The shinobi moved closer to her, eyes sharpening as he surveyed the train car. "Can you tell if it's lethal? I want to wait this out to see what's going on but..."
"No." the hero interjected. "It isn't lethal. But too much of it and it can-"
Yuki trailed off, the *hiss* sound coming from the vents began to dissipate.
The trio sent each other relieved nods, so they weren't put on a time limit, good. Nevertheless, they kept their noses covered, but at least that was one less thing to worry about.
Immediately after, the train under them jerked, slowing down and eventually stopping entirely.
"...Beautiful. Looks like we're stuck here." Naruto complained, looking outside to see where they were stuck at.
The hero shushed him, trying to listen to anything that may indicate where their enemies could possibly be.
A few seconds passed in total silence, ears straining to hear for any sign of what was going on without giving away the fact that they were still awake.
Then they heard it, leading their eyes to travel to the ceiling.
The banging of footsteps, on top of the train car...
Then the entire car was rocked with a distant explosion, rocking it around ,much to their rising concern.
"Alright...no more waiting around." Naruto growled, getting up from his seat and slamming his fist into his palm. "I'm going to find out what the hell is going on. No way in hell will I let some no-name punks ruin my vacation!"
"...This was a vacation to you?" Yuki asked with dull eyes.
Naruto completely ignored the question, focused far more in grabbing something last-second in his bag, then turning to give his two travel-buddies a look.
"You two coming or what?" the shinobi pressed, putting the pouch filled with kunai and shuriken on him.
Both girls glanced at one another, before sighing and standing up to join him.
"Lead the way." Yuki allowed, tilting her head in acknowledgement of leadership.
The shinobi grinned at that after putting his bag inside a seal for safe keeping, just in case.
"You got it."
The trio were currently closing in on the explosion from earlier, all of them quickly noticing the sounds of fighting a few cars down.
Maria looked past the two teens, trying to get a better view. "I hear something, but I don't see anything. If we keep approaching them from this angle, we are more likely to get dragged into a fight that we don't want. Anyone got any suggestions?"
The shinobi grinned at that.
"Did you really need to ask?"
With that statement made, the blond smashed a window near them and jumped out. Quickly grabbing onto the top of the train so that he could check ahead from above.
"Hopefully the guys from above cleared out, if not then I'll clean them up myself. You two get in a little closer, maybe we can pincer the bad guys before they try anything too crazy." Naruto suggested quickly, climbing on top of the roof.
"Makes sense." Yuki admitted slowly. "We can do that. Though considering you broke another window...they may be privy to our presence already."
The shinobi didn't answer her, he merely completed his climb and began moving to the car where the sounds of conflict were coming from.
Yuki sighed as she began moving as well, making her way to the next car. She sometimes couldn't tell if he did things because he was a genius...or because he had an insane streak.
Maria followed closely after, keeping up with the taller girl as they moved from car to car, taking note that she was beginning to hear voices emanating from the next one ahead...
"-found her. It was as easy as you said it would be, none of her bodyguards knew we were coming. We're ready to come back, her mother will no doubt send yokai to check on the train when it's not on schedule..."
Both females glanced at one another, it seems that whatever fight broke out was finished, there was a clear winner now.
Now all they had to do was wait...
"Question."
The hero turned to look at the succubus, annoyed at her timing. "...What?"
Maria tilted her head to the side, giving the other female a slightly shaky smile.
"...How do we know that Naruto-sama has given us the signal?"
Yuki blinked. That was actually a good question...
"Well, I'm sure that he will give us a suitably outrageous signal. Let's just wait for that."
Naruto was initially planning to creep his way on top of the cars, inching towards where the fighting was going on.
The second he got on top of it however, he noticed that he wasn't alone.
There were two cloaked individuals facing away from the blond, standing on the roof of the last car on the train. Seemingly waiting for something.
The shinobi knew that he had to act quickly.
Naruto sped towards them with incredible speed, making sure to keep his footsteps light so that he wouldn't alert anyone inside.
Neither of the two cloaked bastards knew what hit them as two arms wrapped around their necks and clenched tight.
The shinobi held firm as the two immediately began to flail their limbs, trying desperately to take in oxygen to their suddenly deprived lungs.
Hard blue eyes watched as the two slowly began to struggle less, their limbs losing strength as darkness began to overtake them.
After a few more seconds, they finally stopped moving.
Naruto slowly placed them down at his feet, making absolutely no noise in the process.
They were unconscious, the last thing he needed was to kill people that may be connected to some random faction...he didn't come here to fight.
Nevertheless, they proved themselves to be ridiculously aggressive, considering their actions.
Naruto regarded the unconscious duo, eyes narrowing a fraction as he realized something now that he spread his senses out.
Human. These two were human...
Was this a normal human attack? Or was this connected with the supernatural?
Before he could ponder the question further, he heard a door slam open and a few cloaked people slowly walk out of the train. With one of them holding a relatively decent-sized bundle over their arm.
This was the perfect time for an ambush.
"Ugh...waiting around for a signal is making me antsy...we should have made a better plan." Maria complained, her body was beginning to get sore here...
"Patience." Yuki recommended. "We will know when Naruto's ready...he has a better vantage point then we do."
The succubus turned to give the hero an annoyed glance. "How exactly are we going to know that Naruto-sama is giving us the signal?"
The hero didn't respond, choosing instead to pay attention for anything that could possibly signal for them to move. If this was Naruto that they were talking about...it could be anything.
Then she heard the faint sound of someone rapping a metallic surface.
She turned her eyes to the ceiling, hearing the constant sound clearly.
A signal.
"...That's it? I'm actually kinda disappointed." Maria said, pouting.
Again, the young human didn't respond. She merely materialized her katana; Sakuya, and prepared to charge out with the silverette besides her.
Before she could, a faint scraping sound began emanating from the ceiling.
Yellow eyes hesitantly looked up again as she saw a kunai with wind enhancing it make a hole through the roof, before retreating.
Then an annoyed blue eye used it as a peephole and glared at the female duo below.
"...Hurry up." Naruto stated gruffly, before the eye retreated again.
...
"That's better." the succubus stated with approval, standing up and stretching her body.
She was up for a fight!
The hero just stared at the ceiling, expression shifting from reluctant amusement to exasperation.
Did he really have to do that?
.
.
.
.
🎉The novel is available in PDF with more than 400 chapters, visit us in our Ko-Fi store🎉
🎉ko-fi.com/gokublack444🎉