Being an otaku in the world of American comics

#317 - Beheading Sword

Spurred by the Nine-Tailed Chakra, Naruto's wound stopped bleeding in the blink of an eye and then healed completely.

The whole process lasted only a dozen seconds, and Kakashi and Liang Yue watched this scene.

Meanwhile, Sasuke and Sakura were comforting and questioning the old man Tazuna.

"Ordinary people's cultivated chakra definitely doesn't have this effect, otherwise the Third Hokage wouldn't have aged so much."

Looking at the little blond's palm, which had become completely intact, Liang Yue couldn't help but say.

"Let's talk about this later."

Kakashi obviously didn't want to discuss these things, after all, it involved the Nine-Tails.

"Chunqiu, did you notice those two ninjas before?"

Naruto didn't seem to care about what they were saying, and he was still blaming himself for his previous cowardly performance.

"Yes, I saw them from the beginning, but Kakashi told me not to take action at the time."

Liang Yue replied truthfully upon hearing this.

"I did that to test your ability to adapt in actual combat. The strength of those two ninjas was only at the level of a Chunin, and~ regarding this matter, Chunqiu had already reminded you at the beginning.

It's just that your attention was all on the scenery at the time."

After checking that the wound was okay, Kakashi turned around listlessly and came to Tazuna, the client for this mission.

"Huh? Chunqiu, did you remind us? Why don't I have any impression?"

"Kakashi deliberately diverted your attention and told some interesting stories about himself."

"Oh~ No wonder! So it was all arranged by him!"

……

Next, the journey of the group entered a period of calm, with no more waves.

During the process, Tazuna remained silent, unwilling to say anything when asked, only focusing on hurrying on his way.

It wasn't until half a day later, when the group arrived at a pier fishing village by the sea and boarded a small boat to the Land of Waves, that the old man began to explain to everyone.

The general meaning was similar to the original plot, which was that evil forces were causing trouble in the Land of Waves, not wanting the bridge of the Land of Waves to be completed.

To this end, they resorted to both threats and inducements, and later simply launched assassinations.

The two ninjas they encountered before were just one wave of them.

Speaking of this, Tazuna's expression suddenly changed, and his old face wrinkled up as he began to sell his misery to Kakashi and the others, appealing to their emotions and reasoning with them, followed by a wave of moral blackmail.

An old man in his sixties or seventies started shedding tears in front of them.

Saying something like, 'Old man, I have no choice. B-rank missions cost too much money. I'm just an old fisherman by the sea, and I can't afford it at all, so I can only resort to this last resort.'

'I heard a long time ago that the ninjas of Konoha are all righteous, not bending their backs for five pecks of rice, and are good at punishing evil and promoting good, truly the model of our ninja world.'

'Now a group of us common people are in trouble, and we have no choice but to seek redress from the ninjas of Konoha. You are now my last hope.'

"Moreover, even if I return to the Land of Waves safely this time, if you don't care about me, I will still be killed by those people..."

Anyway, something like that~

In short, Sasuke and Sakura were just two newly graduated students with no social experience.

Naruto was even more impulsive, acting recklessly without considering the consequences.

And Kakashi, in order not to lose face in front of his students, had no choice but to reluctantly agree to the subsequent mission request.

That is, to protect the safety of Tazuna's family for free until the bridge in the Land of Waves is completed.

……

Before, when facing the ambush of those two hostile ninjas, he was unable to counterattack and felt that he had lost face. At this time, he planned to regroup and regain his ground in the dangers that might appear next.

Therefore, since landing, the little blond has been exceptionally alert along the way, and his hands have always been holding kunai.

As he walked, he kept scanning back and forth on both sides of the road with his eyes.

It has to be said that although the bloodline of the Uzumaki clan is not as concrete as that of the Uchiha or the Hyuga clan, which can directly use the eyes as an external symbol,

the bloodline inheritance of the Uzumaki clan is not much weaker than these two.

Compared to other ninjas, they have much more chakra, a strong body, the ability to recover from injuries, excellent reconnaissance ability, sensory ability, and the ability to control chakra.

As well as the Uzumaki clan's natural ability to suppress tailed beasts, etc., coupled with the sealing secret techniques passed down from ancient times in the Uzumaki clan…

All of this gives ninjas with this clan's bloodline many innate advantages.

That's right~ They had only just walked for a short while.

Naruto, who was carefully paying attention to the surrounding movements, discovered the traces of the enemy on the side of the road almost only a little slower than Liang Yue, who had been using a low-intensity Byakugan.

"There's a situation! Be careful!"

The little blond suddenly shouted, startling everyone at once. At the same time, he leaped forward quickly, and then vigorously flung the kunai in his hand, shooting it into the bushes on the side of the road.

Immediately afterward, Naruto's expression changed slightly, and his gaze shifted again, looking in another direction.

"I can find you even if you run over here! Hey!"

As he spoke, he shot out another kunai in his hand again.

Unfortunately, Naruto's series of alert actions, apart from almost shooting a snow-white rabbit and scaring it into paralysis, caused almost no waves.

Sakura behind him thought he was just being nervous, so she punched him angrily and told him to calm down quickly.

However, Kakashi's poker face became serious at this time, pointing to the rabbit that had fallen to the ground and saying bluntly.

"This kind of rabbit is called a snow rabbit, and it only appears in winter when the weather is cold and the days are short. Now it's summer, so this kind of rabbit can only be a product of artificial breeding.

It seems that Naruto's judgment is correct, the enemy is nearby, it should have been exchanged by someone using the Body Replacement Technique as a substitute!"

As soon as Kakashi's words fell, the few people in the field suddenly became serious.

Subconsciously, they formed a circle with each other as support, vaguely back-to-back, and looked at the surroundings warily.

"Buzz~!"

Just at this moment, accompanied by a burst of violent air-piercing sound, an object suddenly flew out from behind the dense branches not far away.

Like a large saw blade several sizes larger, it came aggressively, scraping out a sharp friction sound in the air.

It spun rapidly as it cut towards the crowd.

Upon seeing this, Kakashi immediately called everyone to dodge.

Sasuke and Sakura quickly drove Tazuna to jump to the side, and Naruto and Kakashi also flew away one after another, leaving only Liang Yue standing there without moving.

"Chunqiu~ Be careful!"

Sasuke looked back and immediately shouted a warning, and the others' expressions changed drastically upon seeing this.

But then, something surprising happened to them.

The saw blade that was originally spinning rapidly and cutting towards them suddenly slowed down, as if it had inexplicably lost its original force, and the entire saw blade seemed to be immersed in deep water.

Each time it turned, it would rapidly decay and decelerate, and its originally blurred shape suddenly became clear.

This turned out to be a giant sword with a somewhat bizarre shape!

In the end, the knife even stopped steadily in mid-air in front of Liang Yue, and then he calmly grasped the hilt.

"Swish~"

With a light flick, a crescent-shaped knife mark immediately appeared on the ground in front of him.

……