Eagle's tragedy

When I woke up, I reached out with my hand to turn off the alarm before it started ringing, but immediately pulled backed my hand. The cold cave floor reminded me, that I am no longer at home. We all needed rest. Me after the injured legs, arms and lungs and Asami after a long flight at maximum speed with a load. But Wansai suffered the most and was tired as hell.

As I found out, he barely flew after us after the release of such a thunder on which he spent most of his energy.

Rising quietly, I looked around the small cave. Finding with my eyes two lumps of white and brown feathers that huddled together on a stone under the ceiling from the cold, I smiled. They look incredibly cute.

Deciding not to go far from the cave, I went out onto the ledge and looked down. Forest stretched for miles below, with no end in sight. I couldn't figure out where I am, but it's not that important either. Noticing with my eyes where the cave is located, I thought to go hunting or not. I was terribly hungry. But with all the wandering mountain predators i did not want to leave the two tired sleeping sparrows to be devoured. After doing morning exercises, I decided to sit and think about what to do next, until they woke up.

Now the village is not holding me back. I wrote to Sasuke not to panic and not to leave the village. I am sure he will obey, I gave the arguments that he will see. Let them hurt his pride heh. The first thing I wanted to do after breakfast was to find guinea pigs. My eyes had the ability to draw out something like a soul, but I wasn't sure. In the anime, the soul is different. And this is a mass without eyes and mouth, it is like jelly. But still it has their emotions and memory. And without it peoples die. Later it will be possible to find the bandits and check. We need to find a way to become stronger in the same way. When I was in the tower, I was actually attacked by the elite forces. Especially the two who jumped after me. Their speed was incredible.

Crunch Crunch.

There was the sound of rolling stones and something chewing. Raising my head higher, I saw two mountain goats who were eating some kind of flowers. Remembering from the encyclopedia what kind of animals they were, I smiled greedily.

"Here's the food."

After a couple of minutes, I returned to the cave in two carcasses with neatly folded heads. I didn't want to cut them like that to look for the search for Konoha's dogs or simply predators. Putting the bodies in a corner and making sure that everything was fine with the birds, I ran out of the cave and jumped down. In free fall, I remembered a scene from Naruto where Itachi did the same.

At first it seemed cool, but when I jumped everything was natural and stupid. Every second my brain told me how to be saved. On instincts and experience, having reduced the speed of my fall, I pushed off the wall and jumped into the thick of the foliage. Taking out an empty sealing scroll, I looked for wood, mushrooms, berries, or just anything useful.

After spending a lot of time, I finally got everything and even found one rabbit. The rabbit was frighteningly unpredictable, jumping like mad, dodging me. In the end, I got angry and just blew his head off with a kunai.

Returning to the cave, I met the gaze of Asami who nodded to me not wanting to wake Wansai. Taking the wood out of the scroll, I made a large fire to warm the cave. In the meantime, I cut mountain goats and a rabbit, simultaneously getting rid of skin, bones, joints and organs.

Finally, when I finished, I took out the leaves and wrapped the pieces of meat. It turned out quite a lot, but luckily enough clay was enough to envelop everything and I immediately threw everything into the fire. The clay quickly began to dry up to form a perfect stove. Wansai woke up and was surprised to see why I spoil the meat if it can be eaten anyway. Unable to bear it, he jumped up down stretching his legs and then jumped on my shoulder while I checked how the coals were. Looking more at the fire he asked.

"Why did you put meat in fire? It's delicious when raw. "- It seemed like a simple question, but I didn't have the strength to answer it.

Asami also bowed her head cutely and looked at me wondering the same question.

After scratching my cheek, I asked a counter-question: "What do you know about cooking?"

"Strike with lightning to roast. We have an elder, his element is fire, so he sometimes caught desert worms by attacking with fire, they all deteriorated and turned black. He passed on his experience to us and I didn't even believe it. But then I tried to cook with lightning and then I saw that the food is black and not tasty. "

Asami also nodded: "I cannot use lightning and fire, but I cut the prey with wind blades and leave the blood to drain. This way you can make delicious sticky meat without spoiling it. But that's all I know about cooking. "

Opening my mouth, I watched the two chefs. Well, yes, if I throw fireballs into food, it also won't cook very well. Although if you think about Naruto, frogs also did not really know how to cook. There Naruto choked on bugs and God knows what else.

"Let's wait a bit and I'll show you." - I simply replied, throwing a disapproving glance at Wansai along the way that I was looking at the remaining raw meat almost salivating.

Realizing that meat would not be given, Wansai ruffled and jumped back onto the ledge under the ceiling.

Smiling, I continued to watch the coals. After a while, I thought that the meat should have been cooked by now. Using a stick, I pulled out uniform balls of clay, from a gigantic dying fire, I gently cracked the clay. Due to the leaves, the clay neatly fell away and the whole cave was flooded with the wonderful smell of kebabs. Wansai and Asami transformed into their true forms and filled the remaining space in the cave. Surrounding the balls of meat, they stared at it with the hungry, unblinking eyes of predators.

"Well, what are you waiting for, eat. Bon Appetit! "

"Bon appettit!"

"Bon appettit!"

