Kaito was heavily panting, he looked to see the guy Satoru used the paper bomb on stand back up, although slowly. The guy Kaito was fighting till now looked at him with boredom.
'He is probably is as strong as Satoru's opponent, how am I supposed to defeat him alongside another strong shinobi.' Kaito lost all hope the longer he was in thought.
'I saw Satoru get sent flying and now Chosuke being overwhelmed by that muscular one. Am I the Las...' Kaito was interrupted by kuroi.
"Uuggghhhhh! How long will your internal monologue go on for? Come fight us already!" Kuroi had a sadistic grin as he cracked his knuckles
"It's two against one! You must be a coward to attack an injured man with the help or your friend and here I thought you kumogakure ninjas had honor." Kaito said, hoping to play the honor card.
"I don't dare about honor, not one bit. As long the job is done and nothing is lost I'm satisfied, and that's all that matters." Kuroi replied completely unbothered by Kaito's comment.
"How about we flip the tables then!" Said a mysterious voice, confusing the two kumo ninjas.
Suddenly Kuroi saw his teammate be stabbed by an injection, making him pass out in an instant.
Satoru came out of hiding and stood beside Kaito. "You don't care about honor? We don't care about it either! Hey, Kaito let's jump this guy!" Satoru got ready to fight.
---
"What's happening? You said his bones were broken...is it not the case? Why aren't you healing him?" Hinoka said tears welling up in her eyes as she looked at her team medic get more and more nervous the longer he tried to heal Soma.
"I was wrong earlier. It's not just the bones which are broken, that monster electrocuted his organs and damaged his entire body. He will die regardless of our victory or defeat." Tanaka said, despair crLwing up within as he looked at his dying friend and teammate.
"That's not possible! Is anything ANYTHING YOU CAN DO?" Hinoka said her tears could not be contained anymore.
She stood up abruptly and used her mind's eye of the kagura and sensed the entire forest looking for a certain someone.
When she first met him, she sensed a high affinity for yin-yang release which made her believe he is a medical ninja or can at least do some healing.
She looked through every team she could find, she eventually found him and she instantly started getting ready to bring him.
"Where are you going? You cannot leave us here like this. what if i need your help?" Tanaka said, looking at Hinoka wearing her tool pouch and looking in a direction.
"That's exactly why I'm leaving...to bring help." Hinoka whispered out, wiping away her tears and walking into the flora of the forest.
"Good luck...bring bring help." Tanka said as he continued trying to keep his friend alive.
---
Satoru rushed forward and punched kuroi, who blocked and sidestepped to dodge Kaito's fireballs. Lightning surged around him as he parried Satoru's sword strike and tried to punch him.
Kuroi was blasted away by Kaito failing to attack Satoru, he landed at a distance and thought 'there was no fireball around me, that guy wasn't even using a jutsu, was it a trap.' He rubbed his arm which was slightly burnt.
Satoru trusted his sword at Kuroi, whose fist moved like a rocket aiming to break Satoru. The punch was approaching the wind coated blade but suddenly the wind turned into lightning.
Satoru used his sword to redirect the electricity into certain 'strings' he set up. The punch lost all its power as Satoru tackled him and allowed Kaito to Land a fireball at him.
Kuroi kicked Satoru away but he grabbed onto a tree branch and jumped back to kick him. Kuroi shot a lightning bolt but it phased through Satoru, Kuroi didn't have time to realize what happened before Kaito blasted him again.
Kuroi jumped away just in time to dodge another fireball, landing where Satoru was, he ducked under a sword strike and grabbed Satoru's legs and threw him at one of Kaito's incoming fireballs.
Kaito did try to change the path of the fireballs, but Kuroi shot lightning at them exploding them, taking Satoru with them.
"SATORU! Are you okay?" Kaito said as he knelt beside Satoru.
"Behind...you."
Kaito turned just to punched with a lot of force, sending him crashing through trees. Completely knocking him out.
"Now...its your turn." Kuroi said as he walked towards the fallen Satoru. Satoru tried to whisper something but kuroi knew about the cliche and didn't bother going closer.
Satoru didn't mind. Lightning surged through several invisible strings around them, Satoru held his Arashi-ken and looked at the approaching Kuroi.
Kuroi weaved handsigns to finish Satoru for good, but then he heard crackling sound. A massive amount of lightning came out of the string and entered Satoru's sword. Satoru swung his blade launching a powerful wave of lightning at Kuroi.
He was completely unbothered by the wave approaching him as he completed his handsigns and grabbed the lightning as if it was a holdable object.
Kuroi looked at Satoru with malice as then he readied himself to throw the wave back. Satoru prepared himself to take the hit but kuroi told him "I didn't do this, Satoru...you did. You did this."
Kuroi threw the wave at Chosuke who was far away from the two. Chosuke managed to stall long enough for Ay to become useless, just as he was about to dispose off of Ay a wave of lightning hit him.
Chosuke screamed in pain as he skin, tissues, muscles and even some organs were electrocuted. He fell to the ground completely knocked out.
Ay looked Kuroi in the distance and nodded as he also started coming to where Satoru was, ready to end this team.
---
'He's over there...Is he fighting someone?' Hinoka thought as she neared the location.
