Chapter 42 - Face off with Konoha Geniuses (1/2)

”How is it? Do you guys see him” Nawaki asked to Hyuga twins who were using Byakugan to search through?

”No, I don't see any sign of a person yet. Hizashi, how about you?” Elder of twin asked his little brother.

”I also don't see anyone here too, brother,” Hiashi answered.

”Damn, that spy sure knows how to run. It's been 3 days and we haven't seen a glimpse of him. Just where the hell is he? We should have brought Inuzuka or Aburame clan kids too. They are the experts in tracking.” Nawaki angrily complained.

”It's useless to say now. How disgraceful that shinobi is complaining because the mission is not going in his way.” Fugaku said to Nawaki.

”What did you say?” Nawaki got angry.

Soon those two started to bickering each other. Seeing dispute is getting worse, Minato and others stepped out and relieved the fight.

”*Sigh* Why do I have to be with these troublesome guys. They literally fight every hour.” Shikaku commented.

”haha, well they are Senju and Uchiha. So that is expected.” Minato said while showing his bright smile.

Like this, a group of Konoha geniuses spent another 2 days searching and finally found several traces of a spy.

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Three days of constant running, we finally got out of Iwa land and entered Konoha land for the first time in our life. Since we are no longer in Iwa land, I ordered the squad to proceed with caution.

I commanded Kimiko to use her sensor abilities every 5 minutes. Since this was our first time as Konoha's land, I didn't know well about Konoha's border patrol schedules. Therefore, slowing down our speed was definitely necessary.

Kitsuchi was quite impatient as we have slowed down our speed ever since we entered Konoha land. He was afraid that the spy would get caught and the mission is failed. He kept requesting me to speed up.

”Come on, Genji. With this our current speed, I am sure our spy will get caught by Konoha even before we reach him. Let's speed up!” Kitsuchi asked me over and over again.

”Hey, when I say no, that means no. Hehehe, how dare mere Genin challenge Chunin and his team leader's authority!

-10 points from your performance.

If you gonna keep asking that stupid request again, I will deem you fail in your performance.” I said to Kitsuchi.

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After 2 days of more running, we found the place with sign of battle. We immediately stopped and inspected the place.

”It seems like the battle happened not long ago. This tree is burned but it still warm.” Gari told me after inspecting.

”Was it our spy that fought Konoha shinobi here? I hope it's not the case.” Kitsuchi asked with a worrying face.

”It's been five days. We are taking the route our spy is using to escape to Iwagakure. By now we should be meeting with our spy.

But since that is not the case, I am afraid our spy has been caught up by Konoha pursuers and probably fought here.

Currently, either they already captured our spy or our spy is running like a dog from them.” I explained to others.

”Kimiko, I want you to use your sensing ability to the max. Since the battle is still fresh, I am sure they haven't gone too far. We can't just go back after wasting 5 days to come here, right.” I ordered Kimiko.

Kimiko closed her eyes and used her sensing power as furthest she could.

”I found them 5km south from us. 8 people are chasing one person,” Kimiko told us.

”Check if they have Jounin level chakra reserve or not,” I asked to Kimiko again.

”No, all chasers have only Chunin or Genin level chakra reserves,” Kimiko reported.

I was worried that there were eight enemies but after hearing that they were just Chunins and Genin, I just smirked. It seems like I was worried for nothing.

Since they are just weaklings, I ordered everyone to save our spy asap.

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(Nawaki and Konoha geniuses team)

After finding the trace of the spy, relying on twin's Byakugan, they managed to find him easily.

Although they wanted to catch him with surprise, their plan failed thanks to Nawaki who triggered a bell alarm set up by the spy.

Fugaku immediately used Uchiha's most used jutsu, Fire Style: Fire Ball jutsu at spy. But spy used Earth Style: Earth Wall jutsu and blocked fireball.

Konoha 8 geniuses chased spy by following the blood trails. Hyuga twin didn't use their Byakugan as it is extremely consuming to use. They already over-used their Byakugan to search the spy. They wanted to save their chakra as much as they could.

No matter how fast the spy was, he was running injured and eventually couldn't run anymore due to blood loss.

Fugaku smirked seeing spy gave up himself. He threw a few shuriken at spy's legs to make sure he can't run.

But out of nowhere, anther set of Kunai came out and blocked the shurikens to protect the spy. This shocked both Konoha geniuses and the spy.

A few seconds later, Genji and his squad appeared in front of Konoha geniuses.

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(MC POV)

Me and my squad showed ourselves to Konoha pursuers with full of confidence.