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Connecting this matter was just mentioned casually before. How could this foolish kid actually go down there?
However, with Shisui's strength, going down shouldn't be a problem.
"Ah, well... forget it."
Hatake Kuroshi sighed, scratched his head, and grabbed Mangetsu Hozuki beside him, who was also preparing to jump down.
"Don't follow him! They can handle this. Come here, come here—"
Hatake Kuroshi reached out, pulled Mangetsu Hozuki close, and whispered easily into his ear.
"I have other things arranged for you. When you see Yagura..."
Mangetsu Hozuki listened, his eyes widening incredulously.
He thought about it left and right, forcibly suppressing the anticipation in his heart, and nodded at Hatake Kuroshi.
...
"Shikotsumyaku: Ten-Finger Drilling Bullets."
Kimimaro suddenly thrust out his hand; the pale white finger bones from his five fingers were squeezed out.
Instantly, they shot straight towards the ANBU member in front.
Thud!
After a muffled sound, a small hole instantly dented the mask on the ANBU's head.
One mask was pierced through, and the shattered fragment revealed a face underneath with eyes wide in disbelief.
Blood-stained finger bones rolled out sporadically from the heads of several ANBU members.
Most people, upon seeing a child, instinctively relax their guard.
Kimimaro used this very point to openly take down one person with each bone attack.
He didn't quite understand why he had to kill, but perhaps this was the meaning of his existence, the value of his life.
Kimimaro was different from his other clansmen; his bones were regenerative, meaning he had an inexhaustible supply.
For the Kaguya clan, this practically maximized their ability.
So, ever since discovering this trait in Kimimaro, the clan head and members unanimously decided to seal this kid away first.
He was suited to be a trump card, a powerhouse.
But not suited to live in the Kaguya clan, which constantly fought both internally and externally.
Within the mist, Kimimaro wasn't particularly skilled in combat. After all, he had spent the previous years underground, rarely even seeing living people.
Not to mention being pushed out the door into a night and dense fog where one could barely see their hand in front of their face.
The moment Shisui and the late-arriving ANBU joined the battle, Yagura clearly sensed something was wrong.
Cooperating comrades suddenly turned on each other; the ANBU members couldn't figure out the situation for a moment.
The orderly slaughter within the dense mist became chaotic.
This dense mist was originally meant to confuse others' vision. Now, with extra people mixed in... to promptly distinguish allies from enemies, it had to be cleared.
Yagura Karatachi quickly assessed the current situation, frowning slightly.
He then leaped up abruptly, quickly forming hand seals and chanting in a low voice.
"Wind Release: Typhoon Passage!"
The dense mist dispersed with the hurricane, revealing corpses and bones scattered everywhere.
The blood of ANBU and Kaguya clan members pooled into small, dark red rivers, looking exceptionally eerie in the night.
Yagura Karatachi's gaze swept downwards casually, instantly understanding there were moles within his ANBU.
These people fighting each other weren't weak; clearly, they should have belonged to the ANBU performing missions before.
Although it was unknown when they infiltrated, the ones making a move here must be that old fellow Genji's people.
Yagura Karatachi frowned almost imperceptibly.
The Kaguya clan, previously at a disadvantage, took advantage of the chaos to counterattack.
With their vision suddenly cleared, the Kaguya clan felt divinely assisted.
They didn't care who these masked people were; blinded by bloodlust, they charged forward, indiscriminately attacking friend and foe alike.
"We can't tell you guys apart!"
"Lunatics! A bunch of lunatics! People like you shouldn't even be alive!"
"Ahhh!!!"
"Damn it! If Kimimaro were here, you...!"
Rising and falling screams echoed across the clan grounds littered with countless casualties.
Genji's brow furrowed tightly. His few precious talents were instantly pierced by bone blades and spikes in the chaotic battle.
It pained him to see it; cultivating these people and placing them beside Yagura was already extremely difficult.
This indiscriminate fighting style was simply wasting his talents.
Masked figures constantly cooperated only to be backstabbed; chaos reigned everywhere for a moment.
Stark white bones instantly pierced through ANBU bodies. Amidst the chaos, the three sides surprisingly reached a stalemate.
"Oh oh—! Now I can see clearly."
"So tragic~ All from the same village, yet fighting like this."
Hatake Kuroshi sat on the branch, swinging his legs, one hand shielding his eye patch, grinning as he looked down.
Mangetsu Hozuki looked around and found that the most capable fighter was actually Shisui, pouting slightly in disappointment.
"We don't really have a concept of comrades."
The Kaguya clan members all wore white robes; the ANBU wore masks.
In this situation where individuals weren't distinguished, only factions, one figure in plain clothes, moving nimbly, stood out conspicuously.
Wearing a pair of sunglasses, which shifted precariously with his movements.
A slightly curly low ponytail tied at the back of his head.
