I would like to say that I'm sorry for the late updates, but there is not enough time to write for personal reasons, or I'm busy with some work which doesn't give me the time to write.
So I'm thinking to publish chapters every weekend, intending to have time to write with tranquility and correct the spelling in the moments that I have free time about the first chapters that are a total disaster.
I will be publishing the chapters I manage to write every week and I will publish them on Sunday afternoons or evenings, I emphasize that they can be 1 or 2 chapters with an amount of 2500 to 3000 thousand words per chapter...! And if I have free time to spare it would be 3, however, I don't want to raise hopes so expect at least two chapters per week!
Without anything else to say, thank you for reading this novel, and see you next week!
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A few minutes before, Sakura confronted the anbu.
Genji went down to the second floor where they are staying, he looked around to find the others. Naruto and Shizune were in a corner of the hotel resting on a red couch, and next to them, they had their things ready to go back to Konoha.
"Where's Jiraiya and Tsunade?" Genji asked them as he looked to the sides and couldn't find Tsunade and Jiraiya with his gaze.
"He ero-sennin said he would try to buy some things before we leave the village, but possibly he is spying on some girls in the baths or this one in a bar," Naruto replied lazily as he has two air balloons in his hand.
Shizune who is sitting drinking some tea and reading a magazine mentioned to Genji that Tsunade also went out to buy some rare wine they were selling in the northern district and that it wouldn't be long before she would be back.
Shizune told him without taking her eyes off the magazine with a bit of anger because Tsunade only left her a note and took all the money she saved from selling various medical drugs to Genji and her small savings she had hidden in Tonton's clothes.
Tsunade who did not continue her career as a doctor had a quick way to earn some money by selling some medicines, however, that did not mean that she gave up her passion for ninja medicines, so Shizune would normally be in charge of finding sick people to illegally sell some medicines in various cities during her tour.
Genji sighed a little when he heard that, but he didn't have time to be looking for the two people all over town, so he started telling them about the strange mission the rescue squad had and how something seemed to be wrong.
The two stopped what they were doing and listened with utmost importance to all the information, even concentrating so hard on the content that they didn't look at the new clothes Genji was wearing.
"Seeing as we don't have that much time, I would like Shizune to find Tsunade and Jiraiya to mention to them that Naruto and I will be going ahead to try to give support to the rescue squad."
Genji opined and performed a summoning jutsu to deliver a snail to Shizune if things got dangerous, and they needed a medic.
Shizune who thought carefully about the information and held the snail in her hands asked him. "Genji, do you think this mission has something to do with Danzo?".
"Possibly he's up to something because of the reports the snails compiled."
"I see, then I'll take it upon myself to tell Tsunade-sama and Jiraiya what happened," Shizune said as she put down her tea and rushed out of the place to find the two sennin.
"Then we have to leave too Dattebayo." Naruto quickly got up to start running in Sakura's direction, but before he took two steps, Genji placed his foot in the middle of Naruto's feet and caused Naruto to fall to the ground.
"We won't go running without any direction buddy, the time we have to move fast, follow me!".
Naruto got up from the ground while rubbing his nose and followed Genji towards the hotel stairs.
"By the way Genji where did you buy those clothes?!!!!". Naruto asked with shining stars in his eyes as he liked the clothes Genji wore.
- It took you a long time to notice, Naruto -. Genji shook his head.
"You could say it was given to me by someone special.". Genji mentioned a little lie to him, tried to change the subject, and continued up the stairs to the top floor of the hotel.
"Create a shadow clone, Naruto and leave it behind the door, so it won't let anyone get on the roof."
"Ok."
Naruto did as he was asked and waited patiently for Genji.
"Give me a few minutes," Genji stated to him as he looked at the window of his system and placed some small bottles of different colors and a white canvas on the floor.
[° Chakra accumulator... The user has accumulated; 1, 898,620 chakra].
- Not bad for the few days I had, but maybe using Naruto as a power source was the best idea I had -.
Genji had already downloaded Sakura's video from the snail's point of view, however, he feared that his ability would fail, if he didn't have a clear picture of where Sakura was, however luckily he got the exact date when the attack happened and the call was cut off.
