Pfft!
Tobitake Tonbo took out a kunai and, after Hayakawa the Chunin finished lunch, drove it through his chest.
"Sorry. Amitabha. Amen."
Mind Reading Technique.
While his neural signals were still active, Tobitake Tonbo's consciousness seemed to pass through a tunnel of time as he searched through the man's memories.
Before long, he had absorbed most of them.
Tiger, Tiger, Horse, Already—
Seal.
The scroll at his waist opened, runes pouring out and dragging Hayakawa's corpse inside. The character for "corpse" appeared in the center.
Transform.
With a bang, Tobitake Tonbo transformed into Hayakawa.
Genjutsu: Deception.
Then he cast another genjutsu upon himself, one designed specifically to deceive the Rain Tiger at Will Technique.
This was the genjutsu he had developed over five days. It could deceive external detection; any chakra scan would automatically receive the chakra information he had collected.
Ever since he completed the technique,
he had been searching for a suitable target.
After a month of observation, Tobitake Tonbo had gained an extremely thorough understanding of this Amegakure Chunin's routine, position, contacts, and relationships.
He had also absorbed the man's chakra information in the process.
With the Mind Reading Technique filling in the gaps, it could be said that
unless someone knew him extremely well, he was Hayakawa.
And Tobitake Tonbo had specifically chosen someone like him, with only average connections.
He came from a civilian background.
His closest relationships were with his superior and his three subordinates.
His routine was simple as well. As a team-leading Chunin,
he spent his days leading his team on missions.
It had also allowed Tobitake Tonbo to learn more intelligence about Amegakure.
In the past, the village had kept itself isolated from the outside world.
Even he, a Konoha Jōnin, knew very little about Amegakure.
Now, he could be said