Chapter 5
After their daily routine of running 100 laps around the village with those ankle weights Lee had an announcement. "You have done well thus far my students. However, we must double…" Lee said in a hushed voice before he started screaming "... NO. TRIPLE! OUR EFFORTS!" the Jonin said with a fiery passion.
"Huuuh!? What do you meeeean!? You've been bringing us to death's door every morning" Boruto complained.
"The other Jonin and I have entered into a competition and right now we are losing… which brings me to another topic!" Lee screamed before suddenly pointing at Mitsuki which confused the albino "I've heard from Kiba that you lost to the one they call 'big shin'!" Lee declared before he ran towards his pupil with tears in his eyes "please tell me this isn't true. Tell me that I haven't failed you as a Teacher!" Lee begged.
Mitsuki's eyes widened slightly before he got a dangerous glint in his eye "That's a lie… I not only defeated that fake Uchiha but I knocked out that pretender, Hoki." said Mitsuki in a dark tone which caused the other 3 present to be taken aback for a second by the boy's sudden tone shift.
Lee was the first one to regain his composure and a wide smile graced his face "HAHA I knew you wouldn't let me down Mitsuki. No student I trained would be defeated that easily. I told everyone Kiba was spreading lies and slander!" Lee proclaimed before pulling out his phone and texting everyone in the group chat.
Mirai: 1 win for squad 5! Inojin beat Enko of squad 40.
Lee: Kiba, it is time that the truth be revealed! Unless my student Mitsuki is sorely mistaken then we of squad 7 would have TWO WINS under our belt and those WINS occurred within the same hour! No! the same minute as a matter of fact. And from what I am told the losers ARE Hoki AND Shin! Please check with your dishonest squad and be sure to come with the REAL FACTS before you declare your victories! Thank you!
Kiba: I'll check with my squad but you are full of it Lee! ಠ_ಠ凸
Hinata: Go Kiba!
Lee: Lady Hinata need I remind you that Boruto Uzamaki is on Squad 7!
Shino: Mirai I'd like evidence of that loss please and thank you.
Mirai: ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ OK this can't keep happening!
Hinata: #SQUAD25FORDAWIN!
Lee: …
Sarada looked on as Lee finished texting in his phone enthusiastically as he was mouthing everything he was texting. "Is everything okay Lee-sensei?"
"Yes! Everything is more than fine! We have two victories! And we'll soon have more." the Jonin proclaimed proudly before looking to Boruto.
Boruto looked at him curiously "What?" the boy asked rudely.
"Boruto Uzumaki… What did you do to your mother?"
"Ehhh what are you even talking about… you know what, forget it. I'm done with training for today! I'm going home." Boruto proclaimed before heading off.
"Boruto! We are not done training today! We are tripling our efforts so we're running another 200 laps! Now show me your flames of youth!"
Boruto looked back towards Lee "not done today? Oh, yes we are!" the boy said before he dashed off.
"QUITTER!" Sarada yelled after him.
"Aren't you going to go after him?" Mitsuki asked his sensei.
"No. it is his choice. Boruto may be a genius, but even a genius can be surpassed with hard work. Those are the words of the man I respect above all others! The two of you will leave Boruto in the dust when we unlock the 2nd gate of rest today!
Sarada and Mitsuki looked at each other in anticipation. Saradas day couldn't get any better. Her father was finally home and her sensei was about to teach her a new technique!
"Heh! That guy is too much I swear!" Boruto mumbled to himself as he ran into the village. He stopped to walk aimlessly through the marketplace so that he could text his buddy Shikadai.
He texted as he dodged an oncoming female shopper and her two kids.
Inojin: yeah! Our team is gonna be number 1! - 13h ago
Boruto: Where yall at?
"Watch where you're going! Do you know who I am!?" Boruto exclaimed to the woman and her kids. They apologized to the son of the Hokage but he brushed it off. He had bigger fish to fry somewhere. A look back at his phone told him that Shikadai responded.
Boruto: Where yall at?
Inojin: Hey Enko's giving out FREE DUBS just go and ask her!
Shikadai: But wait until me and Chocho get ours! We gotta make it look believable!
"Pshhh screw that!" Boruto was always eager for an easy win. He'd even planned ahead for the Chunin exams in a way that his peers hadn't. He already set aside the scientific ninja tool he was going to use just for the event. A genius they called him.
"Hah! They've truly got no clue what I'm about!" He told himself inflating his own super sized ego.
"Boruto Uzumaki!" A familiar voice called out to him.
"The one and only! What's it to ya Metal Lee?" Boruto easily recognized the voice that called his name. He turned to face the bushy browed youth that was a spitting image of his father.
"Do you remember how you disrespected my dad that day infront of everyone the day we were assigned to our squads? You even endangered the life of my squadmate Denki when you misfired your flashy rasengan jutsu!" Metal Lee accused him of the crimes quite loudly causing a scene in the busy leaf marketplace.
