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[h3]Minaru Gazo[/h3][/color]

[i]Lionheart[/i]
[@J8cob][@Angel Eyes][@Sagittarius] [/center]

Once his three students had gathered and introduced themselves – albeit briefly. He got up, time was up, they would probably be late. Not that it bothered Minaru, they could catch up with the other two teams if they had to. They arrived at the gate a few minutes after Hageshi's team did, Sutemasu noticing him. [color=pink][b]“Minaru-chan,”[/b][/color] she said teasingly, referring to him as a girl, [color=pink][b]“please be on time next time. A sensei needs to give the right impression, you know that!”[/b][/color] 

Minaru shrugged, she had this in-joke about trying to emasculae him, he wasn't sure why and she had kept it up ever since he was a genin and she was a chunnin. She knew just as well as he did that they were equals. Minaru chalked it all up to some sort of joke, and he responded with a grin. [color=Gold]”I sure know we should give the [i]right[/i] impression!”[/color] Nodding towards Hageshi who tossed jutsu at his water-spouting student.

The three teams would move out in tight formation, Sutemasu explained the mission to the chunnins and then they were off. Minaru pointed for his team to follow him, to not break formation and not lag behind. This was a chacne to prove themselves as chunnin and as soldiers of Kumogakure.

Minaru himself wasn't looking forward to messing with the Hidden Mist. He was wanted dead or alive by every single Mist ninja worth their salt since he was one of the key members in stopping the Great Tide Coup a few years back, back when he was a chunnin. The Hidden Mist didn't take too kindly to him infiltrating their ranks.

- Not that he minded being wanted, it was quite intriguing, a sense of fame came with it. But it was an uncesseray danger, one he wasn't sure his soldiers would be capable of handling. If they were to face shinobi resistance it would be other Chunnins, maybe even a few jounin, it would be very dangerous. 

Once they arrived at the refinery, Minaru signaled at his units to stop. They would infiltrate from the other side of the refinery, they had to make their way around the entire island, taking down the ships transporting the metals to the mainland of Kiri before making their way into the refinery to provide backup for Sutemasu.

They moved in single file to avoid detection, sneaking along the wall, arriving at the port. Minaru motioned for his team to guard the entrance to the port from the refinery. [color=Gold]”Tell me if enemy shinobi arrive. I'll take down the ship.”[/color] Minaru told the three chunnin, as he vanished from their vision, using the body flicked technique to get onto the pier. Sneaking up behind a kiri shinobi wearing a flack jacket, Minaru put his forearm around his neck from behind, holding the kiri nin's right hand with his own left hand, jerking the shinobi backwards to make him lose his footing, as well as preventing him from casting jutsu. [color=Gold]”Shh now.”[/color]  he kept his hold around the man's throat ill he was knocked out.

Minaru let go of the limp kiri ninja and headed on towards the boat, his hand on one of the tantos on his back, the mist bothering him.

Meanwhile, the last shipment of metal to go onto the boat got pushed on carts through the entrance to the port, where the other three members of Team Minaru were, there were five chunnin escorting the shipment. His squad let him know via the commlink in his ear, and Minaru cursed under his breath, sneaking across the pier towards the entrace of the ship, making his way inside – no guards in his line of sight. There was very little fog in the ship, so he could see clearly.

Tapping his ear. [color=Gold]”Engage. Keep them busy, I need a minute or two to take down the ship.”[/color] Minaru ordered, making his way down the sihp to the bottom of the cargobay, his hand gracing against the inside of the metal hull. Weaving five handseals, he put his hand against the hull [color=Gold]”Gold Release: Midas Touch”[/color]

As the shining gold color spread over the area around his hand, spreading from his fingers till two meters of the hull of the ship was turned into gold. Minaru removed his hand from the hull and took a few steps backwards, placing an explosive tag on the spot of gold he had made, he would head up towards the exit before triggering the seal, making the boat take in water at a faster rate than it could get fixed – yet not fast enough to drown any civilians on board.

Now, he would go assist his team.