Chapter 90: Sharingan, Awakening
A member of Aries Squad saw that Black Bull’s chest injury from the exploding tag was so severe, jumped down from the ground, and tried to save Black Bull.
“Wait! Don’t get close to him! Be careful!”
Aries had just shouted the warning when he saw his team member slit Black Bull’s throat with a kunai!
Blood spurted out, splashing onto Black Bull’s chest, a mess of black and red.
Chaos erupted, complete chaos.
Yoru shouted: “Everyone fall back! Keep at least fifty meters apart from each other! No approaching one another!”
Hearing the squad leader’s order, everyone retreated.
In the rainy night, only the sound of heavy rain pounding on the leaves, splashing into puddles, and hitting the mud could be heard.
Five minutes passed, no anomalies.
Ten minutes passed, no anomalies.
Fifteen minutes passed, Yoru cautiously approached Purple Cat and began treating Purple Cat’s injuries.
Purple Cat did not attack Yoru, it seemed Kato Dan had already withdrawn.
He chatted with Purple Cat, confirmed she was normal, then whispered tactics with her.
Next time they encountered the enemy, they must come up with a plan, couldn’t be this passive.
During the subsequent march, Yoru required everyone to stay twenty meters apart from each other, ensuring exploding tags couldn’t harm one another.
At the same time, Yoru no longer headed southeast toward the Land of Fire, but turned south, detouring to a farther place.
He feared Kato Dan predicting their escape route and ambushing them ahead.
After walking two hours, with calm winds and steady waves, Yoru slightly relaxed, perhaps Kato Dan had lost patience and let them go.
Kato Dan, an elite jonin, couldn’t possibly keep playing games with them forever.
The squad found a woods with dense foliage, each seeking a big tree to rest under the tree.
Yoru stayed alone under one tree, the canopy blocking the rainwater, the rain under the canopy much lighter.
He looked up at the low, oppressive black clouds, thinking, if a lightning bolt struck now, would it kill him?
You can’t shelter under a big tree in the rain.
Useless knowledge from his previous life entered Yoru’s mind again.
Finding a cave wasn’t realistic, take turns going in?
A flash of bright light lit up in the clouds, followed by rumbling thunder.
Yoru stood up, preparing to order them to continue marching.
If necessary, detour south from the Land of Rain through the Land of Rivers, then enter the Land of Fire from the Land of Rivers.
The second lightning bolt flashed fiercely.
Yoru narrowed his eyes slightly.
Something was wrong! Why did this lightning’s glow last so long?
An Anbu threw a flash bomb straight at Aries!
Damn, how was Kato Dan so persistent, still following them?
Yoru formed hand seals, using Body Flicker Technique to appear in front of Aries.
Aries was the squad’s reconnaissance ninja, Aries absolutely could not be allowed to have an accident.
Without Aries, the squad couldn’t move an inch in the dangerous Land of Rain.
There were not only Rain Ninja, but also Stone Ninja, various rogue ninja organizations from the Land of Rain, and even Uchiha Madara.
Flash bombs, smoke bombs, etc., were all specialized counters against dojutsu users.
Under the strong light stimulation, Aries probably couldn’t even open his eyes.
Yoru body flickered in front of Aries, kicking away the controlled Anbu with one foot.
He was unwilling to kill, Yagura and Black Bull were already dead, their deaths utterly pointless.
At that moment, a whooshing sound came from behind.
Oh no!
Could even a dojutsu bloodline ninja like Aries not counter Kato Dan’s forbidden jutsu?
Aries’s taijutsu was much stronger than the team members’, speed much faster too.
Yoru was prepared, so he immediately shifted sideways, turning while dodging.
However, Aries still touched Yoru.
Yoru’s left shoulder was struck with a palm.
He felt his left arm go numb, acupoint struck.
Aries’s gentle fist relentlessly struck at Yoru.
The movements weren’t as fluid as Aries’s usual, but still had seven or eight tenths strength.
Unexpectedly, Kato Dan had such deep research on the Hyuga Clan, after controlling a Hyuga Clan member, not only could acupoint strike, but also use such high-level gentle fist.
