The Suna shinobi promptly grabbed the scroll from Orochimaru's hands and opened it before reading through it. After a while, he relaxed slightly. "The Hokage's official seal." He stated as he handed back the scroll. "You're free to pass."
Orochimaru pocketed the scroll and stepped forward past into the cleft followed by Kabuto and Orochimaru. However, as I moved forward to enter the village, I felt the guard gaze at my face seriously. As I raised a brow before turning to face him, his pupils suddenly constricted intensely and he took a step back. "Y-You!"
I blinked. "Me?"
Seeing his reaction, the other guards looked my way, before their expressions began to change, and they became on edge. The sudden change in atmosphere caught the attention of my three other compatriots who had yet to fully enter the village and they turned back to face me.
While Itachi and Kabuto looked ok with their interests peaked, Orochimaru looked on with a knowing smile.
"Come now Yoru, we need to find lodging for our stay."
I glanced at the shinobi guards for a brief moment before following my team inside all the while the guards behind me seemed to have turmoil-ridden emotions.
Hmm, maybe they were having issues coping with how adorable I was? Seeing someone as cute as myself must have been a shock for their eyes.
"What do you think Levia? My handsomeness definitely shocked them silly right?"
She gave me a lazy dull glance.
…hiss
"Of course they were. What else would they be shocked by?"
hiss
"Oh please, that bingo book entry has been outdated from day one. If they're scared because of what was written in that thing three years ago, then they might as well roll over for me now."
She looked at me blankly.
hiss
I paused before shaking my head and moving along. "No matter how arrogant I appear to be, every action of mine in well calculated to provide me with the most optimal results. Anything extra is simply for my amusement."
She rolled her eyes.
hiss
"Of course it is! Do you really have to doubt me so much?"
I heard a laugh in front of me and turned to see Itachi chuckling at my antics. "You and she seem to be able to really understand each other." He then tilted his head and furrowed his brows slightly. "…Seriously, how do you understand her?"
"I'm not sure…" I stated honestly before I shrugged my shoulders. "It probably has something to do with the fact that the Snake Sage bit me and poisoned my body with snake attributed natural energy…or something."
Itachi blinked. "…What?"
"Either that or I'm just a natural genius…I'm more inclined to believe the latter."
Itachi just stared at me blankly for a moment before he raised a brow as a light smile made its way on his face. Shaking his head helplessly, he continued to move forward.
I followed behind him for a couple of paces before my ears twitched. I paused for a moment and turned my gaze to the side to see a team of 3 Kumo Shinobi who were lead by the Eight-Tails jinchuuriki. I had already sensed his chakra earlier but hadn't really cared since he had nothing to do with me.
The person I was looking at however, a young man with dark eyes and short, blond hair wearing the standard Kumo-nin attire, had been looking my way for some time. Parallel Processes, which acted as my second brain, had caught wind of a couple of the things he had said with my enhanced hearing and I found his conjectures intriguing. He was quite interesting so I gave him a smile and a short wave before walking along with my team.
For the sake of him and his team, I hoped we didn't meet as enemies during the exams.
I would have to eliminate them if we did.
-Yoru: Gamer-
"That's him." A man stated as he observed Yoru and his team's approaching form from the distance. The young man had dark eyes and short, blond hair which he wore parted in the front. He wore the standard attire of Kumo-nin: a sleeveless, black shirt with a one-strap-over-one-shoulder white flak jacket, black forehead protector, characteristic black, elbow-length arm-guards, and the red and white Kumogakure shin-guards along with a pair of sandals.
"Is that so?" Another man replied blandly. He was a dark-skinned man with a slightly bulbous nose, black eyes that usually look bored, and shaggy, white hair which covered his left eye. He wore a high-collared, sleeveless uniform with loose fitting pants, bandages on his wrists and the one-strap-over-one-shoulder flak jacket typical of a Kumogakure shinobi. In addition to this, he had stylized characters for water (水) and lightning (雷) tattooed on his right and left shoulders respectively. "What's he got to do with us anyway, Cee?"
