Me and my squad along with the ninken beside each person entered the forest and began making our way to a high vantage point. I had pinkumaru, Hinata had burumaru and Hana had chairomaru. We waited for ten minutes after feeling we were safe enough till screams started appearing in our surroundings.
We had an earth scroll and needed a heaven so we could have at least two battles to get one. We went over multiple scenarios while hiding such as being surrounded or ambushed. We made our way to the closest screams to find a team burned and looted so we deduced a fire style used. The ninken picked up the scent so we followed quickly and covertly.
We found our targets and I was so happy, Kabuto was standing there talking to a mummy and a woman dressed in a scaly leather outfit. Based on deductions and their head bands they are two of Orochimaru's assistants and an experiment. The bandaged one had scorch marks on his wrists meaning he is the fire style user.
We quickly divided up our roles, Hinata and her ninken takes the mummy on cause of her water style while Hana and the others take on the woman. I'll try and kill Kabuto as he will have the scroll. I know Kabuto's skills which are his preemptive healing based on muscular movement and chakra scalpel. He also has a cocky personality and likes to play pretend so I'm going to take advantage of that to kill him.
I used the mole jutsu to enter the ground to I could pull him under and slice him apart while Hana would drill the woman and Hinata would slice the mummy with a high powered water stream jutsu. Just as I was about to use head hunter jutsu to get him he seemed to have noticed and dove away while my hands reached up grabbing nothing.
Hana and her dogs also missed as the woman backed away and began screaming at her. Some kind of sound jutsu. Hinata actually managed to landed her jutsu slicing the mummy in half. Kurenai has gotten Hinata used to killing through our missions so this is nothing to her now. I wonder how the originals never killed anyone. Hinata then went to back up Hana against the scaly woman.
I chased Kabuto into the forest and he tried to talk me into a deal. I ignored everything and used wind style great breakthrough and fired a blast of wind at him. He took it and rolled backwards reaching for his pouch to drop a smoke bomb but I was a step a head. I used my wind style tempest kick to fire a wind blade and cutting his leg making him drop the pellet. He quickly got to his feet and tried to do a fire style fire ball towards me based on his hand signs. I reached for my jacket and threw my senbon at his hands so he can't use his jutsu.
They connected but he removed them with his teeth and began to heal. I rushed at him to end this quickly with my knife and fork. I swung in an attempt to decapitate him while he tried to cast a jutsu. He stopped and had a panicked look on his face. He's not used to facing a ferocious opponent like myself. He raised his arm to block me hitting his head.
SLIIICCK... he screamed in pain as half his left forearm detached. He jumped back and tried to grab his arm to reattach it but I wouldn't allow it. I drove my leg into his stomach winding him while I grabbed his severed arm.
Fire style dragons claw. My hand super heated and burnt his arm to ash before his eyes as he gnashes his teeth in rage. He's in bad shape and his opponent is relentlessly going for the kill. He reached for his pouch again and tossed out three things quickly. A white scroll, a kunai and a smoke pellet. I rushed towards his previous location only to find that he vanished in the smoke.
Damn it. I wanted to kill him now but it looks like he used Orochimaru's earth travel jutsu. He through the heaven scroll so I wouldn't follow him. Smart thinking as he probably knows I tracked him somehow. I picked up the scroll and my weapons before making my way back to the girls.
I found the scaly woman kneeling on the ground with her arms missing, soaking wet and covered in wounds. The girls were fine and had no apperantly injuries. Hana sharpened her hand like a claw and swiped the woman's throat. "You kill glasses". I shook my head " slippery bastard, got the scroll through". They smiled that we have made major progress.
I went towards the corpses to loot them to see what I found. In the scaly woman's jacket in a hidden pocket I found two scrolls. They had sound jutsu in them. Technique scrolls. The first read sound style sound wall jutsu and functioned like a mud wall. The second said sound style voice missile. I got so hyped.
These are zebra's techniques from Toriko, these must be Inanna'S cameos again. These are useful so I intend to learn them. Sound style has a harsh limitation on it that requires the user to have a vast lung capacity. I can meet this requirement thanks to my years of swimming training to increase lung capacity.
On the mummy Hinata found some rations and oil probably relating to whatever jutsu he had. We burned the bodies and made our way to a safe point to get some food. We popped some food pills and rested to recover chakra. We were about to head towards the tower when we spotted some trees being knocked over. We chose to investigate.
The results were positive as it was one of Orochimaru's summon snakes. Dinner is here I thought I myself, I smelled naruto from it which means this must be the one that ate him. I signalled the girls to move in, when I relayed that naruto is inside this thing Hinata's byakugan instantly pulsed onto her face presenting a chilling gaze towards the snake. Hana was so proud that she's trying to defend her mate. I chuckled to her comment. Hana and the ninken were going to surround it and use their fangs into its sides while I would aim for the back of the head and Hinata from the front.
As Hana drilled in I jumped upwards using flash step to get extra height while Hinata delivered a gentle fist palm strike straight to the centre of its head resulting in it hissing and thrashing wildly in pain from the attacks. While it tried to turn towards Hinata to eat her I dropped down rapidly and charged a kugi punch, 7 fold is my limit currently without pain and I had enough time to charge to I struck my fist into the back of its skull slamming it into the forest floor. It was about to get up when the consecutive hits arrived burying it further in the ground. When we landed it's head was mush.
Hana quickly cut into the snake with her pack while Hinata coordinates with byakugan. I rested as I used a lot of chakra to deliver that blow. Naruto soon got free and was covered in gastric fluid. He thanked us quickly before farting off to his team before we could say anything. Hinata looked happy that he was alive but Hana looked pissed that we were ignored.
"It's cool girls, look, we have dinner". The girls then looked at the snake then smirked. Hinata tore into the snake meat ravenously putting Hana to shame. She quickly developed her competitive spirit and started digging in herself. I'd made some snake soup and breaded snake strips using the vegetable near us that Hana had found and the oil from the dead sound guy. The bread came from some stuff I packed. This snake tasted to good and delivered a powerful strike to my tastebuds.
I could feel myself being cooked around by the flavour. I instantly began to grow stronger through the food fighter jutsu. My limit just raised from 7 to 9 strikes. This things was so good it gave me a boost of two good meals. That's quality right there. While I screamed yummy and finished off my portion and began serving myself some leftovers, Hinata and Hana finished their portions and did the same. Despite their appearances they can keep up with my appetite although that only comes to special occasions.
Hinata only packs it away on special occasions, I guess something trying to eat her crush is a special occasion to eat a quarter of the damn thing. In naruto she was also called the queen of gluttony for her appetite, I can see why. Good thing the Hyuga clan is loaded. Hana also ate the same, when it comes to meat and sweets she can eat like Kirby. I used a storage scroll to pack away the rest of the meat and waited for the other two to recover their chakra before we headed to the tower.
All in all it's been about 5 hours since we got here. Pretty good I'd say. After the girls and pups were well fed and well watered we headed to the tower to open our scrolls after reading the plaque.