46 Arc 3: Phase 2: Getting Along (1/2)

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Arc 3 Second Phase:

(Earlier Before)

Location: Hokage Rooftop

Miyuki stood by the roof deck and gazed at the view of the whole village. The wind was much stronger than before as she was expecting someone to arrive right at this moment. She was sure that the figure that she saw just awhile ago, while talking to the trio, was the one that she was waiting for.

For a little while, she dove down deep in her thoughts as she recapped on what happened in the past several weeks. She had to admit that it was a very long wait and it took her at least a three months of waiting for the trio to arrived here. In fact, she was the first one to arrived in the past and smack dab found herself up back as her past self.

In the original timeline, her tenure as a member of the council stretched from the beginning of its creation and until present day, where the everything started to fall apart in one sudden chain reaction of events. During the final stages of her investigation on finding out the main culprit, through an asset, she had managed to get hands on a blueprint or a plan that had been in the making for the past thousand years.

She discovered that all these events that happened in human world, specifically the Elemental Nations, where forced or manipulated to happened in someone's favor. From the Kaguya Incident, the Four Shinobi Wars, and the eventual peace that followed where all part of the plan to get the desired goals that he wanted. She also learned that the enemy uses the human world as some kind of chess board, where he uses the people that he view as his chess pieces to manipulate important events that happened in history.

For instances, the aftermath of the battle between Kaguya and her two sons saw the creation of Black Zetsu which was created by none other than the rabbit girl herself, who's purpose was two act as a spy, but the main culprit saw this as a chess piece and used it to corrupt and manipulate the older son of Hagomoro into darkness, thus it set off a bitter grudge that would last for hundreds of years.

The first thing that she did when she arrived was to file a very long vacation leave in the human world, which to her surprised, the other members of the council gradually accepted and allowed, although it was already confirmed that she was not really banned from going to the human world. She also made sure that her leave would remain unnoticable from the enemy, although she expected that her true motives would eventually be discovered in the future.

Now that she was here, she had the chance to interfere and ruin his plan. She was going to enter this game as a a new player and will eventually have her own counter pieces against him. Before leaving the Pure Land, She instructed an asset/assistant to continue the investigations on the main culprit and discover any information regarding his plans and next move.

This is why Miyuki was here at the rooftop, she also considered this as a meeting place between her and her asset/assistant. Not too long, she felt a presence nearby and heard a series of noises coming from a nearby spot.

Miyuki then turned her head towards the source of the presence and noise, which was near the metallic wall gates after a few moments, something white and feathery came out from the wall gates of the rooftop, and was finally revealed to be a white duck with blue eyes and was wearing some kind of chinese cap, which struggled a little bit to climbed up before falling to the rooftop grounds.

Miyuki sighed and shook her head.” Well, that was an entrance Showtaro, What took you so long?” She asked.

Meanwhile, the cute white duck now known as ”Showtaro” continued to catch up his breath as it was really difficult for him to climb up the building. A few moments later, he finally recovered and flapped his wings to adjust his balance. He then gave a grin at the woman.

”Sorry about that Miyuki, I just had a bad fall, I thought was going to safely land on the rooftop but crap happens so yeah hahaha.” He gave a chuckle to much to the confusion yet amusement of the young woman.

Miyuki just sighed yet again, she then wasted no time as she decided to get straight to the point.” You're fine Showtaro, I'm really glad you were not caught, but can I asked if you manage to find some clues about his plan?” She asked

By this time, the atmosphere around them changed, it was still a quiet and windy place but however there was a sense of alertness that began to rise up.

Showtaro took one more observation on his surroundings before darting his eyes towards Miyuki. He then took a deep breath before finally opening his mouth and lettting out the new information that he managed to acquire.

”Well, yes I managed to find several proposals that were written by him and then submitted to the council for an apparent check up.” He explained.”

Miyuki raised an eyebrow.” So what's this proposal about and when was this submitted?” She asked.

”The proposal was submitted not too long ago, and it contained details about a group of individuals that were going to be sent to the human world with the purpose of guiding recent souls who had just passed on, onwards to the afterlife.” He explained.

