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Inside the forest,

Watch Out!!!!

The cry full of shock, concern and hope spread in the dense forest, the dagger in the hands of the figure with a burn mark on the course to pierce through the back neck, mere inches away.

....

The world around Naoki seemed to have gone quiet at this moment, his eyes wide open as the chakra in his body began to riot, through the chakra pathways rushing towards his brain at abnormal speed.

Like an instinct, the moment his neck was about to be drilled by the dagger, a red light flashed in his eyes as his body moved to left.

"Zuuu!!!"

The dagger grazed pass the neck without doing any damage, Naoki at the last moment dodging the sneak attack miraculously.

"Damn!!! How is it possible!!!!!?"

Asked the figure holding the dagger in an unwilling tone, disbelief on his face.

He had attacked swiftly from a very close spot, Naoki who wasn't on guard against him, how did he manage to dodge?.

"Hmph! Useless Trash!!"

The stone rogue shinobi seeing him failing in his sneak attack, commented in a slightly angry tone.

"What....What are you doing?"

Naoki who had dodged the attack, gazed at the sneak attacker with chilly eyes, asking in an even chillier tone.

"I....

The tall figure met the gaze of Naoki, his hair standing up from terror and fear, even having a hard time responding, the oppression brought by this kid before him greater then any enemy in his life.

"So...the one we were supposed to rescue, our mission target is colluding with the enemy...what a great first mission!"

Muttered Sayuri with helplessness in her tone, here she was slowly dying and for nothing, the mission turned out to be a big sham.

Hell, there mission target was in cahoots with the enemy, the world truly unfair.

"Sigh...

Thinking of all this, Sayuri who felt weaker every passing second let out a big sigh, the fear of death replaced by helplessness at this moment, accepting the current situation, understanding getting scared won't change anything.

Thud!!

The change in mentality seemed to have eased the pain of Sayuri as lying on the grassy ground, she turned her head to gaze at Naoki, quietly watching him.

Swish!!!

Boom!!!

The ground cracked as next instance Naoki was before the tall figure, the small fist falling on his chest.

Crack!!!

The sternum broke like a crisp cracking as the eyes of the tall figure bulged out, like a balloon losing it's air, flying away.

Bang!!!!

Flying upside down he hit the ground near the passed out old man, dust and rubble flying around, a human shaped pit on the ground.

In the pit lay the tall figure with eyes white, punched unconscious by Naoki.

Whooosh!!!

Naoki who had just blown the son of the old man away, felt his danger instinct kicking in.

Immediately he turned around and punched again, his small fist colliding with a huge rock fist.

Boom!!!

Massive air flow was generated at the point of contact, cracks appearing on the rock fist still not breaking, Naoki blown back couple of steps this time.

'He's at least as strong as those other three!"

Digging his feet into the ground, Naoki quickly stabilized himself, and guessed the strength of the enemy, at least special jounin.

"This little monster!!"

The stone rogue shinobi looked at the cracks on his rock fist and couldn't help but mutter in shock, he was expecting to turn Naoki's arm into paste with his attack but this happened.

"Did he use chakra?"

Thought the rogue shinobi inwardly, a little bit unsure, he was just a slightly stronger special jonin and his perception of chakra wasn't top level, so he had doubts.

Boom!!

"I have to hurry!"

Naoki despite guessing the strength of the enemy didn't show any fear, but quickly rushed towards him, intending to finish this fight as quickly as possible.

His strong body had more resistance to the virus but with time he is feeling his muscles getting affected, soon he will loose the ability to fight like the others.

So he wanted to defeat him quickly and get the antidote and cure himself with that, not through the other way.

"Don't treat me so lightly!!!"

Seeing Naoki rushing to attack him again, the rogue shinobi shouted and made a hand sign, the cracked fist recovering as he punched front again.

Naoki met the punch just like before, though the difference was the perfectly streamed blue aura around his fist.

Kach!!!!

The big and small fist collided again, though the outcome completely different from before.

The rock fist turned powder immediately upon the contact, the small fist of Naoki continuing and hitting the now exposed fist of stone rogue shinobi.

Ahhh!!!

The right arm of the rogue shinobi completely burst open, blood along with seperated bones flying everywhere, a gruesome scene on the battlefield, the heart wrenching screams of the stone shinobi spreading everywhere.

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