Chapter 97: The Rescue (Edited)

"So... Naito-sensei, when...", Konan's face had a sad expression, in fact, what she really wanted to ask was if Naito would come back.

She wanted to see him again.

"I can't be sure, but I will definitely return," Naito patted Konan's head, then reminded Yahiko, "Be careful, don't expose the fact that you are a ninja, don't use the Jutsus to show off, and you will be safe."

"I will never do such a thing," Yahiko smiled, but, in fact, he was already thinking about these things!

After all, he was a boy who had always dreamed of becoming a ninja, so once he became one, it was necessary to show off.

Naito shook his head slightly and, without further ado, turned around and quickly left.

He couldn't waste any time.

In the back, Konan looked at Naito's instantly departing back with a sad expression and sighed softly.

Yahiko, for her part, said comfortingly, "Naito-sensei is very strong, he will definitely be fine and come back to us after taking care of his business."

"Yes," Konan nodded gently.

Thinking of Naito's strength, she was also encouraged.

In fact, even if they died, Naito would not die, and what she should be most concerned about was her own safety.

...

The sky was filled with dark clouds and the weather became very cold.

In the middle of a dense forest, there were a large number of ninja wearing Iwagakure forehead guards, searching around.

But the forest was too large, and although there were still many sensory ninja among the ninja of Iwagakure, it was not easy to find their target.

One ninja shouted, "Search carefully, we must not let that woman escape!"

In addition to the ninja with forehead guards from Iwagakure, there were also some ninja with special masks.

These ninja, the Anbus of Iwagakure, wore very different masks from the Anbus of Konoha that could be noticed by the naked eye.

The Anbus were assisting the Iwagakure ninja in their quest.

An Elite Jounin of Iwagakure shouted with anger on his face, "Sense-type ninjas, spread out, carefully detect any place where chakra appears, split into groups of two and search carefully!"

Ambushing a squad of Konoha should have been a piece of cake, but the damn woman in the lead had created an escape route by murdering an entire team all by herself.

After escaping into the forest, the whole situation became more complicated.

Even though they kept killing Tsunade's squad ninjas one by one, their own losses were no less than Tsunade's squad!

There was even an Elite Jounin and two Tokubetsu Jounin who had died under Tsunade's fists!

The ambush was a failure.

Now if that woman had escaped, it would be a complete humiliation that no one could endure.

It would be an absolute blow to the morale of the entire Iwagakure army.

Now, before the war had officially begun, something like that had happened, it was like stumbling without even moving one's feet.

Even the Anbus of Iwagakure were deployed, aiming to take down Tsunade.

With their continued pursuit, it was hoped that there were not many ninja left around Tsunade.

An Anbu looked at the Elite Jounin, Iwato, and said coldly, "Iwato, if we can't find the woman, we will retreat, the Amegakure ninja and the Sunagakure ninja have probably already received the information and are watching our actions, the Konoha ninja could arrive at any moment."

Iwato gritted his teeth and then said, "There's no way we won't find her, that side of the forest is close to Amegakure, that woman will never escape that way."

"Besides, this place is near the interior of the Rain Country, there's no way they'll get there in time, we'll catch her and have plenty of time to retreat unmolested by the ninja from Konoha and Sunagakure."

"Hmph! Looks like you still have a clear head," The Anbu was clearly furious, after having mobilized close to a brigade of troops and performing an ambush, he had failed to take out the squad led by Tsunade.

Since the ambush failed, he could only use the numerical advantage they had, forcing Tsunade to retreat back into the Rain Country.

Now, since arriving in this forest, many days had passed since the ambush began.

I consider that Iwato was simply useless.

"Of course I have a clear mind, that woman's strength in itself is extraordinary, and she is also extremely good at medical treatment, otherwise how could she still avoid our ambush!?", Iwato was also annoyed, after the report of what happened was delivered, he probably wouldn't have the qualification to command a troop again, so he said to the Anbu angrily, "Even if it was you, you wouldn't be able to solve it so easily!"

The Anbu glared at him and said coldly, "Idiot!"

"You... Hmph!"

Iwato was filled with anger, but in the end he did not dare to confront the Anbu, because this Anbu had come by the orders of the Third Tsuchikage, Ōnoki, and his presence was equivalent to Ōnoki being present.

....

Being the interior of the Rain Country, the rain here is much heavier than on the borders of the Rain Country, but the leaves of the trees were very dense, so they blocked most of the rain.

But even so, the ground was really soft.

Behind a dense forest of vines, several ninjas, all injured, were resting.

The leader of the group was none other than Tsunade.

At this moment, even she looked terrible, and was not even willing to spend chakra to heal some minor wounds.

In this kind of situation, even the smallest amount of chakra, the smallest amount of strength, can save your life.

Next to Tsunade, there were two ninja with more injuries than Tsunade.

But both had been bandaged and the smell of blood had been suppressed by special means, otherwise they would have been discovered long ago.

One of the ninja, who had white eyes, had some veins protruding from the sides of his face and said, "Tsunade-sama, the ninja from Iwagakure are starting to approach our location."

He was a ninja of the Hyuga Clan.

In these kinds of places, Hyuga clan ninja are more useful than sensory ninja.

Tsunade, as a medical ninja, was very good at controlling her chakra and hiding.

But the Hyuga Clan ninja's chakra control was even better than hers.

If a sensory ninja could not perceive chakra fluctuations, he was useless, so he was no match for Byakugan, which had 360-degree vision.

If he, a ninja of the Hyuga Clan, had not been here, Tsunade would have been caught long ago.

Hearing Hyuga Hiroshi's words, Tsunade's already somewhat depressed expression became even more dejected at that moment, "If we continue down this path, we will be close to Amegakure once we leave the forest, and there will certainly be a large number of Amegakure ninja around, but if we collide head-on with Iwagakure ninja, we won't have the slightest chance of survival."

"There are also many Iwagakure ninja looking for us in the other three directions..."