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  Guy stood with his arms crossed and had his eyes on Daichi. He had an unusually serious expression as he looked at the boy. 'The fact that he asked the Hokage about colteral damages… He khis was most likely the best option out of all the ohe life of few for the safety of many. But will he make such a choice when it es to other people?'

  Guy's eyes then slowly drifted to his most precious student, Lee. As he looked at the boy and thought about all the things Lee said about his friend, the s Guy had vanished and his face softened. 'No. Daichi knows the difference. He's a good kid. His friendship with Lee is proof of that.'

  Putting on a big smile, Guy stepped forward and spoke. "Daichi! Do you have a pn on solving this situation?"

  At that the young gamer nodded his head. "Yes. There are a few ways we go about this. We drain the pond, capture all the native fishes and safely store them. Then kill all the Lampreys and look for any eggs that they might have id and kill them too. Then refill the pond and bring the fishes baside."

  "But that will take time and lots of resources…" Tenten said as she thought about the logistics of such a pn.

  Daiodded his head agreeing with her. "Yes. It is an option but not the best pn. The fastest way to solve this is to heat the ke to a certain temperature that kills the eggs and rvae of the mprey and not harm the other fishes."

  Guy nodded his head and stepped forward. "He's right. Sometimes a problem be solved through careful pnning, clever sideration, through patience or with brute force. But for delicate matters like this, one o apply brute force alongside a clever pn to make it a success."

  "I have an idea and I need Neji's assistance." Daichi said as he looked at the Jonin and then to the Hyuga in the group.

  Guy beamed and gave a thumbs up. "Alright. Let's hear your pn. Neji, are you ready?"

  The Hyuga merely nodded his head and paid attention to the eammate. Lee aen also paid attention and wao know how they could help out.

  Daichi began ying out his pn. "Neji, I need you to use your Byakugan and tell me the location of the fishes native to these waters. I'll create es and capture them with my chakra strings ahem at a safe distance. I knoon't be able to get everything but we signifitly reduce the damage to their popution if we're careful and thh."

  Daichi then turned his attention to Lee aen. "Once I heat up the ke you two will o take the fishi and scoop up the remains from the pond so that the corpses don't ihe water. Two people per ."

  Lee looked a bit u that moment since he didn't know water walking and Daichi immediately uood the problem. "Lee, you hold the from the shore and cover the perimeter of the pond. Tenten cover the parts he ter."

  "Not a bad pn Daichi." Guy said with a smile.

  Daiodded and created over two dozen shadow es.

  Neji, Tenten were shocked to see the solid es. Guy grinned as he looked at the number of es that appeared. '27 shadow es and he doesn't even look winded. His chakra is far bigger than those his age.'

  Neji made the hand seal and activated his Kekkei Genkai. The moment he did, he was shocked to see how much chakra Daichi had. 'He has this much chakra? His reserves are eveer than Lord Hiashi.'

  The shadow es spread out all over the ke and stood in attention. Eae of them had chakra strings ing from their hands. With his heightened senses Daichi sensed most of the creatures swimming uhe ke. The Chakra strings immediately moved and started to attach to their targets.

  'I've only seen the puppet brigade from the Sand vilge that had such fwless mastery of Chakra Strings. But I doubt even they could ge the nature of their strings so easily. His skills are truly vast.' Guy thought as he looked at how Daichi used his energy threads.

  "Neji, call out if you see the fishes I miss or the ones deep in the ke."

  "Byakugan!" The Hyuga nodded and activated his special eyes. "Approximately 380ft below you. Four of them."

  Daichi quickly expanded his senses and captured the fishes.

  "The one you caught just now is a Lamprey." Neji addressed a e. The shadow e nodded aed the string that had caught the parasite fish.

  His es were also doing their best and with Neji guiding them the work was done quickly.

  Over half an hour and almost all the sea creatures in the ke were entangled in Daichi's strings. The shadow es moved towards the edge of the ke with their targets while the real Daichi moved to the ter. He focused on his chakra and blurred through a series of seals.

  Inhaling a deep breath of air and ging its properties, Daichi exhaled a stream of fire into the water. Steam erupted almost immediately as the fmes touched the ke's surface. Daichi kept up the stream of fire and soon the ke started heating up. His delicate senses allowed him to assess the temperature of the ke while his es kept the native fishes as cool as possible by ging the properties and nature of their chakra strings.

  Sooire pond started produg small bubbles and steam. At that moment Daichi stopped using the jutsu and took a deep breath of air.

  "The Lamprey rvae should be dead and the adults should be dying right now. We o scoop up the remains before they ihe water." Daichi said as he looked at the team.

  "Yosh. Well done Daichi. You did your part. Now it's our tur's show him our burning passion!" Guy shouted with a grin and they got to work.

