Kisame was a true monster!
Konoha scum, enjoy yourselves for a little while longer.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
The three-man team of Kiba Inuzuka, Hayate Gekko, and Shikuro Aburame raced through the forest.
"I've had enough of this stupid sticker!"
Kiba bared his teeth and spoke angrily.
"Kiba, you've been saying that the whole way."
Hayate's cheek twitched as he listened to Kiba's complaints.
If anyone should have been embarrassed, it was him.
Kiba and Shikuro had theirs stuck to their foreheads. It looked a little ridiculous, but not too strange.
But as a member of the Hyuga Clan's branch family, Hayate had his stuck right between his eyebrows.
A Little Red Flower between two Byakugan?
It was practically disgracing the Hyuga Clan!
"Hayate, you..."
"Pfft! Hahahaha!"
Kiba turned to look at Hayate, about to say something, but the moment he saw Hayate's current appearance, he lost it and burst out laughing.
"Kiba! You bastard!"
Hayate immediately flew into a rage.
"Lightning Release: Earth Run!"
"Crackle!!!"
A flash of lightning streaked past, and electricity coursed through the trees before suddenly striking toward the Konoha trio.
"Move!"
Shikuro reacted first, grabbing Kiba and Hayate and dragging them down to the ground in a clumsy tumble.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The three crashed awkwardly onto the ground, and Kiba cried out in pain.
"Konoha scum, you dodged pretty quickly."
Three Kumogakure genin appeared in a blur not far from Kiba's group, looking at them mockingly.
"Damn it! You actually dared to ambush me!"
Kiba scrambled to his feet, grimacing from the pain as he glared angrily at the three Cloud Ninja.
Shikuro and Hayate, meanwhile, wore grim expressions.
As members of a sensory team, with the Byakugan as a Kekkei Genkai, they had actually been ambushed.
Shikuro and Hayate had been preoccupied with