章 39: Chapter 039: Secret Mission

Recalling previous night's conversation with Orochimaru who told Asahi that he was ambitious and was very much like him…

Orochimaru must think that Asahi and he were the same kind of people, who by fair means or foul, would choose to execute the mission putting it above everything else. It's estimated that Orochimaru thought that he would rather choose to abandon his teammates if it means to execute the mission.

Even Asahi himself thought so till now, but he didn't expect that when things came to it, it was still difficult for him to make the decision.

"They are going to catch up!" Keita glanced at the patrol teams behind them, and anxiously said.

"Hurry up, as long as we enter the Land of Rain, we can contact a team from our village" shouted Asahi.

Asahi was right, but it would take at least a few hours to get to the Land of Rain. Many variables could appear within such a long span of time, and no one could guarantee that Asahi and Keita could keep themselves safe till they get to the Land of Rain.

"We can't! Asahi, if we go on like this, we will be caught up sooner or later!" After a while, Keita felt that the sand ninjas behind them were getting closer, and shouted anxiously to him.

Running in the desert consumes too much physical strength. These sunagakure natives live in the desert all year round, and they have long been used to it. However, for Asahi and Keita, they were not used to such an environment. Their consumption of physical strength and their speed of running were far behind of their normal capabilities due to the unfavorable terrain.

'Can we only run away in separate directions?' Asahi thought silently.

"Asahi, let's ... run away in separate ways!" Keita was the first to suggest it.

"What?" Asahi hearing this felt a tremor through his body, and shot a shocked look at Keita.

"Let's run in different ways! Those sand ninjas already know that I'm from the Hyuga clan, so they will definitely choose to hunt me first, that way you will at least not have so many people coming after you… This way, at least you will have a chance to survive." Keita solemnly said.

"No!" Asahi shouted immediately, "You will die!"

Asahi had no idea what he himself thinking at the moment. Wasn't that the best choice? Why did he even refuse?

"If we keep running like this, we will both die!" Keita shouted back.

"We can still wait for Captain Minato to appear and support us." Asahi replied solemnly.

"Who knows if by the time Captain Minato is here, we will even be alive or not." Keita glanced at the patrol teams one last time, and with a grave expression said, "Asahi! If you continue to hesitate, we will both die."

"..."

In fact, this was also the best way in Asahi's mind, but he didn't know why, at that moment, he just couldn't bring himself to say it, in the end, was he just a hypocrite? This thought came to Asahi's mind.

"Until now you have always been the captain, and I have never questioned your decisions, but this time I will make the decisions. Asahi! You must live! Live for the both of us!" As Keita's voice fell, he directly jumped away. And Asahi ran in the other direction.

Looking at the back of his Hyuga teammate, Asahi's mind was filled too many emotions that were currently running through it. While moving away, he didn't know if he could be decisive like Keita when it matters, maybe he doesn't know himself enough and doesn't know what choice he would make under pressure.

But at least, he wanted to keep this guy who could sacrifice his life for himself alive.

"Keita!" Asahi shouted, then reached out for Minato's special kunai, and threw it at him while shouting, "I will see you later!"

He hoped that Minato could come over in time!

Separated from Keita, Asahi ran to the agreed place alone.

After glancing at the sand ninja chasing behind him, the number were a lot less now, there were only seven people.

He laughed self-deprecatingly, an ordinary ninja was really not as attractive as a Hyuga ninja who possesses the [Byakugan].

If those sand ninjas could really grab a pair of [Byakugan] and take it back, they'll immediately become a hero in their village. But what they didn't know was that even if they were to catch Keita, they would only get a pair of [Byakugan] that was destroyed.

An old but useful trick of the Hyuga.

When Asahi was temporarily out of sight from the enemy's perspective through the sand dunes, he created a shadow clone to replace him and lure the enemy away, while he himself used [Transformation Jutsu] to hide.

This was a risky approach. Asahi was betting that there was no sensory-type ninja among these seven sand ninjas who were chasing him.

Even if he's found, it would be a desperate fight. After all, Asahi would not be able to complete his secret mission without throwing off these sand ninjas.

*Shou*

The sand ninjas ignored Asahi's real body which was transformed directly, and rushed towards the shadow clone.

Asahi had won the bet, there was no sensory-type ninja.

An ordinary ninja and a Kekkei Genkai ninja were individuals who have very different value.

*Poof!*

The sand ninjas chased after Asahi's shadow clone for several minutes until the chakra of the clone was exhausted and it turned into smoke, seeing this, the sand ninjas reacted violently.

"Damn it, it was a Shadow Clone, we've been played by that kid!" A sand ninja roared.

At this point, Asahi had already arrived at the agreed place, but did not show up immediately, instead he hid in other places, waiting for Fujita's arrival.

At eleven o'clock, Fujita did not come, Asahi continued to hide, not at all eager to expose himself.

He believed that Fujita must also be hiding in other places at this moment, waiting for him to appear first, and after confirming that there were no problems, he would come out.

It's just that Asahi didn't know whether Fujita had any intention of killing him or not, so he would never show up first and give Fujita any chance. He could only compete with him on patience. Whoever is more patient would win.

Asahi was not afraid as even if Fujita never appears, and then he goes back without completing the mission, after returning, as long as Fujita does not appear to refute him, he could put all responsibility on him, after all, Fujita really didn't appear.

But Fujita couldn't do this. Once he didn't show up, Konoha's suspicions would be waiting for him, and then Konoha would secretly agree on another place and time to meet him next time.

And if the situation keeps on, and he doesn't show up, the next thing awaiting for him would be Konoha's never-ending assassination attempts, or some curse-seal would act on Fujita's body.

And Asahi would never risk his own life for a mission.

This is the difference between the two people.

At eleven-thirty, Fujita couldn't help but walk out first and came to the agreed place.

In the dark, Asahi couldn't see Fujita's expression, but he believed Fujita's face must be very ugly at this moment.

*Shou*

In the distance, Asahi threw the scroll and prepared an explosive tag at the same time. Once there was any suspicious action on Fujita's side, Asahi would immediately detonate it, attracting the people from Sunagakure here and pulling Fujita down with him.

Moreover Asahi still had the letter on his body, and Fujita must not know that.

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