Chapter Two: The Spirit Flame Arises
"HATO!" yelled someone from downstairs. A pair of soft violet eyes opened as the one who owned them frowned a little, as the person rolled over and attempted to hide her face in her blankets, not wanting to get up.
"Hato Relina Kigamaru wake up now or I'll get the bucket of water out again!!" yelled the mother of the girl who had rolled over in her bed.
The girl, who was now 13 years old and a graduate from the Ninja Academy of Konohagakure, was Hato Kigamaru, heiress and prodigy yelled out,
"Mother I don't have to get up for another hour…" She said, then looked towards her alarm clock, and saw that it was 20 minutes to almost time to get up. She frowned even more as she slowly arose from her bed. It was her first day since coming home from a Mission with her Sensei, and two other team mates.
She then heard her mother say something about her father and what not, and then nothing else. Hato sighed as she said to herself, "Geez, my day off from doing Genin ranked Ninja missions with Mirotsu-sensei and the others and already they treat me like a child, I'm a kunoichi now…"
Hato ran a pale hand through her dark and short raven locks as she got up finally from her bed, dressed in a violet nightgown that went to her thigh. The Kigamaru genius had worked so hard in the academy to become the Top ranked Ninja in the school, at least the top rookie of the class, the year she graduated with flying colors.
Hato had always kept to her studies when she was growing up and since proving to her clan that she was the true heiress to the Kigamaru clan. She was courteous and polite though to her fellow classmates, but mostly stayed to herself.
But no one wanted to mess with the Kigamaru when she was mad, because she would prove to them that she deserved the right to be called a Genius for the purpose of many things.
Hato slowly walked to her dresser and pulled out her usual outfit, it was a short yukata like outfit, which had the symbol of what looked to be two dragons entwining themselves at the neck as if fighting each other. She got dressed as quickly as she could and headed to the sitting area where her family was.
Hato was greeted by not just her mother and father, but her sensei as well as her great uncle and aunt as well. Hato quickly bowed her head to her family members in respect, "Ohayo Kaa-sama, father, Great Aunt Marina, Great Uncle Marzan, and Mirotsu-sensei."
Her parents looked at her and her father smiled at her and spoke, "Ah you're finally up now Hato, good, your sensei has just came by to talk about how your progress is going in your Genin squad."
Hato blinked for a few minutes her violet eyes as she looked towards Mirotsu briefly. She shrugged and said, "I see, well I'm about to head out to go do some training, I'll see you later Sensei, Kaa-sama, father…" She waved a gloved hand at them and headed off to where she had placed her sword, she never was allowed to keep it in her room, her Clan's sacred blade, Hato's Meibatsu (translated as Dove's Retribution). (A/N: Oh by the way, Kaa-sama in Japanese apparently means mother, don't quote me on this though).
Grabbing it, she strapped it to her back and headed out after placing her hitai-ate headband on her delicately pale forehead. Once she was outside, she grabbed her black zori sandals and headed off after putting them on, taking a few lungfulls of fresh air, smiling a little.
"Hmm…I wonder what pranks I should pull today, hmm…it would be funny to do that." She quickly headed in a direction, looking for someone to play a prank on.
The sound of munching could be heard as a certain someone was walking along the streets, a small smile appeared on the person's lips as the person was eating chips, and especially so early in the morning too.
The person in question was Akimichi Chouji, Chuunin ranked, and never once changing his habits it seemed when it came to always eating. He had just returned from a mission with Asuma, Ino and his best friend Shikamaru the day before. And so far it had been pretty successful.
One could say also that Chouji wasn't that small pudgy kid anymore either, he looked bigger and possibly more muscular underneath his Akimichi styled outfit he was wearing. His red hair had grown out also, more ragged and long. He had learned during the three years that had passed since his friend Naruto had left and returned, the Needle Guardian jutsu, which he used in succession with his Human Juggernaut Jutsu(also known as the Human Boulder to you guys) to go much faster.
Chouji was proud of himself; he had managed to obtain the rank of Chuunin along with Ino and some of the others of his class. Chouji stopped for a moment when he suddenly saw something floating in front of him. And his team had thought he'd never achieve to anything, pft he showed them.