'He is a weird guy...why did he help all of us? We weren't even konoha ninjas. If he took such a big risk to help uzushio and Tea shinobis unconditionally...then would he help me save Soma?' She was deep in her thought but then suddenly sensed his chakra levels drop significantly.
'Based on how he's fighting them, he might die before I reach him. I need to get there fast, maybe I could make him help me because I saved him. That might be my bargaining chip if he refuses.' Hinoka created a on the spot plan as she continued to sense the battle from across the forest as if she watching TV.
---
Satoru dodged a punch from and kicked him away, using his shoulders to climb into the tree to evade Kuroi's attacks.
"HEY, get back here!" Ay yelled out as he chased after Satoru into the trees. Kuroi warned Ay from entering into the trees as it was Satoru's specialty, but he didn't listen.
Ay followed closely despite not being able to use chakra and suffering from nerve damage in his entire body, Satoru weaved through the trees and its branches, confusing Ay while Kuroi tracked them from the ground.
Satoru threw shurikens and kunais at Ay to throw him off, but Ay powered through enduring the shurikens which cut him.
Satoru winced in pain as he held his broken left hand, he slipped and Ay took advantage and tackled him into the ground and started raining down punches on him.
Kuroi neared Satoru and prepared to use one of his jutsus to defeat Satoru. The lightning surged through Kuroi, as he pointed his hand towards Satoru, he formed the lightning spear
Satoru smirked as the lightning spear headed straight towards him. Satoru instantly grabbed one of the fallen shuriken from the ground and pulled on the ninja wore attached to it.
'The ninja wire! Was it there when he threw the shurikens at Ay...' he didn't have time to think when he saw Ay take the full force of the lightning as the ninja wire made sure that Satoru didn't take all the damage alone.
Satoru pushed off the paralyzed Ay off of him, as he slowly stood up, he admired the look on Kuroi's face, the fear of what his actions did to Ay, the shock which came from the fact that his opponent used his attack against just like he did.
"I didn't do this, Kuroi...you did. You did this." Satoru said with satisfaction, he had a look of pure ecstacy on his face as he fell to the ground besides Ay.
"Since you fought both me and Chosuke while I only defeated you with your friend's attack...I guess you can have the win." Satoru said to the paralyzed Ay who was twitching on the gloor beside him.
Before Kuroi could do anything to Satoru, a girl interrupted Kuroi.
Kuroi was kicked into the ground by Hinoka, who placed a seal on him. Kuroi didn't know what happened to him when suddenly all his chakra was drained away, making him lethargic and dizzy.
Hinoka walked closer to Kuroi placing a kunai on his neck, "Y-y-you are b-back? He died didn't he? Let me guess...you want revenge!" Kuroi said looking at the bloodthirsty expression on Hinoka's face.
"You people did it on purpose, you knew he would die, DIDNT YOU!!! You wanted us to spend days healing him just to realize he would die! YOU FUCKING MONSTERS!!!" Hinoka screamed at Kuroi, the kunai cocked back.
Hinoka was going stab Kuroi, but someone held her back. Hinoka, shocked looked back to see Satoru holding her hand back.
Satoru appeared to be completely unharmed, he walked closer to hinoka and said " I don't know who you are but I need him alive. BACK OFF!" Satoru looked at her before pulling her away from Kuroi.
"If you need him alive then I'll decide how he will live." Hinoka said as she weaved a handsign which cut off his chakra supply, making Kuroi unable to use his chakra. Hinoka then looked at the fallen bleeding body of Satoru and understood she was talking to a shadow clone right now.
'Was this the reason behind his sharp drop in chakra levels? This clone has enough chakra to land a powerful sneak attack...was he ever in true danger? Why couldn't I sense hi...'
Hinoka saw a certain tag with seals on it, it made sensing the clone harder to sense. '...those tags! He used them to hide from mind's eye of the kagura.'
"What do you want? You seem to be one of this guy's victims but my condition bothered you." Satoru said pointing back at his original body.
"A deal! I want to make a deal with you. I know you are a medical ninja, heal my teammate." Hinoka said firmly. " Do I look like I'm in a condition to heal someone? Even if I was, why would I help you?" Satoru said looking at his unconscious body.
"You don't really have much of a choice here, the deal is that you heal my friend and you get to live." Hinoka said her voice no longer firm.
Satoru looked at her trembling hands and the tears which were wiped away leaving behind a constellation on her eyelashes. "That friend of yours...he is fatally wounded isn't he? I'm your last resort." Satoru said calling out Hinoka's bluff.
'If I save her friend...I might be able to increase my popularity with the Uzumaki. Having civilian connection will no longer be beneficial to me in a few years, these clans might provide the exact things I need to improve further.'
"Tch, fine. Grab Chosuke and tell my about the details on the way." Satoru said as he picked up Kaito and his original body.
"You'll help me?! Really? Thank you!" Hinoka said slightly bowing in gratitude before picking up Chosuke like he weighed like a feather.
'She seems to be simple-minded girl, she wears her feeling on her sleeves...I should still keep my guard up, just in case.'
Both Satoru and Hinoka ran towards where Soma was, Hinoka prayed hoping that Satoru will sucessfully heal Soma.