You are a shadow clone of Uzumaki Shiki, son of the now-legendary kunoichi Uzumaki Naori of the Hidden Rain, currently on assignment as a chūnin embedded with a team from your allies in Konohagakure. This is one of the times in the last few months when you’ve been sent on a mission without your two trusted teammates, Nagao Sumire and Izuno Wasabi - a mission to capture your former classmate, distant cousin, and son of the Seventh Hokage, Uzumaki Boruto.

He’s crossed the border with the neighboring Land of Wind without permission in search of Uchiha Sasuke, hoping to study ninjutsu under his guidance. Your job is to stop him. It’s entirely possible that being caught here could turn into an international incident, stirring up the opposition faction in the Land of Wind and causing a headache for the Kazekage, Gaara. So you’ve decided to face down Boruto in order to wear him down before the next fight. So far that’s worked well for you, as you managed to momentarily take the upper hand.

Boruto’s next move is to loose a kunai he had hidden in his sleeve, which is aimed at your face - what he thinks happens as a result is that you break away and stop setting up your technique, but what he doesn’t realize is that the genjutsu is already in place. He follows through and connects with your shadow clone’s jaw using the hand your withdrawal freed up, which is fine. He served his purpose.

You’re already weaving seals of your own now - what Boruto sees is the seals for Kakashi-sensei’s Raiden, but what you actually use is the water clone technique, weaving the seals with your left hand and creating the clone from a ball of water flowing from your right hand.

“Raiton: Raiden!”

Boruto ducks and rolls away from a fake bolt of violet-colored lightning, creating a pair of shadow clones that cover for him by throwing explosive-tagged kunai. Your kunai, unsealed from your palm in response, meet with Boruto’s and cause them to explode at a distance - and you have time to create two shadow clones of your own. “Multi-shadow clone!”

He can’t see what you did. Your genjutsu prevents that entirely. But what he hears confirms that you’ve created multiple shadow clones, so he doesn’t question the three clones he sees coming at him. Nor does he see anything in the environment, like standing water or rainfall, that would hint that the clones are anything but what he thinks he sees.

The shadow clones trade, dispelling each other in a brief scuffle, and you swiftly follow behind the water clone weaving hand seals the whole way. When the clone takes Boruto’s counterpunch in the chin there’s a moment of shock on your cousin’s face as he realizes that what he struck wasn’t a shadow clone at all, and you place your palm against the clone’s back.
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