Location: Konoha -

The selections for the genin teams had already finished, with all the teams being completed with their respective sensei, focusing especially on the location where the jinchuriki of the village were, along with the last surviving Uchiha from the Uchiha massacre seven years ago by the hand of his own brother, Uchiha Itachi.

The respective Team Seven, where they were classified as a leap team due to having apprentices specialized in the use of strong lethal techniques. However, in the first days of the team, they did D-rank missions, helping villagers in the village with their businesses, picking up garbage, or catching the lethal cat Tora, which was a nightmare for them every time they had to catch him because the cat was so elusive that when they tried to catch him, he attacked them, scratching their faces and leaving scars that took a long time to heal, which was strange for a jinchuriki because they had high regeneration, especially considering they were from the Uzumaki lineage.

Something that only showed the lethality of the cat Tora, although something that slightly compensated for that was seeing how it suffered when the Daimyo's wife hugged it tightly when she picked it up every time it escaped. But that was a separate matter. Currently, each member of the team was clear about one thing: the D-rank missions were already annoying for them. So, when they were in front of the Hokage, they demanded a mission of higher rank according to their abilities, something they achieved with the approval of their sensei, being able to take a B-rank mission to escort the bridge builder Tazuna back to his village.

However, for one of the team members, it was the perfect opportunity to put into practice something he had been studying when out of curiosity three years ago, he entered his deserter brother's room to see how it was. Such a room could have been covered in dust if it weren't for his mother cleaning the room, hoping that someday her eldest would return to Konoha, which caused him pain to see his mother enter that room every night until she fell asleep, hoping that Naruto would appear to hug her when she went to sleep when they were younger.

It was a motivation to put all his efforts into the practices he had been doing secretly from his family's eyes. What he had been practicing seemed to be a taijutsu style that his brother had been creating, calling it Ryūsui Gansai-ken (Crushing Rock Flowing Water Fist), a taijutsu that consisted of repelling his opponents' attacks, neutralizing them, or redirecting them with double the power. It was also possible for the user to deflect attacks that were significantly more powerful than their own strength, needing to have a body that was both resilient and flexible to make the most of it, as said in the scroll he had been following. And if what he knew from his sensei's mouth was true, reaffirming it from the pervert sage.

His brother was a beast in taijutsu on the level of Maito Gai, who was the best taijutsu user in Konoha at present, so with that, he was sure that a taijutsu created by his older brother was quite powerful if he could unleash its full potential. His only limiting factor was his body, which didn't quite adapt to the style due to the demands it placed on his body, but that was something he could resolve later when his body got used to it.

Until then, he would take advantage of this B-rank mission to practice with any enemies that attacked them. Since the requested mission was at most with bandits, with whom he could practice what he had already learned.

Location: Forest near Taki no Kuni -

The afternoon had arrived in the forest where a short boy was walking, measuring only 160cm, with a muscular build and fair skin. He had long, straight black hair that gradually turned blue towards his waist. He usually wore it loose, with some strands slightly sticking out on each side of his head, and a slightly shorter set of hair left to frame his face, with a rebellious fringe over his forehead. He also had large greenish-blue eyes that usually gave him an empty look to his expressions.

Carried on his back were several branches with which he could make a fire to keep living peacefully with his brother near Taki no Kuni, as only the two of them had each had different tasks to complete. While his brother took care of the food and could go to a nearby village, he was in charge of wood, herbs, among other things, not helping much in the house where they lived, as they were orphaned by their parents' deaths in different situations, each one while their mother died of a disease, their father died trying to help her, leaving them alone to survive in the middle of a storm so that they would survive.

While both managed to survive in their own way, it wasn't a life that children should live, but the world they lived in wasn't fair to anyone, as not only they suffered but there were more people who had it worse than them. The best example was what was happening in Kirigakure, the village from which their parents came, having to flee when the purges of kekkei genkai (bloodlines) began, as they didn't want to be involved in such ruthless acts, they preferred to leave as much as possible from Kirigakure to have a peaceful life away from the cruelty of the ninja world if possible.

It got them a few years, but as the world was, nothing lasted forever, their parents' deaths happened, leaving them alone in that world to fend for themselves, only having each other, being more specific, the words of his brother, but for him, it was different because he had in his mind the words of his father before they died in that storm, leaving them alone.

"Help others, after all, it returns to oneself for good."

Those words were engraved in his mind until today, helping whoever he could when he met people who were lost in the forest or when he had to go to the village when his brother couldn't, something that caused a conflict with his brother a few days ago, but it was not something that had not happened before since his brother had a cold and strict personality, lying to him away from people when he wanted to help them.

Although the road to his house was interrupted when he saw not far in the sky how black clouds came out from a specific direction, due to that, as the curiosity that represented any child, he went in the direction of the black clouds not taking too long to arrive, being surprised to find a trail of destruction that he followed until he found a crater in which he saw with surprised eye as in the bottom was a person, so getting into the crater to have a better view, he arrived at the person who was in the center, now being able to see more closely who was in the center, seeing that it was a male figure measuring about 1.78 cm, being covered in some parts of his body with his armor but completely shattered from his chest and with cracks in his arms and legs while his face is with his helmet.

He looked closer to check his condition, seeing that he had several wounds on most of his body, but despite that, he was breathing weakly but alive, seeing that he acted as quickly as he could by taking the wounded person by the arm, dragging him to each other with the aim of helping him.