Boruto could not roll his eyes hard enough. "Oh brother! You said all that to say what? You'd better have a good reason for stopping me while I go on my way!" Boruto yelled back. Meanwhile he caught the eye of Ino Yamanaka who watched them from her flower shop. She pretended to faint as he blew her a kiss and giggled afterwards. (Man Inojin's mom is hot!)
"Pay attention Boruto! I'm challenging you to a battle here and now! But I shall revoke my challenge if you simply apologize for-"
But Boruto cut Metal Lee off before he could finish his ridiculous sentence. Boruto was NOT doing any apologizing for anything. "AWWW MAN will you shut that crap up already! Do you KNOW who I am? You got some kind of brain damage from being around Iwabe too long or does dumbass just run in your family? I'm ROYALTY STUPID what do I look like apologizing for your mediocre dad and your weak friend, DENKI! Yeah right! Must've forgotten just who I am!"
Boruto adopted a fighting stance. As stated earlier, easy wins were his favorite kind.
"I'll give you ONE chance to walk away from here. That's the best I can do for ya!" Boruto practically spat.
Metal Lee gulped but didn't back down, even becoming visibly angered. In a flash he had nunchucks in his hands.
"I'll grab a win for Squad 10 then!" Metal Lee declared.
"Big deal! It's the only squad weaker than squad 40!" Boruto threw back haughtily.
Metal Lee had heard enough; he ran at his opponent, head on but the skilled Boruto created four of his shadow clones in a flash and all four of them dodged out of range of Metal Lee's rapid swinging attacks.
"Where you aimin'?" Boruto taunted as a shadow clone baseball slid in in an attempt to sweep Metal Lee who swiftly leapt to the side and narrowly dodged a haymaker from a nearby shadow clone, punishing it with a hard wack of his nunchuck to the clone's face making it disappear.
"I've gotten better since the academy!" Metal Lee warned as he threw multiple kunai with his open hand which Boruto and the clones dodged. Afterward the 3 remaining clones rushed at Metal Lee who popped them swiftly with his nunchucks, but Boruto threw a smoke bomb to create even more smoke around Metal Lee.
"Damn, I can't see-" Metal Lee was then sent flying into a nearby fruit stand when a small, low powered, vanishing rasengan hit him in the chest. He violently spun and slammed into a wooden bed housing assorted fruits. "Ahhh!"
The damage Metal Lee had just taken was enough to put him down long enough for Boruto to pounce upon him feet first. Metal Lee squealed as the arrogant blonde landed right on his face.
"I WALK on trash like you! I'm about to get a second win from the class angel, Enko, that can trash your entire squad! You third rate wanna be ninja!" Boruto yelled as he continued to stomp on Metal Lee's head.
Metal Lee screamed madly as he exploded into a blind rage hearing that he also wanted to attack Enko. The boy suddenly unleashed a barrage of spinning kicks which caught Boruto in his face and chest with multiple heavy blows the last of which sent him stumbling away from Metal who sprang up and popped Boruto in his skull with his nunchuk without mercy making a nearby lady scream at the horror. However, it exploded in a cloud of smoke, revealing it was a shadow clone.
"Damn him and those shadow clones!" Metal Lee complained as he looked around for his opponent.
Suddenly, a grown man watching the fight ran up and punched Metal Lee right in his head and followed up with multiple punches to Metal Lee's face with some kind of intensity.
Mid-punch the man transformed back into Boruto who continued the assault, but Metal Lee blocked a couple of punches before he caught Boruto in the chin with a fast kick that launched him into the air.
"Ughhhh!" Boruto cried out.
"And this is the real you!" Metal Lee yelled from behind him after he had leapt into the air to finish Boruto off. He wrapped his arms around the blonde shinobi quickly and began to turn him upside down while they were still in midair.
(Get real! He thinks he's gonna get me with this tired ass move! He must not know who I am!) Boruto never got tired of saying this both outloud and inside his own head.
Thinking quickly, Boruto forcefully opened the gate of opening which granted him the strength to force open Metal Lee's arms as he twisted in midair to grab one of his surprised opponent's arms and spin like a maniac to throw Metal downward with all the force he could muster. He then weaved hand signs before clapping his hands together hard.
"It's over with! Wind Release: Gale Palm!" Boruto unleashed a blast of wind from his open palms that pushed several shuriken deep into Metal Lee's chest. As the force of the jutsu also pushed him hard into the ground with a loud slam that could be heard from up and down the street. Metal Lee convulsed heavily as the force from the fall and the jutsu banged his head and body into the earth below. With 3 shuriken planted into his chest the son of the blue beast was knocked out cold.
"Hey! I heard about this little contest you guys got goin but this too much! This isn't the Chunin exams you're- trying to kill each other!" Ino Yamanaka scolded as she ran from her flower shop to immediately tend to Metal lee. The platinum blonde Jonin woman knelt beside the unconscious genin and weaved hand signs of her own to administer healing via medical ninjutsu.
