17.

Tracked!

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*Tap* *Tap* *Tap*

The group rushed through the forest in their typical cloaked and masked appearance dropping the henge they had been using.

They had made it about 10 meters away from the army before Rhya and Fū picked up the magic signatures of people following them at high speeds.

"Tch, we are being followed. Tori you can use your magic right?" Fū asked.

"Not very good I mean I've only had it for a hour, but I can surely try." Tori responded.

"Can you use your magic to setup some kill traps with those wires?" Fū questioned.

"I can try but you don't want to take any prisoners?" Tori asked back confused.

"I saw how that man Yagos talked about his men, he wouldn't care if we captured half of the army, His arrogance and pride will get in the way." Fū answered.

"I see well I'll start setting up wires y'all divert their attention for me." Tori said while he conjured some wires from his fingers and started wrapping them around trees.

Nodding the other three turned around and went to confront their pursuers giving time for Tori to set up his traps.

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*Fwoosh*

Landing in front of the pursuers the group was prepared to cut down as many as needed.

(Geez these guys are crazy.)

But they saw that almost all of the remaining mage army they have been acting as was in front of them.

"Kehehe I knew you didn't die but look here you have friends for us too capture." Yago spoke in his gravely voice.

"Kill the one in the red mask and take the others for interrogation!" Yagos ordered

"Sir!"

"(Fire Magic: Fireball)"

"(Lightning Magic: Lightning Arrows)"

"(Wind Magic: Wind Blades)"

"(Snow Creation Magic: Snow Storm)"

"(Fire Creation Magic: Exploding Flame Spears)"

"(Lightning Creation Magic: Lightning Cloak)"

"(Sand Creation Magic: Sand restraining Spears)"

So many spells had been fired that it was a struggle to keep up with.

"Don't use your magic we haven't mastered or even learned how to fully use it yet, Just use your Jutsu, Only use Magic if needed." Fū quickly ordered.

"Right!" Torune and Rhya said simultaneously.

Drawing a kunai and jumping ahead of the other two Rhya cut his finger and made some seals before slamming his hands on the ground.

"(Summing Jutsu: Triple Rashomon)!" After his words echoed, Three giant malevolent looking gates arose from the ground between Rhya and the spells.

*BOOM*

The spells collided with the gate denting and bending the solid metal door and slightly disfiguring the demonic face on it.

"Yagos-sama w-what the h-h-hell is that?!" A mage asked with a trembling tone.

"I..." Yagos couldn't respond, all he could do was look at the demonic looking gates in front of him.

In that time a man with a cat mask that adorned a purple upside down triangle on its forehead appeared in front of Yagos and a group of men.

'(Ninja Art: Poison Cloud Technique)'

The man(Torune) thrusted his ungloved right purple hand and released a cloud of purple mist.

"What the hell is this? Mist or Cloud Magic?" A mage Yelp swatting the smoke away from himself.

*cough* *cough*

Another mage who was the closest to the cloud started to violently cough while grasping at his throat before his body slumped to the ground lifeless.

"It's poison! Get away from him!" The mages yelled.

But it was for not because the handful of men that got hit by the mist started to fall down like flies.

"Kehehe I never thought I'd run into a poison Magic user and a strong one at that." Yagos's voice was heard from inside the cloud.

"(Mucus Creation Magic: Mucus Nail)" with his words a great amount out of magic focused around him creating a light olive green snail made of mucus.

'How disgusting' Rhya, Fū and Torune thought at the same time.

"All remaining troops spilt into two groups me and a group will fight the poison mage the other will subdue and kill the other ones." Yagos ordered

"Yes sir!" With that Yagos and 83 men surrounded Torune and the remaining 83 charged at Fū and Rhya.

"This isn't going to be fun." Fū grumbled before perking up and turning to Rhya.

"Rhya can you send a shadow clone to the Witch Queen for assistance." Fū asked hopefully.

"Why? We would just throw ourselves into debt to her even more." Rhya retorted.

"Tch, you are right but still it's 4 against who knows how many, the odds don't look good." Fū countered.

Not fighting back anymore Rhya did the hand seal for the (Shadow Clone Jutsu) and summoned a clone and it flickered away towards the Witch Queen.

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"Heh your out numbered! Just give up." A mage said with a toothy grin while gesturing to the mages behind him.

"Yeah give up there's no point in fighting a war you can't win." Another added.

"Tch" Fū scoffed while looking over at Rhya who nodded back giving each other a unspoken agreement. 'Get Torune with us and fight.'

"I'll set a distraction then we get Torune." Rhya whispered.

"Right!" Fū whispered back.

"Oi! What are y'all two lovebirds whispering about over there?" Said a mocking voice.

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"Let's go!" Rhya said as he started making hand signs.

'(Earth Style: Mobile Core)' slamming his hands onto the ground, the earth beneath the mages swiftly lifted up into the air about 10 meters high giving Rhya and Fū enough time to get to Torune.

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Arriving at Torune's location they saw the bodies of mages lying around of the ground and the visible skin had been turned purple but what caught their attention even more was Torune who was panting heavily with blood flowing from the corner of his mouth along with the visible cuts around his body.

Flickering to his side Rhya deflected a fire ball with his chakra enhanced tanto.

