Hi, guys here is a new chapter for Golden Ruby.
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fanofthisfiction – I know right? It always stuck in my mind on how he will perceive the concept of falling in love when he himself was raised by Orochimaru ^^
I DON'T OWN NARUTO.
Three long days of tirelessly walking towards the border, three long days of nothing happening inside the large forests that dominates the land of fire, and three long days of trying to ignore his complaints. Sarada`s eyes twitch in annoyance as she glance at the blonde Uzumaki complains to their sensei. "And here I thought he would stop complaining by second day but I guess I was wrong." Looking to her left she saw Mitsuki smiling in amusement by her side.
Shaking her head as a small smile grace her features. "Yeah, I guess it`s safe to say that he got those lungs from, Lord seventh." She replied, looking back at her blonde teammate. "How can you stand him?" She asks tilting her head towards the pale boy.
Mitsuki chuckles in response at her question. "Sarada, if you hang out with him as long as I did, you will definitely get used to it."
The sound of wildlife halted, as the inhabitants of the forests felt something was off. Team 7 also senses that something was amiss, as Boruto quickly stops his complaints and look around their surroundings. The oldest of the group looks at his students who nod at him, silently telling him they felt it too. Without uttering a single word team 7 quickly puts themselves on a defensive position, with their back against each other.
Hiding in the foliage, four figures hides in the shadow as they watch the team below looking for them. "Keep your eye open, guys and don`t let your guard down." Konohamaru commanded. "Sarada can you spot them with your sharingan?" The Uchiha girl nods before activating her clan's kekkei genkai. A pair of red eyes with two tomoe each blaze to life.
One of the figures raises his hand, signaling the other three to swoop in. "So the rumors are true…" The figures said to himself as he watches his team jumps below before following suite.
"You don`t happened to be looking for one of my student are you?" Konohamaru asks as the four figures landed in front of them. Throwing a glance towards the rave haired girl, who was watching the four with caution. Glancing at his other two students, he notice how calm, Boruto is with the situation. Mitsuki on the other hand is like his usual self, carefully assessing his enemy.
Shifting his eyes towards the threat, Konohamaru quickly analyze their opponent`s attire, which consist of the four figure wearing black coats. "Well they are certainly trying to get some attention." Konohamaru thought glaring as the biggest one approaches them.
"Now, now put your weapons down, we only wanted to talk." A deep, hoarse emanated from the biggest of the bunch. Slowly walking towards them, the presume leader of the cloak figures, remove his hood, revealing a gaunt and pale face, but what really stands out was the man eye brow. "It can`t be…" Konohamaru thought eyeing the man`s face. Panic surges through his entire body as the possibility of the man`s heritage.
The man`s feature twisted into a smile, seeing the look on the jounin`s face display fear."What`s the matter boy? Why look so pale?" The man taunted, licking his lip before turning towards his companion who started giggling.
Konohamaru glared at the group as he raises his kunai. "Konohamaru sensei?" Boruto`s voice reached his ears. Not taking his eyes off at the man, Konohamaru ordered team 7 to be on their toes.
Being ignored, Boruto stole a glance at his other teammates and see the two of them sporting a look of disbelief. "Oi! Am I missing something?" He whispers at them. "Boruto." Mitsuki replied in a stern toned of voice surprising the whiskered face boy. "Don`t take your eyes off them. This guys are dangerous." He said not taking his eyes of the enemies. Sarada couldn't help but grunt in agreement.
She couldn't believe what she was seeing right in front of them. Her mind starts to find an explanation on what she was seeing. "If those books are correct, they should have been extinct." She thought.
Her train of thought was broken when their sensei shouted, telling them to jump back. Obeying without hesitation the three genins followed Konohamaru`s instruction. A loud explosion erupted from the place they were standing earlier creating a thick black smoke to rise, hiding their enemy from sight.
Without having a chance to create a plan, four figure erupted from the smoke heading straight towards them, with their swords raised. With the aid of her family`s dojutsu, Sarada easily deflected the incoming swing of the cloak figure. Steel meets steel as team 7 deflected the attacker`s attack. Sarada`s eyes widen in horror as her attacker`s hood was taken off and revealed to have the same features of the enemy`s leader.
With a kick into the attacker`s abdomen, Sarada leap back creating some good distance between her and her foe. She notice the her opponent`s physique was far different from the leader as her opponent was lean and skinny. Quickly forming some hand signs.
