Hey everyone! Its mariobro here, I just wanted to say a few things before this chapter. I just want to apologize for not updating in the past few days. I've have rugby camp at school two hours away so that's been taking up all my time. So that means I'll be putting up three chapters in a row for the days I missed. I also want to thank all of my readers and the people who have added my story to their favorite list. I won't let you guys down again! Without further ado here is chapter seven.
Chapter 7
Team Konohamaru jumped up at almost the same time. They grabbed onto the fence at the top of their jump and started to climb, the fence was unnecessarily high. They reached the hole in the fence, Konohamaru looked through it, into the darkness of the forest below. Udon pushed up his glasses and they caught some light from the sun. He looked closely at the edges of the fence and tapped Moegi on the shoulder.
"Look at this!" He said, rather loudly for him. Moegi looked and gasped out loud, which got the attention of Konohamaru, he looked down.
"What! The fence looks like it was melted, look the edges are still smoldering and smoking!" Konohamaru exclaimed.
"Yes, who or what ever did this, did it recently." Udon observed, speaking slowly and quietly again.
"Wha- What do we do about it?" Asked Meogi, slightly scared. Konohamaru patted her on the shoulder reassuringly.
"Don't worry, we'll be fine." He said to her, Moegi nodded to Konohamaru silently agreeing with him. He spoke again, this time with an air of bravery and leadership.
"Okay, Moegi your the fastest right?" Konohamaru asked and she nodded.
"Okay then, see if you can go back around the way we came to the front gate. Go inside the forest and find Naruto or Iruka, tell them the situation." Moegi nodded and then stopped.
"What are you going to do?" She asked, Konohamaru smiled and then spoke.
"Udon and me are going to find out who did this and kick his but! Right Udon?" Udon nodded and pushed up his glasses again.
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Konohamaru and Udon jumped from tree to tree. The forest passed them by as if they were standing still and it was moving under them. The trees almost made a tunnel, the branches on the bottom and the canopy above.
Every minute or two Konohamaru or Udon would pass under a small breach in the canopy where the sunlight seemed to float down to them. The sunlight was warm, fighting the cold dark expanse of the forest below.
Konohamaru was deep in thought; he was worried for the unsuspecting children, and the monster that melted the fence. Konohamaru shook his head to clear the bad thoughts from his mind and focused forward.
Udon was behind Konohamaru and was also deep in thought. Except Udon's mind worked like a machine, he was busy calculating the exact time it would take for Moegi to make it back to the gate on the other side of the training ground. He allowed for emotion to get out of hand, which happened very often with Moegi (which would slow her down), and then observed his results.
It would take her about twenty minutes to go from where she left them to the gate of the forest. He was worried about that number, because there was no way he could guess how long it would be until Moegi came in contact with Naruto or Iruka. Udon calculated anyway, his mind did work like a machine.
Udon guessed (correctly) that Iruka would be closer to the gate because he was always worrying about everything, he would want to be near the gate in case they had to leave the forest for open ground quickly. As he went over the numbers in his head, Udon brought his hands together and performed three hand seals.
"Eyes Ears Nose Jutsu." Udon whispered to himself, he stopped for a second on a branch to get his balance.
He sent chakra to his eyes, his ears, and his nose; each sense was increased a tenfold, a useful jutsu; the only downside was that sometimes ones senses were increased too many times, which resulted in extreme disorientation. It was a high level technique that only Udon knew out of the team.
Udon turned his head left and right, scanning the horizon. But it was his ears that finally caught something out of the ordinary. An inhuman scream reverberated through his head. Konohamaru heard it too, albeit very distantly, and could not locate the sound.
"Udon, where is it coming from?" Konohamaru spoke as they both landed on a branch and stopped to listen. Udon looked around slowly, scanning the horizon very methodically.
