My Hidden Road

After crawling forward for tens of meters, it turned out that the team of more than a dozen people had all been exhausted. Only Naoto escaped because he was lying on the ground and his body was soaked in blood. Naoto just lay on the ground and looked at the sky.

A drop of rain fell on his lips. Was it raining?

He stuck out his tongue and licked his lips. It tasted sweet with a rusty smell, and it was raining blood. The sound of an explosion sounded more than ten meters in front of him, and a severed hand hit him on the head. He held back the discomfort.

Throwing the severed hand aside, he continued to climb forward. When he came to the pit created by the explosion, Naoto slipped into the pit, with what could barely be called a corpse beside him.

"Dude, I'm sorry."

Naoto pushed the piece of meat out of the pit and curled up in the pit. Suddenly a man jumped into the pit and hit him directly. Naoto kicked him away with his feet.

"Find another hole and squat. I just invited a friend to leave."

"Shut up."

The person who jumped into the pit was a young man about the same age as Naoto. He had oil paint on his face and was very arrogant and unruly. "If I can find another pit, I will be willing to be with you. If you want to survive, just stay quiet and don't let anyone find us."

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Stretching out his legs and kicking him, Naoto reluctantly gave up half of the room for the boy to squat inside.

"first?"

The young man was puzzled: "What?"

"First time on the battlefield?"

"What does it have to do with you?"

Naoto pointed at the boy's dripping crotch with contempt: "It smells bad. If there weren't Konoha ninjas outside, I would definitely throw you out."

"Asshole, I'm going to kill you." The young man blushed with embarrassment.

"Be calm." Naoto rubbed the secretions from his eyes and said, "Don't die in the hands of Konoha, but in the hands of your own comrades. This would be a big loss."

"How can those bastards be called companions? They are simply beasts!"

"I feel the same way. It seems we can communicate normally."

Naoto stretched out his right hand and said with a smile: "Naoto Sekawa, let's get to know each other."

The young man with oil paint on his face looked at Naoto for a few times, then reluctantly stretched out his hand to shake Naoto's hand.

"Kyusuke."

"oh."

There were continuous screams and explosions outside the pit. The kunai followed by the detonating talisman kept falling on the battlefield. The surrounding area was blown up, but there were few attacks here. Naoto kept attacking with a short blade.

While digging, Hatosuke pushed the soil out of the pit with his hands. The two of them had a tacit understanding.

After digging a small hole, Naoto found two corpses to cover himself, and huddled in the small hole with Hatosuke to wait for the battle to end.

"There may be something wrong with the intelligence." Naoto huddled in the small hole he dug and said, "The Konoha dogs like explosions so much. I think it's Iwagakure's demolition force. The sound of explosions has never stopped."

Jiuzuke quietly poked his head out, and then said with lingering fear: "It's the Konoha troops. They have been killed outside. There are corpses all over the ground."

"Alas, this time there is no chance of disaster."

Naoto took out a few banknotes and a piece of hard bread from the corpse, cut half of it with a broken blade and handed it to Hatosuke. The two of them seemed to have nothing to do with the war, squatting in the hole hoping that the battle would end, and whoever would win would be fine.

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The screaming continued for a day and ended at dusk, but Naoto and Jiuzuke still did not dare to go out. It was not until nightfall that they dared to sneak out of the pit. After Jiuzuke climbed out of the pit, he wanted to go back, and Naoto immediately held him down.

, the two of them rolled into a pit filled with blood and water.

"You still want to go back to the camp, is your life so worthless?"

Jiuzuke understood immediately: "Escape together, I don't want to die here."

"Escape together."

Naoto's hands were tightly held with those of Hatosuke. He could escape from here and go anywhere as long as he could survive. Hatosuke felt that the person in front of him was not bad, and he could form a companion with him to live together. In this troubled world

To survive, Naoto also needs a companion, and the two hit it off and prepare to escape from the battlefield.

