Chapter 44 - Another interference (1/2)
In front of me was an Anbu, protecting Minato from me, while behind me, there were two idiots knocked out.
Even though Anbu's appearance was unexpected, I didn't panic. At first, I decided to gauge the strength of this Anbu. If he is weaker than me, I will finish him and Minato quickly as I can.
But if his strength is on par or even stronger than me, I will pull out immediately while dragging these two with me. I am quite confident in my running away skills.
I am sure this Anbu or his friends already sent for help to Konohagakure. We have to get out of Konoha's land before they completely lock down the border we are escaping to.
Without hesitating, I coated lighting charka to my twin buŧŧerfly swords, which resulted in the bright lighting and dashed at Anbu.
Anbu in response pulled out another blade from his back and went for defense position. He directly received my full-out aggressive sword attacks.
I am surprised a bit that his blades could withstand my lighting swords. I observed, just to found out that Anbu coated his blades in a very thin wind chakra.
'No wonder, since wind affinity is stronger than lighting affinity, those blades could withstand my lighting swords. He also used his wind charka as a minimum as he can, to conserve his chakra.
And he doesn't sweat a bit to block my aggressive sword strikes. He is definitely a Jounin-level shinobi. But I feel like he is not stronger than me. That's enough for testing.'
I dashed at him again at a faster speed. I swing both my swords at his head. Anbu blocked my swords with his blades. But I encased my right feet in rock and kicked at him to put more strength.
(A/N: this jutsu is like Earth style: Rock fist, but instead of hardening your fist, you enclose your feet in rock)
I started to use advanced Wing Chun sword arts with a little bit of feet attacks. After attacking with swords, I used my feet to attack him to connect him, next sword attacks again. I just didn't give time to breathe in Anbu.
After fighting for 5 minutes, Anbu started to slow his movement. And in 10 minutes, he couldn't keep up with my attacks anymore and chose to keep a distance and use Ninjutsu.
'So he is using Ninjutsu, huh? Damn, it would take a bit longer to kill him in a fair fight. But there is no way I am going to fight in fair and square.'
”Fire Style: Fire Dragon Flame Jutsu.”
Anbu performed a few hand signs and spitted out the flame from his mouth which, traveled in quick speed at me.
I quickly created the Earth Wall just in time to block fire dragon flame jutsu. I then created one Earth clone.
I next, did several hand signs to prepare Earth Style: Stone Pistol jutsu. I spitted out 5 stone pistols from my mouth which grew into giant boulders.
But stone pistols didn't fly to Anbu, instead, they were aimed at Nawaki Senju. I was using Nawaki as a bait. I was sure Anbu will no matter what, come and save Nawaki SENJU from those giant boulders since that is his mission.
As expected Anbu appeared in front of lying-down Nawaki and cut off giant boulders to save him. I ordered my earth clone to attack him while I used Earth Travel jutsu to sneakily move behind him.
Anbu used one hand to cut off boulders while the other hand to block my clone attack.
”You made the wrong choice, bitch!!”
Although I intended to cut off his head, Anbu was experienced enough to detect me in the last second and managed to avoid his death bȧrėly. But he was still injured heavily in his back. My plan to use Nawaki as initial bait and earth clone to finishing bait was successful.
”Let's finish this,” I said to Anbu.
”Earth style: Swamp of Underworld!” I created swamp below him, so he can't escape. He couldn't dodge it as he could bȧrėly move from my strike.
I shot 3 Earth Stone pistols and Earth Dragon jutsu at him. Lastly, I created the Earth Style Barrier: Prison Dome around him and blow all of them off at the same time.
I checked to see if Anbu was alive, but as expected, he died with only a few fleshes remaining.
After killing Anbu, my attention went to Minato once again.
”We had disturbance while ago. But since I finished him off, let's continue where we left off.” While saying this, I dashed to Minato.
”Damn it!!” Minato pinned his hope to the Anbu, but seeing him blowing up to pieces, Minato lost his hope and screamed loudly.
*Clank*~~~~~
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'What the fuċk!! I am starting to think that Minato fuċkɨnġ has some kind of plot armor or something. First, it was Anbu and now this long blue-haired Konoha Shinobi blocked my swords to protect Minato.
Not only that, but this also paled long-haired shinobi is not your damn average Jounin. He is DAN!!! Freaking next Hokage candidate appeared!!'
After realizing it was Dan, my face turned from neutral to disaster. Now, before I had this confidence to kill Anbu, but Dan is another shit level.
Since Dan was here, I knew I had less than 5 percent chance to kill Minato. Heck instead, I might even get captured if I am not careful.
I instantly created earth clone to pick up Fugaku while I pick up Nawaki and throw several smoke bombs to escape. I also send a fire signal in the sky to order everyone in my squad to retreat immediately.
While running, I asked System to explain all Dan's known abilities in detail.
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Dan wasn't hurried to chase Genji, but instead, he sat to Minato and gave him emergency treatment.
”I heard it was a simple B-rank mission, but I am glad that Tsunade asked me to check up on you guys. If it wasn't me, then you guys might...” Dan didn't continue.
After treating and bring Minato to a safe place, Dan started chasing Genji.
”Be careful, That Iwa Ninja kid is strong. He even took down Anbu with no injury.” Minato warned Dan before he leaves.
Dan just smiled at Minato and told him to wait for him.
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System:” Host has successfully triggered a special quest.
*Quest: Host is currently chasing by Next Hokage candidate, Dan.
Please shake him off and meet Host's squad without being tailed.
Reward: Barrier Jutsu: Four Violet Flames Formation scroll (Known for trapping Dan) and Spirit Pill (Blocking Dan's spirit from possessing your body)
Failure: There won't be any failure. If Host doesn't shake him off, the Host will be captured by him. So please complete the quest if Host wants to live.*”
'So this is like even if the system gives failure, I won't be alive to receive the punishment, huh. That's scary.'
I was quiet for a few minutes to think of a plan to escape Dan.
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Dan hurried at tremendous speed to search for Genji as he was specifically asked to protect Nawaki from Tsunade.
After 20 minutes of searching, he found Genji carrying Nawaki and Uchiha kid. He quickly threw Kunai to stop them and struck Genji. But unfortunately for him, they were earth clones. With a disappointed look, he continued searching.
Following, with no choice, Dan used his signature jutsu: Ghost Transformation Jutsu. He will become a living ghost and travel or fly at incredibly high speed and possess the target's body or even kill them.
Using this jutsu, he was able to discover and kill fake Genji clones in exceedingly fast. He was traveling at the edge of the waterfall and he saw Genji carrying Fugaku.