Not before long, a large ball of fire erupted from the Uchiha`s lips, heading straight towards her target with power and accuracy. Barely having anytime to balance himself from the incoming attack, he quickly harnesses his chakra at the soles of his feet the moment it touches the ground. Using the power of the stored chakra, he sends a taunting smirk at the raven haired girl. His smirk vanishes as quickly it appears in his face as he sees his opponent send a smirk of her own. "Gotcha." The Uchiha heiress mouthed.
Mitsuki on the other hand easily keeping his opponent at bay with his soft body modification technique. Grinning like a Cheshire cat, he quickly performed hand signs with precision. "Wind style: Gale Blast" A large vacuum of air formed in front of the pale boy`s body before making a straight beeline forward with the speed of a bullet. His enemy steps back the moment he saw Mitsuki creating hand signs. His eyes widen as he realized that it wasn't aim at him. Time seems to slow down for him as he follows the line of sight of the jutsu. "Oremura!" he shouted, realizing who the intended target was was.
Boruto and Oremura was busy having a bout as they exchange hits after hits of taijutsu but as time went on it was clearly evident that the blonde Uzumaki was losing this fight. With a powerful kick to the face, Boruto topples over, lying on his back.
Oremura who was the blonde`s opponent, looms over the blonde, with a victorious smirk adorning his face. "Oremura!" He turns towards his clansmen with annoyance written all over his face. He was this close in finishing the brat but they just have to interrupt. The moment he turns towards them, he wishes that they have called sooner. Right in front of his sight a large ball of fire have merge with the Mitsuki`s Gale Blast.
Desperate to get away, Oremura tried to leap away but was stop. Looking from behind, his annoyance sky rocketed as he was being hold down by the annoying whiskered face boy. "What do you think you are doing? Let go of me, unless you want to die with your face scorched off!" He yelled but to his astonishment the blonde merely gives him a cheeky grin. Accepting his fate, Oremura looks back at the fireball heading straight towards them.
"Sorry but I need to go now." Boruto said to Oremura before vanishing in a puff of smoke. "Shadow clone!?" Oremura thought before he was consume by the fire. Gritting his teeth in anger the man turn around, ready to slice Mitsuki in half. His anger doubles as he see Mitsuki with his back facing towards him. Consume by blood lust and anger he didn't realized as an invisible sphere of chakra was heading straight towards him. Pain runs amok through his side as he heard the blonde kid yelled. "Rasengan!" sending him through the forest, annihilating the poor unsuspecting trees that block his way.
Now that his enemy was dealt with, Mitsuki send a flurry of shuriken towards Sarada`s opponent "Boruto!" The said blonde quickly sprinted towards his teammates. Sarada`s opponent keeps taunting as he easily dodge the shuriken thrown by the Uchiha. Forming a condense amount of chakra in her fist, Sarada directed her fist towards the ground with raging fury. "Shanaroo!"
The earth beneath him trembles as his opponent punishes the ground without mercy. Jumping up high, he easily dodges the Uchiha attack from below. He swiftly turns his body to his left as his brain quickly sends out danger signal. Sarada watches her opponent leap up before throwing a single shuriken towards his direction.
The man laugh as he sees the incoming shurikens that was supposed to be for him was deflected by a single shuriken thrown by the raven haired girl. He was about to let out a taunt but was cut short as the sounds of wire snapping reaches his ears. Given no time to react, he gasps in pain as wires wraps around his, wrist and ankles. Eyes widening in terror as the figure of Boruto was in mid air heading straight towards him rasengan in hand, he tried to break free from the trap but was only met with failure. His life flashes before his eyes as the swirling orb close the distance between his body. Screaming in pain, he starts to cough blood as the force and power of the rasengan rips his abdomen.
Konohamaru on the other hand was having a great time with his opponent and by great I mean difficult time with his opponent. Whenever he unleashes a fire technique his opponent would counter with a water release, ninja tools with ninja tools. Resulting him on relying on taijutsu. Worry starts to creep at the back of his mind as he realized that his team might be in danger if their opponent was as good as his. "Sensei!" Relief wash over him a little bit as he see his students running towards him.
The leader of the attackers stop his assault before glancing towards the three genins, a scowl made its way to his face as he notice that his subordinates are nowhere to be found. Sighing in frustration he leap away from team 7, landing on top of a tree branch.
"Looks like we underestimated these brats." He thought looking at the three genins who were now beside Konohamaru. "The evaluation is complete..."
"Evaluation? What is he talking about?" Thought team altogether.