Boruto was still breathing hard even after he landed on the ground. His head was about to crack from the pain alone. But he was still standing dammit!
(Hmph. Can't let Inojin and the others know this chump gave me such a hard time. But that was a close one! Sheesh Metal Lee gimme a break!) Boruto shot his fist into the air triumphantly and the crowd around them went wild at his victory. He couldn't help but grin like a fool.
(That's another win for squad 7! And a visit from Enko will make it 2! Sarada and Mitsuki can scoop up the rest. Chunin exams here we come!) Boruto thought to himself before using the body flicker technique to dramatically disappear leaving Metal Lee in the care of Ino Yamanaka.
Within the hour Boruto was texting his sensei.
Boruto: Since I left practice I went and racked up two wins for squad 7! Metal Lee and Enko Onikuma were my victims. You can ask Ino Yamanaka about YOUR SON and Enko's an honest girl all ya gotta do is ask. Uzamaki out!
Rock Lee: ( ⊹o⊹) That is very good to hear Boruto. You are indeed a worthy member of Squad 7!
Boruto: Better not 4get it! (⌐▨_▨)
Lee had dismissed Sarada and Mitsuki for the day after they successfully opened the second gate. Afterwards Sarada chose to spend the rest of the day relaxing, after she used the 2nd gate to regain her stamina.
Sarada was just exiting a cafe when she heard a loud crash, the kunoichi quickly ran towards it to investigate. Upon arriving she saw Wasabi laying in some broken boxes, completely knocked out as her teammate Namida tended to her. The Uchiha looked to see Iwabe standing over them, completely out of breath, holding his metal pipe with a giant rock on one side. "Yeah that's right! 1 victory for team 10!" the boy proudly proclaimed.
Sumire stepped forward confidently "Do you want to try for two?" the girl challenged.
Iwabe smirked, "Bring it! I didn't see much from you in the academy, but everyone keeps saying you're really strong. I'll believe that when I see it!"
Sumire quickly went through a few hand signs before slapping her hand to the ground "Summon Jutsu!" in a puff of smoke, a small weak looking monkey-like creature with tiger claws appeared.
This caused Iwabe to laugh "what's that? I think I'd feel bad fighting it." As Iwabe laughed, several black tendrils extended from Nue's tail and grasped Iwabe. Iwabe quickly fell to his knees "what!?" was all the boy could say before he collapsed to the ground and Nue grew to the size of a wolf.
Sumire giggled. "I guess that's one victory for team 15." the purple haired kunoichi stated before Nue started growling and looked down the alley towards Sarada. "Sarada? I always wanted to take you on," said the class-rep in a strangely sweet voice.
"Huh really?" Sarada questioned
"Of course, I want to see which of us is fit to be beside Boruto"
"What? What are you even talking about!"
"I've seen the way you look at him. I could tell you like him too. I'm not going to lose to you, Sarada." Sumire said as she pulled out a kunai and her eyes became more serious.
Sarada pulled out a kunai feeling annoyed that her crush was exposed but she still tried to deny it "I don't know what you mean, but I won't lose" she said as she activated her Sharingan.
"Very well… Nue!" Sumire shouted towards her summoning which immediately unleashed a barrage of black tendrils. The Uchiha quickly ducked and weaved through all of them with ease. Sumire, seeing this, weaved a few hand signs "Water style: water spirit wave!" shouted the girl before she clasped her hands together and pointed her fingers towards Sarada like a gun. Afterwards she fired two shots towards Sarada.
Sarada quickly rolled to the side and Nue chased after her swinging its paw downwards to the girl. The young Uchiha placed her hands on her ground and pushed herself upwards to jump out of the way as Nue's claw strike tore through the ground. Nue quickly turned around and swung its tail at Sarada who narrowly dodged before punching Nue in the side with a chakra infused punch "CHA!" the girl exclaimed as the wolf-sized summoning was sent flying into a wall.
Sarada looked towards Sumire who started to weave hand signs again and Sarada quickly followed suit "Water Style: Water Spirit Wave!" both girls exclaimed as they both began firing water bullets at each other. Sumire was slightly surprised by this seeing her own jutsu being used against her but quickly resolved herself and began firing her bullets in quicker succession. Sarada had no choice but to leap backwards when she realized Sumire's bullets were a lot faster than hers and she couldn't keep up.
(I guess I need more practice with water nature chakra) the sharingan user thought to herself as she started to run up a wall. Sumire quickly aimed her jutsu upwards and fired three more shots towards Sarada, which the girl avoided by leaping behind a billboard which the jutsu tore through.
