The Descendant of Akata (Naruto fanfiction)

44 ● The Chase ●

Third person's pov.

Lumi was clad when she could run again without getting tired after a few feet. What Terra had said about her recovering back to normal seemed to have been true. However, she was aware that she wasn't yet fully back to what she had been, so she didn't take any chances when she dug a bar from her bag.

The bar had high nutrient and protein levels, making it nourishing and energizing to a ninja in mission. Especially in a mission like this. She grimaced as she took another bite. What it had in nourishment, it lacked greatly in taste. It was like eating cardboard.

She was munchin on the last bite by the time she found Neji and the Sound Four member with six hands. Making a *tsk* sound at the sight, she immediately went to the severely wounded boy and turned him onto his back.

Lumi grimaced at the sight. The wound on his right side was so big she could see bits of organs and guts, alongside with the ground under him.

Suppressing the urge to hit Neji for getting wounded so bad, she immediately started gathering the water, knowing she needed to gather lots of it.

"If anyone of you guys don't make it from this mission, I'll gut you all with a rusted out spoon and use your intestines as a scarf. After that, you'll all start a new hobby and become contortionists. I'll gladly help you with your warm ups. You'll be the very first group that can stuff their head in their arse." Lumi muttered angrily during the whole healing process as sweat started to trickle down her forehead. Imagining all the boys in impossible positions and almost breaking their necks made it easier for her to ignore her own tiredness. She hadn't realised it before that moment, that she was violent and a bit aggressive when worried.

"Lumi."

"I know, I know. Just a little bit more." She grunted to Ignis as she watched the bleeding slow down. But the hole wasn't healing.

"You don't have enough power for healing that. You've already slowed down his bleeding dramatically, that should be enough for him to make it till proper medical attention." Ignis reasoned to the girl, but the frown on her face didn't disappear.

'But what if it isn't?'

"It is. You still have people to take care of after him, if you unnecessarily exert yourself here, what is going to happen to the other boys? Wasn't that dog boy going to get hurt quite badly?"

Lumi winced at the thought of someone dying because of her actions. Kiba would need her help next.

She looked at Neji's wound and complexion once again. He looked a bit better and help was going to soon be here. They no doubt were quicker than her and had been gaining on her.

Reluctantly, pushed by the thought of the other boys needing her, she left Neji under the small spot where the sun still shone. This way he wouldn't get too cold in the time he would be alone.

Lumi glanced at the sun as she jumped to a tree branch. It was starting to set.

If her memory served her right, Kiba, Naruto and Shikamaru wouldn't engage in battle with the last members of Sound Four till morning.

"Are you going to run through the whole night, kid?"

'I have to if I want to reach them in time.'

"You won't make it." Aqva said, he hadn't spoken during the whole mission before this. Lumi hadn't been the only one to feel down when Terra... vanished.

'I have the soldier pills that Taru made. They should be able to keep me in good enough condition.'

"Ten minute rests every hour." Ignis bargained. "The others are also going to take some pauses along the night."