"Either everything or nothing at all," Cee stated as a grave look appeared in his eyes. "He suddenly appeared in Iwagakure's bingo books as some prodigy Konoha shinobi that no one had heard of before then. Forgetting his bounty and threat assessment, he was only 11, yet Iwagakure deemed it necessary to rank him as an S-Rank threat. What does that tell you?"
"Who knows? Who cares?" Darui replied in a laid back manner.
Cee closed his eyes and took a deep breath before opening them. "It means he either pissed off Iwagakure extensively, frightened them with his abilities, or a combination of both."
"Incredible," Darui said in a bored tone.
Cee's eyes sharpened. "And to make matters more interesting, it was found that Iwagakure's bingo book was updated not long after the Four-Tails attack."
Darui perked up ever so slightly, though his overall posture staved off any suggestion that he was actually interested in the subject matter. "So?"
"So…" Cee began. "He must have done something during or promptly after the Four-Tail's attack that pissed off or frightened Iwa's higher-ups." Cee then paused in thought for a moment. "The only issue is that no one knows how they obtained such information about him. Not even us (Kumo), Kiri, or Suna seem to have any more information than that which we obtained from Iwa."
Darui sighed. "Just avoid him them. It seems like trying to go up against him is more troublesome than it is worth."
"That's truthfully the best course of action, but…" Cee looked at Yoru even more intently. "Have you read his complete profile in the Bingo Book?"
Darui looked up at Cee mellowly. "I looked at his threat assessment and bounty before skipping to the next page. That was all the information I needed to realize that he wasn't worth the risk."
Cee's brows twitched before he took out the black Bingo Book from his back pocket and flipped through the pages before handing it to Darui. "Just read through it."
Darui took it and read through the profile before handing the black book back to Cee. "I'm now gladder than ever that I decided not to bother with him."
"That's not the point," Cee stated as he rubbed his forehead. "Did you not see his list of skills? He has access to a space-time technique of unknown function. Do you understand what this means?"
Darui blinked. "That he likes to spam the Summoning Jutsu often?"
A vein bulged on Cee's head. "No. Think! What else happened days after the 4-Tails attack?"
Darui's expression transformed from limpid to somewhat serious. "The Council Massacre."
"24 of our most elite shinobi were massacred by an unknown assailant. He/she was able to get into the village completely undetected and was able to evade every single Anbu and blockade. They slaughtered 24 out of the 26 members of our shinobi council. Furthermore…" Cee looked at the black book in his hands seriously. "They were strong enough to overpower a force of 9 Anbu and 3 Shinobi Council members with relative ease."
"I know the details," Darui stated with mild irritation lacing his tone.
"And that's not even the worst part," Cee stated with a sigh. "Because since that day, we have found no information on the whereabouts of Yugito Nii. It's like she vanished into thin air."
Darui shook his head. "What does it matter at this point? You want to confront him?"
Cee smiled ruefully. "I like to think of the worse case scenarios so I can most adequately prepare for any situation, doubly so when I'm facing an enemy, however…" he clenched his fist. "I feel like the worst case scenario that I've come up with in regards to him leaves me with absolutely no options to counterattack…confronting him-"
"-Is suicide." A frigid voice spoke up beside them. Cee And Darui finally noticed Samui besides them, their mentor Killer B hanging out behind her.
"Ah, you two are back," Darui stated in a bland tone.
"Finding a decent place to stay in this desert wasn't easy," Samui stated
"But we finally found a place to lay so we can go and sleep there all day, hey!" Killer B sang before he took out his notepad and jotted down some lyrics.
"…"
"…"
"…"
Everyone: "That was so bad…"
Samui ignored him and turned her gaze towards Cee. "So? What do you plan on doing?"
"Nothing," Cee stated as he closed his eyes and sighed. "It's not like he'd say anything if we confronted him anyway. Best to just leave it be. We have very little information on him, to begin with."