Nue pulled up next to Sumire and the young kunoichi quickly jumped on its back as it began to run up the wall. Sarada leapt from behind the destroyed billboard and cast her jutsu "Lightning style: Lightning Ball!" shouted the girl as several orbs of lightning circled her before they started to converge on Sumire and Nue.
Sumire while on the wall quickly weaved more hand signs and on the side of the building screamed out "Water Style: Water formation wave!" as a protective wall of water spread over her when she spit out a stream of water at Nue's feet. The wall of water managed to block the jutsu. "And now!" Sumire quickly weaved more hand signs "Water style: Water Spirit Wave" she said as the wall of electrified water formed into a giant orb on her finger tips.
Sarada's eyes went wide as Sumire started shooting a barrage of electrified water bullets in quick succession at her. Sumire smirked at the look in Sarada's eyes and it wasn't before long that she managed to hit Sarada, but before she could celebrate she felt a foreign chakra being infused into her and Sarada vanished. Nue quickly jumped off the wall and to the ground to avoid a punch from the Uchiha which punched a hole at the corner of the building. "Thank you, Nue. you noticed I was in a genjutsu and helped me break out of it didn't you."
Sarada leapt down and rushed towards Sumire with a kunai drawn. Sumire jumped off of Nue's back and met her with her own kunai. The two girls clashed and quickly broke apart, Sumire reaching into her pouch to grab some shuriken and throw them at the Uchiha. Sarada dodged out of the way of the ninja tools but got pinned against the wall by Nue. The black tendrils reappeared and moved to take Sarada's chakra, but Sarada made a hand sign "Chidori Stream!" and Sarada's entire body was coated with electricity, shocking Nue, forcing the summoning to let go.
Sumire quickly fired another barrage of water spirit waves at Sarada, refusing to give the girl a break. The Uchiha caught the action with her sharingan and quickly started to cartwheel away from the rapid succession of the multitude of water bullets. Sarada soon dropped the Chidori Stream due to how much chakra it consumed and Sumire immediately rushed her. Sumire did a spinning back towards Sarada's head which the girl ducked under and followed it up with a backhand. The Uchiha blocked it, but Sumire was nimble enough to grab Sarada's wrist and jump behind her in an attempt to pin her to the ground.
Sarada responded by using her momentum to spin around and kick Sumire in the chin. The purple haired girls quickly disengaged by back flipping in mid-air to land on her feet. Sumire wiped the blood from her lip. "I'll have to try a bit harder." said the girl as she weaved some more hand signs once again "Water Style: Water clone Jutsu!" screamed Sumire as she created three water clones who each pulled out a kunai before rushing at Sarada.
Sarada blocked an oncoming kick from one of them while kicking another one which exploded into a puddle of water. (She's a lot stronger than I thought. How can she keep throwing out these elemental jutsu like they're nothing) Sarada thought to herself before one of Sumerei's clones managed to punch her. Sarada quickly retreated to the broken billboard as the clones gave chase "I guess I was too cocky to think I could beat you like this." Sarada said before she rolled up her leggings to reveal some ankle weights while they were still running. The Uchiha undid the straps on the weights and kicked them towards 2 of the clones. One clone dodged while the other was hit and immediately exploded into water.
As Sarada reached the broken billboard she turned around and kicked off of it to dash towards Sumire with speeds that shocked her opponent. Sumeri was hit in her gut and sent flying into a wall however Nue Jumped between Sumire and the wall to soften the blow to its owner. Sumerei got back to her feet very shakily and while Sarada was watching her one of Sumerei's water clones fired a Water Spirit Wave at Sarada from the side of the wall. Sarada quickly dodged and in no time appeared before Sumerei's clone to promptly disperse it with a kick.
"Grr… I can't lose here…" said Sumire, exhausted, as she went through hand signs once more "Water style: water clone jutsu" only this time the water shot up from around her to attempt to form a clone but quickly fell apart to become a puddle instead. Sumerie realized that she had less chakra left than she thought and looked towards Nue who was injured from not only the blow he protected her from but Sarada's lightning jutsu from earlier.
Sumire grit her teeth and moved into a more defensive stance, readying herself for Sarada's next attack. The Uchiha vanished in a flash of speed, but Sumerei managed to keep up with her movements enough to narrowly dodge an upwards kick to her chin by bending backwards. However, this was not enough and Sarada followed up with another attack "Leaf Whirlwind!" shouted the girl as she kicked Sumire in the side causing her to fly into a wooden sign.
Sarada looked towards Sumire and once she saw she wasn't getting back up Sarada exhaled. "Phew, that was a tough one. Guess, I've got to thank Lee-sensei for that weight training." Sarada said as her legs gave way and she collapsed to the ground on her bottom and deactivated her sharingan. "Glad it's over I'm not sure how much longer I could've kept my sharingan active if it went on any longer." Sarada said to herself before she pulled out her phone.
Sarada: (^▽^) Another win for Squad 7! I just beat Sumire!
