Chapter 34 - thirty four

jiyuu has been stabbed before by Akemi, but at that time kunai had not gone through his heart completely and the major part was stopped by his strong outer flesh. But this time was different his heart was really punctured through and blood was completely flowing out, along with it the poison and explosion had made it worse.

jiyuu " Tsunade there are antidotes in my backpack give it to me, and remove the wires and shrapnel's quickly "

Tsunade " No, we can't remove it like that, you might bleed out to death and In you state it's... I need more time to pull out the wires and shrapnel slowly and we cant remove the wire piece that is still lodged in your heart, it's too dangerous..."

Jiyuu " Tsunade trust me I will heal, but if you allow the wire and shrapnel's to remain it will affect my healing... and use something to stop the bleeding..... we need to be fast the enemy might catch up with us even though we have stalled them for some time ..."

Jiraya " listen to him Tsunade, I have seen him heal before..."

Jiraya put jiyuu down and Tsunade started to remove the wires and shrapnel's after giving him the antidote. Jiyuu never needed antidotes before, but the antidotes were a major help in his present situation...

Even though it only took 8 minutes for tsunade to remove all the bigger fragments... it was the longest 8 minutes in jiyuu's life... and after warning them to not stop at any cost, he lost consciousness.

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Tsumugi was in bad shape after the explosion, even though she could move she had become slow and the poison had also weakened her chakra control. Catching up to the three konoha rookies seemed impossible so she send a signal to the team behind her to move faster. But team 9 had been moving continuously which had further added to the distance between them and enemies.

tsumugi " Haruo take the rest and catch up to them immediately ... don't leave even one of them alive, especially that kid in black he is too dangerous, he is close to death but make sure he is dead, we don't want another Hashirama or Madara... I only met up with three, it means either, one of them has died under kei's attack or has gone to ask for back up, you need to move fast..."

This team from Mist was efficient and started moving faster, after listening to Tsumugi's instructions.

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It has been 2 hours since the conflict, Jiraya was dead tired now he had to pass jiyuu to tsunade to be carried on the back. Tsunade was not weak but she was also getting exhausted slowly. When one more hour passed by they could see hope as they were closing in on Konoha and backup would arrive at anytime now.

But the enemies have already caught up, soon kunai and shurikens were flying at them. Jiraya pushed Tsunade and jiyuu away while dodging himself. Jiraya threw back some kunais and shurikens as well, which exploded as it reached the enemies.... Jiyuu had already given some dynamic shurikens and explosive tags to them, before they set up the trap earlier. He couldn't use the dynamic shurikens since he had no dojutsu or special skills to completely grasp the movement of the shurikens.

The Explosion was enough to deter the enemy and stall some time for jiraiya and Tsunade , to reorganize.

Jiraya " Tsunade why don't you move forward with jiyuu, while i will stall for some time and will catch up with you later..."

Tsunade " are you trying to follow this guys footstep, look at him now... I can't carry two... and how much time can you stall for, the probability of you dying is more than stalling for anything... we should come up with a plan ..."

For some reason jiraiya didn't argue with her and agreed. What came to jirayas's mind when he heard Tsunade's words were, what jiyuu said to him a while back, " If you want to find your way to the heart of a lady, you should give her respect and listen to her, and if she is right agree with her..."