Kaien, watching Kakashi's drown into despair, thought that he was about to gain access to Kamui. Everything seemed to be going in their favor. Then he saw Kakashi pull out a kunai... one that looked eerily similar to a Flying Thunder God kunai.
Damn it. How could he forget? Minato had gifted Kakashi, when he became a jounin, that kunai for moments of absolute danger. If this continued, they were all going to die... everyone here would die.
Damn it. Damn it. He crouched holding his head... If only he had prepared more positive-marked kunai, he might have been able to repel it from Kakashi's hand.
Kakashi would have to flood the kunai with chakra to signal Minato...there was no other way we still have time. Kakashi's chakra reserves had to be running low.
"RETREATTTTT!" cough, cough..
The sound was torn from lungs pushing all the air he had left. It echoed unnaturally, carrying across forest, vibrating through the air like a warning bell.
Kakashi froze.
Across the battlefield, Kaien crouched on his knees, eyes wide with terror. The boy's chest heaved violently, his throat already soar, but he screamed again anyway.
"RETREATTTT!"
Darui turned sharply, shock visible across his face. He had seen kaien calm under pressure, precise in his commands, unnervingly composed. Seeing him now, screaming like his life depended on it, sent a chill down his spine.
"What…?" Darui muttered, words failing him.
On the battlefield, the others heard it too.
Samui paused mid-motion, eyes flicking toward the source of the shout. Mabui stiffened, instinctively sensing something wrong. Even Yushiro, blood still dripping from his constructs, frowned slightly.
"That brat's finally lost it," Yushiro scoffed. "This is what happens when they let children play the command."
Sayami did not laugh... her gaze snapped toward Kakashi's hand. Toward the kunai. "Is that the cause of his fear?" She thought.
Kaien sucked in air so hard his ribs strained, then screamed again, voice cracking under the force.
"REMOVE HIS HAND AND KUNAI FROM HIM!"
The desperation in his tone cut through the everyone in the frontline of the battlefield.
Sayami's eyes widened as she understood though not completely but enough. That kunai was not ordinary and the boy was not panicking blindly. There was no fear on the opponent demeanor. This was fear of what would come next.
Kakashi heard it too.
The words pierced through his grief, through the haze of rage and despair. His mind registered the boy's terror, the way his voice sounded like a death cry.
So, that boy seems to have the information which the jounin he is facing didn't seem to have... from their reaction, that boy whoever he was. should be quite important to kumo.
Sayami moved with no hesitation. Her blood whip flashed once again.
Kakashi felt pressure—then nothing. His right hand fell... the hand holding the kunai. The kunai dropped with it, clattering against dirt and stone.
Kakashi did not scream. His jaw clenched so hard his teeth ground together, blood seeping from his mouth and hand. The pain exploded a heartbeat later, but ignoring the pain... he dropped, twisted and rolled on ground.
His mouth closed around the kunai, teeth biting down on the kunai as he wrenched it free from the severed hand. His vision was wild now, eyes burning with something unhinged. Blood soaked into the earth beneath him.
He laughed with the kunai in his mouth. It was sharp and broken, edged with hysteria. "Today," he rasped around the kunai, chakra flaring violently, "will be the end of you all."
From his vantage point, Kaien felt his heart drop into his stomach.
No.
No no no.
Minato will come.
If Minato came here, injured or not, the battlefield would become their graveyard. For everyone. Darui. Mabui. Samui. Renga. The Chinoike. Even Kaien himself.
This would be annihilation. Kaien screamed again, voice breaking entirely.
"RUN!"
Samui hesitated only a second before moving. Mabui, while everyone was in daze, quickly formed hand seals to teleport kakashi along with the kunai. Yushiro's mockery vanished, replaced by a sharp frown as instinct screamed danger.
Sayami backed away, eyes locked on Kakashi, blood constructs retracting defensively.
Mabui reacted instantly, forming the "Heavenly Transfer Technique" around Kakashi and teleporting him nearly a mile away. She still wasn't proficient enough to send a target over longer distances.
Kaien's knees nearly gave out as he watched the air distort around the place where Kakashi stood, terror clawing at his chest. Minato is coming.
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