Lee: What!? For real? Amazing Sarada-chan! That's 5 wins for team 7! We're in the lead!
Big Shin was in the middle of some hard core training. "HO! HA!HO! HWUAGH! He breathed with the exercise as he relentlessly knocked the back off a tree with his bare fists. Underneath the sleeves of his black shirt were a second pair of ankle weights but wrapped around his upper arms. After 100 punches with each hand it was 100 kicks to the inner tree with each leg. When Sarada had told him about punching trees he thought she was crazy. He really hated all the running she had him doing when they weren't training together. Though he couldn't help but see a difference in his strength. He could tell that she was as impressed with his training as he was in her growth with her sharingan. Whoever fought her was gonna have their hands full, that was for sure. SInce it was time for a rest and he was about halfway through that tree, he took the opportunity to take a break and replenish his chakra with a blue colored sports drink. Big Shin greatly doubted whether this sports drink was truly mountain flavored or not but just knew it was his favorite. He knew of the little game the Jonin were playing with each other, like each of his fellow genin did and was all too eager to take part. Although instead of chasing anyone down he just stuck to his training. Still he wanted to fight any of the other boys in his class, even Mitsuki again, and didn't feel like looking for them. So after asking Sarada for her phone number he also asked her for the numbers of each of his classmates. The girl complied and gave her the numbers for who she had. Big Shin sent a group text to most of the class.
Big Shin: Look. I'm not looking for any of you losers. Any of you want to pull up on Big Shin and get decked for a loss come try your luck. Its for whoever! #4estofdeath)
Blunt and to the point as ever. Big Shin had sent his text early that morning. It was now an hour after noon. And it was about time to go home but he was considering pulling an all nighter. Sarada had emphasized about the amount of time and effort she'd put into her training to display that insane speed that she and Mitsuki both possessed and Big Shin wanted that speed or to at least be quick enough to react to it. However his strength was the first and most consistent change that he'd noticed. He thought he had some hard punches before. Please. He now considered his old self weak and slow compared to what he was capable of now. He rested for about half an hour before he felt fully replenished. That blue mountain flavored stuff really worked when you let it. He went to stand up but froze in place, on his feet, when he heard something. Not something small like a squirrel but something that was coming but not trying to hide itself. Big Shin turned to the direction it was coming from and waited.
A boy from his class soon joined him in the clearing and it wasn't one of the boys he had sent his group text to. A skinny fair skinned boy stepped out from the nearby trail. His hair was black, long and flowing down his back. He was about Borutos same height which brought him barely up to Shins chest. He wore a bright red robe spotted with an array of orange flames decorating the hem but nothing on his feet. His eyes were the same light gray of the Hyuga clan; it was obvious he possessed the Byakugan. Big Shin knew of him but didn't really expect him. His name was Negi Hyuga, Boruto's cousin, but that was about all Shin knew of him. He was very quiet in class and really discussed little with anyone. Big Shin had temporarily forgotten he'd existed and Sarada didn't even give him Negi's number. If he remembered correctly he was on squad 40 together with Enko and Tsuru.
(Hm. Didn't see this one coming.) Big Shin was suspicious. Big Shin put up his guard, thinking they were planning to jump him again, assuming his message rubbed someone the wrong way. Though Big Shin didn't care too much if it was, was what the boy told himself. (So what?)
"I'm alone. I would not employ a cowardly tactic like an ambush," Negi spoke first in a soft voice with a tone that was very sure of itself. He seemed to know what Big Shin was thinking. "...even against scum like you." The Hyuuga finished in a harsher tone.
"Tch. Your choice, Whatever." Big Shin cracked his knuckles, followed by his neck and smirked knowingly.
Negi Hyuga wasn't impressed and responded to the sharingan user's comments with his eyes closed. "It's just like trash, like you ,with no future to act big and tough. Back in the Academy I saw when Boruto and his gang of riff-raff assaulted you. Normally, I'd have stepped in to prevent such unjust actions, but I didn't because I know why they did it." Negi performed a hand sign and opened his eyes to reveal an activated Byakugan.
Big Shin clapped his hands. "You wanna cookie? Perhaps a lollipop?" Sarcasm heavy in Big Shin's voice as he eyed his new adversary with his always active sharingan.
"I've heard about how you tried to employ more cowardly actions like faking a win for what your kind call 'clout'... pathetic. It seems my cousin failed in teaching you your place in society so I will be the one to give you a thrashing this time, the right way."
"I'll try being nice for once. There's no way you can actually beat me." As Big Shin spoke he took the time to remove the weights around his arms and legs. He kept his eyes on his opponent but there was no need. Negi Hyuga would settle for nothing less than an honorable victory.
"Ill return the favor. This new look of yours isn't really working. The black shirt and jeans along with the bracelets with the spikes…..yeah you're doing yourself no favors. You look that much closer to what everyone thinks of you… a future missing-nin with their face plastered in the bingo book." Negi Hyuga, criticized as he fell into a classic Hyuga stance.
