88 Don't Leave Me, Big Bro!

Inside the Chinoike clan's hideout, people were mourning, Hintao was dead.

They buried his body inside of the cave, the clan members were staying in front of his simple grave.

Hintao was the man who had shouldered all of the clan's struggles for the past years, he was a good shinobi.

Unfortunately, the stronger Torune had make quick work of him and stole his two particularly strong eyes.

The old man Iguro had suggested that they chose a new clan leader, for he did not believe in the return of Kentaro and Mū.

The people of the clan were divided in terms of opinion about this matter. Many wanted to follow Hintao's last will, but others did not believe in Kentaro and Mū.

The duo entered the cave and made their way down. The jar was in Mū's hands.

"Look! Look! They are back!" a little boy spotted the presence of Kentaro and Mū.

The moarning Chinoike turned around, their saviors had arrived. The people who believed in the duo since the beginning had big smiles on their faces. The people who had doubted them were regretting it, they had showed no faith to their saviors.

The old man Iguro hurriedly walked forward and looked at Kentaro's state. He knew that he had fought against a powerful individual.

"Kentaro, don't tell me that...you have retrieved thr clan leader's eyes?"

Mū shoved the jar into Iguro's face, he wanted him to see the eyes.

"Old man, look! We have successfully retrieved them." Mū was excited like always.

"Iguro, lead us to Hintao." Iguro sighed and shook his head.

"Kentaro, the clan leader has succumbed yesterday. Since you are here today with his eyes, under his orders, we will join you."

The Chinoike all walked next to Iguro, they showed that they were of the same opinion.

"I see, may he rest in peace. I will take care of all of you like Hintao did. From today onwards, you are all my brethren!"

Mū looked in awe at Kentaro, he was impressed by how Kentaro talked to the people.

"We pledge allegiance to our new leader, Kentaro Fujimoto!" all the Chinoike pledged allegiance in unison.

"I ask every one of you to pack all of your belongings. If they are too big, let them here."

The Chinoike did what Kentaro asked them to do. The kids had a particularly hard time, they were born and grew here.

It is not easy to leave a part of your life, but they had to do it, for their survival.

"Everyone is ready. We can go whenever you want clan leader." Iguro addressed Kentaro by his new title.

Kentaro made everyone exit the cave with Mū. He created fifty palm sized stones out of his mouth and infused them with explosive chakra.

"It is not the best material used for great and effective explosions. To destroy a cave, it should do the work."

He threw them all over the cave and left. Kentaro joined the other and they left the area going west.

While Mū was leading the fifty Chinoike, Kentaro turned around and formed the seal of Confrontation.

"Explode." the explosion destroyed the cave and everything that was left inside.

Some of the Chinoike stopped and looked at the now destroyed cave, their home had been destroyed.

They entered the land of frost and stayed there for four days. The beautiful land of hot water was next.

There, Kentaro and Mū decided to give the Chinoike a good rest. They had good times in the hot springs and whenever Mū wanted to peep, Kentaro stopped him and scolded him.

One month later, the group had reached the land of earth. Kentaro knew that it was time to go his own way, there was one last clan he wanted to recruit.

"Mū, I think that I will go my own way from here." hearing this, Mū looked at Kentaro in shock.

"Big bro, d-don't leave me! I will come with you!" Kentaro shook his head.

"Lead the Chinoike to my clan's village. Then, return back home and have some rest. I hope that you have been convinced by my sincerity of forming an alliance with the Kamizuru clan, may you talk good of me to Daitan."

Mū had tears in his eyes, he did everything to not let them flow. He never thought that he would become so attached to Kentaro.

'Big bro! We have lived so much together, so much adversity, so much peeping. You and me, we are one!" Mū was imagining a thousand and one scenarios in his head.

"Little Mū, we shall meet again if everything goes right on my side." Kentaro took his staff and propelled himself far away.

Mū stretched his arms in an attempt to keep Kentaro with him, he fell to his knees and looked high in the sky.

"Whyyyy! Whyyyy! Big brooo! Don't leave me!" Mū looked like a madman.

The Chinoike were feeling awkward after witnessing such a scene from Mū.

He stood back up and led the Chinoike while crying like a baby, their figures soon dissappearing in the never-ending Rocky fields.

Far south from where he was previously, Kentaro had badly landed on his butt. He was apparently in the land of wind.

"Shit! Now I'm stuck in a fucking desert!" Kentaro stood up and patted his clothes.

Sand had entered everywhere, it was a really unpleasant feeling.

Kentaro bit his finger and placed it on the sand, it was time to use the monkeys' tracking ability.

"Summoning Jutsu!" smoke appeared all around Kentaro.

"Yo, boss! Why'd you summon us?" Kentaro looked at all the one hundred monkeys, they were all dressed in red kimono.

"Why are you guys dressed like me? Oh!? You even have a miniature golden staff!"

"Monkey see, Monkey do! You know that, right boss?" they were all dressed like him, it wasn't that bad actually.

"Boys, scout the whole place and find the whereabouts of the Kedoin clan." the monkeys nodded and dispersed.

'The Kedoin clan will be the perfect police force in my opinion.'

Kentaro sat down in meditation pose, he only needed to wait for the monkeys to return with information.