Chapter 45

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On the 142nd day, Kenshin received good news from the Third and Fourth. Both of his sons learned to perform a joint technique through long training.

Standing in the gym, he watched an incredible picture. His two sons synchronously folded the hand seals, and then shouted:

"Cato: Gokakyu no Jutsu!"

And instead of releasing one fireball at a time, they formed one giant ball measuring one and a half meters, which a second later rushed towards the village manikin, but was stopped by an invisible barrier. After half a second of furious flickering of the barrier, the fireball, reduced to half a meter, broke the protection, and burned the wooden manikin into ashes.

"Wow! Even my best defense formation couldn't completely absorb all the damage..."

Kenshin muttered, and walked up to manikin, barely able to withstand the remaining heat. He scratched with a long iron pole, and found a half-melted amulet, on which the formation was applied.

Even Ichiro was quite surprised by the power of the two younger brothers. He believed that if the use of technology was accelerated, it would become an incredibly formidable weapon in the hands of the Nakayama family.

"Ichiro, train with the Third and Fourth. You must learn how to create a triple fireball."

Kenshin ordered, and all three unconditionally obeyed his will.

Before leaving the gym, he decided to take a look at the "status" of his children, and look at the degree of their progress.Name: Nakayama Ichiro

Age: 20 years

Talent Level: 16

Chakra Quality: 3

Number of chakras: 3350

Chakra control: 52%*****Name: Third

Age: 20 years

Talent Level: 21

Chakra Quality: 2

Number of chakras: 3500

Chakra Control: 47%

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Name: Fourth

Age: 20 years

Talent Level: 19

Chakra Quality: 2

Number of chakras: 3400

Chakra control: 46%

*****The 144th day.

Two figures of strong men quickly raced through the forest, jumping from tree to tree, and after half an hour, one stopped abruptly and said to the other:

"Stop, Izao. This place is great. We'll lay low, we'll sit here for a few weeks until the noise subsides. They won't find us in these mountains for sure."

"You're right, Toru. After what we did in that city, a punitive detachment from Konoha probably moved after us. We definitely need to lay low!"

Replied a broad-shouldered, black-haired man dressed in black pants and a black T-shirt, with a gray vest with a bunch of pockets thrown over it.

The two men quickly headed for the nearest mountain, but suddenly Izao noticed something strange out of the corner of his eye, and stopped abruptly.

"Look, there's a potato field!"

he turned to his comrade with surprise.

"It seemed to you. There can't be potato fields here."

Thor shook his head, but still looked in the right direction, and froze in surprise.

Two comrades rushed towards the potato field, and ten seconds later both were twirling a large potato in their hands.

"Hmm, really, potatoes. But who put him in such a wilderness? We need to check, maybe someone lives in the neighborhood!"

Izao said with a malicious grin, and having separated with a friend, they began to inspect the whole neighborhood.

An hour later, they came to the conclusion that someone definitely lived in this place, or even lives to this day. After exploring all the nearby caves, they did not find anything, but they were not upset at all. After collecting a bag of potatoes, and finding two snares with live hares, they chose one of the caves, and decided to set up a temporary base there.

"Judging by the snares and the potato field, from day to day we will meet with the "owner" of all this splendor, and see what he is like!"

Toru said with a laugh, and bit off a large piece of meat from the hind leg of a fried hare.

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Kenshin immediately noticed the intrusion of two strangers, and hoped that they were just passing by. But when they got close to the potato field, he instantly passed the command to his sons to be ready. They have already worked out the enemy invasion scenario many times, so they quickly came on alert and waited for the order.

Kenshin clearly saw all the outsiders' movements, but with a slight delay. The information entering his brain was similar to echolocation, without colors and accurate images, only barely recognizable contours.

When the uninvited guests began to search every cave, Kenshin realized that most likely the conflict could not be avoided, and he was afraid that the strangers would somehow find the entrance to the shelter in an unprecedented way, and when one of them entered that very cave, Kenshin held his breath, mentally ordering all his sons to be ready for battle, but after a few seconds, finally exhaled. The stranger wandered around the cave, did not notice anything, and went outside.

When two strangers finally stole two hares and a bag of potatoes, and then disappeared into one of the caves, Kenshin recalled his sons and ordered them to train harder and improve the combined fireball technique as much as possible, and he began to think about a plan to eliminate enemies.

He had no doubt that they were enemies. By their behavior, he realized that it was certainly not the Konoha Shinobi who were going on a mission and decided to spend the night in the mountains. In any case, Kenshin planned to wait at least a few days before making a move. If it is by a ridiculous accident, looking like outright bandits – Shinobi Konoha, then by this point they will be obliged to leave.

Based on the observed speed, Kenshin assumed that these two were at least peak Genins, or even Chunins. Their speed was slightly higher than Ichiro's, so Kenshin hoped that they would leave the next day and never come back.

To his deepest regret, the next day they did not go anywhere, but only began to search the area with even greater zeal. One of them was a Doton user, and even brought down several caves, but then he either got tired or it was very hard, so he spat on the collapse of caves, and began to walk around.

Kenshin did not sleep all last night, and for a long time he tried to come up with a plan, and when he finally came up with it, he began to draw a prototype of the necessary formation, replacing key nodes, and making adjustments to it.

All of Kenshin's adult sons were training hard, trying to prepare for the upcoming battle. His two wives were very worried, and Natsumi even volunteered to take part in the attack on outsiders, but was refused.

By the afternoon of the 146th day, all preparations were ready, and Kenshin planned to act that night.

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