Samui gave a nod in agreement.
"Um, guys." Darui began before he pointed his finger towards where Yoru was standing. "I think he's looking at us."
Both Cee and Samui straightened their posture.
Meanwhile, Bee was lost in his own world…
"Is he…waving at me?" Cee asked as he swallowed dryly.
Darui nodded. "Looks like it…oh he's smiling too."
Cee took a step back in nervousness as sweat dripped down his forehead and he watched as Yoru eventually walked away. It was only then that he released the breath he hadn't known he was holding. "I have a bad feeling about this…Samui, what do you think?"
When Cee got no replied, he blinked and looked to his left where he saw Samui staring at Yoru's disappearing form. He noted her slightly distracted gaze and noticed how her expression was slightly less cold. As a matter of fact, her face was just a bit rosier as well and one could even say that her expression was just a tad bit…warm?
"Umm, Samui?"
Samui blinked a couple of times, snapping out of whatever trance she was in before she stated in her usual detached tone. "…He's kind of cool."
"…"
-Yoru: Gamer-
"We're here," Orochimaru stated as he guided us into a sand-colored room. The furniture and decor were simple, but the room seemed to contain all the space and accessories we would need. "For the duration of the exam, we'll be staying here whenever you all aren't participating. In the meantime, I'll go register our team, so do what you will in the meantime."
With that said, Orochimaru left us to our own devices as he left the room and burst away in a Body Flicker, leaving the three of us here. Seeing as there was nothing remotely interesting to do in this room, I walked towards the exit.
"Where do you plan on going?" Kabuto asked as he adjusted his glasses.
I shrugged. "Nowhere in particular, but I figured I might as well explore the place since I've never been here before. Besides…" I began as I stared at Levia with a smile. "I'm interested in seeing what events we'll trigger by walking around the village. It'll be sure to be much more interesting than anything we could do in this room. Don't you agree, girl?"
hiss
"Ah, you're too adorable~"
"In that case," Kabuto stated. "I'll sneak around and gather more intel on our opposition. You most likely won't need it, but it will be an interesting pastime for me as well."
I smiled lightly. "That's the spirit." I turned to Itachi. "What about you?"
"…I'll look for a place that sells pocky." Itachi plainly stated before he walked out the door and flickered away to his destination.
I blinked a few times. "Huh…alright then."
Just as I was about to leave, I immediately halted my body as I sensed a powerful and familiar kind of energy signature enter my detection range.
It was a bijuu's chakra signature.
And it wasn't one I was familiar with.
"Levia, can you feel that?"
hiss
"I figured," I stated before I waved at Kabuto and flickered away.
I found myself on one of Sunagakure's main roads and simply walked around, admiring the view, however, I had a goal in mind. I had already sensed the 1-Tail's chakra signature when I had entered this village, but it wasn't really noteworthy and the 8-Tails, I had met before but this new Tailed Beast Chakra Signature I was feeling…
Well, it wouldn't hurt to check it out while doing other things. The chunin exams weren't set to start for another day, so I could afford to take this time and search around a bit.
Suna was one of the most sparsely populated Great Shinobi Village, only next to Kirigakure. Despite this, the relatively small size of the village allowed Suna to appear much more crowded than it otherwise would have been as its population density was quite large.
With the mountain ranges surrounding the village and acting as a powerful natural barrier, it was no wonder Suna's founder picked this dry place as the foothold for his village. The only real issue was that Suna was located in a large desert and natural resources found it hard to make their way over here.
It was really only thanks to the Fourth Kazekage's Gold Dust manipulation that he was able to just barely provide enough capital for this village to prosper. If not, who knew how long it would be until Suna became broke. This was also one of the reasons he was considered to be one of Suna's greatest Kages.
