Academy days final part~
4 years have passed, since the massacre and Narumi and Naruto have grown impressively, narumi had an impressive height of 5'1" for her age, she had a high C-cup and a nice bubble butt showing an impressive figure she was curently in her black laced panties showing her breast, with dime sized areolas and pink nipples, a manly hand was grabbing one of her boobs making her release a little moan, she was in her bed, and naruto was spooning her, his impressive boner was pressed right between her buttcheeks, the heat that came from it gave shivers up her spine, she turned around and saw his devilishly handsome face, he had one eye open, and had a smirk on his face, he captured her pink lips nad started exploring her mouth with abandon , and started humping his erection up her ass, her pussy started to moisten from excitement, his hand started to knead her breast, teasing her erect nipple.
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She started lapping her tongue with him, her hands went to his giant bulge, in his boxers and started carressing it, they continued kissing each other, until naruto pinched her nipple drawing a lustful moan, she quickly discarded his boxers showing his 8-inch diamond hard cock, she got on top of him, showing her magnificent breasts, the hard pole was positioned in her ass as she started rocking her child bearing hips, the friction between her ass and naruto's hard lengh, naruto was in heaven getting an ass job from his slutty little sister, narumi had her panties completely soaked with juices, she was so excited, she wanted to impale herself on her onii-chan's maginificent cock, but she would need to wait.
(Naruto)"That's it you slutty sister, work that ass more" he started roughly kneading her breasts.
(Narumi)'ahhh ahhh onii-chan is so rough with me' enjoying the friction, and her brother's rough hands
After a few minutes they changed to a 69 position, her face was amazed at the size her brother was packing at that age 8 inches in lengh and 2.5 inches in girth, a perfect fuckstick, she pushed her hair back on her ear, closed her eyes and gave a kiss to the tip of the bulbous head, it was already leaking pre-cum and her pussy juices were all over the penis, she gave small tentative licks, enjoying both his taste and the taste of her juices, meanwhile naruto was fixed on the amazing and arousing sight of her backside she was moving her hips in a hipnotic manner, he was mesmerized by the sight, the soaked black lace panties and little love juices falling towards her thighs did not help, any men or woman would have been won over by the sexy sway of narumi's perfect ass, the little licks on his tool brought him back to reality as he took out the article of clothing that barely protected her most precious place, he gave a long sniff, smelling a sweet scent of roses, he then discarted the panties throwing it in the other side of the bed, he took a glance at her pink slit, it was such a tight pussy, her clit was already erect, begging for his attention, she was glistening in arousal, she uncounsiously started pumping her hips in the direction of his face begging to be played with, he didn't wait long and started skillfully licking her pussy, paying attention to her clit, this made her work harder on his penis, it entered her mouth almost dislocating her jaw, but she didn't care as she had infinite regeneration, it hit the back of her throat but even then she didn't stop even while gagging she went on until her chin rested on his small patch pf blond pubic hair, she started bobbing her head up and down while massaging his balls, he groaned in pleasure as his tongue found her G-Spot and started licking it more frenetically, making her increase the bobbing of her head, her gagging only adding to the vibrations of her throat increasing his pleasure, this continued on until both came, he unloaded his cum right in her throat while she bobbed up so that the head of the giant cock could stay right in her tongue as he shot again and again filling her mouth as she desperatly tried to swallow the impressive load, it was difficult but in the end she managed it, her stomach bloated a little form the impressive load , although letting a few slivers of cum drop from her mouth together with her saliva, while she squirted in her brother's face, as he tried to savor the sweet taste she had, as he licked her labia, thighs and other places that were wet from her cum.
After that they cleaned themselfs up, and both willed their excitement down, as they could go fucking for days, they were panting with stupid grins.
Narumi took a long look at the form of her brother, he was 5'4" tall he was higher then her by 3 inches, he also had an impressive body, his muscles looked like they were made of marble, he had a chiseled chest, strong arms, sporting a six-pack he looked like a greek god, a picture of an adonis, her mouth watered a little.
They wore their normal clothes, although Narumi added a garter belt to her wear along the way to go with her black stokings, although for a ninja wearing a dress or a skirt could be bad as when jumping someone could see underneath, she didn't have that problem, as she put a seal that hid everything, just o she could tease people, of course it was keyed so only her onii-chan could see, they went downstairs, and narumi quickly made breakfast for the uchiha clan and while they were eating on the large table.
