As they continued running at an efficient but fast speed, both Hiro and 'Neko' made their way to the village known as Temer.
800KM was nothing to ninjas who could infuse their muscles as well as steps with chakra to run without getting much tired.
To shinobi's on level of Hiro, Running that much would be children's play.
Their bodies tilted forward at absurd angles as they did their 'ninja run', going well above 100KM per hour in speed.
The main thing here was not just steps and running, but was using your chakra control to form a cloak of sorts that could drastically reduce drag and increase speeds.
This was also why their clothes could hold off without being torn due to high speed wear and tear.
As the both of them maintained their moment, they both observed each other silently, doing entire conversations through small gestures.
As they made their way through territories of multiple chakra beasts, Hiro and 'Neko' soon reached their destination.
"Its lucky we didn't encounter any beast on the way" Hiro said as he quickly took out his combat attire and started getting into it.
Not that any beast would have attacked them for just passing through their territories, just two humans running so fast would bewilder most creatures and keep them from attacking.
Also, most strong creatures were smart enough to sense when people meant harm and when they did not, but that wouldn't mean they'll spare the weak ones, its the law of jungle after all.
The aura that both of them displayed was reason enough as a deterrence.
As Hiro slid into his combat attire, he looked at himself and gave a nod of appreciation.
He wore all black thick leather upper made from the skin of a top tier A rank Ox's Hide, His chest covered with a rustic chest plate, his left shoulder draped with a pauldron, his arms were covered in braces while his hands in in specially made gloves.
With extremely comfortable and functional belt, thigh guard and special boots, his load out was much different than what standard ninja wore.
Although not looking much surface, Hiro had poured a huge amount of money into it, a lot more than he'll be willing to admit.
Everything was custom made for him by the masters that were beat in their crafts, and not just that too, each equipment went under dozens of rounds of fuinjutsu work by Karin, making sure they last for centuries while adding a lot more power and abilities to them.
Like his arm guards, he just needed to direct direct his chakra into them and it would manifest a chakra shield strong enough to bear multiple B ranked Jutsus and a single mid A ranked one.
His chest plate did the same but even better, it had a containment seal etched all over it that could turn its entire composition into a battery of sorts that could hold a huge amount chakra.
It took Hiro 20 time of emptying the entirety of his A tier chakra quantity to load it up completely, and in return, it could create a spherical shield of 2 meters in radius that should be able to stop even S rank Jutsus while throwing anything that Hiro deemed unnecessary out of this radius.
Just like rotation that Hyuga's did, but much better and far stronger than it.
Although it was a lot of chakra for one time use, in Hiro's eyes it was well worth it if it could grant him another chance, and all of this was on top of its already excellent defensive capabilities.
All his attire and equipment had been enchanted by Karin in similar fashion to make even more out of them.
If one estimated the cost of his entire load out, it would easily exceed 10 million ryo in worth, and that was just in raw materials.
Real values of these were far more priceless.
And all of this was excluding the main weapons that he wielded. Like the katana that Hiro currently had on his back.
'Neko', who was standing besides Hiro looked at all the fancy equipment Hiro had as she shook her head.
Ninja missions paid of pretty good, one would still need to spend their entire wealth to get equipment like this, although she didn't know it, just from the look of these, they looked premium and expensive.
She too got into her combat attire as she slid on a vest over her torso and put on her arm braces, nothing too fancy compared to Hiro.
They were 2 KM away from the village but could see it from the hill they were standing on currently.
"Now, let me check it before hand" Hiro said as he got on his knees, put both his hands onto the earth and started sensing.
As Hiro focused onto sensing, 'Neko' looked at him weirdly.
Usual range for sensing chakra was 500 meters to a kilometer at most for even dedicated sensors, like herself.
She was a Kenjutsu specialist along with being a Sensor, a rarity amongst most ninjas.
'So this is why Hokage sama chose him'
Hiro, who now had a solemn and silent expression on his face, got up as he said under his breath.
"Whoever did this, I'll fucking kill him"
With anger welling inside him, Hiro took a few breaths to regain his rationale.
"It's a grim situation, better steel yourself" Hiro said as he started moving towards the village.
'Neko', who didn't understand him at first, looked at scene with her own eyes as her breath trembled and gut wrenched at the horrifying scene that the village had become.
She had been an ANBU for long, had seen all kinds of deaths and had killed many herself, she found it hard to control herself from throwing up.
The entire village had been massacred, bodies littered on the streets and blood staining them red.
Men, women, elderly, not even children were spared as guts spilled over the streets, organs being piled in the village square in an grotesque manner.
While some bodies looked to older some were much recent.
Regardless, they had started decomposing as horrid smell covered the entire village.
"Fucking animals!!!" Hiro Kicked on a bounder as it shattered into thousand small pieces as he saw the scene with his eyes that had angered him the most.
In the empty area in Centre of the village, multiple women were chained to poles that were arranged in a circular fashion, in between, lied a single spear embedded into the earth.
And bodies of multiple little children that were skewered onto it, Most of them infants.
Jokes and fun apart, Though Hiro admitted that he wasn't a righteous person, pretty far from even being neutral with the degenerate acts he indulged in, he still wasn't morally unhinged so as to cause senseless killing.
That was what he hated the most in this world, people had no value for human life at all, treating it all like tools and currency that could be sacrificed for gains.
There were some things where even Hiro drew the line.
Looking at the chilling scene in front of him, Hiro inspected the bodies while pouring cold water over his heart.
He could see small worms infesting the bodies, which had bloated twice their size.
Without saying anything, he took out a scroll as he started writing on with a pencil, writing all the details he could observe.
Using a Senbon, Hiro pricked the tip of his finger as he performed summoning Jutsu.
"Yeah boss, you fina....." a child like voice was heard as an avian creature the size of a dog popped out of the smoke, but instantly shut itself up looking at the scene around.
"Oh shit" The avian that resembled an eagle looked at the scroll in Hiro's hand and said "where to?"
"Konoha, as fast as you can" Hiro said as he miniaturized the scroll and put it inside a small backpack on the back of the eagle as it flew away fast.
It was Hiro's second summon, a Lightning winged eagle.
An intelligent creature and an apex predator in the Everspark mountain region in land of Lightning.
These creatures could get up to 8 meters in height when they fully mature, their wings being stronger and sharper than any steel while their actual powers resided in their immense affinity with lightning and ability to use it in their attacks.
Their clan was the overlord of the region with them having 3 S-Ranked beasts amongst them.
One day Hiro had tried to summon Roach but fumbled his seals, instead got reverse summoned to the Mount Everspark where some things happened and he was able to contract the creatures there as his summons.
This little fella who just appeared was Raiku, the summon he had contracted, offspring of two S ranked creatures, he was as prideful as he was talented.
Being hatched just six months before Hiro contracted him, he was an odd little creature.
He was now just about to enter his growth period where he would grow massively, both in size and strength.
Hiro hadn't summoned him even a single time yet, this being its first time being summoned.
A/N : Those who give power stones be blessed with big PP
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