Kapitel 276: Chapter 276 Can I... Relieve Myself?

The iron ball hovered motionlessly over Kumogakure.

Inside, Koyuki was clinging tightly to Naruto's neck, and her legs wrapped around his like a pair of scissors. She felt utterly frustrated, even to the point of wanting to die.

Without any explanation, she had been pulled into this Space-Time Ninja Tool by Naruto, and she nearly lost control of her bladder due the intense atmospheric pressure. Her entire body felt as if it had been beaten, and her joints were aching.

What scared her even more was that she barely managed to clamp her legs together in time, otherwise, she feared she might have lost her first experience to the cursed atmosphere.

"Is this what you call safe?" She was on the verge of losing her mind.

Koyuki had a natural face that seemed to exude world-weariness. She looks good even when she is angry. It is the kind of face that looks ordinary at first glance, but becomes more and more elegant the more one look at it.

Her father, the Daimyo, had passed away before achieving his ambitions, and as the runaway princess of the Land of Snow, she had a natural disdain for fate and the world. Ironically, life had granted her a small escape, allowing her to live as an actress.

"Safe? I never said it was safe." Naruto pried her hands off with some effort, "Wait a minute, let me stick my head out and see where we are."

As he said this, Naruto was about to get up. He didn't know that the iron ball had been hovering over Kumogakure, so he planned to take a look to confirm. After all, if they weren't in the Land of Snow, he planned to use the Space-Time Ninja Tool to continue jumping.

"Wait!" Koyuki seemed to realize something and suddenly grabbed Naruto's hand, preventing him from getting up in this cramped space.

"What?" Naruto looked at her in confusion.

"You also didn't mention that the jump would mess with my bladder." Koyuki said awkwardly, coughing to maintain her dignity, "I was wondering if you could find a place where I can… relieve myself."

She felt mortified… both embarrassed and unwilling to lose face in front of a younger boy.

But the problem is, if they jumped again, she wouldn't be able to hold it anymore. Despite that, she didn't say this out loud, thinking that as an adult, it was normal to want to save face.

But she was also a little nervous, after all, this was a mission. If they faced any danger, she'd have to follow the lead of the Shinobi in charge.

"Let me see where we are first." Naruto chuckled lightly, not taking it too seriously. He gently pushed her down, then slowly stood up in the cramped sphere.

She sighed and looked at Naruto, who had half his body already sticking out.

"Where are we?"

"Good news and bad news." Naruto's somewhat annoying voice came faintly.

"The good news!" Koyuki gritted her teeth and said.

"The good news is, you can go relieve yourself." Naruto said, "By the way, I'll tell you the bad news too. We are above Kumogakure, and it seems we have been spotted."

"Spotted?" Koyuki gasped, and the word 'What a bad luck' was stuck in her throat but she couldn't say it. It's because from the way Naruto spoke, it seemed he didn't care much about being spotted.

Exhaling, she nervously replied, "Then there's no time for that! Let's just escape!"

After a while, she didn't hear Naruto's reply, nor did she see him retract his body, and she was immediately stunned. A bad premonition came to her mind, and she thought to herself, 'Could our luck really be that terrible?'

"We can't escape." Naruto said after a moment of silence.

In an instant, Naruto withdrew the iron ball into his seal space. As they began to fall, he grabbed Koyuki, pulling her tightly against him. Their heights were almost the same, so he easily held her close.

From the perspective of the Kumogakure's Chunin team that was chasing from a distance, a huge black object in the air in the distance was falling rapidly!

"What is that?" One of the Kumogakure's Chunin asked.

"I don't know, let's go over and take a look first." Another voice answered and then passed by him.

"Darui-sama?" The Chunin was startled when he saw the figure passing by him. Just as he was about to say something, he saw three other figures also rushing ahead.

It was Team Samui, which is led by the blond, busty, ice-cold Jonin of Kumogakure. She passed them and followed closely behind Darui, the elite Jonin who is the right-hand man of the Raikage.

"Wasn't Samui-sama sent to the front lines?"Tthe Chunin muttered, "Why is she here?"

"Quit talking and hurry up." His teammate urged as they passed him.

…

Kumogakure had a tradition: the bodyguards of the previous Raikage were typically next in line for the Raikage's position. Much like a bandit gang, where the chief and deputy chief were pre-selected, they ran like a mafia in the Shinobi World.

Darui is the deputy leader of the Kumogakure. His strength and status are comparable to Konoha's Kakashi. But if you really wanted to compare them, he is roughly equal to 0.86 Kakashi.

He had fading silver hair, dark skin, small eyes, a muscular build, and a lazy, carefree attitude. He is good at Lightning Release and fighting with wits.

Naruto had sensed a strong presence watching him from several kilometers away, so he decisively retracted the iron ball and opted for free-falling with Koyuki without hesitation.

As they fell…

"Aaahhh!" Koyuki reflexively screamed, but Naruto quickly cover her mouth.

"Damn it, don't scream!"

Naruto threw a Flying Thunder God Kunai into the distant woods, then instantly put imprint on Koyuki's body. Just as they were about to hit the ground, the two of them disappeared instantly.

…

Near the crash site.

Darui stopped and carefully observed the area for a while, his brow furrowing. Half a minute later, Team Samui landed softly behind him.

"What's the issue?" Samui asked, her icy expression contrasting with her eye-catching, statuesque figure.

"The target has disappeared." Darui replied, and then added after a pause, "The enemy might still be nearby. Search the area carefully, and tell your subordinates to be cautious."

"Understood." Samui nodded expressionlessly.

Darui had already moved forward on his own to search. Samui turned around and said to the two Chunin subordinates behind her, "The enemy is close. Search cautiously."

"This is too dangerous. One slip and we'll be dead, right?" Omoi, sporting a gloomy expression and sucking on a lollipop in his mouth, muttered. "Samui, I guess it's because only Karui and I are just Chunin, so you asked us to be careful."

The cold, stoic leader Samui watched her two unreliable subordinates, maintaining her expressionless demeanor, and said, "That's right."

The dark-skinned, red-haired girl, Karui, immediately lost her composure and punched Omoi in frustration.

"Go to hell, you pessimistic freak! We don't even know who the enemy is yet, stop saying such discouraging things! Damn it! Even so, Samui-senpai's comment was a bit too blunt."

While the bickering trio lagged behind, Darui had already ventured deeper into the forest, steadily tracking the infiltrators on his own.