Senran Kagura: Infinity Frontier

Chapter 2

Chronicle Of Gessen

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(Couple Months Ago)

"It looks like Gessen is going up against Hanzo, huh?"

"Sure is."

"Then what the hell are we waiting for? Should we go back as soon as possible to support?"

Those voices are Naoki and Naoto as they were inside a secret training ground. They share very different opinions. Naoki proposes to stay while Naoto wants to go back to Gessen to demolish their enemy. Before being sent here by Kurokage, Yumi and her friends decided to challenge Hanzo High School in a Shinobi Battle Royale. They heard that this battle royale sounded like a big deal, but they were skeptical about the whole thing.

The two weren't really gassing on the "Justice" that Yumi displayed during their time in Gessen. Both agreed that eradicating "Evil" is just plain stupid and just all-around naivety coming from her, and both didn't seem to care about her quest. Luckily, they were sent here by Kurokage to undergo training, and not hearing Yumi's speech about justice is refreshing and eases their mind from the negativity of Gessen.

Their opponents, Hanzo High school, have such prestige by just their name. Hanzo, the legendary Shinobi that his friends and rivals respected. They heard that the school also had many highly skilled students and had experiences with more powerful Evil Shinobi, so they were worried about the well-being of their comrades.

"Then again, Yumi sure likes to bid very big on the start. Do you think that it will become a problem?" Naoto asked his little brother.

"She is jeopardizing the entire school and her pride to destroy Hanzo. Kurokage is already sick, and now this." Naoki was afraid that if Gessen loses, what happens next? They didn't know the stipulation of this, and if Yumi made one bad move, she is done for.

"Come on, guys. Chill out, I'm sure that the others in Gessen are fine." another voice calls to them.

The boy was wearing a blue shirt that said "Samurai" in Kanji, his hair was silver with a bang covering his left eye, and his iris is black, he was wearing shorts and visible scars on his left leg, the scar shows a sign of either training or an injury that the boy sustained. "That's what I'm afraid of, Kenji. You know Yumi is not going to stop her rampage until the world only knows "Good" and "Evil" are all perished from history." Naoki answered back.

"Yumi-senpai can win this thing. Just be a bit positive and hope for the best." Kenji reassured the two.

"Yeah." Naoki smiled.

They are quickly alerted by the sliding door's sound opening very hard and creates a big noise. It was another boy who was training with the three. He was a first-year same as Kenji. He has a well-built body, wearing a white sweater jacket, his hair is maroon undercut, his eyes are the same maroon color. He seems out of breath, and they suspect he ran from something. The three came to him in a hurry to know what was going on with him.

"Manabu, what happened?" Naoki asked.

"Kurokage….Kurokage has died." Manabu answered, which left the three ambiguous about the latest news. Naoki, who was standing up, falls to the ground as he tries to process this news into his brain while Naoto grabs Manabu, trying to be sure if this isn't a joke Manabu nodding to everything. Kenji was trying to hold back his tears as long as he could so he wouldn't get called a baby.

"There's more than just that news. Hanzo has defeated Yumi and the others in the shinobi battle royale. Although Hanzo won, they decided not to burn our school down, and we are ordered to return." Manabu reported. All of them stood still as the sound of the birds flew away to the unknown. Their training's fate is still in question, and all of them didn't know what to do. Their answer will be answered once they are back in Gessen for more details.

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(Present)

"Everyone. We have returned."

The shinobi hideout of Gessen was quite glamorous. The wall and the carpets are all red. The place looks like a Japanese garden with stepping stones, and bamboo fountains, the sliding doors near the tatami have very different color doors and two gargoyles above the sliding doors. There were two visible banners that everyone could see on the top of the wall was the banner of Gessen, while beside it was a different banner.

The banner has the picture of a mage's silhouette opening his book as the book has an emblem of the Gessen on it. Below it, there is a sign that was already engraved with the image. The sign said "Chronicle." Chronicle is the name of the team assigned to Naoki by Kurokage divided in the school.

Naoki, Naoto, and Yumi entered the room and were welcomed by a girl. The girl has light brown hair tied to a pigtail, big blue eyes with yellow pupils. She is also wearing the same school outfit as Yumi. Another was cooking something near the kitchen. She has blue ball-cut hair with cherry blossoms in it and has blue eyes.

"Welcome back." the pigtail girl said in excitement.

"Welcome back. Yumi-san." the blue-haired said with a relieved voice. She saw Naoto and Naoki as well, which from her sight was worrying. The school's shinobi boys already disliked Naoki for being chosen as the head of his group, that the decision was rigged, and Naoto should be the leader rather than Naoki.