"You talk a lot of shit! Now I'm going to embarrass your dumbass! I remember you kept going on and on about your family taijutsu in the Academy. That was REALLY irritating." Shin said as he punched his knuckles together before putting his hands up and adopting his own original taijutsu stance. "Why not make this shit interesting? We'll have ourselves a Taijutsu match and only limit ourselves to a single Ninjutsu. Hell, I'll even not use Genjutsu. What do you say to that, you pompous prick?"
"Very well… I accept. Though I don't expect someone like you to follow their own rules." Negi Hyuga stated still in his taijutsu stance. The Hyuuga didn't care about the competition between the squads, because he felt he didn't have to prove anything. For Negi this was about administering justice with his own two palms.
An idea on how Negi knew about his text message crossed Shin's mind. "After I beat your ass, just send your cousin my way. Don't worry, I'll be sure to take care of him. Since I'm sure that yellow belly is the one who sent you." Big Shin told Negi smugly. Negi's smirk was his only response before the battle began. (I knew it. The son of the Hokage truly is a coward. Hmph) It made Big Shin just want to punch his happy go lucky face even more.
Negi's speed was the first thing to surprise the pale orphan before he knew it Negi was in front of him jabbing away with thrusting strikes, aiming the tips of his fingers at certain areas before striking with amazing speed and accuracy. Big Shin of course saw and caught every single movement with his sharingan, but had to move quickly to block every one of Negi's thrusts that seemed to be aimed for his midsection area. Big Shin was on the defensive for the first couple of moments but counter attacked the second the opportunity presented itself with a straight jab that was weaved with style. However Negi countered with a menacing barrage that Big Shin leapt backward to completely avoid. Pivoting on his right foot the sharingan user thrust himself forward and slammed onto Negi with a series of punches that the red robed shinobi seemed to dance in between. This continued until he suddenly leaned forward to strike Big Shin hard between the eyes right under his forehead protector.
(!) Big Shin stumbled back but managed to grab ahold of one of Negi's forearms. "Idiot! Its over!" Big Shin predicted as he slung Negi hard and attempted to body slam him, but Negi was as graceful as he was agile and caught himself on his open hand before hitting the ground, spinning his body away from his opponent. A thrust thrown like a quick hook found Big Shin's hip causing a jolt of pain to be sent through the bigger boy leading him to get some distance by jumping away from Negi, who was on him again upon his brief landing. "What!? Damn!" Big Shin narrowly blocked two strikes but the third, fourth and fifth strikes landed home in rapid succession. Big Shin's response was to block his entire midsection with both arms. However Negi just found a new target, his face.
"Have this!" Negi yelled as he beat Big Shin's face with a series of powerful open hand palm thrusts that had Big Shin seeing stars. Dazed and taking damage, Big Shin resorted to running into his opponent to attempt a bear hug. But once again the young Hyuga was all too ready for him. Using Big Shin's own momentum and body weight against him, Negi turned his own body to grab Big Shin's arm and placed a foot out in front of the pale youth to sling him forward. Big Shin fell to the earth, but caught himself in the push up position. The Hyuuga came down upon his opponent like a vulture.
"8 Trigrams: Downcast Destruction!" Negi exclaimed, but the sharingan user pushed up with all of his strength and speed, lifted his young clone body off of the ground so that he could turn, spin and crash right into Negis temple with a hard elbow.
If Negi hadn't turned his head in time to catch the savage blow with his forehead protector chances were Negi would be asleep. Instead he was sent stumbling backward.
Big Shin also had to quickly restabilize his footing from the fast spinning move he'd just displayed. (This guy!? I guess I missed his temple. He should be out cold right now!)
Negi acknowledged him with his eyes and a slight smirk. "Why must such talent be wasted on you? You're actually pretty good. You've improved on your speed quite a bit." Negi stated aloud.
"Even in that state you can't stop talking down to me? And you've been watching me from a distance or something? Creepy." Big Shin said, hiding his sudden shock at this boy's skill.
"Oh these eyes catch everything and everywhere. Like how your heartbeat quickened when you first laid eyes on Sarada Uchiha…No. Come to think of it, there was also familiarity in your eyes. Didn't think you'd catch her at school did you?" Negi teased as he informed Big Shin.
"Tch. She's not important. Who cares?" Big Shin tried to front but at the mention of her name he had revealed himself.
"Oh you do, these eyes see the things most miss. However, that girl has a future and someone like you would only drag her down!" Negi said this as he dashed in for another series of attacks believing his opponent to be open, but that wasn't the case. Big Shin now moved his body out of range to avoid the oncoming Hyuga as he simultaneously studied his opponent for an opening, vowing silently that it would be Negi's final mistake in this battle.
