"I see.."
"Sorry but i won't be going back with you" said Yuu as he unsheathed his short sword. At this point Yuu had had enough time to piece together clues on who these shinobi might be. It was only after comparing their ability to hide themselves from his sensory techniques, their monotonous cold voices and their no hesitation to kill him on sight that he was able to remember a faction of the hidden leaf village which contained members fitting this exact description.
They were members of The Root.
The fact that root ninjas had been sent to retrieve him meant that either Danzo alone or Hiruzen and Danzo together had decided to capture and most likely later eliminate him or force him to join the root. Neither of these options was good for him hence his increasing refusal to return back to Konoha.
F, hearing Yuu's refusal to return, signalled the rest of his team to attack. Everyone immediately focused on Yuu quickly weaving their hands to unleash their respective jutsus.
"Fire style: Great fireball justu"
"Fire style: Rapid fire bombardment"
"Lightning style: Lightning torpedo"
"....."
12 different powerful jutsus consisting of fire and lightning collided at Yuu's original position creating a loud explosion.
"Did we get him?" asked J, another member of root.
"I'm sure we hav ..." before M could finish her sentence, her head detached from her neck sending a hot red gush of her blood into the air while her head fell on the ground with a soft thud and rolled a few centimeters before coming to a stop.
Just like that, a high level jonin died.
The rest of the root ninja, seeing their comrade's death, immediately cast their sensory techniques which unfortunately for them failed to reveal their enemy. Their actions however allowed Yuu to quickly kill two more root shinobi.
'3 down, 10 more to go.....' thought Yuu as he rushed towards the remaining root ninja .
The Root ninja suddenly spotted Yuu rushing towards them at high speeds, his blade aimed at their bare backs. The Root ninja closest to him immediately drew his kunai blocking Yuu's attack. The collision of their blades drew sparks that flickered and danced in the air.
Yuu leapt backwards dodging a blade attack from another root ninja allowing the other root ninja to regain his momentum. In the next split second five root shinobi charged towards Yuu, their blades and kunai drawn intending to overwhelm him in an all-encompassing close combat battle.
While five root shinobi were confronting Yuu in close combat, the rest were standing a bit further back preparing various wind and fire jutsus.
Just as F signalled the five root shinobi to back away ready to unleash their powerful jutsus, he suddenly coughed up blood as a sudden sensation of pain assaulted his chest, particularly his heart.
F slowly looked down only to see a short blade protruding from his chest. It wasn't just him, all the other 4 root ninja who had been preparing their jutsus also had blades sticking out of their chest. F, already knowing of his rapidly approaching death, slowly turned his head only to see Yuu staring at him with a cold gaze while his left hand held the hilt of the blade that pierced his heart. This was the last thing F ever saw.
Observing their companions' corpses collapse on the ground with holes in their hearts caused the aura of solemnity to envelope the remaining 5 root shinobi. They didn't however, being used to such battles, let their guard down but rather managed to take the opportunity the opponent had taken trying to cut off a root member's head. In the moment Yuu swung his blade in a Decapitation move, his throat was immediately pierced by a kunai however to the surprise of the root shinobi, the Yuu in front of them exploded into a cloud of smoke.
"Shit it's a shadow clone...."
"When did he switch himself with a shadow clone. We have been keeping an eye on his movements since we met him"
The Root ninjas, with cold resolve, readied themselves to face their unseen enemy only to find themselves suddenly facing a giant wave of fire which had been concealed by genjutsu until it was too close to dodge. And so the five root ninja were consumed by the flames, their bodies charred and broken by the red hot flames.
Just like that, 13 root shinobi died. All this happened in only a matter of seconds.
Yuu quickly searched the corpses of the dead root shinobi finding various useful weapons which he added to his own storage pouch. He also found a few bottles of corpse dissolving water which he immediately used on the root's dead bodies. This was item which he had learned about from the memories of the various shinobi he had killed. It was basically an acidic water used by high level Anbu and root shinobi during assassination missions.
It completely dissolved both the body and clothes of a corpse into a puddle of dense goo that would quickly sink into the earth leaving nothing behind.
It was a nuisance to the other shinobi villages as it almost always halted investigations when used as it left nothing behind.
Watching the corpses dissolve into a puddle of goo, Yuu immediately thought of his next plan. In searching the root members bodies he had discovered the reason as to why he couldn't sense them. In the middle of their chest and on their tongues were seals which he couldn't recognise. He of course knew from his past life that the seal on their tongues dealt with their mind and memories, created to destroy their brains upon their death amongst other features which meant that by process of elimination that the remaining seal was the one that prevented him from sensing them.
Understanding the severity of fuinjutsu techniques being used against him, Yuu included in his list of goals the desire to learn fuinjutsu.
And so after ensuring the corpses had been completely dissolved, Yuu continued his journey to the hidden mist village.
After a week of high-speed running and short rests, Yuu finally arrived at Hiroku port at the edge of the land of fire. This was one of the few ports that allowed one to travel to the land of Water. The land of water was an island located a couple of miles off the shore of the land of Fire and while it was possible for shinobi to travel by running on the water, this would leave them exhausted by the time they reach the mainland of the land of Water which was why even shinobi had to board a ship to reach there.
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