"What is going on, there are twice as many rats as usual?" asked Naruto, slicing another rat in half.
"No idea, but this is going to become troublesome if they keep coming at this pace," said Shikamaru, his shadow grabbing three rats and strangling them all quickly before tossing them aside.
Chouji was mega stomping rats left and right and quickly draining chakra points in the process. "We're going to get overwhelmed. Did you put this on hard mode or something?"
"No, I wouldn't even know how to do that let alone know if it's even possible," complained Naruto, raining down kunai and shuriken on another wave of rats that was just emerging, wiping out nearly half of them instantly and damaging the rest.
"Well something is different," said Shikamaru.
The sound of three girls shrieking a moment later caught all of the boys' attention.
"Shit, that's why," said Naruto. "We need to regroup with the girls and work together. The difficulty increased because there are more of us in the zone."
"Troublesome, Chouji, use Nikudan Sensha to open a path for us. Naruto, lay down heavy kunai and shuriken on either side of him to buy us some more time," ordered Shikamaru.
Chouji immediately turned into a ball of spinning death, plowing through dozens of rats charging toward the three girls that came into the field.
Chouji came out of his spin just before the group of girls.
"Ino, Hinata, Sakura, down now!" shouted Naruto, leaping as high as he could then spraying the ground all around them with hundreds of kunai and shuriken buying all of them some time to regroup.
"Naruto, what the hell is with the rats? There are so many this time?"
"It's because there are so many of us here, speaking of, why are the three of you here?" Shikamaru answered and queried.
"I came to train," said Sakura, giving Ino the stink eye.
"I thought, Forehead here was up to no good so I followed her," stated Ino.
"Umm," stuttered Hinata, panicking slightly.
"Troublesome," said Shikamaru. "Fine, you're here now so focus, follow my orders exactly and do what you're told when you're told or we're all going to end up really hurt here."
"Why should I-"
"Ino, now is not the time," snapped Shikamaru, stabbing a king chakra rat then barbequing it with a blast of fire. "These things will kill us."
Ino paled. It was unusual for Shikamaru to yell at anyone, let alone yell at her. It made her suddenly realize the danger of the situation they were in.
"How many more waves, Naruto?" asked Chouji, he was starting to run low on chakra.
"Six or seven, I lost count when we moved to the girls," he said, spawning clones to assist.
"Hinata, get up to the front line with Naruto and Chouji. Ino, when Hinata knocks a rat down, finish it. Sakura, you've been here before so I expect you know what to do here, I want you to provide range support and if you know any first aid, help out where you can," ordered Shikamaru.
Hinata ran up to stand between Naruto and Chouji and began rapidly striking the rats, knocking them down stunned.
Ino hesitated killing them at first until one popped up and bit her. After that she was merciless, stabbing rats left and right.
"Okay, the abomination should be here soon," said Shikamaru as the flow of rats slowed down significantly.
Chakra Rat Abomination Lv 20
HP: 2500/2500 CP: 1000/1000
The rare abomination, a chakra mutated creature so far gone it has taken to eating its own kind. They are often drawn out when their food source is threatened.
"This is bad," said Naruto. "It's quite a bit stronger than the ones we usually face. This is going to get bloody. Chouji, I'll act as the shield, I can take more hits and damage than you or anyone else here. Just make sure you kill this ugly fuck fast."
"You got it, Naruto," said Chouji, jumping back to Shikamaru's side.
"Okay, we need to give Naruto some time to piss it off, use this time to bandage any wounds or take any antidotes you might have on you," ordered Shikamaru, pulling out a small vile from his hip pouch and quickly gulping it down, while Chouji did the same.
"I have extras," said Sakura, offering one to both Ino and Hinata.
"I didn't get bitten," stuttered Hinata. "But thank you, Sakura-san."
"Thanks, Forehead," said Ino, taking one and gulping it down.
Sakura nodded and gulped one down herself.
"Sakura, can you bandage my arm?" asked Chouji, showing her a gash that was bleeding freely.
Sakura pulled a roll of bandages from her pouch and wrapped Chouji's arm up as quickly as she could before tying it off. "You're good to go."
"Thanks," said Chouji.
Meanwhile, Naruto was doing everything in his power to piss of the abomination. "You kiss your mother with that mouth? Or did you eat her too?"
"Okay, Chouji, shoulder ram it," ordered Shikamaru. "Naruto, give us any explosive tags you've got while it's dazed.
Naruto leapt back to the group handed them a stack of tags then jumped right back to abomination, jabbing a kunai into one of its eyes causing it to howl in pain.
"Hinata, Ino, while Naruto keeps it distracted I need you to help out with placing these tags on it."
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