NOVEL NEXT Chapter 57: A Play With Words
This was one of the bugs' weaknesses as they needed chakra to stay alive. Each one of them needed a minute amount of chakra, but Kira had trillions of them at his disposal.
Feeding them all would be exhausting even for him when he only had access to 25% of his chakra as he had sent out 3 wood clones for a certain task. Though, things would be different if he had access to all of his chakra, but he didn't really need them to be out all the time.
'For scouting, just 10% of my bugs are more than enough.' he thought as he saw a black cloud speeding towards him.
Fugaku walked out of the tent with a bandage wrapped around his torso and saw Kira squatting in front of his scrolls. He then followed Kira's gaze and saw the black cloud.
"That cloud... that's yours? When did your bugs reproduce so much?"
Kira turned his head to look at him, "Asexual reproduction. As for the details... it'll be better to skip it as it'll become quite complicated. Anyways, based on the damage they took this time, I'm sure that they won't attack us for quite a while."
"Yeah." Fugaku said, nodding as he kept his eye on the black cloud, "But we didn't destroy their puppets, so they'll probably come back in around two to three days."
Kira nodded, but inwardly, he knew that the fight against the hidden sand won't last too long. Sasori would attack and kill the third kazekage in the near future and once that happens, the people would go out to search for their leader, which would reduce the pressure on the Uchiha side by quite a lot.
All the bugs flew into the scrolls and Kira swiftly tied them to his waist before getting up. He then walked back inside and helped the relatively less injured people for six entire hours until all of his clones were done with their jobs.
Unlike a week ago, he had more chakra now, so he dispersed his shadow clones and created fifty more. Even though these had less chakra in them, they had enough to help the other medical ninjas with their patients.
To get the achievement of healing people, he didn't have to do everything on his own. Even assisting with the treatment worked. Hours slowly passed and by the time it was midnight, Kira was dead tired.
He looked around the tent with a satisfied expression on his face before looking at the medical ninjas who looked just as tired as he was.
"We did it. We saved every single injured ninja today, but we simply stabilised their conditions. Tomorrow, we'll have to decide on what to do with the ones who lost their limbs." the head medical ninja said before glancing at Kira.
"Kira, you can take a break tomorrow if you'd like. You did more then enough to help us out, so we can take it from here. And... you should probably go to Raichi's tent..." he said as he looked at Kira with both respect and pity.
Hearing this, Kira nodded and left the tent silently.
'As long as I heal them, it counts towards the achievement so if they don't need my help, then so be it. I'll just used this time to chill. As for Raichi... I guess half a day is more than enough for emotions to pile up and awaken the sharingan.' he thought as he walked into Raichi's tent.
Haruki and Eiko sat silently beside Raichi who was on the bed. Seeing them like this, Kira gave them a quizzical look, "Why are you guys like this?"
Hearing this words, Haruki glared at him silently. Eiko on the other hand ran towards him with her arms raised. Kira's attention was only on her eyes as they turned red midway through her run.
"Sharingan..." he muttered as he shifted his attention too Haruki.
While the child hit him multiple times, he just ignored her attacks and asked one simple question, "Wait... did you guys think that he was dead? Oh god... when I said gone, I meant that his hand was gone. Not his life."
Hearing his words, Eiko simply fell to the ground as she began to wail loudly. Even Haruko couldn't stop herself from crying when she heard Kira's words.
"Just give me a second..." he said as he moved towards Raichi and sent some chakra to the areas where he had hit the guy with his senbons to destroy a handful of chakra points. This healed the Raichi physically, but the chakra points remained broken.
Once these chakra points were disabled, the target would go into a state of temporary death until their body's natural chakra flow would slowly fix these chakra points and bring them back to life.
Then he ordered his microbugs to stop eating the chakra that Raichi's body was naturally producing and once they stopped, Kira actively sent his own chakra into Raichi's body and fixed the chakra points too.
He then placed his hand on Raichi's chest and nodded to himself, "His heart is beating..."
After saying that, he silently walked back to his tent so that they could get some alone time together.
'He'll wake up in a few minutes.' he thought as he got onto his bed, 'Also... to think that such a loophole could work against the Uchihas. I can use this in the future and if things go well... maybe I'll be able to get my hands on at least one pair of mangekyo sharingan. Even if I don't, it doesn't matter.'
Next day, Morning.
Kira walked out of his tent and saw Raichi walking around while carrying Eiko in his arm. He only had one arm now and as for his left arm, a stump was the only thing remaining as it was cleanly chopped off at the elbow area.
"Sensei, I wanted to ask you yesterday about this... but your arm... this didn't happen during the battle, did it? There's no way a cut this precise could be made during a hectic fight."