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[May. 8th, 2014|03:22 am]

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Both ninja looked up when Genma entered, turning masked faces towards him. Kakashi nodded once and went back to stacking coins. Ryouma offered a cautious, “Lieutenant.”

“Ram. Hound,” Genma said. “Injuries?”

Both men shook their heads.

“Good.” He checked his watch. “We’re on schedule. Hound, did you seal the ledgers you found already?”

Kakashi flipped a slender, sealed scroll into Genma’s hands without looking up. The fire symbol on the seal still felt warm from recent activation. Genma slid it into the bottom of one belt pouch, swapping it for a set of lockpicks. They jangled softly between his fingers, like less lethal senbon. “I’ll start on this one,” he said, approaching the unopened wall safe. “Was that one trapped?” He didn’t sense any active chakra, but a mechanical trap could be just as deadly, and a well-made chakra trap could lie invisibly dormant until triggered or disarmed.

“Minor fire-trigger,” Kakashi said. “Three-pointed rabbit seal unlocked it.”

A skilled ninja must have set up Tsuto’s security, then. Probably a Konoha ninja, given that until very recently, Tsuto had been a lawful citizen of Fire Country. Preparing keyed safes for paying customers was the sort of chuunin-level job that kept Konoha in business.

“You didn’t find his key, I take it?” Genma asked. There would have had to be a chakra-charged key for Tsuto to open his safes, since he certainly wasn’t capable of working jutsu himself.

Kakashi shook his head.

“Okay, thanks," Genma said. He knelt next to the closed safe and cast the unlocking jutsu Kakashi had suggested. Chakra threaded out from his hands and into the metal of the lock, and for a moment Genma didn’t think it was going to work. He was about to drop the jutsu when he felt a jolt as his shaped chakra latched onto the chakra matrix built into the mechanism. A faint scent of ozone rose from the broken jutsu, like the leftovers from a lightning strike. With the trap disabled, it was a small matter of picking the lock itself, and Genma had the safe open.

More stacks of koban greeted him, all wrapped discreetly in plain, creamy rice paper. They were heavy in his hands, individual coins clinking within their wrappers as he set them down on a sealing scroll of his own. “Look at all this,” he said softly when he had a minor daimyou’s ransom piled up and ready to be sealed. “What do you want to bet this guy was a tax cheat as well as a traitor?”

“Could be a reason for supporting the coup,” Ryouma offered. “If he didn’t like the taxes.”

“If he was even paying them,” Genma said. He activated the seal on his scroll, pouring chakra into it to account for the hefty mass of gold. When he was finished, he slipped the scroll in with the first. It looked like between the three of them, they’d be able to seal all the wealth into three scrolls, with one more for Tsuto’s books and ledgers. Kakashi activated the seal on his scroll, vanishing the gold into the ether, and Ryouma followed suit.

“Ram, see if you can find Tsuto’s hanko, and seal up the paperwork on that desk and shelf. Hound come with me,” said Genma. “We’ll start in the reception room. I’ll set the fires, you douse them with a water jutsu before they spread too far.”
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