38 Chapter 38 Terrible Haoshoku Haki
Land of Fire.
In the forest,
"let go of ...me!!"
In the dense woods, the painful cry of Deidara broke the calm, as facing the hawk eyes, he couldn't keep his calm anymore.
The grip on his neck was like Iron pincer, and he had no doubt that the opponent only needed to squeeze a little and his neck will be squashed.
"Azuma!"
Naruto and Kakashi finally woke up from the stupor and shouted in surprise seeing the figure holding Deidara like a rag doll, lifted in the air.
Swoosh!!
"Azuma, what about ____"
"Kakashi-Sensei!"
Hurriedly both of them came near him and just when Kakashi wanted to inquire about Sakura, a shout stopped him, and some shadows flickered in the woods.
It was Sakura and Chiyo who were back after delivering the final blow to the serious injured Sasori.
But this was just the start, following Sakura and others, four more figures reached the battlefield, it was Team Guy.
"Zzzzzz!!"
"Ahhh!!!"
But at this moment, the sound of lightning resounded, stunning everyone who just arrived followed by the painful cry of Deidara who was lifted in the air by Azuma, lightning from Azuma's palm coursing through his whole body.
"Don't kill him, we need him alive"
"Don't worry, I'm neutralizing the exploding clay inside his body, otherwise he might explode himself."
Kakashi hurriedly reminded Azuma, the latter telling the meaning of his actions as giving a lunatic like Deidara a chance is only asking for death.
He knows about the C4 of Deidara in which he exploded himself, the explosion covered an area of miles, he didn't want to take that risk.
"What about the enemy Sakura?"
Hearing his assurance Kakashi didn't care for Deidara who was in agony and focused on Sakura remembering she was fighting Sasori with Chiyo.
"Ah, about that with the help of Azuma-Kun, we were able to defeat Sasori, actually, I didn't do much, it was Azuma who defeated him single-handedly, we just picked the leaks"
Sakura told the truth with a somewhat embarrassed look over her face, though she did fight Sasori to some extent, but when Sasori revealed his trump card, she had no hope of defeating him alone.
But Azuma dealt with those hundreds of puppets with a singer slash, taking the main share in the defeat of Sasori.
"What about___"
Thud…
"Seal his chakra Tenten, he might try to kill himself the moment he wakes up,"
Kakashi was surprised but remembering the funny mask guy, he wanted to inquire about him, but Azuma stopped him and dropped the fainted Deidara before him, motioning Tenten to seal his charka.
"Ah, leave it me, Azuma-San"
Tenten nodded and immediately got to work, immediately sealing the chakra of Deidara.
"Gaara!!!"
At this moment, the painful cry of Naruto took everyone attention, as they saw him kneeling beside the body of Gaara, a painful look over his face.
"Is he really?"
Seeing the painful Naruto, the guess from before turned into a fact for Sakura, as she spoke, not being able to complete her words.
Sigh…
To her words, whether it was Kakashi, Guy, Lee, Neji or Tenten they let out a deep sigh, a sad look over their face.
"We may have defeated the enemy, but our mission has failed, we could not save the Kazekage,"
Tap…
Kakashi was the one to break the silence, telling everyone the facts, they might have defeated the enemy, but they failed the real mission.
"Sigh...It really hurts helping your enemy"
To his words, everyone kept their head down except Azuma who sighed in his heart and walked away, closing his eyes, he leaned on a tree, his sword resting on his shoulders.
To him it didn't matter whether Gaara lived or not, it was already a big concession from him that he didn't destroy Sand Village and even tagged along on a mission to help them.
Helping the killers of his parents, only he knows what he went through, Gaara and other two may have changed now, but once they did want to destroy the village, even if Orochimaru did deceive them.
So the uneasy feeling in his heart, won't go away, he wasn't like Naruto who could completely forget everything, that's human nature, Naruto's ability to even forgive the biggest of criminals like Obito was the strongest plot armor you can ask for.
"It seems my time to depart has arrived, but let me leave a gift for younger ones, this is the best I can do atone for my sins"
Chiyo who has quiet the whole time, suddenly frowned and feeling the rapid loss of her vitality, she decided to do something that seemed right.
"I have decided to believe in you, Uzumaki Naruto, you might really able to create an ideal world"
With her steps slightly wobbly, Chiyo walked up to Naruto, who sat beside the corpse of Gaara, with eyes lost from sadness.
"Huh?"
Her words brought back a little luster in the eyes of Naruto and others were extremely confused as well, wondering what she was about to do.
Thud…
"And you Swordsman…. even if you had tried to hide it, I can feel the hatred you hold for Sand"
"But despite the hatred you still helped our village, with your strength you could have easily damaged our village, I'm… really grateful"
"Take this as a plea of a dying old woman, try giving the young one's a chance, the old ones will eventually pay for the sins they committed"
But Chiyo didn't care for the confused eyes of Naruto and others, and placing a hand on the dead Gaara, she turned to face towards Azuma, who with eyes closed leaned on the tree.
Sakura, Neji, Lee, Tenten and Naruto were somewhat shocked, as they never knew about this.
Ha…
To Chiyo's words, Azuma remained quiet, his eyes still closed, his face calm, but the grip of his hand on the sword resting on his shoulders tightened for a moment, before it loosened, a red aura appearing around him.
"Don't worry, if I really wanted revenge, your sand village would have long been destroyed"
"This will show you that I'm not just being arrogant and you can move on peacefully"
Azuma suddenly opened his eyes and turned his face meeting that of Chiyo's, a red glow flashing in his eyes.
BOOM!!!
And as soon as Azuma completed his words, a dark Red aura burst out of him far surpassing the one used against Naruto.
Rumble!!
The clear sky above suddenly darkened, a red glow appearing for a moment, lightning started flashing, fast wind rolling.
Except the tree on which Azuma was leaning on, every other tree behind it, around a radius of 1 kilometer seemed to be hit by something, destroyed completely.
Clouds of dust rolled behind Azuma, fast wind blowing and numerous small and big animals from rabbits to big tigers lay passed out on the completely flat razed kilometer of forest.
(AN:- Perfect Haoshoku, enough to cause physical damage like Shanks did, but far greater than his)
Thud…
Whether it was Kakashi, Guy, Sakura or everyone else, they all fell down backwards from the shock of what they had witnessed, there breathing shallow and their eyes nearly popping out from the sockets.
"Is this enough for you to move on peacefully?"
Azuma didn't care for the shocked gaze of everyone and said to Chiyo before closing his eyes once again still leaning on the only remaining tree, the sword still resting on his shoulders.
Rumble!!
Lightning flashed again, highlighting his handsome sharp face, making a beautiful picture, a picture of a man resting on the edge of hell, a completely destroyed land before him.
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