Mitsuki stood in front of the academy and looked around, a sigh escaped his lips. "Great! I have no idea where to start looking for my friends"
Two villagers strolled past him talking, "Hey Konosuke, do you think a lot of them will pass the second round of the chunin exams?"
Konosuke looked thoughtful for a minute, then he faced his friend. "I doubt it, Ryuko! They won't stand a chance in that forest! I've heard that strange things happen every day in that wretched place!"
Intrigued about the topic the men were talking about, he went up to them, interrupting the conversation, "I couldn't help but over hear you talking about the chunin exams, do you know where this second round is being held?"
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Training ground 44
ten minutes later...
Mitsuki stood in front of the gate and gulped as the screams and wails of ninjas filled the air,he smiled weakly, "It sounds like the fun just began...would Boruto and Sarada even think about setting foot in a place like this..?" he stood still for about five minutes then three snakes slithered out from his sleeve, and vanished into the thick forest. "Now I'll just have to wait until I get information on the whereabouts of those two." He plopped down on the grass, leaned against a tree trunk and closed his eyes as the confrontation with Anko came back to him.
"If you only knew...He's a monster and my worst nightmare! he ruined my life! and to think I believed in him...My sensei.."
He frowned "She's lying, My parent would never...I refuse to believe it!"
Kotetsu approached him,snapping him out of his trance "Oi! Kid this isn't the kind of place to be loitering around, this area is restricted, go home!"
Izumo came shortly after and whispered into his colleague's ear, "Come with me, there's something you gotta see, Anko is already there waiting for us"
Applying a little chakra to his ear, he heard every word the other proctor had said, Mitsuki twitched with curiosity, "Ooooh this I gotta see! It sure beats waiting around outside of a dangerous training ground"
The proctors disappeared into the trees with him shortly after in pursuit.
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Anko stood over the three corpses, she cringed at the sight of the blood that spilled on the shrine, Kotetsu and Izumo landed at her side.
Kotetsu ran his hand through his spiky thick black locks, "Man..that is no way to treat a Buddha"
Izumo held up the photograph of a male grass ninja with long black hair, onyx eyes and a straw hat on his head, "I've confirmed one of them by the name of shiore"
The blood from Anko's face started to drain as she looked at the id of the young man,"This kid... he was acting a bit off since the second exams began...there's no doubt about it, the person who killed them is none other than...ARRGH!" she dropped to knees gripping her neck and grunting in pain.
"Anko!" kotetsu and Izumo cried out in unison as they stooped down to examine her.
She spoke shakily "He's here...He's some where around! Get more reinforcements, I'll go on ahead!"
Izumo gently placed his hand on her shoulder, "But you're in no condition to do that, let me join you"
She slapped his hand away, "Are you disobeying an order? Go get reinforcements!"
Izumo was taken aback, but he shook his head and reluctantly left with his partner,.
Mitsuki crouched down in the bush behind them, he covered his right hand over his mouth and tried to hold down the dumplings he ate earlier as he looked at the bodies on the floor, "What's going on? What's the deal with those corpses? Why are their faces gone? What are they talking about?" Mistuki sat up suddenly, "I have to follow her"
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Boruto groaned as he rubbed his head, "Sarada...Where is she? Ugh... I hope she's okay" He looked around his surroundings to find most of the trees uprooted forming a pathway, "Did that nasty whirlwind cause this? I guess I should follow this path to see where it leads to" He slowly got up and shook the dirt off his butt.
Unbeknownst to him, he was being observed by a stone ninja who hid behind a large rock, "Such a stupid boy! Taking a light stroll in this forest like he doesn't have a care in this world, Oh well I guess I can put him out of his misery since he's practically begging for it!" He made quick hand signs *EARTH STYLE! GREAT MUD RIVER!*
The ground beneath Boruto's feet transformed into swamp, "Eh?!" He looked down in confusion, and when he raised his head up again, Muddy water gushed out from the ground and splashed against him,the force of the water knocked him off his feet ,slamming him against a tree trunk almost knocking the wind out of him.
