Chapter 9: The Deal
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Kamidai was on the verge of tears but couldn't shed any. He thought to himself, 'I should've learned the Rope Escape Technique.'
The Rope Escape Technique is a basic ninja art that every ninja has to learn.
In the past few days, every time Kamidai woke up and said a word, he'd get knocked out with a karate chop.
Kamidai felt his neck was already swollen at the back.
Now, Kamidai didn't dare say a word.
Kamidai felt the ropes binding him. They were so tight that he couldn't move a muscle.
The first few times he woke up, Kamidai's first words were 'Where am I?' and 'Where are you taking me?'
However, from start to finish, these two ninjas never said a word to Kamidai. All he got was a karate chop in reply.
The Rope Escape Technique is just a skill to untie knots with your backhand or loosen your body joints. It's very complicated, but it doesn't need chakra.
But no matter how hard Kamidai racked his brains, he couldn't figure out what he'd done wrong.
He stayed home all day, either studying ninja arts or puppets, and there was no way he could've done anything wrong.
Since it required dislocating body joints and Kamidai was afraid of pain, he didn't learn it.
When it came to learning ninja arts, Kamidai was pretty free. No one forced him to learn any specific ninja art.
Skills like the Rope Escape Technique, which were both painful and ordinary, didn't appeal to Kamidai at all.
After waking up this time, Kamidai kept his mouth shut. He was trying to figure out why they were treating him like this.
Kamidai, who had lost his memory, was totally lost.
Was this the Land of Rivers? Had Iwagakure Village and Sunagakure Village allied? What was the deal? Military supplies? Had the alliance scroll fallen into their hands? Who were they? And why did they have to take him along?
Now Kamidai felt his brain was about to explode. He just couldn't make sense of what was going on.
After traveling for a while, five Sunagakure ninjas suddenly stopped in a forest with Kamidai in tow.
One of the Sunagakure ninjas yelled, 'Come out!'
Five Iwagakure ninjas slowly emerged from the ground and appeared in front of them.
The Sunagakure ninja asked, 'This is a Kekkei Genkai ninja with the Magnet Bloodline Limit, just as we promised. So where's what we want?'
The Iwagakure ninjas unfurled six scrolls and summoned six big boxes one by one.
"Two boxes of Kunai, three boxes of Shuriken, and one box of Explosive Tags. These are the military supplies we promised you."
Hearing this, Kamidai felt like he'd fallen into an ice - cold cave and couldn't stop trembling.
So this was a deal? The Iwagakure ninjas were using these six boxes of stuff to trade for him? Did the Third Kazekage think he was so useless that he wanted to 'recycle' him and ally with Iwagakure Village for supplies?
No matter how much Kamidai thought about it, this seemed to be the only possible explanation in the current situation.
Suddenly, Kamidai felt utterly desperate and sad.
He didn't want to fight, pretended to be useless, and stayed home all day. He either studied ninja arts or puppets, just wanting to live a peaceful life.
Unexpectedly, he still couldn't get away. He was still being used as a sacrifice.
Kamidai was furious and thought, 'When I get to Iwagakure Village, I'll turn things around. I'll show my true strength there and let the Third Kazekage and the others see how great the person they thought was a sacrifice is and what a huge talent they've lost!'
Five Sunagakure Village ninja opened the six Scrolls one by one to inspect them. After confirming that there was no Mondai with the contents inside, they resealed the Scrolls and stored them in the Scroll again.
The Sunagakure Village ninja placed Kamidai on the ground and signaled the Iwagakure Village ninja to take Kamidai away.
While The Deal was being made between the Sunagakure Village and Iwagakure Village ninja, four pairs of eyes were watching them from around.
And these four pairs of eyes belonged to Minato Namikaze's team.
Minato Namikaze used hand gestures to direct Kakashi, Obito, and Rin Nohara.
Kakashi, Obito, and Rin Nohara nodded simultaneously and dispersed.
As a ninja, Rin Nohara had weak combat abilities, so she wouldn't directly participate in the battle.
Kakashi had reached his position.
However, when Obito was on his way to the position indicated by Minato Namikaze, he suddenly stepped on a stone and took a nosedive.
The noise made by Obito's fall immediately caught the attention of the Sunagakure Village and Iwagakure Village ninja.
"Who's there?!"
Two Sunagakure Village ninja and two Iwagakure Village ninja rushed directly towards the direction where the sound came from.
Kakashi, Rin Nohara, and Minato Namikaze covered their foreheads, looking totally fed up.
"What a big idiot!"
Kakashi immediately used the //Body Flicker Technique//Body Flicker Technique[/b] and instantly appeared behind a Sunagakure Village ninja. The short blade in his hand plunged directly into the ninja's back, and blood splashed onto Kakashi's face.
Another Sunagakure Village ninja immediately took out a Shuriken and threw it at Kakashi.
Kakashi pulled out the short blade and leaped backward, dodging the Kunai.
Meanwhile, the two Iwagakure Village ninja had rushed towards Obito again.
Facing such a battle, Obito was extremely nervous and scared. His hands for forming hand seals were trembling. He barely finished forming the seals before the Iwagakure Village ninja rushed over.
//Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique//Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique[/b]!
Obito gathered chakra in his throat and spat a fireball forward from his mouth.
//Earth Style: Earth Flow Wall//Earth Style: Earth Flow Wall[/b]!
After forming the hand seals, the Iwagakure Village ninja pressed his hands on the ground, creating an earth wall in front to block Obito's flames.
After blocking the flames, one of the Iwagakure Village ninja continued to rush towards Obito. Obito took out a Kunai to deal with him.
Rin Nohara, who was hiding, shouted at Obito, "Obito! Watch your back!"
Behind Obito, an Iwagakure Village ninja suddenly emerged from the ground and stabbed at Obito with the Kunai in his hand.
This sneaking Iwagakure Village ninja was one of the two who had rushed towards Obito earlier.
While one of the Iwagakure Village ninja erected an earth wall to block Obito's flames, the other used the //Earth Style: Earth Dragon Hidden Technique//Earth Style: Earth Dragon Hidden Technique[/b]. He could turn the soil into fine sand with the flowing chakra, digging forward underground like an earth dragon and quietly approaching Obito from below.
The Iwagakure Village ninja who suddenly appeared from the ground behind Obito scared him stiff. He watched helplessly as the Kunai stabbed towards his neck.
"Well, the Scroll for the alliance between Iwagakure Village and our Sunagakure Village has fallen into their hands. They've dispatched a large number of ninja in the northern part of the Land of Rivers. They must be trying to lock down the Iwagakure Village ninja."
"Good. Once we get the military supplies, we'll retreat directly."
Now, when it was time to use the skill he thought he had learned, Obito found that he simply couldn't perform it.
Kamidai suddenly noticed that there were not just those two Sunagakure Village ninja anymore. Three more had joined them.
After Kamidai woke up, he found himself tied up by his own people and being carried on someone's shoulder, running towards an unknown destination.
Besides, he overheard their conversation.
"The Iwagakure Village ninjas have arrived in the Land of Rivers. Let's head there now to make The Deal."
"Did you inform everyone?"
Kamidai was utterly confused. Why did the Third Kazekage knock him out? Why didn't he say a word and just have him forcibly dragged out of Sunagakure Village for no good reason?
It was evident that they were no longer in the Land of Wind, as the ground here wasn't sandy. There were plenty of rivers and forests.