Meeting his temporary Chunin Exam Team

"Mina, who do you think did the Mizukage arranged for our team?" The swordsman boy asked the girl Mina, "I don't know Tomotoki, I just hope he will not pull us down. What do you think Miss Wada" Mina muttered while glancing at their Jounin, Kiyo Wada who was looking at the three people approaching, seeing the familiar Ao and Chojuro the two genins became silent.

'We did not offend Ao did we?' the two of them thought while Ao did not spare them a glance, "I see you arrived early Kiyo, how is the process?" Ao asked to the jounin who became all feminine blushing as she glances at Ao, "Yes! I have already submitted our application, we were waiting for your team to arrive first" Kiyo answered causing both Tomotoki and Mina glances at Kiyo with shocked expressions 'Who the hell is this!?'

"This is Yuuma Temuri, he will be the replacement for your team" Ao gestured Yuuma to walk forward, Yuuma came forward tilting his body only a little since he had no respect for these two who dared to judge him before meeting him, "Yuuma Terumi, look forward working with the two of you from now on" Hearing the family name of Yuuma, the two of them felt a cold sweat run down their back but since the face of Yuuma did not display any emotion they could not figure out what he was thinking but they took it as he did not hear them before.

"Yuuma Terumi? You mean Kiba's inheritor?" Kiyo glances at Ao who smirked, "He already regained the swords for Kiri so he is the current wielder of Kiba" Hearing this Kiyo felt shocked but envious at this young boy who was old enough to be her son could become an official Swordsman of the Mist before her, "Nice to see you too Chojuro, you still shy as always?" Kiyo teased Chojuro who blushed before returning the greeting in an awkward manner.

"This is Tomotoki Mouri, he is my student who I am currently teaching. Over here is Mina Nanbu our medical-nin" Kiyo introduces the two temporary team members for Yuuma, "Pleased to meet you Lord Ao, Chojuro and Yuuma. My name is Tomotoki Mouri, apprentice swordsman of Kiyo Wada" Tomotoki bowed politely as he introduces himself followed my Mina, Kiyo nodded at her two genins who knew courtesy to greet although they were a bit rude back then she chose to act like it never happened.

"Let us go in then" Ao muttered prompting Kiyo to walk beside him as the two of them began to discuss the contents of the Chunin Exams Kumogakure arranged for him, Yuuma was silent as he continued to play with a ballon in his hand spinning the water without breaking the balloon. At times he would increase the speed and at times slow it down so he could train his control over the output of his chakra as well while playing.

"Chojuro, what is Yuuma doing with the balloon in his hand? Does he want to throw it at a Kumo ninja?" Tomotoki asked Chojuro, "No he is training" Hearing Chojuro's answer Tomotoki and Mina glances at the balloon that would sometimes shiver a bit before becoming still.

'Training? Training what exactly?' They thought while shaking their heads since they remembered Kiyo was an odd person as well while being labelled at a prodigy in swords. "Perhaps it is tough to understand geniuses" Mina muttered as Tomotoki nodded in agreement.

When they entered the village one of the jounins responsible for leading them to their guest rooms led them up the stairs of a mountain with doors built into the mountain itself as if the mountain itself was a house, there are instances of cement walls built to expand the room and to make space more even. It was in the middle they stopped as they were led into a room with a few large windows built on the other side of the room which gives them an overview of the valley outside the village.

"This will be your room for the duration of the Chunin exams, please note that the exams start at six in the morning sharp, late by a second and it will automatically be disqualified" The Jounin began his explanation while he pointed at a peculiar mountain with a white crack running from the base up to the edge, "The Chunin exams will be held at the White Trial Mountain over there, Jounins are not allowed to follow" With this, the Jounin turned and left the room.

"They are quite arrogant" Tomotoki muttered under his breath feeling quite irritated at how they were treated by the Kumo Jounin, Mina nodded to agree with him but no one else agreed. Yuuma went to his room closing the door in order to get dressed more casually, originally he wanted to focus on his training because there is little time left to prepare but he had to get to know the two teammates.

Chojuro shook his head since he already expected this behaviour of the Kumo Shinobis like Kiyo and Ao have as well. "Why did he lock himself in his room? Does he not know it is time for us to talk?" Tomotoki muttered while looking at the door of Yuuma's room but suddenly the door opened with Yuuma coming out wearing more casual clothes, seeing this Tomotoki swallowed his words as Yuuma took his seat in the lounge.

