что такое новеллы в наруто
Что такое новеллы в наруто
Узумаки Наруто:
Герой Деревни Скрытого Листа. Имеет чакру Девятихвостого и с детства стремится к Хокаге.
Сай:
Пользователь Имитации Живописи Супер Зверей, что материализует чернильные картины.
Нара Шикамару:
Имеет IQ свыше 200. Он служит лидер ом взвода на сей миссии.
Харуно Сакура:
Несравненный ниндзя-медик Деревни Скрытого Листа.
Хьюга Хината:
Куноичи родом из клана Хьюга, она орудует Бьякуганом.
Оцуцуки Тонери
Потомок прародительницы чакры, Оцуцуки Кагуи.
Марионетки, управляемые Тонери
Пролог: Воспоминания — стр. 11
Глава 1: Катаклизм — стр. 19
Глава 2: Путь к Ханаби — стр. 65
Глава 3: Реальность Наруто — стр. 123
Глава 4: Военная хроника чистой любви — стр. 163
Финальная глава: К завтрашнему дню! — стр. 223
В конкретный день марта, готовясь к вступлению в Академию Ниндзя, Хьюга Хината была окружена группой из трёх хулиганов в роще, где всё ещё оставался снег.
— «Покажи нам свой Бьякуган, девочка Хьюга!»
— «Этот Бьякуган жуткий, идиот!»
— «Ты чудище! Чудище с Бьякуганом!»
Когда она больше не могла этого терпеть, перед ней появился герой.
— «Я Узумаки Наруто. будущий Хокаге даттебайо!»
Он рявкнул на группу из трёх человек и с яростью схватил их. Хулиганы были полностью начеку. Хината сжала кулаки, сказав в своём сердце «держись».
Несколько минут спустя мальчик рухнул. Ему было очень холодно. Техника Теневого Клонирования, что он высвободил, была неудачной, и он был избит тремя хулиганами.
— «Будущий Хокаге, ага! Этот парень полный слабак!»
Трое украли шарф мальчика и, разорвав его, бросив и растоптав, они ушли, смеясь.
— «. Ты в порядке?»
Хината взглянула на мальчика и заметила вокруг его рта черновато-красную опухоль.
— «Это. те парни. »
Хината протянула его шарф, который был разорван тремя хулиганами.
— «. Он мне больше не нужен»
— «. Да ничего-ттебайо!»
Мальчик посмотрел через плечо и ярко улыбнулся, затем энергично убежал. Мальчик был слабым. Но несмотря на это, он предстал перед хулиганами для девочки, которую даже не знал. Хината крепко схватила разорванный шарф, который носил мальчик.
Голоса цикад можно было услышать со школьного двора в помещении класса Академии Ниндзя.
— «Не может такого быть, чтобы наступил конец света!»
— «Если бы это был последний день на Земле, было бы неплохо, если бы вместо Луны падало мясо»
В помещении класса смеялись со слов Акимичи Чоджи, глядевшего на потолок.
— «Почему тобой? Я предпочту быть незащищённой!»
Сакура повернулась в другую сторону.
— «Хорошо. Теперь все записывают имя. В последний день на Земле. с кем бы вы хотели быть? Хотите не спешить с этим? Запишите имя этого человека»
Студенты слегка взволновались и подняли свои карандаши.
— «Ваш учитель не будет смотреть. Это будет вашим собственным секретом. Потому я хочу, чтобы вы писали свои истинные чувства»
Наруто стало любопытно, какое имя все пишут, и огляделся. Было много детей, которые писали «Папа» или «Мама». Это было естественно лишь в классе, полном детей.
— (Я не знаю своего отца или свою мать. )
Сакура записала «Учиха Саске-кун», краснея.
С другой стороны, Саске, положив подбородок на руки, глядел в окно.
— (У меня нет друзей. я совершенно один)
Наруто всё ещё не мог ничего написать, Наруто расстроился и постепенно становился отчаянным. Затем он сложил свою пустую бумагу в самолёт и внезапно выбросил из окна.
— «Эй, Наруто! Не выбрасывай свою бумагу!»
— «Но не может такого быть, чтобы наступил конца света!»
— «Мы говорим о том, что если миру придёт конец!»
Бумажный самолёт взлетел по воздуху. Следуя за самолётом своими глазами, Хината быстро взглянула на Наруто и улыбнулась, а затем начала записывать чьё-то имя.
С момента окончания Четвёртой Мировой Войны Шиноби прошло 2 года.
В глубине осени, за пределами Деревни Скрытой Листвы, замораживающая холодная полная Луна проглядывала глубокий лес. Над деревьями высилось много странно-образных скал, возвышающихся к небу. В сопровождении двух подчинённых, Хьюга Хиаши ждал определённого человека. Низкий, но тяжёлый, похожий на стон голос раздался эхом из неопределённого направления.
— «Это судьба. Судьба, наложенная клану Хьюга»
Тень человека появилась на вершине скалы. Это был красивый молодой человек. Он улыбнулся, но его глаза были закрыты. Два подчинённых достали кунаи и приготовились.
— «Хьюга Хиаши. Выслушаем же твой ответ этой ночью. Ответ, который определит будущее твоего клана. »
В тот момент, когда Хиаши был убеждён, что может свергнуть его, тело человека исчезло и превратилось в бесчисленные шары света, рассеянные во всех направлениях.
— «!»
Когда Хиаши приземлился и ошарашенно огляделся, около десяти шиноби появилось вокруг него. Жёсткая группа, завёрнутая в бинты, которые полностью покрывали их лица. Странные шиноби прыгнули высоко в воздух, затем набросились вниз и напали на Хиаши. Два подчинённых прикрывали Хиаши, стоя на пути.
— «Скорее, господин Хиаши!»
Что такое новеллы в наруто
— Уточняется, что владение Боруто техникой теневого клонирования самое лучшее среди его сверстников. В то время как Наруто делает более тысячи, Саске делает двадцать клонов;
— Наруто с большой заботой относится к своей куртке из 1 части;
— Боруто считает, что и Шикамару с Сакурой могли стать Хокаге, и также как и Наруто сидеть за столом целый день;
— Шикамару молодой лидер клана Нара;
— Дзюцу Шикадая «рассеивание тени» было осуществимо благодаря Темари, до этого клан два поколения Нара изучали возможность этого дзюцу;
— Шикамару пока не обучал сёги Шикадая, упоминая при этом ему при про оборонительные стратегии, также он не упрекает своего сына;
— Боруто знает очень хорошо, что Сай не тот тип человека, который станет с ним мягче из-за своих личных эмоций. Он становился слабым только когда речь заходит о Ино;
— Гаара считает, что Наруто это тот тип человека, который держит свою личную жизнь и работу отдельно;
— На экзамене помимо жителей деревень, Каге и Дайме, было несколько генералов и директоров крупных корпораций. Там также продавали пиво;
— Жители пользуются ЖК телевизорами, принимающих цифровой сигнал. Также упоминаются сайты, где можно найти информацию о компьютерных играх. У Боруто в комнате стоит новая модель ПК;
— Масса тела панды близка к одной тонне.
Про Саске отдельно и про Саске с Боруто.
В целом во всей новелле в описании Саске много восхваления.
— Дословно выражения: сильные умения, высокий уровень, экстраординарный шиноби.
— Отдельно описывается, что после боя на стадионе у него нет ни усталого вида, ни какой то либо травмы.
— Бесстрашный и хладнокровный, честный и искренний.
