"Danzo...do you have any information about this? Kindly explain this to me." Hiruzen said 'calmly' as he pointed at one of the anbu's reports of the incidents.
Danzo looked at the reports given by Hiruzen, it had information about the attack on various genins, the anbu responsible for maintaining the rules. It had information about people who were eye witness of Ichi and those root nin trying to kill Satoru's team.
"I have proof that your root shinobi sneaked into the exams as other country's ninja and an anbu member. These ninjas of yours are responsible for several deaths and also bringing the interests of that organization to this exam!" Hiruzen said as he handed him another file, this one containing information on Naka.
"It was done by my subordinate code name 'Ichi'. I had recently given a team of Root ninjas to command, I didn't know he would try to kill Satoru even after I warned him." Danzo said while accepting the file, clearly unbothered by shifting the blame to someone else.
The file of Naka showed that several genins and Anbu nins were killed with their heart ripped out of their bodies while they were alive. Photos of orochimaru and Naka and the destruction caused by their fight were also included, highlighted even.
"What do you mean by 'warned him', did you knew all these people would die? If you knew that this Naka guy would come to the exam then why didn't you tell me?" Hiruzen said why walking to see Danzo eye-to-eye.
"Back during that bandit mission...we had several people who survived and some of them were from their side. My root nin read minds and we learnt that when satoru was in a life-threatening state caused by a sand jonin and one of those bandit's leader, this Naka killed his own member and rescued Satoru."
"What do you mean 'killed his own member and rescued Satoru'?" Hiruzen asked not knowing about what he said.
"From the memories of one of the leaders named 'Ko', I came to understand that there are two teams with their own 'Naka' and during that mission a different one was meant to the mission. But this Naka forcefully replaced his counterpart and joined the mission." Danzo explained
Danzo saw through the memories and realized that there are two 'hands of this organization, one 'migi' and the other 'hidari'. Ko alongside the other four leaders were part of the hidari team, but the Naka of their team was replaced by team migi's.
From the memories of several members including Ko, he learnt that Naka lied to Ko and replaced the one who was originally supposed to lead.
"I also found that the village Satoru and that Reiko went to was Naka's camp to command and th..."Danzo was explaining but was cut off
"Get to the FUCKING POINT!!!" Hiruzen shouted, his patience was running thin.
Danzo continued explaining unbothered by Hiruzen's shout "Naka probably ignored an order and went to a mission where he wasn't supposed to because he knew Satoru will be there. He let Satoru defeat as many bandits as he wanted and didn't do anything about it,
He had the perfect reason and opportunity to kill Satoru and his friends but chose not to despite his reputation of being someone who kills for fun and pleasure.
When he realized Satoru would be in danger, he killed his own teammates, bandits and a fellow leader to prevent satoru from dying...and you also know what Satoru said about Naka in his report. Something like 'knew who I was or someone who I used to know.'"
"W-what the hell? Why do so many things revolve around this kid of all people. What relation does he have with Satoru to abandon his mission of taking Orochimaru with him and fight your root ninjas." Hiruzen was confused by the things he was getting to know.
"That boy also described that Naka was fighting Orochimaru with a handicap by sending out a puppet to protect him from Ichi when he was attacked the second time."
Hiruzen thought. 'He was using the jutsu earth grudge fear, which means he left behind a puppet with significant chakra and abilities to protect Satoru while he fought with only the five elements and a mask with the sharingan...how did he get a mask with the ability of sharingan?'
Hiruzen started to suspect that hidden waterfall had something to do with this, 'konoha has been at odds with land or waterfall since the end of the war. Could it be that they sent their strongest here to destroy our reputation? Or did someone else just happened to have their kinjutsu...'
Hiruzen's thought were interrupted by Danzo "what are you planning to do? There is a chance that the waterfall ninjas attacked us as revenge for the last war."
"Summon koharu and homura, we'll have to go there to deal with this problem. And why would they us attack now? It has been 15 years since the last war, they could have attacked us at any of the chunin exams in this gap. Anyway, alert our spies in waterfall." Hiruzen said as he walked away.
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The sun was about to rise in a few minutes, the faint orange hue was visible to those who would fucking pay attention. A massive chicken was woken up by dew drops which fell on it.
The chicken was about to ruin everyone's sleep by shouting the top of its lungs, but a savior blasted the chicken into dust and blood and saved all of humanity from the abomination known as 'cocks'
The savior was a 12 year old boy, he wore shinobi pants and that full sleeve sweater thingy with Uzumaki clan symbols. He had two swords strapped on his waist, one black like the shadows while the other was cloudy with lightning patterns.
He walked back to his fence to check up on his friends, hoping that at least one of them is alive and still sane, what he saw brought him great joy and great concern.
Chosuke was pinned down as he was in tattered clothes. His clothes were tore in a way which could only be explained by a man or beast desperately trying defile him.
