Chapter 118: Cutting the rock (Edited)

While Minato was thinking about the Anbu's familiarity, the ninja around him were discussing what to do next with Iwagakure's surprise attack squad.

It wasn't that they didn't have ninja who were good at using Ground Jutsus.

However, compared to the Iwagakure ninja, who are specialists in Ground Jutsus, they are not good enough.

In addition, the ninja of the Iwagakure surprise attack squad were equipped with special equipment that allowed them to stay underground for a long time, so, if a Konoha ninja tried to follow them with the Ground Jutsus, he would only end up dead.

After half a day of discussion, they still had no results on how to deal with the surprise squad from Iwagakure.

Jiraiya frowned and turned his head to Naito, who had remained silent, and asked, "Do you have any good ideas?"

Naito replied to Jiraiya, "It's simple, just kill them all when they appear again."

Hearing Naito's words, Jiraiya froze in place momentarily, then shook his head.

Kill them all when they appear?

If it really was that easy to kill all the ninja in Iwagakure's surprise attack squad, they wouldn't have to spend half a day trying to come up with plans to kill them.

Unfortunately, Jiraiya had no way to refute Naito's words, so the tent fell into an awkward silence for a moment.

And at that moment, a voice broke the silence, "Iwagakure's surprise attack squad has appeared again!"

Hearing the news of the appearance of the Iwagakure surprise attack squad, the ninja in the camp immediately stood up.

The only one who did not stand up was Naito, sitting next to Jiraiya, however, Naito's eyes showed a flash of coldness as he sat up a little straighter.

The ninja reported the exact location of his attack in a very quick manner.

Jiraiya stood up abruptly, looked at the ninja in the tent and said directly, "Everyone, follow me... Huh?"

Just as he was about to complete his sentence, he stopped, and his expression changed to one of astonishment.

Because Naito, who had been sitting next to her, had disappeared.

When did he go!!!

He's really fast!

After a moment of bewilderment, Jiraiya shook his head and continued to signal the ninja to follow him.

Naito might be able to back up the ambushed ninja in time, but Naito didn't know any Earth Jutsu, so there was nothing he could do against many ninja specializing in Earth Jutsu that can hide underground at any time, so he had to move fast.

...

Between the border of the Rain Country and the Fire Country.

The Rain Country's dark cloud-covered sky could be seen just ahead, and although it was still clear near the Fire Country border, the atmosphere was filled with tension and pressure.

In particular, under this tension and pressure, the clash of metal objects and corpses falling to the ground resounded.

Two squads of ninja were in the midst of a fierce battle, one squad was wearing a Konoha front shield, while the other was equipped with strange objects.

At first glance, the identity of the other group could be discovered, as they were all covered in mud and water.

Without much guesswork, there was no doubt that they were Iwagakure's surprise attack squad, the squad sent by the Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, to disrupt Konoha's supply line.

The ninja that made up the squad were not many, only twenty people.

However, almost all of them were Elite Chuunins, and the ninja leading them was an Elite Jounin.

They were very good at Ground Jutsus, and were especially good at moving underground, they are very fast at launching sneak attacks and can retreat at any time, they are an extremely flexible squad and is one of Iwagakure's trump cards.

However, they did not have a large number.

On the other hand, there were only a dozen ninja from the Konoha side, and many of them were Genins, with only a few Chuunins, so the battle could hardly be called a battle, but rather a one-sided massacre.

The supplies that were to be delivered were scattered on the ground, and the ninja of the Iwagakure surprise attack squad were not really interested in them, after all, they were just ordinary supplies.

At most, they would destroy them as they fled, or stick some paper bombs on them and turn them into traps.

Most of Konoha's Genins were soon slaughtered, and there were only a few Chuunins left, but even the Chuunins, who could still fight, were scattered across the battlefield.

"Hurry up, Konoha's support will arrive soon, we shouldn't fight them head on, one of them with long white hair is very powerful," The captain of the Iwagakure surprise attack squad barked some orders to his men, and they all finished their battles quickly, killing the remaining Konoha ninja.

An Iwagakure ninja approached them and asked the captain, "Captain, what do we do now, should we go back underground?"

The Captain of the Iwagakure surprise attack squad seemed to have a grudge against Jiraiya, so he said with a hint of mockery in his tone, "The usual, burn most of them, leave a small portion intact and stick paper bombs on them, consider it another big gift for that white haired guy."

So what if he's strong, he still can't do anything about it!

"Yes," The Iwagakure ninjas responded to his order, preparing to destroy most of the supplies and then glue the paper bombs.

But the next moment, an Anbu approached them rapidly.

This Anbu was advancing extremely fast, as if it was disappearing and appearing as it approached, and each time it disappeared and approached it advanced an extremely long distance, looking as if it would appear in front of them the next moment.

"Who's that!"

"That's an Anbu from Konoha, how can he be so fast!"

Many of the ninja in Iwagakure's surprise attack squad were slightly shocked, they really weren't good at frontal attacks, they were only good at sneak attacks and guerrilla attacks, that's why they were startled when Jiraiya attacked them earlier.

If it was a frontal fight, they would have had a hard time facing Jiraiya.

That was why, when they saw Naito rushing towards them, none of the ninja of the Iwagakure surprise attack squad had the thought to fight head-on.

Even if Naito was alone.

An Iwagakure ninja approached them and asked the captain, "Captain, what should we do with the supplies?"

The squad captain looked behind Naito and, after seeing that there was no one else, ordered in a deep voice while starting to form hand seals, "It's okay, he's alone, destroy the supplies and then retreat, I'll stop him, he's just one person."

And at that moment, in the distance, Naito was rapidly approaching.

"Earth Jutsu: Graves Sphere (Doton: Dango Doryo).

Boom!!!

The earth suddenly exploded and cracked in front of him, then a large rock rose up and, using his superhuman strength, the Elite Jounin positioned himself under the large rock and held it with his arms, looking at Naito and then throwing it at him.

However, in the face of this attack, Naito did not stop advancing, but instead summoned the Kusanagi sword, from which the space around the Kusanagi sword began to twist.

Tremor Release: Shogekiha!

The shockwave invisible to the naked eye cut the rock in half without much difficulty.