His eyes began to lose color and turned white. Genji's body moved like a machine as he handheld the paints and spilled them across the white canvas and painted with his fingers.
Naruto was a little surprised by this occurrence, as he never knew this side that Genji was showing him.
- Those white eyes look like Hinata's -. Naruto watched for several minutes and wondered if Genji was somehow close to the Hyuga clan, but lost interest when he remembered that he was an orphan like him before he knew the truth and better decided to continue training with the air balloons as he was a few steps away from completing a double rasengan without the use of shadow clones.
Naruto concentrated on his things and left Genji who was still painting on the canvas.
Genji's hands held some blue, red, yellow, and white paints to create the sky in the painting, and then he took other paints to paint the trees, bushes, trunks, and other details of the place.
After a while, the canvas would take on different shades and when some parts of the paint dried, Genji would use his hand to dip it into the jars of green paint and paint some green trees in more detail.
While Genji's body painted the future with his skill. Genji's mind was intently looking at all the terrain of the near future half an hour apart.
Genji didn't want to go too far into the future, so he looked thirty minutes ahead and was surprised at the state Sakura was in, for she had been killed by an anbu and her body was sealed inside a scroll for future dissection.
That was what he managed to understand when he saw the whole place fade away and his sight returned to normal as he held in his hands the picture where the scroll where Sakura's body was sealed and held by the anbu was shown.
His hands clenched, knowing what would happen in a few minutes.
Genji stood up from his place while squeezing the canvas tightly between his hands and didn't want to explain to Naruto that he could observe the future because he knew it would throw Naruto off and since the painting only showed a scroll held by an anbu in the middle of the forest, there was no problem in showing the painting to Naruto knowing that he would think it's just an anbu holding a scroll.
Genji tried to look as composed as possible, and although he tried to speak normally, Naruto detected that Genji was furious.
- What's wrong with Genji, and why do I feel like I've felt this instinct before? Naruto guessed as he looked at the picture Genji held in his hands and felt the atmosphere grow colder.
"There's no time to waste!". Genji said and communicated with the system to make some changes to the cards he had on the board and asked the system to change two cards.
[Two cards were removed and the cards 'Gate and Bakudo #77 Tenteikura' were added to the board].
(Author: In the end, I decided to leave it with the full name).
Genji didn't think Naruto would understand his abilities or tell anyone about them unless someone asked him directly, so he dismissed those ideas and gathered his things, which disappeared as if they had never been there.
"How long has it been, Naruto."
"I estimate about 15 minutes."
Although Naruto wasn't very smart he knew there were strange abilities and seeing things disappear only allowed him to think it was a sealing jutsu, and he didn't think much of it because he had a storage seal that Genji gave him for his birthday and he thought he was keeping them in a seal.
Genji who heard that 15 minutes had passed, closed his eyes and visualized the place where Sakura was before the attack because he felt that it was the place where he could easily reach thanks to seeing the future and watching the video of the snail, so having a better visualization of the terrain he was sure that the ability would not fail.
Stretching out his hand, which began to glow slightly with a translucent light in front of him and pronounced. "GATE!!!".
A small point of white light appeared in front of Genji's hand, the point of light expanded like a small whirlpool where a circular portal opened. The circular portal ended up expanding with a diameter of about two meters, showing in its area the image of a green forest, and in the outline of the Gate, it had an intense white light rotating around the circle.
"WOW! What kind of jutsu is that!". Naruto said as he looked with great interest at the portal and noticed that it wasn't even a centimeter thick, it was more like the thickness of a sheet of paper.
"A secret jutsu of the clan, but right now we don't have time to waste to mention to you the function of the jutsu if you can observe it for yourself."
Genji ended the conversation by walking towards the Gate to touch the surface of the portal and produce some ripples in the image. It was very similar when a person touches a water membrane, producing circular-shaped vibrations that spread all over the surface of the water.
Naruto who was interested in this jutsu also inserted his finger and withdrew his finger from the Gate producing different vibrations in different parts of the Gate. The fingers where Naruto touched produced different points of the surface moving vertically.
Genji wanted to continue touching the Gate, however, he had more important matters to attend to, so he stretched his hand through the Gate membrane. His hand disappeared and Genji felt his hand go through the water, though his hand was not soaked when he pulled it out of the portal.