"What happened Torune?" Rhya asked.

"That man Yagos *huff* *huff* is dangerous." Torune weakly said.

"What can he do?" Fū asked trying to find out details.

"i don't know much but from what he has shown he can control that substance he has surrounded himself in and he can't be hit with a sword or any of my Jutsu because he is logged to deep inside and it absorbs attacks.

"Tch, we are in a bad spot. Fū grab Torune we are retreating to the edge of the forest and there we will wait for Tori!" Rhya ordered.

Nodding his head Fū wrapped his arm around the injured Torune and they flickered away.

"Ho? Running away are we?" Yagos said with a mischievous smile.

—Witch Queens Castle—

The Witch Queen was upon her throne using a spell to view her domain when something caught her eye. She focused on the thing moving to quick for normal eyes to see and the figure became clear.

'Rhya?' She questioned seeing the familiar Wine red hair of the man along with the signature way they dress.

'But what is he doing here, and alone at that.' She continued.

Letting him continue his journey she watched as he found and entered her castle, and made his way to her.

*tap* *tap* *tap*

He soon entered her throne room and the two locked eye contact.

"Why have you come?" She asked a little annoyed.

"The original and the rest need help, there's around 160 Diamond mages including someone they call a shining general along with them against the 4 of them." The clone spoke.

The Queen was highly shocked at his statement and had many questions but calmed herself before she asked. "What do you mean the original? And how did they get themselves in something like that?"

"I'm only a clone that was made to inform you and bring you to the location. After the original got his grimoire him and the rest had a encounter with a army of mages being led by a general to a encampment that the group had taken over." The clone answered.

"Tch, Then why would I want to get involved if it has nothing to do with me? I won't go risking my whole forest over 4 people and men at that!" She declared.

Not fighting her decision the clone slightly bowed his head before he dispelled himself.

Her eyes widened slightly at that while her mind raced. 'That was all it took? Should I have helped them, it could've been a good opportunity to have them in debt.' 'Tch, these imperfect men getting under my skin like that.'

—Back to the BattleField—

'Tch I can't keep using that much chakra on something that useless.' Rhya said to himself while watching the Rashõmon dispell themselves.

Glancing back towards Fū using the (Mystical Plam Technique) on Torune who's gone unconscious from the amount of blood he's losing he started to worry. 'Damnit Tori just what the hell are you doing'

—Tori POV—

"Tch" I murmur out loud while I tried conjuring more wires made of this magic shit we barely have any idea how to use. 'The only reason we can even use it at all is because we spent so long controlling our chakra but this is too much!'

I had set wires at head to feet level all over the forest while willing them to be as invisible as they could while they retained some sharpness, unintentionally unlocking a new spells.

'(Wire Creation Magic: Spiders PlayGround)'

'Almost.....Done! Now I need to let Rhya or Fū know that it's ready!' I say to myself while I readied to fluctuate my chakra. That being our signal, Strong fluctuations in our chakra.

*Crack* *Rustle*

Snapping my eyes open I saw more mages coming from behind me. 'What? How did they get bast my wires???' I question while activating my Byakugan.

"So there's another? I only figured those rats would have 3 but I guess I was wrong." A mage warrior with a purple hood said.

'I don't remember seeing any other mages with that color hood.'

"Well I'm not really suited to fight you so they will kay'?" He said with a smile as 5 more people appeared beside him.

"Ahh you must be wondering how we got through the forest and how come you couldn't tell? Well that'd be my magic~ pretty nice it is. I call it [Evasion Magic], Although not good at fighting it's good for sneaking around~" the mage said as he and his men snickered.

'To be able to get past my Byakugan like that. This magic shit is really pissing me off!'

—Back with Rhyas' group—

"Torune's going to be unconscious for awhile he used up to much chakra and lost a lot of blood." Fū said with a grim tone.

"haaah…Fū then we will just have to go all out." Rhya said after a sigh.

"What do you mean?" Fū asked.

"How we have been trained, Ya know'. We need to go back to are 'emotionless' state for a bit." Rhya answered while watching the enemy mages slowly getting closer.

"....I see, while it doesn't do anything bad to us we are only allowed to that when on missions for Danzo-sama." Fū argued

"What the hell are you talking about?! Lord Danzo isn't here right now Fū. Hell for all we know he's dead we don't have our seals and if we get captured it's over, All the shit we know is going to them." Rhya snapped

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"What about Torune?" Fū asked after some thought.

"I'll leave a clone I have more chakra anyways." Rhya said as he made a clone.

*poof~*

When the clone nodded towards Rhya and Fū, they both made sure their masks had been fitting on perfectly as to not fall of and they drawled their tantos.

They closed their eyes and once they opened them they had lost the light they had once held going completely dull.

They weren't fighting as Fū and Rhya but as their former selfs, The body Guards of the Shadow of Konoha.

They checked their weapons to make sure they wouldn't break in battle and readied their kunai and Shuriken incase they needed to be used.

To them this wasn't a fight just for their survival but fight for the sake of their village as well....Even if they don't know where they are.

Once they had readied themselves, they looked at each other and their dull purple and amber eyes met and they nodded. Turning their attention to the approaching the army they slowly walked towards them which soon turned into a full blow sprint.

Then…

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Till next time~

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