4Summary/Disclaimer: Time for another chapter of the Merc and the Medic. Enjoy the 900-word chapter. I don't own Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto and a few others do.
(Land of Snow.)
Marmora felt Sakura help him towards the battlefield as he grunted in pain.
"Can you not smash half the battlefield or at least warn me next time you do that." Marmora muttered before he managed to walk forward under his own power.
"I thought that would get rid of them and it seemed it did… I can't believe Shin is using clones." Marmora turned to Sakura before rolling his eyes.
"The Hokage can make shadow clones. I really doubt someone making genetic copies of something is that surprising after you've fought a god and a living tree." Marmora stated.
Kuraokami chuckled before they heard the sound of electricity. Kuraokami turned to look in the distance.
"You know? I'm questioning how well this day has gone considering Shin attacked us, we lost the element of surprise on Kinshiki and we're a little tired and run down. Shin ruined our attack on Kinshiki and now the guy is going to retreat and close any window we have to take down Kinshiki." The dragon god crossed his arms before Sasuke walked towards them.
"He got away… Barely, he'll be back." Sasuke stated as the trio started their walk towards the mountain.
"You think Shin knew about Kinshiki?" Marmora turned to Sakura who shook her head.
Marmora sighed and pulled down his mask over his face. His legs felt like jelly, he had no intention of fighting Kinshiki considering he wasn't expecting such an ambush.
"No. I don't think he knew, if he did? He'd have laid traps up the mountain to slow us down and soften us up. Shin wanted to go after Sasuke." Sakura stated.
(With Tsunade)
Tsunade backflipped through the barrage of slashes directed at her. She panted as Kinshiki prepared to rush at her again.
She had underestimated Kinshiki, the hulking brute was much faster than he looked and Tsunade didn't have a way to counter his eyes.
"You fight well… But your power is fading and mine is limitless." Kinshiki stated before he rushed at her.
She backflipped again before Kinshiki noted the others would be here soon. he had no desire to engage them all and the Uchiha had the ability to defeat him.
Kinshiki decided to retreat. He had other opportunities to defeat the group and his orders were to capture the Aito boy and retrieve the scroll that would lead them to their prize.
He leapt away before grabbing onto a tree and then climbing up a cliff.
"Damn it, he just left!" Marmora cursed under his breath as they reached the location of the Hokage.
"Did you take down Shin?" Tsunade asked. Marmora and Sakura crossed their arms and Tsunade took this as a very obvious no.
Tsunade sighed and kneeled into the snow as the trio surrounded her.
"I'm going to guess today is just one giant mess… ugh, if Shin hadn't showed up, we might have been able to capture or kill Kinshiki." Marmora pulled up his mask before finally just removing it from his head and yawning in exhaustion.
"I think I'm going to just go home at the moment. We still have that scroll and there's another at one of our clan homes I guess… Kuraokami? Can you please not be so vague with all this crap when we're trying to save the world? I honestly wish we were able to tell the rest of the Kage that we're doing something like this." Marmora muttered before Kuraokami chuckled with amusement and looked to the side.
"Kid? I'm taking this one step at a time. I'm not going to keep repeating what I've said. I think the best idea is to hoof it to the manor and we plan out our next move there. Kinshiki was only within our ability to take down when we were at full power and considering you don't even have the first form of Arctic Armor fully mastered? I doubt even more that you're going to be ready for what's coming. I've been wrong before though, and this isn't something I mind being wrong on." Kuraokami pointed with his claw into the sky.
"We might not have won the battle here? but this war isn't over yet, kid. I really doubt we've lost yet. we need to go though, if Kinshiki knows you're here? Momoshiki also knows and he's going to come after you like a banshee descending from hell." Marmora nodded and began to trek forward.
Sakura followed and looked at her mentor and former love.
"Marmora, you mind going on ahead? I'm going to stay here and follow you as soon as I'm able to." Marmora shrugged, looked at Kuraokami and nodded.
"I'll give you a sign of where I am when your done here… Just come when you can, ok?" he got a nod and then finally walked away into the snow.
Author Notes
Phew, another chapter done! I want to point out that Marmora and Sakura's main enemy in the story is the Otsutsuki Clan. Next chapter is going to be in a week or so on next Monday or so and will show the trek towards the next Aito building. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!
Ps: Ino is either Friday or so and the pull for new Naruto stories is after that.
