Naruto: Chronicles of a Fire Ninja-Chapter 365 - 360: Chase

Even though Kaida said those words in the calmest way possible, the chunin felt an immense amount of anger hidden behind each of them.

If someone had told him these words before seeing what he had just witnessed, he would have scoffed—a ninja threatening two hidden villages with eradication, villages backed by thousands of ninjas and kages as strong as armies themselves. But now his confidence was not that high anymore.

Still, he was relieved that he would not die today. Even though he had lost his hand and couldn't continue being a ninja anymore, his loyalty toward his village was not reduced even a tad bit.

Since for a ninja village there is only one thing worse than an S-rank ninja as a threat—an S-rank ninja whose skills are unknown to you—he wanted to inform his village about whatever happened here, and for that he was grateful for the mercy he was provided with.

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Without hesitation, he ran back toward the outpost, while Kaida and the second chunin remained there. Kaida looked toward him; by now he had already suffered enough, so he ended his life as well, along with Arata's, who had been constantly screaming until now.

After everything was done, Kaida used wind instantaneous movement jutsu several times and arrived 20 kilometers away from his previous location, after which he simply lost consciousness. All of his chakra reserves, which were now ten to fifteen times more than any elite jonin of Konoha, were empty within just 2 minutes.

This was also one of the reasons Kaida had not gone to the outpost directly and had waited here. In his current condition, it was impossible for him to handle the army of Kumo and Iwa combined alone. He was angry, very angry, but that anger was not volatile—the kind that burns intensely for a moment only to dissipate soon.

No, Kaida's anger was calm and collected. From the memories he had read, he knew that the enemy was low on time as well, so he went all out in dealing as much damage as he could while using the chance that they would not risk finding him.

Though when he learned that Deidara was also on that team, he decided to take extra measures and retreat to a safe distance. Though chances were low, they weren't zero that Deidara would abandon all logic for some twisted form of art.

...

Kitsuchi was giving various orders to the army in front of him. Out of 115, 97 ninjas were present there, all of them ready to retreat and just waiting for the remaining ninjas to return.

The mission was a big success according to them—only two jonin were able to escape, and that too after being injured. The rest of Konoha's forces, around 38 ninjas, were completely annihilated by the army.

The outpost was also crushed. Aside from the loss of life, it was also a huge economic blow, as a single outpost's construction needed tens of millions of Ryo. There was no doubt in his mind that everyone among the higher-ups would be satisfied with the result.

While he was going through the report one last time, he felt a chakra signature approaching them at high speed. After sensing it, he knew whose chakra signature it was.

He disappeared from his position and appeared near Ryoma.

"Why are you alone?" Kitsuchi asked as soon as he appeared in front of Ryoma.

Ryoma, who had just suffered something straight out of a nightmare, was already on edge when someone appeared in front of him suddenly. His brain didn't register anything at that moment, not even the question, as he took out a kunai with his remaining hand and attacked the person.

Obviously, the attack was stopped easily by Kitsuchi, during which he discovered Ryoma's condition, and he was not having a good feeling about it.

"Everyone else is dead. Everyone," Ryoma said as soon as he saw that he was safe and the person in front of him was an ally. Though his eyes were lifeless, he passed out in front of Kitsuchi after delivering the message.

"Damn it," Kitsuchi mumbled as he brought Ryoma along with him to the army.

"What happened?" C asked, seeing Ryoma in that state. He was from Kumogakure, and seeing a ninja from their village in this condition was deeply concerning for him, especially since he knew where he had been sent.

"The team sent for reinforcement, along with the ninja before them, are dead. He is the only survivor. I don't know the full story, but we can't take any more losses," Kitsuchi said.

"I was saying from the start that we should go and find out what the whole situation was about," Deidara said.

"A force which was able to do this to a team of 10 ninja in such little time—we couldn't have handled that in time either. It's a good thing that we didn't send any one of us, but now is not the time for discussing these things. Konoha has already sent reinforcements. We have to retreat now, otherwise our losses may increase further," Kitsuchi said.

Even though C and Darui were not happy about the decision because it was Kumogakure who had lost 2 jonin and many special jonin, they couldn't do anything about it.

What Kitsuchi said was true as well—if Konoha sent reinforcements on time along with any one of their S-ranks, they would suffer many losses far surpassing the current ones. With heavy hearts, they decided to follow Kitsuchi's plan and retreat for now.

...

The outpost at which Kaida was posted was busy with work. Many ninja were moving here and there, scouting their surroundings. Their leader, Tomohiro Sarutobi, was giving orders non-stop, analyzing the reports and waiting for Konoha to send a reply about whether he should increase the security of the area or send reinforcements for the outpost that was attacked.

Suddenly, four ninja appeared at the outpost. Three of the four fell to the ground from chakra exhaustion. The technique that Minato alone could use hundreds of times in a battlefield was used by those three ninja only 9 times, but they were already exhausted beyond measure.

But they had completed their objective.

"Jiraiya-sama, what are you doing here?" Tomohiro Sarutobi, who was out on inspection, came near Jiraiya as soon as he appeared in the outpost.

"I am here for Kaida Uchiha. He had been sent here recently as reinforcement around 4 days ago," Jiraiya said, not wasting any time.

Hearing that, Tomohiro's face became a little awkward.

"Just tell me all you know. I don't have time to waste."

"Sir, Kaida Uchiha sent his shadow clones to the outpost 150 km east of us, the one at the Sunagakure border, just a few minutes before he came to my office saying that outpost was attacked and he was going to save his friend.

I tried to stop him, but he didn't follow my order, and I couldn't send someone with him because he left too soon," Tomohiro said. Being the commander of the outpost, he knew who Kaida was and was also a little afraid to put him under any risk, but there was nothing that could be done now.

"Sigh... the worst has happened, huh," Jiraiya mumbled to himself and then turned to Tomohiro.

"Don't worry about that. Increase the security to the max, and make the number of ninja in each scout team at least 8. We are really under attack." After which he left in the direction Kaida had gone, just 5 minutes after Kaida had left for the outpost.

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