Chapter 72 Medicine and the Girl (Ch 72)

The Grass Country, Kusagakure Village, is adjacent to the Rain Country.

This is a small ninja village, but it has been mediating between several surrounding major countries for many years. It has been able to survive safely to this day, and its diplomatic skills are quite sophisticated.

In the past two years, due to the availability of special medicines, the death rate of ninjas has dropped significantly, showing a momentum of vigorous development.

Two ninjas wearing Kusanagi forehead protectors walked out of a small hut, removed the bloodstained bandages on their bodies, and marveled at the magic of the medicine.

“Fortunately, the chief brought back such a good thing a few years ago, otherwise I don’t know how long it would take for this injury to heal.”

“Yeah, it’s amazing, all you need to do is bite and suck a little…”

As they walked over, the figure hidden in the darkness quietly left and approached the house they came out of.

His steps were a little unsteady, but still soundless. He swiftly pried open the door lock and slipped in.

There were no medicines or medical tools in the room, only a girl with long red hair.

Her body was covered with bite wounds and scars, her eyes were lifeless, and she curled up on the only straw bed in the room, her ankles shackled, like an animal to be slaughtered.

Feeling someone else coming in, the girl slowly raised her head.

In front of her was a black-haired boy who was a few years younger than her. His body was covered with blood and soot. There was a tear on his clothes on his shoulder, and the blood nearby had solidified into a dark black color.

His chakra was almost exhausted and he could no longer stand steadily. He was trying hard to suppress his breathing, his eyes were tired and shocked.

The girl stretched out her scarred arm and gestured to him.

He seemed to understand something and hesitated for a long time before walking towards her. He did not bite her directly, but took out a relatively clean Senbon from his sleeve and tried to pierce her palm with trembling hands.

At the last moment he stopped, his face full of struggle.

–He is so slow.

The girl thought numbly and scratched the tip of the needle with her palm. Suddenly, bright red blood gushed out from the wound, quickly filling her palm and about to drip down.

The black-haired boy was surprised, and quickly put his mouth close to the edge of her palm, carefully sucking the blood drops flowing down.

After a while, the scratch on the girl’s palm stopped bleeding. She withdrew her arm and continued to curl up in the middle of the straw, as if she had accomplished a trivial task.

She thought: Okay, let’s go quickly, I want to be alone.

But the other party pulled out the ninja sword from his back and cut the chains of the shackles on her feet with one strike.

“I’ll help you escape.”

She heard the boy’s hoarse but firm voice.

——

After Naraku escaped from the encirclement of the Amegakure ninjas, his direction of advance changed from east to north, and he had unknowingly entered the territory of the Land of Grass.

The Hidden Rain Village probably won’t continue to send pursuers, but the assassins sent by Danzo Shimura have no such fears and will definitely not give up until they achieve their goal.

In that case, I’m sorry to the Kusagakure Village, but please help delay it for a while.

He thought without any guilt, pretended to be in a panic, and rushed into the Kusagakure Village.

He wanted to take a break in the corner, but he heard the grass ninja’s chat. The “medicine” in that sentence was so magical that it reminded him of someone.

As a fugitive whose chakra is depleted and in urgent need of medical assistance, there is no reason for him not to be tempted when he hears about medicine. Otherwise, it would be too unnatural.

He slipped into the room and saw the bright red hair as expected.

Karin…’s mother, huh?

No wonder.

The girl reached out her hand to him. Naraku didn’t really want to do this, after all, drinking blood was a bit perverted, but he now had no other conventional way to restore his energy naturally and reasonably.

In response to the girl’s accidental action, he decisively went with the flow.

The blood has already flowed out, it would be a waste if we don’t drink it.

As the blood flowed into his stomach bit by bit, his chakra began to recover, the wounds gradually healed, and he finally regained some strength.

Looking at the girl curled up again and fell on the straw, Naraku still couldn’t just leave her like that.

He sighed heavily in his heart, muttering that the favor of blood should be repaid with a spring, and cut off the chains that trapped the girl.

–Forget it, this act of repaying a favor should earn you a lot of popularity points.

He carried the girl on his back and quietly left from the shadows.

…

It has been a long time since she left the Kusagakure Village, but Uzumaki Kana still finds it a little hard to believe it. She looks back from time to time at the village which has long since turned into a small black dot and been submerged in the jungle.

Realizing that she was truly rescued, she looked towards the young man who was carrying her.

From her angle, she could only see the boy’s side profile. His short black hair was a little messy due to running around for a long time, but it still couldn’t hide his handsome eyebrows and eyes, and his tired but determined expression.

The boy’s body temperature came from the place where our bodies touched, warm and real, like a bonfire on a cold night.

She felt safer than ever before.

Although the other party seemed to be exhausted and might be in danger of death, it would not be worse than staying in the village and being sucked dry to death.

At least for now, she was free again.

“May I have your name?”

“Naraku, Uchiha Naraku. What about you, sister?”

“Kana, Uzumaki Kana.”

“Then please give me more advice, Sister Chana.”

Naraku smiled, took a deep breath, and continued on his way.

“In fact, I seem to be still being chased. If I encounter the enemy, I will hide Sister Chana before leading them away. If I die, Sister Chana must live well on her own.”

Hearing him say this, Uzumaki Kana felt a little sad and quickly shook her head and said, “It’s really unlucky, you won’t die.”

Feeling Kana’s tightening arms, Naraku smiled bitterly. He was really making things difficult for himself this time. He might really fail.

As for throwing away Uzumaki Kana or using her to block the knife directly, this option will never be one of his choices.

He likes to treat everything around him with a playful attitude, and even likes to cheat others without any psychological burden, but there are always some things that he just can’t do.

After running for several hours, Naraku’s chakra, which he had finally recovered, was exhausted again, so he had to find a hidden cave to rest temporarily.

Taking out the food and water they had stolen from their bags, they sat on the ground and ate in silence.

Before she finished eating, Chanel suddenly raised her head and looked towards the southwest with a vigilant expression.

“A lot of people came.”

Hearing this, Naraku quickly stuffed the remaining food into his mouth, sighing that the Uzumaki clan’s perception ability was simply terrifyingly strong.

Hey, then doesn’t that mean I’m carrying a super radar?

He suddenly found that he seemed to have made some profit.

Kana closed her eyes and felt it carefully, then said, “They are from Kusagakure Village. I remember their chakra.”

“I’ll take care of it,” Naraku left a few detonating tags, walked out of the cave, drew his sword and cut off the soil and rocks at the entrance, roughly hiding the entrance, “If I’m not back in a quarter of an hour, Sister Kana will go on your own, go east to Konoha, someone from the Uchiha clan will take care of you.”

Kana clutched the talisman paper and sat in the dark cave, listening to Naraku arrange her escape route, her heart trembling.

“You must come back, Naraku.”

She clasped her hands together and prayed silently.

In Kana’s perception, Naraku’s chakra was like a flame, slightly weak but still beating strongly, and quickly went to where the enemy was.

Then, the chakra auras surrounding him disappeared one by one, and Naraku’s flames faded again, becoming almost the same as when they first met.

Fortunately, he finally returned safely within a quarter of an hour.

The sound of earth and rocks sliding rang in my ears, the entrance to the cave gradually expanded, and strands of sunlight shone in.

Naraku stood at the entrance of the cave against the light, with a lot of blood on his body. The ninja sword in his hand had several cracks, and even his breathing was a little heavy.

But there was still a gentle smile on his face. He reached out his hand to Chanel and pulled her out of the darkness.

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