Chapter 127: Enemy Attack
"Be careful! Come to
me!"
Seeing more than a dozen kunai
flying towards them, Morino Shinsuke shouted a warning. Kiba, Kiuchi Taketo,
and Shigeru Fujiki reacted immediately, all with different expressions—one
serious, the other increasingly angry.
"Get close to me!"
Kiba's hands quickly formed a
seal, his tone undeniably authoritative.
Fujiki Shigeru and Kiuchi Taketo
saw the incoming kunai. Under the sudden attack, their hearts tensed up.
Hearing Kiba's command, they subconsciously moved behind him.
However, Morino Shinsuke directly
threw two shurikens, knocking down the central kunai in the fan and was about
to charge up.
But Kiba yelled, "Captain
Morino, exploding tags! Come back!"
Morino paused, listening
carefully. Indeed, he heard the sound of paper fluttering in the wind.
Startled, he quickly flew back.
"Bang bang!"
The two kunai he knocked down
exploded on the water's surface, creating white sprays. The exploding tags's
power was significant.
At the same time, after Kiba
finished forming his seals, he pressed down with both hands.
"Water Release: Water Formation Wall!"
As Kiba's hands touched the water,
it spun and surged up, forming a rotating spiral water curtain, shielding the
group.
"Boom boom boom boom!"
The moment the water curtain
swirled, dozens of kunai struck it and exploded, with sprays of water erupting
and connecting.
Tsk!
Kiba frowned slightly.
Sure enough, these exploding tagss are potent. In a
place with water, my water wall can't hold them!
At this time, Kiba had already
entered the Life Gate mode, triggered when Fujiki Shigeru angered him.
"Wow!"
The explosion ended, and the water
curtain splashed.
Kiba frowned, standing up slowly.
Morino Shinsuke in front of him and Kiuchi Taketo and Fujiki Shigeru behind him
all wore serious expressions.
They were surrounded by a dozen or
so ninjas, wearing unmarked forehead protectors, with malicious smiles.
We're surrounded!
"Konoha's ninjas? We've
caught some good ones now. If you capture them alive and get information about
Konoha, you can sell them for a lot of money!" A burly man walked out from
the ninjas, eyeing the four of them. His smile grew more malicious.
Although these men were dressed as
ninjas, their expressions and actions mirrored bandits, marking them as their
targets.
Morino's eyes shifted. Holding a
kunai, he slowly touched the ninja sword at his waist with his other hand. A
drop of cold sweat trickled down his cheek.
Not only these dozen people but also many ambushed
in the woods on the shore of the lake!
In this situation, I can't guarantee everyone's
safety!
Morino glanced around. His mission
experience told him the enemy was not just the dozen or so who surrounded them.
Kiba, guarded by Morino Shinsuke,
assessed the terrain. It was a large, oval lake surrounded by trees. The
national border lay across the forest, leading to the Land of Grass.
Kiba looked left and right, seeing
Kiuchi Taketo and Fujiki Shigeru sweating slightly, the atmosphere filled with
tension.
Kiba's eyes scanned the faces of
the surrounding ninjas.
"Put down your weapons, and I
can spare your lives..." The burly man's face turned solemn, his tone
threatening.
As if to match his words, the
dozen or so people took a step forward, holding kunai in each hand.
Almost immediately, Kiuchi Taketo
and Fujiki Shigeru stepped back subconsciously, and Morino Shinsuke's face grew
more intense.
Is there any way to break through?
For Morino Shinsuke, the strength
of these enemies was unknown, but their powerful exploding tagss indicated they
weren't weak. He couldn't act rashly, having to protect Kiuchi, Kiba, and
Fujiki Shigeru behind him.
"Then, would you rather be
tortured and spill information about the village?" A cold voice suddenly
sounded.
Morino's complexion changed.
That voice came from behind me. It's... Kiba!
Fujiki Shigeru and Kiuchi Taketo
also looked at Kiba in astonishment.
At this time, Kiba had already
started forming seals, his speed lightning-fast.
"What are you doing! Don't
act rashly! Are you trying to get us killed?" Fujiki Shigeru panicked,
seeing Kiba forming seals. This is courting death! With so many enemies, isn't he asking them to
kill us?
The ninja leader was also taken
aback. How
dare he form seals while surrounded? Seeing Kiba's movements,
his face changed drastically. "Hurry up! Kill them!"
Then he was taken aback again.
After seeing Kiba's smile, the water surface beneath him exploded, spraying
water wildly. A fist, from bottom to top, aimed directly at his chin.
Underwater!?
"Wh-what..."
The ninja leader's eyes widened.
He lost his voice, looking down at the fist, his body reacting instinctively.
"Boom!"
Flesh met fist.
In the bursting water, a figure
rushed out, punching the ninja leader fiercely on the chin, sending him flying.
This sudden punch and the
exploding water stunned the ninjas. They had received the order to attack, but
their hands froze, watching the water burst and their leader flying away.
"What are you doing in a
daze!"
Kiba, still forming seals, yelled.
Morino Shinsuke, Fujiki Shigeru, and Kiuchi Taketo were shocked, also staring
at the water burst like the ninjas.
The figure from the water turned
and kicked sideways, sending a ninja beside the leader flying. With a backhand
flick, two shurikens flew out.
"Puff!" Twice, they pierced a ninja's chest on the other
side.
Before the figure landed, it
exploded into a cloud of white mist.
The ninja leader was killed
suddenly, losing two more in an instant. The group of ninjas turned pale with
shock, some showing fear. They forgot to attack.
At this time, Morino Shinsuke
quickly reacted, threw his kunai, and gripped the ninja sword tightly. Raising
his fingers, he rushed out.
Konoha-style swordsmanship, Double Sparrows Flashing
Three Times!
Twelve sword lights flashed almost
instantly, forming an arc as Morino Shinsuke moved, flashing twelve lights.
Blood spurted, instantly staining
the water under six enemy ninjas.
In an instant, six were killed!
At this time, Kiba's seals
finished. Streams of water rose from the lake, converging into a thick stream
above his head, forming a dragon.
Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet!
The dragon-shaped water flow
turned and roared, opening its mouth to bite the remaining five ninjas.
The remaining ninjas were still
horrified by Morino Shinsuke's swordsmanship, killing six companions in an
instant, and hadn't reacted. When they did, they felt pressure all around,
unable to move.
"Pfft!"
Strings of bubbles burst from
their mouths as suffocation hit!
Kiba's strongest water release
technique, the Water Dragon Bullet, exploded!
"Boom!"
The dragon-shaped water flow
arced, swallowing the five in one gulp, rushing to the giant tree where Kiba
and the others flew out. With a "Kaka" sound, it knocked
out a cracked tree pit!
"Wow!"
The water flow exploded, splashing
down.
Following the water flow, the five
ninjas slipped from the tree trunks, falling unconscious. Some had twisted
limbs.
Within four seconds, fourteen
ninjas surrounding them were executed!
"Puff..."
"Wow..."
The ninja leader who was punched
into the sky widened his eyes, already white, fell from the sky into the water,
and sank slowly.
Can't relax yet!
Kiba suddenly grabbed the dazed
Kiuchi Taketo, while Morino grabbed the panicked Fujiki Shigeru, flying into
the woods they came from.
Almost immediately, a dense
barrage of kunai shot out from the surrounding woods with exploding tags,
trailing behind them.
The
only place without kunai was the forest they just came from! That's where they
fled into!