Naruto: I, Shikotsumyaku, Byakugan Princess

Chapter 150 Urgent March
The sky gradually darkened, and a heavy fog descended.

In autumn, the leaves in the forest turn yellow and withered, and the thick branches of the giant trees are completely exposed, showing a different kind of tranquility.

Whoosh...

Masked figures, their bodies entirely black, darted swiftly past the treetops. Their pure black cloaks billowed in the wind like wings, faintly revealing a cold, razor-sharp glint.

Dead silence, elegant, yet...

Boom boom!

Thick smoke billowed, and the earth trembled.

Birds flapped their wings in fear and soared into the sky, while all sorts of beasts scrambled outwards, hoofs twitching.

Ahead of the smoke and dust.

A slightly frail figure was running wildly on the ground.

The boots stomped on the ground, and the earth itself seemed to be overturned by the force of the impact. Pieces of earth, mixed with the surging energy, exploded and flew in all directions.

Brutal and manic, like a ferocious beast rampaging through the jungle, a stark contrast to the nimble and calm Root members above.

Ryoma Aburame frowned as he looked down at the petite girl running below.

Whether it's the Root or the Anbu, or even just being an ordinary ninja, the first rule of conduct is to conceal one's whereabouts and not reveal one's location.

The other party, however, could not do it at all.

With a superhuman weight of over 500 pounds, combined with the super-high speed of a ninja marching, the force generated by each stomp of her foot must be measured in tons.

The fragile branches could not withstand such force, and even the earth would be pounded into deep pits by the force, leaving an extremely conspicuous track in the jungle.

This made it difficult for a ninja like him, who was skilled in infiltration and reconnaissance, to adapt.

Such an outrageous individual should be on the front lines of a battle, or on the operating table of the experimental department, rather than joining Root, a place rife with assassinations and intelligence gathering.

Boom!

sizzle...

Thunder and lightning.

With her Lightning Release Chakra Mode activated, Hui Li smashed a giant tree blocking her path and snapped it in two.

The body's inertia is so great that once it accelerates, it's simpler and less strenuous to smash the obstacle directly than to waste energy on sharp turns.

Rumble.

The thick tree trunk, which would take ten people to encircle, was scorched black by lightning, and its massive canopy crashed directly to the ground, kicking up countless clouds of dust.

Whoosh!
Just as Lan was about to jump onto the tree branch, she saw the giant tree in front of her fall, so she braked suddenly and staggered to jump onto the tree next to her.

Look ahead.

Amidst billowing smoke and flashing lightning, the girl forged ahead, causing giant trees blocking her path to fall and carve a path through the forest.

Lan's eyes twitched, and she opened her mouth as if to say something.

clap clap!

Panxiong, who was following behind, jumped to his side and patted him on the shoulder.

Understanding the other party's meaning, the unruly Lan finally gave in with a sigh and continued onward with Pan Xiong.

He had only just recovered from the injuries he sustained during the last provocation a few days ago, and he didn't want to have to go back to the experimental department for treatment again.

According to the nurse who bandaged and changed his dressing, Hairi was learning medical ninjutsu from Chihaya Toru in the experimental department and was progressing rapidly. If he got injured again, the doctor who treated him might still be that monster.

I really can't afford to offend you.

Just thinking about Hui Li's cold face, wearing a white coat, treating his injuries, made him feel a cold, stabbing pain in his right ribs, like he had a stitch.

"stop!"

Suddenly, Ryoma Aburame's voice came.

Everyone stopped instantly and stood still, awaiting orders.

boom!
With a sudden stop, Hui Li crashed into another giant tree before finally managing to regain control of his heavy body. He shook off the scattered wood chips from his clothes, and found himself surrounded by deep ravines.

Is this guy an elephant in disguise?
Butterfly silently complained in her heart, not knowing what to say.

Ignoring the monstrous girl below, Aburame Ryoma looked up at the gloomy sky. Countless insects crawled out of his clothes and buzzed as they flew outwards, looking like a black cloud from a distance.

"Butterfly, check the surroundings."

Butterfly nodded, closed her eyes, and formed a 'zi' mudra with her hands in front of her chest.

Without a sound, Gray Glass's vision also shifted to a 360-degree God's-eye view, spreading infinitely outward.

Although she runs with great momentum and fights with a rather unrestrained style, she never forgets that she is an excellent sensory ninja.

In the Byakugan's chakra vision, Butterfly's body continuously emitted blue chakra ripples. Each ripple radiated outwards, and once it collided with any object, it would form a unique trajectory and return to the other party's body.

It should be a kind of sensory ninjutsu similar to sonar. The precision is unknown, but the sensing range is probably four or five hundred meters, which is far less useful than the Byakugan.

Hui Li secretly memorized the butterfly's ninjutsu.

The perspective continues to expand.

There wasn't a single person in sight within a kilometer radius except for them.

Her running style caused wild animals and venomous snakes to automatically stay away from the area, making the withered forest seem even more desolate.