Chouji had to look twice to see that it was a bag of chips actually tied to what looked to be an invisible string. Chouji grunted and looked around; usually Naruto was bad for playing pranks like this. He tapped his foot as he called out while standing near the 'floating' bag of chips,
"Naruto, that isn't funny come out right now…" He wasn't amused by the constant pranks people played on him. Chouji finished eating the bag of chips he had been eating after leaving his house, and crumpled the empty bag and threw it in the nearest garbage can and pulled another bag out and opened it.
Suddenly he felt a pair of hands grab at his bag of chips and heard someone giggling, as a shadow quickly leapt out of his view and onto the rooftop. Chouji was shocked and angry,
"ALRIGHT THAT'S IT NO ONE STEALS MY CHIPS FROM ME AND GETS AWAY WITH IT!?!" shouted a very angry Chouji as he quickly ran after the person, knowing him it was probably indeed Naruto pulling the prank on him. It hadn't been the first time Naruto would do something of this sort after all. He growled as he attempted to get up on the rooftop to chase the person down.
He had an idea; he stopped and quickly made a handseal, "Art of Super Expansion!" He called out, and immediately became the size of a giant. This was the technique he had used long ago when he had to face off against Jirobo, one of the Sound Four during the failed rescue mission lead by his friend Shikamaru. He had strengthened his chakra capacity ever since then, so that he would never have to rely on the Shukougan (the three colored pellet things he used).
He looked around and saw the person attempting to escape, "I GOT YOU NOW!!" He then reached towards the figure that was attempting to run for it. Quickly he also released the jutsu, leaping from the air as he came back to normal size after a few minutes; he managed to get onto the roof just before he fell.
Just as he did this, he immediately had to dodge a kunai blade whisking his way, quickly he rolled and attempted to throw one of his own to attempt to pin the person, successfully managing to pin whoever it was who stole his chips to the wall of the building's escape exit.
Chouji growled, as he made another handseal, "Art of Partial Expansion!" He called out and then said, "Arm!" His arm became enlarged and he then rushed towards the person, before realizing who it was that he had been attempting to attack, he pulled his punch back and instead of sending the person into almost unconscious oblivion with the powerful attack, he punched the wall beside them, making one huge hole.
There, stood probably the prettiest girl he had ever seen, next to of course Ino. He blinked as he watched the girl trembling in front of him, he frowned, and he should have been a little more careful. He listened as the girl looked at him, with eyes that almost looked like his friend Hinata Hyuuga's almost, he could hear her speak softly,
"Gomen, gomen nasai…I was…only trying to play a prank, a silly little prank." The girl's eyes were a different shade then Hinata's and even Neji's though, more violet colored then ivory. She had short raven colored hair, almost unruly yet straight. She also had what appeared to be a tattoo on her cheek, by the looks of it; it looked like some sort of fox like animal. Who was this beautiful angel? He thought to himself.
He quickly saw that she was obviously a kunoichi of this village. She wore her hitai-ate headband on her forehead like he did. 'This...this girl, is ten times more gorgeous then Ino…' He thought to himself as he tried to form words to speak to the girl,
"It's fine, don't worry about it, I thought you were Naruto Uzumaki trying to pull the prank that's why I used force." He immediately removed his hand that had begun to shrink in size back to its normal size. He offered a hand to her,
"My name is Akimichi Chouji, what's yours?" He would be friendly with the girl, even though she had stolen his chips, in a harmless prank. Which was one thing no one did, but he would forgive the girl. That was the thing about Chouji, he had a big heart, and not because he was a big boy, he was just always kind to those around him.
The girl looked at him and took the hand and attempted to get up to her feet, having been knocked to them during the whole ordeal, removing the kunai blade from the wall that pinned her short yukata robe and shook his hand,
"WOW! You're the famous Chouji Akimichi?! I always wanted to meet you!" She giggled and gave him a shy grin, showing perfect teeth in the smile. Chouji was a little taken a back but gave her a smile in return, and waited for her to give her name, "My name is Hato, of the Kigamaru Clan."
'Such a beautiful name for someone who is an angel…' he thought to himself again. It seemed he kept things like that to himself; he was shy in a way when it came to girls. "It's nice to meet you Hato Kigamaru, I assume you're a Genin, I never saw you in the Chuunin exams in the past few years."
The girl nodded her head, "My Sensei is planning to have us take the exam if Lady Hokage decides the Village is secure enough to hold it here, this year…" "I plan to win this Exam and become a Chuunin…" Chouji nodded and watched as she handed him back his stolen chips that she had stolen from him.
