21 No one

Training ground 3…

Isumi already has her two tomoe Sharingan active which is simple enough for us to know of her true identity because even if Uncle Shikaku can use transformation Jutsu he can not copy the dojutsu of her's.

There only remained me and Hana standing against her and I am clear of my identity and it is clear that Izumi is also the original her so the only remaining person among us is Hana who must be an imposter and without thinking much I decided to lunch an attack on Hana "Izumi–san I am now sure of it this is captain Shikaku in disguise and not Hana because by her own words from yesterday I clearly remember she doesn't leave behind her dogs unless there is something important and when she is in a mission I don't understand why she won't bring the dogs. "

"Don't listen to her Izumi, he doesn't understand anything you need to, believe me, he is the imposter... " although it was clear that Izumi is not a fake however Izumi couldn't discover the true identity of the other two in the team which caused a fight to broke out not long after.

"Fire style: Fireball jutsu. " Izumi shouted out looking at Hana who has already gone on her 4 and started Inuzuka beast style avoiding the incoming fire Hana aimed a punch at Izumi shouting "Sorry but you left no choice for me. "

Avoiding the attack from Hana Izumi gave a simple kick to her gut sending her flying and stopping a few meters away rolling on the ground.

After a while of fighting among the 3 of them, Hana finally says, Izumi, some secrets that only she knew and using lip reading with her Sharingan Izumi now believes that the girl is indeed her best friend Hana, making Kazuna the common target for the both of them.

"So it was you all along kid. " Izumi says with a serious face as her dojutsu flickered with a dangerous red glow more than it was glowing before.

"You should have known it was him when he was the only one left with Captain Shikaku. " Hana announced with a serious face as if it is an obvious truth.

"I don't know what she told you however I can assure you that I am not Captain Shikaku. " Kazuna announced with a serious face looking at Izumi in the eye when he felt something wrong with him as his chakra flow went chaotic however before it can affect him in any way he quickly spreads his chakra in his whole body taking proper control over his body and fixing the disturbance in his chakra cycle.

"He broke free from my Genjutsu and so easily, that makes everything clear he is certainly captain Shikaku because no kid that I know or heard of can break my Uchiha Genjutsu so easily. " Izumi announced with a serious face as she and Hana started their team up and the new battle against Kazuna began as they wanted to subdue the kid or Captain Shikaku's clone in their opinion.

Hana being a long term friend and rival from the Academy knew very well about each other's moves so they didn't need any planning to synchronize their moves and planing as Hana being the Taijutsu specialist directly went to have a one and one battle with Kazuna while Izumi will support her from far with Ninjutsu and tag-team to suppress Kazuna who is getting helpless more and more every minute.

"Damn it. " getting send flying with a kick from Hana Kazuna yells in frustration and quickly taking out a shurikin from his bag threw it towards Hana before shouting "Dance of the shadow shurikens. "

"Hana watch out. " Izumi who was paying close attention to the fight all along with Sharingan discovered the danger of the flying shuriken that left Kazuna's hand and jumps in front of Hana while taking out a Kunai.

The shurikin that left Kazuna's hand soon splits into two then 4 and so one until it looks like a dark wall that is flying towards Izumi at a fast speed however using her dojutsu the incoming shurikens became slow before she can effortlessly counter and deflect all the Shurikins.

By the time she was done a cloud of smoke appeared in front of them but Hana who is behind her disregarding the dust cloud dashed through it from behind Izumi to catch Kazuna who is on the other side of the dust cloud.

"Got you. " the moment Hana went behind the first cloud she found Kazuna breathing heavily indicating he is tired from the battle and not giving him the chance to defend she lunched a fierce punch on his stomach while calling out with a satisfied smile "Got you. "

**Puff**

"Substitution Jutsu. " with a puff of smoke Kazuna's figure got covered by white smoke as he calls out from behind Hana as the spot Hana kicked vanishes and Kazuna calls out "Uzumaki... "

"No, you don't. " before Kazuna can land a proper kick as he had intended suddenly Izuna comes out if the dust cloud which has almost vanished and tried to land a kick on Kazuna who had to force stop himself from attacking Hana before jumping away to avoid the attack with a frustrated face.

