The woman stood calmly, even as the Maru approached. It was, needless to say, a useless endeavour for him to approach. He wouldn't accomplish anything with it. The woman didn't even turn her head as a response, merely looking at the larger crowd in front of her. Soon enough the second figure approached, and he spoke to the Maru for a short while. While the woman hadn't spoken as much, the second figure seemed much more mouthy. However, with his final words,
“it's time.” the woman looked over the group before speaking up too. The Hokage laid on the ground clinging onto himself, trying to find an opening for escape and to kill the woman, but it was pretty clear this wasn't going to happen.
“For years the Shinobi nations have been centralizing their power.” she stated, a testimony to what had been truly happening. There was no lie in her statements so far, and the recent speech made by the Hokage only furthered this with evidence.
“None of you have gotten better for it.”“I have watched this village for a long time. It's become clear to me that this village is unknowingly, slowly plummeting itself into death. There is but one man to blame.” She was talking about Zeno obviously, but she didn't bother to point at him, letting the crowd do their own conclusions. By now, the ANBU that had been trying to deal with the 11th was showing up, but not interfering. They stepped up to the crowd and joined them, as did many other shinobi that had been attempting to get through the ranks of the 11th.
“Konohagakure is becoming a shade of it's former self!” she yelled out suddenly as her eyes now glared through the holes in the mask, looking over each and every member of the shinobi forces.
“None of you see it!”“Sunagakure, Kumogakure, they have all held onto their traditions after Naruto passed! But Konoha, Konoha tried chasing his ideals further and further, to the point where even Naruto would say it was enough! But you constantly push for more centralization, more unity, more peace! Can't you see it!? Are you blind!?” Suddenly the Hokage coughed, loudly, followed by a laugh. The robed figure looked at him, a certain pity in her eyes as she did so. And the Hokage laughed more, before speaking up softly, just loud enough for the others to hear.
“You lack.. the Will of Fire.. that is why you cannot see.. what we work for..”The figure didn't reply, only looking back at the crowd now. She took about five seconds before speaking again, letting his words simmer in her mind.
“Hai.. maybe I lack the Will of Fire. But according to what I know, the Will of Fire states that the village is like a family. You are pushing your family to be larger, and larger.. to encompass the entire world. But the rest of the world doesn't want to be part of your family.. they want to take advantage of you.”Her gaze fell upon those within the inner circle of the chunins, the friends that had banded together in this battle so far.
“Sunagakure has held onto their jinchuuriki. Kumogakure has pushed their needs through the other kage, and has even obtained a second jinchuuriki. What does Konoha do.. they release their tailed beast. For what? Because the other villages were scared.. to prove a point. Tell me in what world that makes sense.”“It's time. For Konohagakure to become greater than the others. Know sacrifice, hokage.” the woman said, before revealing her hands from the long arms on her robe, gesturing towards the sky. With a fast move she threw three senbon up in the air, before forming handseals rapidly, with a speed characterized by only those greatest nin that make it to be kage.
“Senbon-jutsu: Kage bunshin!” Using the exact same technique used to multiply her shuriken earlier, she now multiplied the senbon. However, rather than tripling or even multiplying them tenfold, she multiplied them thousandfold.
Three thousand senbon were now in the sky, a testament to the users skill, and as they were kage bunshins, they had actual physical existence, and as such could harm like any other tool. She extended her arm towards the senbon and rapidly moved her arm down, to point it at the hokage. The senbon all reacted, flying towards the Hokage in an undodgeable hail of senbon. Given the control she had over her senbon, not a single one missed their target, as they all punctured the Hokage. The woman then formed more handseals, ready to perform her killing move.
“Senbon Art: Split Needles Poisoning!” Extending her arm once more, the senbon within the hokages body 'exploded' into fine dust of metal and chakra, meaning the parts of the senbon inside of the Hokage's body were now already in the blood of the hokage. However, using her fine chakra control over these senbon, the robed woman would push her hand forwards, leading to all the fine particles of dust to push through the hokages innards, eviscerating him from the inside. The move would prove, ultimately, to be fatal as the hokage yelled in pain for about six seconds, before submitting to his death.
Slowly the woman would advance to the Hokages corpse, before bending over and grabbing a hold of the Hokage's hat. Slowly she'd get up and face the crowd, moving her one free hand towards her hood. As she undid her hood, the mask came loose and fell on the ground, shattering into pieces.
The robed woman would reveal herself to be, through the mask falling and shattering, that she was in actuality Ayame. She seemed relatively calm despite the fact that she'd just assasinated the Hokage, the very man she'd worked for for several years now. Her motives were relatively unclear at this point in time, not having revealed much more than the fact that she wanted to make Konohagakure bigger. It was relatively strange, since she came from Amegakure originally, though then again, Amegakure was known for it's tendencies to assasinations.