"Here, I feel bad for taking your chips from you Chouji-Kun…" She was blushing a little. Chouji noticed this and chuckled. He took his chips back and then did something out of the ordinary; he offered some to her,
"Want some?" He asked, giving her a shy smile as he offered them to her. He only did this on one other occasion and that was with Shikamaru, his best friend, sharing his chips that is.
Hato blinked for a few minutes but gave him the hint of a smile on her face as she took some of his chips, "Okay thank you Chouji-Kun…" And began munching on the chips she had taken graciously.
Chouji began munching on his chips as he watched her, she was indeed very beautiful, she wasn't bone thin like Ino was, she was thin but by the look of her legs, she certainly was a fighter. 'She's probably both a ninjutsu and a taijutsu wielding ninja.' He thought as a small blush crept onto his face, when he looked at her long muscled legs.
'Get a hold of yourself…you shouldn't be gawking at her like that, she's probably not that kind of girl anyway.' He scolded himself and tried to bring up something about her,
"So you said you are of the Kigamaru Clan, I never heard of that Clan, your eyes almost look like one of my Hyuuga friends also." He was indeed very curious about why her eyes almost look like the Hyuuga Byakugan eyes.
The girl in front of him nodded, "A lot of people say that my eyes and that of my Clan's resemble that of the Hyuuga Clan's. But I can guarantee you that I am not of the Hyuuga Clan…" She giggled, "I guess I could explain a little background history without revealing too much about my clan's secrets."
"Long ago, as this Village was finally formed by the First Hokage." "The clans were formed of course, Hyuuga, Uchiha, Aburame, and the list goes on…" "What everyone probably knows is that the Uchiha Clan gained their Sharingan Kekkei Genkai from the Hyuuga clan, or at least that's what was stated in the history books about Kekkei Genkai." Said Hato as she began her tale about how her clan was formed.
"What the Uchiha and Hyuuga Clans weren't expecting though was for one of their own to fall in love with a member of the other side." "Apparently they were always in some form of competition." "All that I was told was that a male member of the Hyuuga Clan's Main branch and one of the apparently as the Hyuuga would call them, Branch member of the Uchiha Clan, one of their women decided they wanted to put an end to whatever competition that was going on, and decided to get married." "What do you think would happen when a member of the Hyuuga Clan and a member of the Uchiha clan's blood mixes and produces a child from both blood?" She asked Chouji, looking at him expectantly, hoping he would give her the right answer or something close to it.
"Probably I'd think there would be a new Kekkei Genkai formed, I mean Sharingan and Byakugan are pretty powerful Kekkei Genkai in this village, though the last of the Sharingan users decided to join the enemy's side at the moment." Said Chouji between mouthfuls of chips to her.
"Correct…not only that, but my ancestors also decided to change their names after they produced the first of my Clan." "The Uchiha Clan are known for their fire jutsus, while the Hyuuga are known for their special taijutsu style, the Gentle Fist." "What came from the pairing of my ancestors was a special Kekkei Genkai, which my family had decided to call the Shinzuikouen." "It took certain traits of both Byakugan and Sharingan." Said Hato as she closed her eyes and thought of what next to say.
Chouji listened quietly and smiled, "So that's why probably your Clan has the same colored eyes almost like the Hyuuga…that's neat Hato-Chan."
Hato nodded and then said, "All I can also reveal about my Clan is that we, like the Uchiha Clan, are fire using shinobi, my entire Clan are." This shocked Chouji to the point he almost choked on his chips while gobbling them. 'She's certainly got an interesting Clan there; she'd probably make Sasuke have a run for his money if he ever comes back to this village…' He thought quietly to himself.
Hato was watching him think to himself and smiled at him, "So yeah, basically that's the basics of what my Clan are all about. My Kekkei Genkai hasn't been awakened in me yet though, it should soon, I hope." "I mean, I'm supposed to be the Heiress of my Clan."
