In the Diamond District, clubs took on a whole new meaning to the word. While the concept of a place to party was originally created by the Underground, the noble suburbs took the idea and laced it with a cash infusion. The result was a swank place where well-to-do people gathered together under the music to discuss business deals under the musical sway of a band of instruments; occasionally with a singer. The club itself wasn’t particularly large consisting of about ten tables that could seat four and a long white marble bar. The stage where musicians set up seemed to take up nearly a whole third of open space, but, then not all of the club was in the public front. In the back was a simple door where two well dressed guards stood, one man and one woman, that would stop anyone who came near it without revealing first a white rose lapel pin in some sort of fashion. Beyond them the club extended into a hallway with multiple private rooms for VIP members, that offered the richest of Suna’s nobles a place where they could partake in anything illegal and not be scrutinized for it. Some rooms, in fact, were set up for these things, and the Head of Suna’s Secret Intelligence was waiting in one such room.
It was called the “Whisper House”. The room looked like a high-class fully furnished studio apartment, but the draw Toushin had towards it was the walls. Behind the seemingly simple wooden planks was a layer of obsidian and concrete mix that made it impossible to hear beyond. To top that the room was guaranteed to not have any form of recording, something that Uzu always checked for regardless of how much money he traded hands with to reserve this room today. It, as usual, remained unbugged.
The day had started with one hell of a morning. Before his 5am alarm dared to speak, his door was shaking with the sound of banging. Answering it he found no less than seven fully masked ANBU Ops with orders to appear before the current acting head of their organization. Quickly dressing the SSI agent was paraded before a number of officials all asking where the hell he was during the time he was talking with Kana, and what he had done to be covered in so much blood after exiting an interrogation room he had entered with a poor Genin. Crossing his arms Toushin struck a casual stance and claimed his immunity from such questioning. Just as he had predicted, the refusal to explain what he did shook Suna’s courts enough to distract from the Underground almost entirely. By the time it was lunch, Toushin had won his legal battle and was finally able to sit down at his desk to review his work for any of the potential asset’s actions.
The reports of the body traders were just kind of there, as he assumed they would be. ANBU had no care to focus on the ‘why’ a terrible person like a human slaver had died; it was, after all, how Uzu took over the area as a criminal overlord himself; twice. They are all open/shut cases that just needed a signature. Grabbing his marker, the assassin blacked out how the men were each uniquely killed and just left it open that they all seemed to have sent out assassins for each other at the same time in a misguided power grab. The death of the medical staff didn’t even reach his desk but he had heard a number of nurses had mysteriously all came down with a case of dead over the night; no signs of foul play had been reached yet. Given that the medical branch was struggling for help, Uzu doubted they would use what little money they had to investigate further.
Then the rough report was shuffled to the top. The two ANBU operatives she had written down to kill came as a surprise. One of them had not been a man Uzu knew was in on the conspiracy. The second, was a name near the top of his personal list that was struck off mentally, and couldn’t help but wonder if the other was just a new partner getting caught up with the wrong person. Or, perhaps was also trying to find the source of corruption by going undercover, but tried to take the entire thing by themselves. There hadn’t been any orders sent his way for investigation, but, that was actually a separate department he had no control over. He only redacted the information they gathered before submitting it to the government. It could very well be that one of the members Kana assassinated was just a ‘wrong time, wrong place’, sort of thing, but it did little to phase Toushin either way; death was the ultimate paycheck in ANBU. With his mighty black-chakra ink marker, the head of SSI did his job in marking out the passages that made it seem like a conspiracy down into a revenge murder. Reaching over to his right, Toushin pulled out a drawer full of folders and grabbed the one that had a picture of the mask reflective of one of the dead operative wore. Pulling out only two pages to add to the document before submission, Uzu flagged it as a revenge murder of passion. The one he knew was corrupt was an openly married man who nearly as openly cheated on his spouse while always claiming “honey pot.” Women he slept with quickly disappeared soon after. It didn’t take a huge leap of imagination from that point on to assume that his wife had finally had enough and hired someone to do something about it which unfortunately caught the other member up in the crosshairs.
Now that it was all submitted and the gears of justice were turning, he left the office early to grab something to eat under the guise of having not gotten to eat breakfast. He was a man who had long ago trained his body to ignore hunger and had gone nearly a week without food once, surviving only off his chakra, but no one knew that. He paid extra to get into a club that had good food and to eat in a room he wouldn’t be disturbed in after his morning fiasco, all with the play of making people believe it. In truth he had only ordered a glass of whiskey that he was slowly stirring in one hand as he reflected on the morning and how the rest of this was going to play out. He now had an asset on his side, the first of he hoped to be many, and was mentally laying down the groundwork for his next step.
