Naruto: Chronicles of a Fire Ninja-Chapter 359 - 355: Last Battle

Three of the enemy ninja had finally caught up with him. From their headbands with slashed symbols, he could tell two of them were from Kumogakure and the weaker one was from Iwagakure.

"You guys really had to come and find me. Sigh Fine, let's go to the pure land together," Ryota said, taking out his kunai.

"Boy, is there really a need for that? Put your weapon down and I will make sure that you will not die a painful death," Fumio said.

"I am thankful for your kind offer, but kindly fuck off."

Ryota threw his kunai toward the chunin, who effectively dodged it, only to see the explosion tag attached to it. The chunin panicked a little, but before he could do anything, Arata threw his own kunai which deflected the explosion tag and kunai further to a safe distance.

"How about we stop playing and actually get to the fight?" Arata said as he lunged toward Ryota.

"I was waiting for you," Ryota said as he made a series of hand signs. In a second, Arata, who was running toward Ryota with his sword radiating chakra, had to stop because of a sudden earth spear appearing in his path.

If he had not stopped at the right time, he would have been impaled by that spear. Ryota would have used this moment to attack him if not for Fumio sending a barrage of lightning spears toward him.

"Earth Release: Earth Dome!"

A dome formed around Ryota as soon as he completed his first jutsu, protecting him from the lightning attack he couldn't have dodged because of his injured leg. But he couldn't stay inside the dome either; otherwise, it would become his burial place.

"Let's go buddy," he whispered.

Both he and Kiba made their way out of the dome through an underground path, but before they could escape, the chunin from Iwa sent a barrage of earth spikes in their way.

'We have to deal with him first,' Ryota thought.

He emerged from the ground and threw multiple explosion tags towards the three of them. Out of ten he threw, six were punctured by lightning or earth bullets; the rest were too far away to be a danger to the group.

But they had completed their role. Ryota used that momentary lapse in the concentration of his enemies as an opportunity.

"Fang over Fang!"

The attack targeted the weakest member of the group, the chunin. Since he had just used the earth bullet to target the explosion tags, he was caught off guard by the attack, facing it head-on. Even though he tried to use Iron Skin Jutsu to save himself at the last second, it was too late.

With a barrage of sharp fangs and teeth, the chunin was shredded in seconds. The two Jonin didn't move a muscle to save their companion at all; they just waited for the jutsu to end.

"You're not the only one who has explosion tags," Arata said as he threw a kunai aimed straight at Ryota's head. Before Ryota could turn his head, Kiba lunged at the tag without a shred of doubt or hesitation.

Boom

"Noooo!" Ryota shouted, doing something no one should do on a battlefield—take his eyes away from his enemy.

"Lightning Release: False Darkness!"

A beam in the shape of a spear was released from Fumio's mouth, reaching Ryota before he could come back to his senses. Even though his senses had warned him about his life being in danger, seeing his partner in that state broke his concentration too much.

Though he was able to evade the attack enough to protect his heart, his ribs and abdomen were pierced by it.

"Tch, you just increased your suffering," Fumio said. He really wanted to finish Ryota without too much pain because the boy in front of him was just 11 or 12 years old, barely older than his son at home.

Even though he was not going to let his emotions get in his way during his mission, that didn't mean he couldn't give that boy a quick relief.

He took out his kunai and made his way toward Ryota. Arata knew how soft-hearted Fumio was, so he stood back and let his partner end the boy's suffering.

...

Yomi was running toward the direction Kaida's clone had pointed at a speed she had never achieved in her life. Her feet were bloody because of all the friction her boots had caused during the run. Yomi didn't care about it at all; her mind was focusing on only one thing: 'Find Kaida and send him toward Ryota, find Kaida, find Kaida, Kaida... Kaida.'

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Tears kept flowing through her eyes. Just a moment before all this happened, everything was so peaceful. They had eaten their dinner and were about to go to sleep, but then suddenly everything changed in an instant.

Just like that night, the night that took her parents from her. And now that she had made some friends, the night returned to take everything from her once again.

In her desperation, when she saw a cloud of dust from afar, her mind only thought that it must definitely be from Kaida. Normally someone would have hidden away from such a scenario, but her mind was not working properly at the moment.

"Lightning Release: Lightning Signal Fire!"—a jutsu which could be said to be a perfect signal flare, especially at night time. The bright lightning illuminated the area near her.

And then she felt it—someone looking toward her. The cloud of dust she had seen started moving toward her at an even faster speed. Before long, she saw Kaida running toward her, but he was running fast... very, very fast.

When he came near Yomi, Kaida stopped suddenly.

Crack, crrrr, crack

Many bones in his body, including most of his leg bones, were broken, but Kaida just flinched at that pain. In place of pain, his heart was filled with peace—Yomi was not dead. The future the Toad Sage was talking about was no more.

He suddenly appeared in front of Yomi and was about to say something when he saw her face.

"What happened, Yomi?"

"Kaida, hu...rry, hurry... Ryota is in danger!" Yomi was able to form complete sentences in between her crying, and then Kaida remembered—the clone memories had two of his 'close people' in them.