"For now that is." He said turning around ready to disappear out of sight, he look over his shoulder. "We`ll be back when the seed is ready." With that he disappears from sight, leaving three confuse genin, and a stoic jounin.
A cold shiver run down his spine as he realize where the man was looking at before he left. Why? Why does he start feeling it now? He rarely felt it nor rarely show it. Fear. He rarely felt it, after all, his father did created him by combining DNA from a warrior clan but he didn't tell from which specifically. Knowing his father would obviously use the best. So why was he feeling it now? Glancing at the Uchiha, his heart drop at the thought of the enemy coming back for her. Why her? What do they want with her?
His eyes then landed at his sensei and blonde teammate. "Boruto doesn't seem to have notice it." He thought. When his eyes landed on his sensei, he immediately realizes that their sensei knows something that they don't. "Sensei." He called, earning Konohamaru`s attention. "Is there something you're not telling us?" His question caught the attention of the other two.
Konohamaru turns towards the pale boy but his mind seems to be on another realm taking a vacation. Mitsuki, growing irritated at his sensei`s behavior, decided to walk towards his sensei before tapping him on the shoulder. Snapping out of his reverie looks at his pale student, who was sporting an annoyed expression. "So you notice too huh?" He said before beckoning his team to come closer.
Flashback
"Glad you could make it, Team 7. Now I am sure you guys are excited of getting out of the village again but I need to remind you this is an important mission. "Naruto said as he watches the genins` faces lit up in excitement after hearing the part of outside the village. Who could blame them though? One week worth of mundane missions was the only thing that was given to genin squads after the attack that went down on the chuunin exams.
After telling them that they need to deliver an important scroll to the Kazekage. Team 7 was about to leave when Naruto spoke up again. "Konohamaru, can I talk to for a little bit." He said seriously resulting a nervous Sarutobi." You three can wait outside. I need to talk to your sensei." The three genins nod before exiting the office.
Naruto waited for the door to close before looking at his former 'student' with a serious look. "I have gotten a report from our anbus that a group of cloak wearing people are gathering information from towns across the land of fire."
"What kind of information are they gathering?" Konohamaru asked.
Naruto`s face becomes grim. "About your team." Naruto continued. "More specifically about Sarada." Konohamaru`s eyes widen from the information. "I have already inform Sasuke and Sakura about this and to say they were pissed was an understatement. "Naruto said as he shivers as he remembers the reaction of his 'brother and sister'`s reaction.
"If they are after Sarada, why send us on a mission outside the village?"
"I planned on assigning your team on simple D rank mission that is hel within the village`s wall." Naruto said giving a tired and frustrated groan. "But after the attack, the five villages are still on high alert. Every high ranking chuunin to jounin are assigned on important mission that concerned the protections of the village."
"I was supposed to assign this assignment to other low ranking chuunin and genin squad but it seems that they have all been given their own mission, so that left only you guys."
"Then why not assigned someone to assists us on this mission? Someone like-"Konohamaru said before being cut off by Naruto. "Sasuke is already out there looking for clues about the Otsutsuki clan."
"So I decided I will be the one assisting you on this mission." Konohamaru raise a brow at him. "Can you even leave the office, Lord Hokage? You know this mission will take days to complete right?" Konohamaru asks.
"That's why I already sent my clones disguise as team 7 towards the opposite direction of Sunagakure." He said. "So hopefully they'll follow my clones."
End Flashback.
"Well it obviously didn't work." Konohamaru said. "No kidding." Boruto said clearly irritated after finding out that they are after Sarada. "So what are we waiting for then?" Mitsuki followed up.
"Alright then, Team 7 let's move out. The sooner we get to Suna the better." Konohamaru said earning a nod of agreement.
Leaping from tree to tree, team 7 quickens their pace not wanting another attack to erupt. With Konohamaru leading the front, the three genin followed closely behind with Sarada in the middle of the two. Mitsuki glance at the raven haired girl which was notice by the said girl.
Sarada glance back at him before giving him a smile silently saying. "I`ll be fine. I can handle myself" Mitsuki stared at her for a moment before nodding. "I know." He whispered to himself.
In the middle of a forest. The leader of the attacking group could be found groveling to the ground in front of a tall, lean man with a pale complexion and long dark hair that reaches his back. His cut eyebrows rise up as he sees that his scouting group has been cut down to one. "It seems she is nearly ready then…" The tall man said as he turns around, his long white robe swaying. "It`s only a matter of time before she embraces her fate." The man said grinning in delight.
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