— Он также извинился перед Конохамру, что взял Боруто в ученики.
***
Слова Саске были тихими, но несли сильное тепло. Саске улыбнулся бесстрашной улыбкой.
Его(Боруто) собственная сила. Собственная сила без помощи других. Может что-то подобное быть действительно полезным на поле боя?
Возможно Саске почувствовал его беспокойство и вновь спокойно заговорил.
— Верь в своего учителя. Вот почему в первую очередь я привел тебя сюда.
Так же как и раньше, эти слова не были ложью. Даже если Боруто не верил в себя, он подумал, что мог бы попытаться верить в эти слова.
Про Саске и Наруто.
У него (Киншики) не было никакого иного выбора, кроме как признать это. Мужчины перед его глазами. были сильны.
Он был бы в состоянии находиться на высоком уровне, если бы это было один на один.
Но эти двое не относились к случаю «один плюс один равняется два». Они
уже давно прошли любой подобный расчёт.
Эти двое были словно одним шиноби, как светлое и темное. Как будто их сила родилась из их душ, находящихся в взаимосвязи.
Две противоборствующих силы, создавших всё в природе. Эти два мужчины были воплощением древней легенды, которая передавалась через Учиха.
Once, there had been a war.
Ootsutsuki Kaguya, who had given humans the power of chakra in the age of Myths, had been reincarnated and become an enemy to all shinobi.
The battle that took place at that time been far more intense, severe, and full of suffering than any ninja could relate in words.
In the midst of that fight, there had been two heroes.
One was a man who had become a hero while Konohagakure was collapsing. Uzumaki Naruto.
The other was an aloof man who had been born into Konohagure’s renowned Uchiha clan, and walked a vicissitude path because of an unfortunate turn of fate. Uchiha Sasuke.
Their fight assured victory for every shinobi.
In the far off past, shinobi had descended from a single ancestor, but broken apart despite that, and fought against each other.
In that victory against Kaguya, it was possible that the people called shinobi had obtained their first Union.
However, the story didn’t end there.
Those shinobi’s battle wasn’t over.
It was terribly dark…like everything was covered in ink.
The man was running through that darkness without the slightest bit of hesitation.
His eyes weren’t that of an ordinary person.
His eyes held a complex pattern, proof that he was person of lineage to a restricted bloodline, the holder of a doujutsu.
Besides, for this man, things like the dark weren’t enough to scare him.
The man’s name was Uchiha Sasuke.
He was a shinobi whose muscles were like a steel wire that had been forged out of the best steel, and then tempered overall.
That said, it wasn’t pointless sinew. His muscles were practical in the same way a leopard or lion’s would be, with some faint softness of fat remaining.
So this is Ootsutsuki Kaguya’s castle, huh…
In the past, Sasuke and his comrades had defeated Kaguya. It was because Kaguya had set out to have all shinobi sacrificed to her, and to absorb their chakra. It was obvious that they’d show no compassion to that sort of clan.
However, it was a fact that a great mystery remained after her defeat.
Where had the Ootsutsuki come from?
What had they set out to do with the artificially made shinobi, the white zetsu?
What would be the meaning behind harvesting chakra fruit?
It boiled down to the fundamental question: what were shinobi?
It was a shame, but the chance meeting between Naruto and Sage of Six Paths had been a once in a lifetime thing, and the information they’d gotten from the lone member of the Ootsutsuki who now lived on the moon was very little.
That was why Sasuke had spent this past ten-odd years investigating that mystery.
It was because shinobi were beings who existed to gather information. Just ending a matter when its details were still unknown was unthinkable.
And now, Sasuke had finally stepped foot on the historical ruins of what looked to be the Ootsutsuki Castle.
…There aren’t any traces of anyone having lived here for a long time. Looks like it’s best to think of it as an abandoned base.
He wondered how far they had walked.
Sasuke spotted a lone scroll inside the darkness.
It wasn’t placed in a way that stuck out. Amongst countless rotten scrolls, it was the only one intact. Someone without Sasuke’s rare skills of observation wouldn’t have been able to spot it.
Sasuke carefully took the scroll into his hands, and while making sure it’s outside wasn’t eroded, tied it to his belt.
A document that had been treated so it could withstand the passage of time had to be some confidential piece of evidence.
Outside the window, lightning cut through the shades of black upon black.
And, simultaneously, a slashing attack approached.
An enemy, huh.
This was Sasuke’s thought process as he dodged the blow:
This attack couldn’t be from a group of friendly troops who were in the middle of conducting strategy tactics. It definitely couldn’t be any ordinary citizen.
Then, it had to be an enemy.
Who the enemy was, or why they were trying to kill him, such analysis would be better left to when things were calmer.
The naked blade that had swung down on him had been bloodthirsty, but he had dodged and was still alive.
For now, that was more than enough.
Chidori!
Sasuke tempered his chakra, accumulating it in his right arm.
His lightning release took on the form of plasma in his hand, striking against the ions in the atmosphere. The chi-chi-chi sound released almost had the same feeling as the sound crows made.
The two men’s attacks intersected.
The enemy were ogres.
Like something that would come out of a children’s book, they were two men with horns growing out of their heads.
There was one giant man, and another younger, incredibly beautiful man who was being carried in the giant’s hand.
The way they moved showed that there was no mistaking that they were shinobi, or perhaps samurai, but in that moment, Sasuke remembered something.
Kaguya!
The Ootsutsuki clan. They had horns. You could say it was one of the biggest differences between them and their human descendants.
Two men with horns growing out of their foreheads were here, in Kaguya’s castle. That could only mean one thing.
“You aren’t Kaguya, are you?” The young man raised his voice in a manner that asked for Sasuke to identify himself. He had slashed at him, so the young man probably was carrying out a confirmation.
Sasuke kicked against the ground and leaped up.
It looked like his opponent was disturbed by their encounter as well.
I don’t know what kind of paranormal techniques they can use, but…
If he panicked, his techniques would be useless anyway.
Kaguya had died. In this world, there wasn’t such a thing as immortality.
I just need to aim for their heads!
Without hesitation, Sasuke was leaping upwards with the intention of aiming at the back of the giant’s neck.
“!”
Sasuke didn’t expect the man to take action later than he did.
It was just that Sasuke was fast.
When people are about to move, their muscles will tense slightly in preparation for the movement. Sasuke’s eyes never overlooked that “source” of imminent movement. That was why it was possible for him to move before his opponent did.
Thunder’s blade cut through the dark.
My attack was too shallow!
The giant’s horn spiralled in mid-air.
However, it wasn’t a fatal wound. The giant stumbled backwards, then pulled out a broadaxe for a counterattack.
They have the position of advantage here.
While showing that he could leap back to avoid the blow, Sasuke leapt up. The battleaxe skimmed underneath him, cutting a huge rift through the floor.
It was terrifying strength.
It couldn’t be thought of as simple muscle power. It had to be that the giant was strengthening his muscles with some kind of jutsu.
Physical combat is a bad idea.
He’d managed to obtain information.
Sasuke didn’t have any thoughts of it being cowardly to turn his back and run here.
For shinobi, carrying out your mission was for more important than anything else.
Right now, Sasuke’s mission was to work to get information relating to Kaguya to the bitter end. He’d obtained the scroll too.
He’d also understood that people of the Ootsusuki bloodline were making a move. That being the case, he had no reason to linger here for long. If he ended up getting himself killed, he wouldn’t be able to pass on the info to Naruto and the others.
And so, Sasuke ran.