I broke away from my thoughts as I arrived at what seemed to be some sort of market place. I knew I was currently at the center of the village which predominantly contained many stores and wares. Despite this, I wasn't prepared for how overcrowded and busy this area of the village actually was. It seemed as if the chunin exams was attracting more people than I had initially realized.
I scanned the area for a bit before deciding that it wouldn't be a bad idea to pick up a souvenir or two for my darling little sis. I had the distinct feeling that she would be upset at my leaving without informing her. I mean, I had only really been informed about it last minute, so I hadn't the opportunity to tell her.
Then again, I could've left a clone…
I furrowed my brows. "I suppose I'll need to get her more than two gifts huh?"
hiss
"I did not fuck up, thank you very much."
hiss
"Well, I'll make it up to her," I stated as I went through various stores in the marketplace and bought a few accessories and trinkets that I figured Mito would be interested in playing with.
There was this doll that could be controlled like a puppet as long as you made your chakra flow through strings that were attached to it. I also got some hourglasses for her since those apparently were quite popular accessories to buy here. There were a few other things I bought as well.
"Hmm, this should be enough to make it up to her," I stated as I took a mental sweep of my inventory.
Abruptly, I perked up, having sensed the close proximity of the new Tailed-Beast chakra signature I had discovered earlier. After paying for my wares, I stepped out of the store and jumped to the higher vantage point of a nearby building before scanning through the dense sea of incoming people in order to pinpoint who had that chakra signature.
It took but a moment for me to catch a glimpse of the Jinchuuriki that had grabbed my attention. The Jinchuuriki in question was a thin young man with pale golden eyes and brown hair that reached his shoulders. He wore a full body grey suit along with a flak jacket which had very low shoulder guards as well as a zipper and a pouch on the upper right chest. He also wore fingerless gloves, as well as bandages on his forearms.
From the forehead protector on his head, I could see that he was from Kirigakure.
He wasn't alone.
In addition, next to him was a tall and noticeably muscular man with light grayish skin, short spiky black hair, dark brown eyes, and small eyebrows. He wore bandages like a mask over the bottom half of his face and on his back he carried a weapon I recognized from images and other illustrations.
The Kubikiribōchō, one of the weapons belonging to the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.
There was also a noticeably older person in the group who looked to be a man in his early 30s. He had blue hair which was styled in a moused-up manner. His left eye was blue and his right eye was covered with an eye-patch, and he wore a talisman in each ear with the kanji for "to hear" (承) written on them twice on each side.
I glanced at the last member of the team…
Immediately after, my eyes twinkled in interest.
"Oho? Isn't she a beauty…"
The girl in question had fair skin, green eyes, and long auburn hair styled into a herringbone pattern at the back. She had two short bangs in the front, one of which covered one of her eyes. Tied around her midsection was a waistband with a metal plate engraved on which were Kirigakure's symbols.
The group of four talked for a moment before separating and going their own way. The woman decided to walk close to my area where the various outdoor stores were.
"Did you see her Levia?" I asked as I tried to peek through the crowd once more. "She was quite beautiful wasn't she? Of course, not nearly as beautiful as myself, but…"
I could almost feel Levia roll her eyes.
"Well, forget what you think cause she's definitely got my attention now," I stated before hopping off of my vantage point and making my way towards that beautiful looking woman. "Well, I'm going in. Make sure you act cute like you usually do."
Levia simply closed her eyes and ignored me.
I shook my head. "You're a terrible wingman…or is it wingsnake?"
With that, I walked towards her while eyeing the crowd of people around me. The thing about a country with such little wealth like Suna was that there were a lot of undesirable types around these types of places.
Like-
My hand shot forward and instantly grabbed onto the wrist of the boy who had just tried to pickpocket me.
"Yo," I said with a smile as I looked at the kid who couldn't be more than a year or so older than me. With his shaggy clothes, dirty face, and loose footwear.
I could sense the fear growing within him as he struggled to release himself from my hold. "L-Let go! I wasn't doing nothing!"
