Quickly Kazuo thought of claiming the reward and in the next second he saw the button light up before another pop-up appeared before him.

[ Quest rewards have been claimed! ]

[ 0.1% of the User's bloodline has been activated! ]

Kazuo thought he would feel something however there was nothing, no new pop-up giving him a new skill.

Actually, there was a minor change, his chakra had increased slightly however it wasn't a big enough increase that it would show up in his status menu.

'Just what is my bloodline to begin with?' Kazuo asked himself however he had no answer to give, there just was no information about it at all and he hadn't even known that he had the possibility of a bloodline until now.

'I would have been more understanding if it said that it would give me a bloodline rather than whatever this awakening is.' Kazuo thought before releasing a sigh and deciding that he wouldn't think about it for now.

An increase of 0.1% was extremely low, it was one a thousandth of the full bloodline.

'It will likely take me years and a lot of dying as well as pain if I wish to have it fully activated, that's the most likely scenario.' Kazuo thought before he closed his eyes once more and finally fell asleep.

Waking up in the morning, Kazuo quickly got out of bed and headed outside, unfortunately, he wouldn't be able to train his jutsu as he would need the chakra for later during the march however he still could do stretches to heat his body up.

After around half an hour of doing stretches and taijutsu kata, Kazuo was done with his morning routine and packed his tent up into a scroll once more.

Minutes later, Shikaru ordered the entire camp to start marching once more.

During a march like this, there was no time for them to make food or anything of the sort and so the shinobi relied on medical pills and soldier pills to gain the nutrients that they needed.

This wasn't good for them in the long term however desperate times required desperate measures and war was certainly a desperate enough time.

Simply knowing that you could happen upon someone like a jinchuriki or the raikage himself at any time was enough motivation for the group to not waste a single second of the day.

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As the march began, Kazuo quickly came beside Shikaru.

"Yesterday night, someone infiltrated my tent and called himself a root anbu of the leaf, is that an actual organization, or was it an enemy?" Kazuo asked Shikaru who turned his sights onto him.

A moment later, the man nodded his head.

"It's a real leaf organization, Don't tell anyone about them however as they are supposed to be hidden from sight, im surprised that you got invited so quickly. Did you join?" Shikaru asked, he already knew the answer however he wanted to hear it from Kazuo.

Kazuo stood silent for a few moments as he gazed at Shikaru before shaking his head.

"I like the light," Kazuo said before slowing down his speed so that he fell to the back of the group.

This place was more dangerous than the middle where Shikaru was located however at the same time it could be considered less endangering as well.

Shikaru was with the root, Kazuo had a strong belief of this and in his mind, someone from the root posed a much greater danger than any random shinobi that could ambush them, of course besides some big shots who Kazuo stood no chance against.

The journey continued onwards and as the sun started to set, Kazuo finally saw something in the distance.

It was a large clearing that had been made from the destruction of countless trees.

'Likely with the usage of Jutsu, I'd guess wind style however that is quite rare in the leaf, so maybe earth style was used to uproot them and then fire style to either incinerate them or they simply carried them somewhere to be used for the camp.' Kazuo thought as he saw Shikaru head to the front of the group.

On the other side of the clearing, a large number of shinobi were similarly coming toward them.

They all carried the symbol of the hidden leaf in their headbands.

The troops on both sides stopped and only Shikaru and two of the captains headed to the middle.

On the other side, their people walked to the middle as well.

'Those must be the other camp leaders.' Kazuo thought as he stared at the men.

As his gaze swept past the troops, he felt a chill.

'Did I see that wrongly?' Kazuo thought as his gaze returned to a previous spot that he had glanced over.

In the middle of the troops on the other side of the camp, there was a small small kid, his age appeared to be similar to Kazuos, being only twelve years old.

'Didn't every Gennin get sent back? Is there another genius?' Kazuo thought before quickly shaking his head.

'No, they wouldn't just raise someone's rank that easily, they raised mine mainly because Shikaru wanted to keep a close eye on me. There is a small chance that these guys...' Kazuo's thoughts stopped at that moment as he saw Shikaru.

Or rather he saw Shikaru's head fly up into the air, cleanly detached from his body.

Blood splashed all over the grass and the rest of his body from the neck down falling onto the ground.

There was silence for a few short moments though to the Leaf shinobi, it felt like an eternity.

"Kill them!" The man in the middle of the clearing roared as he pointed to the leaf ninja and rushed forward.

The next instant the entire troops in front of Kazuo and the leaf started rushing toward them with large bloodthirsty smiles and jeers as they came closer to them.

To engage in combat and utterly annihilate the leaf camp.

This seemed to bring the leaf ninjas' minds back from the shock as they quickly made combat stances.

Kazuo meanwhile stood silent, not moving a single inch from his spot.

'What's next? The Raikage himself coming to kill me?' Kazuo wondered.

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