But before Yozakura could say something, they heard a huge rumbling noise coming from the two. Both brothers held their stomachs because they were hungry. The pigtail girl let out a laugh while the bowl cut girl sighs.

"Do you guys want to eat something?" she asked, and the two nodded slowly as the rumbling of their stomachs continued to growl.

The two walked to the kitchen table and sat on the chair. They were looking at the sky for them to forget that they were hungry, but the stomach quickly snapped both of them to the reality of hunger.

"Hehehehe. Naoki-niisan and Naoto-niisan made a funny noise from their tummy." the pigtail girl pointed out.

"Minori-san. Yozakura-san. Where are Kenji-san and Manabu-san?" Yumi asked the pigtail girl and the blue bowl cut girl. Yozakura brought two gyudon to the table, and the brothers' eyes shined in excitement as they ate their breakfast. She also made one super large for Naoto to fill their empty belly that hasn't eaten for two days.

"They were in the training hall just now. They have been training nonstop." Yozakura answered. She was quite worried about the two first-year training too much and could hurt themselves if not careful.

"Kenji seems to have progressed a lot, but he is still weak when it comes to fighting real opponents, while Ogurawa's only weakness is that he isn't confident even though he has a pretty good basis on his powers," Naoki said. Both Yozakura and Yumi agreed with Naoki. The two have things that they are good at, but their flaws overshadow their useful traits.

"With a disagreement of you being the leader of Chronicle, the other shinobi students started to rally more to Kota, and our school divided into two. Are you going to do something about it? You guys can't do this forever. sooner or later, both of you must reach a compromise."

"I don't care about the student's opinion. If they don't fall in line, I couldn't care less about their lives."

Hearing those words coming from his mouth, Naoto stops filling his mouth with food and puts the gyudon to the table. Naoto seems to have enough of his brother as he stood up in front of him. Naoki stood up as well. The three shinobi girls in the room can feel their aura leaking out, and both of them will go one on one again.

"Stop your whining already! You are putting up a bad image in front of Minori-chan. My brother has Kurokage's blessing, but he is such shit for brains when it comes to being considerate." Naoto mocked his little brother, and Naoki laughed a little, hearing those words from his big brother that everyone loves while he was shunned.

"Then why don't you become a leader then? You can't, can't you? You know why? Because you were always below me." Naoki's words made Naoto want to punch him, but the sound of the sliding door holds his intention.

It was Kenji and Manabu that saw the two brothers standing, facing each other.

"Hey. both of you are back. What happened?" Kenji asked as both of them were still staring at each other with killing intent for a second, but they calmed down and just sat back in their chairs.

"Nothing. Sorry, my mouth always thinks something bad to say to people, but my mind always wanted to give someone advice to grow. It always came out wrong for people." Naoki apologized. He always says things discouraging to other people.

"I understand. Seeing me repeating a grade must set up a bad example as a man and as your brother as well. I'm sorry for everything." Naoto apologized as well.

Both of them smiled, and the others were relieved that these two could reconcile without both of them beating each other. The two always created a problem for Kurokage as the two were always involved in fighting, mostly from Naoto. Through all the troubles that they cause, their brotherhood is a strong foundation for their group.

"Did anyone notice that there are many delinquents in our area recently?" Kenji wondered, and the others suddenly noticed as well.

"I wonder why that is the case as well. Murakumo, along with Shiki, decided to check on the situation." Yozakura was already on the case on the huge rise of the bad kids around their area. Yozakura is more of an advisor for Yumi, but when she uses her fist, she can go all out.

"My informant saw one of the members of Homura's Crimson squad engaging a group dubbed "Meteor" as we were speaking. It seems that both sides are evenly matched now." Manabu informed the group, and the elite squad was honestly astonished hearing that. Homura is a skillful fighter, and even her team isn't a slouch either, and hearing that this unknown force could rival Homura and her Crimson Squad interest Yumi.

"It seems that there is a bit of activity around our territory as well as Asakusa. I hope that the Hanzo's are picking up the disturbance just like us." Kenji wondered to himself.

"The teachers will notice it immediately and prepare to get rid of them. If those delinquents are.."

"Yumi-chi, Nao-chi!"

They heard someone from outside the room as they went out from the ninja room to see two girls. One of them was unconscious while the other was dragging the unconscious one. The unconscious one wore a hannya mask, but the right side of the mask was broken, leaving the right eyes open her long dark brown hair tied with a red ribbon in a side ponytail. Her Gessen uniform was also shredded due to battle damage.

