floor that took the mostly half naked women by surprise, the whole floor was on fire and it looked to be the same floor that.. the bosses office was.
Seeing the door swing open, they expected to see the goons or the boss to be running out of the building but instead there was a man.. A masked man carrying a potato sack filled with something, walking out casually as if a burning building was nothing to be afraid of. The thief strolled over to the women, a cocky smile on his cheeks before dropping the sack filled with the dirty money and one of a kind jewelry provided by the goons and the boss onto the ground. “Now make sure you all share that, consider yourselfs free to go.” He said, before running off in the distance before the ANBU arrived for clean up. He didn't have time to answer questions, after all he was just getting started. Perhaps he should capture the dog as Maru and not this alter ego, after all that kind of mission is something that Maru would do. After all the golden rule of being a thief was to always keep a poker face, and his silly flirtatious attitude was one of the mask he wore.
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[Mission Completed]