Negi's skills in taijutsu were nothing to scoff at. Big Shin attempted a sudden front kick to Negis midsection, but it was caught by Negi's lifted knee before he sprawled to the earth sideways and delivered a sweep to Big Shin's other leg. Big Shin fell, rolling away quickly when he hit the ground. Which surprisingly irritated Negi who hadn't expected it.
Determined to not let Shin up this time, Negi fell upon him with kicks aimed to his head and face. His attacks were too fast and precise for Big Shin to successfully grab him again. Now, Big Shin was getting irritated. He eventually decided to endure a few rapid kicks to his now bruised face as he quickly pushed himself up again and threw a desperate cross-counter that hit Negi right in his mouth. The resulting POP echoed around them as Negi stumbled backward, his lips cut up on the inside from his teeth. The taste of blood in his mouth put Negi on higher alert. He only had seconds to duck from the barrage of blows that threatened to end this fight. After successfully dodging Big Shin he desperately performed hand signs before spinning his entire body around. Big Shin's eyes caught every movement but Negi's speed with this practiced technique was just amazing.
"8 Trigrams: Exploding Rotation Blast!" Negi called out his move as chakra whirled around his entire body and expanded outward as it caught on fire.
"What the FFF-" Big Shin took the fiery blast head on and was sent careening backward through the forest behind him. His sudden propulsion was only stopped short by a tree that was there to greet his approaching backside. Big Shin's head also bounced against the tree violently before he collapsed to the ground hitting his unguarded face on a hard gnarled tree root. Now he too tasted blood only it was his outer lip that was bleeding. And badly it had been split. On top of that his clothes and some of his skin was badly singed. The burns on his body were in need of immediate medical attention.
The only reason Big Shin was able to get up quickly from the force of that attack and its impact was because he was suddenly enraged by his throbbing, leaking lower lip. His teeth were bared like he was some sort of enraged animal. The intense pain was there but he somehow ignored it all. Too caught up in his fury to pay his sore body any attention.
"Your Sharingan probably picked it up. That's right, I used two jutsu just now. My ash pile burning Jutsu coupled with my Rotation, both used in conjunction to pull off my most devastating technique. I hope that isn't a problem." Negi had the nerve to give his burned opponent a challenging smirk, but the fact that Shin was still standing caused the boy to question (Just how tough was this Big Shin?) Too bad for Negi he was about to find out.
"Think I care about that!? I don't! Cuz' I'm pissed and I've just decided to end this!" Big Shin showed his anger through another intensified threat through his bleeding teeth.
"Your tough talk is starting to have the same effect as your new choice of wardrobe. It's starting to just bore me." Negi informed rather formally. He resolved to move at his highest speed, coming at the orphan one final time.
(There!) Big Shin hastily activated his Mangekyou sharingan to transport a single Katana into the area which appeared right in front of the approaching Hyuga. Big Shin held it still and firm for Negi to impale himself upon it. But the shocked Hyuga managed to sidestep the blade that seemed to come from nowhere.
"What in the world!?" Negi could only gasp. Just in time for Big Shin to open the gate of opening and throw himself forward with all of his might and resolve.
"AUGHHHHHH!" Big Shin landed an ugly thrown punch with an insane amount of power behind it right into Negi's cranium before clasping his big hands quickly around the genin's neck and running forward to take them both down. Big Shin landed right on top of him and began to squeeze Negi's windpipe HARD. Stunned from the volatile slug, Negi could only grit his teeth as he struggled to breath. His eyes became full of fear as they seemed to communicate a question which Big Shin bothered himself to answer.
"I'm NOT gonna kill you ya piece of crap, but I am gonna put your stupid ass out! Who do you THINK you are splitting my lip are you CRAZY! You must be CRAZY!" Big Shin raved madly as he began to shake the young Hyuga as he strangled him ruthlessly his enraged Mangekyou sharingan eyes stared back into the focused Byakugan of his enemy.
Negi's eyes rolled into his head and his Byakugan went inactive as he quite frankly passed out as Big Shin cut off his air supply and continued to do so until he was sure he was no longer conscious.
Big Shin finished by releasing Negi's throat to spew a mouthful of blood all over Negis face before he struck it with a horrendous back handed slap.
He was still very angry but the consequences of opening the first gate would soon be underway. He wove hand signs and doused Negi with a weakened Surging Sea jutsu. Which woke up the defeated Hyuga but left him absolutely soaked.
When he awoke he only stared back at Shin as if some revelation had dawned upon him. "*cough* so it's my loss *cough cough* but this doesn't change anything! She will never love you and I look forward to seeing you in the Bingo Book." Negi said as he rolled over on his hands and knees to glare upwards at Shin.
Big Shin simply gave him the bird before using his space time ninjutsu to leave the area.
