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Hello everybody. Sorry there wasn't any chapter yesterday. I'll change my update rate because I enter an exam period of about 5-6 weeks, so from now on there will be only 3 chapters per week, maybe 4 if I manage.
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We were a reconnaissance specialized team, so we found other teams really rapidly. Between Kiba's scent, Hinata-chan's eyes and my sense of chakra no one could hide from us.
We were currently following a Konoha team, waiting for night before striking. Darkness always helps in surprise attacks, and with our senses we weren't really affected. I purposely selected a weak team, level 27 on average.
Night fell, and we began to sneak onto them. They were sleeping in a tree, except a watcher… It would be best to strike them all in one shot. I could use explosive tags, of course, but I didn't want to kill anybody if possible.
Instead, we decided to put a genjutsu on him but that was a little tricky, because I needed to affect the mind. It would be a lot easier if we came to eye contact or touch contact…
We remarked that they had set a few traps too, some destined to enemy ninjas, some to catch animals. The area around their tree was a deep marsh…
Unfortunately, I couldn't use my Instant Dimensions without my teammates noticing I suddenly disappeared. I'll reveal what I'm able to do in the future, but not today. I wasn't ready to face kekkai gekkai hunters. It's so much simpler to just be normal.
So I decided to send a clone who will slowly approach under water. I could do it myself with the [Gamer's Body], I won't catch any illnesses, but I don't think my teammates would agree.
I began to meditate to sense my clone's progression. He was already at the bottom of their tree, under the branch the watcher was sitting on. He quietly emerged from water, and began walking along the tree. Soon, he was directly under the enemy, and he touched his head from behind. The guy fell asleep, dreaming of a quiet watch in the night.
Suddenly, I sensed something with the other two's chakra signatures. One of them wasn't asleep any more.
"One of them is awakening. Go." I whispered quickly and we jumped to help my clone, who didn't notice as he wasn't meditating.
As we landed on the branch, the guy fully awoken, and alerted the others. Hinata-chan took care of the one under genjutsu, neutralising his main tenketsus, and Kiba threw a kick to the ninja who alerted the others. Me and my clone took advantage of the third's surprise to throw shurikens at him. He avoided most of them, but 2 landed in his foot, destabilising him. At this moment, my clone did a Kawarami with a shuriken that landed behind him and knocked him out.
I turned to see the remaining guy get overwhelmed by Kiba and Hinata's combined assault.
"Good job!" I praised, and searched for their scroll. "Damn it! Earth again? Really?"
"Seriously?" Kiba sighed.
I threw him the scroll.
"Crap." He groaned.
"I-I think … we should rest a little." Hinata-chan suggested, looking disappointed too.
"Yeah. Let's change place before establishing a camp." I agreed, and when Kiba nodded too, we jumped away to find a safer place.
"Here." Hinata-chan said, pointing to a normal tree a little away from the others.
"I'll take first watch." I volunteered, and my comrades went to sleep after we ate.
Nothing happened in the night, but in the morning it slowly began to rain.
"Great…" Kiba groaned. "The scents will disappear now."
"At least we have rain hood." I mumbled. "Let's go find teams again before the scent goes away."
We started to track enemies again, and soon, Kiba's voice raised:
"Stop, I smell something..." He knelt and sniffed the branch. "Yeah… someone passed by here."
"Good. Can you tell us what direction they took?" I asked.
He jumped on a few other branches around.
"Yeah, this way."
We headed in the direction Kiba indicated, concentrating on our senses.
"I know that scent..." The dog-man muttered, and Akamaru barked to agree. "It's… shampoo."
I smirked at that. "I only know two kunoichis that could take such good care of their hair like that..."
"Sakura-san and… Ino-san." Hinata-chan guessed.
"Exactly. Do we continue? We need a heaven scroll after all." I demanded to the others.
"Of course!" Kiba answered, looking offended. "In fact, it's even more exciting if we get to kick Sasuke's ass."
Hinata-chan remained silent for a moment, and when she opened her mouth, she was interrupted.
"I recognise the scents now! It's team 10."
She sighed in relief. While she probably didn't like the idea of attacking ancient classmates, she won't disagree if it's not Naruto's team, and so she gave a reluctant nod to me.
"All right. Let's go after them!" I concluded.
"We should wait for the night before striking, as before." Kiba added.
"Yeah, but for now we must get into sensing range." I declared.
We tracked them a bit, and after a moment I finally found them.
"I sense them." I announced, as Akamaru shook himself to get rid of water. "In front of us, a little bit to the right. Ah, they are coming towards us now!"
"Quick, hide!" Kiba pressed. "We'll take them by surprise."
A minute later, team 10 arrived, and passed in front of us. Of course they didn't notice us, since we were hiding.
"Stop." Shikamaru called, and landed on the branch we were standing on previously, just below us. "Someone was here before."
"How do you know?" Ino replied.
"Look this branch. It's more humid than the others, whereas a lot of vegetation cover the sky. There's no way it could have been the rain… Troublesome… It's as if something wet was standing there...there's a lot of traces though..." He touched the branch, and saw a water drop slowly descending the dry wood. "...It's pretty recent. Maybe they're even watching us at this moment."
"Right now?" Ino repeated, and began observing suspiciously her surroundings.
"Maybe they're scared of us!" Chôji grinned.
"That, or they're waiting to stab us in the back." Shikamaru darkly declared. "Or maybe they're not here. Either way, let's be cautious. It's troublesome."
At this moment, a gout dropped from Kiba's sleeve and fell on Ino, making her blench. Hinata-chan and I looked at her, eyes widened and anticipating.