Sasuke’s sprint was so fast that the average shinobi couldn’t possible hope to keep up.
But, the two ogres kept up with him.
As expected, they weren’t average beings.
The castle had started crumbling after that last blow, too.
But Sasuke’s feet didn’t falter. Sasuke’s steps didn’t falter even inside darkness.
Sasuke exited the castle.
The statues that stood outside it told tales of how this place once prospered.
Sasuke kept running.
Running was his duty as a ninja.
“You can’t run away!” The giant roared, shortening the distance betwen them.
A battleaxe flew towards Sasuke.
Chop!
But, the thing that the giant’s battleaxe had cut hadn’t been Sasuke’s neck.
It was the stone arm of a statue that, only a moment ago, hadn’t been there.
“A statue?!” The Ootsutsuki exclaimed, “He switched places!”
The giant, as well as the young man who had run behind, both had surprise painted bare on their faces.
“The rinnegan, is it?” The young man said, and his beautiful lips curved into a blood red smile.
There was no such thing as eternal peace.
This was true in much the same way as how there was no such thing as eternal war.
However, that didn’t mean that fighting for peace was pointless.
Rather, the opposite.
It wasn’t pointless, because no matter the circumstances, people always guarded against war even when they were at peace, and prayed for the fighting to end even when they were in war.
Because people, shinobi, they had that sort of final bit of wisdom in them.
Wisdom like, for example, knowing that you couldn’t escape the karma from your previous battles…
Chapter 1: Hero’s Child
There was a young boy who was always gazing at the sight of his father’s large back.
.His father was a hero.
He wasn’t an ordinary hero.
He was a hero who’d saved the world.
Even inside the successive Hokage who’d spanned seven generations, his father’s name was the kind that would be written in gold, a hero among heroes.
The Seventh Hokage, Uzumaki Naruto.
That was his father’s name.
It was an incredibly dazzling name…and a heavy one as well.
.
His father wasn’t only responsible with looking after their own family.
The boy wasn’t so much of a child that he couldn’t understand that fact.
“But, that’s why I keep telling you…that isn’t a good excuse to not look my way y’know…”
But, because it was unavoidable that the boy would end up feeling like that, nobody scolded or reprimanded him for those feelings.
He’d unexpectedly showed up at the Academy, and then somewhere along the line become a face that felt like he’d always belonged to the class, someone who felt like a protective spirit from a fairytale.
Well, ninja organisations had lots of secrets, and communication with the other side wasn’t thick, so it wasn’t surprising to have a shinobi whose lineage wasn’t known. That was what their teacher, Konohamaru had said.
It was probable that something like that was the case in reality.
As Boruto ran, he made a seal with his hands.
Shadow Clone Technique!
In an instant, the numbers of running Boruto’s had changed to three.
The Shadow Clone Technique, which allowed a person to use their chakra to make three copies of themselves who held their consciousness, was Naruto, Boruto’s father’s speciality. The fact that Boruto could master this technique that had once been banned in the past was a sign of his rare talent.
But, the reason nobody caused a stir about it was because Boruto was ‘Uzumaki Naruto’s son’.
Naruto’s son learning the Shadow Clone was as natural as a falcon’s chick flying through the sky, and didn’t merit showing surprise over.
It was something that irritated Boruto to a great extent.
He leapt up.
He passed out of the green forest, and found the blue sky spreading out before his eyes.
In the vegetable plots close to the woodlands, a black and white animal was munching as he ate the produce there.
There was no greenery left in the ridges around the panel.
It was a carefree scene, but from the farmer’s point of view there was no joke about it. If he couldn’t get any compensation from the village of Konoha, then he wouldn’t be able to get past the winter.
It was a natural situation for the D-rank missions ninja were requested to do.
“You’ve sure laid waste to the place, haven’t you…? I’m your opponent, you shitty panda!”
Boruto’s three alighted selves made a proud display.
He got his kunai ready in his hand.
“This is a bear*, so-” Sarada said.
“Wha?”
His childhood friend was always bothered by small details.
“It’s really a bear that just looks like an atrocious panda!!” Sarada said*
“It’ll be easy, easy.” Boruto said “It’s just a lame panda, yknow!”
“I’m telling you it’s a bear!! It’ll be bad to take it lightly, bone-head Boruto!!”
Strictly speaking, the panda-bear is an independent strain belonging to the panda-bear genus, ursinae family, arctoidea infraorder, caniformia suborder of carnivores. In the same way that the bear belongs to the ursus genus, ursinae family of carnivores, the panda belongs to the giant panda genus, giant panda suborder, ursinae family of carnivores. In that sense, you could call them related species.
But, as Mitsuki put it: “It doesn’t really matter which one it is, does it?”
That was the current case.
“Right now,” Mitsuki said, “Our three man cell’s first priority is to bring this…panda bear to Konohamaru-sensei!”
However, the panda bear acted first.
“GUAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!”
With a roar, the panda bear turned towards them and started sprinting,
It looked like it wasn’t afraid of people.
Which meant that if it was left alone, there was no telling what kind of injuries it could give villagers.
A panda bear’s body weight is close to one tonne.
Having one run towards you was no different from a boulder rushing towards you.
“!”
Next to Boruto, Mitsuki had extended his arms as if they were made of rope.
It wasn’t that he intended to bring down the panda bear by himself.
Rather, like a lasso, Mitsuki’s arms surrounded the panda bear’s legs to impede its charge.
“SHANNA–WHA?!”
Sarada, who had been about to strike with the superhuman strength she’d inherited from her mother, found herself blocked by one Boruto.
“Oraaa!” Boruto’s two Kage Bunshin struck the panda bear in the face.
Что такое новеллы в наруто
Синопсис:
Учиха #Саске сталкивается с инцидентом в виде неожиданного громового взрыва. Тем временем, ничего не ожидающим #Боруто и его команде поручено выполнение миссии по тайному сопровождению популярного идола Страны Огня. Но за их спинами некто начнет выполнять свой ожесточенный отважный план?! Саске намерен взяться за совершенствование мастерства команды.
Новая битва ниндзюцу расскажет об узах, тайнах учителя и ученика на фоне грустных и печальных событий в Конохе!
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КРАТКОЕ ОПИСАНИЕ ПРОЛОГА.
НЕКОТОРЫЕ МОМЕНТЫ СЕМЬИ УЧИХА.
— Ах, папа, ты сказал маме об том, что ты идешь на эту миссию?
— Да.
— Действительно, когда?
Наблюдая за шокированным и сомневающимся выражением лица Сарады, Саске ответил с горькой улыбкой.
— Когда ты спишь, то я всегда говорю с твоей мамой о многом. Поэтому тебе не нужно беспокоиться об этом.
— Правда?
Сараде захотелось поддразнивать папу. Она схватила его плащ.
— У папы на губах есть след от помады мамы.
После короткого молчания Саске медленно и безмолвно поднял большой палец и попытался вытереть уголки своего рта. И тогда кое-что понял.
Садара ухмылялась.
— Просто шучу! Мама даже не использует помаду.
Лицо Саске немного оторопело и он опустил свою руку.
Когда её папа сражается, то он выглядит словно дьявол, но теперь же он обеспокоен этой небольшой уловкой. И Сараде это нравится.
(Мой папа самый крутой и красивый мужчина, но порой он становится таким милым).
— Папа, каждый раз когда мы говорим о чем-то связанном с мамой, то ты просто не можешь сохранить свое самообладание.
— Сарада.
Саске cо смущением наклонился к ней ткнул пальцем её в лоб.
