"Umm, Naomi... Why would Sasuke leave the village?"
As we were running through the bushes, scanning for any traps, with Kiba's dog tracking Sasuke's smell, Naruto asked me this.
"His clan got massacred, by his own brother. He probably got lured by something abstract like power for revenge. But, did something happen now?"
"...We encountered Itachi. And he put Sasuke under such a strong genjutsu that only Granny Tsunade could heal him."
"...If you guys encountered Itachi, how are you even alive?"
"Oh! Pervy Sage, I mean, Jiraiya arrived on time, and Itachi and his partner ran away."
Alright. Information received that I wouldn't be able to explain how I have.
"Just tell Sasuke the Jiraiya-sama will personally train him. That he alone made Itachi and his partner run away in fear."
Though I think Itachi is stronger than Jiraiya and Itachi was just looking for an excuse to not capture Naruto, it doesn't matter. If Sasuke wasn't in coma due to Tsukuyomi and actually saw the scene, he would have thought that Jiraiya is a lot stronger than Itachi and will be the best to train him.
Probably.
Kiba whispered, "The scent is becoming stronger."
We nodded, and I activated my Byakugan.
Not in the range yet. My range is only 2 km.
"Naruto, fist bump me."
"Huh? Why?"
"Just think of it like our chakras are interacting, and try to give me some chakra."
Isn't that way he shared chakra in the Fourth Ninja War?
We fist bumped, and our chakra interacted.
Suddenly, I could feel Naruto's rage towards Orochimaru, and his desparation to bring back Sasuke.
He must have felt my 'It worked!' emotion.
"Now try to transfer chakra in me."
He nodded, and I felt his chakra flowing into me. A lot of it.
I now have atleast 10 frickin' times of my normal chakra!
Then, I removed my fist.
"Hey! What was that!"
"Shh! Stay silent. It's a chakra transfer jutsu I have developed, but I guess it has a side effect. Of sensing feelings, probably.
If nothing works, use that.
And if even that doesn't work, he might get crippled if I have to beat him up."
Afterall, I don't intend to hold back. Sasuke was as fast as me in his match against Gaara. With Curse Mark, he will get much faster. Plus Sharingan will allow him to read my movements.
I don't intend to let Sasuke go to Orochimaru. Because it will bring almost no benefit aside from keeping the plot as it is.
Suddenly, we stopped.
Before us was Kimimaro.
...Did Orochimaru think that I might be here, with my Tsunade-like strength? So he sent Kimimaro as well?
"Where is Sasuke!?"
Naruto shouted.
I motioned Shikamaru.
"Shikamaru, you take them and go chase Sasuke. I will deal with him and rejoin."
Guess my plan to fight Tayuya failed.
Just as he was ran towards us, I used summoning jutsu, and Katsuyu appeared, shielding us.
I stuffed the Katsuyu on my shoulder in Shikamaru's ear and nodded.
Katsuyu understood that Kimimaro is the enemy, and started spitting acid on him.
This allowed Shikamaru and the rest of the team to slip away.
"Please back off. Sasuke is Orochimaru-sama's vessel."
"I just got out of the hospital, and I have to deal with this mission. I am already feeling like I will collapse. Let me take my medicine first."
"Alright."
I took out a bottle, and started drinking water while keeping an eye on Kimimaro.
Alright. Plan formed.
"You are late, Kakashi-sensei."
Just as he got distracted and activated his Curse Mark stage 2, I performed transformation jutsu on myself and Katsuyu combined and a shadow clone.
"Split."
Several me's started running away in all directions, and Kimimaro was forced to perform the risky ninjutsu.
He performed handsigns, and bones started erupting in the entire battlefield.
I jumped in the air, Byakugan activated but not showing due to being under transformation jutsu with Katsuyu, and found his location amongst the bones. All Katsuyu's have gotten injured, with transformation undone and then returned to her summoning realm.
Only I survived.
I stood on a pointy bone, and made a handsign indicating that I am going to activate Byakugan.
He emerged behind me before I could 'activate' Byakugan, only to get a full force punch that sent him flying away from the bone battlefield.
It must have shattered a lot if bones for a normal person, but Kimimaro's speciality is bone. And since he uses bones as weapons, his bones must have incredible regeneration.
I quickly got out of the bone battlefield and threw shurikens and kunais at him, who was coughing blood and panting due to having used his most taxing jutsu.
I can't win or even run against a healthy Kimimaro. So I have to worsen his health as much as possible.
All Shurikens and Kunais were easily countered by his bones, but all of them exploded.
Shurikenjutsu with Transformation jutsu on them to hide paper bombs.
He didn't even scream, but just as I was about to strike his heart and kill him with Gentle Fist while ignoring his outer defenses, he took out his spine while trying to catch me off-guard and hit me with surprise.
I barely dodged, but Katsuyu, who is still transformed to be with me, came out of the transformation and spit acid directly on his face.
"AAAAAAAH!"
This time, it worked, and his face started melting off.
He still swung his spine sword to keep my away, but sad for him, Byakugan is more overpowered than Shikakyo or whatever his Kekkai Genkai is called.
And I am amped up by Naruto's chakra.
Katsuyu spit more acid, and I grabbed his spine sword which almost cut through my hand due to it being an incredible conductor of chakra, but I protected most of it using chakra over my own hand.
'Electric Discharge!'
The jutsu I came on the fly, which is just sending chakra to the enemy through the point of contact, but with its chakra nature being electric.
Moreover, it is his Spinal cord. Conductive of electricity.
As Kimimaro got electrocuted, I kicked him in the place where there is no bone, and threw a lighter at him.
I got away.
Lighter meets electricity, igniting fire. Fire meets acid, meaning...
Kimimaro started burning.
Without any handsigns, I used transformation jutsu to make it seem like I deactivated my Byakugan.
Then I started running towards Shikamaru with Katsuyu guiding me.
I expected Kimimaro to somehow suddenly appear from the ground and attack me. But Byakugan didn't show me anything.
Just to be sure, I turned around and saw Kimimaro's disfigured, burnt body. It was no longer recognisable. I am not sure if his brain even remains.
Still, I sealed his body in a scroll. It might be useful later.
Now, it's time to join the team back. With Lee with them, they shouldn't have much problem.
Anyway, taking advantage if his illness and having all knowledge about his fighting style or nor not, I actually managed to kill Kimimaro.
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