NOVEL NEXT Chapter 55: Kira's Payment
Kira silently stared at her as various thoughts formed in his mind.
Did every single kid act like this? Maybe this was true for the kids back on earth, but this was the first time he had seen a child of a ninja acting like this.
'Well... children are children after all.' he thought as a slight smile emerged on his face. He then took another bite, finishing his rice ball. He swallowed it and snapped his fingers to get her attention.
"If I bring you meat, will you eat your rice balls?" he asked when he saw her look up at him and the moment she heard his question, her expression brightened up.
"Yes! I'll eat them all!"
"Alright then..." he said and closed his eyes, communicating with his bugs even though the complexity of the communication was pretty low.
He simply got one message, 'Everyone fighting outside. No one coming inside.'
This much was enough information for him as he opened his eyes and looked at Haruki, "Okay, they're all busy fighting and it looks like no one is heading in this direction. I'll go back to Konoha and get us some meat."
Before she could say a thing, he disappeared from where he was, making Eiko jump backwards in astonishment. Meanwhile, Haruki who had seen body flicker being used multiple times during her time as a ninja, sat calmly as she watched her daughter panic.
"Don't worry, that's big brother's ninjutsu. He can disappear and appear whenever and wherever he wants. Isn't it cool?" she asked her daughter, who nodded her head vigorously.
"Yeah, very cool. Cooler than daddy!"
Hearing this, Haruki's smiled, 'Now that's something I want him to hear. I wonder how he'll react'
Almost a kilometer away from the camp.
Raichi stood in between multiple puppets, dodging their attacks with incredible accuracy. Unfortunately, just like most other Uchihas, he was stuck and forced to simply defend as he was outnumbered by 10 to 1.
Originally, this would have been different as they only had to face around 500 sand shinobi who had a total of around 2000 to 3000 puppets.
With more than 1000 shinobi on Konoha's side, they could fight off the puppets even though they had to sustain some injuries, but now that they were facing an army of 2000 sand shinobi who could use a total of around 9000 puppets, they really were in a tough spot.
It was a 1 vs 8 in a minimum and if they targeted someone, it could easily reach up to 1 vs 15.
Luckily, they had a trump card.
A black mist slowly converged in the area where the fight was happening, surrounding them and forming a border. Originally, the hidden sand shinobi kept an eye on it, but didn't take any actions as they did not know what it was or whether this mist's target was them.
Even if it was, they believed that it was an attack like great fire annihilation that attacked both friends and foe.
Kira's clones did not have any kunai on them, so hey had to resort to using their water senbon jutsu, which worked pretty effectively as the water needles were extremely hard to notice.
Even though getting a handful of them pierced into your body wouldn't kill you, it was more than enough to make things hard for them to control their puppets. And if they lost control of their puppets, then having them was the same as asking three year old kids to fight an experienced killer.
Just twenty clones were enough to push a fight with 100% defeat chances to a 50%.
Unfortunately, even though he was making huge difference in the fight, there was a limit to how many people the 20 clones could help or support.
Minutes slowly trickled by and by the time the sand shinobi noticed the black mist getting thick, it was too late. In just 30 minutes, the black mist had turned into thick clouds that formed a circular wall around the battlefield.
There was only one person, or technically 20 clones who knew what was actually going on. All this while, they were having their micro bugs feed on the corpses so they could multiply and that was exactly what happened, showing the effects in the form of the mist getting thicker.
While 50% of the bugs made a wall of mist, the other 50% flew into the battlefield searching for enemies, not leaving anyone as they fed on corpses, entered the bodies of both injured and healthy before placing a seal mark on them.
Even though a lot of marks were placed on them, the clones did not use flying raijin as they had other plans. Instead, they instructed the bugs to enter the puppets and suck on the chakra instead.
In just two minutes, every single sand shinobi and their puppets had a bunch of microbugs in them. The bugs in the puppets consumed 80% of the chakra that the controlling shinobi sent, while the ones inside the humans, simply stayed there while not doing anything after putting a seal mark in them.
This alone made things way easier for the uchihas and the other shinobi from konoha to fight against the sand shinobi, but after three minutes, the sand shinobi fled while using their puppets to stall their enemies.
The hidden leaf shinobi let out a sigh of relief when they saw their enemies leave, but all of Kira's clones as a mischievous smile on their faces.
'Yes, go back to your camp. I'll greet you guys at night.' all of them thought, but then, their attention focused on a red haired youngster.
'You'll be the first step to my plans, Sasori.' he thought as he glanced at Raichi who was missing an arm, 'As for you... I'll help you out a little before cutting ties with you. Consider this a payment for teaching me stuff.'
The microbugs that Kira had sneaked into Raichi's body quickly ate up remaining meagre chakra, making him lose consciousness.