"Boom!"
With a loud explosion, Kairen turned into white smoke and resurrected once again.
This time, he activated the Byakugan and instantly used Body Flicker to escape.
He flashed forward nearly a thousand meters before suddenly stopping.
Through the white cloth covering his eyes, his Byakugan caught sight of a figure standing on a tree branch ahead. The figure wore an Anbu mask, his hollow, merciless eyes staring directly at Kairen.
'So fast... is this what a Jōnin is like?' Kairen murmured inwardly.
"Squeak squeak..."
The Byakugan's 360-degree vision caught movement behind him—more than ten sand rats, their teeth as sharp as blades, rushing toward him.
Kairen whirled around and, with a strike in each hand, sent all the sand rats flying in an instant.
With the Byakugan's all-round vision, no sneak attack could escape his notice.
The Sunagakure Anbu quickly rushed in. Kairen's Byakugan picked them up immediately. He spun, forming hand seals at lightning speed.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu!"
The Anbu ninja waved his hands in mid-air.
"Earth Release: Stone Dragon Jutsu!"
"Roar—!"
Stones on the ground gathered and formed a dragon, which roared forth, devouring Kairen's Great Fireball before charging straight at him.
"Eight Gates — First Gate, Open!"
Kairen's body erupted with 100% of its physical strength. He used Body Flicker alongside hand seals to dodge the Stone Dragon.
But immediately after, a sharp blade flashed, severing one of his arms in an instant.
Through the hollow sockets of the Anbu mask, Kairen could see cold, mocking eyes staring back at him.
"The Kazekage-sama told us about one of your traits. We can't kill you—but we must stop your actions."
"Heh... don't worry. I'll bring you back to camp and let the interrogation ninja take good care of you."
Kairen sneered. "A lot of people have died already, haven't they?"
The Anbu's voice carried seething fury.
"Konoha brat, you're courting death!"
Kairen's explosive tags had wreaked havoc, killing one Jōnin—a highly valuable research Jōnin at that—as well as more than forty Chūnin and two or three Special Jōnin.
While the losses weren't enough to stir Sunagakure into full-scale retaliation, they were still costly. Worst of all, it was utterly humiliating that the attack had been orchestrated by a mere Genin.
Wiping the corner of his mouth, Kairen's tone carried Sasuke's biting cadence.
"Creeping worms of Sunagakure's darkness, this is the price for tormenting the son of the hawk. One day, my beak will tear the flesh of your village apart."
"Stubborn!" The Anbu sneered coldly, swinging his long blade to sever Kairen's second arm.
Blood vessels flared in Kairen's eyes, but he still managed a cold smile.
"Creeping worms of Sunagakure's darkness, taste pain!"
He lunged at the Anbu, his body suddenly covered in dozens of explosive tags, sparks already flickering.
The Anbu froze in shock. He hadn't even noticed when the tags had been placed on Kairen.
"What kind of jutsu is this? Space-time ninjutsu? Summoning substitution?!"
"Explode!"
"Boom—!"
"Ding!"
[You were killed by your own explosive tags. Experience +3.]
The massive blast engulfed both of them. Kairen was blown into a cloud of blood mist before white smoke surrounded him and he resurrected once again.
Activating the Byakugan, he peered through the smoke. From beneath the rubble, the Anbu suddenly emerged.
"You didn't die... worthy of a Jōnin!"
"Cough, cough..."
The Anbu spat out blood, glancing down at his missing right arm.
"Damned brat. If I hadn't immediately sunk into the ground with Earth Release, I really might have fallen for your trick."
Kairen's ears twitched at a faint sound. Activating his Byakugan's telescopic sight, he spotted Anbu converging on his position from 500 meters away.
The blast had been deafening, echoing throughout the forest. Naturally, every Sunagakure Anbu had heard it.
Kairen quickly formed hand seals. "Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
"Brothers, scatter!"
"Urah—!"
Blending into the swarm of his clones, Kairen bolted into the shadowy depths of the forest without hesitation.
"Damn it, he slipped away again! What a slippery fish!" the one-armed Anbu cursed bitterly.
Soon, he regrouped with other Anbu. Their summoning ninja once again called forth sand rats to track Kairen.
"Be careful. That brat has the ability to summon explosive tags."
"Summoned explosive tags? Like Tobirama-sama's Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags?"
"No—it's just ordinary summoned explosive tags, not nearly at that level of power!"
...
Escaping the forest, Kairen once again blew himself up to reset his condition, then flickered toward Konoha's battle lines.
"Chirp—!"
After about twenty minutes of running, the sharp cry of an eagle pierced the night sky.
Through his Byakugan's all-round vision, Kairen saw a giant eagle soaring above.
"A flying summoning beast!"
He halted abruptly, gazing upward.
The rider wore no mask, clearly not Anbu. But the chakra emanating from him was of Jōnin level.
The Sunagakure Jōnin glanced down at Kairen, who had cloth wrapped over his eyes, and muttered in doubt.
"A child... and blind, no less. Could he really be the one who attacked headquarters?"
The hesitation didn't last. He immediately formed hand seals, unleashing sharp blades of wind.
Kairen didn't dodge. Even if he wanted to, he couldn't—his opponent was airborne, and the jutsu's range covered his entire escape path.
The wind blades shredded Kairen into bloody pieces.
"Ding!"
[You were killed by Jōnin Dōheimon using Wind Release. Experience +100.]
White smoke engulfed him, and Kairen resurrected once more. He instantly opened the First Gate, drawing on a surge of chakra to flee.
Dōheimon frowned at the unharmed boy.
"What's going on? Genjutsu? A clone?"
The darkness of night hampered his vision, keeping him from noticing the exact details of Kairen's technique.
Knowledge of Kairen's undying bloodline limit was restricted to Sunagakure's upper ranks. The Anbu had only received partial intel.
Dōheimon, unaware of Kairen's existence, was naturally baffled by his repeated resurrections.
He patted the giant eagle beneath his feet.
"After him!"
"Chirp—!"
With a flying summon at his command, Dōheimon could chase Kairen down no matter how far he ran.
Kairen opened the Eight Gates and used Body Flicker to flee. Yet his Byakugan quickly noticed the giant eagle relentlessly closing in from behind.
"Flying ninja are such a hassle."
His luck was rotten. Against Sunagakure's Anbu, he could always escape thanks to his immortality.
But against a flying shinobi, he was just a live target stuck on the ground.
The wind eagle screeched, unleashing a massive wind blade from its beak. The attack split Kairen cleanly in half.
"Ding!"
[You were killed by Advanced Summon Wind Eagle using Wind Release. Experience +120.]
According to the system's definition, advanced summons were Jōnin-level beings. The experience gained from them was even higher than from Dōheimon himself.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu!"
Reviving once more, Kairen formed hand seals and blasted a fireball toward the sky before immediately turning to flee, not even checking if he hit.
Dōheimon guided the wind eagle to evade. His eyes grew even more perplexed.
"What in the world... cut in half, yet resurrects again?"
Man and eagle pursued, striking at Kairen dozens of times.
"Ding!"
[You were killed by Jōnin Dōheimon using Wind Release. Experience +90.]
"Ding!"
[You were killed by Advanced Summon Wind Eagle using Wind Release. Experience +100.]
"Ding!"
[You were killed by Jōnin Dōheimon using Wind Release. Experience +80.]
Bit by bit, Kairen accumulated 800 experience points.
He immediately allocated them into his [Ninja Eight Attributes].
This time, the point distribution was different. Having already reached a Chūnin template, each point of attribute enhancement now required 50 experience.
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