The Land of Lightning and the Land of Fire are far apart. Although they have been marching for a day, they are still within the territory of the Land of Fire, and have only just left the central area of ​​the Land of Fire. It is unlikely that they will encounter any dangerous situations.

At this rate.

It will take Hui Li and the others at least two more days to leave the Land of Fire.

To bypass towns and defenses and reach the southwestern border of the Land of Lightning, one must exit from the northeastern border of the Land of Fire, passing through the Land of Fields and a vast, uninhabited primeval forest.

It will take another four days in between.

She has two days reserved for the mission, and it will take about ten days to return to Konoha. Only she can complete the experiment of filtering life force with the Sharingan's eye power. She doesn't know if there is any new progress on the Hashirama cells on the main body's side.

"Captain, nothing unusual has been found."

The butterfly retrieved the chakra that had dissipated into the air.

Ryoma Aburame nodded. He was also cautious and didn't think they would encounter any danger here. With their level of team composition, 99% of the dangers in the ninja world would be nothing to them.

Besides...

He looked at Hui Li.

Even potential dangers were scared away by this terrifying creature.

"Everyone rest here."

"Yes!"

The group quickly dispersed and each took on their assigned tasks.

Five special Jonin set up wires, traps, and sealing-triggering jutsu in the surrounding jungle. Two jumped to the treetops to find suitable high points for lookout, while the last five cleaned up the tracks left by the group to prevent being tracked by the enemy.

Looking at the fallen giant tree and the deep pit trampled into the ground, they said nothing and complained. They each used their escape techniques to quickly fill in the traces left by Hui Li.

Panxiong quickly formed a hand seal and slapped the ground with both hands, and a yellowish-brown stone house rose from the ground.

The Yamato two-bedroom apartment technique?
Hui Li's eyes lit up.

I thought this was a Wood Release technique, but it turned out to be a common secret technique of Root. The combination of Iwaguchi, an Earth Release ninja, and Yamato's Wood Release directly turned it into a civil engineering project.

Rumble.

The stone house wasn't as fancy as the wooden houses in Japan; it just looked like a square block with a lid.

A door-shaped hole was cut into the earthen wall directly in front, and a square hole on the right served as a ventilation opening and window.

Others are still working on the conspicuous marks left by the gray glass.

Ryoma Aburame and Iwakuma were the first to enter, followed by Hairi, Arashi, Cho, and the others who had nothing else to do.

It was already quite late, and the interior of the earthen house was even darker and more rudimentary than the outside, truly a bare-bones dwelling. But in the wilderness where there wasn't even a place to shelter from the wind and rain, it was comparable to a mansion.

Lan pulled the scroll out of her sleeve.

"Release!" Bang!
Four candles appeared in his hand. He lit them with a tinderbox and placed them one by one in the dead corners of the room, instantly illuminating the stone house.

Then, the three of them sat down against the wall and took out their rations and water. Aburame Ryoma took out a map from his inner pocket, spread it on the ground, and examined it carefully by the light of the candle.

"Aren't you going to eat?"

Butterfly, whose features were so ordinary that she would be easily lost in a crowd, took off her mask, poured out a soldier's ration pill, and chewed it.

Lan and Pan Xiong swallowed the soldier's rations with cold water, their expressions calm and natural, clearly having adapted to the not-so-tasty rations.

"I do not want to eat."

Hui Li felt a little uncomfortable looking at the soldier's ration pills.

Waking up on the battlefield where the Bamboo Clan was wiped out, she replenished her chakra by finding ration pills on the corpses of her clansmen, and eventually managed to kill two Kirigakure ANBU and survive.

At that time, she was like a stray dog, relying on the 'carrion' of her own kind to survive.

It's only been half a year now.

She absorbed the chakra of the tailed beasts twice in a row, and learned the Eight Gates, Lightning Release Chakra Mode, and mastered all five elements of esoteric arts, sealing techniques, and medical treatment. She no longer had to live a miserable and wretched life as before.

After scanning her surroundings with a blank stare, Hui Li got up and walked outside.

"No one may leave the team without permission during the Night Crossing mission." Aburame Ryoma put down the map marked with many red circles, his purple eyes coldly fixed on Gray Glass.

"I'll go get some food for people."

"Cough cough..."

Lan, who was drinking water to take the soldier's ration pills, choked on the water. Die and Pan Xiong were fiddling with the soldier's ration pills in their hands, unsure whether to eat them or not.

Nod.

Aburame Ryoma looked down at the map in his hand and said calmly:

"Bring me some."

Hui Li waved her hand and walked straight towards the forest outside.

Butterfly and Panxiong exchanged a glance, silently put the soldier's rations into their pockets, and pretended to be full and closed their eyes to rest.

Inside the room, Tu Liulan was completely oblivious, chewing on her soldier's rations, her cheeks puffed out, her eyes clear and bright.

outside the house.

The twelve Root ninjas are still dealing with the traces left by Ash.

After erasing the footprints on the branches, they used Earth Release to fill in the deep pit that Hui Li had trampled, covered it with weeds, and since the fallen tree could not be restored to its original state, they could only cut down other trees around it to confuse the situation.

