28. Miyu's husband!

"Miyu!!!!" The sound of a man crying out loud could be heard in the surrounding.

'The other Chunin??!!!' Reko immediately made a guess because she was the only one named Miyu. They had not dealt with Miyu's body because of their little activity which was made to halt because of the intruder's cry.

Sayako and Reko's eyes made contact as they heard the roar from the other side. The man shouting was most likely the other rogue shinobi that they had to end to complete the mission.

Both of them hurriedly wore their pants, ready to battle it out with the rogue shinobi.

'That guy is Miyu's husband? Bald, old, ugly!! No wonder she was cheating on him with a civilian.' Reko thought after seeing the shinobi grieving for his wife. They were a couple who had gone rogue together.

The bald looking old shinobi cried with the dead body of Miyu in his arms, grieving for the loss of his partner.

Unfortunately, after hearing the man's shout, the young man who was playing with Miyu on the bed made a mistake, a grave mistake! He made a small movement inside his room, trying to take a sneak peek outside through the window.

The baldy rogue shinobi instantly rushed to the house after sensing the movement and fired a big ball of fireball at the structure which demolished the house.

'His ninjutsu is too strong!!' Reko could feel that the old man who was Miyu's husband was a really powerful shinobi with strength closer to a Jonin.

He could not send out Sayako first because she would obviously find it difficult to create an opening for him. His only option was to perform a sneak attack and critically injure the rogue shinobi.

'It is alright. I know taijutsu with which I bested Tsume in a spar. I have enough chakra to spam fire release jutsu, and I have my kekkei genkai too.' Reko assured himself before deciding to go in to fight the opponent.

'How much I wish I could have known Shadow clone Jutsu. It has been almost three weeks since my arrival into this world.'

'A smart guy would have already trained in Rasengan and shadow clone Jutsu.' Reko thought to himself, he regretted not learning all the powerful jutsu that he knew of, and could be used to exploit the power system.

"His ninjutsu seems strong but he looks like an old man. I have strong taijutsu which makes me his best opponent." Reko commented as he signalled Sayako to back down.

"Do not come near us! Your best chance would be assisting me with ranged attacks." Seeing Sayako hesitant, Reko instructed her.

He could not imagine fighting with the rogue shinobi together with Sayako. Firstly, he wanted to test the opponent's strength. Reko wanted Sayako to exploit the gap in the opponent when he created an opening and land a decisive blow.

"So, it's your doing!!" The old man grunted as he saw Reko dressed in shinobi attire. He realised that the young shinobi in front of him was the culprit behind her lover's demise.

Reko had thrown two kunai laced with paper bombs at the old man but the opponent dodged it pretty easily.

The rogue shinobi was very alert after he sensed movement in one of the houses. Though his attack demolished the house, it was obvious that a shinobi who was capable of defeating Miyu would not just face the attack without evading.

"A Chunin from the leaf village!! I knew you scums would not let us live in peace!!" His face contorted in rage as he realised the identity of his enemy. The headband on Reko's forehead made it obvious.

'Is he alone? The how did he.... must have ambushed her when she was with the civilian.'

Inside his head, the old man was looking around for traces of another individual. He could not find anyone.

So, he assumed that the leaf Chunin must have made a sneak attack when Miyu was deeply in the act with the young civilian.

"Scums? You destroyed a village full of people and reduced them to this!" Reko retorted after hearing the rogue shinobi call him scum.

Instead, it was the rogue shinobi and his wife that were true scums. They had destroyed a peaceful happy village for their personal life and enslaved the normal people in there. There influence was slowly beginning to appear on the travellers which caused the merchants to sponsor a mission.

'Huh? His Chakra is barely half of my total chakra pool! I was scared of his fire release jutsu but it seems that he would not even be able to do that more than five times.' As Reko jumped closer to his enemy, he felt that the enemy was not that strong.

The first impression of the old man on Reko was that fire release jutsu which was likely a C rank. But now that Reko sensed his opponents strength, he realised that the jutsu was nothing to be scared of.

'But he has got pretty good reflex, to be able to dodge the paper bombs instead of parrying the kunai.' Reko still remained cautious because the enemy seemed experienced with combat unlike Miyu.

Seeing Reko dash closer to his position, the enemy reciprocated with same intent. He took out a kunai from his ninja tools bag before dashing towards Reko.

The contest of strength and techniques began as the kunais clashed. Reko parried the first few attacks and then began to aim at the enemy's vital spots.

'Barely Chunin level of strength!' Reko analysed as he began to take the initiative in the combat. His attacks were clearly stronger than the enemy. But he was holding back as he let his dynamic vision take action.

Reko wanted to see the limits of his kekkei genkai prowess. To see if he could search for the opening in the opponent's taijutsu just like he did in the spar with Tsume.

'He is strong!! But I have got my ninjutsu, just one opening and I would finish him.' The enemy thought as he felt that Reko had upper hand when it came to physical strength.

But he was able to keep up with Reko because of his experience in combat and his trained reflexes.

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