  It wasn't an easy task. The team spent almost all day hauling out fish, cheg for parasites and then tossing the fish back. They also had to scoop up the remains of the dead fish as well. It was tedious, physically exhausting work. Thankfully Guy's team and Daichi were used to such tasks.

  As Daichi suspected, some native fishes did not survive and were killed by the heat.

  "What's the damage, Neji?" Guy asked.

  The Hyuga Genin used his eyes to check the Lake and soon came to a clusion. "Based on my estimates more than 85% of the native fishes survived with no visible wounds. And all the Lampreys seem to have been killed."

  Might Guy beamed hearing that. "Excellent work. Well done, all of you."

  "You know we should take the dead fish to the market and give them to the hungry. That way there won't be any waste. What do you think?." Tenten said, looking at her sensei.

  "That's a wonderful idea Tenten." Lee praised his teammate with a big smile.

  "Yes! A most excellent idea dear Tenten. As soon as we're done here we'll head to the market. Others should be from this work and the fish is already cooked." The Jonin agreed and made his decision.

  The team kept up their work for hours and by evening, their work was pleted.

  "Oh god. I need a shower." Tenten spoke as she ed her hands.

  Lee smelled himself and was taken back. "Urgh. You have a point. A bath does sound nice."

  All of them were covered in dirt, grim and smelled horrible.

  At that moment an Anbu appeared he team, starling the three Genins. Only Daichi and Guy sehe presence of the new ninja before he appeared.

  The Anbu looked directly at Daichi and spoke. "Daichi Hekima. Please yourself up quickly ao the Hokage's office. There is an emergency."

  Everyone was surprised and shocked. Guy narrowed his eyes and looked at the Anbu. "Did something happen?"

  "There has been an i at the Capital. The Hokage has asked for Daichi's presehat is all I say." The stoija replied.

  The Jonin nodded his head. "I uand." He turo the temporary addition to the team. "Daichi. You're dismissed. Get ed up quickly ao the tower. You shouldn't keep Lord Hokage waiting."

  Daiodded and turowards the messenger. "Please inform Lord Hokage that I'll be there shortly."

  The Anbu nodded and vanished from his spot. Daichi turo the other and waved them goodbye. sed he vanished with the body flicker jutsu.

  The Gamer ninja quickly reached his home and soon got himself in a presentable state. After taking a shoutting on some new gear Daichi made his way to the Hokage tower.

  'I wonder what this is about? An emergency at the capital? Could it be about Jin. Or maybe something to do with the Phantom thief…?'

  He didn't know what happened but he would face whatever it was without fling.

  Hokage Tower: A short while ago.

  The Hokage was going through important mission dots when his secretary came into the room.

  "Lord Hokage. Yondu is here from the Capital. He has requested a meeting. Said it was an emergency." The assistant said, veying the urgency of the situation.

  Hiruzen was startled hearing that. 'Yondu? He's the messenger of the Royal court. If he's here then something serious must have happened.'

  "Send him in."

  The secretary nodded and a few moments ter a middle aged man with green eyes and light shaded red hair ehe room. He bowed before the Hokage and then straightened.

  "Greetings Lord Hokage." His voice was smooth and pleasant to the ears.

  Hiruzen nodded. "Wele to the Leaf vilge Yondu. Please sit. What brings you here?"

  Yondu took a chair and spoke. "I will get straight to the point siime is a precious factor. The nephew of the 3rd Minister oisoned less than 12 ho."

  The Hokage's eyes widened. 'Even though it was the nephew of the 3rd minister, Ryuga will definitely sider this an atta the Royal court and thus a personal atta him. But that still doesn't expin why Yondu is here. There are capable medi the capital. So why would he e here… Unless…'

  Hiruzen could make a guess as to why the man was here but didn't say anything in case he was wrong.

  Yondu tinued. "The boy is dying. The best medics at the capital couldn't find out what's wrong with him or oison was used. But they were able to make aimate based on the speed of the poison's progression. Based on his bodily funs, they estimate he has about 7 or 8 hours from now to live. We've searched for Lady Tsunade. She visited the capital a few weeks ago but soo. We 't locate her at the moment and won't be able to until it's too te."

  Hiruzen's suspi roven correct. "So you're here for her student, Daichi Hekima I presume?"

  "Yes." The messenger from the Royal court nodded his head. "Lord Taji Mayima has requested the boy's aid and has given the mission. This will be marked as a B Rank due to its high priority. Is the boy here in the vilge?"

  Yondu khat if Daichi was away outside the vilge, the ces of the Minister's nephew dying would increase to 100%. And the situation would beuch worse.

  "Daichi is here. He is currently on a D Rank mission. I will summon him immediately." Hiruzen replied and made a gesture with his hand. An Anbu quickly appeared kneeling.

  "Find Daichi and tell him to report to me at once." Nothing else was said and the Anbu nodded and vanished in silence.

  Hiruzeurned his attention back to Yondu. "Tell me about the situation. How did this happen?"