Chapter 46 - Escaping Plan (1/2)

After killing Dan, I ordered the rest of my squad to rest. They were all tired for holding the Four Violet Flames Formation 4 minutes and bȧrėly had a chakra. I also needed them to go back and keep an eye on Hizashi too.

After sending off my squad, I rushed to help Gari in catching Nawaki and Ino-Shika-Cho trio if possible.

When I arrived at the scene, Gari was in the battle against Anbu and three trios along with Nawaki. Gari is the strongest one in the fight, but fighting five people together, was a tough job even for him.

Gari looked back when he heard the noise his behind. He breathed out a sigh of relief after seeing it was me. He probably thought a new enemy came behind to sneak on him.

While unlike Gari who was relieved and happy to see me, Anbu and Konoha trios' face was filled with disbelief. Nawaki just got angry to see me again and shouted to give his necklace back.

I simply ignored Nawaki and walked up to Gari while showing a victory smile to Shikaku. Shikaku frowned his eye and stared my eyes back.

I waited for Shikaku to ask me what happen to Dan, so I could show off to him I am smarter than him, but he still didn't ask me anything. Eventually, I got tired of waiting and told them.

”Okay, if you are wondering about where is Dan who possessed Kitscuhi, then I am afraid he is already dead!!!!

He trusted your plan too much and easily fell into my excellent plan.

I expected more from you, but I guess I overestimated Nara too much. I guess not all Nara is intelligent. Hehehe” I told Shikaku while showing my superiority.

Shikaku didn't say anything instead, Nawaki is the one who replied to me.

”Bullshit!!! I know personally how strong brother Dan is. He is a renowned jounin, and there are not many people who can defeat him in Konoha. There is no way you can defeat him!!!”

I threw leftover blue hairs of Dan to prove that he is no longer in this world.

”Here you go, hairs of Dan. He is dead!!! You need to accept the fact. Alright, enough chitchat. You are next.”

Gari and I dashed to Nawaki but intercepted by Anbu while Gari was stopped by trios.

”Senju-sama, I will stay and hold them off. So please escape meanwhile.” Anbu said to Nawaki.

”There is no way I will let you guys die while I escape alone. I will stay here and fight to the death.” Nawaki immediately denied Anbu's request.

”Their main target is you. We can't afford to lose you too. Don't worry about us. We will also escape once you are gone too.” Shikaku told Nawaki.

Nawaki hesitated after hearing Shikaku. After several persuasions going on, he finally agreed to run away first.

I tried to taunt him to fight us, but Nawaki surprisingly ignored me and continued running away.

'I thought he would act just like Naruto who couldn't hold any insult or taunt.

But I was wrong. I guess he received a good education as part of Senju and knew what I was aiming for.

Doesn't matter, we can capture him after dealing with these four.'

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Gari and I started fighting. I told Gari to take care of trios while I handle Anbu at somewhere else.

Anbu was prepared to die there and fought madly at me. He used everything he got and even a suicide bomb at death.

Although his suicide bomb didn't kill me, I wasted around 30 minutes battling him.

I went to see Gari's place and saw that he was almost done with trios too. Choza's arm was disabled while Inoichi had a burned mark on his ċhėst.

Gari could use air walk using his explosion on his feet, to escape Shikaku's shadow or Inoichi's mind possession jutsu. And those trios didn't have any elemental jutsu to harm the flying object or person.

They could only throw Kunai and Shuriken by Gari easily returned them back using explosions. Simply, Gari was a bad match for them.

Shikaku saw me coming which he instantly knew Anbu was dead.

I was deciding whether to kill or capture them when I saw Shikaku suddenly pulled out Signal Shooter from his pocket and fired it.

The bright red fire signal shot on the sky which made Gari and I alerted and stopped our movement.

'What's that signal? Don't tell me there are reinforcements? Then why would he send it now?

If it's not for reinforce, then who?'

While Gari and I were focused on the signal, Shikaku used this chance to fall off a deep waterfall nearby the river along with his two teammates.

We tried to stop them but were too late and the trios manage to jump off the waterfall.

We couldn't do anything but to watch them fall with frustrations.

”Hey, Genji. Should we chase them?” Gari asked me.

”You go down to see if you can capture them while I chase Senju.

They might be carried off by currents so I highly doubt you can get them.

Don't go too far or waste too much time finding them. Just come back within 10 minutes.” I gave an order to Gari and run off to chase Nawaki.

I used lighting chakra to speed up to search for Nawaki. I soon found the trails and after 15 minutes, I finally saw the Nawaki.

Nawaki was shocked when he saw I was right behind, chasing him madly. He quickly created three shadow clones to confuse me.

Since I was not a sensor, I didn't know which one was real. But I killed all the clones quickly and continue the pursuit.

I was a bit worried as Nawaki was not running in the direction of Konoha, instead, he was going another direction. I also heard him loudly saying ”just bit more” several times.

'Ambush? Is this related to Signal, Shikaku sent?'