Underlined speech is thought.
Italicized words signify emphasis put on the words or a change in tone. You should be able to figure it out from the choice of words and the character.
Sentences of thought that are completely italicized were spoken by another character while still being inside of the mind of the character that paragraph focuses on.
"Bold thoughts are being transferred to the known recipient with others being unaware of the communication."
CAPITALIZED SPEECH IS YELLING.
These are … interruptions in …speech caused … by things …like laughing,…crying, thought,.. and…others.
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Words with tildes~ after them are spoken for longer~ periods of time.
Previously on The Greatest Sage: With Kisame gone, Yondou broke the fusion apart and shocked the other Jinchuriki as a result. As Hinata's unconscious body adjusted to the sudden change, Udekazari explained to Naruto about the six clans decent from the Sage of Six Paths. The names included were Senju, Uchiha, Uzumaki, Hyuga, Konsetsu, and Ayama. All the way to Kirigakure, a group of Kiri ANBU waited for an outside addition to their team while talking about the stories they've heard of this person. Finished eavesdropping on them, the man drops from a tree and introduces his self as Arashi Ayama. Even after giving them a major head start, Arashi catches up with them at the southern shores of the Land of Lightning. As this happened, Akatsuki received info on Yondou, enticing Pain to go to Konoha and the true leader to send Sasuke after Arashi's target. Back with Arashi, he let Tsunade know what he was doing and received a mission with an apparent connection to Kiri's target.
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I think there will be some instances of present tense getting mixed into the past tense. I am writing an original story written in first person and present tense.
12-19-10
Shishou and Student
Arashi wasted no time in reaching the first destination of his newly acquired mission, a tall plateau with extremely steep sides. The place was surrounded by hidden traps which Arashi easily passed. When he climbed the plateau, he found a large mansion. "This place is nice~." Arashi ran into the building and quickly found an injured old man who looked to be in his late fifties. "Shadow Clone Jutsu." The clone and Arashi ran up to the man and immediately began performing medical jutsu. "Are you okay?"
The man coughed and opened his eyes. "You must be the aid I sent for. … Are you the only one?"
Arashi smirked at him. "Don't worry about that. My skills are on par with any Kage."
"I see~." He coughs again. "You need to find Hotaru. You will find her … with a man named Utakata. Tell them that … Tonbee sent you and they should trust you."
Arashi stood up and turned his back on the man and his clone. "Thanks for the help." A massive grin developed on Arashi's face. "This mission has gotten fun." He jumped down the other side of the plateau and into a large forest. It wasn't hard for him to find a trail of two people running away from his location. He also notices trails being left behind by a group of four. "Looks like my targets have quite a few admirers." Arashi runs through the trees, focusing entirely upon the single pair. Along the way, Arashi shakes his head when the other four spread out from that trail. The instant Arashi sees two people, he leaps up and uses a thick tree limb to swing around and face them.
The two people Arashi notices are female and male. The female's hair is between blond and brown with green eyes. She wears a violet top with white trimmings, black shorts, black skirt, black high boots and violet wristbands. Arashi estimates that her full height would only reach the middle of Hinata's forehead yet her body has more accented curves. The male is tall and thin and wearing a light blue kimono with dark blue trimmings and an orange sash. . A bamboo jug is secured at the middle of his waist. His neck length hair is dark brown and covers half his face. His eyes are an interesting color of pale gold.
At some point, the male pulled out a small pipe and pointed at Arashi. Numerous bubbles flowed out from the pipe and towards Arashi. Despite the non-threatening appearance, Arashi knew better. "Your turn Setsumaru." Arashi reached into his windbreaker then a sword flashed out, destroying the bubbles.
The one Arashi recognized at Utakata dashed forward and pushed against Setsumaru with his pipe. "Run Hotaru!"
Arashi pushed Utakata, tripped him, and then jumped in front of Hotaru before she could move from her spot. As Arashi reached an open hand for her head, Hotaru closed tensed up in preparation for the unexpected. She was surprised when he simply patted her head. "Now there~. I'm a friend." Arashi removed his hand and looked up at the male. "You two are Utakata and Hotaru right. I'm the guy from Konoha that the old man at the mansion sent for."
Utakata narrowed his eyes. "You arrived a little quickly to be from Konoha."
"I happened to be in the area and my Kage likes to dump missions on who's available."
Utakata's expression relaxed a bit. "So he's here to help Hotaru. He may have happened to be in the area, but his skill is undeniable." He turns his back to them. "I'll leave her to you."
Hotaru began stepping forward and extending a hand pleadingly. "Utakata-shishou!" He disappeared before she could finish. She tries to follow, but Arashi grabs her arm. "Let me go!"
"Stop struggling." She does as he asked. "Just know that I can grab you before you can even finish thinking of running away." After letting her go, they calmly stood there for a few seconds. "Are you really his student?" She looked Arashi in the eyes and nodded vehemently, which Arashi smiled at. "If that's the case then you are as much his responsibility as you are mine. Let's go show him what that means."
