20 Chapter 20 Retreat

Sand Battlefield.

"You did awesome kid, even managing to take down a kekkai genkai shinobi!"

"That was truly special!"

The konoha shinobi surrounding Kazuki showered praises on him non-stop, when they saw the golden sand tsunami they had almost given up but the ultimate water style displayed then was truly something.

They had no doubt that in Konoha, only Lord Third would be able to match water style of the level they just witnessed.

"Let's not relax, the war's still going on!"

Not getting carried away by the praises, Kazuki taking a deep breath removed his weight from the Kusanagi and standing straight, spoke in a solemn tone.

"Okay, but stay with us; don't just run of fighting by yourself!"

Said a Konoha Jonin able to see Kazuki was exhausted after fighting two battles and fighting alone could be dangerous.

"Um!"

Kazuki didn't refuse and agreed with his suggestion, he had achieved his purpose already so there was no need to put himself in danger.

After all the thirty percent template didn't grant him complete chakra recovery ability of Senju, he had to lay low now.

Swish!!

Along with other konoha shinobi Kazuki entered the battlefield again, though a lot low profile this time and cooperating with other shinobi in the fight.

The sand shinobi who was carrying the passed out Rasa away from the battlefield on the way found another unconscious person, the girl with arms drenched in blood lying motionless among the many corpses.

Putting Rasa on one and Pakura on other shoulder, the sand jonin responsible for taking the injured for treatment disappeared.

The war continued all day the sun gradually going down, a red dusk all over the sky like the blood shed on the ground had even affected the sky.

BOOM!!!

Suddenly an orange flare soared up to sky and exploded, taking the attention of every shinobi on the battlefield.

Among some sand jonin stood third kazekage, his hand still pointed towards the sky after firing the flare.

"Hanzo went back on his words, we have no choice but to retreat now!"

Said the Third Kazekage with a sullen face, although he spoke calmly but the jonin around able to feel the immense anger in his tone.

Swish!

At this moment a figure at immense speed approached Kazekage from distance and in a matter of seconds reached him, turning out to be Chiyo who had an exhausted face.

"I waited whole day for the support from Rain Shinobi, how dare Hanzo go back on his words?"

Arriving near Kazekage, Chiyo immediately let out her frustration clear anger on her face.

Nearly all day she has been dealing with that slug girl and the annoying Ino-Shika-Cho combination with the hope of Ame help arriving any moment, the sun rose and sun set but no help coming.

"We have suffered a huge loss today; the causalities are way more than we can handle!"

"Moreover l, I failed to make a difference, even Rasa and Pakura who I was counting on so much today seemed to have been defeated"

The hands of Kazekage as he spoke were clenched into fists, showing how much frustrated he was.

The day he had expected to be the best since the war began turned out to be a disaster and Sand suffered a huge loss.

He, who was hailed as the strongest kazekage ever first got pushed to brink by just three elite jonin and then his hidden trump cards for today also failed to make a difference.

In the last training session with him, Rasa mentioned to him a little about a large scale jutsu he was working on, he had expected him to take down a lot of konoha shinobi today.

But that cyclone that appeared turned out to be curtains for Rasa, according to intelligence a very young looking konoha genin with silver hair took down Rasa.

Even Pakura, who the other day under the guidance of Chiyo was able to achieve scorch release was defeated by the same shinobi.

"There's no point sulking here, let's go back and think about our future plans!"

Chiyo who was the most experienced was the first to get over her frustration and think rationally, telling the kazekage to calm himself down and go back first.

"That…Retreat!!!!"

"Retreat!!!!"

Every sand shinobi knew that the flare was the sign of retreat, so seeing it immediately they all began to regroup and fall back.

The konoha shinobi didn't chase them for long, as fighting all day most were tired as well.

Clink!!

Taking a deep breath, Kazuki put the Kusanagi that had taken a lot of lives today into the sheath on his back.

His calm eyes traced around, amid the smoke, dust and blood some konoha shinobi holding a corpse crying, some still searching for the closed ones.

The battle may have been won but no one had a smile as both sides suffered a lot like every other battle.

Soon, the injured were transported back to the sand stronghold and the corpses were brought back as well, everyone returning to the stronghold.

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