Chouji was now indeed shocked; he was standing in front of the Heiress of some prestigious Clan? So in a way, she was sort of like a princess in the sense that she would one day become the head of her Clan. He coughed and sniffed a little,
"I see, well that's very interesting Hato-Chan." He said smiling at her. This girl never stopped amazing him. He felt something deep inside of his chest, it felt strange also. Suddenly his thoughts were interrupted when a familiar voice shouted to him,
"Oi, Chouji!" it was the voice of Shikamaru Nara, who had managed to climb up to the roof from a fire escape staircase. Chouji turned to wave to his friend as he finished his bag of chips again. Shikamaru walked over to his friend and was a little surprised to see Hato there; he pointed with his thumb and asked Chouji,
"Who's the girl with the eyes Chouji?" He was curious about the girl who had been talking to Chouji for awhile. Chouji turned to look at Hato, and said,
"Her name's Hato Kigamaru, Shikamaru, I just met her today, she's pretty cool person." He was complimenting the girl. He looked and saw that Hato looked a little embarrassed and then heard her say as she bowed her head in sort of respect to Shikamaru,
"Ohayo Shikamaru-Kun, I assume your one of Chouji's friends, and from the Nara Clan, another Clan I always wanted to meet."
Shikamaru was indeed more surprised, the girl seemed to be well informed about the different Clans of this Village, and she was quite polite also. He waved a hand at her, and grumbled grumpily,
"No need for the bowing and that, it's not like I'm the heir to my Clan." Well in this case, that was a lie, because he was the heir to the Nara Clan, but he always kept that to himself, seeing he never liked making a big deal about it.
Chouji then chuckled, "That's Shikamaru for you, always grumpy." He got a slight grumpy looking glare sent at his back as he turned to look at Hato, she seemed very shy now that Shikamaru had shown up, he wondered why, 'Maybe she's not used to being around a lot of people, who knows.' He thought again to himself.
Hato spoke up, "I better go, I'm supposed to be training, and probably my Genin team mates are waiting for me at the training grounds, I'll see you maybe some other time. It was nice to meet you Shikamaru-Kun, Chouji-Kun." Chouji didn't have enough time to say anything else, because Hato had quickly ran towards the side of the roof and leapt down, and disappeared into the street.
Chouji sighed, and felt this weird pain in his gut as he turned to Shikamaru and suddenly he didn't feel like eating. Shikamaru noticed this and asked,
"Oi, what's up?" He never saw his friend like this before.
"I just, I don't know why, but I think I'm in love…" said Chouji as he clutched at his stomach.
Shikamaru looked at him with shock and almost awe, "You sure it's not indigestion there Chouji?" "I mean come on, you've had that problem in the past, where you wouldn't eat for days, and then you found out it was just indigestion because you ate something that didn't agree with you." Shikamaru wrapped his arms around the back of his head as he stood beside his best friend.
"No, this isn't indigestion, Shikamaru; seriously, I started feeling like this when she was there…" Chouji said as he attempted to pull out a bag of candy from his bag he had brought with him.
Shikamaru was more shocked then ever, he looked to where the girl had disappeared to and shook his head and mumbled, "So troublesome…" Maybe his best friend had finally found someone who looked beyond the fact Chouji was fat in a way. He had always told Chouji about his theory on girls; Shikamaru couldn't stand the thin type of girls, like Ino for instance. Maybe that girl that was talking with Chouji liked him back. It was kind of obvious that the girl wanted for the two of them to be alone, she was acting all shy when Shikamaru had shown up.
'Well good luck to you Chouji, I hope you can win her heart…and not just her stomach.' He thought this towards Chouji as he watched Chouji try to eat the candy that he had pulled out.
Hato had never felt so strange, both stomach wise and heart wise, ever since she met Chouji. Hell, she had been so what was the word some of the older people used for this feeling; 'turned on' by how powerful Chouji was indeed. He might look chubby but beneath that she had sensed he was extremely powerful Shinobi.
She sighed as she managed to reach the training grounds finally, and saw that indeed, her team mates were there waiting for her. She had been placed on the same team as the Hyuuga's Main branch second daughter, and sister to Hinata Hyuuga, Hanabi Hyuuga. The girl had been a brat during their academy days, but she and Hato had become close friends the day they had been placed on their Genin team.
"Hello Hato-Chan!" Called Hanabi as she noticed their stoic Genin team leader show up for practice at last. Hato was always very unemotional and quiet in their team. Their male team mate looked up with crimson colored eyes and smiled brightly at her and waved to her quietly before going back to practicing his shuriken throwing. The boy on their team was a member of the Yuuhi Clan, yes that meant he was one of Kurenai Yuuhi's relatives, apparently a Second Generation cousin of the famous Genjutsu Mistress. The boy's name was apparently Merek or something of that sort.
