Jiro quickly picked up the pace and informed Sarutobi of his encounter with the Iwa nin while also showing the body that they were going to take back for interrogation in the village. Sarutobi wiped the blood and brain pieces off of his pole before he gestured for Jiro to hide the body of the knocked out ninja as well as the villager. Sarutobi would go into the caves to look for Tsunade and Orochimaru while Jiro would get himself involved in protecting the village. Sarutobi trusted that Jiro would know to hide if the enemies were too strong or if there were too many enemies.Jiro was hiding behind a rather large boulder while watching the border of the Land of Fire to see if he could spot any enemy movement. He had moved the villager who was pa.s.sed out along with the body to a nearby bush that he could also watch over. The poor villager"s face showed that he was scared before he pa.s.sed out. Jiro didn"t bother to wake him up to comfort him as he was concentrating on his surroundings to make sure he didn"t get ambushed.
Sarutobi had left a couple minutes ago in order to meet with Orochimaru and Tsunade. Jiro could feel very faint vibrations at his feet due to him enhancing the senses at his feet with chakra. The ground did not tremble as a large amount of soldiers from Iwa arrived into his vision. They too were dressed in red and dark brown garments, but they were also protected by some leather armor.
They were not dressed for being stealthy, but Jiro noticed that they walked like ninja while moving with the efficiency of an army. Jiro could feel his blood start to really pump as he looked at the crowd of soldiers in front of him. There was still a couple of minutes before the soldiers would arrive near the clearing so Jiro began to prep a couple kunai with explosive tags. Finally, the soldiers arrived into the clearing with large numbers.
Jiro did not rush into the crowd of soldiers, he first tried to throw a ma.s.s Genjutsu over the soldiers by deonating one of his kunais which had an explosive tag on it. It was successful, but Jiro felt his chakra levels quickly drop to about half of its usual which still left him with plenty. The Genjutsu would make the soldiers not notice the bush in which the villager with the body of the unconscious Iwa nin was located. Jiro could feel himself finally begin to relieve the want for blood he had been suppressing for some time.
Suppressing his bloodl.u.s.t had made Jiro seek other ways to entertain himself which was why he had started to prank. Jiro wanted to go on a ma.s.s slaughter, he would relish being covered in the blood of his foes. However, the mission was more important. Jiro quickly looked around at the group of soldiers that were huddling together, looking and trying to hear if there was some sort of commander. Jiro noticed a man that looked slightly different from the rest of the soldiers near the middle of their formation. He had a red armband wrapped around his right bicep and he was shouting orders to the surrounding soldiers.
Jiro identified who he needed to keep alive so he got ready to slaughter the rest of them. Jiro made one more precaution before the battle, he created one shadow clone to keep track of the commander as well as kill off anyone who might try to run off. Preparations finally complete, Jiro threw himself into the battlefield prancing about with his two kunai in hand. Wherever he pa.s.sed by a couple of soldiers would fall, bleeding from wounds on their neck.
The commander quickly noticed the pattern and called for his soldiers to protect their neck. Jiro then threw his two rather deformed kunai away and began to throw shurikens at the soldiers. The ones skilled with their sword pa.s.sed the test, but the ones unskilled were bleeding from shurikens stuck on their face. The once hundred man group quickly shrunk to about twenty of the skilled soldiers. Jiro"s shadow clone also got some action as some men had tried to run off in the middle of the fight.
Jiro dashed towards the group of soldiers while pulling out two kunai to use in battle. At this point, Jiro finally activated his sharingan as he was not sure if he could take on twenty skilled soldiers that were getting into some formation. Clashes of light echoed through the clearing as Jiro and the soldiers clashed. After a couple of seconds, Jiro noticed that those he wounded would near the rear of the formation while those fresh would come up to battle him. Jiro wasn"t losing ground so he decided to mix in his shuriken throwing by putting one of kunai away. Utilizing only his right arm to block the attacks, Jiro began to throw shuriken rapidly at the soldiers. Most of them were not ready for the sudden attack.