I raised a brow at his reaction before I shook my head in amusement. "Sure you weren't, but I don't care about that. I just need you to help me with something."
He stopped his struggles and eyed me suspiciously. "W-What?"
I smirked. "Trail behind me. In a few moments, a woman is going to trip and I'm going to go help her. That moment is going to be your window of opportunity to put your skills to good use on both of us." With that said, I took out a thick wad of Ryo from my Inventory and snuck it into the kid's hands. "Here's some incentive. The best part is that you have nothing to lose. How about it?"
The kid froze at such large numbers of notes before he gripped it tightly and looked me in the eye.
From his emotions, I got the answer I wanted.
"Now then, let's get the show on the road shall we?"
Looking ahead, I could still see the auburn-haired girl looking about at the various local stores so I waded through the crowd while also keeping my senses on the little thief behind me. I inched closer and closer to her and just as we were a couple of feet away…
With a small and subtle application of chakra, a small bump appeared on the ground in front of the girl. I knew that with her shinobi training she would be able to recover very quickly, so as soon as she tripped over the rock and gave an adorable yelp, I dashed forward. In one smooth motion, I caught her from the front and gave a genial smile. "Are you alright? You have to be careful on these roads. They aren't maintained often."
"I didn't need your…" she paused as she stared at my face and blanked for a moment. "Help…"
I could sense the subtle shift in her emotions as she took a look at me, some of which appeared to be…favorable towards me. Gently helping her up off the ground, I stared into her eyes and in the same moment, the little thief brushed by both me the girl.
"All according to keikaku."
"I'm sure you didn't," I stated before I tilted my head. "You're definitely not from around here, are you?" I asked, looking at her waistband.
She dusted herself off. "You don't look like a native yourself." She stated as she looked at the Konoha headband around my neck.
"That may be true, but I know a lot about the rules of places like this. Exhibit A…" I began as I gestured towards the little thief that had almost completely disappeared into the crowd. "That kid that bumped into you and me just tried to score from us."
Eyes widened in surprise and annoyance, the girl hurriedly searched herself, however, it all seemed fruitless. "Shit!" She said, grinding her teeth as she looked into the crowd where the kid had disappeared from while vapor visibly emanated from her body.
"Interesting…" I stated as I looked at her rising anger in mild amusement.
She turned to me with narrowed eyes. "You don't look surprised or worried."
"I told you." I began, before in a puff, a wallet appeared in my hand. "I know the rules of this place." I finished before I made it disappear in a puff. "Storage seals come in handy in these kinds of places, especially if you're a foreigner in these areas. Standing out makes you an easy target." Of course, I kept my money inside my Inventory and not a storage seal, but she didn't need to know that little tidbit of information. The plume of smoke was just a little extra effect.
Cooling herself down, the girl took a breath and sighed in disappointment. "And here I was hoping I would be able to get something interesting in this place…"
"Well, why don't I take you around?" I suggested. "We can explore together and you can get whatever you want. It'll be on me."
Placing a finger to her lip, she looked at me with a smile of intrigue. "You think you can buy me?"
"No, a woman such as yourself can't be bought," I stated. "But that doesn't mean I can't afford to show you a good time. How about it? What do you have to lose?"
She stared at my face intently and stepped closer to me before smiling. "I suppose spending my time with someone such as yourself will be worthwhile." She began. "Mei Terumī. Nice to meet you."
"'Shining beauty'" I stated, referencing the meaning of her name. "It truly fits you."
"Well, aren't you a charmer," Mei stated before she subtly licked her lips. "And you're definitely charming…"
"Yoru," I stated before looking at my adorable partner wrapped around my arm. "And this here is Levia."
As if responding to my words, Levia snapped open one of her eyes and stared at Mei for a moment before losing interest and closing it.
Mei eyed Levia curiously. "She's beautiful…" she stated as she reached out to stroke Levia's scales.
Levia being the lazy snake she was didn't even bother to respond.