(Mikoto) "Today is the academy graduatioin for you both, are you excited"
(Narumi) "What's to be excited about, the academy is too easy obaa-chan, the only thing we want is our headbands, so we can start our ninja careers, even our peers are not competition, i bet the yonger students can beat them really easy , the only ones that can give a challenge are the clan heirs, and even then they can't beat Saito, nor Rin" 'Those two are the only uchihas in the year below, they already have a mature sharingan and are probably chuunin level'
(Rin) "fun~fun~praise us more onee-chan" she puffed her chest in fake pride, although she knew she could defeat most of the heirs, she couldn't come even close to the feet of her onee-chan, she was just too strong.
(Narumi) "but shisui why would you retire from ANBU? it has been only 4 years? why now?".
(Shisui) "Well don't worry about it, you will know why next week".
(Narumi) "hai"
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After breakfast we led the younger uchihas to the academy most of them already reaching the age to go to the academy, mikoto was forcing them to become ninjas, after all she needed to display the might of her clan has not waned, and with the children mysteriosly acheiving the bloodline faster then the older generations, she wanted them at least a chance to protect themselfs.
After they arrived narumi delivered the younger ones to their classes, and then entered the graduating class, it thinned out like expected putting thhe number of students lower then thirty, although not even all of them would pass the second test.
Because of the armament race most of the heirs are already chuunin level, having the clan heads train them did some good.
Shino like always relies a bit on his bugs, but now he is also great at taijutsu, in terms he is the third strongest male in taijutsu in our class and with his kikaichu being able to steal Chakra he is a good opobent at close range.
Kiba is the second best male in taijutsu, his clans techniques, his speed, and his claws make him a deadly opponent from close range, his collaboration with his ninken is becoming stronger.
Shikamaru became less lazy, well not really, but to avoid his mother nagging he started making his body stronger, and his chakra reserves bigger another part was something narumi said to him a while back.
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(Shikamaru) "ah how troublesome, i don't want to train anymore, i never even wanted to be a ninja" he scrached his head as he fell asleep on one more class, most of his classmates had already left, a hand came and banged on the table he was in, startling him awake he looked to see who it was and it was the 'super prodigy' Narumi, she was frowing at him.
(Narumi) "You don't want to be a ninja? Hah are you stupid? You are the heir of the nara clan and the son of the jounin commander nara shikaku, there is no way you were going to be a civilian.
(shikamaru)" troublesome woman" she then grabbed him by the scuff of the neck.
(Narumi) "Do not look away from me when i am talking to you, everything is troublesome to you huh? Are you going to let sloth rule your life? You are not going to train, its too troublesome to do it, procrastinating in life doing nothing, when you have all this freedom, and when the time comes when your comrades are backed into a wall, and you let them die, because of your wasteful habits your teammates will die, are you ready to have the deaths of fellow konoha ninja in your head, your father? Your mother? Your teacher? Your best friend Chouji? Spending your days watching clouds where you could have made a diference in the future, so whats going to be more troublesome? Making an effort into your ninja training and saving someones life in the future? Or take the cowards way out and bury your friends and live with regrets? No need to answer your slothful habits make up your rotten character, right now you are just trash! " she threw him back to his chair, he had a dumbfounded expression in his face as he contemplated her words, she threw him a disgusted expression and left home.
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From that day on after a discussion with his dad over a game of shogi, he started applying himself more, and his genius shined in every aspect of veing a ninja, although he wasn't the strongest, he was definitely the smartest and rivaled the twins in intelligence, making him a contender for third overall.
Narumi also said something similar to his friend chouji to tone down his kindness in the face of the enemy.
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Chouji lost another match against a civilian child, he was the most bullied student for his weight, he was curently tending to some bruises when his little crjsh apeared, she was definitely the most beutiful girl in the entirety of konoha he blushed.
(Chouji) "G-good morni-" he stuttered to introduce himself.
(Narumi) "You are four times stronger than that brat why did you lose? " she asked with a cold look.
(Chouji) "I didn't want to hurt him, i don't want to hurt anyone" he stuttered even more and responded meekly.
