*Huff* *Huff*
His entire body covered in sweat, Kazuo woke up once more.
It was the same day, again...
His thoughts were in shambles from the pain he had just experienced, sometimes he felt like it was worse than if he had actually survived with deadly wounds all over his body.
Then his mind wouldn't be so confused every time he regressed back in time.
'I was ambushed?' Kazuo thought as he remembered how the day had gone.
Nothing had seemed out of place, Shikaru also wasn't the one responsible for this, he didn't need to hide his hand if he wanted to get rid of Kazuo.
'The cloud, there's a spy in the camp' Kazuo thought as his eyes sharpened, glinting in the darkness of his tent.
'You want to kill me? Then be prepared for hell you fucker' Kazuo thought before quickly getting out of bed and gearing up.
'They came into the tent whilst I was out training or during the time that I was inside the commander's tent. This means that they had at least a two-hour time span where they could implant the explosion tags whilst I was gone.' Kazuo thought as he quickly analyzed the situation.
'The problem is that I don't have a jutsu like a shadow clone which I can leave here, and I also don't have any jutsu capable of setting traps that are triggered by intruders. However now that I know what that bastard is planning, I just need to look around carefully just before I head into the tent. That guy must be watching, ensuring that his plan works and that I die.' Kazuo thought, quickly coming to a decision.
Heading out of the tent, he followed everything he had done yesterday, the only thing he changed was when Shikaru asked him of what he thought about the plan.
This time he did include the Hyuga in his theory however he left the other part out.
Shikaru seemed much more pleased this time though he was still critical of his narrow thinking.
Heading outside of the commander's tent, Kazuo tightened his fists.
His body and mind entered combat readiness as he walked toward his tent.
Looking around as discreetly as he could, Kazuo saw five shinobi around his tent.
'Five suspects, five time loops.' Kazuo thought before his face contored to show a somewhat deranged smile which he quickly hid behind a poker face.
'You think ill let this shit slide, especially when I have something to profit from if I catch you? Hah,' Kazuo sneered as he walked to the first shinobi.
He looked just like any random leaf shinobi, if someone were to ask Kazuo what the stereotypical leaf ninja looked like then it would be this guy.
With a large smile on his face, short light brown hair, and dark brown eyes with a leaf headband on his forehead.
"Hey!" Kazuo said as he waved at the man.
Turning around the guy gave Kazuo a large smile before returning the wave.
"Could you come with me to my tent? I wanted to ask you some questions senior if it's all right of course." Kazuo asked the man.
"Of course, I would be glad to offer my help." The guy said with that same naive smile on his face.
"Thank you, i was thinking of inviting everyone here, how about it" Kazuo said before raising his voice so that the four others could hear him.
This plan had just formed inside Kazuos head and he had decided to put it into action immediately.
Why go after the spy whilst dying each time to verify it when he could simply get all five at the same time, and when the spy was caught he would have four people to help him as well?
The other four also gave words of affirmation and nods before all five followed Kazuo into his tent.
'It didn't explode' Kazuo thought with a small smile appearing on his face.
His eyes grew even sharper as he looked at them.
"Do you think I wouldn't notice?" Kazuo asked, his tone firm as he looked at the five.
"Notice what Kazuo?" The first shinobi asked Kazuo, his voice confused.
"There is no use hiding it, Cloud spy," Kazuo said.
"Cloud spy? What the hell are you on?" One of the men said his voice betraying his emotional turmoil at Kazuo's words.
"It is exactly what I said, I've already removed the explosion tags from here, I suggest you come forward before I kill you," Kazuo said, lifting his arms up and making a rat seal.
This was a lie, Kazuo had no time or way to remove the explosion tags however bluffing was a major part of acting.
His words as well as the seriousness that Kazuo carried at the moment seemed to shock the shinobi before they all quickly turned serious.
*Haaah*
The man who had seemed angry at Kazuo held his forehead whilst he shook his head.
"I guess we did underestimate you," He said
'So it was you.' Kazuo thought as he turned to face the man before he was taken aback.
All five of the men gave him chilling smiles before they all made a hand sign simultaneously.
"Kai"
'Ah, you fuckers' Kazuo thought before a large explosion erupted once more.
Incinerating both Kazuo and the other men, leaving nothing but their charred corpses behind.
Outside of the tent which had caught on fire, shinobi quickly rushed to the location.
"That's Kazuos tent, an ambush," One of the shinobi said before he rushed and quickly made hand seals, a flood of water erupting from his mouth and dousing the fire that had started to spread.
Shikaru and the other captains didn't take long, merely a few seconds before they also arrived at the scene.
"It looks like they wanted to get rid of him huh," Shikaru said, his voice calm as he looked at fire.
"Those bastards"
"Cloud scum, I swear ill kill them all and avenge Kazuo and the other fallen comrades," One of the shinobi said, his words ignited a fuse as every shinobi started getting engulfed in rage.
"Aren't you making my grave too quickly?"
A voice said, causing everyone to turn their heads toward him.
Shikaru similarly turned around and gave him a smile.
It was Kazuo, he had no wounds on his body and he looked perfectly fine.
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It was Kazuo, no wounds were on his body and he had a slight smile on his face as he walked to Shikaru, the surrounding ninjas were flabbergasted, weren't they just saying that Kazuo had died?
