NOVEL NEXT Chapter 52: Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation
The hyuga used his byakugan and focused in one single direction before nodding, "Yes, there's around five hundred people sneaking towards our camp and like they've been doing until now, it looks like each one of them will be using around four to five puppets."
Fugaku nodded and turned to look at Kira, "Go and tell Raichi and the others to assemble here."
Kira nodded and rushed towards Raichi's tent as he used multi shadow clone jutsu, creating a hundred of them in an instant. Each one of them ran to a different tent to alert the shinobi and just like this, all of Konoha's forces were alerted in under a minute.
Once everyone gathered in front of Fugaku, he gave out orders, "Like always, our goal is to defend this area. Destroying their puppets will buy us time, but if you get the chance to kill them, do it. Kira, since there aren't any more patients, why don't you join the fight?"
Seeing everyone paying attention to him, he nodded, "I can, but I've used up most of my chakra already. I should be able to launch one wave of attacks with my shadow clones though."
"Anything works but when it comes to healing the injured, I'll leave it to the others but I'm sure that most of them are also exhausted from working with you today."
Hearing Fugaku's words, Kira shook his head, "Nah, I was the one who took care of everything today. They're in their top conditions so feel free to work them to the bones after this attack is done."
When the others saw the smile on Kira's face, they shuddered. But even then, they felt like they could go ham today as their medics were in top shape due to Kira's hard work.
Just as everyone was checking their equipment, the hyuga lifted his hand and said, "900 meters, get ready to attack."
The moment Kira heard these words, his 100 shadow clones disappeared before another 10 appeared. This was because he had originally only planned to used his 100 clones to alert people and not for attack. They didn't have enough chakra to launch the Ninjutsu that Kira planned on using.
"I'll go first." he said and rushed forward with six kunai in his hand, between his fingers.
Everyone watched as Kira's small back got smaller and smaller as he moved away from them.
Less than a minute later, Kira was only a hundred meters away from them. This was not because he was slow, but instead, it was because the sand shinobi were moving slowly, trying to sneak up on Kohoha's ninja to launch a surprise attack.
Unfortunately for them, Kira had managed to spot them when they were kilometers away.
Seeing a kid running towards them, none of them felt any pressure and instead the ones at the front sent out their puppets to kill him as soon as possible.
Kira continued to run forward even though almost twenty puppets were rushing towards him. When they were only 10 meters away from him, Kira threw out his six kunai before grabbing more and throwing them too.
He did this three times in quick succession, adding up to 4 times including the first throw, and teleported right before the fastest puppet was about to stab him with it's sword hand.
Special weapons and items could not be cloned, so he had no other choice but to use his stash of marked Kunai instead. Even then, he didn't really have anything to worry about as he teleported to one of the 24 kunai that were still in the air.
His clones did the same and from the sky, all of them brought their hands together and made the horse hand sign before taking a huge amount of air.
Seeing this, half of the hidden sand shinobi summoned earth walls while the others made hand seals in a quick succession before inhaling a lot of air just like Kira did.
Right when the sand shinobi and Kira were about to shoot out their prepared jutsu's from their mouths, Kira and his shadow clones vanished from where they were and appeared in a different spot, still in the air.
Wind release: Breakthrough!
Wind release: Great Breakthrough!
The hidden sand shinobi used their wind release, while Kira and his clones shot out huge waves of flames.
Fire release: Great Fire Annihilation!
Seeing this, the hidden sand shinobi instinctively moved their puppets to block the incoming attack as they knew that fire release easily trumped against wind release. In fact, when it came to fighting against fire release, the most important thing to do was to not add fuel to the flames.
The wind release's force was mostly due to the chakra and wasn't the same as a natural burst of wind. Kira's Great Fire Annihilation simply consumed the wind release and increased it's size as it drowned the hidden sand shinobi, covering them with hot flames.
It was a sight to behold, but Kira couldn't hear any screams or shouts. His clones disappeared due to over expenditure of chakra while Kira stopped spewing out flames, only to see multiple earth domes formed on the ground.
'So they countered me by covering themselves with a 360 degree defensive jutsu. Well, it's better this way.' he thought as he saw many puppet parts fallen on the ground outside the earth dome, burnt to crisp but they hadn't turned to ashes.
He never intended to kill the sand shinobi as he had other goals in mind and killing them would only hamper the progress towards his goals.
"Welp, I'm almost out of chakra, but I've dealt a lot of damage. They'll most probably rush back, but if they decide to continue with the fight, then I really won't be able to help them." he muttered as he used his flying raijin to teleport back into his tent where he had left one kunai as a checkpoint.