(Narumi) "I see, and i though you wanted to be a ninja, you are pathetic" chouji started crying and lowered his head, a hand came amd lifted him his eyes met her royal purple one's they were filled with disgust.
(Narumi) "Face me when i am talking to you, if you weren't a citizen of konoha i would have cut your head off for this rude behavior, always look me in the eye when i am talking to you, understand?" he nodded his head furiosly his skin pale from her threat "you are aspiring to be a ninja, hurting other is your future job, killing others is your future job, and you expect that your kind nature will work on the outside world? Grow the fuck up, are you going to show kindness in the face of the enemy, when they destroy your village? When they kill your friends? When they are raping both your mother and the woman you love? Will you still show kindness? No! There can be no kibdness to the enemy, they will never deserve mercy, get this ibto your head, kidness is good only when shown to friends and family, when it is not it is a weakness, a weakness your enemy will exploit, hah and you lost to a civilian brat, weak! He does not deserve your kindness, he threw in the trash it and exploited it to win, right now you are a weak heir to the akimichi clan, a liability to konoha as a whole, what do you think, do the enemies of konoha deserve 'kindness' when they destroyed countless families? Right now you are just a piece of trash, a dead weight. " she left chouji crying to himself, but it was for the greater good as he returned the next day with determination in his eyes.
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Chouji, probably the second strongest physically, he is pretty good at pratical lessons, and has a good grasp of the material.
Ino, she is by far the weakest member physically but she makes up for it from her ninjutsu and her knowledge and use of poisons, she is also the second kunoichi in genjutsu techniques, she still has a bit of a crush on naruto but her fangirl attitude completely vanished.
Hinata, she changed drastically from the shy girl to a confidant but cold to others, although she displays her cute behavior in front of her friend Narumi and her crush Naruto, the change happened in the middle of the first year..
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(Narumi) "yosh hinata~ onii-chan asked me to train you, he said you needed help and here i am" narumi entered a grass field where hinata was resting after an intense physical training.
(Hinata) "hi my name is-" she said meekly.
(Narumi) "hinata i know, hey there is no need to be so shy around me" narumi said waving ger hand around "now let's start with a simple spar come at me with the intention of winning" they sparred the whole afternoon and hinata hit the ground many times, by the end she was exausted and her muscles were burning,
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(Narumi) "i purposefully let myself open various times during our spars yet you hesitated in every single one of them, why?"
(Hinata) "i didn't want to hurt you"
(Narumi) "and you do the same during the regular spars you have with your sister too?"
(Hinata) "h-hai she is my little sister so i shouldn't hurt her"
(Narumi) "and do your sister think the same way?" hinata could not respond to that her mind froze "of couse not, not one single person in your family actually cares about you since your mother died, your sister while at a time was close to you vegan displaying the usual haughtiness found in the main family, the branch does not care about you either, not even your dream of releasing the cage bird seal, neji who is supposed to help you, and support you, used you as a means to get revenge on your father, after all Hizashi was killed by Kumo so easily, your father badmouthed your dead uncle for so long, neji started hating your father, hating his status as a slave, and most importantly hating you for being that man's daughter, your father Hiashi also hates you, you look so much like his dead wife, he will never see you without looking away in shame, so why do you care about them? You owe them nothing, and once you lose the clan head position, the main family will put their slave mark on your forehead and use you as a sextoy, a cum dump for those disgusting old men, and you think neji will care? You think hiashi will care? You think your sister hanabi will care? When you would save her from this position she will only look you in disdain? Can you see it now? If you continue with the nice act you will only fall harder, to change your clan you must first change yourself! ".
Each word was a stab through the heart of hinata as it was true, the looks of disdain her little sister gave her, the looks of disappointment and shame in her father's eyes, the looks of pure hatred in neji-niisan's eyes, it all hurt, even when she dreamed of making her clan whole again, they just scoffed, the lecherous looks the elders gave her, everything, why should she work for them, when they don't deserve her, resentment replaced anxiety, and a coldness started appearing in the place of shyness.
(Narumi) 'Good, i already unlocked hamura's chakra inside of you, nurturing your body, it will make you a god amongst mortals, with your resentment, and the wisdom and strength that comes from the transmigration of otsutsuki hagoromo, it will make you deliciously strong, ah i can mold you to be the perfect warrior.
