Naruto: World of Warcraft - chapter 52 (Patreon)

I don't know how long I stayed on the ground, my clothes bathing on the blood of the Raikage, but when I woke up I was surrounded by enemy ninjas, my chakra almost at zero, and in a state of confusion, I struggled to get up from the ground. "What a beautiful reunion," I commented, looking at my opponents.

The ninjas surrounding me had Kumogakure headbands, and from what I could see there were no less than forty of them surrounding me. "He has no chakra to fight, attack!" the leader bellowed, and immediately after that, the ninjas pounced on me, with clear intentions of killing me.

With a smirk, I looked at them with relief as I thanked the heavens that they hadn't attacked me while I was unconscious, for they would've killed me, "Evocation!" I grinned, using the one spell that would get me out of this, recovering over twenty percent of my chakra in less than a  second, before I had to cancel the ability to fight.

"His chakra, it's refilled!" shouted one of the sensors, but it was too late.

"Arcane explosion!" I roared, killing the ninja coming at me. The rest tried to run away, but it was too late, I wasn't going to let them escape.

It took me about ten minutes to kill the waves of enemies coming at me while making sure not to deplete my chakra along the way. Which was somewhat difficult considering the sheer number of enemies attacking me, most of them trying to avenge their fallen leader, which gave me a certain feeling of empathy for their cause for I felt the same when Tobirama died, unfortunately for them, I would never let them complete their revenge.

Gradually, the corpses of my enemies began to pile up in my path, and Kumo's thirst for revenge was overshadowed by the fear they had of me, and soon enough, no ninjas were attacking me as I made my way back to the command post.

Once I was in the command post, I tossed the scroll where I had sealed the Raikage to the commander, indicating that I had completed my mission. This impressed everyone present, which made me a little upset, did they think I was going to lose?

With nothing more to do here, I told the commander that I would go back to my team, and with absolute silence still in shock I had completed the mission so fast, the commander nodded, letting me go.

“First, I’m gonna eat,” I still needed to recover my chakra, in case something happened on my way to Tsunade and my team. Summoning a few refreshments, I recovered my chakra and health and started to make my way back to Tsunade.

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As I made my way to Tsunade, one of my ravens appeared before me with troubling news. Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru were currently fighting against the leader of Amegakure, Hanzo, and my team was with them, alive but for how long. Growling under my breath, I rushed my pace, to reach them as soon as possible, Hanzo of the Salamander was beyond their skill level, Tsunade and her team could handle him, not sure if they could win, but handle him they could, but with my genin team on their way, I doubt it they would survive long.

“Take me to them,” I ordered my raven, who simply nodded at my command.

As I rushed to where Tsunade and her team were, I transformed into a hawk using my druidic powers and flew to where the fight was taking place. With this, my movement speed increased drastically, and so I reached the battlefield within five minutes. Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru were wounded, my team was on the ground, barely alive as Tsunade struggled to keep them alive with her medical jutsu, even with her wounds, she was doing her best.

Hanzo was standing above his summon, a black poisonous salamander. “So he arrived,” he muttered, looking at me flying high in the air.

Undoing my transformation, I dove into the ground, landing right in front of him, “I am your opponent now.” I declared, as I used Prayer of Mending to heal my team, and Tsunade’s team.

“Raiden!” Tsunade smiled.

“No, I know best than to fight you when you have such a good team of ninjas around you to help you,” Hanzo shook his head, “As for you three, you did well, fighting me, keeping the kids safe and alive, I am honestly impressed, so from this day forward… you will be known as the Sannin of Konoha!” With that said, he disappeared. Coward.

“Are you guys okay?” I turned around.

“Ha!” Jiraiya laughed, “We almost died like ten times… princess here, saved us a lot of times.” he pointed to Tsunade, who sighed.

“My healing is nothing compared to that of Raiden, but I tried my best,” Tsunade smiled.

“I am glad everyone is okay,” I smiled, immediately turning to face my team, “I expect a lengthy report about what happened here, and how it happened, am I clear?”

“Yes…” Nawaki nodded.

“As you wish, Sensei,” Fugaku nodded.

“I was nothing but an obstacle for the youthfulness of my caregivers, next time I shall be the one to give the care!” Duy declared.

“That Jutsu you used,” Orochimaru who had yet to say anything muttered, “I heard a beautiful melody as our wounds faded… how did you do that?”

“Same answer as always Orochi,” I answered, and he sighed.

“One day, one day I will know how all of your jutsu works,” Orochimaru declared.

“And that day I will kill you,” I smiled, leaving that playful yet serious threat in the air. I would never let the likes of Orochimaru learn my powers, not if his destiny was to be the monster I knew.

“How touchy,” Orochimaru sighed.

“I’m allowed to be,” I replied with a smirk, touchy or not, I had the right to be as secretive as possible, something I had failed to do my first few years in this world, which has earned me a few targets in my head.