"Hinata, can you disable its legs?" called Naruto, dodging another wild swing from the beast and jabbing another kunai into its shoulder only to get smacked to the ground by its tail. Naruto winced in pain but rolled back away from the rat and back up to his feet. He threw a handful of shuriken at it buying him only a few seconds before it was on him again.
Naruto blocked a hammering fist above his head from the rat, causing his knees to buckle slightly. This rat wasn't playing nice today.
Hinata ran in, chakra blazing off her hands as she struck hard at the rats legs and knees. She danced around it and over its tail, rapidly striking at the beast as she moved. She was fearless in that moment and it was awesome.
"Alright, Hinata!" shouted Naruto, grinning at the time and space it bought him. With the rat's movement stopped they were able to separate from it and catch their breath a bit. It didn't last long as the rat once again charged after Naruto.
"Kage bunshin no jutsu!" shouted Naruto, spawning as many clones as he could with the limited Chakra he had left at that point. The clones tackled the rat back.
"Now!" shouted Shikamaru, signaling everyone to start tagging the rat with explosive notes while Naruto held the abomination to the ground.
Shikamaru heard the popping first signaling some of the clones were dispersing. "Five seconds!"
It was the longest five seconds Shikamaru ever experienced. "Get clear now!"
"Katsu!" shouted Naruto, channeling chakra through his clones into the explosive tags.
The ground shook with the detonation.
"He's still not down," said Naruto, panting.
"Chouji, toss Naruto up over it. I'll try to hold it," ordered Shikamaru, focusing as hard as he could to hold its shadow. Even if it was weakened it was still strong as hell.
Chouji, sprinted to Naruto. As soon as he got to him he enlarged his hands.
Naruto stepped up onto the hands and was soon rocketed skyward. Naruto dropped fast, angling himself head first at the beast that Shikamaru was straining to hold. He pulled a kunai into each hand and put them ahead of himself so they would impact the beast first. Naruto pushed the little chakra he had left into the blades, trying to make them stronger.
Naruto hit the beast and his kunai cut into the abomination like a hot knife through butter. Naruto's arms buried up to his elbows in the beast chest. Naruto pushed himself out and stumbled away.
The rat heaved one more labored breathe before going completely still, its hit points completely drained.
Naruto sat back on his ass heavily breathing. "That-" he stopped, gasping for breath for a moment. "That was awesome."
"Right, you're almost dead and you think that was awesome," said Shikamaru, sitting down next to Naruto, also exhausted.
A special skill has been created through a special act.
Flowing chakra into your weapon to make them stronger, 'Chakra Nagashi' Lv 1 has been created.
"What the hell was that thing?" demanded Ino. "Why the fuck would you fight it? Why the fuck did I stay and fight it?"
"That, Buta, was a Chakra Rat Abomination and a really nasty one," answered Sakura. "We fought it to get stronger. You stayed to fight because your team needed you to."
Ino frowned at Sakura momentarily. "You've fought it before?"
"Never one that strong," replied Sakura. "Shikamaru, you said it was stronger because there were more us? How is that possible?"
"It can naturally sense chakra," he answered. "The abominations eat the little ones to get stronger, the little ones try to eat us because we have chakra. We killed so many of the little ones the big guy sensed it."
"But again, why so big this time?"
"We killed more of the little ones than we ever have before, that's why."
Sakura frowned but decided to accept it for now.
Naruto sat quiet noticing that everyone there but him gained a level for all of that effort, hell Hinata gained two levels. While he sat at 95.66% of his level. A measly 3.44% until level 19. It just wasn't fair. Granted he was quite a bit higher level wise than his companions but still it wasn't fair after all of that.
Naruto finally stood back up to inspect what the fat asshole dropped.
6000 Ryo
[Iryo: Kaidokuzai no Jutsu] Skill Scroll
Naruto picked up the scroll and tossed it to Sakura.
"What's this?" she asked confused.
"It must have eaten that scroll at some point. Isn't that an antidote jutsu?"
Sakura's eyes widened then looked again quickly at the scroll. "Oh my kami, it is."
"Anyone object to Sakura getting that after she was nice enough to share her antidotes with us?" asked Shikamaru.
"Why should forehead get it?" demanded Ino.
"Oh chill Buta, you can borrow once I've learn it," said Sakura, smiling happily.
"I'm fine with it," stuttered Hinata. "But I would also like to see it when you're done."
"Of course, Hinata," said Sakura, still smiling happily.
"Thank you," she replied softly, almost inaudibly.
"So, that leaves the rest of us with a thousand Ryo apiece," said Naruto, dolling out a stack of cash.
"That thing had money?" questioned Ino loudly.
Naruto, Shikamaru, Chouji, and Sakura all shrug.
"Must have eaten someone with it at some point," said Naruto.
"Come to mama," said Ino, grabbing for the money.
Naruto held her share out to her and she greedily took it.
"Guess I'm getting those new shoes sooner than planned," she said to herself, happily counting the bills.
"Or you could spend the money on some better armor," groused Shikamaru, earning him a glare for his trouble.
"Okay, so who's up for a little hunting now?" asked Naruto, bouncing back to his feet, his HP and CP fully restored.
"How can you be ready for more after that?" asked Sakura in disbelief.
"That wasn't so bad," said Naruto. "If you want to see bad, you should check out training field 13 some time. That is bad."
"What's on field 13?" asked Ino.
"Spiders, chakra spiders to be exact and the queen spider is a real bitch too," said Naruto, shuttering for a moment.
"So where do you hunt? What do you hunt for that matter?" asked Sakura.
"Training field 12, we can get ham and mushrooms," answered Chouji, drooling slightly. "Ham . . ." he drawled out in a long, desirous voice.
Ino twitched. "Ham . . . as in pigs?" she asked.
"Boars actually," said Naruto, standing a fair distance away from the platinum blonde.
"I see," said Ino.
Sakura though giggled a little. Then she laughed outright.
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