Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Bonds Of Brotherhood ❯ mealtime interigation ( Chapter 2 )

Note: I know my chapters are short, but my muses are demanding I get the done as fast as I can, I will go back and flesh it out some more, but I'm still trying to decide if the first 3 chapters are an extended prologue or the next part is a story all to its self

I think I will let you all decide after the next chapter (BTW I still need a beta :o))

 

Bonds of brotherhood

Chapter 2

 

Daichi stood on a roof in a shadowy alcove where he had an excellent view of the stone faces of the Hokage

He looked at the paperwork in his hands the top scroll was the names of all the entrants to the chuunin exams and smiled; his brother's name was there

He then pulled out from his inside jacket pocket a dog-eared photo, it showed a blonde haired blue eyed man dressed as a Kohana ninja beside a shorter red haired woman with forest green eyes holding a blonde baby in her arms.

It was one of only 2 things he had of his parents, and the second was not to be his but his brothers, he smiled and watched the setting sun shine on the faces carved in to the mountain, giving them a golden glow.

He was sitting down to read though his paperwork again when the call of a vixen right by his ear woke him from his thoughts

“Almost forgot dinner didn't I Aki,” he laughed and with a burst of charka he disappeared

Un known to him another was watching the monument at the same time, also thinking of the past when in the corner of his single eye he saw a jutsu that he hadn't seen for 17 years, the single eye narrowed in thought

 

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He peeked his head round the boarding house eating room door and winced at every one sat waiting to eat

“Im not late am I?” he grinned

A ladle smacked him squarely on the head and pointed to an empty seat

“I wish I could find where mothers get there strength from, then I would be the strongest shinobi” he smiled as he took his place and the table erupted in attempted hidden laughter even the boarding house owner who shared meals with his guests

Daichi smiled with surprise at his seatmate opposite him, it was the ninja he had met at the ramen stand that morning

“Hello again” he smiled “Daichi wasn't it?”

“Daichi Kazama” he nodded

“Kazama, that sounds familiar, a local clan??” Iruca held his plate out, as his meal was places in it

“No Kazama has always been a wandering clan but maybe some members settled here, any way as far as I know myself and my lost brother are the last after the death of my fathers sister”

“How do you plan to find him?” another at the table asked

Daichi looked down at his half eaten meal, unless we learn to hide it our clan has a very recognisable feature, I will use that to find him he smiled and finished his meal

 

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Over the next few days as Daichi readied himself for the exams he met Iruca often, either at the ramen stand where Aki climbed all over him like a cat craving attention, the vixen had fallen for the scared chuunin in a big way. Or at the boarding house as Iruca was friends wit the owners and visited often

Every time that met, though the talks were friendly and relaxed Daichi, had the feeling Iruca was trying to get information from him, he talked about life with his aunt and as a Wandering nin but never gave the information he had a feeling Iruca was trying to did from him, the name of his father and the village he was from

When the exams arrived he passed the first 2 parts easily as covert information gathering and survival were things he learnt as a young boy as those were the main type of jobs a Wandering nin was given, and the only way to earn his keep

 

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As he stood in the hall with the 10 other shinobi who had passed he smiled, his brother had also made it, he grinned even more when they showed them the layout for the final fights in a months time, if all went well he wouldn't face his brother till the final fight