The Unscripted Routes: The Hidden Leaf

Hotaru was an anomaly in the Academy—a boy with the lowest chakra reserves in his class who became its most lethal executioner. They called him the Hunter, a scrawny orphan who learned to break bones without leaving a mark because he couldn’t afford to waste a single drop of energy.

He died a hero in the rain, protecting Konoha from Pain. Now, he has been brought back.

Kabuto Yakushi has committed the ultimate cruelty: he has taken a starving executioner and dropped him into an infinite ocean of chakra. Trapped behind the Obedience Seal, Hotaru is unleashed upon the Allied Shinobi Forces as an unstoppable, invisible force of slaughter. He is the thread that refused to snap, and he is coming for the brother he died to save.