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The years passed and hinata only grown stronger, her byakugan was unparaleled, her chakra levels increased dramatically, as did her control, her body became very strong, the levels of speed, agility, and strength were comarable to a jounin, and she was able to fit the gentle fist into her flexible body, making the flowing fist, a style that used her byakugan, and her flexibility to hit odd angles in the body, doing extreme damage to joints, organs, muscles, and the chakra system of a person, she also added her wind, lightning and water to her taijutsu making her the second strongest kunoichi in the academy, only narumi being able to beat her.
Tge most glaring change was her personality, she did a complete 180, every time she sparred with her little sister, she would completely destroy her, and when hiashi tried to find why his daughter changed so much she gave him a look of pure loathing, that almost gave him a heart attack, and he started reflecting upon his life, the family became even more broken, but Hinata no longer cared about that, she just cared about putting her clan into place.
She was 4'9" and had a high b-cup, she was weaeing a battle kimono.
The other notable ones were sai, the last ROOT, he still was a quiet kid, and insulted pretty much anyone, he was tasked by Danzo to look after Sasuke and kill him if he goes rovue, and after four years after the death of his master he is still going with his misson.
Sakura Haruno, after the death of her family she was taken in by the adopted sister of sakiri, mebuki haruno, despite the efforts of her new mother she never let go of her obssesion with sasuke, destroying many friendships, one with ino included so she could chase after a boy, she was very weak physically, had very low chakra levels, but was great at memory so she was excellent in teoric knowledge, so even if she should pass she won't amount to anything.
Sasuke Uchiha, what a laugh wait he isn't even an uchiha anymore, when he woke up from his coma he was so hateful, so edgy oba-chan almost wanted to kill her own son.
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After 4 months in coma he was determined to kill itachi for what he did to his clan, he would also defeat naruto and claim his hot sister as his.
He waited in the hospital for a whole day, until the hokage opened the door, and led his mother inside following her was shisui and the twins
(Sasuke) 'NARUTO!' i will get you from that humiliation, as hatred started to fester.
(Mikoto) "Sasuke, so you are finally awake, lets go home" she had a cold look.
(Sasuke) "why is naruto here? And how shisui is alive, what of itachi? "
(Mikoto) "Naruto is here because he is the landlord and we are living with them, and narumi found and healed shisui when he was near death as to itachi he is now " she said in a cold tone, not liking her 'son' attitude one bit
(Sasuke) "So you are living with them" 'living with naruto! I will not stand it' "i demand to live elsewhere, what about my coumpound"
(Mikoto) "No we are living confortably with them, so we will not change, and whats this about the coumpound it is not yours, its mine, and i've decided to sell it."
(Sasuke)" I am the future clan leader you have to obey ME! "he screamed like a child throwing a tantrum.
(Mikoto)" No you aren't as of now itachi is out of konoha and the clan heir position goes to shisui, i am the matriarch and current clan head, even if shisui were to lose the position i would give it to another survivor, or itachi's daughter who will be born soon, with your nauseating behavior you are currently in danger of being ousted of the clan, now in these delicate times i can't be answering demands from a brat, so choose, live with us or live in the orphanage? "
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Sasuke really let his pride make his decision, he left for the orphanage and was quickly adopted to tge remaining elders in a play for power, they were hoping that holding the heir to the clan would give them access to more wealth, power, and prestige, and by sponsoring his rise as a ninja they would be set, the problem was the bratty demands he did, most of them out of the elders power, he disrespected everyone, and was a really bad investment, he continued his unsightly behavior, making people who felt pity towards the boy, turn into cold indifference, after all the population treated him with kindness, but not even a thank you was geard, he was extremely arrogant, and thought everyone beneath him, this made him one of the most disliked persons in konoha, Mikoto was already vexed by the behavior of her 'son' but one incident took the cake.
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Izumi was returning home with her daughter satsuki, when sasuke went to kill itachi's daughter in petty revenge against the man, but was stopped by naruto before he could kill the baby with a kunai.
(Naruto) "what are you doing teme"
(Sasuke) "GET OUT OF THE WAY DOBE!" sasuke was in the habit of calling others beneath him, but even if naruto was a better ninja than him he would never admit it.
