When Minato and Yano parted ways right before the former entered the Iron Fangs' base, Yano dashed towards a clearing a few meters from the base.
'I need to work fast,' Yano thought, retrieving a seal from his pouch. He placed it on the ground before him and made a hand sign.
Without uttering a word, the ground in front of Yano caved in, forming a deep pit the size of a football pitch in both width and length, just as Yano wanted.
He then retrieved a couple of seals from his pouch and, using three E-rank Wind Release jutsu simultaneously—Wind Levitation Jutsu to raise the seals from his hands into the air, Wind Retrieving Jutsu to create wind currents that would propel the seals away from him, and finally Projectile Control to place the seals in various locations within the deep pit.
Yano made another hand sign to activate the seals in the pit and once they were active, he muttered, "Looks like everything is fine. Now we wait."
Yano then maintained the same hand sign, putting his clenched fists over each other with his index and middle fingers raised. This was his way to ensure that the seals in the pit were as efficient as possible.
Using the same three jutsus that he had used on the seals, Yano retrieved two kunai from his pouch and placed one at the centre of the pit where the seal that caused the caving in was and the other one next to him. This was to alert Minato that he had completed his part of the job.
Minato, who had just entered the base, was dodging attacks left, right, and centre. When he felt two tugs pulling at his chakra, a smile immediately formed on his lips as he flickered to the nearest Jounin he could find and immediately teleported him to the pit in front of Yano.
While the Jounin was still disoriented from the teleportation, Minato left and headed back to the base. After Minato left, the Jounin finally regained his bearings.
When he saw Yano standing there without making any movements, the Jounin tried to charge towards him and attack.
'He must be working with the person who brought me here,' the Jounin concluded before his eyes widened.
'I can't move! I can't even use my chakra.' The shinobi was shocked at what was happening.
Just as the shinobi was coming to terms with this, another Jounin, his comrade, was brought by Minato. For that brief moment, he could move, but after Minato left, he was back to being paralyzed and losing connection to his chakra.
This was a move Yano had devised after working together ever since he and Minato were Chunin. Minato had been the one who invented this after being introduced to Fuinjutsu by Jiraiya, and when he mastered the Flying Raijin Jutsu, the need for such a move decreased, forcing Yano to take it up and master it.
Yano had never bothered to learn Fuinjutsu since it never spoke to him as it did to Minato, but he was a fast learner nevertheless. Once Yano mastered using all the seals in tandem, he and Minato used this move whenever they needed to separate or isolate their targets and kill them.
The seals he used were modified as they paralyzed anyone in the vicinity of the seal field Yano had created while also severing their connection to their chakra.
Whenever Minato would bring a new target, Yano had to deactivate all the seals and reactivate them immediately after Minato left. Before, the drawback bothered Yano, and that's why he decided to always use the seals in a deep pit.
While the few seconds that the seals would be deactivated were too long to give to their enemies, Minato worked fast, using seconds to enter the Seal Field and leave.
Additionally, traversing the pit was harder to do in such a short time. They never encountered a shinobi who could do so, and Yano was praying that they never did for as long as possible because such a shinobi would be out of his league.
Minato kept teleporting Jounin into the Seal Field, and it only took barely a minute for a significant number of them to be teleported. Finally, Minato managed to bring in the last two.
Muraoka felt a disorienting pull and a rush of air as the world blurred around him. When his vision cleared, he found himself in a different part outside of their base, standing beside Azuma, who looked equally bewildered.
'Where are we?' Muraoka wondered.
As Minato left the last two there, he teleported right next to Yano, who asked him,
"Are there any more?"
"No," Minato shook his head before continuing, "But they are fewer than what the intel said. I only managed to find forty-three of them instead of fifty."
Yano, still in the same position, took a moment to think before saying,
"The other seven might be on a mission somewhere. Still, with them, we have a majority of the group's strength."
Minato nodded as Yano passed control of the seal field to Minato, preparing to finish off their paralyzed targets.
Yano took a breath as he made some hand signs, then after channelling chakra into his hands, he shouted, "Fūton: Uzu no Senmetsu!" as he clapped his hands together at the paralyzed shinobi in the pit.
The jutsu Yano used, Wind Release: Vortex Annihilation, was a high-level, devastating wind-based jutsu that created a colossal, spiralling vortex composed of razor-sharp wind blades.
This powerful jutsu could draw in objects, people, and even attacks within its reach, grinding them up with the intense, slicing winds and leaving a path of total destruction.
Yano's clap produced a shockwave as the air around him began to stir violently, shaping into a spiralling vortex. Yano kept on infusing more of his chakra into the vortex, increasing its pull before releasing the vortex towards the paralyzed Jounins.
The spiralling wind quickly expanded, pulling the mercenaries towards its centre. The intense, slicing winds of the vortex ground and sliced them to death, reducing them to nothing in seconds. The vortex even destroyed the walls of the pit, spreading to the surrounding area due to its destructive power.
The Jounins were not able to use chakra to enhance their bodies or form any other type of defence. Their chances of making it out alive were over once they entered Yano's seal field, frankly speaking, if Minato decided to take a more proactive role, it would be over before it even started.
Yano panted as he looked at the destruction wrought by his jutsu. No matter how many times he used this jutsu, it still took most of his chakra and stamina.
Out of the corner of his eye, Yano could see a snaking object far in the sky.
'Wait, are those Lady Kushina's chains? They look different. No, it can't be. I am probably seeing things,' Yano shrugged as he turned to Minato.
Seeing Yano turn to him, Minato recognized the fatigue on his face and told Yano, "I need to go and help Sama and the rest. Can you store the bodies?" Minato paused sparing a glance at the destruction before continuing, "Or whatever is left of them?"
Yano did not say anything and just nodded before Minato disappeared. He had not moved when Minato suddenly reappeared with another shinobi.
As the mercenary tried to charge at Minato, Yano created a vacuum bullet that he shot at the mercenary, drilling it into his skull. 'At least we'll have a full body intact,' Yano thought.
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