Jutsu and Subterfuge

"I'm not a man, but you can call me one if you want to," the masked one replied, not looking at him. "However, I may be the one to battle you in the final round. So, I won't tell you my secrets. That is the way of a ninja, isn't it?"

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One of the few surviving kids from the sacking of Uzushiogakure, Uzumaki Hideyoshi is a spy for Orochimaru, assigned to take the chūnin exams with Kabuto's squad. But when he runs into shinobi from the Hidden Sound during the Forest of Death, things go pear-shaped.

And he realises that his master Orochimaru will kill him as quickly as he will kill the Sound nin after his business in Konoha is done.

Unfortunately, his master seems to be hellbent on kidnapping a teenager and destroying the Entire Leaf Village. And it's not easy to pass the chūnin exams when you have to foil the plans of the most evil genius the world's seen in a thousand years without him having you assassinated.

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March 2020. I don't own Naruto.