After a while Mina and Tomotoki got changed more casually as well while sitting together with Yuuma, the three of them chatted and from what Yuuma realized was the fact these two loved each other quite deeply although the two of them had not realized it by some miracle. Tomotoki has a serious personality which causes him to have a tendency to judge people's actions at first glance instead of waiting for the entire set of actions.

Mina, appear to be infatuated by Tomotoki which makes her agree with him most of the time but from what Yuuma understood she practised Medical jutsu in order to support Tomotoki who is a swordsman since she had not talent using swords. Taking away her love for Tomotoki, Yuuma discovered she cares quite a great deal about her teammates since she is the only one to mention his name, Kitsune.

"Alright listen up, from the looks of it there is 120 participants for this chunin exams. So you will be working as a team for the preliminary matches where they will be cutting down the teams for the finals." Ao began to explain the information he got from the Kumo Jounin, "Once the three of you passes the preliminary, you will be on your own because from that point it will be one on one matches. One piece of advice, pass or fail will not determine your promotion but how you display your abilities and skills"

The three of them nodded, since they already spent the time allocated for them to get to know each other, they had a few hours left which they could use however they want. Yuuma decided to stick in the Lounge while playing with balloons in both his hands while he blew his breath enhanced with a fraction of chakra to help him flip the page on the book he was reading.

The book was a diary written by Mei which was quite detailed in explaining her thoughts along with experience in using different ninjutsus, it also contained some of her battle experiences which left an impression on her along with other things she lived through up until she became a Mizukage, this was her gift to Yuuma before he left Kirigakure for his Chunin exam.

Just from reading the diary Yuuma gained some insights he could implement in his battle style, 'I should consider doing a three-element fusion after the exams, so far I am fine with combining two elements to produce a new element' Yuuma thought as he blew lightly to flip the page of the notebook, the balloons in his hands were jiggling from the water that was spinning inside.

"What is Yuuma doing?" Kiyo asked Ao while looking at the boy holding two balloons while blowing a short breath to flip the pages of his book, Ao turned to look at Yuuma before answering "He is training" Hearing Ao's answer just like her two apprentices she was being sceptical just what kind of training he was doing, the reason Ao and Chojuro answered vaguely was because they were in enemy territory.

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"Mizukage, we have received a report from Ao who is currently travelling to the Lightning Country for Yuuma Terumi's Chunin exam" an Anbu shinobi appeared in front of Mei kneeling while holding a scroll up towards her, taking the scroll Mei read the first few lines and she already began to frown and the more she read, the more her face grew darker.

"Make a list of anyone in the Water Country who comes in contact with this Akatsuki" Mei ordered the Anbu who nodded before disappearing from the office, Mei turned to read the report further only to break in a smile, "So you already becoming much stronger huh?" Mei muttered as she read the reports on Yuuma's training up till before they left the Valley of the end, from the report Ao also mentioned that Yuuma was caught experimenting spacetime ninjutsu.

From the words Ao expressed, it appears Yuuma did not want to talk about this peculiar ninjutsu just yet but from what he saw this ninjutsu allows Yuuma to warp to where he threw his kunai at. But Ao never realized Yuuma knew he was spying on him and did not bother hiding it from Ao since Yuuma trusted his sensei.

'Spacetime ninjutsu? I wonder how Yuuma came up with this idea?' Mei thought as she would never expect that this idea came from many different experiences Yuuma had, the Formulae Technique notebook, the experience in the void as well as the Reverse and Summoning technique together gave birth to this idea. 'I remember there was a shinobi who was fast during the third shinobi war' Mei thought while heading to the records.

'Minato Namikaze huh? Will our Mist gain a flash of our own or a jack in the box' She mused while placing the book back in its place folding the report while walking down the corridor of the Mizukage offices leisurely.

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"Make sure to investigate every participant to see if we can get a decent host for me to transfer to" a Young handsome looking man with slits in his eyes was talking with another young man with onyx eyes covered with black circular rimmed glasses and ash-grey hair tied in a ponytail, "Yes Lord Orochimaru, I have already gathered information on the group of genins but there is one team from Kirigakure who had a replacement at the last minute so I will have to investigate only that one target"

Orochimaru nodded while looking at the window which revealed Kumogakure, "If we can't find a suitable host, I will have to make do with that woman we have" Orochimaru muttered, Kabuto nodded as he disappeared to investigate the single team of Kirigakure. But was unsuccessful the moment he alerted Ao, he had no choice but to pretend he was moving along towards somewhere else.