— Я расскажу тебе об этом в следующий раз.
МОМЕНТ СЕМЬИ УЗУМАКИ.
Боруто представлял себе тренировку и совершенно спонтанно стал формировать чакру. Вода на поверхности ванны начала вращаться, создавая водоворот.
— Боруто? Не используй чакру! Ты уничтожишь ванную!
Мама Хината с предупреждением заглянула внутрь ванны. Своим Бьякуганом Хината может видеть поток чакры.
— Пожалуйста, не смотри в ванну, даттебаса! Мама, не используйте Бьякуган дома!
— Я просто почувствовала присутствие чакры, так что я просто угадала.
МОМЕНТ С КОМАНДОЙ КОНОХАМАРУ.
Сарада съела одну Дайфукумоти и ее словно ударило током.
— Что это такое? Это так вкусно!
— Ты права.
Мицуки полностью с ней согласился.
— Ммм, да это вкусно. Но мне больше нравится Сируко, что готовит моя мама.
Это было так вкусно, что Сарада была в растерянности и не могла подобрать слова. Сарада была полностью окутана в счастьем.
Мицуки съел два Дайфукумоти, Сарада три, а Боруто четыре. А всего было девять, от чего Конохамару рассердился на них.
ОПИСАНИЕ НЕКОТОРЫХ МОМЕНТОВ.
— Саске заменяет Конохамару, который после случая в поезде госпитализирован. Саске становится сэнсеем седьмой группы. Теперь кадый день они могут практиковаться вместе с Саске. Он учит команду новым дзюцу, но техники слишком продвинутые для них. Мицуки тренирует стихию молнии, а Саске демонстрирует некоторые трюки с сюрикеном. Но несмотря на сложность, тренировки становятся ценным опытом для Боруто, Сарады и Мицуки. Саске же чувствует, что став учителем он может дать то, что получал от старшего брата. Который был и наставником или другом. Также Саске вспомнил свой собственный опыт тренировок с Какаши.
— Саске говорит Сараде о своей ненависти к сладостям.
— Есть сцена Орочимару из Мицуки.
When I return home to the village, I wonder what I should eat ‘kore…I guess I’ll go to Ichiraku Ramen? Or every once in a while I should be frugal, I guess I should cook for myself…
Konohamaru is returning from a solo mission to deliver something to the Kazekage. Anyway, Konohamaru ‘s mind is completely fixated on dinner plans. He thinks to himself that he’s always reminding Boruto and the rest of the team to always stay vigilant when on a mission. But this should be a bit different, right? He’s on his way home from an errand-running mission where the potential for battle should be zero. So he should be able to relax a bit. He’ll be arriving soon, anyway.
Konohamaru yawned while doing a quick stretch. He then suddenly stopped when he noticed the figure of someone who was sitting in a separate seat.
With long and straightened bangs, half of the man’s face was concealed… It was Uchiha Sasuke.
His face was buried into his usual black cloak, and seemed to have fallen asleep.
It’s unusual for Sasuke-san to be here ‘kore….I wonder if it’s a periodic report.
Konohamaru gazed with a curious, keen interest at the sight of Sasuke sleeping.
When he was a boy, his features were famous for their handsomeness; Even though he had considerably aged, they showed no signs of decline, even now. Wrinkles had started to subtly settle into the skin around his eyes. They added astringency to his original, well-featured looks. Beneath his closed eyelids, he had a pair of special eyes that no ordinary person could possess: dormant Sharingan and Rinnegan.
Besides being one of the world’s strongest ninja, he was also had become a cool ‘ikemen’*. In his bachelorhood era, he had certainly captured the hearts of many women. Whether or not the man himself put up with that kind of situation remained a different question.
Anyway, by no means did Konohamaru expect to see or meet Sasuke in the raisha. Konohamaru turns around in the carriage. There’s a mother with a sleeping infant in her lap, an old couple splitting a doriyaki amongst themselves, and a young couple returning from traveling too. These people were unrelated to the bloody world of shinobi.
Konohamaru can’t help but notice that they’re casually sharing the same carriage as regular villagers who benefited from the peacetimes. Sasuke is generally difficult to get a hold of. He’s also extremely popular because of his super-rare Gemaki card. On the other hand. he’s been seen by the public as a criminal under probation. He has numerous friends as well as enemies… And yet, he just happens to be sharing a ride on the raisha. No one else seems to have noticed Sasuke in the carriage though, since there’s absolutely no uproar.
Konohamaru is also getting sleepy. He leans on the windowsill and knocks his head against it on accident.
But suddenly…
BOOM!
There’s a resonating sound of an explosion. Konohamaru opens his eyes in surprise. He looks out the window at the end of the railcars of the raisha. There’s billowing black smoke and fire. The passengers begin to scream and shout about the detonation and smoke. They’ve begun to fall into a panic because they don’t want to die.
Konohamaru yells at them to stop pushing and shoving. He tells them to hurry and escape to the head of the raisha cars. The passengers are fighting one another to be first in the narrow aisles, flooding the passage. But they’re all still flying into panic mode. He tells them that he’s a ninja from the Fire Country, and that the explosion came from the end of the raisha and it’s considerably far away from their own compartment. He reminds them again to calm down and compose themselves and that they ought to wait for updates from him where they are. He is hesitant about leading them to the head car in case it’s really an unnatural or human-driven act. The assailants might be aiming for the control engine in the head car.
Before he knows it, the raisha has become quiet. Under Konohamaru’s command, the passengers are more or less restored to order. He then tells them that he’ll go out and check on the situation. Before long, the raisha will be stopped anyway. At that time, the passengers should leave the raisha, taking minimum things during the evacuation. And of course, he keeps telling them to remain calm and not panic.
But…where is Sasuke-san?
Konohamaru checks the carriage of the raisha, but Sasuke is nowhere to be found. Seems like he’s already headed to the scene of the crime. With the passengers calming down, it seems as though he took priority in extinguishing the fires.
Konohamaru heads out a window, and climbs onto the roof of the raisha and rushes towards the end of the line.
Konohamaru arrives at the 12th railcar at the end of the line…but he stands completely still in shock! He expected the carriages to be swallowed up in violent flames, but for some odd reason they’re completely encased in ice instead! He kicks one of the frozen windows and breaks in. His breath blows against the stinging cold air.
Uchiha Sasuke was standing in the centre of the whirling, cold air.
At the tip of his outstretched hand, there was a red flame that was burning the wooden frame of a seat; It was smoldering until it’s very end. Before his own eyes, the flame was then enveloped in ice and disappeared.
“Sasuke-san…what the heck is this…”
“Konohamaru, eh?”
Sasuke looked over his shoulder, and then spoke while he motioned with his eyes to refer to the frozen inner carriage.
“As you can see, it’s been extinguished.”
“Ex..Extinguished… Well of course, the flames have disappeared….but…”
The end of the line of carriages are almost entirely first-class seating. They’re actually manufactured differently than the other compartments. There are spacious, wide width sofas that are made to face on another. Each compartment has a thick oak wall that acts as a partition. The ceiling has been destroyed by the shock of the explosion, and the sofas have gone tumbling across the broken floor. The lighting fixtures that were in the set has finely detailed carvings and looks like a high-class and expensive item. The furnishings have been bent and broken by the blast, and some have been scorched with burn holes. Now they look like mere shadows of their former condition, covered in ice.
