Kazuo continued placing explosion tags on strategic locations under the bridge whilst still trying his utmost to maintain his stealth so that he wouldn't be detected by anyone nearby.
He placed each explosion tag in spots where they wouldn't be noticed even if someone was trying to look for any changes.
'This should be good enough' Kazuo thought as he nodded with a smile on his face before quickly using the hiding-like-a-mole technique and heading away, after around two hundred meters, he finally headed back above ground.
In his hand, he held a long piece of paper that he had created using part of the concept of the paper shuriken jutsu.
'During that training, I tried to gain more insight into the Jutsu but I only managed to get a breakthrough once I read through all those jutsu from the library, and even then I'm still far from being able to make different paper jutsu.' Kazuo thought before making a hand sign with one hand whilst holding the paper string.
Kazuo thought as channeled his chakra to the paper string and through it, he sent it directly to the explosion tags.
Nothing, no explosion.
'What?' Kazuo thought as his guard immediately went up and he started looking around.
'Either the paper tore or someone stopped it.' Kazuo thought before heading toward the bridge once more.
Arriving there in one body flicker, Kazuo finally saw the reason.
Countless shinobi were before him, hundreds of them, as well as a long line of supply carriages, could be seen at the back.
'Oh,' Kazuo thought as he stood out in the open.
The enemy had already seen him.
Looking around he quickly found the reason as to why the explosions had failed.
Whenever he used the hiding-like-a-mole technique a small amount of chakra would be left behind in the earth however to discern it one would have to be an extremely proficient earth-style user.
And the enemy was Iwagakure, a village known for their earth release.
'They used something to reinforce the ground or something similar, expecting people to be hiding underneath and for them to be crushed? While they were wrong in their assumption, they still managed to foil my plan.' Kazuo thought as he stared at the large quantity of shinobi who were facing him.
"Look, it's a tree hugger!" One of them screamed as he pointed at Kazuo.
"Be on your guard, he could be bait." Someone else said, and soon enough the entire shinobi force was looking at Kazuo warily.
A single shinobi appearing in front of a whole army either meant that he was bait or that the shinobi was a kage.
Of course, those were the two options if the enemy was sane of mind, he could just as well be an insane bastard who didn't think at all.
"You're not coming?" Kazuo asked, his voice amplified by his chakra which he had used to reinforce his vocal cords.
It was a pretty simple technique if one knew what to enhance.
"Well then, I'll come to you," Kazuo said before he made a single-hand sign.
With a release of smoke, an identical clone of Kazuo appeared next to him.
The clone instantly began running toward the shinobi whilst Kazuo himself immediately used the bodyflicker jutsu.
This left the enemy slightly confused before one of them pointed out.
"He's just an insane bastard, kill him. We just sensed and there are no enemies in a ten-kilometer radius."
Kazuo's shadow clone continued running until he arrived at the middle of the bridge where he gave the enemy a large smile whilst making a single hand seal.
It was the tiger seal.
Merely a split second later, the ground shook as loud thunderous explosions occurred at each of the bridge's supports.
Instantly the bridge started crashing down whilst the shadow clone popped out of existence.
Kazuo already two kilometers away, heard the sound clearly and a large smile sprouted on his face.
'Still, this doesn't mean that I'm out of danger, they will most certainly be following me.' Kazuo thought as he checked on his chakra reserves.
They were almost entirely empty.
Taking out his last soldier pill and popping it into his mouth, Kazuo continued his run through the forest.
Thankfully leaf shinobi were much more proficient in traversing through forests when compared to other villages, so he had the advantage of speed.
'Will my reserves hold out?' Kazuo thought as he continued heading to the location he had told Kakashi and Obito that they would meet up at.
'I can't just leave them either, Kakashi plays a major role in saving this world later on, he's useful, I can't let him die.' Kazuo thought as he started pushing himself further and further.
His speed continued to increase however an aftereffect of it was that his vision blurred even more than before.
He couldn't discern anything around him or in front of him whilst using the bodyflicker anymore.
Finally, after around half an hour, just when Kazuo's reserves were about to bottom out once again, Kazuo arrived at the location.
Appearing in the middle of the small hidden clearing, Kazuo saw two people in front of him.
Both of their eyes were red and they looked like they had gone through an immense struggle.
"Kakashi, you managed to save Rin," Kazuo said before turning his head left and right.
"Where's Obito? We have to get going and quickly, do you have any soldier pills?" Kazuo asked, his voice sounded hurried.
Kakashi simply took out a pill from his ninja bag and threw it at Kazuo who took it and popped it into his mouth.
"Obito's dead" Rin said with a small voice.
"I see, I'm sorry but we have to get going right now," Kazuo said.
His urgent response seemed to finally get Kakashi's attention as he turned to look at Kazuo seriously.
His left eye still looked rather ravaged but clearly better than when he had last seen him.
"A force of around one thousand Iwagakure shinobi is after me right now," Kazuo said as if he were talking about his morning breakfast.
Kakashi's and Rin's eyes widened as they looked at him.
At that moment, Kazuo felt an immense pain spurt in his right chest.
Looking down, Kazuo saw a large rock piercing through his body, it had gone into his back and appeared on the other side, completely piercing him.
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