Arashi's words lighted up her eyes and brought a smile to her face. "Really!"
"Of course." Arashi lowered his self to one knee. "Now get on my back."
She looked at him with slight skepticism. "Okay~."
As soon as Arashi could feel her weight on his back, he stood up. "Let me ask you something else. … Is your grip strong?"
Hotaru blinked in confusion at the unexpected question. "Yeah~, I guess so."
Arashi smiled widely. "In that case, you may die."
Her eyes widened. "Wait, what?" She latched on like a vice as Arashi began running forward. It only lasted a few seconds yet it felt like an eternity to her. Her hair stood out to the back just a little. Even though her feet were on a solid surface, she couldn't get her bearings.
As Hotaru stumbled behind his position, Arashi focused his attention on Utakata, who stood on the same branch Arashi stopped on. "Tell me. Why are you so ready to get rid of Hotaru-chan? I can tell from hearing it once that she proudly calls you her shishou."
Utakata's eyes ticked in anger. "I am no one's shishou! I'd never want a title like that!"
For Arashi, memories of the few short years that he spent at Hinata's shishou filled his mind. He remembered the time when they first met, the thing they first trained in, Hinata's first birthday experience, the time she was almost violated by Hidan of Akatsuki, the time the aforementioned experience helped her grow, when she first used the Infinite Palm in battle, when she fought Sasuke Uchiha, when she mastered her center of gravity, and finally when she matched Yugito Nii in combat. With all these memories in his head, Arashi narrowed his eyes at Utakata. "This just became personal buddy. Have you taught her anything?"
"I only showed her something and she figured it out herself."
"Regardless, you have to finish what you started. She sees you as a respectable person and you need to live up to that expectation."
Utakata narrowed his eyes. "I told you. I am not such a fool as to want the title of shishou." Utakata turned his back on them.
Before he could run away again, Arashi stepped in his way and glared into his eyes. "Say that again … I dare you."
The look in Arashi's eyes was enough to convince Utakata to take a step back. "What's your problem?"
Arashi's fierce gaze relaxed just a little bit. "I'll admit that my first experience with a shishou wasn't the best years of my life. Truth be told, I was little more than an experiment to him. Searching for a way to exact revenge on the terrible things he did to me, I went overseas and encountered six more that I would come to call shishou." His expression relaxed a little more. "With no knowledge of chakra, these six trained only their bodies. Even the weakest of them could fight on par with a Kage. Though each was insane in their own ways, they taught me what a true shishou and student relationship is like." His expression began to relax completely. "I returned intent on having my own student. Those three years were some of the best of my life." Arashi's eyes intensified once again. "I see that you two would get along well. Don't act like it will end badly because I know it won't."
After that, Utakata stood his ground and glared back. "What do you know? My shishou tried to kill me!"
"Boohoo~. My first shishou killed my father, took me from my home, threatened to kill my clan if I left, let me go when he was done with me, then killed them anyways. Stop pushing your problems onto others and get over it." Arashi turned his back on Utakata the looked down at Hotaru. "Come on. This child~ isn't ready to be anyone's shishou." As Arashi walked past her, Hotaru stood her ground. "Aren't you coming?"
"No." Arashi turned around and looked down at the back of Hotaru's head. "I don't care what anyone says. He will always be Utakata-shishou to me."
After a few seconds, Arashi smiled. "Well said Hotaru-chan." He started to look up at Utakata yet he turned his attention elsewhere. "We have some interlopers."
Moments later, four other shinobi appeared. Two of them were big guys. One wore a simple shirt and pants. The other large one wore a dark outfit with the resembling a karate outfit and had long sideburns. The third was an older, ugly looking man with a large shuriken on his back. The last was one with much fancier clothing, and longer hair with violet tufts in the front. Despite this one's feminine appearance, Arashi easily recognized him as a male.
The short one with the oversized shuriken laughed. "Look at this. I think we have another one to play with."
Arashi glared at them with a great fierceness. "We are having an emotional moment here. I recommend you guys leave before I make you."
The gaunt man laughed at Arashi. "Hilarious. All of you are outnumbered."
"And you are outmatched."
The man's gleeful expression ended. "Take this then." He pulled his shuriken out and began spinning it rapidly.
He threw the shuriken at Arashi, which was easily caught between the fingers. Arashi took that shuriken and began spinning it just like the other guy did. "Let me repeat myself. Leave now before I make you." Arashi narrowed his eyes. "You won't get another warning."
The girly one smirked at Arashi then spoke with a very deep voice. "What are you going to do … kill us?"
Arashi shook his head side to side. "No. Killing people is against my policy."