“When you extinguish a fire with Suiton, it produces a high-temperature water vapour”
Sasuke spoke to Konohamaru, who felt overwhelmed: “ And so, when you combine together Fuuton and Suiton, the resulting water vapour becomes frozen over.”
«So that’s not Suiton, but rather ‘Hyouton’. »
«It’s close, but it’s not the very thing itself. In the past, I fought an enemy who could, but it’s an imitation of the technique. It’s not even comparable to that guy’s power at all.»
This is. no match for it?
From the floor to even the ceiling, there wasn’t a single gap in the frozen railcar when he looked up in admiration. Konohamaru exhaled a white breathe. A combination of Suiton and Fuuton…that’s something simple to say. But to combine together and simultaneously invoke two different nature transformations…that was by no means something simple.
But just then, they hear a short shriek coming from the direction of the passengers. Ahhh, what’s happening? Standing there is a young lady with a short haircut and red hair. She looks to be in her mid teens. Her earrings are jingling, and her nails have rhinestones adorning them. She’s wondering why her seat has been frozen…? Konohamaru tells her it’s because of the explosion and from the result of the flames getting extinguished. She seems shocked and yells back. He asks her why she didn’t notice if she was in the carriage. She then admits that she heard a kerfuffle from everyone else, but she was listening to music. Sure enough, she has orange earphones on her shoulders.
Sasuke takes a step towards her and addresses her with a voice without any inflection: So just what was she doing up until now? She says that she was feeling hungry, so she went to the dining car. There was pasta, escargot, and pana cotta for take-away boxes. She has a glass of carbonated water in her hand.
They then ask how the other passengers are doing. But she says she only knows about herself. It’s the first-class coach section after all…the rest is reserved for other people. She puffs up her chest in pride. Konohmaru just stares at her audacity. He thinks to himself: this young lady is really the only one in the entire first-class carriage? She notices Konohamaru making a shady face and makes a sour face herself. She asks him if it’s because it’s a bad idea for a minor to ride the raisha all alone. Of course, Konohamaru says it’s not like that. She tells him not to look down upon her. She has money, at least…so he shouldn’t make such faces at her.
But anyway, Sasuke asks Konohamaru if he happened to sense any indication of suspicious people while he was on the way here. He interrupted the young lady’s complaining. Konohamaru shakes his head. He had come along the rooftop, so he had no idea about the situation inside the carriage. And so the logical conclusion to Sasuke is that the criminals who placed the bombs must still be inside the raisha.
Sasuke clears away some of the broken glass that’s fallen. But it doesn’t seem to be from the window from Konohamaru’s entrance. It’s clearly different than the glass that’s used to make those. The shards of glass are thinner in make and seem curved. Like the type to make part of a fuse of a timed bomb. Konohamaru immediately feels this intuitively. He surmises that that it might be a regular civilian who is the perpetrator, especially one who can’t invoke ninjutsu. And so if they are not ninja, then it would be difficult to escape right away. The raisha is still running at it’s highest speed. So there’s a high chance the person who set the bombs is still in the carriages. They now have to ensure immediately that they don’t injure the other passengers.
But right as Konohamaru is about to spring into action…
BOOM!
Once again, there’s an explosion. This time it seems to be coming from the head railcar. Konohamaru peers outside the window. The raisha seems to be going even faster…Sasuke takes a glance at the scenery outside too, and immediately sets a foot on the windowsill. He climbs up to the top of the railcar. Sasuke-san…!? Sasuke travels quickly on top of the raisha to the head of the railcar. Even though there’s a billowing cloud of smoke, he jumps straight through without hesitating. Meanwhile, Konohamaru reminds himself to calm down. It’s an emergency, so having good teamwork is vital.
Since after the second blast, the speed of the raisha has dramatically increased. And so, the speed regulator in the control panel was likely to have been affected. In order to safety stop the raisha right away, they have to stop the power section. Sasuke’s ice technique might be effective for this situation. So while Sasuke is working to do this, Konohamaru ought to work to catch the perpetrator of who’s inside the railcar. To come to this conclusion, it took Konohamaru roughly two seconds. To him, it’s quite a valuable experience to be able to work with a high caliber ninja like Sasuke. He knows what to do from here. Konohamaru has exited the raisha, and then happens to look back and notice something.
It’s the young lady from the first-class compartment. She seems to be messing with the ice barrier with curiosity. Konohamaru tells her never to leave that railcar because it’ll be dangerous. She agrees and says OK…but as a slow reply. She breaks off a hanging icicle and uses it to stir her carbonated water drink instead of using the stirring stick thing. Konohamaru thinks that she’ll be okay.
He’s stepping on the 11th railcar, which seems to be the second-class seating. There’s luggage in the seats and aisles just thrown about.
The passengers have all seemed to have been evacuated already. It’s natural for them to have that reaction if the railcar right after them was just exploded. Konohamaru stays vigilant and sweeps the railcar, and then heads to the 10th. It should be empty of passengers too. But he sees a woman’s back, who’s shaking and retreated into the corner of her seat. He asks her if she’s alright.
Konohamaru calls out to the trembling lady, asking whether or not she was alright. She’s crying and clutching her baby to her chest. Seems like she can’t move because she is scared. She asks who Konohamaru is. Of course, he replies that he is a ninja from Konoha. He tells her that there was an explosion not too long ago, but that the fires have been extinguished. She shouldn’t be worried. She seems more relived about her and her child’s safety. She tells her to settle down, have a seat, and wait for more instructions.
Konohamaru starts walking away but she tells him to wait up. She begs and pleads for him not to leave her alone because she is so frightened. Konohamaru tells her again to calm down. After all, he still has to go in search of the perpetrators. He then takes another look back at her over his shoulder because…
This lady suddenly throws her baby right at him!
He reaches out to try and catch it, but he knows it’s too late…
But then with a poof noise, the baby suddenly transforms into a shinobi wearing deep purple garments! He points a kunai right at the tip of Konohamaru’s nose. Konohamaru manages to bend backwards to dodge it, but it grazes his cheek. A bit of blood comes out. If the baby was actually just a ninja who transformed, it makes the lady his accomplice. Suddenly he gets kicked from behind and gets thrown back. The lady has now also transformed into a ninja. They exchange blows with one another (unnamed taijutsu and uppercuts). Konohamaru catches the glimmer of a shuriken from the corner of his eye. He then puts some distance in between them in the aisles.
One of the enemies is a middle-aged man. He is still wearing the bib around his neck from when he was disguised as the transformed baby. As for the other person, Konohamaru thinks they might be a man by the body type. Their face is covered by a cloth so he can’t be sure of the facial features. Their only distinguishing feature seems to be a mole under the left eye. Konohamaru needs to stay on guard.
The man wearing the bib slowly speaks, guessing from Konohamaru’s movements that he is a Jounin level ninja. Konohamaru doesn’t want to confirm or deny anything to them. He tells them that Konoha shinobi are strong afterall, he could be a Chuunin too.
“You’re being modest. Thank you for this opportunity.”
“Wha?”
“By no means did I ever think to be given the opportunity to personally kill a Jounin”
Konohamaru glances out of the window. It seems like the raisha is slowing down just a little bit. Perhaps Sasuke has gotten to the head car and frozen over the engine compartment. Konohamaru thinks to himself that it would be better if he can finish these guys off before Sasuke comes back. The other man with the mole takes a step forward, thinking Konohamaru is planning to escape. But then they get interrupted again. The door that separates them from the 9th compartment opens. Another person in purple appears and says that they will deal with Konohamaru. Seems like 3 VS 1.
But there’s another person behind him. And another…and another.
