"Hiruko..."
Hatake Sakumo took a deep breath and raised his head. "I am grateful for your saving my life, but since you have already left the village, why did you save me?"
Hiruko put his hands on his hips, smiling and shaking his head. "Saving you is to prove to Konoha that I, this mediocre loser, also have a chance to turn things around."
"If it's just for that reason, it's too frivolous!" Sakumo frowned. "This is a battlefield, it's dangerous. You should leave here as soon as possible!"
"You should see the look on your face right now."
Hiruko was calm and composed, without even turning his head. "With just this bunch of small fries, I don't even have them in my eyes."
During their conversation, the giant bird spread its wings and charged back and forth among the Stone ninja, stirring up heavy whirlwinds.
That sturdy bone armor would cause broken bones and severed tendons with the slightest touch, and basically no one could directly resist its monstrous power.
With its bulldozer-like collisions, it quickly tore apart the Stone ninja's encirclement. Although it didn't severely damage the enemy, it made them flustered for a while, and they didn't even care about Hatake Sakumo.
Sakumo leaned against the tree trunk to adjust his breathing, his left hand tightly gripping his right wrist to suppress the tearing pain in his right arm. "I, Hatake Sakumo, will never forget today's kindness, but... I still have more important things to do now."
He turned to a certain direction and moved his steps with difficulty. It was the direction in which Hunter had disappeared earlier, and fresh blood dripped down his trembling arm, gradually staining the ground red.
"With your current state, what can you stop?"
Hiruko stared at Sakumo's right arm. "Muscle tears, tendon damage, and perhaps nerve damage. If you don't deal with it in time, your right hand will be useless, and you won't be able to hold a blade again."
"I still have my left hand." Sakumo didn't stop and brushed past Hiruko.
The corners of Hiruko's mouth curled up slightly. "What if I told you that Katō Dan will be fine?"
"What!" Sakumo stopped and looked back in surprise. "How would you know..."
He and Dan, one in the open and one in the shadows, had been fighting against the Stone ninja surprise attack force for several days. No outsiders could possibly know this information, except for the Konoha ninja.
"Hatake Sakumo, Katō Dan..." Hiruko chuckled, "I haven't forgotten any of your top students' names..."
"I'm referring to the information. How would you know these things..."
"At a time like this, you're still worrying about this? It seems that the guys who have stayed in Konoha for too long are not quite right in the head." Hiruko waved his hand. "Alright, I was lying just now. I don't need to prove anything to Konoha. The reason I'm helping you is because you once helped me."
"I helped you?"
"Yes, in the 1st grade, you stopped a bullying incident, and the person being bullied was me." Hiruko nodded. "Perhaps this matter is insignificant to you, but it is of extraordinary significance to me."
With that, he walked to Sakumo's side, signaling him to cover his ears. Then, he took out earplugs and put them on deliberately.
After doing all this, Hiruko raised his hands high and clapped three times.
In the center of the battlefield, the giant bird that was fighting immediately stopped, raised its head, and let out a loud cry.
"Kree!!!"
The ear-piercing sound waves shook the entire field, and all the Stone ninja covered their ears, looking in pain.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the giant bird spread its wings and glided to a landing in front of Hiruko.
Hiruko grabbed Sakumo's left hand, took him to the top of the giant bird, and the giant bird spread its wings, taking the two of them into the high air.
Hiruko put his palms together, and a sparkling green light emerged from his palms, touching Sakumo's injured right arm.
"What are you doing?" Sakumo was stunned.
"If you still want to save this arm, then shut up." Hiruko said seriously.
"With my medical ninjutsu, I can only help you stop the bleeding temporarily. At most, I can sort out the damaged meridians and do some emergency treatment. Follow-up treatment will still require a medical ninja."
Sakumo frowned. "I still need to go and save Katō Dan."
"I told you, he's fine, and you'll be fine too." The green light on Hiruko's palms shone brightly, flowing with a faint aura of life.
At the same time, the big bird under them flapped its wings, occasionally shaking out a few explosive feathers, continuing to bomb the Stone ninja on the ground.
The Stone ninja had tried to fight back, but they were not good at dealing with enemies in the sky, and at this moment, the heavy rain poured down, and the visibility of the night sky was extremely low. Whether it was shuriken, explosive tags, or ranged ninjutsu, they had little effect.
"Boom boom boom!"
The feathers fell, exploding wildly.
There was nothing they could do but to jointly use Earth Release collaboration ninjutsu, guarding and defending strictly.
Sakumo looked at the battlefield filled with smoke below, his brows slightly relaxed.
He turned to look at Hiruko and said with emotion, "It seems that since you left the village, you have gained extraordinary growth."
"These skills of mine, including medical ninjutsu, were all taught to me by my master." Hiruko showed a proud smile.
"Your master?"
"Uchiha Shin'u." Hiruko looked up at the sky. "To be honest, I'm considered his most useless disciple, but... one day, I will become his proudest disciple!"
"Shin'u..." Sakumo's eyes showed thought. The intelligence level of this man was quite high. It was a secret among secrets, and he only learned a little after being promoted to Jonin.
According to the information, this man was Uchiha Madara's disciple, had awakened Uchiha's legendary strongest eye, had attacked the village several times, had played with the First Five Kage between his palms, was a thug who had ended both the First Hokage and Second Hokage, and was extremely dangerous.
Sakumo narrowed his eyes and quickly filtered the information about Uchiha Shin'u in his mind.
It was said that the major ninja villages had all suffered in his hands, and even suffered setbacks at one point.
Konoha didn't need to be said. In the eyes of the high-level officials, Uchiha Shin'u was simply a Hokage killer. Not only the First and Second Hokage, but 10 years ago, even the Third Hokage was almost killed by him, being punched from the entrance of the village to the Hokage Rock, and couldn't be pried off;
The "Two Lights of Lightning Cloud" Kinkaku and Ginkaku brothers, who had a very high status in Kumogakure, had great reverence for Shin'u, seeming to not hide their inner admiration for him.
Kirigakure was even worse. There were rumors that the Second Mizukage Hōzuki Gengetsu's attitude towards Shin'u was very subtle, being fearful and trembling, fearing him like a snake, and was suspected of being thoroughly beaten. Not only that, but Shin'u had also personally destroyed Kirigakure's strongest Shikotsumyaku Kaguya Clan in front of the Third Mizukage;
In Sunagakure, the Third Kazekage, who had the name of the strongest Kazekage, had recently become famous again. The reason was that there were reports that he had fought a battle with the legendary Uchiha Shin'u in the desert and had left calmly;
It seemed that only Iwagakure had not suffered Shin'u's ravages.
Sakumo's expression was complicated. The more he thought about it, the more outrageous it felt.
"I don't understand. If you are his disciple, even if you don't kick us Konoha ninja when we're down, you should turn a blind eye. Why do you still..."
He looked at his arm. Under the layer of gentle green light, his wound was slowly healing. At least from the surface, the bleeding had stopped.
Hiruko tilted his head. "Don't try to figure out my master with your ordinary people's thoughts. The grievances of the previous generation have ended with him. In his eyes, whether your Konoha is alive or dead, he doesn't even care."
"If he wanted to, he would be able to turn the entire ninja world upside down with his own strength, but he prefers a leisurely life like a wandering crane."
This was a kind of confidence, a kind of unparalleled arrogance.
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