Naruto Chapter 106
At the camp the group quickly sealed up the equipment that they had brought with them while Naruto secretly made a clone outside of the tent and changed positions with it to be able to flash into the tent while the clone used the kunai.
Hinata treated the captives as well as she could to stabilise them. Some had got burns from the electricity, but they were a minority. And thankfully not all of them had been hit.
The attack had been concentrated on the centre of the seal where Mala had stood. The medics in Konoha would have them back on their feet soon enough.
When they had everything ready to go, the shadow clone took out a marked kunai and threw it onto the ground after pushing chakra into it. Naruto flashed to the kunai's position in fighting stance, already changed into his normal clothes. He relaxed a little when he spotted the group and made a show of nodding to 'Dark Phoenix'.
"Why did you call me, Dark Phoenix?" Naruto asked.
"We need an emergency evacuation to Konoha, Naruto. The mission turned too dangerous. We were able to prevent the ultimate worst scenario for the meantime, but this is a mission where ANBU are needed," Phoenix explained shortly.
"Alright, Kakashi sensei already told me to expect a call in case of emergencies and to simply do what you wanted, Phoenix," Naruto nodded, "How many people are we talking about?"
"Fifty unconscious victims that we could save and six Konoha ninjas from the two teams that were on this mission," Phoenix answered.
"I see. That's going to require good organisation and some shadow clones," Naruto stated and made about ten clones.
"I need you to bring the victims into the centre of the circle me and my clones make. We will then do a transportation to Konoha. Let me think a moment about the location. We can't fit all those people into Kakashi sensei's office after all."
Naruto thought about the positions of his kunai inside the village and decided upon the arrival room for the T & I division of ANBU, as it was simply the largest and fairly close to the hospital.
"Alright, get ready for transport," Naruto instructed and the group got the unconscious people into the middle of the circle.
Naruto concentrated and was only briefly disturbed when a shadow clone from the barrier was dispelled, thanks to Hidan managing to break through the barrier ten minutes before planned. But it wouldn't matter.
He connected his chakra through the clones and then he flashed the whole group back to Konoha, long before the two Jashinists burst into the abandoned camp, furious that the ritual wouldn't take place now.
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Naruto stood in front of Kakashi, giving his report on the mission, with Shimon adding his observations. Then the other four gave their reports before Kakashi dismissed them. He only let Naruto in his Dark Phoenix disguise stay.
"ANBU teams seven and fifteen are to be ready to go in ten minutes," Kakashi ordered and a slight blip leaving was the only indication for Naruto that an ANBU had left to follow the order, "Now, Naruto," Kakashi turned to his student, "I wonder why you decided that retreat was the best course of action."
"I knew that I wouldn't be able to protect all the victims from two Jashinists, sensei," Naruto answered, pulling off the hood and lower face mask.
"While, if the worst would have happened and the only way to kill the aspiring high priestess, before she could start the ritual, was to also kill the captives, I would have done so, with Hidan in the picture as well though, it wasn't an option anymore.
I know that I could take on one Jashinist with enough preparation, even Hidan, but not when he had the stronger position. With two of them there, he could have covered Mala to let her do the ritual. We needed to get everybody away.
"After all, the ritual didn't really care if the people were already dead before you bled them out. And it takes some time before a body doesn't bleed anymore after dying. It wasn't possible within the time perimeters, sensei," Naruto explained.
"Good to see that your success on other missions hasn't gone to your head, Naruto, and you are able to judge when you should rather retreat and make a better plan," Kakashi stated satisfied.
"I was a bit concerned about it. What we need are some seals that the two won't expect to equip the ANBU teams with. I want you and your shadow clones to draw as many seals as you can until the ANBU teams will arrive here.
I need standard explosive tags, poison seals, elemental seals, poisoned senbon shooter seals, chakra suppressor seals, those nasty new blood vessel bursting seals and the chakra beam shooter seals that Neji tested in Snow Country," Kakashi listed.
"Understood," Naruto confirmed and made twenty five shadow clones, which immediately flashed away, then he repeated the process six more times, simply because the office wasn't large enough for more clones at once.
He knelt on the floor and created the poison seals himself, with a bottle of liquid poison that Kakashi handed him. He mixed the poison into the ink and the poison would enter the body of the victim on contact.
Any kind of liquid or powdered poison was suited for this, as they could be mixed with the ink. Though liquid form was better. Once they were done, he also made the counter seals. It wouldn't do after all if an ANBU was accidentally poisoned to have him die from it.
The time for the ANBU to get to the office was gone and Naruto back in disguise when they appeared. Only those ANBU that constantly guarded the Hokage in his office and a few others were privy to his identity after all.
"The mission is the termination of Jashinists Hidan and Mala. A team of chunin has encountered them and managed to just get their captives away before they could perform a ritual that would have summoned a reaper spirit to turn Mala into a high priestess of Jashin.
It won't take the two too long to find replacement victims. While there aren't any villages close by, it will only give us four to five days at most. If they want to get things done quickly, they will not care for stealth this time around. They know that we're up to their attempt now and that will lead to them rushing their plans.
"The seal that they set up was handicapped, but it will be back to working order by the time they will need to catch replacement sacrifices. They need fifty of them to call forth the reaper spirit. Hidan can't be killed, even if you stab him, behead him, or burn him.
You would need to totally destroy his body to succeed. He already has absorbed a reaper spirit after massacring his old village, the Hot Springs Village.
"The team that was on the mission overheard that the two intend to bring God Jashin into this world by Hidan impregnating Mala, once she has reached high priestess status. It has to be prevented.
We don't need a god in human form, should it be possible, that delights in causing pain and massacring people. We would be thrown into a new war, should that happen.
Dark Phoenix has encountered the two and can give you an estimation of some of their abilities," Kakashi informed the ANBU teams and Naruto continued by retelling the way the fight went. Then the ANBUs were given the seals Naruto had prepared.
"You will be taken to the last known location by Naruto Namikaze, as he has left a flying thundergod kunai there. Naruto will then return to Konoha. This kind of mission is beyond his level so far.
The seal is located about five kilometres from the camp site where you will start. Dark Phoenix will stay with you as a seal supplying back-up. He will only engage should he be needed as a seals master. We can't afford to let him face S-ranked ninjas before he's ready," Kakashi informed the ANBU team, which confirmed the orders.
Then five of Naruto's shadow clones entered the office to get the ANBUs to the site. Soon Kakashi was the only one left in the office, before one clone returned, confirming that they were at the previous camp site and dispelled.
Now Kakashi could only hope that they would be able to stop the Jashinists before they could manage to perform their ritual.
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