Miyuki raised an eyebrow.” Guiding souls? but I thought that type of process had been dissolved!?” She exclaimed. She thought that the council had already removed that type of process of bringing souls to the light anymore since they have brand new ways of doing it.

”I'm also surprised about it, plus the council themselves couldn't see anything wrong with the credentials and details of that proposal, that they instantly approved it with no hesitation. ”He then took a short deep breath before continuing.” But when I dug deeper into the mystery, I managed to get a hold of an important piece of information of the document.” He explained.

”Do you have them right now?” Miyuki asked.

Showtaro then took a deep breath yet again and gave a grin.” Well, apparently yes!” He said as he then drew out an brown envelope, which was labeled ”Classified” and also contained the important pieces documents that he was talking about just now.

Miyuki then received the envelope and immediately opened it and drew out the documents. She then began to examined its contents to which she discovered and took note two vital pieces of information. First, she took note that were a number of 8-9 individuals that were being sent to the human world. Second, they were to be placed in specific locations which she thought didn't even make sense. For instances, there was one individual placed in a designated area somewhere in the desert where there stood ruins of an ancient structure which reached underground.

Miyuki wondered if there were any even people living in those ruins and since it was ancient, those people probably died and passed on to the otherside way before. Unless, there was someone new using it for another purpose and when she asked her asset about it, she got an interesting answer.

”Well, according to what I've studied, the ancient ruins right now is being used by a human named ”Orochimaru” as location for his experiments.” He explained and then continued.” This person is apparently a madman and has probably killed a lot of people.”

”Well that's scary, Have you checked his background by the way?” She asked

Showtaro simply nodded.” Yup apparently, this guy originally was a shinobi from the leaf village before going mad and betraying his own home.” He said and then continued.” In my personal opinion, the death of his parents, who were mysteriously assassinated, is the main reason on why he became crazy in the first place.” He explained.

Miyuki simply nodded while still examining the papers.” Looks like He was a witness to his parents' death, Who were they anyway?” She asked.

”Well, the guy's father was a bodyguard for the first Mizukage, He resigned from his post to live a normal life and had married a young woman from the leaf village and permanently settled there. However, some of the guys from the Village of the Mist thought that He had gone rogue and betrayed his own village so they sent hired assassins to kill him and his wife years later.” Showtaro paused for awhile to let the other absorb the information.” And I guess you were right that He had witnessed their deaths.” He said.

Miyuki just sighed, she was used to hearing tragic stories much like this, she also deduced that this Orochimaru person suffered a trauma that would eventually make him insane as he would looked to experimentation just to be immortal or maybe bring his parents back to life.

”Well, the good news is that his parents are now in the Pure Land and doing good although, it seemed that they had apparently forgotten their son.” Showtaro explained and then continued.” And I have arranged a scheduled to pay them a visit to know more details.” He said.

”Well, that's even more worse, but do you really think this Orochi person is their target?” She asked.

Showtaro shook his head.” Well, that could be possible although I really need to research more on this, but for the meantime, just stay tuned and when there is clue, Il'l immediately inform you about it.” He said with a grin.

On the other hand, Miyuki decided to checked the list of individuals that were on the document, she studied and began to realized that this group of 8-9 persons seemed so familiar. Even though, she was already a thousand years old, she had a habit of forgetting the people that she had met over the years and also events that transpired.

As for main culprit, She knew him personally and was actually good friends with him since the beginning. He was there to protect her during the climax of ”Chaos” sealing and he was a member of the council alongside her and helped maintained peace and balanced. Although, she really can't believed that He was the one responsible for all the mess that happened throughout those years. Back in the original timeline, she was too late when she had learned the real truth and by sheer of fate, the Jougan allowed her to go back and prevent this from happening all over again.

By this time, she had finally remembered that about those 8-9 persons that were sent to the human world, they were his personal group of henchmen that he recruited throughout the years. She didn't managed to get to know them but she was sure that they were notorious.