Slowly Ayame raised the hokages hat and placed it on her head, looking over the crowd now with a solemn look in her eyes, one that unmistakeably said that she was the new hokage. She wondered how many would react to this.. but then again, they had somehow gotten a hold of the 11th corps, though that was largely due to the maneuvrances of the second figure who remained robed and masked.
“Behold, sacrifice.” Ayame stated as she pointed an open hand at Zeno's lifeless body.
“Prepare for greatness!” she said loudly as she lowered the hand again and looked at the ones in front of her.
“The former hokage was weak and lacked the intelligence required to run a village. He thought that ideals could run a village, make it prosper. But that is not true. To prosper, you need conflict.”
Yamato Minamoru, “Young Master”
“Watashi wa Kami, I am God.”
Yamato stood by as he listened to what was happening around him. He looked back at Nobunaga, only to answer him with an answer Nobunaga didn't expect most likely.
“We do not.” Yamato would be lying if he said he cared for the hokages' life at this point, he was simply trying to figure out what this would mean for Konoha. Anyone that knew Yamato would know he'd be the first one to run in and fight this woman, since he was also very casual about attacking Kusaru when he did. But something stopped him this time - the idea that this might have bigger implications for Konohagakure. Perhaps even good implications, something positive.
The woman started speaking and Yamato listened intently, listening to her every word, dissecting it to find out what she meant. And Yamato found he could agree with this woman more so than the Hokage. She seemed to actually possess some form of brain cells. Slowly Yamato would walk forwards, taking only three steps and putting himself ahead of the others by doing that. He was still unsure if this was a trick to lure them into a false sense of comfortability, and he wanted to be the first to know it if it was. But when the woman grabbed the hokages hat, and undid her hood and let the mask fall, Yamato couldn't help but feel his eyes widen for two seconds before they returned to normal. As she spoke more, of conflict and making Konoha great, Yamato was overcome with a sense of satisfaction.
Slowly Yamato looked back at the rest of the group, before looking at Ayame. His eyes were set with determination, and a sense of bravery, one that many people would recognise what Yamato had in his eyes before he attacked someone. But rather than do that, he slowly bent his knee and got on one knee, bowing his head down slightly before Ayame. It was unclear why Ayame did this, but to Yamato, this meant a way to make his clan better, and that was worth every sacrifice he'd have to make.
Reihana Minamoru, “Little Master”
“For the Minamoru, everything.”
Rei was pushed into the back slightly, as she was out of her element. She felt like using any jutsu would heavily impede the progress of Aoi and Akio, and there was nothing she could do to really support them. Add to that the giant cat shoving wind in people's faces and Rei was left completely out of the field, pulling back as she provided overwatch for Aoi and Akio, making sure they would't be stabbed in the back by someone. But that person never came, leaving Rei to only feel slightly useless after everyone moved to the plaza again to see what was going on. She stayed close to Giichi, but ultimately landed in the same spot as everyone else, somewhere around Tatsuya, Yuna and Yamato.
The entire speech left Rei bewildered, as she grasped only a little of what this person was saying. It was obvious the woman was appealing more to ideals than to logic, not explaining what or how she would do all this, only saying that she would. However when she revealed herself to be Ayame, Rei could only wonder what this meant exactly. She had worked here for so long, becoming a part of Konohagakure in the process, but Rei would never have seen this coming. Not knowing exactly how to feel about this all, she looked at Giichi, hoping he had a clue.
Yopparai Ramu Koku
“With no booze, whores and cussing, life would be a lot less interesting.”Give us dem eyes, gurl.
Yopparai wasn't quite expecting what had happened, first hearing a sound like a rocket in the sewers he'd just blown up, before being lifted into the air by Tsukiya.
“NANDAYO, BAKA TSUKIYA!” he yelled as he swayed side to side in an attempt to stabilize himself. He would then hear the explosion and shake slightly as the explosion rocked him, before realizing that Tsukiya had left him to fall on himself.
“OII! DON'T LEAVE ME HANGING!” he said as he slowly plummeted downwards, headed straight down into the sewers since that's more or less where Tsukiya had dropped him. With a loud splash he landed in the sewage water, covered head to toe in it. He'd make sure to kick Tsukiya's ass for this back at the tavern.. but something caught his eyes. Or rather, something caught his ears. Not to far away he heard the splashing of footsteps in the sewage water. That'd.. that'd be the Hyuga girl wouldn't it?
“Oi, Tsukiya-chan.. be quiet and drop down here with me.” he said, probably loud enough to be heard by Jun still, obviously because of the echoes in the sewer system.
Slowly Yopparai would wade through the water before realizing he could use his chakra to stand on top of the water. That wouldn't stop the footstep splashes but atleast it'd mean he didn't have to wade through the shit and piss. Slowly he 'climbed' ontop of the sewage water, with some splashy sounds, before he continued down the sewers trailing the splashes he had heard. Tsukiya would no doubt still be able to find him with that bloodlens lemmet thingie.. but from now on, Yopparai was actually quiet. What a change.
