Assassin Ninjas Attack! Dragon Fire Technique

Before they knew it, Shinki and his group had been traveling for half a day.

Normally, ninjas ran very fast and had little need for vehicles.

But Team 7 was on an escort mission, and they had to take Tazuna's pace into account as an ordinary person, so they had walked the whole way.

Shinki wondered if he could create a vehicle in the world of Naruto... something that would make traveling less exhausting...

How about... building a car?

That was unrealistic! He was only an elementary school student and had no idea how to build a car!

He would have to think of something else...

As Shinki pondered, he looked up and saw a goshawk circling overhead in search of food.

"Shinki, what are you thinking about?"

Naruto came over and tugged at Shinki, who was standing there in a daze.

"I was wondering if we could get it to carry us."

As Shinki spoke, he pointed at the goshawk hundreds of meters above the ground.

Naruto: (||๐_๐)

"Isn't that a little far-fetched?"

Naruto said.

"That's right. That bird is at least a few hundred meters off the ground. Stop dreaming, kid."

Tazuna came over and said.

Shinki said nothing. Although it sounded like a tall tale, he decided to give it a try!

Shinki slowly reached into his ninja tool pouch and pulled out a shuriken bearing his Body Flicker Technique formula.

Then he raised his hand and hurled the shuriken.

"Whoosh!"

The shuriken flew straight up into the sky.

Unfortunately, the shuriken was limited by gravity. Flying hundreds of meters into the air was no easy feat.

It stalled halfway up and began to fall.

At that moment, Shinki formed a hand seal and activated the Body Flicker Technique!

Shinki vanished from the ground!

When he reappeared, he was high in the air, catching the falling shuriken.

Then, as Shinki fell, he threw the shuriken again!

"Whoosh!"

Throw, Body Flicker, throw.

After two rounds of this, Shinki had reached the goshawk!

Goshawk: ⊙▽⊙

I was flying along just fine. Where did this person suddenly come from?!

Then it spread its wings and tried to flee!

But Shinki pressed his palm against it!

A mass of formulas appeared, enveloping the goshawk's body!

This was the Contract Formation Formula Shinki had just figured out!

Once activated, it could form a contract with any living creature other than humans, allowing them to communicate mentally and be summoned at any time.

As soon as the Contract Formula was completed, the goshawk in the sky became docile.

Shinki nimbly swung himself onto its back and flew down to the ground.

Sasuke, Naruto, Kakashi, and Tazuna on the ground: ヾ(Ő∀Ő)ﾉ

What kind of move was that?!

The shock they felt was no less than if they had seen someone step on his own feet to climb into the sky!

He actually pulled it off!

"That looked like a formula for forming a summoning contract."

Kakashi's exposed eye trembled violently.

∑(°Д°)

Who taught this kid the Summoning Technique?!

Does the Ninja Academy teach that now?

Just then, Shinki descended from the sky on the goshawk.

"How was that?"

Shinki asked, a little smugly.

After composing himself, Kakashi said sternly, "Don't do that again. What if something had happened?"

"Okay, sensei!"

Shinki nodded obediently.

But then he ran into another problem.

The goshawk was large, but it could carry only one or two people at most.

Including Tazuna, there were five of them present. It couldn't carry them all...

In the end, Shinki had no choice but to keep walking.

He had also suggested having one person take Tazuna back to the Land of Waves first to complete the mission, but Kakashi-sensei flatly refused, saying it was too dangerous.

Along the way, Shinki refused to give up and looked around, hoping to find a giant beast that could carry all five of them at once.

But for quite a long time afterward, he didn't see another animal.

As they walked, Shinki suddenly asked, "The weather's so nice. Why is there a puddle on the ground?"

"Maybe it rained a few days ago."

Naruto replied casually from behind.

Shinki frowned slightly.

Even if it had rained, there was no sign of mud anywhere around the road. There was just one puddle, sitting incongruously in the middle of it.

It looked strange however he considered it.

While Shinki was thinking, he sensed that strange fluctuation of Chakra again!!

At the same time, his keen senses picked up the sound of a chain dragging!!

Shinki hurriedly turned around. "Watch out!"

But he was a moment too late!

Two unfamiliar ninjas dragged a spiked chain around Kakashi, ensnaring him!

Naruto, who was closest to Kakashi, was cut by the swinging Spiked Chain. Faced with the sudden attack, he froze.

"Crack!"

The two unfamiliar ninjas pulled hard, tightening the chain and crushing Kakashi into a pile of powder!

The moment the attack occurred, Shinki threw the shuriken in his hand!

"Whoosh!"

As the shuriken flew at tremendous speed, it split into countless clones in midair and shot toward the two Assassin Ninjas!

"Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique? Isn't this kid a Genin?!"

Alarmed, the two attacking ninjas hurriedly swung their chain to block the rain of shuriken filling the air!

"Clang, clang, clang..."

Crisp impacts rang out as Shinki's shuriken clones were deflected one by one.

But he had already achieved his goal.

While the ninjas were blocking the shuriken, Sasuke had escaped with Naruto, who had been stunned by the attack!

Shinki immediately followed up, his hands shifting continuously through hand seals.

After making sure Sasuke and Naruto were out of his attack's range,

Shinki opened his mouth.

He spat out the flames gathered in his chest!!

"Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique!" (A name Shinki had made up on the spot.)

"Roar!!!"

Shinki spewed scorching crimson flames, with a dragon's head at their forefront!

The dragon of flame swallowed the two Assassin Ninjas in an instant!!

The attack covered such a vast area that it even caught the forests on both sides of the road!

Although Naruto and Sasuke weren't directly hit by the fireball Shinki had spat out, they were close enough to the scorching flames to feel its searing heat!

Wave after wave of heat threatened to roast them dry!

The two Assassin Ninjas at the center of Shinki's Fire Style attack were in for it.

They were burned to a crisp!

When Shinki's Ninjutsu ended, a scorched pit lay in the middle of the road.

In the middle of the pit lay two charred, nameless corpses.

Sasuke and Naruto: ヽ( ຶ▮ ຶ)ﾉ!!!

What kind of Ninjutsu was that?!

It was way too powerful!

After Shinki dealt with the two Assassin Ninjas with a single fireball,

Kakashi appeared, covered in soot, his mask burned through.

At the instant the Spiked Chain had crushed him, he had used the Substitution Technique to escape.

Both of the attacking ninjas were Chunin, and he could have dealt with them with a casual wave of his hand.

So after escaping, he hadn't immediately returned to help. Instead, he had stood in a tree, wanting to see how Shinki and the other two performed against an enemy.

Unexpectedly, he had been distracted for a moment and got caught in Shinki's Ninjutsu. Even his eyebrows had been singed off!!