Now it’s 12 VS 1.
They form a semi-circle and corner Konohamaru. It’s a cramped compartment, but they’re going to battle here? Konohamaru thinks about using Kage-Bunshin, but the situation is melee-range, and it’s a tight space. Before he can consider other options, kunai are flying at him.
But just then, a hot wind billows overhead. The enemies step back because of the crimson flames. It’s Sasuke’s Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu (Great Fireball Technique)! Sasuke is now standing protectively in front of Konohamaru.
Even with his back turned to him, Sasuke asks Konohamaru for a status update. Konohamaru tells him that their group seems to be fairly large. Their leader seems to be the old geezer wearing the bib. There might be an even larger organization behind this. They should be captured alive, any rate. The moment Konohamaru finishes talking, Sasuke disappears.
Suddenly two enemies are collapsing onto the floor or onto their knees. Then another person stands in front of the man wearing the bib in a protective stance. Sasuke remains silent. He unsheaths his concealed sword back from it’s scabbard. Sasuke strikes the person in one sword swipe, who tries to guard it with his wrist gauntlet. He gets thrown off into the wall. There’s an overwhelming difference in their ability and strength.
After a bit of hesitation, the man in the bib rushes towards the window. The glass shatters and he jumps out the window. Konohamaru yells at the guy to wait up. He takes another fleeting glance at Sasuke. He knows that it’s his responsibility to pursue after that guy. Konohamaru jumps out of the window too.
The enemies fainted one after another as Sasuke struck them with the back of his sword and with a chop of his hand.
Even when it came to movement speed, his level was completely in a different league; It couldn’t be matched, no matter who these enemies were. The purple-clad perpetrators of the explosion could not follow Sasuke’s movements with their own eyes. They each collapsed with a thunking noise.
Although only a few minutes had elapsed, only two of the purple-clad perpetrators remained standing. Amongst the two of them, one was the mole-faced man who had been transformed into the mother.
Sasuke stared intently into the face of the man with the mole, as if urging him to surrender.
“Damn it…. ”
While clicking his tongue, the mole-faced man made a short sequence of seals.
Fwoom!
Suddenly, a horn-shaped pillar made of steel sprung forth from the floor, right beneath Sasuke’s feet. It’s end was sharpened like the tip of a sword, and extended forcefully towards Sasuke. Sasuke nimbly evaded it. While Sasuke was avoiding it, he struck the man closest to him in the jaw, who then collapsed.
The steel pillar instantly pierced through the ceiling of the raisha; With an undulating motion, it kept extending towards the sky.
It was a ninjutsu that had never been seen before. It was certainly powerful, but it wasn’t Sasuke’s enemy.
Because this was a separate issue for later, anyway.
Sasuke stared directly at the remaining mole-faced man with his bottomless, black pupils.
“C-. Come here, Uchiha!”
Then the man with the mole prepared and drew out a sword from his back, seemingly in desperation.
“ Hey, so why didn’t you stop the raisha?”
An awkward, insolent voice resounded.
The door behind the mole-faced man opened. It was the lady from the first-class carriage, unexpectedly peeking her face through.
“Run away!”
At the same time as Sasuke shouted, the man with the mole on his face kicked off the floor. He charged towards the lady, and grabbed a hold of her thin-framed body.
“. Eh?”
She couldn’t grasp the situation as she stared blankly and tilted her head to the side.
Sasuke instantly threw a kunai, which struck into the abdomen of the mole-faced man. However, the man’s movements didn’t stop.
“Kyaaaaaaa!!”
Clang!
The glass window shattered, and the lady was thrown out of the raisha.
“Tch….”
As Sasuke clicked his tongue, he kicked the window; he broke it and then jumped through. He caught the lady’s body in mid-air and landed on the ground.
“Whaaaaaaaa!? But that was so scary! What’s up with that man? But I really felt like I was going to die!?”
If she is able to even make as much of a racket like this, she probably isn’t injured. But aside from that issue, there was the mole-faced man.
Sasuke carried the lady under his armpit, and then quickly dropped her off in some nearby thickets.
He then turned to face the direction of the raisha.
He jumped up and placed his foot onto the window frame. He then peered inside.
——Just as I thought, the mole-faced man committed suicide.
The interior of the carriage was dyed to the ceiling in bright red. The mole-faced man was bloodstained, sitting and leaning up against the wall. He guessed that the man was bleeding from the nape of his neck, cut by using the kunai that he dropped. There were faint convulsions from the base of his ankle. Both of his eyes were opened wide to show his pupils, so it was obvious that he was dead already.
It’s over, eh.
There was another man who was laying face-down on the floor, collapsed. Sasuke turned him over. There was a kunai protruding from the left-hand side of his chest, and there was blood running down from it. When he examined the other men, everyone was stabbed to death in an identical manner. The mole-faced man probably killed them in fear of any intelligence leaking.
Sasuke let out a sigh in an annoyed manner. Even though they were the perpetrators of the explosion, there was never any intent for people to die. It was now completely impossible to extract information from the perpetrators. But above all else, the current Hokage disliked that people died.
But at least it would be fine, as long as they could catch the leader who was being pursued by Konohamaru.
Sasuke turned his back away from the eleven dead bodies, and descended outside of the rail cars.
As for the lady from a while back, she had plopped down to sit onto the ground. Her pupils were delicately trembling, shaking in shock.
“..What’s wrong?”
Sasuke called out to her, having noticed her unusual state.
“Ah….Ah….”
The lady spoke in a trembling voice, and raised up a quivering finger.
Sasuke turned his head to where the tip of her finger indicated. He then understood that his last hopes were already dashed.
When they were battling the men inside of the carriage, the mole-faced man had unleashed a steel ninjutsu. The seats had been knocked over and contorted by the steel that had sprung forth from the floor. They had penetrated through the ceiling and had extended towards the sky.
At the tip of the extended steel was the man who was their leader: He had gotten skewered.
It looked as if he was a butcher bird that had been pierced through a dead tree branch, just like a first sacrificial offering to a hunting season.
Konohamaru had leapt out of the compartment and is pursuing after the man who’s wearing the bib. He yells at him to wait up. He can’t escape from him, so that guy ought to surrender! The man is trying to escape into the forests that line next to the rail tracks.
On the inside of his wrist, Konohamaru is wearing Scientific Ninja Weaponry. He turns the knob and a small scroll comes out of the ejection hole.
Stored inside is a Raiton-based electrical current attack. However, when used against a normal ninja, it shouldn’t even kill them. However, their body will become paralysed and their movements will be stopped; This is the degree to which it has been calibrated to.
Konohamaru holds it out in his outstretched palm, and then fires the attack. A golden dragon gallops in midair. It’s a direct hit on the bibbed man’s back!
The man falls forward and quivers a bit. but immediately recovers. He sets off running again as if nothing had happened. Konohamaru has question marks in his head, thinking maybe he misfired? But anyway, he needs to stay in pursuit. Shouldn’t the Scientific Ninja Weapon Team have taken the settings into account? Of course, it wasn’t meant to kill, but the electric current should have been enough to stun him. He was certain that this was calculated from before. and It really looked like it struck the man.
…. No way, he’s immune to electrical currents?
While thinking things over, Konohamaru climbs on top of the raisha. He releases a sickle and chain weapon. He manages to swing it and catch the bibbed-man’s leg.
SEIIIIIIII!! Get well soon ‘ttebasaaaa!!”