Opening the balls one by one, we ate everything pretty quickly. Even a mountain goat and a half could not feed two giant birds and me. The stomach only rumbled more. Asami and Wansai agreed with my belly and offered to cook some more.

"These are the goats that live on the mountains?" Asami asked.

I nodded and agreed: "Great, let you two catch 4 more goats and get some dry wood. Luckily it didn't rain so it's easy. And I will look for clay. "

Having agreed with the plan, we overfulfilled it and, with our bellies full, lay resting a few hours later.

I was smiling. These two birds behaved comically and made fun of their behavior, but I saw that they were trying to distract me from the assassination attempt in the village. I already knew it was going to happen so I wasn't too worried. The only question was when it would happen.

"Since you have now left the village, how about staying with us on the mountain for a while to complete the sage mode training?" Wansai asked after taking a break from the hot tasty meat.

Thinking, I realized that this is the best I can do now. I will only be able to heal my lungs in a couple of weeks. Even though I can heal with chakra, it is very bad way to rush. A burn of the lungs is a problem and it must be solved with caution. I will also finally finish learning the natural chakra. I feel that everything is not so simple with it. Each animal practicing natural energy has its own way of assimilating it, and it is no coincidence that the eagles are so strong.

"Ok, I agree. Will we come back to this place after? "

"Why not," Wansai agreed and, approaching the wall, began to draw something using chakra.

Taking away after ourselves and taking the skins, we went up the mountain. I greeted Bernard who woke up not knowing who Bernard was. Only later when he was reminded by one of the eagles nearby:

"Father Bernard is your name ..."

he remembered me and allowed Wansai to continue to train me in deeper knowledge. He dropped his head and instantly fell asleep.

Well, well, well, not funny, but can I learn this technique? I also want to fall asleep when I want. I guess I will ask him next time.

Saying goodbye to Asami, Wansai picked me up and we flew towards some black mountains.

Day after day, we continued my grueling training. Strength, endurance, will. I was taught how to properly circulate the chakra in order to gain strength, but so that the chakra would go back into the channels from the muscles without leaving the chakras and disappearing. I learned how to lighten not only muscles but also bones. Eagles take advantage of this when they have to fly with the wind, thus reaching almost a sound barrier. The resistance of molecules in the air is minimal, and those who use the wind can generally exceed the speed limit.

It turned out that eagles have a tradition to use only one element. They improve in it to the limit. The female and the male pair up for combinations of their elements and attacks. No matter how much I hinted to tell me what kind of relationship he had with Asami, he never said. It was not for nothing that Father appointed them to sign the scroll with me. There were other names in the scroll, but I am not yet familiar with them.

A month has passed. Entering sage mode, which was bruised and bruised, I found a very unpleasant thing. I cannot use sharingan. In the imperfect sage mode, I adopted the property of eagles. Or rather, their eyes are able to see for kilometers as if in front of them.

But alas, as soon as I used the sharingan I got myopia. Everything that was in front of me was so dim as if looking into the water.

I had to linger and pester Wansai more and more so that he could teach the perfect technique. Well, Wansai did not mind. In return, he asked me to cook his prey. Asami also flew in sometimes and feasted on more and more strange worms and sometimes there were even giant crabs as tall as two people. Fortunately, with the perfect balance of chakra and energy, it was not a problem to rip the worms and crabs apart and cook them. only time is expensive.

I don't know how long it took for these trainings, but when I finally made progress to enter the sage mode without losing my eyesight, Wansai grabbed me in silence and carried me towards the main mountain.

"What's happened? Why such a rush? " I asked him. Considering at what speed we were rushing something had to happen.

But he silently brought me in front of Bernard and I noticed a change. There were many eagles around, mostly of dark plumage colors. Some are smaller, some are larger. Part looked at me with hope, the rest with hatred. Frowning at this change, I looked at Bernard. From a decrepit bird, he became literally the king of beasts, he looked at me with giant eyes majestically like a king.

"Renjiro, there is a problem and we need your help." - immediately he said. Looking at him, I knew that I could not refuse. And in the end I didn't want to be such a bastard to accept help, trust and shelter, and then leave them.

"Of course I will gladly help you. But what's the problem? "

"One of the youngest children turned 15 today. From this age, our children are allowed to go out into the world without supervision at will. However, when he flew away, he disappeared. Later we found out from other beasts of the chakra that he was abducted by a man smelling of snakes. We ask for your help in finding him. " - he bowed his head in front of me.

Two more eagles also stepped forward and bowed their heads in silence.

"I will help you find, but is there any more information on this person that kidnapped the child?"

"Yes, a friendly octopus clan that we once fought with reported that a man smelling of snakes appeared on one of the islands nearby their home last month. There were also people with him. That's all we know. We also do not know where exactly the child disappeared. We were hoping you knew something. "

I started rubbing my chin while closing my eyes. As many as two criteria that only one person in the world fell under. And is it a man ...

Loves to kidnap children?

Does it smell like snakes?

Let the children guess who it is !?

The eagles did not rush me when they saw how I was thinking. Bernard wanted to say something, but closed his beak back, waiting quietly. Every minute was important, but everyone was waiting for my words.

"Only one person in the world fits your description. An incredibly nasty creature, even by human standards. " - I answered.