"Hey, you in the trees!" Ino shouted, a little bit scared. "We know you're here! Get out!"
"There's no point in hiding any more..." I muttered to the others, who nodded.
We jumped and landed in front of them, facing them on another branch.
"Damn it." I mumbled.
"Kurota! Kiba! Hinata! It's you..." They sighed.
"Hey, don't relax like that! We came to steal your scroll!" Kiba yelled angrily.
"What?" Chôji said, surprised.
"As if you could pose a threat to us!" Ino boasted.
I narrowed my eyes at her. She really didn't change at all, always bragging around like that. Maybe we could use that to our advantage…
"Hey, let's not fight if we don't need to." I soothed Kiba. "What scroll do you guys have?" I questioned innocently, and before Shikamaru could stop her, Ino was already vaunting her team's skills.
"Ha! We already have two heaven scrolls and..."
"Ino!" Shikamaru interrupted, but it was already too late. He turned to me, saw my victorious expression, and narrowed his eyes, anticipating my reaction.
"What?" Ino asked, eyeing me ans Shikamaru.
"That's great! Let's make a deal." I proposed.
"A deal?" Shikamaru repeated. "Go on."
"Conveniently, we have two earth scrolls. So let's trade, an heaven scroll against an earth scroll!" I explained, smiling at them.
"Prove it then." Shikamaru required.
I smiled, and took out an earth scroll. I only had one in my inventory, so no need to hide.
"Here." I said and threw them the scroll.
"Kuro?" Kiba gasped.
"What? We have two others any way." I whispered. "Or you're afraid they flee and we can't track them?" I taunted, and the dog man frowned, remaining quiet.
"All right." Shikamaru agreed when he examined what I gave him. "It seems you aren't lying. Here." He threw us his own heaven scroll.
"Thanks." I caught it, and examined it too... It seemed genuine.
"See you at the tower." Shikamaru said.
"Wait!" I stopped them. "We can go together! That way, it'll be 6 against 3 when encountering other ninjas, and we both have skills the other could use." Well, not really, but they were ninjas nonetheless. That alone would increase our attack power.
"That would be great!" Chôji enthusiastically affirmed.
"You want to team up?" Ino said, surprised.
I shrugged. "Yeah. That's not against the rules."
"I see..." Shikamaru nodded. "Indeed, it would be safer for both of us. Let's do that."
I grinned, and Kiba sighed, disappointed that there wouldn't be any fight.
"Great." I told them. "Let's adapt our formation. Kiba in front, to smell enemies. Then Chôji and Shikamaru behind him, before me and Ino. Hinata-chan should be our rearguard, with her byakugan."
"Don't tell us what to do!" Ino protested.
"It wasn't my intention." I assured her. She was starting to be annoying. "I was just..."
"This formation seems good to me." Shikamaru lazily evaluated. "Let's just go now. I'm tired of those swamps. Too troublesome."
"Me too..." Kiba groaned, and we started heading to the central building.
We were approaching our destination but Kiba was slowly changing direction.
"Hey Kiba! Where are you going? Keep the right direction in mind!" I shouted.
Everyone turned to me, confused.
"But we are going straight to the building." Kiba frowned.
"What? No, you are slowly going to the left."
"No, he wasn't." Ino frowned.
"He was." I looked at their faces, scanning their expression. They actually believed what they were saying… I turned to Hinata-chan.
"Well, could you please activate your byakugan and tell us who's right?" I requested.
She verified, and declared surprised:
"The building is… a lot more to the right. Ah… T-There is a… genjutsu."
"A genjutsu?" I raised my eyebrows. I didn't detect this? They must be pretty good…
"Y-yes…"
"I see." I mused, and sit on the branch I was to meditate.
"What are you doing?" Ino asked.
"Sshh! He… meditate to better sense chakra." Hinata-chan quieted her.
When I entered my meditation, I noted that, indeed, there were very few chakra traces in the air. I concentrated and tried to break over the enemy, and I found 3 ninjas with creepy masks a bit far away from us.
'They must want to tire us, making us going around in circles' I mused.
"There are enemies. There." I pointed to the location of the enemies.
"I-I see them… They have masks…" Hinata-chan described.
"Let's just continue. This type of enemy is powerless if we're able to see through their genjutsus. Too troublesome to deal with." Shikamaru lazily proposed.
Well, that was true, and apparently they didn't seem to want to attack us if we weren't tired.
"Okay, but I'll take the lead. I don't want you to lead us in a trap." I accepted.
Leaving them alive would lower the amount of participants after all, and I wasn't worried for Naruto since he had Sasuke and his eyes to see through their trick.
In the end, we arrived at the building. We opened the main gate and walked into a hall.
"Now what?" Kiba asked.
"I don't know." I admitted.
I examined the hall. There was an inscription on the wall, and as I read it, I understood.
"We must open the scrolls." Shikamaru sighed. "It's a riddle or something like that and it talks about heaven and earth."
"Yeah, I think so too." I agreed.
"Ah? Let's open them then." Kiba pressed.
I took out my team's scrolls and opened them. Inside were written the kanjis for 'person' and rapidly, they began fuming… I widened my eyes and I threw them on the ground.
Poof!
"What is this?" Ino demanded.
"A summoning jutsu in a seal." Shikamaru answered, as he stared at the cloud of smoke.
"What did it summoned?" Chôji wondered.
The smoke cleared, and I smiled when I recognised the man.
"Finally! Took you time to get your ass over here!"
"Hey Dad." I greeted.
A/N: Thanks for reading! Next chapter should be thursday, I think.