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Ch20
Rain seeped through his Anbu chest piece and armor. He tilted his head slightly to the side shifting Asuma who's right arm was slung over his shoulder and whose head rested on his left shoulder the body splaying on his back as he dragged his friend's body. The man groaned as he did so and he walked several steps before himself sinking from pain into the muck and mud of the now bloody forest turned into a nightmare of swamp and bodies littering the ground, heavy grey clouds overhead.
His sensei had been correct in his assessment. The Rain and the Rock had little reason to hesitate now that they were united. And now they would know that Konoha knew as did the other Hidden Villages of their alliance. Sides would be taken and lots drawn. Hopefully though all could be settled at a summit but that was doubtful a naïve stretch at best. Suna in particular had been outraged at the alliance it was larger than the Rain but it did not take lightly to the disappearance of one of its Jounin Shinobi and the two instances of missing civilians only heightened the tension.
Two teams had been deployed of Konoha's elite. A sensor team and a frontline squad, he shuddered fractionally as his chest shuddered in short gasps his arm tensing and grip tightening on Kusanagi drawn in his arms as he did so his arm groaning in protest. Tobirama's eyes narrowed marginally, one of the enemy was still alive…but not for long…
His eyes darted from the trees that surrounded him and the rain that was falling heavily and in droves. Whoever it was could not be rock... or could it? This Rain…natural and yet…there! His eyes narrowed at the thin infusion of chakara. Whoever it was he was half skilled at the very least. His eyes widened fractionally. No it was not the rain infused with chakra but a Genjutsu to make him think it was so…his lips pressed into a thin line trying to hold back the wave of ezhaustion as he released the Jutsu. Clumsy….it had taken him only moments to discern it…he shook his head to clear his suddenly unfocused vision and molded more chakara…where before he had sensed only the field's residue now he felt a presence. A sensor at that and one who seemed to have the ability to cloak well as cast illusions. His grey blue chakara points made him appear as one who was near death. So… he had taken advantage of that fact and cloaked himself…so he could return with intel no doubt. He shifted attempting to rise only to have Asuma's eyes widen in focus as he shifted in an attempt to stand himself. "Tobirama! Wha-"
"You've lost much blood. I wouldn't suggest moving." Tobirama said evenly though he could sense blood climbing up his throat. He cursed realizing that the indent of a senbon through his armor must have gone deeper than his initial assessment and pierced a lung.
"Right." Asuma merely chuckled seeming to have regained his bearing and sense of time and place but not his sense of pain which suggested a head injury which was not good... "And how much blood did you lose?"
"Not much all things considered." He had lost more than he was letting on but then again he'd had worst. His wounds were not life threatening… at present at the very least… and he could still spare some chakara…whereas Asuma had three broken ribs and his left hand bent at a wrong angle a Kunai also having cut through his thigh to the bone and all that not counting possible head trauma. Asuma looked around as he swayed taking in the death and carnage.
"Damn." Asuma's knees buckled but he was caught by Tobirama who eased him slowly to the ground body tense and ready for an attack though his right arm whined in protest once more a senbon having gone straight through the muscle from a senbon wielder they had killed some time back. Asuma's eyes clouded over as the Senju stood before him sword tilted eyes narrowed. "Suiton Suidanha!" The water wave slammed into an enemy nin who had attempted to approach Tobirama from the side. The enemy nin alighted a tree throwing three shuriken back. Tobirama sliced through them rushing at his opponent.
"Curse you Konoha!" The nin with a rock insignia on his forehead protector yelled as he fell into a series of hand signs spitting out knives made of rock from his mouth. Tobirama flitted from tree to tree ignoring his shortness of breath slicing through the rocks as he went. The sword pulsed in warning as an explosive tag went off. Tobirama covered himself with only seconds to spare putting up a water wall and blocking with his arms crossed before himself as three more tags went off. His eyes narrowed at the speed of the execution. This was a Jounin level nin no doubt but even he had to be tiring. He tensed as the nin rushed at him with a kunai, too little chakara. This one was a clone. He threw a kunai with his free left hand only for the clone to explode in rock. He rebounded off a tree landing as the rock broke through several trees as it went and Tobirama's attention snapped back to the chakara signal. The nin had made his way to Asuma baring his neck pressing a Kunai to the vein face full of hatred as he did so.
"You may have killed them all you filth but this one's mine!" Tobirama's frown deepened eyes narrowing as Asuma yelled in pain the Rock nin having stepped on his bloodied thigh to accent his point.
Tobirama had anticipated something like this this and had expected this actually. That was why he had left Asuma unguarded. Enemy nin usually did things such as this in desperation and left themselves open…and this was only one of those times. "Hiraishingiri." His body appeared behind the nin…his sword cut into and through the body, slicing through layers of armor easily killing the nin in an instant causing both the nin and Asuma to crash to the ground below. Asuma yelled in pain as Toirama pulled him out from under the Rock nin as carefully as he could all things considered reaching for bandages to wrap up the wound himself gasping for breath the technique leaving him winded. It had taken many tries to learn it and even now he was still unsure about the chakara manipulation involved. But he had been desperate; his own clones having been destroyed and himself not having had much time to replace them. "That was…." Asuma shook as he felt around his neck with his good hand in both shock and relief suddenly chucklng. "That bastard got what was coming to him eh."
A thin smile graced Tobirama's lips before disappearing, his hands running over the thigh wound to assess the damage before tightening the bandages. "We should return to Konoha."
"Yeah…" Asuma scratched the hair on his chin pulling a cigarette from a pocket on his vest. "Light this will you…" he said in between gasps and shudders of pain that he seemed to have finally begun feeling. Wether that was a good or bad thing Tobirama was not sure but he merely ignored the request as he pushed himself to his feet. "Oi!"
Tobirama's eyes slid to Asuma as he slung the man over his shoulder once more. "Oi Tobirama are you listening?"
This had Tobirama sighing. "Asuma I know you haven't spent time in Anbu but do you really want every enemy hunter nin within a three mile radius after us?"
"Right," Asuma rolled his eyes. "Because we really left anyone in a three mile radius alive eh?" Asuma would have continued the banter but Tobirama nearly doubled over as he coughed holding his mouth as he did so. "Tobirama…"
"Fine…" Tobirama whispered after the bout… "Sensei's going to kill me…" were the last things Asuma heard before he himself slipped away into a land of oblivion.