Boruto energetically throws open the door to the hospital room. His cheerful and vigorous voice can be heard resounding throughout the hospital wards. Of course, Boruto barges in through the door first. He means well with his best wishes, but Boruto has come completely empty-handed. Sarada enters next:
“Boruto! You’re being loud and annoying! Since this is a hospital room, you’ve got to be quiet!”
She is holding a bouquet of sakura at her chest. Last (but not least!), a calm and composed Mitsuki enters the room.
It’s only been one day since Konohamaru has been hospitalized, but he’s already gotten bored of it. He’s happy to see his beloved students, and the joy of their visit inadvertently spreads across his face. He starts asking them about their mission. He tries talks to them in a composed manner as their shishou, to preserve his dignity. Boruto responds that there wasn’t one. So that’s why they decided to line up early in the morning.
“What do you mean by ‘Got in line’? What for?”
“For this!”
Mitsuki is holding a paper bag in his hands. He takes out a square package. The shop’s name is written on the wrapping paper. It’s something from a Japanese confectionary shop that’s been super popular lately. It’s renowned for making these exclusive strawberry daifuku. They only make 400 of them per day! The rumor is that if you don’t get in line from even before the shop opens, you won’t be able to buy any at all.
Sarada delightfully confirms that everyone got in line early for these strawberry daifuku. While she’s talking, she is arranging the sakura branches into a flower vase. Boruto takes the box from Mitsuki. It seems as though he just can’t wait any longer! He tears off the wrapping paper and opens up the lid. The strawberry daifuku are wrapped up in Japanese paper and neatly lined up into rows.
Konohamaru surmises that they might have gotten in line for themselves. Though his heart is warmed by their intention, he seems a bit disappointed.
Mitsuki wants to brew some tea and asks where he can get a supply of hot water. Konohamaru interjects and says he wants to do it. With Mitsuki’s help, Konohamaru gets the crutches from his bedside. Since Konohamaru has been bedridden, he’s been feeling a bit restless and depressed. Against his will, he hasn’t been able to do much. And so, he excitedly exits the room.
Meanwhile, Boruto grabs some chairs that are near the hospital room and arranges them into a circle. They all sit down. Sarada is surprised and worried that there are ninja who could gravely injure and hospitalize someone like Konohamaru-sensei. Mitsuki nods in full agreement with her. But at least none of the other passengers were injured, so they should be glad about that.
Sarada then turns on the TV. The broadcast timeslot is currently airing a news program. It’s just a bit before noontime. There’s a blond-haired young lady on the screen. They’re pointing the microphone towards her. It seems to be some sort of interview.
“Who’s that?”
Sarada tilted her head to the side.
“That’s Himeno Lilly. Sarada, you don’t know about her?”
Boruto said with widened eyes.
“Well that’s because I don’t watch much TV. So who is this kid? A star TV personality?”
“She’s an idol. She’s popular nowadays, so she appears on TV quite a lot, you know.”
While Boruto chats, he nonchalantly reaches for the strawberry daifuku. He starts to open the wrapping paper. Sarada and Mitsuki follow suit and extend their hands to get one. Sarada tears off the wrapping paper of hers, and then absentmindedly stares at the TV screen.
Lilly is still on-screen. She has lovely facial features. She is wearing a mini-dress with frills and ribbons sewed onto it and also a white pair of boots. She has shoulder-length blond hair that’s styled in loose waves.
It’s delicious, but I like the sweet red bean soup with mochi that my mother makes for me even more, you know.”
Even while he was saying something so impudent, Boruto was already reaching out his hand to take his second strawberry daifuku.
Wha
This strawberry daifuku so…incredibly…incredibly…amazing…
It was so delicious, that she was at a loss for any words within her vocabulary. Sarada was completely wrapped up in happiness while she was chewing and finishing eating her first one.
They think about waiting until Konohamaru-sensei returns before they have a second one. but that reconsideration lasted for only two seconds. So they each cheerfully reach for another one.
But anyway, music starts to stream from the TV. It seems like Lilly announced her latest song.
The screen flashes the song title: まちゅまろハート (‘Machuumaro Heart’), and Sarada starts to feel a light headache. Colourful lights shine upon Lilly. She’s wiggling at her waist and twisting around.
“What the heck is this!!”
Sarada’s shouting also resounds throughout the hospital wing. Boruto responds in annoyance.
“Sarada, you’re being loud and annoying ‘ttebasa. Since this is a hospital room, shouldn’t you be quiet.”
Sarada asks Boruto if he even understands any of Lilly’s song lyrics at all. (They’re a bit nonsensical, right? lol
). She keeps singing things like ‘hell and angel’ and ‘sticky sticky marshmallows’. He doesn’t know the meaning behind them either, right? Boruto replies that he doesn’t particularly care about the song lyrics ‘dattebasa.
He takes another mouthful of the strawberry daifuku and stuffs his cheeks full. Seems like he’s kept up his appetite even after hearing the song. Sarada also doesn’t seem to care much for the lyrics either. But somehow, she can’t help but feel a bit disturbed by these enigmatic lyrics. Sarada reproachfully takes another glance at the TV. The camera view is showing Lilly singing a segment that goes ‘‘Machuumaro mofumofu mofufufufu
”. Lilly continues to enthusiastically sing her song.
Sarada can’t stand to listen to it any longer. She slams her fist down with a ‘thunk’ onto the remote, and turns off the TV. Mitsuki then begins to airily hum to himself: “Mofumofu mofufufufu
”. The boys don’t seem to get the point at all. But anyway, there’s still more strawberry daifuku, and they’re quite delicious. They keep eating them while chatting idly.
Konohamaru then returns: crutches in one arm and skillfully balancing a tray of tea in the other. He laughs a bit and notes that they seemed to have eaten already. He passes around the tea to each of them. Boruto starts asking Konohamaru about the incident while sipping on his tea. Just who were the people who attacked the raisha? What was the point of the explosions? And with that many perpetrators? Konohamaru says they don’t have any information about why yet. Those purple-clad guys didn’t leave many clues behind. But it seems that they have an excessive number of holes in their ears.
“Holes? You mean like piercing holes, right?”
Mitsuki dubiously asked again.
“Yeah. The corpses underwent an autopsy by the medical treatment team. They said that everyone, from their earlobes to about their cartilage, seemed to have had about five open piercing holes.”
“Isn’t that a sign to denote their group’s unity? Similar to our hitai-ate….”
Konohamaru says that he can’t be certain about that. But from his impressions from battling them, their battle strength doesn’t seem to be all that menacing….Aside from the leader, they seem to be about Chuunin level. But they were still troublesome in their own way. Sarada guesses correctly that the point was that the enemies were completely willing to risk their lives. Konohamaru grimly nods his head in agreement. If the enemies were to be arrested, they would have been able to extract information out of them. However, the enemies chose to die instead. So it’s an incredibly difficult thing to do if your aim is to capture them alive. It’s even harder to do that, rather than just plainly killing them off.
Boruto is worried about the destructive blast on the raisha: were they especially trying to use bombs or ninjutsu ‘dattebasa? Well, if their objective was to indiscriminately aim at the villagers. they might have countermeasures too. That would potentially cause a lot of damage. They might be aiming for a crowded civilian area or station. They could have caused the destructive blast in broad daylight… But for now, Konohamaru doesn’t know the current status in much further detail. The four of them fall dead silent in the hospital after hearing about it.
“Anyway, shouldn’t we have some strawberry daifuku!”
Konomahu spoke brightly In order to shake off the gloomy atmosphere.