Hui Li activated her white eye's vision to its maximum, scanning the area and taking control of all the prey within a ten-kilometer radius.

Choose the largest wild boar among them.

Not wanting to add to the workload of everyone who was already struggling to remove the traces, she controlled her strength and slowed down, arriving in front of the wild boar in a few leaps.

Thunder roars around my fingertips, I lightly tap the pig's head.

Zizi!

The wild boar, which was looking down as if searching for something, suddenly froze, its limbs all outstretched, its eyes closed and a mysterious smile on its lips, before collapsing to the ground like a stick.

The electric arc dissipated.

The wind blew out from the acupoints on the hands, peeling the pigskin inch by inch.

They cut open the abdomen and removed the internal organs.

The water flowed into the abdomen, washing away the foul-smelling internal organs and draining the blood from the body. Salt and other seasonings, prepared beforehand in the sealing scroll, were then sprinkled evenly on top.

Snapped!
Hui Li gently patted the pork.

The wind-style chakra penetrated through the pores, shredding the tough, chewy fascia inside. Then, scalding fire-style chakra, using the technique of splitting the air, precisely injected itself into the pork.

呲呲!

The skin contracts instantly, and the caramelized oil flows out from the meat.

Clap clap clap!

Quickly pat your entire body once.

In just a few minutes, the scorching fire elemental technique cooked the pork thoroughly, inside and out.

Tear off a piece of roasted meat.

The heat is even and harmonious both inside and out, and the boiling oil keeps bubbling on its surface, releasing meat juices. The aroma of meat mixed with the unique fragrance of fried seasonings makes one's mouth water.

Hui Li took off her mask, put the roasted meat in her mouth, and her eyes lit up.

The piping hot pork is tender and juicy, almost melting in your mouth. The aroma of fat mixed with the salty and savory flavor fills your mouth. It has the texture of lean meat, but is even softer and more tender than fatty meat.

The cooking time, flavor, and texture are all top-notch.

After killing Kaguya Otsutsuki, she will open a barbecue stall next to Ichiraku Ramen.

Get a comfortable recliner, eat some barbecue skewers, and watch Naruto and his kids save the world live.

It feels pretty good.

They carried several hundred kilograms of roasted meat back to the stone house.

The members of the root group had already cleaned up the traces, removed their masks, and sat under a tree outside, chewing on their rations.

The strict hierarchy at the root level is not just a figure of speech.

very young.

Looking at the faces of these ninjas, who were probably around ten years old, both men and women, Hui Li could see into their bodies with her Byakugan. Their chakra was still vigorous, but their green life force had already dimmed.

The rigorous training at the Root serves two purposes: first, to cultivate obedience; and second, based on the principles of the Eight Gates, to squeeze out vital energy through rigorous training and quickly form a usable fighting force.

However, this level of development is less difficult than the Eight Gates Formation, but the methods are more brutal and cruel.

After years of rigorous training and exploitation, their bodies are riddled with holes, and they will at most live to their thirties before their bodies completely collapse.

"Eat this!"

Holding several hundred pounds of roasted meat in one hand, the twelve boys unhesitatingly spat out the soldier's rations in their mouths and quickly cut the meat into pieces with kunai.

They grabbed the cut pieces of roasted meat and ate them with gusto, seemingly enjoying them immensely.

Hui Li fell silent.

The only reason was that there was no emotion above their heads, only a cold emptiness, like a series of soulless, cold machines.

They didn't readily accept her kindness, nor did they spit out the rations because they disliked the food; rather, they were carrying out her orders—the 'eat meat' order given by her, the vice-captain!
This is the root.

Shaking her head, Hui Li grabbed the remaining roasted meat and went into the stone chamber.

indoor.

A stone table and four stone stools.

Butterfly, Iwakuma, and Ryoma sat at the table, looking intently at the map spread out on it, as if the map held some earth-shattering secret.

Lan huddled in a corner, hunched over, pretending to sleep.

Upon seeing Hui Li carrying in the fragrant roasted meat, Aburame Ryoma sniffed and casually rolled up the map on the table, tucking it into his pocket.

The three of them looked up at Hui Li at the same time.

“The table has already been washed.” Butterfly licked her lips and smiled. Pan Xiong remained silent, but the bobbing of his Adam’s apple betrayed his inner hunger.

"Tsk."

Iwakuma deserves credit for building the house, Cho is good at communication, and Aburame Ryoma is, after all, the captain. Hairi, unsure what to say, placed the steaming hot grilled meat on the stone table and naturally sat on the stone bench prepared for her.

The four of them shared the food in tacit agreement.

After tearing open a piece of grilled meat and taking a bite, the three of them paused for a moment, and then their cutting and swallowing movements suddenly sped up considerably.

The tantalizing aroma of meat filled the entire stone chamber. Lan, who was pretending to be asleep, frowned and turned her head to the other side.

The ration pills in my stomach were soaked in water and filled my intestines. The feeling of hunger and fullness surged up at the same time, and I couldn't even suppress the drowsiness from a day of rushing around.

(End of this chapter)