(Naruto) "i see" he picked the arm with a kunai and brought to his knees with force, completely breaking the arms"this will reach the ears of mikoto-obasan, congratulations you lost your last name you prick"
Naruto led the frightened young mother home, and when Mikoto found out she went ballistic and banned sasuke from her clan in the next council meeting, effectively making him sasuke no name an enemy of a clan in konoha, is was the worst possible punishment behind execution as the person is considered a second class citizen, at that point you would leave the village, but sasuke had nowhere to go, so he stayed and grit his teeth.
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another humiliating fact was that the younger uchihas already had the sharingan at 11 years old a boy and a girl named saito and rin already matured theirs and itachi's daughter satsuki gained her first tomoe at 3 years old, while he didn't even had it.
(Narumi) 'sasuke-chan you are very amusing to watch, you are everything i expected you to be, and everything i made you to be' as she was watching the broody edge lord before the twins flanked their friend hinata and made small talk until their teachers arrived, the next part were the written tests, the twins noticed theirs were placed with a genjutsu they quickly dispelled, most of was verbatism, next came the physical tests which they also aced, although in the taijutsu spar Mizuki was a little bit rough on the twins, but they didn't notice the sudden increase in difficulty, as the twins noticed strengh like in meters, a few milimiters didn't make a diference, although the teacher got out of the spar bruised and sore, the last part of the exam were the academy three, bunshin was an useless illusion, that most ninja could see through, all in all a pointless jutsu in comparison to the other elemental variations and the nidaime kage bunshin, the kawarimi could be upgraded and was not such a useless jutsu, for example, while others replaced themselves with dolid objects narumi could replace herself with air, the henge was one of the most useful, but its base form wasn't so great, canon naruto could make a physical transformation with his oiroke no jutsu, yet he never took advantage of being able to use an s-rank jutsu he created by mistake.
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Narumi, went out of the room with a hitaiate in her neck she was currently walking home with onii-chan when Mizuki apeared, while he had an innocent face.
(Mizuki) "Yo, you two, i wanted to talk to you about something"
(Narumi) "What about sensei?" like always she feingned ignorance.
(Mizuki) "You must have noticed the increase in diffuclty in the academy in other years but not yours right?"
(Narumi) "Hai, we live with kids who are in the other years, they are as strong as a chuunin"
(Mizuki) "There is a new secret test you need to acomplish, you are already plenty strong, if you complete it you will already attain the rank of chuunin, now what you need to do is steal the scroll of sealing undetected and meet me in this place i will get you a chuunin vest."
(Narumi) "Hai sensei" 'honestly you are trying too hard insect! it is unbelievable, you think i am some gullible fool, get real! I though you would offer this to Sasuke as a means for him to gain rookie of the year, but it seems your grudge against the kyuubi is greater than i thought, although i don't knoww what the fox did to him, well i don't care for a bug's life either way' as Mizuki was leaving she turned to fave naruto.
(Narumi) "Let's report this to Saru-oji"
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Narumi and Naruto were in the hokage office discussing Mizuki's ploy
(Sarutobi) "... So do you think Chuunin Mizuki is doing this for himself or someone else?"
(Narumi) "... hmmm Definetly for someone else, he couldn't have known about your scroll so easily, so someone put him as a spy, a person who intimately knows some of the secrets of the village, now who could it be~"
(Sarutobi) "There is no need to play games with me narumi-chan, i already guessed it was my wayward student"
(Narumi) "Good~ and what will you do when you two meet again~" she said as she picked the scroll.
(Sarutobi) "I will kill him, take care this will be your first mission an A-rank mission, and naruto is to delay everyone who comes close, neko will be on standby"
(Narumi) "Of course~Who do you think i am, that little insect can't do anything to me"
(Naruto) "Later old man"
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Narumi was in a clearing it was easy memorizing all of the jutsu contained in the scroll with rinne-sharingan, it was all recorded in their shared mindscape, a picturesque Edo castle surrounded by cherry trees.
(Narumi) 'Now the hokage must have sounded the alarm, the scroll has been stolen and nobody has seen the culprit, that little ant must be arriving soon'.