Jiro began to prepare for round two with the ten remaining soldiers, but the commander pulled out something which he was about to put into his mouth. Jiro"s shadow clone quickly arrived to stop him while Jiro charged at the soldiers to distract them. After the shadow clone knocked out the commander, it charged at the remaining soldiers and ambushed them successfully killing off another three soldiers while Jiro killed four of them. The final three soldiers backed up as Jiro and his shadow clone rushed towards them.
Jiro had his shadow clone dismiss itself while he stopped using the body flicker jutsu. Jiro still had his sharingan out so he utilized it to put the remaining soldiers under a Genjutsu. After putting them under a Genjutsu, it was easy to knock them out too. Jiro brought over the body of the commander, the ninja, and the three soldiers into the middle of the clearing before he finally grabbed the body of the villager and sat down on the rock he was hiding behind moments earlier.
Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Sarutobi finally made their way out of the caves after fighting off more Iwa squads. Tsunade and Orochimaru had been delayed due to the mult.i.tude of bandits that were comparable to middle genin. After Sarutobi joined them, they cut the bandits down with ease. Unfortunately, several Iwa anbu joined the group to try and wipe them out so they were delayed further.
Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Sarutobi finally came out of the cave to witness the work of Jiro. The kills were very clean and the dead bodies were arranged on the ground and at the side. The five alive ones were in the middle and already knocked out. The villager was still pa.s.sed out while Jiro sat next to the villager looking completely unharmed except for a couple scratches and bruises. The ground had some scorch stains near the middle, but the rest was stained red with blood.
Orochimaru turned to his sensei asking what they should do with the bodies. Sarutobi just said to leave the bodies here as a deterrence in case more Iwa ninja come later. Tsunade rushed over to Jiro to embrace him as well as heal him of his cuts and bruises, but Jiro stated that he simply wanted to sleep. Jiro might have been covered in blood, but Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Sarutobi were covered in dust. Tsunade hugging him resulted in a weird result where Jiro was half red and covered in dust that looked like an embrace of somebody hugging him.
Sarutobi quickly got everyone to flee from the area because it would be important to get the captives to the village as soon as possible. After arriving at the village, Sarutobi allowed for his students to take a nap and some form of rest before he had them quickly leave. The villagers let them go while the pa.s.sed out villager was handed over to get some much needed rest. Jiro and his fellow apprentices quickly left following their sensei. Jiro also happened to find it very amusing that his sensei summoned Enma the Monkey King to just carry the bodies of their captives. The grumbling Enma made the rather solemn mood get turned into a funny one.
During their run to the village, Sarutobi had everyone take soldier pills so that they could make it back to the village in one go. He also summoned a monkey to send a message to the village that they would be arriving early with important targets that hold potentially vital information. By the time they came up to the front of the gates it was already midnight and Jiro felt so tired that he was blinking his eyes just trying to stay awake. Orochimaru was swaying back and forth like a snake in a rather hypnotic motion. Tsunade was already snoring while on her feet in a very unlady-like manner.
Messengers of the Senju and Uchiha clan were already at the gates waiting for the arrival of their respective clan members. They had been sneering at each other and comparing clans just moments earlier, but the arrival of the ninjas quickly sent them into their professional mode. The Senju clan messenger quickly grabbed Tsunade and took off using the body flicker jutsu.
Jiro stopped the messenger before he could grab him and pointed to Orochimaru indicating for the messenger to bring his teammate as well. The messenger nodded understanding the message and Orochimaru looked at Jiro with grateful eyes. Jiro nodded back at him, but they both began to collapse before the messenger grabbed them both and took off for the Uchiha clan compound.
Junichiro, Akane, and Fugaku were having dinner when the messenger arrived at their front door. After bowing to Junichiro, the messenger pointed to Orochimaru indicating that he was the teammate of Jiro and he took off in order to visit his family. Junichiro and Akane called over a medic from the clan to treat Jiro and Orochimaru. After a.n.a.lyzing both of them, the medic stood up.
"Jiro-sama and his teammate will be fine, they will be heavily exhausted due to taking in soldier pills to arrive here in one journey. They will also have to abstain from serious workouts as their muscles need to heal."