Chapter 85 Emergence

Konoha Hospital.

Outside the operation room,

"Keiko… Aoyama… she was your… mother?"

Tsunade stuttered while speaking as her shocked eyes on the face before her carrying a harmless smile, in her years of being a shinobi nothing had chilled her like this before.

She had never seen Kazuki's mother before but due to the recent trial she was aware of her name and now she could even see the resemblance between kazuki and the dead women inside the operation room.

Kazuki's smile faded a little at her words but without saying anything in response, he just turned to gaze at the village outside the window.

The lined up houses and the streets crowded with people, children with their parents enjoying the festival like atmosphere due to the chunin exams, all of it fell in his vision.

Kazuki's gaze couldn't move from the civilians carrying bright smile and accompanying their children, despite being weak they were free of any rules and cherished every moment.

Seeing Kazuki silent and just gazing outside the window, Tsunade couldn't help but feel sad for him; the scene of Kazuki smiling at the news of his mother's death played again and again in her head.

Tap!

Not able to stop herself, Tsunade with a dead worried face took a step towards him but right at this moment something that shook the whole village happened.

"Hmm"

Kazuki suddenly turned his gaze to look in the direction of a huge forest with in the walls of konoha, Sarutobi in the hokage office suddenly leaving his seat and arriving at the window, an ugly look on his face.

Orochimaru who sat by the window at his home was busy going through one of the jutsu he managed to acquire from Sarutobi turned his head to look outside as well, an astonished look on his face.

Sakumo who in his home at the outskirts of the village with a silver hair kid at most two years old sitting on his shoulder was busy cooking sensed something as well, a look of dread on his face.

"I'll leave my mother's body in your care; till I settle everything that's needed to be and return to give her a proper burial"

Moving his gaze from the forest, Kazuki turned to Tsunade who also seemed to have sensed what most in the village did and spoke up in a mild tone.

Swoosh!

Saying that, Kazuki closed his eyes and vanished from the spot like he never existed.

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Death Forest.

(A while ago)

BOOM!!!

In the dark forest, the game of death was at its full swing as genin fought to death in order to acquire the desirable scroll that would grant them entry in the tower at the middle of the forest.

Kushina with her red hair fluttering appeared before a Takigakure (Hidden Waterfall) genin at high speed and punched him straight in the stomach, the genin with his eyes bulging out blown away and hitting a massive tree with full force, drilled right into it.

Nawaki seemed busy in a battle with a genin who seemed to excel in water style as well, where they battled large puddles created.

"What monsters did we encounter?"

The Taki Genin barely stood straight with sweat running down his face; panting and gasping for breath as his dreadful eyes stuck on Nawaki before him, fear and shock easy to spot in his tone.

Water Style! Drilling Water Spears!

Nawaki who hardly broke a sweat in this fight suddenly gave the water gathered around a look and began to flash hand signs, slamming his hands on the ground after the last sign.

The genin at his movements showed a wary look and looked around with fear in his eyes; suddenly the water around began to bubble up and sharp drill like spears shot out of it from every direction towards the genin.

Thwack!

Seeing this, the genin jumped up with a frightened look but the spears followed him and skewered him in the air, massive amount of blood dripping down the ground along with the hole riddled body.

Thwack!

Mikoto with two black tomoe spinning in her red eyes showed the reason why uchiha had to be feared in a one on one fight, dodging the kunai by lowering her head she rolled her wrist as the blade in her hand cut through the Kunoichi before her, a vertical wound from the neck to naval appearing as blood poured out like a tide.

"That's it, we got it!"

Rummaging through the body of the dead genin before him, Nawaki took out a scroll from his ninja pouch and seeing the kanji of "Heaven" drawn on it, an excited look appeared on his face as he announced the good news.

"Huh?"

Kushina and Mikoto showed a victors look at this words but the formers smile disappeared suddenly as she looked towards her right, towards the bushes with a solemn look.

Tap!

Nawaki arrived near the two as the three gazed ahead, the sounds of footsteps closing in as eventually three figures appeared before them, leading them a kid with cyan hair.

"It's him"

Muttered Kushina with a serious look on her face, the kid from Takigakure who was similar to her.

While Kushina had her eyes on the cyan hair kid, he likewise also looked at her with similar look in his eyes.

"This familiar feeling… is she Konoha's….?" Muttered Isamu, the seven tails jinchuriki from the hidden waterfall village, a guess on why kushina gave him the familiar feeling coming in his head.

"Let's start"

Just when both sides were eyeing each other with cautious faces, deep inside root headquarters the man with an x shaped mark on his chin and a determined look in his eye muttering and making a hand sign.

"Huh?"

"Huh?"

Both Isamu and Kushina frowned suddenly at the same time, horror appearing in their eyes next second.

 BOOM!!!

Red chakra burst out of from them suddenly, blowing mikoto, nawaki and isamu's team members away.

"Damn!! What's happening?"

Holding her stomach from where a foreign force was acting on the seal, Kushina cursed out loud and tried to control the overflow of nine tails chakra but found no control over it, one, two, three and four tails condensing behind her in a matter of seconds.

With the appearance of fifth tail her eyes showed struggle, Isamu on the other hand didn't seem to have even put a resistance to whatever happened suddenly, his body slowly enlarging and a huge figure appearing in the forest.  

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