They couldn’t just out and kill everyone. There were many names on his list of corruption that needed to be taken down violently, but vice-versa, there were names outside of ANBU that operated ‘above the law’, that needed to be protected too. The Human Market took a blow today from Kana’s actions, but there were far bigger fish out there to take down if they wanted to free Suna from the cancer that was rotting them out from below. It wasn’t going be long before Toushin was going to need to put a line out to a certain woman he detested the idea of working with, for pride reasons, but knew she was going play a huge part in keeping the Underground ‘clean’, once Uzu had done his job.
But that day was some time off. Right now he waited for the youth to report in for the next mission as he began to mentally prepare the list of targets to strike next and the raising difficulty.
It was called the “Whisper House”. The room looked like a high-class fully furnished studio apartment, but the draw Toushin had towards it was the walls. Behind the seemingly simple wooden planks was a layer of obsidian and concrete mix that made it impossible to hear beyond. To top that the room was guaranteed to not have any form of recording, something that Uzu always checked for regardless of how much money he traded hands with to reserve this room today. It, as usual, remained unbugged.
The day had started with one hell of a morning. Before his 5am alarm dared to speak, his door was shaking with the sound of banging. Answering it he found no less than seven fully masked ANBU Ops with orders to appear before the current acting head of their organization. Quickly dressing the SSI agent was paraded before a number of officials all asking where the hell he was during the time he was talking with Kana, and what he had done to be covered in so much blood after exiting an interrogation room he had entered with a poor Genin. Crossing his arms Toushin struck a casual stance and claimed his immunity from such questioning. Just as he had predicted, the refusal to explain what he did shook Suna’s courts enough to distract from the Underground almost entirely. By the time it was lunch, Toushin had won his legal battle and was finally able to sit down at his desk to review his work for any of the potential asset’s actions.
The reports of the body traders were just kind of there, as he assumed they would be. ANBU had no care to focus on the ‘why’ a terrible person like a human slaver had died; it was, after all, how Uzu took over the area as a criminal overlord himself; twice. They are all open/shut cases that just needed a signature. Grabbing his marker, the assassin blacked out how the men were each uniquely killed and just left it open that they all seemed to have sent out assassins for each other at the same time in a misguided power grab. The death of the medical staff didn’t even reach his desk but he had heard a number of nurses had mysteriously all came down with a case of dead over the night; no signs of foul play had been reached yet. Given that the medical branch was struggling for help, Uzu doubted they would use what little money they had to investigate further.
Then the rough report was shuffled to the top. The two ANBU operatives she had written down to kill came as a surprise. One of them had not been a man Uzu knew was in on the conspiracy. The second, was a name near the top of his personal list that was struck off mentally, and couldn’t help but wonder if the other was just a new partner getting caught up with the wrong person. Or, perhaps was also trying to find the source of corruption by going undercover, but tried to take the entire thing by themselves. There hadn’t been any orders sent his way for investigation, but, that was actually a separate department he had no control over. He only redacted the information they gathered before submitting it to the government. It could very well be that one of the members Kana assassinated was just a ‘wrong time, wrong place’, sort of thing, but it did little to phase Toushin either way; death was the ultimate paycheck in ANBU. With his mighty black-chakra ink marker, the head of SSI did his job in marking out the passages that made it seem like a conspiracy down into a revenge murder. Reaching over to his right, Toushin pulled out a drawer full of folders and grabbed the one that had a picture of the mask reflective of one of the dead operative wore. Pulling out only two pages to add to the document before submission, Uzu flagged it as a revenge murder of passion. The one he knew was corrupt was an openly married man who nearly as openly cheated on his spouse while always claiming “honey pot.” Women he slept with quickly disappeared soon after. It didn’t take a huge leap of imagination from that point on to assume that his wife had finally had enough and hired someone to do something about it which unfortunately caught the other member up in the crosshairs.
Now that it was all submitted and the gears of justice were turning, he left the office early to grab something to eat under the guise of having not gotten to eat breakfast. He was a man who had long ago trained his body to ignore hunger and had gone nearly a week without food once, surviving only off his chakra, but no one knew that. He paid extra to get into a club that had good food and to eat in a room he wouldn’t be disturbed in after his morning fiasco, all with the play of making people believe it. In truth he had only ordered a glass of whiskey that he was slowly stirring in one hand as he reflected on the morning and how the rest of this was going to play out. He now had an asset on his side, the first of he hoped to be many, and was mentally laying down the groundwork for his next step.
They couldn’t just out and kill everyone. There were many names on his list of corruption that needed to be taken down violently, but vice-versa, there were names outside of ANBU that operated ‘above the law’, that needed to be protected too. The Human Market took a blow today from Kana’s actions, but there were far bigger fish out there to take down if they wanted to free Suna from the cancer that was rotting them out from below. It wasn’t going be long before Toushin was going to need to put a line out to a certain woman he detested the idea of working with, for pride reasons, but knew she was going play a huge part in keeping the Underground ‘clean’, once Uzu had done his job.
But that day was some time off. Right now he waited for the youth to report in for the next mission as he began to mentally prepare the list of targets to strike next and the raising difficulty.