The stone ninja revealed himself and stood over the blond, who held his stomach as he groaned in pain. His half open cerulean eyes scanned the person in front of him, from what he made out, was a boy with cropped green hair and grey eyes. What stood out the most to Boruto was the three gold earrings in his left ear. "All this guy needs is a haramaki and three swords, bam! He could be that pirate hunter!" He started to grin at his stupid thoughts, here he was, thinking about pirates at a time like this.
The stupid grin on his face seemed to tick off the stone ninja"What are you grinning at?! Hand over the scroll and save yourself the pain!" he chuckled as he took another look at Boruto. "You look like a formidable one, most of my enemies don't get up after being hit with my great mud river jutsu...the name is Kuchigo by the way"
Boruto looked at him and sweat dropped "Why is he telling me this? If I didn't come here I wouldn't have known who the heck this guy is, any way what's this scroll he keeps yapping about?"
"Heh!" He spat out some blood, "If that's all you've got! This is gonna be easy ttebasa!" He disappeared leaving a puff of smoke behind.
The green haired ninja raised his brow in surprise "A shadow clone?"
The original appeared behind the stone-nin, and whispered in his ear "If I were you, I would never turn my back on my enemy"
"Huh?" When he spun around,Boruto's fist collided with his face sending him into a tree, leaving a dent.
"Ugh!not too shabby for a squirt!" He got up on his feet, wiped the trickle of blood from his nose and give the blond a glare that made his skin crawl "don't get too cocky! I'm just getting started!" With his new found rage, he punched the earth beneath him, and formed into a large dumpling-shaped chunk of dirt, "Grrr..ugh!" Kuchigo gritted his teeth as he used every ounce of his strength to lift giant ball of dirt that was twice his size over his head and hurled it in Boruto's direction.
Boruto's eyes grew wide as saucers when he saw the huge chunk of rock inching closer and closer towards him. "Oi! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! That's cheating! You could kill me with that thing!" He started to make a run for it.
"How does my earth tomb dumpling taste? Here! Have another serving!" Kuchigo threw a second one towards the blonde, Making him squeal as he barely jumped out of the way avoiding his ass from being crushed, He hid behind a rock trying to catch his breath.
"Is defeating me still gonna be a piece of cake? Hand over your scroll and you could make life easy for the both of us" The green haired male smirked as he took in the sight of the blonde ninja cowering behind the rock.
Boruto came out from behind the rock, "You're so boring, I was going to take a nap! besides what if we both have the same scroll?"
"Well let me fix that!.." Kuchigo sank into the ground and vanished.
Boruto looked around frantically "What the!..he could be anywhere right now...waiting on his chance to strike me..this isn't good...this isn't good at all"
Kuchigo's head emerged behind the blond, "The moment you turned your back on me was your biggest mistake you little shit!" He vanished into the earth once more.
Sapphire eyes moved rapidly from left to right, in pursuit of the enemy, A hand sprung out from the ground underneath him and gripped his ankle roughly making him yell in surprise.
"You're finished kid!" he started to pull the blond's ankle into the earth.
A smirk appeared on Boruto's face, "found you!" he grabbed on to the stone ninja's wrist and yanked him out of the ground. "I'm getting really tired of this whack a mole shit! Come on and face me!" he focused his chakra to his hand and slammed his palm against Kuchigo's stomach making him cough up some blood. "I can't target his pressure point since I don't have the byakugan...But this should knock him out"
The green haired ninja dropped on one knee and started to wheeze uncontrollably. Boruto stood over him and held out his palm just in case the stone ninja had another an ace up his sleeve, but when Kuchigo collapsed on the floor, Boruto stood up straight and turned his back on him. "Now how can I get to Sarada from here?"
