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"Mei, is it?" Zabuza's bass rang out, tinged with mockery and way too loud for the exhausted camp. "Now that those hypocrites from Konoha have cleared out, let's have a proper talk about the revolution. Just so you know, I categorically did not like what just went down. Right now I want to take...
Interlude. Nara Sora
After several hours, the delegation's vessel nosed into the marshy shore and came to a halt. They had arrived at the Land of Water's closest island to the mainland.
A narrow strip of viscous "beach" immediately gave way to a more or less flat clearing that stretched a...
Threadmarks: Chapter 62: The Soul, the Second Stage, and a Bit About the Recent Past
A month and a half had passed since the attack on Konoha. And during that time, aside from my excursions to the worlds of beasts capable of senjutsu, a few other things had happened.
Beyond the routine outings, sometimes alone, sometimes with the girls, just to breathe and not go insane from...
The moment I shifted into Shikkotsu Forest, I felt damp soil beneath my feet as a faint acidic scent hit my nose. Looking around, I was greeted by arches and curved obelisks filling the space, bone-like structures overgrown with fluorescent moss. All of it in a dim setting, as though it were...
Having received the method to get into the Ryuchi Cave from Orochimaru, by using a reverse summoning technique with some of his chakra, I found myself standing on solid ground, surrounded on all sides by thick fog.
The world of snakes was not exactly a welcoming place. Case in point: the fog...
Threadmarks: Chapter 59: Opinions of Different Countries, Akatsuki, and... the Avenger
Uchiha Sasuke stood on the training ground, methodically driving strikes into the practice dummies, lost in thought.
He'd gotten a lot stronger lately. But... it didn't bring him much satisfaction. Because it was far too little!
That last thought turned his next strike from clean and technical...
Threadmarks: Chapter 58: Akatsuki Knocked on the Wrong Door
"Naruto," Hiruzen called out before I could teleport out of his office. "Itachi..."
"Yeah, yeah, I remember," I nodded to the old man, confirming I wouldn't kill the red-eyed prick, since he was technically Konoha's spy.
My body vanished in a flash, reappearing on a green clearing by a small...
My eyes burned red as I walked through the dark corridors of one of Root's bases. Without paying attention, I stepped over a body of some local operative lying on the floor to move a little further, to the door I needed, and opened it.
Before me lay a sparsely furnished room with a desk, and...
Threadmarks: Chapter 56: A Conversation with the Hokage
Under the crushing killing intent, many shinobi had already lost the ability to think straight. First came the suffocation, spreading through the body like tightening roots. Then the taste of iron, flooding up as if from inside the throat. And then, on top of everything, a scarlet world settling...
A little earlier. The Chunin Exams arena.
Fights were breaking out everywhere.
Two figures in animal masks and beige cloaks spun at a frenzied pace. Short tantō flashed in a duel where neither could gain the upper hand for a single minute. Strike, block, strike, block, a feint, and a blade...
"Begin!" Genma waved his hand and made a long leap to the edge of the arena.
"Gaara, right? Been meaning to ask: why'd you shave your eyebrows?" The moment the match started, I couldn't keep my curiosity on a leash.
He didn't feel like satisfying it, though...
The genin standing across from...
August 1st. Konoha.
Hovering above thousands of rooftops across the Village, I watched roughly a hundred thousand people moving through the streets. Like ants along well-worn trails, a big chunk of them were heading toward the very building I was floating above.
A hemisphere with its top...
Threadmarks: Chapter 52: The Results of a "Vacation"
Shuffling around in the entryway with bags of stuff piled around her, radiating awkwardness in every way possible, Hinata arrived at my rented manor. Still drowning in that same awkwardness, she asked to move in with me.
Pleasantly surprised, I asked what wind had blown her my way. What I got...
We didn't go straight to the Fountain of Sacred Oil; we stopped by the elder toads' home first. There, Fukasaku grabbed a special artifact staff, and Shima tried to get Jiraiya and me to sit down for a meal. We declined. After that, Jiraiya confirmed I could get back to Konoha on my own, so I...
My body flared with chakra, and the world around us flickered. One moment—and we were dozens of kilometers from Konoha, in a clearing right where the forest ended.
My hand grabbed that very button that fastened the two sides of Jiraiya's haori, and my chakra spread through the fabric, forming a...