Chapter 1
A boy could be seen running through the forest as fast as he could and if you looked closely you could see that he was not only wearing weights but was constantly moving faster and faster until he was little more than a blur, darting from tree to tree like a bolt of lightning.
"Faster, faster, I need to go FASTER!" yelled the boy as he suddenly disappeared in a red blur of pure speed.
"….whew that was faster than ever but still not fast enough" stated the boy as he lay on the ground panting in exhaustion. Meanwhile a nearby jounin stood stone still, his cigarette lying forgotten on the tree branch below his feet.
That boy had just moved faster than any jounin he had ever seen, except Gai of course but that was a special case because of his taijutsu obsession.
"Who is this kid?" was all Asuma said as he shunshined as fast as he could to the Hokage's office to report what he had seen.
"Hello Asuma how have you been lately?" asked the third hokage to one of his last remaining relatives with a smile but also took into consideration the look on Asuma's face, he had only seen it a few times and it meant that he had something interesting to tell him and it was important.
"Hello hokage-sama I would love to chat but I need to tell you something" he said with more seriousness then he had in a long time so the Sadaime decided that it was important so he perked his ears and decided to listen intently to what his son was saying.
"What is it that is so important?" asked the third.
"Just now while walking through the forest I saw a boy running" stated the younger man.
"What is so special about that, perhaps he was in a hurry?" inquired the aged hokage but he had already seen the look on his face so he knew that was not the case.
"While the boy was running I noticed a few unique things about him"
"And what were those things?"
"As he ran I noticed that every time his foot left a branch it would leave a small crater shaped indent in the wood leading me to believe he was wearing something close to 300 pounds of weights….. also.. the frightening is….. he was constantly increasing his speed while he ran"
"So how fast was he moving?" was the interested hokage, a boy that could move fast enough to spook Asuma this much.
"Well… he was moving at chunin speed when he came into view, and when he got level with me he was moving faster than me at full speed" replied Asuma
"…" Sarutobi stood still, shocked that someone so young could move that fast.
"Hokage-sama…. He was moving as fast as Gai for a few seconds until he fell over from the physical strain" Stated Asuma searching for a reaction from his father, if there was one thing that Asuma Sarutobi could not do then it would be the ability to read his father's emotions at times like this.
"Show me where the boy is" was all he said and they took off running across the rooftops while the third's secretary yelled for him to come back and finish his paperwork.
As they landed in the spot that the boy had occupied before they found that he had gone.
"It seems that he is gone" said Asuma.
"We can still find him" replied Sarutobi.
"How?"
"By following his trail" stated the almost bored hokage as he pointed to the broken branches that stretched off into the distance.