This time as if they had made up their mind Hana and Izumi decided to stop holding back and teaming upstarts attacking Kazuna simultaneously without giving him a chance to catch any breath.

Getting attacked by forehand Kazuna can only redirect or avoid getting hit by the girls and try to land an attack or two on them just to get countered by Izumi making him completely helpless as well as made him knowledgeable of his lack of strength, even if he was the strongest in the academy now facing the two girls he is constantly getting pushed back even when he has a few times more Chakra then them even combing their chakra together.

As the fight continued it wasn't going anywhere so getting far from Kazuna Izumi decided to finish it with Hana after making some quick hand signs "Fire style: Fireball jutsu. "

Kazuna who was by the side of the lake quickly made a few hand signs before shouting "Water style: Water wall. "

As the two jutsu collided with each other the whole training ground 3 got covered with white mist making it impossible for anyone to see even the thing a few meters away from them except for some dark shadow.

Although they couldn't see in this mist Kazuna was easily able to point his opponent's location before and decide to attack them if the shortest time however Hana can easily smell his smell and easily countered him when Izumi also discovered his shadow moving towards her and using her dojutsu she quickly dodged his attack before the counter-attacking him.

So even in the thick mist, the battle continued and the situation remained the same as before.

As the battle in the fog continued the smoke also slowly started fading away with the blowing wind and when it completely disappears there remained two Kazuna fighting against Hana and Izumi indication of one being a clone but soon the Kazuna who was fighting Izumi disappears leaving behind the one who is against Hana.

At this time they all took a step back and started breathing heavily indicating how much exhausted they have become as Kazuna calls out "At this rate, we will get now where Izumi–san I am telling you the truth Hana is the clome of Uncle Shikaku. "

"No, she is not. " Izumi disagreed with Kazuna as Hana also added "Even if I didn't see Izumi's Sharingan I can smell her scent and knew she is the real one from the beginning. "

"Hey, I am also not a clone. " knowing they have full trust in each other Kazuna is sure they are not a clone using the transformation Jutsu and he is also not a clone so how is he going to explain it to them that remains uncertain for him.

"Why should we believe that? " asked Hana with a serious face as Izumi gives a nod in affirmation.

"Remember yesterday when I entered the classroom you guys were looking at me and... " Kazuna explained something they had not told Shikaku and soon it was proved he is also the real deal.

"So you were also looking at us. " Izumi asked with a serious face.

"What a perverted kid looking at elder sister it appears you need a punishment. " Hana although felt shame however to cover it she announced acting a little angry as she looks at Kazuna.

"That is not important at this moment because the thing that is making me concerned about what Captain Shikaku told us before he left. " Kazan announced with a serious face.

"Yes if we are all real and no one is a fake one then. " Hana mumbles as if she understood something as well.

"It means he has told a lie before vanishing if so what is our real objective in this trail? " Izumi mumbles in surprise.

"He said one of us is fake and our objective is to find the missing member of our team and if we find the missing person we pass. Right? " to his questions they gave a nod as he continues his explanation "Then he was trying to mislead us in thinking we fighting a clone of his making us fight one another and not considering there might not even be a missing member to being with.

So once we successfully catch one of our own and look for the missing member we will find none.

This means when he will arrive at noon we will be unable to complete the mission and fail the trail. "

"And defeating his clone is the biggest misleading a there is no clone of his from the beginning so there is no need to do so. " Hana concluded the whole thing.

"Doesn't that mean we just needed to wait for his arrival without doing anything that way we will pass? " Izumi asked with a smile as she deactivates her dojutsu.

"Someone is coming. " feeling a new chakra signature Kazuna calls out with a serious face.

"Ahhhhaaa~ it's been a long time for me to sleep for this long. "