Chap.42 The Dying Bone Flower

"Looks like you're late," Tony muttered as he watched the fight taking place several feet away from him.

Gaara and Lee were fighting Kimimaro. Lee seems to have been snapped out of his stupor, so he will no longer be able to see the Drunken Fist technique. He also doesn't see Naruto or the barrel with Sasuke, so he must have finished the transformation and both of them have run to the valley of the end.

—System, I remember that Kimimaro is sick and at this moment his body is at the limit, he moves by sheer will. He will die on his account in the middle of the fight, can't the mission be considered completed with this in mind? He questioned.

[If the host does not interfere in any way, then it will be considered that he has not come into contact with Kimimaro and the record will be incomplete. Also, you shouldn't continue to rely so much on your prior knowledge of this world.]

-What do you mean?

[As you said, Kimimaro is at his limit and about to die. But your intervention in this world has already started to generate the butterfly effect of it.]

-What are you talking about? Tony was confused at the sudden statement. "If you told me that I affected Naruto, Tsunade, Karin and the others, I could still understand it." But Kimimaro? I never met him! I didn't even remember him until Sasuke started running away!

[It's your food.]

-Me…? —Tony took a moment to understand what the System was referring to— Do you mean that somehow Kimimaro has been eating what I supply in my store and that has made his body last longer? He will still die, but he won't necessarily die during the fight, is that it?

[Yes, according to the System's calculations, he can still live three more days.]

—So I can only defeat Kimimaro the old way, I understand —Tony sighed as he watched as the enemy activated the second level of the cursed seal and grew a tail among other physical changes— And there goes Gaara, thank goodness he has the armor of sand in the face

Lee tries to intervene but is thrown off by Kimimaro's tail strike.

Wait, is he serious? They are standing by and watching as the enemy pulls out his spine as a weapon.

Don't you know that you should never give the bad guy time to do his number?

Although I can't complain either, I'm doing the exact same thing.

Oh, he just spit up some blood. He really he is still sick.

I think Lee should try to escape, his body is not in condition and he will only be giving trouble in the fight. It's not about whether he's a coward, he's the smartest thing he can do.

—No more being a spectator, if I keep waiting Gaara will try to sink Kimimaro to the ground and the only thing he will achieve is that the battlefield will change for the worse for everyone.

Tony wasn't going to let Kimimaro use his Fern Dance technique to turn the meadow into a forest of bones.

What if he had the idea to blow up the bones like a frag grenade?

No way!

-Lee? Gaara? What are you doing here? —Tony appeared as if he had just arrived in the combat zone —Where is Naruto and Sasuke? Lee, bring me up to date, do I only have to worry about the white-haired boy or Gaara too?

"Tony!" The enemy is only the bone ninja, Gaara-kun is helping us —Replied Lee cheerfully when he saw that more reinforcements arrived.

At least Tony thought he was trying to smile, he had his body so bruised that one of his eyes was half closed. How can he even stay on his feet?

"You're Tony," Gaara said when he saw their arrival. One of the things he did after what happened in Konoha was to find out who the ninja was that led him to defeat to the point of having to free the Shukaku. Naruto only mentioned his name after the fight once, but it was enough for her to pay attention.

"No hard feelings, googly eyes, taking care of the Kaguya clansman comes first.

- Googly eyes...

"Tony!" —Lee was a little alarmed by the nickname that his partner gave Gaara.

"Do you know that I am from the Kaguya clan?" —Kimimaro secretly raised his guard when he saw someone else arrive, but seeing that he was just another child, he reverted to his previous state.

Having to take out three enemies instead of two made no difference to him.

But he was a little surprised that someone so young could recognize his clan, since he was the last survivor and would soon perish.

"White hair, bone manipulation, and those two red dots on your forehead," Tony pointed out. "If you're not from the warlike Kaguya clan, then you're pretty good at cosplaying."

—So you've been able to recognize the features of my clan —Kimimaro nodded when the small doubt in his mind was resolved— But that won't change anything. I will make sure that Orochimaru-sama gets what he wants and I won't let you bother him or hinder him.

-Really? Tony raised an eyebrow as he looked at the dying Kimimaro. "We could escape and resume pursuit in, say, three days." Right after you die from the disease you have. Your clan is pale, but not THAT pale.

"Is he sick and he's so strong?" Lee was surprised to find that out and clenched her fists subconsciously.

"That's why he was coughing up blood for no apparent reason." Gaara frowned. He thought he was holding his own against Kimimaro, but it turned out that he could barely hold his own against a dying ninja.

"My life is not important as long as Orochimaru-sama's goal can be achieved," Kimimaro declared. "And if I have to die here, then my mission will be to take each and every one of them with me to the afterlife" he assured as he adjusted his stance to resume the fight. .

"Sure, but let's fill up the fuel tank first." Tony reached into his ninja bag and tossed to Gaara and Lee what he pulled out of it.

They both took the flying object and looked at their hands, widening their eyes.

-That is…