Summary/Disclaimer: Time for another chapter of the Merc and the Medic. Enjoy the 900-word chapter. I don't own Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto and a few others do.

(Land of Waves.)

Marmora panted in annoyance as he cracked his neck.

"Kuraokami? I'm starting to hate fighting Otsutsuki members." Marmora stated as he felt some of his ribs crack before Sakura ran her soothing hands over him.

"Well, I didn't think he'd set a trap for us at one of the scrolls… ugh, this is going to be tougher than I thought. Kid? I'm going to guess that vision I had is going to be coming a lot sooner than I thought it would be." The dragon god watched over Marmora and Sakura as she gingerly looked over his wounds.

"You should look at your own wounds, Sakura. he didn't get off that many hits on me." Marmora said before Sakura glared at him.

"You need to stop." Marmora raised an eyebrow before the Haruno girl spoke up again.

"You keep acting like I'm more important than you… I get it, you aren't me or Sasuke or Naruto. Marmora? I'm not able to do the things Sasuke and Naruto did, if it wasn't for them? I'd be dead when we went to fight Kaguya." Sakura stated as she ran her fingers over a cut above Marmora's left eye.

"Sakura, the two times I've fought off Otsutsuki members, I got nearly beaten to death within the first minute. Urashiki didn't kill me because he needs me to get the scrolls, not because I beat him… look at the fight we had with him, we could barely touch him, and he wasn't even trying to fight us." Marmora sighed and looked at the ground before Sakura flicked his forehead.

"Ow! What the hell was that for?" Marmora felt Sakura cup his chin and glare at him as she ran her fingers over his damaged face.

"Because you need to wake the hell up. You need to get stronger and you are. You've been training on that family charka, haven't you?" Sakura asked, she got a nod in response.

"And who is the one who managed to keep the scroll from Kinshiki?" Marmora hummed as Sakura rolled her eyes.

"You're not Naruto, and you're not Sasuke. You might not have the Sharingan, or the Charka of a tailed beast. That doesn't mean you can't defeat them, Kuraokami said Naruto could defeat them. if Momoshiki is still searching for the scrolls for the tree, he hasn't won yet. we just need to keep moving and get the scrolls somewhere else." Sakura pointed out as she placed a kiss to Marmora's forehead.

It was childish enough for Marmora to grin, but it caused him to start thinking of what to do next.

"Well, if they're going to keep pursuing us over the scrolls? Then we lure them somewhere they can be taken out. Urashiki seems to be more agile and is going to be tougher to match. Kinshiki is a living breathing mountain from what we've seen, but he isn't unstoppable. We need to lure him somewhere we can use his strength against him. We take Kinshiki down, we take out Momoshiki's muscle." Sakura raised an eyebrow as she thought of the idea.

It was the same as last time, she decided she'd make the new plan.

"Or we could try and get the scroll back to Naruto." Sakura stated as Marmora hummed and looked to the side.

"Naruto was the one who helped seal Kaguya, if he's the one who can defeat Momoshiki? Then we lure them back to Konoha, get them out of the way… and make sure they can't use the information. Kuraokami, is there any option to destroy the scrolls?" Sakura got an eyebrow raised from the dragon god as he hummed.

"Unless you want to destroy something that needs to be studied and is a part of your planet? I don't know, but maybe. Momoshiki will find the tree sooner or later, all that's going to happen is the amount of time it will take for that to happen will increase." Marmora heard from the dragon as he sighed and looked at Sakura.

"They're going to cause issues if we get back there. They already destroyed part of a mountain range when we fought them… Kuraokami? I got an idea." He stood up and looked at Sakura before grunting and handing Sakura the bag.

"Get it to Naruto, I'm going to delay Urashiki so he doesn't come after you." Marmora stated as Sakura went to speak up.

"They need me to get the scrolls. That's the reason they keep coming after me. if Naruto can put the scroll somewhere Momoshiki won't get it? then we give it to him. Momoshiki won't let them kill me, and I've been able to escape before. I'll get away, and then we're take them down together." Kuraokami looked at his vessel with concern.

"Kid…" Marmora hummed and nodded.

"It's stupid, but I'm not letting them get that scroll… if this helps stop Momoshiki? I'll do it. you can both hate me when this plan is done."

Author Notes

Phew, another chapter done! I want to point out Marmora isn't going to be equal to Naruto and Sasuke till the end of the story. I also want to point out the final arc will be here within 40 or so chapters… And Marmora is going to help Naruto fight Momoshiki. Next chapter will be in a week and will show Marmora going to confront Urashiki and Sakura's decision along with Marmora using the Arctic Armor. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!

Ps: Sadara should be tomorrow.