Chương 44: Another interference

In front of me was an Anbu, protecting Minato from me, while behind me, there were two idiots knocked out.

Even though Anbu's appearance was unexpected, I didn't panic. At first, I decided to gauge the strength of this Anbu. If he is weaker than me, I will finish him and Minato quickly as I can.

But if his strength is on par or even stronger than me, I will pull out immediately while dragging these two with me. I am quite confident in my running away skills.

I am sure this Anbu or his friends already sent for help to Konohagakure. We have to get out of Konoha's land before they completely lock down the border we are escaping to.

Without hesitating, I coated lighting charka to my twin butterfly swords, which resulted in the bright lighting and dashed at Anbu.

Anbu in response pulled out another blade from his back and went for defense position. He directly received my full-out aggressive sword attacks.

I am surprised a bit that his blades could withstand my lighting swords. I observed, just to found out that Anbu coated his blades in a very thin wind chakra.

'No wonder, since wind affinity is stronger than lighting affinity, those blades could withstand my lighting swords. He also used his wind charka as a minimum as he can, to conserve his chakra.

And he doesn't sweat a bit to block my aggressive sword strikes. He is definitely a Jounin-level shinobi. But I feel like he is not stronger than me. That's enough for testing.'

I dashed at him again at a faster speed. I swing both my swords at his head. Anbu blocked my swords with his blades. But I encased my right feet in rock and kicked at him to put more strength.

(A/N: this jutsu is like Earth style: Rock fist, but instead of hardening your fist, you enclose your feet in rock)

I started to use advanced Wing Chun sword arts with a little bit of feet attacks. After attacking with swords, I used my feet to attack him to connect him, next sword attacks again. I just didn't give time to breathe in Anbu.

After fighting for 5 minutes, Anbu started to slow his movement. And in 10 minutes, he couldn't keep up with my attacks anymore and chose to keep a distance and use Ninjutsu.

'So he is using Ninjutsu, huh? Damn, it would take a bit longer to kill him in a fair fight. But there is no way I am going to fight in fair and square.'

"Fire Style: Fire Dragon Flame Jutsu."

Anbu performed a few hand signs and spitted out the flame from his mouth which, traveled in quick speed at me.

I quickly created the Earth Wall just in time to block fire dragon flame jutsu. I then created one Earth clone.

I next, did several hand signs to prepare Earth Style: Stone Pistol jutsu. I spitted out 5 stone pistols from my mouth which grew into giant boulders.

But stone pistols didn't fly to Anbu, instead, they were aimed at Nawaki Senju. I was using Nawaki as a bait. I was sure Anbu will no matter what, come and save Nawaki SENJU from those giant boulders since that is his mission.

As expected Anbu appeared in front of lying-down Nawaki and cut off giant boulders to save him. I ordered my earth clone to attack him while I used Earth Travel jutsu to sneakily move behind him.

Anbu used one hand to cut off boulders while the other hand to block my clone attack.

I appeared behind me and shouted at him while slaying his back.

"You made the wrong choice, bitch!!"

Although I intended to cut off his head, Anbu was experienced enough to detect me in the last second and managed to avoid his death barely. But he was still injured heavily in his back. My plan to use Nawaki as initial bait and earth clone to finishing bait was successful.

"Let's finish this," I said to Anbu.

"Earth style: Swamp of Underworld!" I created swamp below him, so he can't escape. He couldn't dodge it as he could barely move from my strike.

I shot 3 Earth Stone pistols and Earth Dragon jutsu at him. Lastly, I created the Earth Style Barrier: Prison Dome around him and blow all of them off at the same time.

I checked to see if Anbu was alive, but as expected, he died with only a few fleshes remaining.

After killing Anbu, my attention went to Minato once again.

"We had disturbance while ago. But since I finished him off, let's continue where we left off." While saying this, I dashed to Minato.

"Damn it!!" Minato pinned his hope to the Anbu, but seeing him blowing up to pieces, Minato lost his hope and screamed loudly.

I strike down my swords at him without any hesitation.

*Clank*~~~~~

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'What the fuck!! I am starting to think that Minato fucking has some kind of plot armor or something. First, it was Anbu and now this long blue-haired Konoha Shinobi blocked my swords to protect Minato.

