348. Towards Home

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The next day.

The woman woke up like Leo said. She seems to have a terrible headache as she sat up. However she slowly calmed down.

She looked at the unfamiliar faces around her before settling down on Kabuto. She showed a confused expression at first, however slowly it changed to one that of excitement.

"Kabuto... is it really you?!"

Hearing the excitement in her words Kabuto smiled happily, "It's me, sister."

The woman was thrilled. She started talking to him about where he was and what he was doing all these years.

Leo and Shinobu seems to have been completely forgotten by these two.

"Well... this is a first."

Leo commented. To his words Shinobu chuckled.

Maybe hearing her voice both Kabuto and the woman snapped out before apologizing.

"It's fine."

Kabuto was embarrassed for a moment. But he quickly went back to the main issue. He told the woman about what has happened and what his next plan was.

The woman started to worry, "Kabuto, you don't know about Danzo. That man has no bottom line, he will do anything to accomplish his goals."

Kabuto showed a derisive smile, "I know. But I still want to go back. I don't believe the Hokage will remain unmoved after he knows about our experience."

"But...

Kabuto cut her off before she could speak, "Sister, that man manipulated both of us. How many dangerous missions had we accomplished? For the sake of the village, we went deep into enemy territory and... look what he had in mind for us."

"To have you die by my hand!"

The woman understood Kabuto's feelings, but she was still hesitating.

"If it's alright, we'll help you."

Suddenly Leo spoke up.

Kabuto was startled and asked almost instinctively, "Why? For what purpose?"

He stopped for a moment and realized the tone in which he asked those questions to be wrong and immediately apologized.

Leo waved his hand, "Don't worry. As a soldier it's natural for you to ask as such. We don't have any other purpose, since we are already here we thought it would be better to visit Konoha."

Kabuto thought for a while. This couple in front of him was mysterious. They had no idea as to what Chakra is, but they are strong. Very strong.

At least that's what he felt after spending a day with them.

"Ok."

After deliberating the pros and cons Kabuto agreed.

"Great."

The woman wanted to speak several times but she didn't get a chance. In the end she could only agree with Kabuto.

Resting for one more day both of them set off towards Konoha.

Along the way Shinobu and the woman got familiar with each other.

The woman was called Yakushi Nono. She was a nun who took care of an orphanage. Kabuto was a kid from her orphanage.

Due to her past occupation and threats from her previous employer she had return back to her former profession.

And her former work was as a spy.

All four of them trekked through the forest and got to a wide road. According to Kabuto this road leads straight to Konoha.

They travelled for two days and covered half the distance.

On the third day the four of them stopped. Not because of anything else, but because they were being blocked by a few individuals wearing masks.

"Kabuto, your abandoned your mission?"

The man leading the group asked without much emotion in his voice.

Kabuto calmly replied, "Yes."

The man's suddenly showed a bit of murderous intent, "You should understand what it means to abandon a mission."

"I'm well aware."

"I see. It seems you want to rebel."

Kabuto sneered. He didn't plan on talking to them.

"Futon: Great Breakthrough!"

He printer several hands in a flash and spat out a several arcs of wind blades towards the men standing opposite to him.

His opponents weren't vegetables either and quickly responded.

There bodies flickered as they disappearing from sight.

Kabuto made a few more hand signs and planted his palms on the ground.

"Doton: Elevated Earth!"

As he spoke the ground started rumble. The earth around him started to rise up. It immediately destroyed the path they were in.

The disappeared men didn't have any other choice but to re-emerge.

A few of them made of few hand signs.

"Katon: Great Fireball!

"Katon: Phoenix Fire!"

"Suiton: Water Bullet!"

A large ball of fire was spat out by one men. Several orbs of flames were fired by another man. One other person spat out water bullets.

In an instant Kabuto was surrounded by several attacks.

Bang!

The attacks was a direct hit. The resulting explosion blasted a huge pothole on the ground.

However when the dust cleared all the men saw was a pile of wood.

"He used Substitution Jitsu!"

One of the men commented.

Swish!

Suddenly the wind whistled. The leading man saw blood spill in his vision.

Two of his subordinates had their neck slashed. Blood seeped out as both of them fell on their knees and slowly struggled to death.

"Kabuto!"

The leading man growled.

With the remaining men by his side he launched a complete offensive. However Kabuto was ingenious and whittled away his enemies one by one.

Seeing their numbers go down the leading man turned his focus towards the three standing in the distance.

He knew about the woman called Yakushi Nono. Even if he launched a sneak attack he had no confidence in winning against her.

So his focus shifted to the two remaining people. One was a stunning male with short hair and ice blue eyes. The other a beautiful woman with long hair up to her waist and exquisite features.

'You then!'

The man his from Kabuto. When the latter was killing off one of his subordinates he snaked behind the woman using "Doton".

He reigned in his aura and quietly approached her. When he felt the moment was her he emerged from the ground beside her and stabbed at her heart.

However, before he could completely take an offensive his body stopped in it's tracks.

'What?!'

He couldn't move. No, it's not that he couldn't move, but he was trapped. His eyes shrunk when he realized what was happening.

At some point he was completely entangled by strings. His entire body was wrapped by fine threads almost invisible to the eye.

'Since when?!'

The leading man didn't know. However what he did know was that it was over. He was caught, his only end was death.

Knowing so the man bit his tongue savagely.

Boom!!

A devastating explosion rang out.

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