After a moment, Mei stopped with a smile on her face and looked at me. "Shall we then, Yoru?"
"Most definitely."
So together, Mei and I walked through the busy streets of Sunagakure's marketplace. Along the way, I took an extra peak at her. She appeared to be a few years older than me, probably around Rin's and Kakashi's age, and had a mature edge to her.
Just my type.
Not only that, she was incredibly beautiful. Even though I had Eidetic Memory and had already committed her form to memory, I could help but sneak another peek at her…
Immediately, I snapped out of it.
"Stupid hormones…"
Shaking my head, I recomposed myself before asking. "Tell me something," I asked. "How's Kiri doing these days?"
"If I didn't know any better, I'd say you only asked me out for information." She said in mock seriousness.
I shook my head. "I find you much more interesting than your village. I'm just a bit curious is all."
"Is that so? Well, where to start…" She slightly looked up in thought. "Ever since we lost the Three-Tails and a lot of the Seven Swordsman, we've been lying low and trying to away from the other Great Shinobi Villages, affairs."
She then perked up and grabbed my hand before dragging me to a food stand where they sold spicy takoyaki. "One batch please."
"Make that two," I stated as I placed down my money on the table.
The chef nodded and served up some of the takoyaki that had just been fried into two paper bowls.
After we took it from him, we continued on.
"But you're here now and I'm venturing for the chunin exams," I stated. "Are you a team's jonin overseer?"
She looked at me in amusement after swallowing the food she had eaten. "No, I'm participating."
What?
It must have been the very subtle pause that tipped her off as she asked. "You seem surprised. Why so?"
"For starters, from your posture and movements, I can tell you're skilled…at the bare minimum skilled enough to be above a genin. You seem to have the age and experience."
"It's not good to comment on a woman's age." She stated as she took a takoyaki ball and fed it to me.
I obliged and ate it.
"Well, it's not really a secret anyway," Mei said dismissively. "I was a Jonin, but my Kage demoted me and my teammates to genin due to our 'disappointing failure in completing an essential mission'."
I blinked and swallowed my food. "That's a thing?"
"Of course." She stated as she fed me once more. "As long as you have some pretense, your Kage can strip out of your ninja rank. Of course, this sort of thing doesn't happen often, if at all. Usually, shinobi who fail so terribly as to get demoted are either kicked out or killed."
"Then why…?"
Mei leaned in close with a smile and fed me once more. "For the chunin exams of course."
You know, when I had earlier told Kushina that it wouldn't matter even if the other villages sent fake genin, I never actually thought I would be facing them. However, as before, it didn't matter to me.
Though, it did make me wonder…
Why would their Kage go through all that trouble just to have his elite shinobi beat up on kids during this year's chunin exams?
"Ahh, I suppose someone from Konoha would understand it, especially someone such as yourself."
I didn't quite catch the hidden meaning in the second part of her sentence, but she continued in nonetheless. "For the last few years, the trend has been heavily favoring Konoha: We lost our bijuu to you, Kumo's 2-Tails vanished, Suna has always been poor, and Iwa also lost their Four-Tails."
"Yeah, it's a pity the Third Tsuchikage died protecting Konoha and taking the Four-Tails with him."
She gave me this look. "Right?" She shook her head in amusement. "Anyway, as a result, the amount of missions being sent our way has drastically reduced, negatively impacting our economy. I imagine it's the same for Iwa, Kumo, and Suna."
Huh, I never thought of that.
Then, I understood. "I see, so in order to attract more individuals your way, Kiri needed to send out an exceptional 'genin' team which would capture the attention of all the sponsors."
"Correct. Here's your reward." She stated as she fed me a few more Takoyaki. "I don't doubt the other villages are doing this as well. As a matter of fact, I would wager they have people with incredibly high experience now posing as a genin."
"Hoh? Isn't that interesting?"
