Chapter 197 Toad has a sentence

At daybreak, Nohara Rin started changing the bandage on Hatake Kakashi.

Haruko stood by, staring without blinking, her brows furrowed.

Hatake Kakashi looked at her for a few seconds and slowed down his voice, "It's not like you're injured, why do you look so grim?"

"I was nervous just because Kakashi was injured!" Haruko complained angrily, "If it was me who was injured, I would have just screamed out loud. Why would I have to stand there and be scared?"

Hearing the deep concern in her complaining tone, Hatake Kakashi coughed awkwardly, "I will pay attention next time."

“There shouldn’t be a next time!”

"Ah."

He himself is not a person who worries about getting injured, but now there is someone next to him who is extremely afraid of pain, so he has to pay good attention to his body.

Is this a good thing?

Hatake Kakashi inadvertently glanced at the nervous Haruko again, and a strange warm feeling emerged in his heart.

Maybe... it's a good thing.

Before leaving, Namikaze Minato gave them another worried reminder. After they separated, Hatake Kakashi led them to their destination quickly.

Stepping cautiously on the water in the bamboo forest, Hatake Kakashi keenly sensed something and gestured for them to stop.

Almost at the same time, countless bamboo tubes with sharp tips pierced down from above them. Uchiha Obito reacted quickly and used the Great Fireball Technique, spewing blazing flames from his mouth to burn the bamboo tubes.

As the ashes fell into the water, one of the bamboo tubes broke apart and the enemy rushed out of the water to attack them.

Haruko took the lead in firing white lines to try to entangle his body, and Hatake Kakashi coordinated by rushing into the air and using kunai attacks, making it impossible for the enemy to take care of both sides.

"what--!"

Suddenly, they heard Nohara Lin's scream behind them. Haruko stopped chasing and looked quickly towards the source of the sound.

The second enemy appeared at some point. He turned his body transparent and approached them from behind while they were confronting the enemy in front. He knocked out Nohara Lin and abducted her.

"Let's take this guy away." The enemies looked down at them with a cruel look, and then disappeared one after another in the clouds.

"Wait a minute!" Kakashi Hatake wanted to stop him but was a step too slow.

Uchiha Obito gritted his teeth and said, "How can I fix this!"

Seeing that he was about to catch up, Hatake Kakashi stopped him loudly, "Slow down, Obito!"

"Let's continue with the mission first, and then go rescue Lin. The enemy wants to know our plan, so they won't go too far with Lin." Hatake Kakashi calmly analyzed for them, "If our plan is leaked, they should immediately increase their vigilance on the bridge, and the mission will become difficult."

"Instead of completing the mission, we should save Lin first!" Uchiha Obito insisted, his words full of anger.

Kakashi Hatake looked at Haruko who was also worried. His identity as "captain" made it impossible for him to make the right decision in this dilemma.

Should you choose a mission that determines the outcome of the war and for which countless people have sacrificed their lives, or choose a teammate who has promised to protect you and never leave you.

You must choose a mission that will affect the sacrifice and future of more people...

But Lin, if something really happened to Lin...

How can it be repaired! How should I choose? !

"Kakashi."

Suddenly, Haruko's childish voice rang in his ears, pulling him away from his complicated thoughts.

Looking at the indignant Uchiha Obito and the determined Haruko, Kakashi Hatake suddenly felt that this was not a problem worth worrying about at all.

How can there be a correct decision? There is no correct decision in the world.

The only answer that exists is one that you believe in and persist in.

He sighed and said in a relaxed tone, "One of you is a crybaby, and the other is a lazy bum. I'm not at all worried about you. Let's go."

"Kakashi..." Uchiha Obito was suddenly full of energy, "Yoshi! Let's go, Captain!"

Kakashi Hatake didn't expect to hear this name from his mouth. He glanced at Haruko who was laughing beside him, and embarrassedly took the lead to move forward, motioning them to follow.

They ran through the woods, and when they vaguely saw the enemy looting and hiding in the cave, they all quickened their pace in tacit understanding without saying a word.

"Where are you going?"

An enemy figure suddenly appeared in front of them and blocked them with his huge body. He was the one who used ninjutsu to make himself transparent and attacked Nohara Rin.

The leader, Kakashi Hatake, immediately stopped and prepared for battle.

Haruko didn't stop, and immediately rushed through before the enemy used the same trick, "I'll go save Lin first!"

Uchiha Obito was a little anxious and wanted to stop her, "Wait Haruko!"

Kakashi Hatake responded quickly and threw a kunai, interrupting the enemy's attack on her, and helped cover Haruko's escape.

Haruko rushed all the way to the cave without stopping, and the first thing she saw was the enemy pulling Nohara Rin's hair and interrogating her.

"Take your hands off Lin!" Haruko's soft eyes and brows were now filled with coldness.

Seeing her coming, the enemy knew that their teammates had failed to stop her, and they cursed involuntarily, "What useless fellows."

However, he did not take a thin girl seriously. The enemy took out a kunai and rushed towards her like a gust of wind. Haruko had a solemn expression and blocked his attack with some difficulty.

The enemy's attacks were so frequent and intensive that Haruko could hardly resist and kept retreating.

The enemy was still taunting, "Sending out such a weak kid, it seems I'm underestimated."

"Maybe you underestimated me too!"

Seeing that the enemy had been lured out of the cave, Haruko did a backflip to distance herself from him, fluently took out the scroll from her backpack, and dropped it in the air with a swish sound.

"Ninjutsu: Psychic Summoning Technique!"

In the midst of the smoke, an orange toad wearing layered armor and with blue patterns all over its body appeared. It seemed to be unable to react and looked around in confusion.

"Where is this? Jiraiya!" The Iron-Armed Toad shouted to the surroundings in a rough voice.

"Shh! Keep your voice down!" Haruko quickly moved closer to it, "Don't attract more enemies!"

"It's Haruko, why did you summon me?" The Iron-armed Toad turned its head, "Could it be that you finally reached an agreement with Jiraiya based on the Myoboku Mountain contract?"

Haruko choked, a little embarrassed, "What do you mean by understanding?! Look at how old I am now, and think about how old Jiraiya is!"

The Iron-armed Toad patted his chest heartlessly, "We Toads have a saying that 'young or old is not a problem', don't worry, we will all support you and Jiraiya!"

"...This is the one-time summoning scroll Jiraiya gave me." Haruko was slightly speechless, "You should deal with the enemy first."

After her reminder, Iron-Armed Toad realized that there was an enemy with an ugly face standing in front of him, and he waved his hand nonchalantly.

"Leave it to me, small problem."

They didn't expect to be underestimated by a toad. The enemy's face, which was already full of hostility, became even more embarrassed. Without giving them a chance to react, they rushed forward fiercely.

"Be careful not to get hit into the cave!"

Haruko warned, then retreated away from them and returned to the cave while the Iron-Armed Toad was entangled with the enemy.

Rushing to Nohara Lin's side, Haruko carefully checked her condition. Fortunately, she had no external injuries, but her eyes were dull and she looked like she was under an illusion.

Haruko probably planned to use illusion to force out their plan, so she suppressed her anger and removed the illusion for Nohara Lin first.

"untie!"

Nohara Lin woke up from her drowsy state, turned her eyes dazedly, caught a glimpse of a white corner next to her, and murmured.

"Haru...ko?"