35 - Not enough time...

"It's definitely her…" Crow said with a serious tone.

"How do you know they are in our next-door?" Monkey asked, unable to believe that they were searching all over the city for Tsunade, and she was staying right next door.

"I will explain later. First, go and find out if she is the same person…" Kirito said, as he saw Kakashi's condition getting worse.

"I will go. You guys wait here…" Crow, who was already ready to leave, said while opening the door.

As he opened the door, they saw Tsunade walking hurriedly, with Shizune running behind her, holding a huge bag.

"Lady Tsunade, wait…" As Crow confirmed that it was indeed Tsunade, he called out to her from behind.

Upon hearing someone call her name, Tsunade turned around and found a Konoha ANBU calling her. She asked with a serious tone, "What does the Konoha ANBU want with me?"

"Looks like you were correct, kid… " Monkey said to Fox (Kirito, who again wore his fox mask when Crow went to the door) as he got out.

"Can you please help us?" Fox came out and asked pitifully, looking at Tsunade. After all, he didn't want his comrades to die on his first mission. Besides, Kakashi wasn't just a captain to him.

"What do you need?" Tsunade, who easily saw through Fox's disguise and his small build, knew he was just a kid. When he pleaded, she felt something inside of her hurt, looking at those pitiful eyes, and said carelessly.

"Please, this way, Lady Tsunade…" Monkey invited her inside.

As Tsunade entered the room, she saw Kakashi sweating heavily while still conscious. She quickly went near him and started inspecting Kakashi. After that, she said with a serious tone, "He has been poisoned by a very strong poison…"

"Yes, it happened while he was fighting Sasori from Sunagakure…" Monkey said, also with a serious tone.

"I thought he was dead…" Shizune said from the back.

"So it was her grandson…" Tsunade said while looking at Kakashi, who was passed out right now. Then she turned towards everyone and said, "Though I want to cure him, it isn't possible here. We need to move him to the hospital."

"Ok, let's do it right away…" Fox said while picking Kakashi up from the bed.

"Wait, there, kid. We can't just go to the hospital like that. After all, this isn't our village…" Monkey said, stopping Fox from using his flash steps and going ahead of them.

"It doesn't matter because we are going to use Genjutsu…" Fox said as he disappeared with Kakashi on his back.

•••••••

Inside the hospital…

After examining Kakashi's condition, Tsunade turned toward everyone and said, "This is not the same level of poison that Hag used in the past but a level advanced than hers…"

"Can you cure him?" Monkey asked hurriedly, knowing how strong Chio's poison really was.

"Yes, I can make the cure, but we will need one more plant, including the ones we found in the hospital…" Tsunade said with a nod.

"What plant is it?"

"The plant isn't that rare and grows a lot, the only problem is that it only grows in the deserts of the Wind Country…" Tsunade said while shaking her head.

"That's a long way from here, and by the time you return, he will not make it…" Shizune said with a serious tone, and Monkey and Crow started feeling really bad.

"If that's the case, give me the picture and describe the structure of the plant and where I can find it…" Fox said, taking off his body weight.

"Forget it, kid…" Before the sentence was finished, it got interrupted by Fox.

"Just give it to me…" Fox said with a serious tone.

"Alright, kid, here it is, but before you go, remember you will need to return in 16 hours for me to make the drug to cure him."

"Don't worry, I will be back before that…" With those words, Fox vanished from everyone's sight.

"What do you guys think?" Tsunade asked, looking at Monkey and Crow.

"To be honest, I am not sure if he will be able to return before the appointed time, but one thing I will say is that I will bet on him…" Monkey said, looking out the window.

"Yes, he might make it in time…" Crow also agreed.

"Interesting…" Tsunade just said that while looking out the window, thinking, 'Jiraiya didn't tell me Konoha has someone so young and strong.'

While she was thinking, she came out of her thoughts because of Kakashi's sudden noise and quickly said, "Shizune..."

"I am on it, my Lady…" Shizune started giving some primary doses to lessen the effects of the poison and pain.

•••••••

Whisk running through the forest, Fox thought, 'Though I am not able to use Flash steps that many times, but if I use the Gate of Healing, I might be able to pull it through…'

With that, a silver chakra surrounded him, and he kept using flash steps to move forward with unimaginable speed.

Within almost 10 hours, he finally arrived in the desert and thought, "With only this speed, I won't be able to return in time…"

After another 30 minutes, he finally found what he was looking for. While taking the plant into storage, Tsunade gave him, he said to himself, "Now the only

choice I have is to use that new move…"

"Blink." This is the word that was heard before he vanished from that spot and appeared more than 2 kilometers away from where he was before.

[Flash step is a jutsu in which the person moves at extreme speed. In this jutsu, there is no need for any kind of hand seal but extreme control over your chakra. To use this jutsu, you just need to surround your legs with lightning and wind chakra and then move at extreme speed. For this, you will also need a strong body.

Blink is a jutsu that also doesn't need any kind of hand seal but requires a level of chakra control above that of Flash steps because the user needs to surround their whole body with this chakra and needs to consume a huge amount of chakra to complete it. In this process, the user will teleport from their spot instantly to the targeted place inside the domain of the user's sensing.]

After using Blink for more than 48 minutes, finally, Fox arrived at the room where Kakashi was right now.

"You really made it…" Tsunade said while receiving the plant from Fox's hand.

"Please cure him…" Fox said while going near a bed and thought, "Close…" while falling asleep after closing all the gates.

"Ki…" Monkey went near him quickly to see if anything was wrong.

"He is just sleeping…" Monkey said with a laugh, and the rest nodded. After all, they all knew he must have gotten tired.

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