Mei shrugged. "It was almost like a mutual agreement that all these other villages did this, so it's not like the main competition was going to be between actual genin anyway. Showing off our ninjas' worth is the only way to get missions and as a shinobi village, missions are the main way we generate our revenue."
"I see," I stated.
"Yeah, well, I don't believe we're going to get the result we hoped for now."
I raised a brow "Oh? Why not."
Mei paused and stared into my eyes intently before she smiled. "Call it women's intuition."
"Right?"
She looked at me in amusement and grabbed my arm before dragging me all around the marketplace.
While being made to buy all the things Mei could get her hands on, I asked, "Tell me more about you yourself. Why exactly were you chosen to be 'demoted' to genin?"
"Let's see…" She said as she picked out a necklace. "I'm skilled."
"I could have guessed."
"Additionally…" she continued while she placed the gold necklace around her neck and pursed her lips slightly. "I have some abilities that may help me win this thing."
My interest was piqued. I was willing to bet she had an interesting bloodline ability that gave her this extra boost in confidence she was emanating.
"That'll be 280,283 Ryo." The cashier stated.
I didn't even bat an eye as I placed the goods in a storage tag and moved to take out my wallet, however, Mei stopped me from doing so.
"I'll handle this," Mei stated as, under my mildly surprised vision, she pulled out a small pouch from which she took out wads of Ryo. After counting the money, she placed the cash on the counter. "Here you go."
"Thank you!" The cashier stated with a smile as he put the money away, his mood uplifted.
With that, Mei took the storage tag from my hands. "I forgot to tell you that I know about the rules of these kinds of places as well." She said as she snapped her wallet shut and gave me a teasing smile. "Don't think I've never gone out to places like these in the many years of my career."
I raised a brow, though I couldn't say I was too surprised. It would be weird if she had never been in a place like his in her career as a shinobi. Truthfully, the little thief had only been an opportunity to approach her. It did get me wondering though. "Then…"
"The infamous Yorudan goes through all that trouble to ask me out and you expect me to decline? Do you know how many people want to dig up your secrets?" She asked before chuckling lightly. "I found myself more amused than upset and since I found you very cute, I went along with it."
"…"
I hadn't expected I was so popular. I mean sure, my name was in the bingo book, but it wasn't like I went out much. When I did go out, it was either to meet people I was already acquainted with or to kill people during missions so it wasn't like they had much to say about me…
"Thank you for today Yoru, I had fun. We should definitely do this again sometime." Mei suggested before leaning forward and planting a kiss on my cheek. I felt a surge of heat generated from where she placed her lips. "I'll see you at the exams." She then stood up and gave me a wink before she moved to walk out of the store.
I looked at her retreating backside and focused on her shapely legs, the mesh leggings covering them accentuating her thighs even further-
I immediately snapped out of it as Mei walked past the curtain of the store and disappeared from my view.
"Oh for fuck's sake."
I just could not seem to get her image out of my head.
Ever since I had started going through these…changes, I had been questioning whether Gamer's Mind was broken.
Was Gamer's Body making it so bad that Gamer's Mind couldn't act effectively?
"Honestly Levia, you're lucky you don't have to go through puberty…" I paused. "Wait, do snakes go through puberty?"
hissss?
"I know you're only 2 but you're almost 3…" I paused as I rethought that sentence before I sighed. "You know what? Forget I said anything about it."
Levia readily hissed in agreement.
With that, I walked out of the store and looked up to the sky before narrowing my eyes. "You know…they are actually getting quite annoying, wouldn't you agree?"
Levia's slitted pupils constricted dangerously as she hissed in displeasure.
"I know," I said, looking around the bustling market area. "I don't like the way they're looking at me either."
For a while now, a little bit before I met Mei, there had been some peculiar gazes directed at my person. It made sense why that was the case and I didn't bother since not all of them were hostile, but by now the number of gazes had increased by so much that I was getting irritated.
It was like I was on a stage and the audience was staring at me as if I was an interesting prop.