Not only that, but this also paled long-haired shinobi is not your damn average Jounin. He is DAN!!! Freaking next Hokage candidate appeared!!'

After realizing it was Dan, my face turned from neutral to disaster. Now, before I had this confidence to kill Anbu, but Dan is another shit level.

Since Dan was here, I knew I had less than 5 percent chance to kill Minato. Heck instead, I might even get captured if I am not careful.

I instantly created earth clone to pick up Fugaku while I pick up Nawaki and throw several smoke bombs to escape. I also send a fire signal in the sky to order everyone in my squad to retreat immediately.

While running, I asked System to explain all Dan's known abilities in detail.

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(General POV)

Dan wasn't hurried to chase Genji, but instead, he sat to Minato and gave him emergency treatment.

"I heard it was a simple B-rank mission, but I am glad that Tsunade asked me to check up on you guys. If it wasn't me, then you guys might..." Dan didn't continue.

After treating and bring Minato to a safe place, Dan started chasing Genji.

"Be careful, That Iwa Ninja kid is strong. He even took down Anbu with no injury." Minato warned Dan before he leaves.

Dan just smiled at Minato and told him to wait for him.

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System:" Host has successfully triggered a special quest.

*Quest: Host is currently chasing by Next Hokage candidate, Dan.

Please shake him off and meet Host's squad without being tailed.

Reward: Barrier Jutsu: Four Violet Flames Formation scroll (Known for trapping Dan) and Spirit Pill (Blocking Dan's spirit from possessing your body)

Failure: There won't be any failure. If Host doesn't shake him off, the Host will be captured by him. So please complete the quest if Host wants to live.*"

'So this is like even if the system gives failure, I won't be alive to receive the punishment, huh. That's scary.'

I was quiet for a few minutes to think of a plan to escape Dan.

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Dan hurried at tremendous speed to search for Genji as he was specifically asked to protect Nawaki from Tsunade.

After 20 minutes of searching, he found Genji carrying Nawaki and Uchiha kid. He quickly threw Kunai to stop them and struck Genji. But unfortunately for him, they were earth clones. With a disappointed look, he continued searching.

Following, with no choice, Dan used his signature jutsu: Ghost Transformation Jutsu. He will become a living ghost and travel or fly at incredibly high speed and possess the target's body or even kill them.

Using this jutsu, he was able to discover and kill fake Genji clones in exceedingly fast. He was traveling at the edge of the waterfall and he saw Genji carrying Fugaku.

But at last moment, Genji knew he sensed that he would be attacked by Dan and awake Fugaku up and threw him to waterfall.

Dan attacked Genji, only to find out he was clone too. But then, he realized Fugaku, Genji's clone threw was real, not a clone. Fugaku was screaming, crying for help in the water.

Soon, Fugaku fell off from waterfall, and Dan also went down and possessed Fugaku's body to save him.

Luckily, Fugaku managed to survive to fall from the waterfall, thanks to Dan's help. But his body was in a literal mess and he could barely breathe.

As much as Dan wanted to continue searching for Genji and Nawaki, his kindness didn't allow him to leave Fugaku alone here in the deep forest.

He made a clone told him to escort Fugaku while real him became Ghost mode and continue searching.

But as soon as he left, several Genji clones attacked Dan's clone and Fugaku. Some of Genji's clones suicide bombed with Dan's clone.

After getting his clone memory back, Dan came back shortly and destroyed all of Genji's clones. But this action made Dan unsure if he should leave Fugaku with his clone again.

In the end, Dan decided to escort him back personally, abandoning his search for Genji and Nawaki.

Also, his ghost mode had a time limit and spends huge charka. He didn't want to waste all of them by the time he actually finds Genji.

(A/N: the time limit is a weakness that I created to nerf Dan a bit. His ghost mode seems to be very op and I honestly have no idea how to defeat it. I am thinking he might even kill the first homage with that op jutsu)

I used Earth Barrier: Prison Some jutsu on Fugaku to absorb all of his charka empty. So he doesn't have enough chakra to stand up on the water.

I was sure, by now Dan should be wasting his time saving and escorting Fugaku to a safe place. Using Fugaku as a deadweight drag to Dan, I was sure knowing Dan's kindness, this plan would work.

