Chapter 9 Slash

Konoha.

Death Forest.

"This is the herb we were looking for, right, Tsunade Sama?"

Among numerous towering trees, in the dark forest stood two figures, both of them being women.

One of them had pink hair, fair skin, green eyes, and a violet diamond mark on her forehead; she had worn a red sleeveless top exposing her belly button; she also wore light-colored pants, high heels, and white bracelets.

"Yes, it's pretty rare; we are lucky to find it here,"

The other woman who spoke had blonde hair, brown eyes, and a diamond mark similar to the other woman on her forehead.

She wore a grass green haori, and underneath it was a grey sleeveless Kimono.

"I'm sorry, Tsunade Sama, I had to bother you with such a thing"

Apologized Sakura as one of the patients in the hospital was poisoned, and to cure him, this rare herb was needed.

She would waste a lot of time to find it, but Tsunade, the most proficient in Medical Ninjutsu, must know where it is growing, so she asked her.

"Don't worry, but hehe~ don't forget to send a bottle of sake"

Tsunade waved her hand in a carefree manner but didn't forget to remind Sakura, flashing a smile at her.

"ROAR!!!!* *ROAR!!!!*

At this moment, the expression on the face of both Tsunade and Sakura changed hearing the roars.

"It's a tiger… and not just one…"

Sakura immediately concluded it as she said to Tsunade, who was looking towards the voice direction.

"It's about 100 meters away from us, and judging from the intensity of the voice, the tigers seem angry"

Tsunade, whose experience was even vast than Sakura, concluded so much from a single sound.

"Maybe someone sneaked in; we should take a look"

"Okay, let's go"

Sakura said with a worried look on her face as Tsunade nodded.

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A few minutes earlier…

A figure wearing a dark cloak leaped from tree to tree, moving forward constantly, and his dark pupils under the mask had a look of expectation.

"Finally, here"

Soon, the figure walked out of the dense forest and appeared in a clear grassy field with a three-meter-high boulder in the middle.

Satoshi spoke as he looked at the three giant tigers right beside the boulder.

Roar!!!

Hearing his voice, the tigers looked towards him and stood up immediately as they roared, looking at him.

Their appearance was similar to a Siberian tiger in the past life of Satoshi, but their height was around 2 meters, and anyone would be scared standing before them.

"Clink…"

Hearing their angry roar, Satoshi wasn't much afraid as, keeping his head down, he held the sheath horizontally with his left hand above his head and pulled the sword out with his right hand, making a sound.

*ROAR!!!* *ROAR!!!*

Seeing the blade, the anger of the three tigers seemed to increase as they surrounded Satoshi, with the latter being in the middle.

"Let's see what you have got."

Satoshi wasn't afraid as he concentrated his Observation Haki on these three tigers, ready for an exciting life and death battle.

"Who's that in the middle?"

Just moments after Satoshi concentrated his Haki on the tigers, two figures appeared on the tree's trunk at the edge of the clear field.

Sakura immediately spotted the cloaked figure in the middle holding the sword.

"By the build, it looks like a child."

Even if he covered himself, the small height of Satoshi couldn't be concealed and Tsunade immediately guessed his age.

"A child fighting three tigers, I have to save him"

Sakura could see the child was about the same height as her daughter, she can't let a mother feel the pain of losing her son.

"Swooosh

"Swishhhh"

*Thud!!*

Just when Tsunade and Sakura were about to rush towards the kid, they saw him disappearing from the middle of the tigers, and an air-cutting sound spread around.

Both of them saw the kid appearing before one of the tigers and the next moment the tiger fell down, a small dot on its forehead as red hot blood poured down constantly.

"How!!!?"

*Swishhhhh*

Both of them were horrified seeing the situation before them but before they could do anything, the child once again disappeared turning into an afterimage appearing before one of the other tigers.

"ROAR!!!"

Seeing his kin killer before him, the Tiger waved his paw towards him but Satoshi seemed to have predicted it already, and tilting his head in the midair he easily dodged the paw and his sword was drilled in the forehead of the tiger.

*Thud!!*

The second tiger also fell down devoid of life painting the ground red.

*Roar!!!*

The third tiger seeing his two companions die got scared as it immediately ran away but just when he arrived adjacent to the boulder, Satoshi behind moved.

"Let's try pouring my chakra in this attack"

Thought Satoshi as his grip on the sword tightened as he tried to experiment with his chakra control ability.

He hasn't learned any Ninjutsu but he could feel chakra in his body as he wanted to see if he could guide it outside.

Immediately like it was his second nature, the chakra in his body covered the sword surprising him.

Normally, one would have to go through tree climbing and water-treading to control chakra, but Satoshi succeeded in his first try, showing his talent.

*Swishhhh*

Satoshi in the air swung his chakra blade towards the tiger as the air around it compressed and a five-meter-high, visible to the naked eye, an arc-shaped blue slash moved towards the tiger.

"Shisshhh"

The five-meter-high slash drowned the tiger as from its tail to the head, it was perfectly cut into two halves from behind but the slash didn't stop.

Along with the sound like paper being ripped apart, the huge boulder cleanly cut from the middle fell on opposite sides.

"Satoshi won't be caught but something interesting would happen in the next chapter"