"Ohayo Hanabi-Chan, Merek-Kun! Mirotsu-sensei is at my house right now, probably getting me into trouble again…" She said jokingly as she crossed her arms against her chest as she watched her team mates do their training. Hato pondered what she should be practicing today, and decided to challenge Hanabi to a bit of a spar.
"Hey Hanabi, you want to practice that Eight Trigrams Palms Rotation jutsu of yours with me today? I want to practice with that jutsu I've been trying to perfect that's similar to yours." She had been in a way glad, she was close to the Hyuuga Clan, or as close as possible to one of the Founding Clans that had formed the Kigamaru Clan, one of these days she would be strong enough to challenge Hanabi's Cousin Neji or her Sister Hinata, just to see how strong the Hyuuga Clan really was, and to gain knowledge of perhaps the inner workings of Byakugan.
"Sure, just give me a moment to finish up here with my taijutsu training and I'll give you a hand with your Kasai Kitsune-Jiten No Jutsu (Fire Fox Spin Technique)." Said Hanabi as she attempted to quickly finish up her practice.
Hato nodded and walked over to an area that was safe enough to use her Spinning technique. It was a special offensive, defensive technique that her Ancestors had developed the day they started wielding the Ancient blade known as Hato's Meibatsu. Once she found the best spot she leaned against a tree and waited. She had been trying to perfect this move indeed; it would prove vital in the Chuunin exam that she hoped would be happening soon.
Hanabi came looking for her as half an hour passed by, "Okay I'm sorry I took so long, Merek needed help with something." She gave Hato a sheepish smile. Hato chuckled and shook her head, "I see your starting to really like Merek-Kun hmm Hanabi-Chan?" Teased Hato, which brought a slight blush to Hanabi's cheeks.
"No I don't! God, why does everyone in our class think I like him, he's so stupid sometimes the only thing he's ever good at is Genjutsu, and throwing shuriken." Said Hanabi with a huff as she began making handseals to activate her Kekkei Genkai. "Byakugan!" called out Hanabi as the veins at the side of her face began popping out and her eyes opened again. Hato, the first day she had sparred with Hanabi, she had been slightly freaked out by the Byakugan user's eyes, and yet awed. Hence why Hato wanted to see what sorts of things Byakugan could do.
Hato then reached to her back and unsheathed her sword, it made a quiet noise as it was removed from the leather scabbard and shined slightly in the sunlight. The blade had some intricate designs upon the blade, as well as the handle had the face of a dragon that made up the hilt of the blade.
Taking a fighting stance that Hato had practiced over and over since joining the Academy long ago. Hato had mastered a few Kenjutsu (art of sword fighting) forms since the day she proved she was a Kigamaru, her family were known famously in Konohagakure not just for their Arts in the Fire Style but also for their swordsmanship. She then spoke up as she waited for Hanabi to come at her,
"Alright, the ground rules are this, no killing blows, and the one that gets knocked out first with the other's Spinning type of technique, has to do the other's duties during the next mission."
Hanabi nodded, "Hai…Hato-Chan…I'm ready when you are." Said the Hyuuga girl as she watched with her Byakugan eyes, her best friend. Hato then with a curt nod and came at Hanabi, sword ready to strike. Hanabi quickly got into position and called out as she began to spin,
"Hakkesho Kaiten (Eight Trigrams Palms Heavenly Spin)!" Hato immediately stopped just before reaching Hanabi and made a quick handseal, "Kigamaru Ninpo: Kasai Kitsune-Jiten No Jutsu! (Kigamaru Secret Art: Fire Fox Spin Technique)" She then began to expel fire like chakra from her chakra points and also into her sword and began to spin. Sending things that were in their way flying and what not.
Hato felt something suddenly well up inside of herself, something very different indeed. Hato could suddenly see something with her eyes that she had never really seen before, as she stared into the swirling Kaiten that Hanabi was attempting to perform. 'What is this…what am I seeing?' thought Hato as she continued to do her spin. She also suddenly started feeling hotter then she usually did. The barrier that she had created struck at Hanabi's own Barrier and suddenly there was an explosion of chakra, and one of them was sent flying back.
A stunned Hanabi and Merek who had joined them to watch the sparring match were both in shock as they saw something that they had never seen before.
