Nenro followed the Uchiha from Takuma’s team at breakneck speed. They had just defeated their targets when the Uchiha came running in a second later, telling them that they had an unaccounted enemy team coming in.
“There’s a chunin among them; are you sure?” Nenro asked the moment he saw Takuma, a nervous edge...
2023-07-25 19:49:09 +0000 UTC View Post“We are going to enter through the west,” said Takuma.
Takuma’s team was the weakest of the three teams due to the lack of a chunin leader, but he didn’t mind it as they weren’t going to face a chunin-caliber opponent. Moreover, according to the intel and on-site scouting reports, there was only one enemy ch...
2023-07-23 23:17:45 +0000 UTC View PostChunin Uchiha Kano sat in her office, reading the morning newspaper. Stamped on the front page as the main headline was Leaf Military Police Force’s most recent round-up of one of the prominent ecstasy gangs operating in and out of Hidden Leaf. It was a glowing article praising Organized Crime’s work isolating the network of peopl...
2023-07-20 23:09:28 +0000 UTC View PostA big group of shinobi sat around in the thick bushes deep within the lush green forest that spanned hundreds of kilometers. They sat in silence, tending to their weapons, checking their ghillie suit, and applying face paint and insect repellent in preparation for the task that had made them travel so far from the Hidden Leaf village....
2023-07-19 02:52:44 +0000 UTC View PostSomewhere between ARC-04 and ARC-05 (I realized ARC-05 hasn't come out, so you don't have an idea of the time— but it doesn't matter...)
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ARC-04 is over and now that I'm about to start ARC-05, I'm present with the challenge on how to proceed with the story. It's obvious that ARC-05 takes place during one of the most important events in the canon.
The current "problem(?)" I'm currently tackling is how to come out of the timeskip that happens bet...
2023-07-13 20:13:49 +0000 UTC View PostLocated several dozen kilometers outside the “official” border of the Hidden Leaf village, a sizeable landlocked lake had become the center of the ecosystem for many species living in the surrounding area. The lake wasn’t a natural waterbody and was made by accident by the Second Hokage Senju Tobirama during experimenta...
2023-07-11 22:48:14 +0000 UTC View Post“What will we be learning today?” asked Takuma as he took his genjutsu notebook from his backpack.
It had been two weeks since Takuma’s first lesson with Mikoto at her home, and in just that short time, Takuma felt like he had learned more about genjutsu than he had known before. That knowledge in no way helped ...
2023-07-10 01:44:27 +0000 UTC View Post“Do not believe a word from that man’s mouth!”
It took Itachi everything to hold back his instinct to break Shisui’s arm as the latter pulled him in a Body Flicker without warning. He set Shisui’s words aside for a moment to see where Shisui had transported them and found that they were in the woods...
2023-07-08 23:20:52 +0000 UTC View PostShisui stretched his torso to relieve the tension from sitting in one place for too long and tweaked his neck and shoulder to get the kinks out with satisfying snapping clicks.
ANBU had trained him in stealth which often required staying in one place without moving for extended periods of time, but he dreaded the expe...
2023-07-07 00:44:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe genjutsu lessons continued as usual. Neither Takuma nor Mikoto bought up the Ring part of his life, which was how Takuma preferred it. While he would’ve liked to create a close relationship with “Jonin” “Uchiha” Mikoto, Takuma was fine as long as he got genjutsu lessons out of it, which was the reward h...
2023-07-06 17:27:23 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma sighed deeply as he made himself home on the quality cushion of the seating inside the private room of a high-grade barbecue restaurant.
“Don’t sigh like that; you’re not an old man,” said Ai, bumping his shoulder with hers. The seating was a circular couch with an in-built barbecue grill in the table i...
2023-07-05 21:32:38 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Those who have already read this chapter can simply go to the end to see the change. It's a small change. It was [Dark Oak]'s comment which alerted me to the misunderstanding.
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Takuma’s thoughts raced at the sudden invitation (read as: ...
2023-07-05 14:53:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe lesson continued,
“If I remember correctly, you can use a genjutsu, correct?” asked Mikoto.
“Yes, ma’am. Mist Servant Jutsu,” Takuma replied.
“Ah, illusory clones that act as though they’re made of mist when attacked and reconstitute from any injury,” Miko...
2023-07-04 22:36:03 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma sat in the same tatami room he had when he first visited the family home of arguably the most important Uchiha in the village. A cool breeze flew into the room from the wide-open sliding doors beyond which a picturesque garden presented a stunning scenery.
Takuma retrieved a brand-new notebook and pen from his ...
