It took me a few hours to reach the border guard camp without any problems and I was pleasantly surprised to find a very organized picture of the camp turned into a small fortification on the site of a destroyed grove.
The surrounding area had been thoroughly cleaned up with rubble and battle marks, and what had been going on here a couple of days ago was only recognizable by the lack of grass around it.
The vigilant sentries had picked me out as I approached, and Hyuga was sure to recognize me by my chakra, so I was escorted straight to my superiors without delay.
- Ryo-san? That's someone I didn't expect to see here! - The Uchiha raised his eyebrows as he took a break from reading the papers, "You're not assigned to our squad?
- I'm assigned to the main headquarters of the northeastern front, but the Hokage considered me too effective to give up the overwhelming advantage in case of another attack by Kumo's forces.
- Oh, the S-rang could use some help in the current situation, especially iryonin - we have a large number of wounded despite the timely assistance of the kage bunshin! - The jonin became animated, -How will this be accomplished?
- Unfortunately, permanent deployment is out of the question, - I shook my head, cutting off the hopes of the senior shinobi, - I'll leave a summoning scroll to my student and in case of detection of new enemy forces, it will be a matter of seconds to get me here.
- That's... a lot less than I expected," the Uchiha frowned, returning to his seat and gesturing for a chair across from him, "given the irrecoverable casualties, the wounded unable to regroup, most of whom will be sent to Konoha with the next shipment, I'll be left with about six dozen subordinates, only four of whom are jonins.
- And I don't know when the reinforcements will arrive," I nodded understandingly.
- That's right," the man sighed, "I'm afraid we won't be able to withstand the next attack, even with your help.
- In three days six thousand men will be sent from Konoha to the front, and with them Shenesu Nara, as commander-in-chief," I shared the latest information with him, "I'll try to persuade him to bring the contingent of this border outpost to the same number, or at least to a hundred, if the first one fails.
After all, out of eight thousand fighters, it won't be that much of a problem to allocate a few dozen fighters.
- Even that would be a big plus," the Uchiha nodded gratefully.
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