"Damn you kid…!"
As the chest was already cut open and blood was spurting out, Cloud Village's Jonin ninja became weaker and weaker. Eventually, his body fell to the ground with no signs of life left.
Kuroto staggered a few steps, then sat on the ground, panting heavily.
The corpses of 16 Cloud Shinobi fell around him, the entire forest area was in a mess, clearly indicating the signs of a fierce battle that occurred not long ago.
After resting up a bit, Kuroto examined his body, and finally took a breath of relief.
Although he had many wounds, out of which only one was serious, the rest were only small pierces, cuts, and burns. The injury on his left shoulder was slightly serious, but that didn't hinder him from holding the sword in his right hand.
"I guess I am alive thanks to you huh?" Kuroto murmured as he sheathed the Kusanagi sword.
This time, Kuroto was able to wipe out the entire unit of 16 Cloud ninja at the cost of an injured left shoulder and only some cuts and burns, the credit definitely goes to the Kusanagi Sword and the Paralysis poison he compounded.
One of the enemy Jonin didn't know about his Kusanagi Sword and tried to block his slash with just a simple Kunai, obviously, the Kunai couldn't resist and was divided like butter under a hot knife by his Tenseigan Chakra infused Sword slash.
As a result, one Jonin ninja died without any resistance in the face of Kuroto's attack, this not only decreased the strength of the enemy side but also weakened their morale which helped Kuroto finish off the rest of the bunch.
After simply bandaging up the wound, Kuroto didn't dare to delay any longer and immediately rushed towards the retreat point. After all, they are still in the enemy territory, every second of stay here will only bring danger to them.
It didn't take long for him to arrive at the retreat point that Team-11 agreed upon.
Guy and Shisui who arrived earlier, saw Kuroto arrive and greeted him, "Finally here Kuroto! How did it go on your side?"
Kuroto said, "It took a little bit of effort to eliminate the enemies."
Shisui nodded, "Well, I noticed before, Kuroto-San drew most enemy ninja away from the warehouse."
Kuroto also glanced at Shisui and Guy, while asking casually, "How did it go on your end?"
Both Guy and Shisui talked about the situation they faced separately.
Since Guy was discovered earlier so he could only lead away 8 enemy ninjas which were only Chunin and Genin class, so after a fierce battle Guy eliminated them all.
Among the 12 enemy ninjas that Shisui led away, although there was 1 Jonin, he was under Shisui's genjutsu from the very beginning. So, by the time he successfully broke through the effect of the genjutsu, the other ninjas were already lying in the pool of their own blood, which is to say Shisui had already killed them, and without any support from his teammates, the Jonin was obviously not Shisui's opponent, therefore not long after he fell under Shisui's blade.
After hearing the description from both Guy and Shisui, Kuroto frowned, "So, if we combine the total number of ninjas we eliminated, it only reaches up to 80 people?"
More importantly, among them, only 3 of them were Jonin class, while the vast majority were Chunin class or cannon fodder class that are only useful for consuming enemy chakra.
Listening to Kuroto's deductions, Guy was more worried about Kakashi, "Yes, so I am worried about Kakashi, how will he be able to deal against more than 100 enemy ninjas?"
Shisui also stood silent.
The current situation is very clear, even if Kakashi is very strong, but there is absolutely no way he could survive against more than a hundred cloud ninjas. Even if he somehow manages to destroy the warehouse, retreat would be impossible for him.
Guy looked in the direction of the warehouse and said firmly, "We have to go and help him!"
Shisui also wanted to say something but he didn't know what to say.
Currently, all three members of Team-11 are not only injured but they also don't have much chakra volume after a series of battles. They can't even be sure to safely escape to the Land of Fire from Cloud Village's follow-up pursuit.
In such a situation going back to the warehouse is simply a death wish.
Seeing the worry in Guy and Shisui's eyes, Kuroto also looked towards the valley with slight hesitation…
'I made a promise to him, I can't let it end here!' – was the only thought going on in his mind.
At the Valley.
Taking a glance at the burning warehouse beside him, Kakashi squatted halfway in a pool of blood, with a relieved smile on his face.
"Finally completed the task."
"No other companion will have to die for me."
...…. whoosh…. whoosh…. whoosh...…
At this time, more and more cloud shinobi rushed towards the burning warehouse with the body flicker technique, surrounding Kakashi from all sides.
The head ninja of Cloud village spoke with a murderous look on his face, "Konoha ninja, speak your name!"
Although the head ninja was very angered and wanted nothing more than to crush the brat under his feet, he still had to admire the kid's determination, so, to show his respect to the kid he asked the kid's name before Killing him.
Kakashi tried raising his head to look at the person, but because of the excessive blood loss, his vision was getting blurry, he could only vaguely perceive the swaying firelight and the shadowy figure of the ninjas around him.
At this moment he suddenly fell into a daze, this was a familiar feeling!
"I seem to have felt this before…"
"Yeah, now I remember, it was during the battle of the Kannabi Bridge, back then also I was surrounded by so many enemy ninjas…
"Unfortunately, Minato-Sensei is no longer alive. No one will come to rescue me this time…"
"I am sorry Father!"
"I am sorry Minato-Sensei, I couldn't protect your son…"
"Obito…! Rin…! We are finally going to meet again."
"Hehe, it seems to be a good ending…"
Slowly but steadily Kakashi felt the strength in his body fading away bit by bit, his thoughts drifted further and further, as if he was already past the shackles of the body.
Seeing the tranced and lifeless look of the Kid, the head ninja shook his head while sighing, then regaining the same cold look in his eyes he signaled the chunin beside him to behead the Kid.
The cloud Chunin immediately drew a kunai and walked towards the kid's direction.
But after walking in front of the kid, this cloud chunin didn't make the killing move for a while.
The head ninja urged impatiently, "What's the hold-up? Finish him quickly, we have to also chase after the rest of his teammates!"
The secret warehouse has already been destroyed. If he doesn't chase after and successfully kill the Konoha ninjas responsible for this, then even if he is a qualified head ninja of the cloud village, he wouldn't escape Raikage-sama's anger!
The cloud chunin stared at the weird-shaped eye in Kakashi's left eye socket and said while stumbling, "B-but, his eye…"
However, before anyone could understand the Chunin's words, a figure wearing an eagle-faced mask suddenly flashed by, instantly beheading the chunin who was standing in front of Kakashi, and then two more figures appeared on Kakashi's side, one with a dog-faced and the other with a cat-faced mask.
Waving the sword to get the blood off of it, Eagle who was now standing in front of the kid said lightly, "Dog, carry Kitsune on your back and leave!"
Dog hesitated but seeing that the Kitsune's consciousness was already blurry and he couldn't retreat alone, so, he carried the Kitsune on his back and said to Eagle and Cat, "After dropping Kitsune to a safe place, I will come back soon!"
Cat smiles and shook his head, "No, you make sure to take him back to the village, I and Eagle-San can handle it here."
"But…" – Dog wanted to interject.
However, Eagle shouted with annoyance, "Get the hell out of here already before I change my mind!"
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