Another Host- First Saga
Chapter 4
I have not updated this story in MONTHS. I finally decided to update when I saw all the positive reviews! Thanks a lot, guys, your comments mean a whole lot to me.
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Sasuke leapt through the trees with fox-like speed. His hair was ruffled by the wind, but he was bothered more by the branches that smacked his face.
He finally stopped to rest on a safe-looking branch. Forty minutes… that's what Master Asuma had said. The Forest of Death was huge. How was he supposed to find a single scroll in forty minutes?
"Sasuke!"
What?
"Wait up!"
Sasuke looked behind him. There was Hinata and Choji.
Oh. Guess he must have forgotten them.
Hinata landed on a branch adjacent to Sasuke's. She gave a pout-ish frown. "Just because you're one of the best students in the class doesn't mean you can go off without us."
Sasuke sighed. "I'm sorry, all right?"
Choji snorted. "Next time, don't get caught up in the moment."
Sasuke ignored the comment. "Hinata, you have a Byakugan eye, right?"
Hinata raised her eyebrows. "Um, yes…"
"Can you locate a scroll anywhere close?"
Hinata got an expression of understanding on her face. She turned away from him. Sasuke briefly felt a surge of power, before Hinata looked all around. She furrowed her brow, then slowly shook her head and terminated the Byakugan.
"Wherever it is, it's not very close."
Sasuke got up. "Okay. We'll just have to do some scouting. Hinata, keep surveying the land while we move. Choji, try to keep up."
Choji threw his potato chip bag at Sasuke.
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Moving with reasonable speed, the group was able to cover a large amount of ground in a short time. Hinata, however, had still not located anything. It didn't help that it was relatively undeveloped, and she couldn't keep it up very long.
Sasuke inwardly sighed. His own Sharingan eye was powerful in its own right, but for some reason was incredibly unstable. It kept developing a strange red chakra that was not his own—he knew for a fact his chakra was orange.
They stopped to rest. "How much time do we have left?" asked Sasuke.
Choji looked at the sun, tilted his head, and then looked down. "It's been about fifteen minutes."
Sasuke sighed. "So, what do we do?"
Choji punched the tree in frustration.
The wood rotted under his fist.
Somehow, they found themselves falling.
How did this happen?
Of course, it was Choji's fault. He had punched the wood, which made the branch they were sitting on unstable, and unable to hold their weight. So it had collapsed.
Typical.
Sasuke quickly grabbed a branch and steadied himself on it. He looked down. Fortunately, Hinata and Choji had done the same thing.
"Is everyone all right?"
He saw them nodding yes.
"All right."
Pondering how to get himself out of the situation, Sasuke looked up. Something suddenly caught his eye.
It was the white paper of a scroll.
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"Choji, this might have been the best thing you have ever done."
"Thanks!... Wait…."
Sasuke smirked. It was so easy to get Choji to look like an idiot.
They were headed back to the site of the test. Their goal was in sight. All they had to do was get the scroll to Master Asuma.
And then he'd be a real ninja.
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