Yup, it's me again. Sorry it took me so long to update this time, but I had a lot things on my head lately and basically I just finished writing this like a minute ago. Thanks for everyone who reviewed the previous chapter. Since there weren't any questions concerning the previous chapter, I suppose all that's left for me to do is get on with it:

REMINDER: just wanted to remind everyone who didn't take part in the popularity contest yet, that there's still time for you to do so. The rules were given with chapter 44.

With that said, here's chapter 46 of "Naruto: Next Generation":

Chapter #46: Inheritance

Title Page: Ibuki is creeping with a kunai in her teeth and a little unwrapped scroll in her left hand

"What the hell did you do?" demanded Kumiko as she looked at the rain-nin.

"A special technique my brother taught me…" replied Mushi with a smile. "A technique no-one escaped yet… but that is to be expected since it was invented by my father… leader of the Hidden Rain Village!" and with that he threw several senbon at her.

The kunoichi jumped to her left in order to avoid the assault. In a flash strong wind started circling around the rain-nin as he threw several senbon in random directions, just to have the air current carrying them right at his opponents. And this time Kumiko was not able to avoid the attack completely.

As some of the needles pierced her left leg, the girl let out a yell of pain, losing her balance and landing on the ground with her face down. Meanwhile in the tree tops, the wind was still controlling the senbon, making them go directly after the young gennin.

"We need to force that guy to break the jutsu, otherwise we're done for!" Kusari concluded in his mind as his eyes set of Mushi. And with that thought he began moving his chain so that it'd start swinging in circles in his hands. As he did so, the senbon that were coming straight at him suddenly got blown away, much to the rain-nin's surprise.

"How the hell did you do that?" demanded the Rain Village leader's son.

"It seems that even when you learned the technique, you weren't really interested in how it works…" stated the chain master calmly as the air around him settled down. "What do you think will happen when two, circling winds collide?"

"You changed the wind currents so that I wouldn't be able to control how the wind blows!" Mushi's eyes widen as he realized what just happened. And before he knew it, his senbon began flying completely randomly.

Neither of the other gennin wasted that chance and they all jumped down, prepared to attack the rain-nin. However, with the wind still blowing near the ground, they couldn't use their shuriken nor kunai, so the only way to bring Mushi down was close range.

In an instant Hizoku appeared before the rain-nin and aimed his weapon to cut off Mushi's head, yet the son of the Rain Village leader avoided the attack in the last moment, making the blade go just inches before his throat.

As he jumped back, the Ame shinobi reached for his umbrellas and in a flash a wooden one opened, covering the rain-nin. The redhead's eyes narrowed and a second later hundreds of senbon shoot out from Mushi's weapon right at him.

In a flash the grass-nin jumped back as well, using his spear to deflect the needles that flew at him with a surprising precision. As his feet touched the ground, Hizoku picked out few senbon that manage to sunk into his body, but none of them was really of any concern to the Kusa shinobi.

In the meantime Takaru and Kai charged straight at the rain-nin and unleashed a storm of punches and kicks at him. As Mushi was forced to back away, he pulled out another umbrella, this time made out of steel, and the moment he opened it, he began using it as a shield.

But with all this Ibuki smirked as she noticed the air around them calmed down. The rain-nin didn't even realized that he dropped his own technique. With a quick motion the young assassin jumped into the air and picked out several shuriken and kunai. In a flash she threw all the weapons at Mushi's back, seeing that he was still busy fighting off her teammate's furious attacks.

The son of the Hidden Rain Village leader noticed the blades coming at him from behind jump in time to jump into the air in order to avoid certain death, but this was all Kusari needed. Before the rain-nin could do a thing, the metal ball at one of the end's of the Leaf gennin's chain smashed against his head, making him fall to the ground with his head first.

As he crushed hard against the surface, Kai ran towards him, ready to deliver a finish blow, just in case he'd get up. The blonde didn't had to do a thing however, as Mushi lied unconscious on the ground. The loud mouth just kneeled next to him and search him over in hope to find the scroll the Rain team they just defeated carried.

"We have it!" he announced cheerfully, lifting up a white scroll. "We have the Heaven Scroll!" and so he began jumping up and down, making a vein appear on Kumiko's forehead from annoyance that her teammate is still so energetic, even though she's drained from strength.

