"Otou-san!" Rin sprinted towards Nohara Aizawa, quickly attending to his severe injuries with the medical kit on her back.
"Kakashi, please check the surrounding area. I'll be on standby to support you at any time." Minato handed Kakashi a marked kunai, the Flying Thunder God kunai, which would enable him to provide instant support to Kakashi whenever needed.
"Yes," Kakashi responded before disappearing from sight.
"I'll go too," Takeshi said, following Kakashi's footsteps. Although his sense of smell was not as keen as a ninja dog's, he was faster in the current environment, and with his help, Kakashi could avoid a lot of trouble.
Kakashi noticed Takeshi, the little black cat, catching up to him. He was surprised for a moment before saying coldly, "I won't save you if you're in danger."
"Me too," Takeshi responded rudely, confident in his skills, which didn't require Kakashi's help often. He sniffed around a bit before saying, "Follow me!"
Obito, meanwhile, wanted to join the chase but knew his more important task was to protect the medical ninja and assist her any way he can.
"This is not the combat zone. He escaped here," Takeshi explained, running quickly as he spoke. "The combat zone must be very close to that side because I smell the strong scent of blood after running a few steps. A very strong scent of blood!"
"Ahead!" In just a few jumps, Takeshi and Kakashi passed through the woods and saw a deep canyon. The surroundings were in disarray.
Although there were no obvious traces of combat, to a trained eye, there were signs of ninja cleaning up the evidence of combat.
Those people had handled it in a hurry, and there were bloodstains in many places.
"The cleaning method is very sophisticated, and they should still be here when Obito screamed," Kakashi said, his face solemn. Aizawa's team was an experienced team, led by a Jonin.
To be able to ambush and trap them in such a small area... The opponent must be very strong!
Takeshi went to the edge of the cliff and sniffed. "Down below." The valley was so deep that the bottom couldn't be seen, but a ninja could step on the mountain wall and walk down the cliff, without fear of being suddenly attacked by enemies in the middle.
Kakashi glanced down and asked calmly, "The enemy has also gone down?"
"Well, the scent is very confusing, and it's difficult to distinguish how many people there are with the smell of blood," Takeshi said, looking down, feeling confused. He didn't dare to continue chasing below.
"Can you tell which ninja village it belongs to?" Kakashi asked without thinking, but after asking, he realized he had asked a stupid question.
Which kind of ninja beast can smell the ninja village from just scent alone... Sure enough, the black cat returned the look of disdain and then jumped back.
"Aren't you going to go down?"
"Meow~ you go ahead, I will pray for your soul," Takeshi said unceremoniously, and then ran towards Rin and the others.
Although he could use chakra to stick to the cliff wall and walk down, without knowing the structure and environment of the cliff here, he would definitely die if they encountered an ambush when they went down.
Damn it... Kakashi looked at the cliff below in silence for couple minutes, and then quietly huddled behind the big tree on the side and watched.
If what Takeshi had said didn't make him alert, he might have actually gone down to take a look. 'Now that I think about it, I might as well wait. We can't let enemy get what they want, and their comrades at the bottom of the cliff might even be injured or dead. Rather than going down rashly, it's better to wait for the Sensei to come.'
Takeshi returned to Rin and found her treating Aizawa. At this time, Rin had completed the initial emergency treatment and used some medicine brought from Konoha to further stabilize the injury in her father's body to save chakra. She knew that Aizawa had three other teammates.
Minato noticed the black cat's return but didn't find Kakashi, so he took the initiative to respond.
"Meow~ They're all under the cliff, we can't go down," Takeshi reported the situation there. Of course, for such a dangerous job, the Jonin must rush take the lead.
His mission of search and reconnaissance has been completed, so he only needs to stay behind.
"Good job," Minato gave him a thumbs up, and then he used Flying Thunder God to leave. Flying Thunder God is so convenient.
Takeshi was really envious. With Flying Thunder God, 'I can spend as much time as I want relaxing and napping as long as the no one uses my kunai... Unfortunately, it's too expensive.'
It's a bit difficult to accumulate points - eating cat food every day, and when he was doing tasks like catching cats and carrying water a few days ago, his points for a day all depended on Obito and Kakashi's contribution, which at most was just a few dozen.
He can only eat one serving of Ninja cat food every day, so he's too far away from buying any space and time ninjutsu.
In addition to daily consumption, there are many other ways to spend points. It is good to maintain no deficit every day.
After thinking for a moment, he jumped down to Rin and Obito.
"Use ninjutsu, the signs of life are fading," Takeshi said.
Rin was silent for a second, and then she started to use Mystical Palm Jutsu. Ordinary ninjutsu was useless against Aizawa's injuries.
Only Mystical Palm Jutsu could have a certain effect. But to be honest, the injury on his leg cannot be cured by Mystical Palm Jutsu completely.
The best result was that he can walk without any problems.... Even the kind and optimistic Obito didn't know how to break the tense atmosphere for a while. After all, Aizawa is Rin's father.
Not long after, Minato brought Kakashi back, each carrying a corpse. One Jonin and one Chunin. They were all wet.
It was obvious that there was a river at the bottom of the deep valley, and those enemies wanted to use the river to destroy the corpses and eliminate traces.
Thanks to Obito's "unlucky" attribute, he accidentally discovered Aizawa, who was seriously injured. Otherwise, judging from the sophisticated handling methods of those enemies, they would definitely come over and thrown Aizawa off the cliff.
They were quite fortunate; otherwise, God knows how hard Rin would have been affected by this situation - not being able to save her loved ones may be a motivation for the medical ninja, but it may also be an abyss.
The atmosphere was silent for a moment. Obito clenched his hands and said angrily, "Sensei, who are they?"
"I don't know, there are no clues at the scene. The traces on the body are also covered up. It is difficult to find clues from it. We can only conclude that they use Lightning Release, Water Release, and one of them is very powerful," Minato said.
"Swords were used, and at least two different Swords, because the wounds were inconsistent," Kakashi said after studying it carefully for a moment.
'Seven Ninja Swordsmen?' This Kirigakure group's name flashed through Takeshi's mind.
Needless to say, Water Release, Lightning Release, among the seven people there is Thunder of the Mist Raiga Kurosuki...
It's highly likely! This was the period when the Seven swordsmen were active. He was about to say something, but then he thought about it - Kirigakure Village had been reclusive for many years.
During this period, few people knew about the situation there. He was just a kitten. After all the title of Seven swordsmen is too shocking.
"Did people from Kumogakure Village do it?" Rin finished her treatment and looked up at the Sensei.
"It's hard to be sure," Minato shook his head. There were people from the five major villages who knew Lightning and Water Release, but Kumogakure was the best at Lightning Release and Kirigakure was the best at Water Release, and there was no trace of the unique jutsus of each village on the corpse. Traces, it is impossible to determine their origins from the wounds.
"Meow~ Maybe it's the people from Kirigakure who want to put the blame on Kumo," Takeshi squatted down, pretending to say it in a casual manner.
"Rin, how is Nohara-san's injury?"
"Everything that can be cured has been cured, but the leg needs surgery. We don't have a treatment environment here," Rin said truthfully.
"You guys go back to the village first. Takeshi and I will search here together. If you encounter danger, you can summon Takeshi and I will rush over immediately to support you," Minato had to divide his forces. With enemy nearby, and he must make the comprehensive plan.
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