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The blonde silently stood as he kept his hand inside his cloak, clutching the headband tightly. His face was still pale from fear, but slowly, he forced himself to calm down through deep breaths. Lady Tsuchikage knew what she was doing, and he trusted her enough not to give anything up. His friend, Kouhei, was also going to have to be in on the secret. Hopefully he wouldn't react too badly to it. Maximilian nodded to Coco, and with his mind slightly more at ease, he pulled the headband.

Kouhei would see what it was, as he placed it in the soft hands of his Kage, and took a few steps back, feeling like a weight was lifted off his chest. This was in the hands of the village now. Secrets can be kept and mouths can be kept shut. Hopefully this was the case. He gave the Kage a polite bow, and listening to her final words, he only shrugged. Rosario wasn't someone he knew much about, that was down Kouhei's lane. With that in mind, he took a few more steps back, realizing he had no more reason to stay there, and turned on his heels to walk out.

But not before he could give his leader a sincere, grateful thanks. "I appreciate the help, Coco. I won't let you down again." With that, and a sigh, he walked through the doors, and toward the exit out of the building. Too many negative thoughts filled his head as he made his way out of the tower. He needed some time to himself. Things were looking a bit scary, now that he knew that if anyone found out what happened, his head would become an ornament on someone's mantle.

[Exit]

I gotchu Chae.

1/2. Seems legit. Next Mod, add the goods.

Add dat.

The bird had risen up to take the man to his ally, but not before Max could catch a glimpse of his defeated target. To his surprise, instead of a body, there was just glints of glass scattered flickering the light coming from the flames not too far off. Somehow, the body was absolutely obliterated, which really made little sense as the explosions were all storm-powered. A singed corpse would have been left behind. As he was taken up, it hit him.

Finally reaching his ally above the ground, Maximilian complied and jumped over to his ally's bird, and steadying himself, he maintained a watch over all of the surroundings below him, and saw more and more individuals below them mobilize. The light from the buildings was spreading and created more light to see with, but this did little to calm the blonde as he realized, somehow, more and more were appearing. As Kouhei finished, he leaned to him and spoke carefully.

"I used my Ranton on one of the enemies. There was no corpse. Just glass. I have a suspicion that these aren't normal fucking enemies." He frowned seriously, and went back to watching the ground below them. He continued as he watched, letting his ally do his own thing as he explained, "All these enemies just moving below us, try and find the one you feel is most suspicious. I don't think that we're fighting normal shinobi."

The look on Max's face was priceless. He blinked a few times as he listened to his teammate speak of how there was an alliance made with Kusagakure. Slowly, the trembling hand of the blonde snaked its way into his cloak, and fingered at the Grass headband that he had acquired off the body of the corpse he had laid over the table before them. He grew frightened. Shocked. Surprised. And definitely worried.

As Kouhei finished and let max finish off the second half of the story, all he could do was stammer a bit and think to himself on what to do. This was a shitfest, and he had to think of something quick. He breathed a few times, his face becoming a bit paler than normal, before speaking clearly, slowly, and carefully. "The Sanbi mission didn't fall through exactly as planned, Lady Tsuchikage..."

He bit his lip, chewing on it for a second as he collected his thoughts, before continuing, "We managed to scare off all other enemy shinobi. We killed a few, as you can see from what we brought to you." He gestured to the female corpse before them, its head wrapped and hidden by the ripped shirt he had torn off her to cover her face. He preferred not to have its lifeless eyes staring off into whatever they had in this room. Just in case.

"Gungnir stayed behind. We escorted this corpse back to you... for a reason. We can only hope that our Jounin teammate succeeds." He shook his head, a bit worried about what could really happen. But to Max, this was a bit more important. A broken alliance could be more detrimental than a Tailed Beast Holder who they could hunt down and kill at some point, should they need to.

Slowly, Max opened his cloak slightly, and he pulled out the Kusagakure headband from its inside pockets. He made sure the headband was out of view from Kouhei, just in case, and that only Coco would be able to see what is in his hand. He gave his Kage an alarmed look, eyes wide, and then flicked them from the headband then to the corpse, and back, showing her through gestures that the headband belonged to the corpse he brought back. "This is why I felt this so urgent, Madame Tsuchikage..."

"Good to see you again, Bass," the blonde called out as the Kibaku finally flew his way toward Max. Before their meet, having done his seals and succeeding in activating the timed delay to the tags, he heard as all six of his own tags detonated at each of the two floors in the building he had just jumped from. The explosion ripped through the building, setting fire to both floors just as Bass promptly collected the person who had been thrown out seconds before.

Max noticed the flames from not only the building he was just on, but also the fire that he had guessed Kouhei or Bass started in the other building next to the hospital. The flames had lit the ground up like fireworks, and any shadow that the alleys had hoped to create were soon removed by the flames that littered the area. To hell with the least destruction, these buildings were offices. As long as the hospital was kept safe, these buildings will provide a good light source for the Stone shinobi.

And good thing too. Just as Bass had flewn up to Maximilian, and the blonde approached the ally, Max noticed something in the alleys that, while once they were dark, had become visible due to the fires on the first and second floor. He was looking down the alley [from a vantage point right next to Bass as seen on the diagram] and noticed a single individual [Beta or Gamma, whichever] running down toward them, and also heard, over Bass' radio, the whereabouts of the remaining enemies.

He quickly pointed him out, about 18 meters from the base of the two-story building they were on and closing, and then he tensed. "Fuck! Kouhei said two. Where's the other fucker!?" He growled, while quickly his hands pulled off one handseal, and unleashed a glowing ball of storm energy, which swiftly sped off toward where the intruder in his line of sight was running. Given the speed, it would explode at the enemy's feet if maintained in just two seconds, creating a one meter explosion right at his legs.

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- Shoissuiboru (Shocking Storm Globe) - x2 Mid