Setting The Wolf Free - Sequel to The Wolf Inside

Setting The Wolf Free - Ch 25

Kiba spots me up ahead of him and rushes over, crouching down beside me.

“Ruff!” Akamaru barks, bounding over to us and growling at the revived Ninja around us.

“Angel, are you okay?” Kiba questions worriedly, grabbing onto my shoulders. “What happened to you?!”

“I’m okay, really” I assure Kiba. “I had to use my Katsuryoku to stop that wall of earth from crushing part of the Village, and it tired me out a bit.”

“Well, me and Akamaru will protect you while you rest!” he barks, leaping to his feet and clenching his fists, glaring at our stumbling enemies.

“What exactly are they?” I hear Lee ask, sounding confused.

“Whatever they are” Choji’s voice reaches my ears, “There sure are a lot of them…..”

“There’s something…..not normal about them” Ino gulps, as Genma looks back at the newcomers.

“You guys are late” he sighs, turning back to watch the revived Shinobi.

“Genma” Kiba addressed seriously. “What in the world’s going on here?”

“We’re about to find out” the Jonin drawls. “Ino, go and back up the Medical Ninja Corps, they’re going to need you.”

“Right!” Ino agrees, before pausing. “Wait….Look at the markings on some of them!”

“The Kohaku Clan!” Choji cries, making me frown in confusion. The who?

“What’s the Kohaku Clan?” Izumo asks, obviously as in the dark about them as I am.

“They’re a Clan who live on the border of the Land of Fire” Ino responds sadly. “Their Village was one that was hit in a recent series of attacks along the border.”

“We were sent to investigate” Choji pipes up, glancing around uneasily. “When we arrived, there were no survivors. Whole Villages and everyone in them had been destroyed, and all in the one night too.”

“But….” Ino begins uncertainly, looking disturbed by the grunting sounds the revived Ninja are making. “Could these really be the Ninja who were killed?”

“This is the Earth Style Ultimate Revival Jutsu: Soil Bodies technique” I speak up seriously, rising to my feet. “It’s a Forbidden Jutsu, and I’m surprised that the enemy knows of it. This is also a Reanimation Jutsu, so it’s very likely that these are the Ninja you were talking about.”

“So they’re using the victims of one attack, as the weapons for another attack?” Izumo questions rhetorically.

“What a horrible thing to do….” Kiba says lowly, pulling out a kunai. He begins slashing at the revived Ninja as they converge on us, turning them to dust.

Everyone begins attacking the zombie Ninja, only to realise that we are severely outnumbered by them.

Ino manages to slash a few of the zombie Ninja, before Choji comes rolling past, taking out about ten of them.

“What’s going on here?” Ino asks, looking around frantically.

“Where are our reinforcements?!” Choji exclaims.

“You guys are pathetic!” Genma replies, flipping over a Ninja and stabbing him in the back, before swiftly delivering a kick to the stomach of another Ninja. “We’re gonna have to do this on our own!”

“We’ve gotta find where these guys are coming from!” Kotetsu calls, holding a kunai in each hand and spinning around, slicing a few of the zombie Ninja to ribbons.