Ch. 58
3.pov
Few days later. Operation removing old hawk began. Mito stayed close to Hokage the whole way. There were a lot of Konoha important people there like Orochimaru, Jiraiya, some of the clans heads. There were Nara clan head, Yamanaka head and Akimichi head and Uchiha head. There was over 50 anbus and 50 Uchiha forces from Uchiha military police. The Village was left with only genin and their senseis and few chunin in those genin teams. The large group of shinobi left after midnight diveded in smaller groups of shinobi each group would have a tracker or a sensor. The first group arrived in 2.am on the spot where they knew entrance was to Danzo hideout.
The whole hole group was there in 15 minutes some teams had to check surroundings. Plan was simple go inside there knock all of the Root Anbu if possible and kill only when it is necessary. Danzo has to die. Mito and sensors would each be connected with Yamanaka force from Anbu. There were 15 teams with 5 members that were going inside and 5 teams were backup. They brought radio too,just in case. They wanted to have advantage from surprise attack. And for that Mito was here.
Mito started using her sensor abilities concentrating only on forces under ground she slowly counted how many were down. Then how many of them were asleep. She soon counted every one. The count wasn't as high as she feared and that meant some of forces were out of on mission and could be back anytime. Mito said:" I could sense 86 person there, various levels of chakra, 43 are asleep, out of 86 - 30 are chunin level chakra vise. I suspect that around 20 Roots are on mission right now so we should be careful outside too, I tried to feel around our surroundings but it seems that it is calm. "
Hokage nodded and said :" Good job Mito, did you hear that. We will now comence this operation. Be careful and follow instructions from sensors. We previously learned that this base is built like a maze, so don't rush. "
Shinobi nodded in understanding. They slowly entered the base team after team lucky the base splited up in the beginning. There were only two gourds at the entrance which were knocked early on.
The operation was moving rather smoothly at the beginning. They managed not to wake the sleeping shinobi. Mito first task was to find where the forces were sleeping she found it easily it was in the middle part of maze, second task was to find Danzo and lead Hokage towards him. She had some trouble there she couldn't feel him but she knew he was here, and the she could feel a room but she couldn't feel inside of room. The closer they got to middle part of maze, Mito knew it wasn't going as smoothly as she firstly thought.
They managed only to knock 10 shinobi and encounter 10 more, and she could feel that rest of 23 shinobi were mostly in front of sleeping chambers. They were here for more than 30 minutes and they only were done with 20 to 30 % of the maze.
Mito asked Hokage:" I think we should combine our forces, we should combine groups 2, 4 and 9 in group 1, groups 5, 1 and 3 in group 2, groups 6,8 and 4 into group 3, while rest of groups should move as planed. This three groups will clean the middle, because I can feel that there is most of enemy forces. Do I have permission to send messages"
Hokage though for few seconds :" will they be able to handle that."
Mito answered :" Yes I did count on that, I selected teams which were best suited for close range fights and also I arranged them by how close to each other they were."
Hokage answered :" Then you have a premision."
Mito walked to Yamanaka head which moved with the Hokage and rest of heads. She asked to connect the with Yamanaka on the teams. She got everybody's approval. Mito spoke to Yamanaka as she said to Hokage. Each team understood the orders and moved. They merged and moved slowly from then. Team 1 was moving from north side of middle, team 2 was moving from the west and team 3 was moving from the east, on the south side
was the room Mito couldn't sense into.
One of teams that didn't merge had a bit troubles with Root Anbu. They weren't close combat. So they were fighting at disadvantage. The 2 root Anbu were strong and managed to knock one of the members of the team. Lucly for a team they had a genjutsu user who was very skilled at the art and managed to knock those two before they could sound a alarm. Unfortunately now they had to slow down a lot. Mito picked that immediately and said two Hokage :" team 15 defeated 2 Root anbu, however they have a knocked member, it is a sensor, they began to move slowly."
Hokage was satisfied :" so now we have only 31 wake one too fight."
Mito nodded however she felt that uneasiness again. The one that always signaled something wasn't going as planned.
The rest of teams soon managed to fight of the Root Anbu who weren't in the middle, with only 5 more knocked of their own. Mito reported that too. She was concerned for one team. Team 12 was left with only one member and it was a Uchiha Fugaku, the leader of team 12, rest were knocked down. Mito stopped the Yamanaka clan head and asked him to connect her with Uchiha Fugaku directly. she said :" Fugaku- san, we need you to stay there and wait for a back up, okay they will be coming in now, you will got a team out of 3 and continue."
Hokage approved and Mito spoke with radio to the back up on surface :" Team 17, 19 and 20 enter please, team 19 will split up when you reach with team 20 team 12 location. Team 20 will bring back knocked alies and team 17 will head north and pick knocked alies. I will send you locations when you get down here."
Team 17,19 and 20 moved in and headed to where locations showed. They had a lot easier time moving through corridors and were much faster, they reached their locations in half of time. It was 3.pm when every single one of knocked alies was draged out of underground base. Mito was satisfied with the result.
However as she was to report finish of that. The alarm ringed through whole underground. They were found out, mostly because of the number of shinobi in the middle of the base. Mito expected but she didn't expect it so soon. She could feel that in the middle of the maze was a huge fight. Hopefully Orochimaru and Jiraiya could handle that front. She was surprised by how quickly at the beginning the enemy forces were knocked out until she checked that those were only chunin. It didn't look so good in the middle apparently Root Anbu had 43 jonin there and 7 chunin while Konoha had 45 jonin. Well among them were Jiraiya and Orochimaru but it seemed like it would be death on both sides.