Hato was standing there, with instead of violet colored eyes, blood crimson. Also they could feel a heat wave surrounding the girl. Hanabi was the first one to finally find the words to speak as she had been the one to have been sent flying from being struck with Hato's special technique.
"Hato-Chan, your eyes…they almost look like…" She trailed off as Hato looked at them with those eyes that were freaking both of her team mates out now.
"What about my eyes?" Spoke Hato in an almost distant like voice, this was the effect of whatever was causing her eyes to be the color of crimson, she almost sounded demonic almost, not quite though.
"Look into your reflection on your blade, Hato-Chan…" Said Merek, pointing to her sword with a finger. Hato immediately did as Merek said and was shocked at what she could see. Her eyes were indeed not their usually soft violet color, but that of blood almost. Was this her Kekkei Genkai? Had her family not warn her about what to expect once her bloodline finally awoken?
Hato looked ready to pass out when she heard someone's voice shouting, "Hato-Chan, calm down please…" It was the voice of her sensei. Immediately she turned slightly to look over to him, with those eyes of hers. This was way too much for her, suddenly she panicked and fainted right there, allowing oblivion to take over.
When she awoke, she saw her mother's loving eyes as well as her father's staring down at her. Suddenly Hato wondered where she was. "Mother…father…" She managed to croak out as her vision finally cleared.
"Child, you're finally awake, it's been 8 hours since Mirotsu found you." Said her mother, concern written on her face as she helped Hato to a sitting position. Hato immediately asked,
"What happened to me? I remember training with Hanabi-Chan, and the next I wake up here…" Hato looked at both her parents questioningly. Her father spoke up, in a stern voice,
"Hato, your Kekkei Genkai, the Shinzuikouen was the reason you passed out, it has finally awoken inside of you, that means your Kigamaru Blood is finally awake. Do you remember them telling you your eyes looked different; did you feel something at all during the whole ordeal, different about you?"
Hato remembered something alright, she could remember seeing blue, red, yellow and orange colors when she looked at Hanabi, she felt hot, as if a volcano had erupted inside of her, feverishly hot. She then spoke softly,
"I could see blue, red, yellow and orange colors, when I looked at Hanabi-Chan, I also felt hot, so very hot like I was burning up."
Her father nodded and said, "That is one of the many traits of Shinzuikouen my child, what you saw in fact was the heat signature of your team mate. It is why our Clan and our clan alone can see it, like the Hyuuga Byakugan can see certain things through walls; we can see heat signatures through walls as the Hyuuga can see through a person's body to discover the chakra points."
Hato listened quietly, "How did I manage to knock Hanabi flying? Usually her Palms Rotation Technique is stronger then my Fire Fox Spin." Her mother answered this question for her,
"It is because Shinzuikouen empowers any and all kinds of fire style jutsu my child, the Hyuuga Clan's Heavenly Spin Technique, is like a wind jutsu, for an example." "Fire and Wind do not mix, fire is stronger then wind, yet weak against water as in Wind is strong against Lightning." "Whenever Shinzuikouen is activated, the fire jutsus we use, become that of demonic fire, which can only be put out by demonic style water jutsus, in some cases." "Unless the second state of our Kekkei Genkai, which no one has been able to achieve in the last 100 years, way before you were born." "Not even your father who was the recent heir can at this moment."
Hato was listening with widened eyes of curiosity for awhile before saying, "I will achieve the next state then, and I will be the first in a hundred years to do this."
Her parents both looked at her with slight shock and both nodded, they were proud of her, she had always given it her all, her training and even her missions when they looked hopeless, it never would stop Hato from achieving whatever goals she wanted.
Hato then spoke again, "I'm getting sleepy, um, can you let me rest mother and father, oh by the way, I met a boy today, his name was Akimichi Chouji, and he was so nice to me…" Both parents looked at her and they looked at each other before chuckling. They bowed their head to their child and decided to let her rest.
Hato quickly slipped into slumber, dreaming about a sweet boy named Chouji.
Again I apologize, there will be more Chouji action coming in the future chapters ofr this story, trust me on this. Hehehehehe. I'm just trying to get a foot hold with Hato in this story.
So Please look forward to Chapter Three, and I will promise you that you'll see Chouji a lot more. Also There will be a future Chuunin Battle thingy coming too in this story, and a certain Star of the Series will be showing up to face off against Hato in her first Chuunin Exam, so stay tune.
Take care all and until next time...