With a slight thought, Yoru understood, the Hyuga Clan was often sent to protect Kato Dan, so Kato Dan was extremely familiar with the Hyuga Clan.
Yoru only used his right arm to counter Aries.
While dodging, Yoru hurriedly shouted: “Purple Cat! Help me!”
Purple Cat not far away immediately used Mind Body Switch Technique on Aries.
At that moment, Aries’s body paused, shouting: “Captain! I’m okay! Purple Cat is controlled by the enemy!”
Aries suddenly lunged forward, blocking between Yoru and Purple Cat, preventing the Fox Squad leader from being controlled by Purple Cat.
Seeing Aries say he was normal, Purple Cat’s Mind Body Switch Technique unconsciously slowed.
However, Aries suddenly erupted, fiercely swinging a kunai toward Yoru’s throat!
Yoru slightly turned his head down to the left, staring at the increasingly close kunai.
The kunai was too fast.
Yoru saw the kunai’s sharp blade edge slicing through raindrops one by one.
Each raindrop exploded in the air, turning into shattered droplets.
In the nick of time, Yoru instinctively lunged forward, crashing into Aries’s embrace.
Aries’s kunai pierced Yoru’s nape.
The kunai’s blade tip entered at least half a centimeter into Yoru’s neck flesh.
“Um!”
Aries cried out in pain, his abdomen pierced by the squad leader’s kunai.
All this happened in a flash, all instinctual actions.
If Aries had been a bit faster, Yoru’s neck would have been pierced through.
Yoru looked down, seeing his kunai had pierced Aries’s lung, the kunai’s four-sided edge also crushing Aries’s rib.
Kato Dan at the last instant controlled Aries to collide forward, turning a severe injury into a fatal one…
Aries ignored his own wound, raised his hand pointing north: “Captain… I sensed it, in that direction… Captain… sorry…”
Aries was dying.
In a cave twenty-plus kilometers away, Kato Dan instantly awoke, what a tenacious squad, he’d thought he could control an Anbu Byakugan ninja.
Aries had followed Yoru for so long, to Yoru, he was the second most important in the squad after Purple Cat.
Yoru mechanically carried out Anbu missions every day, the people he was more familiar with in Anbu were first Purple Cat, second Aries.
Like other Hyuga Branch Family members, Aries was very gentle.
He hadn’t resolved the caged bird curse’s torment before dying here, killed by Yoru’s own hand.
After Yoru transmigrated, his baseline was emotionless.
Because he always felt everyone here was a stranger.
This world gave him a strong sense of unfamiliarity.
Returning each month to the previous full moon night made him feel everything was inconsequential.
People died when they died, people killed when they killed.
This month, Yoru killed Aries, couldn’t take Aries back to the past, couldn’t save Aries.
At this moment, guilt reached its peak.
Rainwater flowed into Yoru’s eyes.
He felt his eyes unusually sore.
Intense chakra emerged from his brain, rushing straight to his eyes along the optic nerves.
Yoru’s eyes suddenly turned deep red, his black pupils contracting into a single tomoe, rapidly spinning in his eyes.
Sharingan, awakened!
This cursed bloodline limit, each tomoe opened by the death of someone close.
Intermediate-advanced talent Sharingan, awakened not by the death of the closest like Purple Cat, but by someone who’d accompanied him for so long like Aries dying before him.
Uchiha with sufficient talent could awaken even from their housecat dying.
No wonder the Uchiha Clan loved raising cats, had summoning beasts like cat grannies. Powerful Uchiha ancestors felt keeping a cat at home made awakening easy.
Uchiha without talent couldn’t awaken even after killing through the clan registry.
Being an enemy of the Uchiha is dangerous, being a friend of the Uchiha is even more dangerous.
Aries leaned close to Yoru’s ear, saying: “Squad leader… I secretly reported to Kiiroinu Captain beyond my level, on Nine-Tails night, your chakra had an anomaly…”
Yoru’s heart trembled, had Kiiroinu Captain begun suspecting him?
Looking at Aries again, in the mask’s eye holes, the white pupils were dilated, like expired milk full of flocculent clumps.
Yoru stood up.
Aries was dead, must protect Purple Cat and the others.
