Kaiji had also recognized a few other figures.
One figure, with the crowd of small people, some in rags and some in normal clothes, was a red-haired woman with her bangs kept in a ponytail.
She wore long black clothe and a golden necklace.
This was Sāra, currently the Queen of the now ruined Loran City.
Other figures included a tall and plump-looking man in black with long, spiky red hair.
This was Chōza Akimichi.
Beside him was a figure in similar black clothes, wearing dark glasses even at night, with spiky short black hair.
This was Shibi Aburame.
He stood with Chōza Akimichi, just a little further than Minato and Naruto, probably to support them.
'Where are Yamato and young Kakashi?' Kaiji mused, not finding their figures around the fight scene.
Then, a thought occurred in his mind about Kakashi's age.
'Kakashi was around 26 when main story starts in anime, means approx 12 years before 3rd Shinobi War over,' Kaiji calculated mentally.
'And if I think that war duration was around 4 years approx, then current Kakashi should be around 10 years old, meaning 2 years younger than me.'
He continued to muse, performing calculations in his mind.
'Well, I was never much good in mathematics, but this calculation seems right. That means what I think initially, being same age as Kakashi, was wrong.'
While he was lost in thought, and others were also awe-struck, especially Mukade admiring the giant puppet, the sound of a lullaby drifted across their ears.
Everyone's focus immediately went towards the owner of the voice, Queen Sāra.
Even from afar, her voice was heard clearly by the team.
What shocked them even more was that the moment she started singing her lullaby, the energy from the Giant Puppet began to drain.
"DAMN SĀRA!"
A loud, grumpy voice shouted from within the puppet, cursing her.
Hearing this, Kaiji's focus immediately went to Naruto, who was surrounded by large mix of green-blue aura.
While Sāra sat above the leyline, having stopped her lullaby to close the leyline—
Naruto rushed forward with that aura around him—a combined Rasengan of Naruto and Minato.
He attacked directly the puppet, which in response shot a purple beam towards him.
Naruto shouted, "ULTIMATE SUPREME RASENGAN!"
The team was once again awe-struck.
"What kind of Jutsu is that?" Haruki exclaimed, stunned, same was expressions of others.
Even Pakura was left surprised by the sheer power of the Jutsu used by the blonde-haired lead ninja in the orange jumpsuit, destroying that humongous puppet instantly.
ROAR!
BOOM!
A deafening roarfollowed by a huge smoke filled the area with explosions.
Pakura shouted, her voice cutting through the reverberations, "Move back everyone!"
All the Genin immediately started to move back further from where they were observing.
Maki, still processing the shock, asked, "W-would everyone be okay there?"
She was referring to common folks and civilians.
Kaiji answered her while pointing towards the left side of the area.
"Looks there civilians are there, not at the explosion area."
Everyone looked towards that direction and sighed in relief.
Even though they didn't even know them, all these teenage Genin were still Genin.
Despite having already killed Bandits and ninjas in missions, they still had a soft and innocent side in them.
Pakura muttered, mostly to herself, "That red hair girl who controlled the energy probably Queen of the City."
She was keenly focusing on each detail of what was happening there.
Kaiji also started looking towards the direction of where Team Minato currently was, but smoke from the explosion obscured their vision.
He thought, 'Ryūmyaku is really powerful, but only if there was a way to control it, this thing would become a great source of power for me.'
Kaiji knew that even though he was diligently training and improving, all this would at most make him powerful enough to be a Jonin Level, and if he got lucky, maybe a Kage.
'But even Kage isn't real strong power here,' he mused, considering the true power scales of this world.
'To be called really strong, one at least needs Six Path Level power in this world, and for me to gain that, Ryūmyaku can helps me in that.'
This wasn't a new thought for him; he had considered it previously as well.
He was even thinking of using Bijuu if needed and had already memorized all the artifacts and powers he could exploit to become strong.
But all that first required him to survive the Third Shinobi War that was around the corner.
Because before that, he didn't have much free time to dedicate aside from his daily training.
'I didn't get any cheats when I come in this world, then I will make my own cheats for myself,' he thought, determined, looking at the direction of the now sealed Ryūmyaku.
Even though others didn't know, Kaiji knew that by now, Minato had sealed Ryūmyaku for good.
Pakura then said, "Let's move back!"
Renji asked, his voice reflecting the general confusion, "Sensei, are we going back to Village?"
He asked, sharing the same confusion others had.
Pakura shook her head. "No, our mission isn't fully complete yet, we need to investigate this area more, but not now," she clarified.
"We will continue our mission Tomorrow as well, for now we are going back to the town we has stay last night."
Everyone nodded in understanding and began following her command, retreating from the ruined city.
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