"So you survived?" One of the captains said, his eyes slightly widened though the anger had vanished from his gaze.
"I knew something was wrong with them the moment that I talked with one of the ninjas surrounding my tent, deciding to be careful, I asked all of them to come with me inside my tent so that I could ask them, my seniors, some questions," Kazuo said before his slight smile widened slightly.
"I entered my tent before them, causing them to not see me for a slight moment which I used to enter underground with the Hiding like a mole technique whilst using the clone technique to make a duplicate of me that engaged with them in conversation. I stayed near the ground so that I could hear what they said and once I saw the danger, I simply delved deep enough under the ground where the explosion wouldn't affect me" Kazuo said as he turned to face the location where his tent had once stood.
If he was being honest then Kazuo was quite angered, he had lost quite a lot of his supplies and belongings that he had in his tent however overall he had ended up being the winner.
"You really are as cunning as Shikaru," The Hyuga captain said with a slight nod toward Kazuo.
Kazuo shook his head.
"No, Im simply afraid of death," Kazuo replied with a somber tone, his smile turning down and forming a thin line.
"Isn't everyone" Shikaru replied before every ninja turned to face him.
"I congratulate you, Kazuo. You have managed to eliminate five cloud spies the very day that I gave you the Chunnin rank, keep up the good work." Shikaru said, his voice loud enough that everyone could hear.
At that moment, the leaf shinobi around cheered as they walked and gave words of congratulations to Kazuo as well as pats on the back.
"Thank you, everyone, ill make sure that I do the same going forward and work to my bones so that my comrades and the village remains safe," Kazuo said, deciding it was as good of a time as ever to speak some will of fire bullshit.
Everyone laughed in good nature as they stared at Kazuo, their eyes had turned even more revering in a sense to Kazuo.
He had managed to help the camp massively more than twice already, both when he found the ambush plan of the cloud, to raising the morale and defeating a cloud jonin in battle, and now to defeating five cloud spies at the same time.
His reputation couldn't be compared to the him of only a few days ago where he was simply an expendable Gennin that no one paid attention to.
"Alright, someone helps Kazuo put up a tent for himself again, as for the rest go back to your tents for some rest. We will be marching forward again tomorrow, I need everyone well-rested for the journey." Shikaru said as he shooed everyone away from the location.
Kazuo meanwhile found himself surrounded by quite a bit of shinobi who helped him construct a tent quickly before they gave their goodbyes and left to their own devices.
*Sigh*
'Why couldn't I have just been reborn in a time of peace but I have to go through this bullshit' Kazuo thought to himself before entering his tent.
His plan was simple, take a rest for the night before going ahead and getting some supplies tomorrow from the commander and starting to prepare some supplies for the trek they were going on.
Sleep overtook Kazuo strangely fast, his dreams marred with bloodshed and fire causing him to wake up in the morning with sweat drenching him completely and rough breath.
*Huff* *Huff*
'This is becoming the norm, and I don't particularly find it entertaining.' Kazuo thought with furrowed brows before he quickly got out of his makeshift bed and headed out of the tent.
Arriving at a large tent close to the commander one, he entered inside.
It was where the supply administrators were located, any shinobi could come here if they were in need of supplies.
Behind a small makeshift counter, stood a young woman with dark brown hair and blue eyes.
"Hello, I'd like to request some supplies," Kazuo said straightforwardly.
The young kunoichi gave him a look before nodding her head, she wasn't one for words it seemed.
Turning around she quickly received a ninja bag which she handed over to Kazuo.
"These are the standard supplies, if you want more then you have to send a request to the commander and then come back here," She said before paying no more attention to Kazuo.
Nodding his head, Kazuo walked out and returned to his tent.
Quickly opening the bag, he found a selection of items.
Ten Kunai.
Twenty Shuriken.
Five Explosion Tags.
Three Explosion tag Kunai.
Three Soldier Pills.
'This is quite good, in fact, I didn't expect to get this much, it's most likely because im a chunin now so I'll be receiving more supplies.' Kazuo thought before taking out five kunai and placing them inside his seal, together with all the explosion tag kunai and the five explosion tags.
The rest of the supplies he simply put in his ninja bag.
'Allright with this, i have enough combat gear for the moment' Kazuo thought before starting to pack up his tent.
It took a few minutes but the tent was folded up and placed inside a designed sealing scroll that was given to each shinobi for it.
It didn't have a large size however and it could only hold the tent itself but it was rather useful considering it was quite small in size and could be placed inside someone's ninja bag.
With his work finished, Kazuo headed to the commander's tent where he saw Shikaru going out.
"Is it time sir?" Kazuo asked as he looked at the Nara.
A nod from Shikaru was all the confirmation he needed.
The next hour or so was filled with the ninja packing their tents up before they all lined up before Shikaru.
The Gennin had already departed yesterday, so the camp was only filled with Chunnin and Jonnin.
Before Addressing the shinobi, Shikaru handed something to Kazuo.
It was a jutsu scroll.
"Take this and learn it as quickly as possible, I don't want you to slow our advance by too much," Shikaru said before he turned around and started addressing the shinobi gathered in front of him.
Kazuo meanwhile opened the scroll and quickly looked it over.
A smile erupted on his face the very next instant.
'The Body Flicker Jutsu' Kazuo thought, his joy palpable.
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