I didn't kill Fugaku as I was afraid that Dan won't even bother saving the dead corpse.

Although I had to give up on Fugaku, I still have Nawaki with me. Also, I plugged out Fugaku's last remaining Sharingan. So even if Dan saves him, he is useless in the future.

After 1 hour of speed, I arrived at the place where I told my squad to gather in case an emergency we got separated.

Gari, Gin, Kimiko, and the spy were there waiting for me, Kan and Kitsuchi. I was a bit surprised that Gari is here before me.

System:" Host has successfully completed a special quest.

*Quest: Host is currently chasing by Next Hokage candidate, Dan.

Please shake him off and meet Host's squad without being tailed.

Reward: Barrier Jutsu: Four Violet Flames Formation scroll (Known for trapping Dan) and Spirit Pill (Blocking Dan's spirit from possessing your body)

Failure: There won't be any failure. If Host doesn't shake him off, the Host will be captured by him. So please complete the quest if Host wants to live.*

Rewards are now in the Host's Kunai pocket."

It seems Anbu didn't attack Gin, Kimiko, and the spy.

But one Anbu came interfering Gari's fight with Hyuga twins just like mine. I was beyond happy to hear that Gari captured and brought one of the twins with him.

Gari told me he couldn't capture the other twin as Anbu took him and ran away after realizing Gari was powerful than him.

I saw it was the younger twin Hizashi whom Gari captured. I should have known since Hizashi will be a branch family member in the future. So Anbu took Hiashi with him.

Now we just have to wait for Kan and Kitsuchi. I took out Four Violet Flames Formation scroll from my Kunai pocket and studied until they come back.

For some reason, I got a bad feeling.

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2 hours later, our anxiety was growing bigger and bigger. I didn't want to imagine something bad happens Kitsuchi. Then we would be fucked up by Onoki for sure.

Finally, we saw Kan coming, got relieved.

But as soon as Kan came close to us, he suddenly kneeled down and asked for forgiveness.

"Sorry, Genji. Kitsuchi's got captured by them!! I didn't manage to protect Kitsuchi from them. I am so sorry."

I fell like my life ended when I heard Kan. Instant Anger came over me. I quickly grabbed Kan's collar and questioned him.

"What? You idiot let him get captured?? Why do you think I let you go with him? He is 100 times much worth than you!! Why aren't you the one who got captured, you idiot!!!"

I was even about to punch him, but Gari stop me and told me to calm down. Gari also asked Kan to explain what happened.

"Kitsuchi and I were fighting against three trio kids. Although three kids' jutsu were weird and tricky, we were gaining the upper hand.

But suddenly Anbu came and joined the fight. This put us into disadvantages and we were no longer winning side.

That's why I suggested Kitsuchi hold these three kids trio busy until I finish off Anbu alone one on one.

He agreed and we managed to separate An u and those three kids trio.

While fighting Anbu, I saw the signal Genji sent and rushed to kill him. He was a sensor and good at combat. So I was able to kill him after a long battle.

When I returned to bring Kitsuchi to retreat, I saw he got captured by blue long-haired Jounin of Konoha. He was powerful too. I was no match for him at all.

But he didn't capture me, instead, he told me to go tell Genji to exchange our prisoner tomorrow morning at the waterfall.

Of course, I checked if I was being tailed or not before coming here. I used Earth Travel jutsu to reach here. I even created clones to act as baits."

Kan told us what happened to him and Kitsuchi. It seems like Dan's arrival screwed most of my plans to capture Konoha kids.

I got calmed down after listening to Kan and went into thinking.

I don't know why Dan is here or who sent him here, but I gotta think of a plan to rescue Kitsuchi tomorrow morning.

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*Explanation*

(A/N: Now, I see a lot of you guys wanted Minato to die. But I still plan to let Minato live.

As for the first reason, because I'm super lazy to create OC replacement for Naruto as Ashura's reincarnation.

I personally feel weird seeing there won't be Naruto in a fanfiction of a show called "Naruto"!!!

Also, I would like to picture Minato vs Genji during the third ninja war.

If you guys are worried about Minato becoming so strong that he could possibly kill mc or mc's friends and beloved, then don't worry. I won't make him too op like that.

Hope you guys are convinced, hahaha!

Next chapter will be brain battle between mc vs Shikaku)