While Eiji was fighting in the arena, a shinobi rushed home as fast as he could.
Kimiko looked at a picture of her son Eiji and sighed.
The Hokage told her what happened, and that they should be prepared for the worst.
But suddenly Satoshi slammed the door open and rushed in.
"Dear, what's wrong, don't you have guard duty right now?"
He tried to say something, but he couldn't since he was out of breath from rushing home as fast as he could.
After a few tries, he managed to say those 3 words: "Eiji.....he....returned!!"
Out of shock, she let the picture fall on the ground, where it broke.
"WHERE IS HE?!" - she recovered from her shock and shouted with a panicked voice.
"He...he...didn't want...to be late...for his chunin exam...so he" - without letting him finish, she grabbed her husband by the arm and rushed with him towards the arena.
'I'm gonna die from running...and my hangover is killing me as well...' - the poor Satoshi was sure he would collapse.
"Oh my..." - Sakura couldn't believe her eyes.
The arena looked completely different now.
The ground was a huge deep hole with a dozen huge large spikes coming out of this deep hole.
She was sure, that they were hole so deep, that if you fell into it, you would end up as meat paste!
But the place where Eiji was standing, was like an "island" in this vast hole with spikes.
The same was for Genma, Eiji left for him a small "island" as well.
Genma looked at the arena and thought: 'I really wanna go home...'
Gaara saved himself from turning into meat paste through falling, by flying on his sand.
'Hmm, when the old Snake Sage, told me about this, I kinda was uninterested to be honest, since I originally wanted to learn Sage Mode only to buff my kenjutsu. But it looks like to be quite useful...'
Orochimaru couldn't believe it!
Not because of Eiji's move, in fact, Orochimaru can do more damage without less effort in various ways, but because it is genuine Sage Mode!
Back then, when he discovered Ryuchi Cave, even though he gained the ability to mold natural Senjutsu chakra, because of all his body modifications, his body was too weak to use Sage Transformation to enter Sage Mode.
This was what Kakashi, meant when he said in one aspect Eiji was ahead of Orochimaru.
Anyway, Orochimaru knew, that since Gaara was a crucial part of his plan, he needed to act now or else his plan might fail!
"WHAT THE HELL, KAKASHI SENSEI?! WHAT DID HE DO?!" - Naruto
"I can't really tell you, since not much is known about Sage Mode..."
Naruto tightened his fist, while Sasuke had a dark expression: 'So this is the power of this Sage Mode?'
"This guy...this guy is a monster like Gaara, except for the fact that he is somewhat mentally stable..." - Kankuro
"He is really like an entirely different person when he fights..." - Temari
'What about our plan? What should I do now? ' - Baki
"Akamaru, calm down. Even though he looks creepy and is super strong, he is on our side...I hope..." - Kiba
'Scary...' - Hinata
'Hmm, with this strength, shouldn't he already easily finished his opponent? Isn't he just trying to show off? Really...this guy is so shameless.' - Shino
'Hmm, I had 2 more things I wanted to try...but looks like I'm about to run out of natural energy...but isn't it about time for them to make a move anyway?' - Eiji
Meanwhile, Gaara was flying in the air.
His situation was, to put it mildly, pretty fucked.
He needed his sand to fly, so he couldn't attack.
Also, his defense was way weaker now, since a portion of the sand he could use to defend, was needed to fly.
So he was in a complete passive state, where he can only fly around and wait for his opponent to attack.
Fortunately or unfortunately, Gaara started to lose it, and his transformation began.
"Coincidentally", right at the same time Gaara's transformation started, some shadowy figures in the spectator seats started to take action and used Genjutsu.
Thx For chapter
Finally Our Mc become Side character Not Mob character
Nope, he is still Mob but not normal one. He is Super Mob now.
@Rodvek97 well most of the characters will become a super mob character in the fight against madara(even the likes of kages)
Can we get a chapter after the invasion arc where the father preaches about brain enhancement pills and tries to get Eiji to have another? The father is my favourite character~
That's a big brain move right there.
And like that the mob character became an MC lol
Nah he still a mob just with sage mode
@Soft-car more like a side character now~
@Starlight_of_Life I think he needs one more op thing before getting the grand rank of side character, all he got his sage mode and sword
@Soft-car I mean, tell me who else besides VERY major characters have sage mode? Everyone who has Sage Mode is strong as fudge, and they often are VERY essential to the plot. So He cannot be a Mob anymore, have you ever seen a mob with Sage Mode?
@Starlight_of_Life Yep, especially if he has a perfect sage mode. Hard to imagine the village letting him live a mob life at this point. He may not be as strong as the upper tier Jonin (Guy/Kakashi/etc), but he's definitely Jonin level. Plus, he's only like 12 or something.
EDIT:
Btw, I never watched Boruto, but just looked up pictures of what a 'perfect' snake sage mode looks like, it's so much better looking than Kabuto... lol
@Starlight_of_Life Looked it up apparently Jugo curse mark is a form of sage mode, so all unnamed curse mark users are technically mobs.
Hmmmmmm... Mobs generally only have one move, while ssj mobs have a move building on top. MC have multiple moves. Hence, he's ssj mob now... Coz he went from one trick pony to one trick horse.
You see, jiraiya are the first to be in sage mode, and that said sage killed in action.. as a grand mob
@Soft-car As I see it Eiji could be considered a major side character of the early story, the biggest problem he has to face is that he has average talent, he compensated for that with effective and specialized early training(as his sensei kinda mentioned once, he’s a “fake genius” who abused his knowledge of the power system in Naruto and adult mind to get ahead while the rest of his generation wasted time), getting sage mode will probably give him a few more years of advantage, but realistically speaking(as in: ignoring the fact that his the fanfic’s MC) he could have difficulty dealing with the power creep, since he can’t grow in power as fast as the main cast.
@Mandark Well, in a way it was impossible for him to maintain a safe position while being a mob. With all the world level threats roaming around he needs to accumulate AT LEAST Jonin power-level to not be accidentally insta-killed while they aim for Konoha and that was a big deal during early Naruto
@Hantaros
Let's not all forget the foreshadowing with the Dragon Clan. By the time Eiji finds their temple and transforms into an MC-class figure.