"What's your plan?"

Naoto stuck his head out and looked at the surrounding environment. There were forests to the south and east. It was impossible for him and Yusuke to escape into the Land of Fire. The five major countries all had troops responsible for counter-infiltration. Only small countries could survive.

"Flee to the north."

Jiuzuke was silent for a moment and then nodded and said: "I will listen to you and go north."

The two of them quietly crawled out of the pit under the cover of night. The ground was filled with corpses and broken limbs. Even the air was filled with an unpleasant smell, which was made even worse by the cold and humid environment unique to the Land of Rain. Naoto walked on

In front, Hatosuke walked behind. Both of them were observing their surroundings nervously. If they were caught, they would die.

After several hours, the two finally slowly crawled away from the battlefield. After confirming that they had left the battlefield, the two ran desperately to the north. They ran desperately, and their bodies did not feel a trace of fatigue.

After running for an unknown amount of time, Naoto noticed a bright light rising from the horizon in the distance, and it was dawn.

Seeing the dawn, Naoto fell to the ground as if he had lost all strength, and Hatosuke also collapsed to the ground. The two people who fell on the ground laughed at the same time, laughing very loudly.

"Free, finally free!"

Naoto turned over and kicked Hatosuke on the butt: "Change your pants, you know the smell of urine is very bad, hahaha."

"This is all I have, hahaha." Hatosuke didn't care that Naoto kicked him, because he survived.

After lying on the ground and resting for a while, both of them gradually recovered and began to talk about the next questions.

"Naoto, where are you going?"

"Me?" Naoto thought for a while and responded: "I plan to find a place to stay first. It's best to get some food. I'm almost hungry."

"Let's go, I'll take you to a place where I'll make sure you have enough to eat."

"Then what are you doing here? Lead the way!"

The rain in the sky is still falling and will never stop.

After trekking in the rain for two or three hours, Hatosuke took Naoto to a nearby deserted village. The dome-shaped building can minimize the impact of rain and prevent water from dripping through the stone for a long time. The village is full of old people and children.

The doors of every house were closed, and Naoto and Hatosuke, who were wearing rain-nin forehead protectors, showed fear in their eyes.

"What is this place?"

"I don't know. There are many villages like this in the Land of Rain. If you ask me what I want to do, I just need to get some food." Jiosuke said.

Walking to the door of a villager's house, Jiuzuke knocked hard on the iron door: "Hey! Listen to the people inside, is there anything to eat?"

Naoto was stunned when he saw this operation: "What are you doing?"

"Please give them some food."

"I see you're not begging them to give you food, Hatosuke, you're just like a bandit, do you have to be polite?"

Naoto straightened up his appearance, coughed twice, raised his hand and knocked gently on the iron door.

"Fellow, open the door, we are rain ninjas."

A scolding voice came from the room: "Just because you are rain ninjas, I won't give you anything. Go away quickly, Konoha's troops will be here soon."

"Hahaha, Naoto, you can't do this."

Naoto touched his nose awkwardly, stood outside the door and changed his face to a fierce look. He borrowed oil paint from Hatosuke and smeared it on his face. The oil paint on his face made him more ferocious.

"Hurry up, open the door, bring the food, and let me in. Otherwise, your house will be blown up. I am fighting bloody battles outside just to defend the Kingdom of Rain. However, as citizens of the Kingdom of Rain, you are threatening us with enemy ninjas."

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During the war, our country's ninjas were kept out. Since the door is closed, there must be Konoha ninjas hidden inside. Anyone who hides wounded soldiers from the enemy country will be complicit in the enemy country and will be executed!"

‘Squeak——’

The door of the house was opened, and a little old man stood tremblingly at the door, looking at Naoto and Hatosuke in fear. "We don't have Konoha ninjas at home, please let me go."

Hatosuke touched Naoto and said, "How do you know that saying this will open the door?"

"I see that this is what other rain ninjas do, they always try and succeed."