Checking that there was nothing wrong with the portal, Genji watches as Naruto continues to play with the portal and says to him.
"Let's leave this for later, Naruto, it's time to go somewhere else".
Genji takes the first step inside the portal to cross to the other side, Genji's whole body disappeared from the place and reappeared in the middle of a destroyed ground.
"Looks like this is the forest where Sakura was before she cut the call."
Genji closed his eyes concentrating on any vibrations he sensed from the surroundings to detect any shinobi within range, but unfortunately, he didn't detect anything for a few seconds, though he did manage to find small movements of insects and animals escaping from the place.
- They seem to be fighting westward a few kilometers from here by the movements of the animals to escape from danger -.
[100,000 chakra points were reduced from the accumulator]. The sound of the system brought him out of his thoughts.
- I may have to use the other ability. He thought as he saw that his accumulated chakra was reduced by 100,000 chakra, however, the next skill would use 500,000 chakra which was not a small amount.
"That was amazing." Naruto appeared as he stepped out of the portal and watched as it closed as if by magic.
"I'm going to be a little quiet Naruto, we're in enemy territory, so I need you to make shadow clones and distribute them in different directions. I'll head west." Genji told him as he started running in a westerly direction as he started jumping between the branches.
"I understand, Jutsu shadow clones." Naruto accepted the order and created hand signals to create several clones covering the perimeter in different directions.
As he ran towards the west with quick steps, Genji encountered numerous small insects fleeing the scene as if sensing danger and abandoning their habitation at full speed.
"I'm pretty sure I'm on the right track."
Jumping between tree branches for ten minutes, he managed to discover the first traces of fighting around the place. Genji activated his adrenaline card so that his eyes would be fully dilated, and he wouldn't miss any clues from the trail he found as he kept jumping through the branches.
Sin a few seconds, she managed to see Sakura fighting some anbu.
"SAKURA?!!!!". Genji cried out in pain as he admired how his partner was pierced by some kunais and plummeted to the ground.
*Pop* *Pop* Two clones appeared beside her, as Genji had signaled with his hand to create two shadow clones. At the same moment the clones appeared at his side they held hands with the real Genji standing in the middle and then disappeared with a slight green glow and a bit of icy wind in their place.
Genji and his clones appeared in the middle of Sakura's fall, a few feet away from her. Genji bent his knees so that his clone on the right side joined his foot with hers to propel himself in Sakura's direction.
The clone of Genji shot out in the direction of Sakura where he embraced her with his arms and would reduce the blow when touching the ground, while the right clone rescued Sakura the clone of the left side extended his free hand to grab the hands of the real Genji. When they were holding hands, the clone tried to turn next to Genji to start spinning a little and throw the real Genji in the middle of the anbu. All the movements performed by the clones of Genji and him lasted only two seconds to perfectly perform all the acrobatics.
The right clone landed on the ground with Sakura when he stopped a few meters away from the place with Sakura in his arms and tried to withdraw from the place.
Meanwhile, with the real Genji.
"ATTRACTION!!!!".
Genji appeared in the middle of the anbu stretching his hands in two different directions with some cold wind around him. The clones of the anbu were caught off guard to end up flying in Genji's direction.
*Stabbed* *Stabbed* *Stabbed* The bodies of everyone present were pierced by long thin spikes of transparent ice coming out of Genji's body, but little by little the drops of blood and mud gave it a different color.
The blood and mud-splattered the surroundings impregnating Genji's clothes, however, Genji had a serene face and tranquility before the event that I create, while a little blood from the anbu fell on his face and down to his green scarf.
The anbu had several pillars of ice piercing some internal organs, and it was clear that he would die in a short time, however, the anbu was willing to die alongside Genji if the situation called for it.
The anbu spat out some blood and began to glow as it gathered its last strength to activate the explosive seals on its body, without caring that a green glow appeared covering Genji's body and leaving the anbu with only the blinking of its eyes.
*BAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG*.
The green glow appeared fifteen meters away from the explosion with Genji completely fine as the dust slightly moved Genji's scarf from the wind caused by the explosion.
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