Naruto: Chronicles of a Fire Ninja-Chapter 358 - 354: RUN

"Yomi, Kaida said he would only need 12 minutes to arrive here. We have been running for 4 minutes, so please continue running. I will stall for time for you," Ryota said with a completely serious look.

"How many?" Yomi asked with a straight look in her eyes, her hand going toward her kunai as she became ready to fight once again.

Ryota grabbed Yomi by her shoulder, with a firm grip he looked in her eyes.

"Yomi, listen to me. I am injured and can't run away. Our best bet of survival will be if Kaida reaches us in time, so please go and find him. I am sure he will be here any minute," Ryota once again tried.

"I am not going to leave you behind. How will I look at my face in the mirror if I turned my back to my injured friend when it meant he will die?"

"For god's sake, I had promised to keep... Look, if we both stay here, we both will die. I am in no condition to fight 4 enemies with you. Even if we eliminate one or two of them, we will still die here. So please go and find Kaida. Him coming here a few seconds early will be the only chance where I could survive," Ryota said.

"But you will die," Yomi said, tears flowing through her cheeks.

"Hey, you are underestimating me too much. Even though Kaida had become Jonin, I am still an even match for him in power. I just want his help in ending these fuckers a little early. Now go and take Kiba with you."

Woof Woof

"This is not the time to be stubborn, go now! We don't have much time!" Ryota shouted at Kiba who was now sitting in front of him.

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"What is he saying?" Yomi asked.

"He will stay with me. If I want to send him away, I will have to kill him first," Ryota said, a tear flowing from his eyes as well.

"Yomi, run! The more time you waste here, the more worthless this whole thing will become," Ryota said, wiping away his tears.

"If you die before I come back, I will... I will kill you myself," Yomi said, a stream of tears continuing to flow through her eyes as she turned and started running toward Kaida's direction at full speed, much faster than before. Ryota just waved toward her.

"Looks like only we are left in each other's company, my friend," Ryota sat down near Kiba, who affectionately licked his face.

They didn't have time to waste now. It was time to prepare a gift for their friends who were arriving so fast toward them. Since the wind was blowing toward their direction, they could easily smell the enemy ninja approaching from afar, their smell growing stronger each second.

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Four ninja—two chunin and two Special Jonin—were sent as reinforcement for the forces before them. Since they had the numerical advantage, there was no need to lose that.

They were following the traces left behind by their comrades on the sandy path when one of their ninja running in front suddenly stopped.

"What happened?" the other Jonin following him asked.

Without saying anything, the first Jonin pointed toward the forward direction. There were three spears coming out of the ground in front of them, each one with a dead body skewered on top of it.

"Those fuckers don't have any moral values at all," the chunin behind them said, his voice laced with anger.

"Asking for moral values from an enemy when you want their life is quite funny. Also, this has nothing to do with moral values. If they went out of their way to do this, it is most likely a trap. Go and scan the area," the first Jonin and their leader said.

"Yes sir," one of the chunin said as he made his way toward the skewered ninjas.

"Sir, that area is filled with explosion tags," the chunin said after giving a cursory scan to the area.

"Note the location. We will report this and they will take care of it," their leader said, but before they could decide what to do next, the area where the sensor ninja was standing lit up as well.

"Fuck!" This was all he could say before he jumped back, and the area on which he was standing blasted, starting a chain reaction with many explosion tags, including the ones on the corpses going off. With the fire, they also sent large rocks toward their direction.

"Earth Release: Earth Wall!"

The Jonin in front created an earth wall as soon as the Chunin cursed. Being a war veteran and still healthy, he was not going to go down because of some explosion tags.

But the trap had completed its task. The chunin who went to scan the surrounding was impaled by various sharp rocks after he was distracted by the burns he suffered.

"Hahaha, take that, you fuckers!" Ryota's voice shouted from afar as he had run away as soon as he activated those explosion tags.

Two jonin had to maintain their earth wall for some time before they could follow that young boy.

"He really got us," one of them said with a chuckle.

"I expected nothing less from Konoha ninjas. There was a reason it was considered the strongest village for quite some time, but that time is over now," the first Jonin said.

"Fumio, he is purposely running toward that direction. I can see traces of someone running in that direction. Even though they did a good job hiding their traces, it was not perfect," the second Jonin said.

"From the look of it, they must have killed one of those three. With only two of three remaining, it wouldn't matter who we go against. We only have 10 more minutes, let's just handle this boy and be done with it," Fumio said.

"As you wish," Arata said.

The chunin was just standing there, thanking his luck that he was behind these two Jonin; otherwise, he would have also died like his companion.

After the explosion settled, they quickly ran behind Ryota.

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"I am sorry, buddy, but you have to carry me as far as you can," Ryota said as he patted Kiba's neck. Due to the injuries on his legs, he couldn't run far by himself, so he was sitting on Kiba's back. Kiba, who was not even an adult, was carrying Ryota and running as fast as he could.

But sadly, that was not enough. Just after a minute of their running, they had to stop.

"Huh! At least we tried... Kiba, you are really the best thing that ever happened in my life. If we survive, I will let you marry the dog of that pet store owner, even if I have to fight him for it."

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"I don't want to marry so soon, buddy."

"Don't worry, we will make sure that you don't have to marry anyone in your life," Arata said from behind.

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(A.N: Even I am intrigued by what's going to happen next)