"Please man PLEASE! Let me go man! I'm begging you, IM BEGGING YOU!!!" Chosuke begged, but his voice didn't mean anything to the one who was defining chosuke.
Kaito was drooling with a crazed smile, he tried his best to claw his way out of the bind he was in, hoping to tear through Chosuke's defences and claim him as his.
Satoru walked closer to them, realizing that Satoru had returned, Chosuke felt a level of relief which couldn't be explained in words, but it could be explained in a scenario.
Imagine after a day full of stressful day you go home and take a shit, no one disturbs you and the shit comes out smoothly without using the good'ol ○×○×○×○× strategy. And then when you go to sleep, your pillow is cold and it's raining outside and you don't get reminded of your past failures and regretful moments.
"Please! HELP ME! I can't hold him back any longer, he is too strong." Chosuke pleaded. Satoru took out an injection and injected Kaito with the antidote.
Kaito fell down to the ground as his senses returned to him and his erection stopped erecting. "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO ME?!?" Kaito shouted.
"Chosuke fed you a aggression inducing poison, even though I have given you the cure, you have have deal with a raging boner for a while. You probably got that boner from the increased blood flow."
"What the hell is wrong with you Chosuke! How could do this to me?" Kaito asked.
Chosuke didn't reply because he was too tired of Satoru's bullshit. Kaito was embarrassed of what he was doing and Satoru enjoyed their suffering,
"Anyways, let's go! The sun has come up and time is running out." Satoru said cheerfully.
They packed their stuff and began their journey straight to the tower.
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"We are surrounded! More than 6 people are around us. We won't be able to pass if they cut our escape route." The redhead said as she used her sensory jutsu, warning her friends.
"The tower should be n-near, right? We can outrun them and then, then..." the blonde boy said but suddenly a dark skinned boy landed in front of them, blocking their way.
"I'll be having those badges now, give it to me yourself or I'll be forceful." The boy said as he smirked and unsheathed his sword.
"His other teammates are watching are watching from a distance, which means they think he is strong enough to defeat us on his own. His chakra signatures also support this." The redhead said worry filled her,
"That's right! I have defeated chunins back in my hometown, I'm way beyond a genin's level." The boy said while launching a wave of electricity from his sword.
The redhead's teammate Soma, launched a wind wave to counter it. The two waves clashed as dust and debris was sent flying everywhere. The clash gave the team just enough distraction to move away from the kumo ninjas.
The redhead saw Soma stay behind and fend of the ninjas, she tried to go back to fight beside her friend but her friend stopped her. "Soma! We can't leave him and go like this!" She protested while trying to escape her friend's grip as they kept running.
"Don't be rash! Killing is not allowed here, he will be fine. We should focus on protecting our badges!" Tanaka said as they weaved through trees and the flora of the forest.
The kumo ninjas kept up the chase as Tanaka purposefully ran near to lairs of various beasts. Tanaka threw paper bombs near their nest angering several large animals which also gave chase.
'With those animals chasing us, these ninjas will have to fight them off before coming to us. We don't to defend anymore, we just don't need to be slow, I can be fast.' Tanaka thought as he jumped over a tree grabbed onto a branch and observed where the tower was.
The redhead who was tied to Tanaka's back weaved handsigns for wind jutsu to create several dust clouds to hide themselves. 'You better be safe, Soma or I'll kill you!' The redhead thought, but suddenly the dark skinned boy jumped in front of them creating a crater, stopping the duo.
The boy held the decapitated head of a massive snake with his left hand like it was nothing. His other hand held the battered and bruised Soma. His body broken to the brink of being unrecognizable, "We cannot kill but that doesn't mean we cannot torture!" The boy threw Soma at the duo as they watched in fear.
"I'm going to use it! There is no other way to come out of this." Hinoka said as she began weaving handsigns.
"NO! We should give up our badges and find a medic to save Soma or he will die!" Tanaka opposed, he held Hinoka's hand and prevented her from using the handsigns.
"Remember what your dad said. You cannot use it!" Tanaka said as he brought out the badges and showed them to the dark skinned boy. "Good! Now hand it over." The boy walked closer and reached out his hand, motioning Tanaka to hand them over.
"N-no! You cannot give them the badges, two of those clowns are dead. We won't be able to pass." Hinoka tried to convince her friend, but her words fell on deaf ears.
Tanaka gave the badges to that boy and then asked him, "You have the badges now, cane we please take our friend to a medic?" "I wanted the badges, I got the badges. I'm not a monster." Said the boy as he threw the broken body of Soma towards Tanaka and Hinoka.
"S-soma!" Hinoka exclaimed as she rushed to check his body. He coughed blood and his arm bent in a way it shouldn't.
"Who are you?" Tanaka said as he watched the kumo ninjas leave with only the boy staying behind. "I'm Ay, the son of the third Raikage!" Said Ay with a cocky smile.