Shisui slammed down hard on a directly thrusting bone blade with one hand, flipped over, leaped up, and kicked the person away.
"Ugh~「!"
The kicked person let out a low cry and fell heavily onto the ground nearby.
Immediately after, Shisui forcefully tilted his head down, shaking his sunglasses. The crimson Sharingan instantly spun.
An ANBU member nearby, preparing for a sneak attack kill on Shisui, clearly didn't expect a pair of Sharingan behind the sunglasses and immediately fell backward, caught off guard.
Shisui snatched the hooked kunai from his hand in a reverse grip, landed with a Body Flicker amidst the bloodwater, splashing up a few drops of crimson.
Before eyes could follow his speed, Shisui directly turned and threw behind him.
Bullseye. A kunai instantly embedded itself in the head of the man who had formed himself into a bone sphere.
The entire sequence of movements was fluid as water. His speed and prediction were flawless; almost no one could get close to Shisui.
Yagura Karatachi quickly realized Shisui seemed to be the real trouble.
Although those ANBU moles could indeed disrupt the battle... without this person, the battle might not have developed into this subtle, crushing momentum.
Whether the conspicuous clothes or the distinctly different fighting style, it looked like he had the words "I'm the disruptor" printed on his face.
Even if all the ANBU died, it likely wouldn't cause any harm to this outsider.
Yagura Karatachi leaped down directly from the tree, charging straight towards Shisui. A swirling water vortex suddenly appeared in his palm.
"Water Release: Water Mirror Technique!"
The water vortex rapidly spun until smooth, forming a perfectly round, mirror-like surface.
Yagura abruptly drew a green staff from behind him, its bottom hook catching the mirror perfectly, forcefully pressing it down.
Shisui abruptly retreated backward, forming the Tiger seal with both hands against his lips, then spewed out a massive fireball from his mouth.
And Shisui, reflected in the mirror, simultaneously spewed out an identical, scorching giant fireball.
"BOOM!!"
The two fireballs collided heavily, creating a blast of hot air between them, instantly forming an expanding wave of scorching heat.
The few remaining blades of grass on the ground instantly curled up, looking completely dried out.
Shisui pushed off the ground with his feet, quickly retreating several steps. Several nearby mole ANBU instantly converged.
A barrage of kunai with exploding tags attached was instantly thrown towards the position before the water mirror.
The direct collision of the two fireballs had evaporated most of the moisture in the air.
"BANG!!"
The exploding tags detonated the moment they hit the ground. Dust instantly billowed outwards, and the entire clan grounds trembled uncontrollably.
Hatake Kuroshi, sitting in the tree, coughed softly twice, waving away the overwhelming dust around him.
"Cough cough... So much dust."
Quite the commotion. But this kind of thing is probably useless against Yagura.
Genji and Ao's side dared not relax at all. Ao, as a sensor-type ninja, kept his eyes fixed tightly on Yagura Karatachi below.
From the moment the explosion began, Yagura Karatachi's chakra flow underwent an extraordinary change.
A most unfavorable situation gradually formed in his mind.
This is the Tailed Beast's chakra.
It wasn't Ao's first time seeing the chakra flow of Yagura's Tailed Beast state, but today's flow exhibited a subtle strangeness.
It didn't seem as smooth as usual, instead forming a suppressible chaotic state.
The degree to which he was currently borrowing the Tailed Beast's power wasn't that high, still within controllable limits.
If the borrowing degree increased, given the current state, it was hard to say if Yagura could still maintain perfect control over the Tailed Beast.
Ao felt secretly apprehensive.
The surrounding dust gradually dispersed. Yagura Karatachi was half-crouching.
A huge, spiky tail blocked his front, solidly shielding him from the explosion's impact.
Yagura Karatachi's deep purple eyes lifted slightly, an almost visible chaos and emptiness churning within them.
Most ANBU members couldn't help gritting their teeth; fighting a Tailed Beast physically was practically impossible.
Mangetsu Hozuki instantly perked up, craning his neck, his eyes shining brightly as he looked down at Yagura Karatachi below.
That large tail was undoubtedly the Tailed Beast; this was the first time he had seen such a sight.
The moment the dust completely settled, Yagura Karatachi, holding the staff adorned with small flowers, charged straight towards Shisui.
The huge, spiky tail swung uncontrollably behind him, deflecting surrounding kunai and shuriken together.
Have to try!
Shisui abruptly lowered his head, took off his sunglasses, eyes fixed on Yagura Karatachi's almost unfocused eyes, the crimson tomoe spinning rapidly.
The moment Yagura Karatachi met Shisui's gaze, his forward movement suddenly stiffened.
".~ An opening!"
A slightly childish voice sounded abruptly.
Mangetsu Hozuki, who had been watching from the side, reacted instantly, quickly forming hand seals, aiming at the momentarily stalled Yagura Karatachi.
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