The one who threw the shuriken went from looking scared to being confident again. "What kind of shinobi are you? You actually think you can get through this without killing us? I've met some real fools in my life but you take the cake. If you can't use it, then give me my shuriken back."
"No." Arashi tossed the spinning shuriken into the air then drew Setsumaru through the aerial weapon. It split off into four directions in the next instant as Arashi sheathed his katana. He then turned his attention on the other four. "Time's up."
The one with the sideburns crossed the air with his arms. "Surround him."
"Shadow Clone Jutsu." Arashi created four clones which each went after one of the others. The true Arashi grabbed Hotaru. He looked around and saw that someone was missing. "I have to give that guy points for being able to sneak away without me noticing. Let's go Hotaru. I won't be satisfied until that guy really is your shishou." Arashi ran off as his clones dealt with the other four. He looked up in the air and noticed something most people would be able to. Arashi slowed his pace and started running along the top of the canopy.
Looking at Arashi's concentrated expression, Hotaru tried to trace his vision but saw nothing. Her curiosity eventually got the best of her. "What are you looking at?"
"You'll see soon enough." After a few more moments, Arashi's focus slowly lowered. When Arashi stopped, a loud pop was heard and Utakata appeared upon on the trees.
Utakata glared into Arashi's eyes as he let Hotaru down. "How could you tell I was there?"
Arashi pointed at his eyes. "I have a doujutsu that is called Keikigan. This doujutsu gives me to precisely gauge the aspects of the chakra of a person or a jutsu. Since that large bubble you were in had some of the same aspects of chakra the bubbles you attacked me with, it was obvious you were in that bubble. My Keikigan is best used to gauge how much chakra someone has and estimate their strength."
"I want you to leave me alone."
Arashi narrowed his eyes. "Sorry but that is not going to happen. I want to hear the story behind your shishou trying to kill you."
"We don't have time for that! We haven't formed any distance between us and our pursuers."
Arashi smiled. "Don't worry about them. They haven't managed to destroy one of my clones yet." A loud explosion was heard a distance away. "I don't know what happened but my clones are still holding them off."
Hotaru looked back where they came from. "Are you sure?"
"Of course. My clones can go head to head with even low leveled jonin in a full out jutsu battle. I know those four don't have much in the way of ninjutsu, leaving mostly taijutsu. My clones can handle the average jonin in that situation. We should be fine."
Utakata clenched his fists in frustration. "This man's overconfidence is unbelievable. How can he expect clones to be able to keep them away?"
"Shadow Clone Jutsu."
The clone picked Hotaru up, much to her surprise. "What are you doing?"
"This is a private conversation Hotaru-chan." Before she could protest, the clone carried her away. As her screams of terror faded, Arashi looked Utakata in the eyes. "Make one of those bubbles to hide us just in case." Arashi pointed to his left. "That's where my clone took Hotaru-chan. That's where we are going." Utakata glared at Arashi as he began blowing a large bubble on his pipe. Arashi leapt into this bubble as it formed. Once fully formed, the bubble began floating in the direction Arashi pointed in. "Now tell me what happened."
Within a short time, Utakata told Arashi of his shishou Harusame. Though the story reminded Arashi of a fairly normal student Shishou relationship, the ending was extremely suspicious. Utakata had no memory of what Harusame said at the moment of truth. Arashi tried to explain this suspicion to Utakata, but he would not hear it.
As they talked, Hotaru and the clone arrived at the destination village. With Hotaru at his side, the clone looked around and surveyed the village. "I can see why you never wanted to come here. Everyone here is treating you like a plague." An elderly man stepped out, drawing the clone's attention. "Are you the leader here?"
He nodded. "I am. … Your services are not needed any more. You may leave now."
The clone smirked. "I would, but you're under the control of someone's jutsu. I'm not sure I should trust that person."
Moment's later, large numbers of villagers started walking out of the buildings. Hotaru looked side to side with a worried expression. "What's happening?"
The clone glared as he surveyed it all. "We have a coward who uses weaker people without hesitation. Whoever this is, they won't get off easy. We'll have to deal with these puppets first."
She looked up at him in surprise. "You can't be thinking of hurting them."
The clone smiled. "Of course not." He raced through a set of hand-seals. "Chakra Screen Jutsu." Though it looked like nothing happened, he began running through the crowd. As he did this, those he ran by began to react as if they were just waking up.
Only three seconds passed before he was standing next to Hotaru again. "What did you do?"
"My Chakra Screen Jutsu. It creates a field around my self that forces those within this field to have normal chakra flow. This stops all genjutsu, enchantment jutsu, and in this case, control jutsu." The clone's eyes widened when he noticed someone in the distance to his left. "WATCH OUT!" He charged directly there.
Resting in the cloaked bubble, Arashi's eyes widened. "We have trouble."
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I am rushing this part of my story as much as I can. I just compressed four to six episodes of anime into one chapter. I want to get to the interesting part fast.
Next Chapter: Fury.