Saruto Hyuga: The Last Generation

4.) The Interests in House Arrests

If Saruto wasn't at the library, he was training. He was a jutsu perfector. He wanted to learn all of the highest leveled jutsu. On his first day of "house arrest," he decided to try a jutsu that hasn't been used in over three generations of Namikaze boys: the flying raijin, a transportation technique.

Not many people knew about the flying raijin technique but he wasn't many people so he did enough research to find how to at least do it, not yet perfect it. He first needed a seal symbol. He rather not take the second hokage's symbol or the fourth's which is "sword of shinobi's love" in very bad handwriting.

He put his palms together to start conjuring chakra to connect with a transportation portal. He then started painting in a kunai with a thicker handle than most. He wrote "legacy," as his own symbol. Once dry, he put his palm on top of his new symbol and transported the ink writing to a different kunai, like printing. He then threw that kunai to the other side of the room and put his palms together for chakra to transport. When he's ready, he wouldn't have to concentrate chakra by putting his palms together anymore but this was just a start.

In a blink of an eye, he was on the other side of the room, looking over the materials he made to make this jutsu work. He smiles to himself and gathers more kunais to copy. He stuffed them in his leg bag and ran out and into the forest outside his home.

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"Konohamaru, just be nice to him." The sixth Hokage says as the two walk down the street to find Saruto's apartment.

"The kid knows who his parents are, lord sixth. It's not going to be easy after he knows something like that after I didn't tell him for twelve years." Konohamaru sighs, pulling down the hokage's hat as a sign of respect to everyone who greets him. They then reach a lobby for a certain apartment complex.

"Here for someone lord eighth?" The receptionist says and bows.

"Saruto Hyuga, please." The lady begins to type in her computer.

"We don't have anyone of that name in this residency, lord Hokage." She says.

"Thank you," Konohamaru turns and leaves.

"Weren't you going to ask?" Kakashi questions.

"I already knew. I just needed confirmation."

———

Twak. Twak. Woosh. Twak.

Saruto kept training, hitting random locations with his new kunais and transporting through dimensions to different kunais. He also tried placing his mark on the floor of his house and from a kunai 100 meters away, he transported there.

Suddenly, he heard footsteps form quite a distance away and activated his byakugan.  Two males. One hundred and thirty meters. Seven o'clock. He sensed the chakra and froze up for a second. Eighth Hokage and sixth Hokage. He then gathered all of his stuff closest to him and stuffed them in his leg bag.

Time to work out my newest jutsu.

In less than a blink of an eye, he was gone. He had used the transportation technique to get inside his shabby hut out of the city limits.

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"Where'd he go? He just disappeared!" Konohamaru panicked. Kakashi pinched the bridge of his nose. He learned THAT jutsu, huh?

"Konohamaru." Kakashi says, picking up a kunai from a tree branch quite a ways away. "He learned the second hokage's jutsu, the transportation jutsu known as the flying raijin. If he marks his symbol all around the village, we'll never be able to catch him." Konohamaru sighs and slightly face palms. "Kid's smart."

"I put him in that apartment complex when he was the right age and he's not there anymore. I need to contact ANBU to track his location down. He will need a place to bunker down for the night and we need to find out where that is." Konohamaru mind links the Yamanaka village-wide network. Inojin, I need you here in the outskirts of the village. I need you to track down a genin.

Do we have a deserter? Inojin connects back through the mind link.

No. I don't believe so but he's gone from his place of residency. It looks like he only gets mail there but not in his actual house.

Ok. Who's the genin?

Saruto Hyuga.

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The hut wasn't anything special. He wasn't home often but he was meticulous and kept everything as neat as this space would allow him. He had a few sheets of cloth on the floor of the shack in one corner to serve as a bed. A tiny desk in another corner with a thin pillow as a chair. He had not much of a closet and only bathed in the Konoha hot springs.

A few months before his genin exams, Saruto was thrown out of the apartment complex. Konohamaru had forgotten to bring him his monthly allowance for three months and he was evicted. For something so small, he was enraged at the old man and earned his second tomoe.

He never told anyone he was living in such terrible conditions.

Saruto grabbed his messenger back with unread mail and unopened packages. He needed to go back to the library and find more jutsus to carry and perfect.

Running down the Konoha village, he sensed it. Some of today's tools make it impossible for the byakugan to see through objects so even if he tried to use it, he wouldn't know who was tracking him. He continued his path to the library, however, and didn't try to lose the team on his tail.

He entered the library entrance to find Inojin, ANBU and Yamanaka sensory team leader.