***Side Story***
***takes place during chapter 1***
Naruto had just announced that Lee would be in charge of Boruto, Sarada and Mitsuki. Lee's eyes flared up with visible flames "Thank you, Naruto for entrusting me with your son. I won't let you down!" Lee declared before looking towards Sakura who took a nervous step backwards. "Know that I also will not let you down! I will make sure Sarada-chan will live up to her family's name! My team will burn brighter than the sun itself!"
"Oh -uh thanks… Lee" Sakura said with a nervous chuckle.
"No thanks necessary Sakura-chan team 7 will burn brighter than any genin team of this generation!" Lee declared, which caused all the Jonin present to look straight at Lee.
"Hey! Hold on! You must be drunk again! Because there's no way my team is going to lose to yours!" declared Kiba as he pointed towards the bushy browed man.
"Kiba… you don't even know who's in your squad yet…" stated Shino which irritated the Inuzuka clan member.
"That doesn't matter!" Kiba shot back "Any squad I train will be the best, end of story." the Inuzuka smugly proclaimed as his faithful canine friend, Akamaru, barked in agreement.
"That's funny… I didn't know you had jokes."
Kiba turned to Shino "what was that?" Kiba growled as his claws lengthened.
"I was scouted as a teacher at the Ninja Academy for my skills as a teacher, but I turned them down once I realized I'm better suited to teaching young genin in the field. There's no way any Genin I raise will lose to anyone" Shino said as the sound of insects buzzing could be heard coming from him.
Tenten intervened and got between Shino, Kiba and Lee "Hey hold on this isn't a competition. Why don't you two calm down?"
"You're right Tenten…" Lee declared and Tenten breathed in a sigh of relief before Lee began speaking again "No other team would stand a chance against mine so there is no point of competition. It just wouldn't be fair to all the other Jonin and their squads to be expected to keep up with the training regiment of Gai-sensei. I mean even you couldn't do it back in the day" Lee said quite innocently before he screamed "Youth!" and dashed out of the Hokage's office, presumably to the Ninja academy to meet his genin.
Naruto watched Lee leave and part of him wanted to stop him since he'd likely get there before Anko had a chance to even let the genin know who's squads they were in, but let him go figuring everyone else would be easier to deal with now that he was gone.
"You know what? That guy has never gotten over coming second to The Great Neji Hyuga. Iam SO not worried about it." Tenten just blew off the green spandex wearing ninja but Lee was too far gone and likely didn't hear her.
"Yeah who does he think he is… I already said my team will be the best" Kiba said, catching his fist in his palm.
"Keep dreaming Kiba, my squad will be the best. After all, I'll be passing on the teachings of one of the Legendary Sannin" Sakura suddenly declared, causing all the Jonin to argue at once, talking over each other, each saying that their team will be the best.
"QUIET!" Naruto screamed which caused the room to fall silent. "I'm okay with a bit of competition, but please I've got a lot of work to do so let me finish declaring the squads so I could have a chance of making it back home at night, then you guys can argue outside" Naruto begged which made a few of the Jonin say small apologies. "Thank you…. Now, where was I? Next is… squad 10 with Inojin, Shikadai and Chocho… they'll be assigned to Tenten."
"Yes! My lucky number! They'll definitely rise to the top!" Tenten excitedly declared.
"WAIT!" came a voice at the back of the crowd. Everyone looked to see the newest Jonin, Mirai Sarutobi who became Jonin at the young age of 16 and is just now about to take on a genin squad at 17. "I didn't know my little bro, Shikadai, and his friends were graduating this year! I know my father was also in charge of the last generation of Ino-shika-cho. The reason I wanted to take on a genin squad was to follow in his footsteps. Lord 7th can I be put in charge of them?" Mirai requested.
Naruto started to ponder the idea before Tenten interrupted by making an X symbol with her arms "Nu-uh no way! This is like destiny! There is no way I'm giving up on squad 10. Come on Tenten… squad TEN…"
Kiba whispered to Shino, "Sheesh, I had no idea she was superstitious." causing the Aburame clan member to nod his head in agreement.
Mirai stepped forward and got in Tenten's face "What kind of reasoning is that!? You don't even care who your genin are!" The younger girl shot back and the two women started glaring at each other with sparks flying.
"Well that's too bad they were already assigned to me. Besides, you were already given a squad earlier. What was it? Squad 5 with Iwabe, Metal and Denki. You already gave up on them before meeting them?" Tenten questioned which infuriated Mirai even more.
Naruto cut through the tension in the room by slamming the side of his fist into his desk "Enough of this! What's gotten into all of you all of a sudden? Look, if Tenten is okay with it you two can swap genin squads but keep your current numbers. I don't believe I'm the one that has to play peacemaker for all of you now when I used to be the one that'd fly off the handle all the time…" The Hokage lamented as everyone looked towards Tenten waiting for her answer.
Tenten sighed. "I'm fine with that. My team will be a ten out of ten no matter who they are." declared the weapon mistress with a wink.
Naruto cleared his throat and continued reading off squads again.