If those people were really the group of individuals that were sent to the human world then the game has gotten a lot harder this time, and they were really considered a threat to anyone who comes across them.

Miyuki then took a deep breath and gazed back at the view of the village. There was concern building up from the inside as she thought of Boruto and Sarada, who were currently in the early stages of their mission. She really hoped that they won't have to cross paths with them, but at the same time, they were the only hope that could put to stop to all his plans.

(PRESENT TIME)

The countryside really looks great!” Boruto commented as he observed and looked out across the rice fields in between the road that they were walking along.

It had been half a day since the team had departed the village, and in those six hours, the two groups had traversed the different placed en route towards their destination, which was none other than Orochimaru's hideout, where their target could be possibly be also located in for this retrieval mission.

Not much had happened in during those hours, the team was pretty much only greeted by the calmness of the forest then the wider and clear vast image of the countryside. It was a more better journey than the last previous one for Boruto and Sarada as there were no traces of arguments or conflicts happening inside the team.

Both of the two were also engaged in a conversation while the rest where eerily quiet which was first noticed by the blond himself.

”Is it just me or is everybody really quiet for half of the day, Sarada-chan?” Boruto whispered to his teammate only to find out that she was surprisingly busy with a familiar object.

Sarada, who was able to hear the blonde's voice, took out one of her earphones” Yes Boruto?” She asked, giving him her attention.

On the other hand, Boruto blinked a couple times in surprised before snapping back to reality. He was really in disbelief on what he was seeing right now.” Hey, Isn't that what I think it is?” He said.

”Oh you mean this?” Sarada said as she took out a small rectangular black object, which emitted colourful lights and shapes. It was none other than a smartphone, which she held right in her hand.

”B-But How?” Boruto stuttered throughout his words. It was really impossible for a device like this to exist in this timeline except in the future where they were just everywhere.

”Well, its a very long story but to summarize, It turns out that I've keeping my phone in my pocket ever since we got sent to the past, and I forgot about it.” Sarada explained as she gave a grin and a slight chuckle.

Boruto raised both eyebrows.” Oh, does it still have its signal?” He asked.

Sarada gave her small sad smile.” Unfortunately No, since we are in the past and the signals here are not compatible with advanced devices like this.” She paused for a little bit. ”Although, the good news is that the phone still has its batteries alive and well, which means it also has it's memory retained and that I can listen to songs whenever I want to!” She expressed her joy of unexpectedly reuniting with one of her treasured things from the future.

(INTERVIEW)

”I never really thought that my phone would survive that blast. Almost as if it can withstand anything!”

-Sarada

Boruto then scratched his chin and wondered.”I think that's cool, but if I were you, I would be careful on showing that to the people here. I mean who knows? They might treat as some kind of alien weapon, if you know what I mean.” He explained.

”I understand what you are trying to say, but by the looks of it right now, I think the others don't mind about it.” Sarada said as she was referring to the rest of the team who were really focused on other things.

She then gave a smile.” Besides, because of this thing, I finally now have the chance to take a lot of selfies in this mission hehe.' Sarada chuckled.

Boruto could only sighed but smiled and shook his head.” I guess that would work, besides you can also record signifance events that happened in this current mission right now.” He said.

Sarada smiled.” Well, why don't we take our first selfie right in the road?” She smiled and asked as she looked at him straight in the eye.

As for the blonde himself, he was taken surprised when his teammate said that. They were on the road as such things like this haven't been done before, not in this timeline. Although, there goes a saying ”You only lived once” so why not?

Boruto eventually agreed and nodded as he and his raven haired teammate then posed for their first selfie in the past, The blonde was doing the peace sign while the raven haired girl was giving her usual selfie pose and after a few moments, Sarada pressed the button and thus the first selfie of their journey was finally taken.

(LATER ON)

The whole journey was expected to be uneventful, at least for the first half of it. Along the way the time travelling duo immediately noticed a strange tension building up as they darted their eyes to focused on Naruto and Sai who were staring at each other as the tension was most likely building up between them.