2023-07-04 18:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma rotated his wrist as he glanced at the iryo-nin working on his injuries. Sango wasn’t available; she had told him beforehand that she won’t be there to heal him after his biggest fight in the Ring. It bothered him because he, one hundred percent, preferred Sango treating him than anyone else who wasn’t a chunin or jonin b...
2023-07-01 22:46:09 +0000 UTC View Post‘This is a piece of cake,’ thought Viper as she dodged the fourth Lightning Release jutsu from her opponent, Scars.
She was delighted when Tsubura told her her next fight would be against a newcomer. The chance of victory jumped tens of points when the opponent was a newcomer instead of an experienced vet...
2023-06-30 01:42:37 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma had a particular way of initiating combat. He preferred giving his opponents the first move unless he knew beforehand that it would put him at a disadvantage. There was much to learn from how a person opened a fight. But if his opponent didn’t grab the initiative he offered, Takuma would generally go for the first strike.
... 2023-06-27 22:28:38 +0000 UTC View PostEnomoto rubbed the back of his neck as he stood in front of the door. He took a deep breath before entering the room to be greeted by the crowd gathered to watch one of the rare events in the Ring— the debut of a newcomer in the ninjutsu category. It wasn’t every day when the Ring allowed one of their fighters to enter the ninjuts...
2023-06-25 21:21:32 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma entered the headquarters after his one-week suspension with heavy eyelids. He hadn’t gotten much sleep last night. The events of yesterday bore heavily on his mind. The awareness he would be at Sasuke’s house five times a week was a stressful realization.
It went without saying that he preferred if things w...
2023-06-18 23:36:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe fact that he was excited about his suspension ending tomorrow worried Takuma. Even though it didn’t start that way, the week turned out to be a much-needed break. His head felt much lighter than it was before, and in conjunction, his physical condition, too, had improved. And despite getting burned two days back, he would describe himself ...
2023-06-16 22:41:36 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma stared at his fist. The dull ache in his knuckles and wrist was surprising. He had long passed the stage where his hands would start hurting after a fight or training unless he wanted them to hurt by pushing himself. But here he was, three minutes against Hideaki had caused him to feel the sting.
He looked at t...
2023-06-10 16:45:25 +0000 UTC View PostSo much had happened in her life that one-and-a-half years seemed like they had passed in the blink of an eye, yet the time before seemed ages ago. She held her time in the academy in fond regard— it was a carefree, peaceful time, before she knew what it truly meant to be a shinobi. If she was being honest, she still didn’t know w...
2023-06-04 23:13:11 +0000 UTC View PostSarutobi Kazuo stood with his arms crossed as he watched one of his students thrash around as she was pinned to the ground, desperately trying to get out of the body hold the Police Force boy had her in. Aimi was taken down before the timer hit half a minute— an embarrassing performance against a peer of the same class.
2023-05-31 17:58:10 +0000 UTC
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It had been two days since Enomoto had barged into Takuma’s home and forced him into a ‘business agreement.’ The conversation had given Takuma a lot to think about.
For one, he needed to re-evaluate what he stored in his home. Enomoto’s rude entry had made him question the safety of his more preci...
2023-05-28 16:57:12 +0000 UTC View PostAs Takuma’s mind raced in a dozen directions, Enomoto made himself comfortable on the worn-down cushion of the dining table chair. While Takuma had a frown between his brows, Enomoto looked like he was pleasantly waiting for his tea to steep at a friend’s house.
“I will admit, I was surprised when I heard you tr...
2023-05-23 21:31:48 +0000 UTC View Post“Just how much time did he put into this,” Kano muttered to herself as she went through Takuma’s case notes.
The boy’s notes were crammed with notes, stats, and his collated thoughts. There was a lot to go through. She appreciated the dedication Takuma had put in, but that same dedication made it difficult for...
2023-05-19 23:37:22 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t long ago, Kano remembered. The day Yakumi had dumped Takuma on her because he couldn’t be bothered with the new outsider, who was the representation of a broken status quo brought upon the new developments in the political battleground between their clan and the Hokage’s administration.
His situation w...
2023-05-18 19:15:22 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma and his team waited at the drop-off point in silence. They had been lying in wait for two hours, patiently waiting for the delivery to arrive. Arriving early allowed them to hide without sounding any warning bells. Though he couldn’t deny that doing nothing for two hours was tiring, he felt like going to sleep.
Takuma was well aware of his position in the Police Force. Being an ‘outside’ hire, he lacked the pedigree that most Police Force members had in one way or another. He was neither from a clan that had members in the Police Force nor did he have immediate relatives paving the way for him. In a very tight-knit organization,...
2023-05-14 20:27:53 +0000 UTC View Post