Naruto: Chronicles of a Fire Ninja-Chapter 402 - 397: Last Struggle

"We will become an impenetrable wall to the enemy. Defend till our brothers join us!" Yasushi shouted, getting a resolute nod from the team.

After the entry of Konoha squad, a thick scent of blood also came from the upper floor, which just steeled the resolve of the Iwa ninja to not allow these murderers to get a single step more in their outpost.

With their lives on the line, the team of Jonin became ready for what could potentially be their last fight, but there was no option of running away anymore. With enemy standing on their face, turning to run is the same as asking themselves to be killed.

"Handle the team behind, I will take one on one and finish them to come to your aid," Yasushi said, just loud enough that only his teammates would hear him.

They nodded their heads even though the orders were far from logical. If the enemy was given a chance to gang up on Yasushi and somehow kill him, others would be just sitting ducks then.

So they decided to take the role with their lives on the line.

While they rushed ahead to stop the Konoha ninjas running toward them, only allowing one of them to pass, while stopping others with a combination of earth wall and earth spears.

The four Iwa ninja engaged seven Konoha ninja with comparable strength till their leader could handle the one behind them. Ironically, the advantage these Iwa ninja had has suddenly been reversed—now they were at numerical disadvantage. Though they didn't know this fact, they held on against seven Jonin.

While Yasushi focused on the ninja in front of him, the ninja was definitely from Konoha. Though luckily he didn't have any dojutsu, as such ninja become a nuisance even when they are weaker than you. The ninja in front of him didn't even look like he was from some clan, though Yasushi couldn't be farther from the truth.

The ninja in front of him was a promising ninja from Sarutobi clan, famous for their fire jutsu just like Uchiha clan, if not more.

The ninja was not at all perturbed by this one-on-one he found himself into, as every Konoha was ready for 4-1 odds till now, this 1-1 was actually looking easy in his eyes.

Though he forgot one important thing here—for him this was just a mission, no matter how important, just a mission, but for Yasushi, it was becoming a life and death battle the more he thought about the scenario.

Their commander and other three Jonin were not giving any reply for the communication attempts, their array was down, Konoha ninja were in the outpost, roaming like they owned this place, and to top it all, even their own ninja were attacking each other like they had been enemies of each other from the start of time.

There was no need for confirmation anymore—this was an attack from Konoha and a hell of a successful attack. There was no turning back at this point.

'If I am going to die anyway, I am going to bring as many of these guys as I can,' Yasushi thought.

And then his full demeanor changed. The Sarutobi ninja in front of him felt a shiver run down his spine, as the ninja in front of him began running toward him, full speed like he was a bull who just saw a red flag waved in front of him, ready to crush his target to dust.

Without wasting a second, the Sarutobi released a fireball at the Jonin before flickering back, only to see him coming out of the explosion with superficial burn marks only. That was the problem with fire—even a kid can pass his finger through fire few times without getting a semblance of burn.

The fire needed time to burn the enemy; if the enemy managed to evade the area before the fire got the chance, the damage would be lower than even what a kunai could inflict.

Not to mention the suddenly turned black skin of the Jonin. Though the clan famous for their fire jutsu knew this much, which was the reason he turned to his next jutsu the moment he landed at the back after jumping.

Just as Yasushi was about to reach him, he released a stream of fire toward him—Earth Release: Fire Breath Jutsu. No way of dodging this at all.

But Yasushi had long before forgone any thought of self-preservation altogether. He passed through the fire without even slowing his speed, braving through the pain that penetrated his body even with the Iron Skin Jutsu.

His fat and muscle got slowly cooked under his skin, but with adrenaline rush and determination, he kept on moving toward the Sarutobi, catching him off guard when he emerged from fire head first, the skin on his face burned, making him look like a demon emerging from the fire. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com

Catching the Konoha Jonin momentarily off guard, he plunged his kunai straight toward his neck, trying to end the fight then and there. But to his dismay, his target dodged the attack just in the nick of time, evading death but gaining a deep wound on his chest, most likely a punctured lung as well.

Which in itself was good enough—just the next attack would kill him without a doubt. Sadly, he didn't get that chance as by then the upper floor was already conquered by Konoha ninja and many squads entered the middle one, adding to the number of ninja his four Jonin were trying to stop.

But with new additions, the process became impossible rather than monstrously difficult.

All four of them had created earth walls and were pouring chakra non-stop into it to give their leader a few more seconds, but now the condition became apparent—they were going to die for sure. There was no going back after this. At that time, all of them knew what they had to do.

"It was nice working with you guys," Yasushi said, giving away a real smile from his badly mutilated face, before throwing an earth spear toward the Konoha Jonin trying to mend his wound while keeping an eye on him.

The Jonin once again dodged the attack but not completely, his injury not allowing him to be at full capacity, getting another wound in his abdomen, once again puncturing something vital inside him.

But Yasushi left the Jonin to his own—killing one Jonin would not be enough to deal damage to the team. He then moved toward his team who were about to be overwhelmed by the Konoha Jonin.

He reached them as soon as the wall started showing cracks, two squads rushing toward them to save the one Jonin behind the door when an urgent shout brought them back to their senses.

"Fall back!" The urgency in the voice left no room for doubt, and those two squads ran back as soon as they could, but alas they were not fast enough. Yasushi had created an earth wall behind the team when he reached there, closing them up in a room,

after which all five of them just exchanged glances at each other before activating all of the explosion tags they had on them. With five Jonin present there, the number was just shy away from thousand, and the result of that...