Chapter 253 : Ice and Fire

Kirito found wetness all over his body. There was a feeling of coldness as well as warm. This never happened before. 

It took some time for him to mentally reboot from getting sucked in the array, oh how he hated that feeling, and then falling from got knows how height. 

Thankfully he bet on his luck to help him out and that worked, he landed on the water body. It still hurt like hell though, and he was in sage mode and applied armament Haki. 

'Damn, maybe forcing to make a landing spot as close to Asuna's was a wrong choice after all. I am lucky that it was water under me.' Kirito grumbled as he finally opened his eyes, exhaustion was making him numb, or was that pain? he wasn't sure. 

He slowly started to swim up as he was submerged in the water and now was gawking for air. 

'It seems I went a little too low for me to not see the water's surface.' Kirito pondered as he put both of his hands straight and formed a Rasengan inside the water, in a way that the pressure of the Rasengan was only dispursing from one side, making him propelled upwards faster. 

Though he soon realized that he was diverting to the left, only then he realized that the Rasengan on his left hand was unstable. 

'...'

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"Hwaaaa." 

Kirito broke through the water and took a deep breath. 

"Any long and I would have been the one needing rescue." 

Before doing anything, he quickly checks his own body for any kind of injury, like anyone is supposed to do after a crash. 

Though there was nothing broken, the pain was still there. Sighing he got out of the water and with the help of his chakra hovered his foot on the surface of the water, even a basic Ninja could do this. 

"I'm running low on chakra, almost all Nine Tail Chakra is gone, will take a few days to recover that. A weak should suffice. Though that is just an estimate, I never lost all of the Nine Tail chakra before and the one time I did after using Baryon mode, I was out. 

Let's hope I won't be needing that here." Kirito mutters as he also ponders on how Asuna travel here, being Uzumaki she has good chakra but not close to what she would need to come here. 

But then immediately he realized that she also had a thousand healing marks on her like him. That plus the chakra he used last time to send himself back to his time, as Asuna must have caught in the array that time and got transported, there really is a possibility that he could be teleported here. 

After all back then too he used both Kurama Chakra and sage mode and almost got exhausted of even his own chakra. 

Shaking his head to remove all the unnecessary things from his mind, Kirito checked out his surroundings. He right now needs to know where he is. did the array he configured work correctly? how far he landed from Asuna in both time and distance vice. 

There was too much right now which he didn't know. 

Looking forward he noticed the so-called lake lead to a shore full of snow. Frowning a little, knowing that finding people here would be hard. 

But what made him stunned even more was what he saw behind him. There was this sound from the very beginning which was irritating him. At first, he didn't notice much as his ears were blocked by water.

But not that he noticed, he looked behind him, only to observe the entire place lit up in fire. And it wasn't some kind of forest fire either. The entire land behind him was on fire. Making a contrast with the snow field land ahead of him. 

"Well, that makes my decision easy on where I would be going." Kirito deadpan.

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With a shinobi run on water, Kirito soon found himself roaming around the snow area and trying to find someone, anyone who he could ask for direction. 

Due to chakra exhaustion, he reframes from using sage mode. Observation Haki too needed stamina which he currently was lacking. 

'A little rest would do the trick, just have to hold on.' Kirito with that mindset took out a scroll and with a simple hand gesture warm clothes appeared with a puff of smoke. Getting changed from his wet clothes to warm ones and even added an additional layer just to heat up his body. Kirito was ready to depart and find someone here, or at least find where he was. 

But even after an hour of searching around, he only found more snow and chilly winds.

Tired of wasting time he decided to take out the big guns finally. Observation Haki should do, his chakra levels were still little to less for comfort. 

He can enter sage mode but he rather sage that for emergency times. 

So he found a place with relatively less snow and chilly winds and sat down. Closing his eyes to let his Observation haki work and locate others. 

But...

It for some reason was getting harder to pinpoint. 

"No, I am suddenly super sleepy for some reason. Though I was tired due to chakra exhaustion this is the first time I am experiencing sleepiness this strong." Kirito mutters as he fights hard to stay away. 

Well, at least he tried

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