Re: Akimichi

"Please continue, Sensei..." His mouth twitched as he was saying that, Shikamaru can't hold his Sensei's smugness.

'One day, I'll pour that beard with some chili powder, let's see how you continue to act smug...'

"It's like this-" As Asuma almost went on with his explanation, another puff of smokes appeared and the earlier little chimp jumped out from the smokes while holding a different scroll.

'That was fast...' The trio was surprised with the speed they're able to communicate from a long distance with a summoned creature.

Asuma took the scroll and unfurled it then become a bit serious. He then burned the entire scroll after he finished reading the entire content of the scroll.

"It seems we have to hold our little talk, we have a new task at hand..." Asuma inhaled the fresh air from the window before he continues with his words.

"Chouji, for the main mission, you and Ino are to continue our main task and scout the village surroundings tomorrow. Shikamaru, you keep an eye for this Shinno guy, keep your distance. I'll scout the entire village and its periphery for another clue regarding this Kyuubi chakra and the real identity of this Shinno guy. I'll be back in the morning. Tomorrow at noon at the latest, there will be other jounins that will arrive here to help us." Asuma gave a series of commands to his students before he vanished with a flickering shadow.

'The heck...' The trio was shocked, it seems that this was more urgent than they thought.

Meanwhile, Shikamaru formed a hand seal to use the shadow clones technique in which his two clones immediately depart before he himself seated and closed his eyes.

"I'll stand guard, you guys just rest." Chouji stood and used the same shadow clones technique and summoned two clones that immediately uses the transformation technique and transformed into a dove and a cat. His 'dove' and 'cat' immediately went out, the 'dove' went to the roof and the 'cat' found a secluded corner near the stair with a clear view of their room door.

Chouji himself took a book from his storage seal along with a bag of ch.i.p.s and a bottle of water.

'It's a convenient technique, alright...' Chouji thought as he munched his ch.i.p.s.

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Somewhere inside the forest near the Oka Village, stood a fair-skinned little man with straight, dark brown hair with long bangs that covered half of his left eye. He wore a purple shade of lipstick, and had dark markings around his eyes, giving him an androgynous appearance. His attire was a black shirt under brown tunics with long sleeves. He bore the symbol of the Sound village on his hem and black skin-tight shorts. He wore black arm-warmers, a traditional black shinobi sandals with calf-length leg warmers covered by bandages, and a purple, rope-like belt tied in an inverted bow around his waists.

"Onee-san, just wait a little longer. With this scroll, Orochimaru-sama will be able to complete his technique and he will save our clan!"

The little man clenched his fist and excitedly holding the scroll on his hand, he c.a.r.e.s.ses it gently like he was c.a.r.e.s.sing a fragile baby.

"How long has it been, Onee-san? The time for our clan to be able to live our life normally is near!" The little man grinned happily, he was imagining the cheerful smile of his older sister and the proud laugh of his caring father.

" 'You're my son, alright?!' is what he will say I'm sure, hehe, I wonder how Yukimi onee-san will react?" He was giddy and rather impatient to give the scroll to Orochimaru so that the technique to stabilize his clan's ability would be able to completed and used soon.

"Our clan will soon be able to face the sun and wind normally, we will be able to run on the open field without worrying that our Body will disperse with the wind." He keeps mumbling lowly to cheer himself up, his clan salvation was the only thing that keeps him from letting go of insanity.

The little man then bit his own hand to draw blood, he formed a hand seal and slapped his hand to the ground. Not long after, a humongous snake that easily towered over buildings, trees, and large rock formations with its sheer size was summoned. It was purple-colored and had black rings running down intervals on his body coupled with four horn-like protrusions on his head.

"Manda-sama, please enjoy your feast! I'm sure that you will like the taste of the beasts here!"

Although he was itching to get back as soon as possible, he also tasked to feed Manda to fulfill Orochimaru's contract with Manda.

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The next day at noon, the whole team 10 was assembled near the Oka village gate. With them, there were two other Jonin from Konoha. One of them has featureless white eyes and a well-defined, broad nose. He wore the standard Konoha uniform inclusive of a flak jacket and a forehead protector that he wears like a bandanna. While the other one has black eyes and spiky, black hair that he keeps held in a classic Nara ponytail. He wears the standard attire of a Konoha shinobi inclusive of a flak jacket a forehead protector.

"Thank you for coming, Ko-San, Daen-San. Let me fill you in about what's going on..."

Asuma thanked the two new jounin while he gave them a brief summary of the little information they currently had. He let out a sigh of relief that the two Jounin were doing a mission not far from their location. One was Ko, a Hyuga that will surely help to identify and locate the Kyuubi's Chakra. And the other was Daen, a Nara and a veteran with rich experience of various events on his missions.

While the Jounins were discussing the details of the new mission, the trio genins were currently drafting their plans to finish their main mission. With their sensei focused on a new task at hand, they need to adjust their previous plan.

"The beasts are restless, though they're not forming a stampede, they're occasionally going into the village's edge and harras the villagers." Chouji crossed his arms in front of his c.h.e.s.t, the beasts attack was inflicting more damage to the Oka village than they initially thought. He and Ino were already gone into the Village chief's place to confirm their objective and asked for some details.

"Based on the details, the possibility of something forced them to hunt outside of their turf. It could be because of their lack of prey or there's another predator that stole their turf. If it's the latter then it must be a very aggressive one." Shikamaru added, he was done with his surveillance. Though to be sure he still left a shadow clone to watch Shinno's movement.

Ino was currently still performing her clan's [Mind-Body Switch] technique and she was a bit pale, she gulped her saliva and slowly said. "Um, guys... You have to see this..."