When Nakatani fell by the fire, their other companion, Tot, was stunned for a moment, and then quickly stood in front of Nakatani, questioning Neko loudly.
But what answered him was only a Kunai that flew over.
Tot immediately blocked it and looked back at Nakatani, who was holding his chest and coughing up blood.
He wouldn't last long.
"Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique!"
Neko threw two shurikens, and with a hand seal, they turned into countless shurikens, stabbing at Tot and the others.
Tot looked serious seeing the hail of shuriken as he also made a move.
"Earth Style—Earth Flow Wall!"
Tot poured the earth attribute Chakra into the ground, forming an upright earth wall that blocked the shuriken, then picked up Nakatani next to him, and ran towards the first team.
"Genjutsu!"
Nakatani said weakly.
"I know! Well go find the captain now! So hold on!"
Tot kept moving towards the dark woods, but after running for a while, he was shocked to find that there were fewer and fewer trees beside him, the surroundings became more and more silent, and the darkness became thicker, so he stopped abruptly, pulled out a kunai and looked around vigilantly.
"So you find out? But it's too late~"
A playful voice came from all directions.
"Who's there?!"
"AbsoluteDarkness."
A red light suddenly lit up on the opposite side of Tot, and as the other party's words ended, the darkness around Tot seemed to come alive, turning into a huge vortex, which was about to swallow them with its huge mouth.
"Sharingan!?"
Tot backed away in shock, trying to escape, but as Naruto had said, it was too late.
The darkness that had long been replaced by the Dark World and Nakatani into the darkness space in an instant.
"What's going on? Nakatani, where are you?!"
"Hey Nakatani, can you hear me?!"
"Where are you?!"
...
In the darkness, Tot couldn't see anything, and couldn't hear Nakatani's breathing.
Gradually, he couldn't even hear his own voice, and he lost feeling in his hands and feet, and then he didn't even know whether he had spoken or even whether he was still breathing, he stood in place like a stiff puppet.
Nakatani was still on his back, but he couldn't feel it anymore.
Overwhelmed with fear, he was overwhelmed and lost in the darkness.
...
A figure rushed over, it was the Neko controlled by illusion.
"Let's lock you guys in this dark space together."
Naruto instantly appeared behind Neko and threw him into the dark space.
"Next... Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!"
Three clones were called out.
"Transfiguration!"*3
Three streams of smoke rose, and the three clones had turned into the root ninjas just now.
Naruto sank into darkness.
After the three clones returned, they immediately cleaned up the traces left by the battle just now, and after checking their disguise, they waited for the other three to come over to change shifts.
Although Naruto had no problem with 1v3 now, he didn't want to make too much noise, so as not to alert Kakashi's attention, and this was also a good opportunity to test his ability and gain experience.
…..
After a while.
Another squad of root ninjas returned.
Naruto No. 1, who was on duty on the tree, discovered them for the first time.
"Neko, it's your turn."
When Yamanaka Harada passed by Naruto 1, he said,
"Yes, Captain."
Yamanaka Harada, Aburame Matsuyama, Nara Kashima.
Although not a regular Ino–Shika–Chō, the configuration of their three-person team was basically the same.
However, they were all from the side branch of their respective families, their status was not very high, and their talents were not as top-notch as the main family's line.
Therefore, Danzo pulled them into the root by various means.
Among the most outstanding were Danzo's two guards, Yamanaka Fu and Aburame Torune.
"Hm?"
Coming next to the fire, Aburame Matsuyam brows under the mask slightly frowned, and he inadvertently made a gesture to Yamanaka Harada and Nara Kashima.
When Naruto No. 1 fell to the ground, and Naruto No. 2 and No. 3 also got up, as if preparing to change shifts, the three of them attacked unexpectedly.
"Shadow Binding!"
"Parasitic Insects Jutsu!"
With the help of the light and shadow produced by the fire, Nara Kashima instantly controlled the two of them. Aburame Matsuyama also activated a secret technique, covering the whole body of No. 2 and No. 3 with bugs. While restraining them, they bit by bit ate their Chakra.
As for number one, Yamanaka Harada, who suddenly attacked, directly blew him away.
The main reason was that Naruto's Shadow Clone didn't expect them to attack directly, so they didn't react.
And this was not a physical clone upgraded from Clone Technique, it was just a shadow clone that will be blown up when encountering a strong attack.
"Shadow Clone?! Matsuyama!"
Yamanaka Harada suddenly shouted at Aburame Matsuyama when he saw the clone that was blown up.
"Yes!"
Matsuyama nodded and gave instructions to the bugs, and sure enough, the next second, the two controlled 'companions' also disappeared with a poof.
"Be careful, the enemy hasn't left yet! Matsuyama, did you find anything?"
The three of them stood back to back and looked around warily.
Although the sudden change surprised them, they did not panic. Having experienced many battles, they had already calmed down.
However, facing this mysterious enemy who easily eliminated their other team, they suddenly felt very uncertain.
...