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| - Team 21 was briefed on their mission at the hokage's office. They were supposed to meet with team Keika later that day at the rendezvous point. Their mission was to eliminate two members of a new organization known only as Asashin no rīgu. They were warned that there enemies were ruthless and strong. Team 21 got to the gate where Team Keika were waiting. They set off towards the location of the two people they were to eliminate. "Team Keika when we get into battle our teams will split - you fight one and we fight the other, got it?!" Itanji told team Keika. Having just barely returned to Konoha, Eighth Hokage Sarada had assigned the two teams a new mission. Keika groaned, "Argh... I still haven't fully recovered from entering Tailed Beast Mode..." Boruto and Himawari were at opposite sides of Keika, supporting her using her arms. Boruto spoke sweetly and calmly, "It's okay, sis. We got you." Himawari had one hand on her sister and the other over her eyes. She thought, Backlash, huh? Well, that's no surprise as it was the first time I had used the Tenseigan. They stumbled out of the Hokage's office, chasing after Team 21. Boruto stuck around with Keika while telling Himawari to go ahead. She was quite reluctant but went anyway. She never went where Boruto asked her too. All she did was hide at home until she could spot her siblings' chakra signatures on their way to the rendezvous point. Keika had pretty much fully recovered, although she was slightly limping. Kurama yelled, Keika, are you okay? I'm sorry for forcing you. She replied, It's good, Kurama. We did successfully seal and transport your other half here. Kurama went silent. At the right time, too. Itanji had suggested that they split their forces to deal with their two adversaries. Keika's team will take one, Itanji's will take the other. The two teams ran through the day. They had to travel fast to intercept the two rogue ninja. "We should get to the location of their camp tomorrow morning" Shinto reported "What do we know about these two ninjas?" Sashine asked "Well, one of them wields Tetsu, a shugoki blade, and the other, not much is known about him. He is believed to be a Snake Sage and is possibly a follower of Orochimaru." Itanji briefed them The two teams set up camp and Itanji started a fire. Then they settled down un-aware of the serpent watching from the edge of their camp, in the morning it was gone. Both Boruto and Himawari were suspicious when they heard the name "Orochimaru". The two were on first watch when Himawari set up a connection using a thin chakra line between her and Boruto's temples. Onii-chan. Do you see the snake? she asked. Yeah, he replied, Definitely a spying snake. The two kept their eyes unwavering, altough technically, they weren't actually looking. They whispered to Keika, who had volunteered for second watch, about the snake. She nodded and stood, waiting for the light of dawn to emerge. Dawn had broken and the teams broke up camp to keep moving. After three minutes of leaping through trees, Keika stood on a tree branch, waiting for the others to catch up. At the same time, Boruto and Himawari's eyes widened. Boruto yelled, "Stop!" just when Keika was about to take a step onto the next branch. Keika sensed it too and entered a version 1 chakra cloak to protect her from the explosion that just ripped through the trees in front of her. "Oh my, the Leaf sent their jinchūriki to eliminate us?" a voice cooed, "They acknowledge our strength!" Shinto activated his sharingan to wearch for signs of the opponent. "There he is!!" Shinto pointed at the enemy ninja... "Keika you take this one we will go ahead an fight the other one." Itanji ordered. Team 21 flickered over the enemy and ran off to confront his team mate. "You must be Tonoshi Kurashi, huh?" Sashinr asked the monster standing only a few steps away. Without answering he sprung into action, swinging his blade with inhuman strength. "Combination X" Yelled Itanji, the other two nodded. The three ninja formed a line, then they all threw smoke bombs. When the smoke cleared all members of team 21 had vanished.
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