(Mizuki) "Good Narumi, you got the scroll, now give it to me so i can give your reward"
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(Iruka) "What a situation, for someone to steal something like that, i didn't even know it existed until now" he was headed to an isolated clearing in pursuit of the thief he was tree walking thinking about who could be when he was suddnly kicked, and like a comet dropped down on the ground hard, he haad to take a moment to breathe and looked up to see his student naruto standing where he was previosly, with his hands in his pocket.
(Naruto) "This area is off limits iruka-sensei"
(Iruka) "Why?"
(Naruto) " I don't care about your questions at all iruka-sensei, if you want to pass you have to go through me, and you will fail, and get some broken bones for your trobles, now why don't you turn back" he looked at the downed man with intesity.
Iruka groaned in frustration.
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(Narumi) "Eh sensei, but i though i would get a chuunin vest..." she said as the bug started walking towards her.
(Mizuki) "HAH , you will gain no such thing you demon whore, Orochimaru-sama promised me power in exchange for the scroll in your back, He made this deal 4 years ago when i was in rice country, thats why i entered the academy so i could put the blame on you bitch, but all of the villagers have forgotten who you really are, and even the ninja who remember don't care for whats in you"
(Narumi)"Whats in me? What are you talking about?" she asked innocently 'oh god i can't i am almost laughing did he really just did the villain monologue cliche?'
(Mizuki) "You don't know? twelve years ago the kyuubi attacked and the fourth fought it, but what they don't release to the public is that the kyuubi was divided and sealed in two babies born that night, they were twins? Do you understand you are the kyuubi! Now give me that scroll before i kill you, i wouldn't want to hurt that body before i enjoy fucking you" he went to grab her breast but was stopped by her hand, before that hand completely crushed that arm.
(Narumi) 'Genjutsu: kokuangyou'
For Mizuki who was tending his broken arm the world turned pich black, he couldn't see anything, he started flopping around uncontrollably, as he couldn't even make a seal because of his broken arm.
(Narumi) "Now lets stop your movements" 'plasma release: death ray' two sea green orbs appeared and fired 2 lasers that completely vaporized his feet, the heat instantly cauterising the stumps, and he was sporting bad burns all over his legs, the grass where the lasers it hit was made a big crater, and around it was charred land, the crater itself was burning hot 'ahhhh i love plasma release, it is so deadly and like storm release is a precision nature, and is handled similarly to scorch style, all in all one of the most dangerous exotic nature transformations' Mizuki fainted because of the pain 'hmm most people would have died of shock at this point iguess a chuunin is sturdier than a normal civilian mentalwise'.
(Narumi) "Neko" a masked ANBU with female curvers, purple long hair, and a neko mask came down from her hiding spot
(Neko) "I wanted to intervene many times during that conversation, but why did you hold me with your chains?"
(Narumi) "Its funnier when they bark" she said as she gave the scroll to the ANBU.
(Neko) "you could have subdued him with your chains why didn't you?" Narumi levitated the downed man with her chains.
(Narumi) "i like variation in combat, if you use one thing for every conflict, you become a one trick pony" they exited the clearing were a bruised iruka was trying to force his way in, and naruto who had a bored expression.
(Neko)"Stand down chuunin Iruka, you are disrupting the mission"
(Iruka) "Why the hell does narumi have Mizuki tied with those chains?"
(Narumi) "Ara Iruka-sensei don't you get it? I was Mizuki who stole the scroll, he is just a traitor of konoha, and like a good genin i stopped his nefarious plans, you are welcome to see his execution tomorrow, it will be a public one~" the three left in a shunshin, leaving iruka crying for his former friend.
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(Sarutobi) "So?" narumi was in his office again with mizuki as hostage.
(Narumi) "Hmm definetly a pawn of your student" one of the chains ripped the sleeves of his unbroken arm, there was a strange tattoo. "Its a curse seal, although this one is more animalistic in nature, than Anko's, now i hope both Ibiki and and inoichi have a field day with this one, and once they are over with give him to her to play with"
(Sarutobi) "I see.. will you be watching his execution tomorrow?"
(Narumi) "No, i have more important things to do than watch an insect be crushed" 'Very important things~'
(Sarutobi) "Here is your pay for mission well acomplished, team selections will be in a week"
(Narumi) "Hai, good night~" ' i know i will'.