Chapter 20.2- One Thousand Hands

I stared at a picture of myself. It had been taken recently. My hair was even longer here than it had ben in the original one, and it even included my growth spurt in the coma in my height and weight assessments I noted that it was as accurate a say last visit to the hospital. It still rated me as a B-ranked chunin, with not much changed in the individual statistics. What did change, though, was the number at the bottom. “Forty million Ryo?” I almost screamed out the number. By my sides, both Uzume and Shika looked like their heads were going to fall out of their eyeballs.

“What the fuck?” I asked, turning to the old man. That was a lot of money. A shit ton of money. That was enough money, that I doubted there were up to five people in the bingo book with higher bounties than mine, and they were all probably S-rankd shinobi. Tobirama looked displeased with the bounty. Of course he was. It was practically a death sentence. An S-ranked reward for killing a kid that most definitely wasn’t S-ranked? I was fucked. I amended my assessment on my second read when I noted that the bounty required that I be turned in alive. Captured for some sick reason.

“We believe that the bounty was placed by one of the other villages who might be under the impression that you inherited my brother’s kekkei genkai” He said with thin lips.

“Wood release? How? I’ve literally fought to the death in front of anyone. If I had the wood release, I would have used it then would I not?” I asked, straining to see the logic of it.

My granduncle just pointed right at my shades, and I took the point with a bod, before returning to bowing my head. Of course, awakening the byakugan would have them thinking that any other thing could have been wakened as well.

“I have sent letters to the other Kage tossing some blame around and demanding that the bounty be taken down immediately. Of course, I expect that they will send details in no time.” He began.

“However, this means that we are unlikely to discover the source of the bounty any time soon and you will not be permitted to leave the village for any missions until the bounty has been resolved or until you are a dangerous enough shinobi to warrant such a bounty on your own merits” He said finally.

A/N; So sick these days