I didn't like it one bit.
hissss
"You're right. A few people might have to die before they leave me alone."
I turned my gaze in the direction where I could sense a particularly high level of hostility.
ID Create: Empty
I dashed towards the place where that high level of hostility was emanating from and made sure I was behind where the purported aggressors were hiding.
ID Escape
I saw the backs of three individuals in front of me. Their gazes were turning every which way as if they were looking for something…
Or someone.
With my high level of stealth and my ability to perfectly suppress my chakra, they didn't even notice I was behind them until I grabbed the heads of two of the individuals and brutally slammed them together. They were out cold in an instant and before the third person could even comprehend the situation he was in, Levia shot out and coiled around him, constricting his body and preventing him from moving.
"I know I'm incredibly charming, but by how you've been staring at me…I don't think it's about my looks." I asked behind the man's ears.
To my surprise, I could sense little fear from the man. Instead, he turned to me with a wide smile, "Haha, you're fucked! You're fucked! Do you have any idea how many people want your head?! You actually decided to show yourself and in the chunin exams of all places?! Hahahaha!" He laughed madly.
I furrowed my brows as I saw the Iwagakure symbol on his headband before I sighed. "To be honest….I don't really care." Saying so, I grabbed his neck. "You can die now."
His laugh abruptly halted as he looked at me in surprise. "Wait! Don't you want to-"
"No."
I crushed his neck, killing him instantly.
After I let go and Levia uncoiled herself from him, his body slumped to the floor motionless. I killed the other two with a quick application of Laser Finger before they began to glow. They turned into motes of light which I absorbed through my mouth.
I could sense that no one had seen or noted what had happened here since it had been quick and quiet, nevertheless, I wasn't going to stay here for too long.
My eyes narrowed dangerously.
This chunin exam apparently wouldn't be as simple as I first thought. There were still a few more days till it officially began, more than enough time for information about me to be relayed and for the villages to make some moves against me.
That being said, I wasn't worried.
"Let's go home, Levia."
First thing's first, I made an edit to chapter 14 regarding Danzo's disability status. Turns out that he only got his bandages after the Uchiha Massacre which I hadn't known at the time. I mean, didn't anyone in the anime find it odd that Danzo, out of nowhere, gained injuries so severe that he needed to bandage half his body? No one questioned when, where, or how he got them? So you can understand why I thought he had always had his bandages as that would explain everyone's obliviousness to them.
The Three-Tails was never sealed inside Yagura, therefore, Obito never had a reason to take control of Yagura with genjutsu (It also helps that Yoru derailed his Ninetails plan so he's been doing other things) so Yagura never became a shitty cruel leader. As a result, the persecution against those with bloodlines never occurred. Therefore, Utakata (the 6-Tails Jinchuuriki) never left the village, Mei never had to fight in some kind of resistance against Yagura and neither did Zabuza.
Magnussen Osbourne: No worries lol. One of my favorite pastimes is reading reviews and seeing what people liked or didn't like about my chapters. As for the system update, soon is relative. For you guys, it'll only be a few more chapters before it's done but for Yoru's, it would have been about 3 years.
Magnussen Osbourne: all of that will be explained in the sequel to this story. It's really not that important for the general plot of my story, however.
coldblue2015: (1)Matatabi escaped and is in Yoru's PD. I have an idea of what imma do with her. (2) Most definitely. Once he travels to the more dangerous worlds, he's gonna need it. (3) I think this chapter answered that. There was no need to do it since it wouldn't change anything (4) He'll learn some interesting skills as he travels to new worlds. (5) Well, now Yoru's going through Gamer's Body's special edition puberty…yikes. He's definitely gonna get some experience.
Jordan2356: Thanks for the tip! I needed that.
savitarsurffer: I've been thinking Fairy Tail, High School DxD, MCU (With maybe other marvel twists), Original Naruto (Shippūden), Bleach, and maybe One Piece. I just have no damn clue which one I want to have him go to first lol.