He lifted up the lid of the box of strawberry daifuku, but it’s contents were completely empty.
“Eh!?”。
In surprise, Konohamaru looked at the contents of the box repeatedly four times.
No matter many times he looked, there was nothing inside.
“Y-you guys. What happened to the strawberry daifuku….”
While his agitation was spreading into his voice, he looked towards the three people.
“I only ate two.”
Mitsuki asserted this without a moment’s delay.
“And I only ate three of them.”
“I only ate four of them ‘dattebasa.”
“So they were perfectly accounted for, right!? Because there were only nine ‘kore!”
Konohamaru was furious, looking at them with with daggers in his eyes. Sarada tried to calm him while saying “It’s okay, It’s okay…” She felt guilty, but in reality they were so tasty that she had no regrets.
“ W-Well, because we can go and buy them again.”
“No. If you have that sort of free time, use it to train…”
Even though he said it firmly, Konohamaru’s shoulders were completely drooping.
With a bitter smile, Mitsuki tried to mediate by changing the subject of the conversation.
“Sensei, how soon until you will be discharged?”
Konohamaru inadvertently and glumly glances down at the plaster cast that’s protecting his right ankle. He says that the injury itself isn’t that bad at all. However, the bomb seemed to have caused a slight degree of paralysis. Seems as though there was a poison that was prepared with it. Until they finish countering that, hospitalization is required. It will take roughly three weeks. Sarada ask him again, ‘Three weeks?’ in a worried tone. Boruto asks what will happen to their team ‘dattebasa. Konohamaru glances at the doorway with a smile. He tells them that there will a substitute who will take responsibility for them in the meantime. Mitsuki seems a bit curious, repeating ‘A substitute, eh?’.
“Don’t be worried. This person is exceptionally strong. Well that’s to say it in a humble manner, I guess. They’re so tremendously strong.”
“Are you serious
! That’s exactly what I wanted!”
Boruto grasps both of his hands tightly in excitement. Sarada, who is getting annoyed at how pompous Konohamaru is acting, then asks:
“So, who is this person. Who you said is the substitute…?”
“ It’s me.”
The low tone carried well: it was a cool voice. Just by hearing that tone of voice, all three of them instantly guessed who that person was. They turned their heads to the entranceway. Sasuke was standing there with his usual, expressionless face.
“Papa is going to be our sensei…!?”
. So Papa. will be our sensei.”
She corrected herself, speaking with a serene stance.
“Ahh. That’s because I’ll be staying in the village for a little while.”
“Are you serious!? Alrightttt!”
Brimming with a grin, Boruto raised his arms over his head. His eyes lit up and were sparkling. He couldn’t contain his utter happiness, and a smile burst forth on his face.
Right beside him, Mitsuki also had a smile on his face from being full of excitement.
Sasuke-occhan is going to teach us ninjutsu!
Boruto cannot contain his exaltation. Their designated training location is at a forest that extends outside the village. His gait unconsciously shifts to a cheerful and buoyant one as he bounces along towards the meeting point. Boruto’s objective is to become a ninja like Sasuke who will support the Hokage. And so for Boruto, Sasuke is the embodiment of his dream itself.
Boruto can’t help but be in super high spirits because of this opportunity. He had trained with Sasuke before: even though it was a short period of time, he had learned many things. He was able to start reflecting upon his relationship with his father. That time spent with Sasuke was considered a treasure to Boruto. Since that time, Boruto has taken on many more missions. Because of those, he has surely matured. So this time around, he will definitely show off his powers to Sasuke-occhan! He’s very eager and full of enthusiasm for their first day of training.
Thunkkkkk! Zwishhh
Sasuke threw a kunai with dreadful force, and it goes flying. It mows down every single bit of the forest trees in its flight path. It’s also magnificently pulverised a distant cliff that happened to be in the way too. Boruto is looking on, completely speechless.
“So a kunai can give off this kind of power?”
“Of course Papa is amazing. Shannaro
”
Next to Boruto, Mitsuki and Sarada are murmuring to each other. On the surface of the distant cliff, they see smoke rising from it. In a single strike, a kunai can do that!? How is that possible…
Of course, Sasuke didn’t throw the kunai in an ordinary way. He had hooked the kunai with the tip of his finger and kneaded chakra. And then in an instant, it seemed like electricity was given off. They didn’t understand the mechanism very well, but in the next moment, the kunai went flying with a violent force. Finally, the surface of the distant cliff was pulverized.
Sasuke remains in a cool and composed manner and lowers his arm. He then turns to face the three of them. He saysthat it’s probably still too early for them to do anyway.
Eh, then why bother showing us? The three of them are in agreement in a silent protest.
Sasuke then nonchalantly reaches into a leather bag and takes out two small dice. He extends out his hand to the rest of them.
“This is the first challenge. With ninjutsu, make the eyes of these dice show identical numbers. However, you can’t touch the dice with your hands at all.”
Without touching them? The three of them exchange glances, thinking they’ll need some sort of miracle to do it.
Sasuke says that they’ll allowed to try out whatever method they’d like. Sasuke tosses the dice into the air one after another. He takes out a shuriken from his breast pocket and nimbly flings it. The shuriken whirrs and spins as it flies. As the two dice fall down, the shuriken grazes them at an angle one at a time. The flipped dice tumble on top of a bush. The shuriken curves back like a boomerang into his hand.
The three of them go and squat down and confirm it. The eyes of the two dice are both are showing the number six. Boruto mutters that it’s an amazing feat, with his eyes rounded wide. Mitsuki also closely examines the dice. Sarada looks on at the two of them, giving them a bit of a prideful glance.
The sugar cubes didn’t crumble. They also haven’t been blown away. With that degree of power, he can manipulate both dice at the same time and roll them without directly hitting them. So he can attempt to match the eyes of the dice for a longer period of time without breaking them…It looked relatively simple, but it took fine and delicate power control. He isn’t successful either.
“Taaa!”
“Chyeah!”
“Ehhhh!”
“Haah!”
“Ahh, I broke them again!”
“Damn it, I’ll absolutely get it to do it ‘tebasa!”
Everyone is yelling and screaming as they’re trying to put in as much effort into their training. Sasuke is standing in a location further away, watching over all of them attentively.
[[Ah okay. I thought this next section was really poignant of Papasuke, so I wanted to give it justice with a full direct translation
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Something then came to mind: his memories from when he was still a genin himself. Originally under Kakashi’s guidance, he has spent everyday and all of his time training with Naruto and Sakura.
The time that he had spent together with Team 7. was quite short. In addition, the reason he had for becoming a shinobi were different than everyone else’s. Despite that short time period, those memories were still profoundly rooted within Sasuke.
It was uncharacteristic of himself to feel and reflect upon his past with nostalgia like that; Sasuke smiled wryly when he noticed himself doing it.
But at the same time, he actually felt and realized that society had changed together with the era.
The era of when the typical demand was for nothing but strong shinobi was over. It marked the end of the turbulent times when blood was spilled in vain, in an era full of battles.
There were no longer in combat to only kill their enemies anymore.
Some things were necessary in order to preserve the peace. It wasn’t military strength, but rather a balance of foreign nations with stable societies. What was necessary in the current era was not just typical strength. But rather shinobi who were able to cope and adapt quickly to the environment and all the situations that surrounded them.
Because of Naruto’s work, Konohagakure Village had changed. The era of strife had ended, and foreign trade was flourishing. It seemed as though each country was sharing their advancements and developing. The Fire Country had remarkably modernized.