Chapter 35 - 33: One HIT!

Team 7 and Tazuna stood in front of the gate of Konoha while waiting for Kakashi to arrive.

Hikaru did not wear his Chester Set, this time, he chose to wear the Black Hand Set. A wide brimmed hat sits atop his head along with its thin hood. A black leather armor covered with a black cape was donned by Hikaru as the cape fluttered in the wind. He wears leather gloves on his hand and whenever he moves, it made no sound. And finally, a thick leather pants, which is very well crafted, was donned on his lower body. On his waist was his two Black Katanas. Overall, if a stranger were to pass by, they wouldn't notice him at all even though it's broad daylight.

Anyone who has gone to the Academy with Hikaru would not be surprised of his outfit because they have already seen a fair amount of Armors in their time with him, but Tazuna is a complete stranger to Hikaru's weird habits.

Even so, he ignored it for their job was just to protect him and nothing. Yet, he sometimes would lose sight of Hikaru and he would find him right beside him, which creep him out a little.

Meanwhile, Azumi stayed close to Hikaru while hugging his arm lovingly. Hikaru could not refuse her for she is already his girlfriend. He just shook his head at her silliness.

As they waited for Kakashi to show up, they couldn't help but get agitated. It's been two hours and he has still yet to show even a shadow of his.

Finally, Hikaru had enough. He created a single shadow clone and ordered, "Go to his house and burn every Icha-Icha book you see, every single one, down to the last one, understand?"

The clone nods before disappearing.

As he saw his clone disappear, Hikaru couldn't help but smirk evilly. This time, he will surely respect other people's time.

Sasuke, Sakura, and Tazuna moved away as quickly as they could for that smile will certainly do something again.

Not even 5 minutes later, he saw Kakashi dashing towards him with his eyes full of rage. As soon as he reached Hikaru, Kakashi grabbed his shoulders before shaking him as he spouted nonsense.

"I cannot believe that you just burned your sensei's favorite books! How could you even burn them?! They were pure treasures! And the golden edition that Jiraiya-sama signed himself, you burned it, too!"

Hikaru raised an eyebrow at him before he slapped his hands away from him and dusted himself as he said, "First off, I did not burn your perverted books, my clone did, and secondly, it's your fault for being late. You have wasted enough time, you're our sensei, and plus, a Jounin, so you need stop visiting the graves of your deceased friends and be responsible for once. You have something new, so don't waste it like what you did to Rin." Every word that came out of his was filled with harshness.

Kakashi stood there, dumbfounded. He couldn't believe that his student would really say that. And from his words, he seem to know about what he did to Rin.

"You... how did you know that?" He uttered out.

"Who knows." He smiled at Kakashi before turning around.

"Let's go, " Hikaru said as he walked while the others followed along.

Meanwhile, with Kakashi, as he narrowed his eyes on Hikaru, he muttered, "Just who are you... Hikaru Hiroaki?"

The rest just kept quiet for they were not sure how to react to this. They just walked away as they went in the direction of the land of waves.

(40 Minutes Later On The Road)

As they continued their travel towards the Land Of Waves, Hikaru couldn't help but notice the puddle on the ground, even though it hasn't rained for a few weeks.

'From their chakra levels, they seem to be around Chuunin level. Hmph, such a worthless genjutsu like that won't trick me. But, ' He looked around his teammates and noticed that only Kakashi seems to have noticed the genjutsu in that puddle, 'I should have really trained Azumi in sensing genjutsu. Sasuke and Sakura, too, haven't noticed it. At this rate, they would die in the real shinobi world before they could even make their first kill.'

Hikaru shook his head in disappointed as they passed by the "puddle". But as he thought about it, he couldn't help but think of something. If he's successful, maybe this would help in Azumi's growth. But it will be too harsh to do this to her, but he can't keep babying her any longer. Hmm, what to do? Should I do it, or not?

But suddenly, without any warnings, the two chuunin level opponents came out of their hiding spots and aimed for Hikaru, since he was the first one in their field of visions. Two shuriken-styled chains rushed forward towards Hikaru in an amazing speed. But, as if he had an eye behind his head, Hikaru pulled the Lightning Black Katana out from its sheath and with a single unseen slice, the shuriken chains were cut into pieces.

By the time the two demon brothers, Gozu and Meizu, reacted, their right and left hands were already sliced off their bodies and since their mental gauntlets were attached to their right(Gozu) and left(Meizu) arms, it fell off along with it.

"AAAHH! My arm, my arm!" Meizu cried out as blood spurted out.

"Retreat! Meizu, retreat!" Gozu immediately made the decision to retreat since it can already be seen that they were no match for this kid in front of them.

But they were not let off by Hikaru, who suddenly appeared behind them with his dark cold eyes before their consciousness faded away as they felt a hand chopping their napes. They fell to the ground but not before Hikaru kicks them towards in front of his team.

Sasuke and Sakura couldn't believe his eyes, two chuunins down in a single hit! They were not stupid, they have seen those two in the wanted pictures before, The Oni Kyoudai! They were famed for their metal gauntlets and their splendid coordinating attacks. But to see them down in one hit, unbelievable!

"Sensei, get the ropes, we'll get information from them. And you, Tazuna-san, we'll talk later after they have awoken." Hikaru said with his voice transformed into something akin to ice.