I grinned, raised my hand and snapped my fingers defiantly.
- Fas.
And at the same moment, the almost forgotten chunin suddenly "came to life", exploding with movement. The one the kunoichi had been treating suddenly intercepted her hands, and the second one with a short jerk from a lying position was at her back and touched the back of her head. Cutting off the scream that had just begun to break out, the woman folded herself in a heap on the ground like a marionette with its strings cut.
- What?
Not expecting an attack from behind and even more so from their half-dead colleagues, the jonin lost the initiative and were a bit confused, not knowing who to attack. Just when I was expecting it, I was able to seize the moment. They may have been using the chatter as a way to rest and recover, but I wasn't idle, either - releasing a couple of thin shadows backwards, I slowly made a large circle with them, trapping the Kumonins.
All I had to do was close the circle behind their backs and use my chakra. The enclosed space was instantly flooded with shadows, paralyzing the two jonin. True, the chunin puppets had managed to get a couple kunai in each of their bodies, becoming dead again, but who cared?
- What the hell? - exclaimed the big guy. - I've fought them more than once!
I sighed - why does everyone think you have to drag your shadow up to your opponent to catch him?
- You can consider yourself unlucky enough to run into an unusual Nara," I shrugged, narrowing the shadows to two shadow paths to reduce costs and handing the clone four pieces of paper with seals.
After rendering the jonin unconscious, I tidied up the further tainted corpses in a scroll and leaving the clone to guard the prisoners, I set off in the direction from which all the Kumonins had come. It was time to wrap up this ambush stuff by dealing with the rest of the chunin and finally get to work on healing.
Pretty sure I'd managed to get more than one cracked bone and a lot of bruises and bruises in the relatively short fight. Despite the integrity of my clothes, the kunoichi who had used Raiton no Yoroi had crushed me.
Against this background, the five shinobi and three kunoichi were not impressive at all - I swooped in, using a few kage bunshins to knock them all out with powerful blows (and even overdid it a bit, fracturing the skull of one and breaking the neck of another because I didn't want to bother with the slow methods).
The rushing chunins didn't even have time to react properly to my speed, much less apply any techniques despite their numerical advantage. They might be worth something in a team with a strong jounin, but not on their own. My clone does these kind of weaklings with a guarantee.
Only after making sure that the last of the thirty-two Kumonin were really here, and that no one had managed to escape, taking with them information about what had happened, did I allow myself to relax a little and slow down the flow of chakra, reducing the strain on my body.
Despite the fact that the plan had gone smoothly, my nerves had been frayed enough in the last hour that I wanted to go back to my room and get some rest. The only thing left to do was to decide how to pack the ten more prisoners when there were only four spaces left in the prison scroll.
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