47 Chapter 47 : Would You Like Fries With That? (2/2)
”Team two and three take Sasori. Finish him quickly, that's priority. Team One will fight Kakuzu. Go!”
Flashes of Ninja raced across the dirt. Mounds of the flaky substance danced in the wind. These four teams of Leaf Ninja knew the stakes. Everyone was going all out at the start.
Kenji stood by his team, staring Kakuzu in the face.
”Hey Kakuzu. Where's Rei?” Kenji was obviously curious.
”Hmm. I won't lie Kenji. Even I don't know the answer to that. But master has ordered that you never find out.”
”.....”
”Since I respected you, Kenji, as a fellow Akatsuki, I will use all my strength to defeat you.”
Kakuzu stretched his body into a tendril infested puppet. The faces on his back peered over his shoulder like dead souls wanting to be freed.
”Let's do this.”
The affirmative signs of his respected jonin team brought confidence. Kenji didn't like Kakuzu, in terms of their odds.
Kenji littered the field with markers in an instant. He gripped his sword. Guy took a menacing stance. Kurenai steadied her eyes. Asuma loaded chakra into his blades. This wouldn't be easy.
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Back at The Hidden Leaf camp...
Minato stood by relentlessly pacing back and forth. Was this the right move so early since the village fell? The rest of the Leaf forces were at stake here.
”Minato! Take a breath. I've never seen you like this before.”
Tsunade made her way into the tent.
Minato nervously sighed. ”Sorry. I'm just restless. Even if-”
”What?”
”You feel that?”
Tsunade focused. This feeling overwhelmed her.
”Don't tell me.”
Minato delved into thought. ”Tsunade, start moving the villagers further into the woods north of here. Don't stop until dark.”
”WHAT! Are you gonna handle this by yourself!”
”We have no ninja besides us two here right now. I want you to guide the villagers, protect them. I'll cover your back.” Minato walked to the tent opening. He slipped through the other sleeve of his hokage cape, stopped, and turned his face.
”If I don't return, you're Hokage.” He smiled.
”Wai-”
Minato disappeared.
Tsunade lowered her face and grimaced. She mumbled under her breath, ”You idiot.”
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Kenji whipped back and forth between markers, like lighting through the smoke and turmoil. He threw his sword back and forth towards Kakuzu. When he dodged, Kenji would flash and meet his sword on the other side. When he hit Kakuzu, he would instantly call his sword back to him.
Kakuzu hurled a scary amount of jutsu at his opponents. The rest of Kenji's team was kneeled, breathing heavy, waiting for the moment to jump in. They were impressed actually. Kenji was almost as fast as Minato already.
Kakuzu managed a hit on Kenji, throwing off his rhythm. Guy opened the fifth gate instantly and buzzed towards him. A furious kick smashed kakuzu in the face. Asuma appeared on the other side. He breathed a heap of smoke, engulfing the flying Kakuzu. He clicked his teeth. The explosion blew Team one off balance.
Kakuzu stood up slowly, Kenji ran straight at him.
”DIE!”Kakuzu weaved signs. Every chakra affinity combined together, crackling and popping together. An amazing sight. The ball rocketed towards Kenji, destroying his markers on the ground. Kenji gritted his teeth and disappeared. The ball continued to fly. Kakuzu didn't see it, but Kenji teleported to the back of Kurenai, disappearing again afterwards.
A knife flew by Kakuzu's face from the right. That knife. He knew that fear, that marked handled. Those three prongs. It brought tingles through his spine for the first time. Kakuzu met the eyes of Kurenai. Mistake. Lost in a Genjutsu for a split second was all he needed. Kenji slid around her, scraping the ground at a ninety degree angle.
Kenji pushed out the black flames through his arm to his sword. When his blade met Kakuzu, Kenji muttered, ”Amaterasu.” A bomb of inextinguishable flames engulfed away at the body inside.
Kenji was the only one that felt happiness in those screams.
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Minato stood alone at the opening of the woods. Opposite of him stood thousands of ninja. The Hidden Mist. The Hidden Stone. The Hidden Cloud. At the Front, stood Yagura. The wind whistled by, blowing leaves across the air. Even the air itself, felt the violence that has yet to brew.
Minato felt a certain anger boil in his heart. These ninja, loyal to their villages, were reduced to mindless ants. Whoever controlled them, actually had the nerve to try and destroy HIS people. Unforgivable.
”Mizukage. What's the meaning of this.”
”Master would like you and your village to cease. He knows you'll go after your daughter and he needs her, so you need to die.” Yagura took a stance.
”Very well.” Minato took out one marker. ”Guess I have no choice.” Before he flew to battle alone, he thought of his family, his village, all the happy faces through the years. The sad ones. Kakashi, when Rin died. Rei when Kushina died. Even his own face. Kenji's face in that hospital when he first met him. Aya. Jiraiya's smiling face, surrounded by women, with a scary looking tsunade creeping up on him. Hiruzen's face when he was asked to be the fourth Hokage, and Kushina's smile, red hair drifting in the wind.
Minato repeated in his mind, ”Everyone, please give me strength.
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I've been gone a while, so I was a little jumbled on what was going on and how to write so bear with me. I'll get back in the grove in the next few chapters.