The one who was dragging her has blond long and burgundy and a beauty mark on the lower right side of her mouth. The elite squad went to them to see what had happened to both of their teammates who were in a terrible shape "Shiki-san. Murakumo-san. Are you alright? Who did this to you?" Yumi helped Shiki lie down Murakumo, Yozakura was going back to the room to get first aid, Minori was going with Yozakura to grab first aid.

"Mura-chi and I saw a couple of delinquents causing problems around the market district. We decided to stop those delinquents, but those guys were no joke at all. They fight as if they were shinobi's or something."

Those statements from Shiki sent a shock to the elite students. Delinquents that fight like shinobi? This is quite a discovery for the elite students. Delinquents always fight and even vandalize places as they wish, but it is quite rare to hear that delinquents are shinobi, although that Shiki said can be true due to them being inept for fighting.

"What the hell is going on here? What happened to those two?" a voice calls out to them with Yozakura and Minori returns with first aid. The man has a medium build, light short bald hair, blue pupils, and Jordans for his shoes. He goes up to them to see what has happened to his classmates.

"Kota-san. Delinquents attacked both of them. Can you please help wrap this around Murakumo's left knee?" Yozakura suggested that Kota is happy to help with that.

"Who are these delinquents anyway? I never heard of delinquents becoming shinobi." Kenji is suspicious of this new information that they just received.

"My theory is that the delinquents we are dealing with are not regular delinquents." Naoki answered.

"Well, we don't need glasses to know what you mean. You four eyes." Kota retorted while Naoki just stared at him menacingly as well as Kota. These two made things very hard for Gessen shinobi to move due to some are from the Naoki faction and the Kota faction that can never get along.

The Naoki faction is the people that agreed on the choice of the leadership under Naoki. The Kota faction is some shinobi students who didn't conform to Naoki being the Chronicle of Chronicle due to Nepotism being involved between Naoki and Yumi. It also didn't help that both were childhood friends, and rumor has it that Naoki allegedly sweet-mouthed Kurokage so he could get elected leader of Chronicle. Those who decided not to follow Naoki converted into the Kota faction and Kota as a leading head.

"These two are always bickering, as usual. Naoki-san. Kota-san. I suggest we end this meaningless feud and start to make Chronicle like it used to be." Manabu gave the opinion for the two, but both of them kept gazing at each other like they had stolen a bar of chocolate from one another.

"Yeah! If our faction combines forces, we'll be unstoppable." Kenji supported the idea. Kota and Naoki heard what the two underclassmen and both still undecided on what to do.

"I always respected you, Naoki, but I can't respect that you haven't done anything to prove your worth of being a capable leader of Chronicle." Kota disagrees with Manabu's and Kenji's opinions and moves on.

"The 3rd years that accused you of Nepotism are gone now, and I carried their will in their place. I knew who you are, and I never assumed that you would use any tricks to get yourself ahead of others."

"Then how are you on that side and not here?" Naoki asked Kota.

"Because your big brother is the most worthy candidate for being a leader. Both of us came in the second place because I viewed both of us as an equal." Naoki tried his best not to lose his cool by that remark. Kurokage chose him, and the people still wouldn't accept the fact for two years.

They suddenly hear the sound of metal clanking towards the ground. Those followed by rumbling footsteps coming into the school and from the vicinity saw many delinquents coming into Gessen. In front of them, it was the red hair that saw the brothers and Yumi from afar.

"That's the guy that ambushed us with his goons." Murakumo said as she stood up, although barely. Naoki and the others shook when they heard it. Yumi saw a boy that is much younger than her. By its looks, the boy may be still in his 1st year, and Murakumo has problems dealing with him? How strong is he?

"Alright, you Gessen punks! You are now being invaded! My name is Katagiri, 1st year of Frontier Frontals." Katakuri claims to use his metal bat and uses it to point at Naoki, who is ready to fight and Kota. Suddenly, the whole school was covered by a strange purple zone around it.

"Shinobi barrier? I see that you guys are shinobi as well. Everyone, be careful!" Yumi alerted them as the others were ready to battle. Shiki slowly got up as Minori was a bit worried about her friend.

"Shiki-san, you should sit this one out. You and Murakumo-san just escaped from them." Yozakura asked

"I'm okay, Yoza-chin. I can handle it." Shiki reassures her that she is fine.

Katagiri is walking slowly to them, but slowly and slowly, he runs to the Gessen shinobis and his subordinates while Gessen is ready to fight against him.

"Kill them all, guys."

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