"I...told you many...freakin' times...don't turn your back on me!" Kuchigo held his chest as he struggled to stand.
Boruto jumped back in surprise "What the...! that hit should've knocked you out"
Kuchigo charged towards the blond ninja "Well that's too bad! your luck just ran ou-"
A boy with a hooded fur coat and his ninken spiraled through the air and attacked him simultaneously, knocking him out cold. "Did you like my the feel of my beast mimcry?...holy crap I knocked him out, Now he'll never tell me what it felt like!"
Boruto's jaw got slack as he watched the ninja who rudely knocked out his opponent, stand up straight and face him, His wild brown spiky hair blew with the wind and His sharp black eyes looked like it could split something in half. Cerulean eyes narrowed in annoyance as he pointed a finger in the ninja's direction, "Oi! What the hell man...! Don't you know it's rude to interrupt someone's fight?"
He lazily rubbed his fang- shaped markings and returned the blond's glare "Dude I was doing you a favour, I took him out in one shot! you should thank me! Besides you looked like you were struggling look at yourself, you're all covered in mud"
"Thank you?! You bastard! I was waiting for the right time so that I could this!" Boruto rolled up his sleeve revealing the forearm device.
Shino and Hinata came up shortly after, Shino rummaged through the defeated stone ninja's pouch and took out a heaven scroll, he looked towards Boruto, "You should probably hold on to this" He threw it towards him.
Boruto looked quizzically at the scroll in his hand, "Uh...okay..."
"Come to think of it.. that guy attacked me and rambled on about some scroll...oh well" he shrugged and placed it in his weapons pouch.
Kiba walked over to him to get a closer look at the device, "Whoa! Shino! Hinata! You gotta check this out!"
The said ninjas went over to see what had their loud team mate so worked up. Hinata's cheeks flushed a bit as she got closer to the blonde ninja, "S-so what is it?" She cocked her head on one side as she looked at the strange device.
He gave her a soft smile "It's called a ko-"
Kiba interrupted "Transformers!...hahaaha you gotta admit it, that name sounds cool"
Everyone sweat dropped at the dog ninja, Then Boruto continued ''Like I was saying" He shot a glare in Kiba's direction "It's called a kote. The user seals one of their techniques into a small scroll and puts it inside and the best part is that it doesn't require chakra, the user can gain an advantage in battle by releasing normally chakra-taxing techniques while saving their chakra or continuing to use techniques when low on chakra." Boruto's chest swelled with pride as he took in the 'oohs' and 'aahs' even Shino the most stoic one in the group showed some interest.
"Kiba, Hinata we must be on our way if we want to make it to the tower by nightfall" Shino adjusted his sunglasses and started to walk ahead of the two.
They both nodded in unison, Kiba turned back to the blond ninja, "Hey you better do your best out there, cause If you don't I'm gonna wipe the floor with your ass" He ran to catch up with Shino.
Hinata twiddled her fingers and gave him a small smile "Do your best Naruto-kun" she muttered and then left to catch up with her team mates.
"Mom is still sweet as ever" then it hit him, like one of the faces from mount hokage just landed on his head, "What did she just call me?! how could they possibly take someone so handsome, smart and not to mention strong with a guy like him?!" He stood in the middle of the trail, "I've wasted so much time when I should've been looking for Sarada...*sigh*"
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Sasuke watched as the sharingan creatures that surrounded started to merge into a giant version until the head was in the clouds. Shinchiku smirked a the other Uchiha, "Well...what do you think of my new experiment? I bet you're trembling in fear, screaming for it to put you out of your misery, so Sasuke Uchiha do you have any last words?"
"Am I supposed to laugh?" Sasuke imbuned lightning into his blade and launched himself at the giant creature, slicing it in half only for it join back together.
Shinchiku leaned against the trunk of the tree behind him, "What about now"
Sasuke landed on his feet and crossed his arms "Still not impressed"