Hizoku merely smiled under his nose at the sight and placed his weapon back on his back.

---Meanwhile, elsewhere---

Temari and Shikamaru walked down the streets of the Hidden Leaf, with the lazy jounin keeping his hands in his pockets as usual. The blonde kunoichi threw them a quick glare from time to time, ticked a bit.

Finally she grabbed the leaf-nin's hand and wrapped it with her own, making Shikamaru look at her a bit confused. The sand-nin just threw him an angry glare, before she announced: "You still have no idea how you should act on a date, don't lazy ass?"

"Actually, I thought I was just showing you around…" replied the Leaf jounin in his usual voice, but surprisingly a tiny blush appeared on his face. But as Temari was about to smack him with her fan for that comment, Kankuro appeared before them with confusion showing on his face.

As the silence felt between the trio, the Sand kunoichi was the first one to speak up, after she performed the action her brother's appearances stopped her from continuing: "What is it?"

"The Hokage wants to see us…" replied the puppeteer, throwing Shikamaru a suspicious glare. "It's rather important, so we shouldn't make him wait…"

"I guess…" responded Temari with a sigh as she let go of the leaf-nin's hand. "I guess I'll be seeing you, lazy bump…" and with that the two Suna shinobi were gone.

Shikamaru just raised his brow slightly and then shrugged before continuing walking: "If it comes to this, it means things are looking worse then I first assumed…" he thought to himself with concern starting to show on his face.

---Back to Kai and his companions---

"We got it, we got it!" yelled the loud mouth as he kept jumping up and down. "We got the Heaven scroll!" and as he repeated that for at least the tenth time, Kumiko appeared next to him, smashing his head with her fist.

"We know that already, dammit!" she yelled at the blonde who was now laying flat on the ground. "Change the record!" and with that she took the scroll he held in his hand. After a short examination she threw it to Ibuki: "It's best if you take it… better not have both scrolls carried by the same member of the team…"

"Whatever…" was the young assassin's only response as she hid the scroll in one of her hostels. "So now that we have everything we need, can we get to that stupid tower and get this exam over with?" and with that she turned around to face the tower. "Funbo's probably already there…"

"Yeah, we should get going…" nodded Takaru in agreement. "This is the fourth day and we wasted enough time while searching the forest for a team with a scroll… if we hurry, we'll have an extra day to recover before the next exam…"

Let's get going then…" purposed Kusari as he lead the way with his teammates close behind.

"By the way, Hizoku-san…" began Kai, turning around to face the grass-nin. "Thanks for helping us in getting the scroll… I guess we owe you one…"

"Not at all…" responded the redhead with a tiny smile. "I didn't do much, it was you guys who shown skills… besides, that was part of the deal we made, wasn't it?"

"Yeah, I guess you're right…" nodded Kai with a smirk. "I did show my skills!"

The grass-nin's eye-brow went up as a tiny smile appeared on his face: "You're quite confident about yourself, aren't ya?" and with that the blonde's smile widen before he replied:

"Naturally… after all, my name will soon be known to the entire Konoha… modestly wouldn't be appropriate in my case, now would it?" and with that he glared in front of him again. "Besides, you should believe in yourself, because your fate depends only on you…"

At hearing that Hizoku's eyes widen for a split second. His eyes narrowed almost immediately after, as he gained the blonde's attention once more: "You said your name was Kai, right?"

"Yup…" nodded the loud mouth. "Haisha Kai!"

"That blonde sure reminds me of my old self…" Hizoku thought to himself with a smile returning to his face. "And what's more, that last name of his… the moment I saw him he seemed familiar… I should've figured that out when I found out his name was Kai… maybe I was destined to meet him before I... oh well, does it really matter? After all, it's like you always said: 'we may struggle to achieve whatever it is that we want, but the world will always have it's saying in it'… wasn't that right, Chitose-san?" and with that thought he looked at Kai's back for a slight moment. "Never the less, it's ironic to meet him again… your son, that is…" and with that his memories of many years ago once more appeared in his mind.

---to be continued---

And so this chapter ends. Hope you liked it and that you'll leave a review once you're done.

I gotta go now, but hopefully the next chapter won't take so long.

Best wishes and until next time.

Bye.