As soon as the kunai were thrown and the steel wire was cut, Asahi used earth style to escape the attack range of the trap.
The three unprepared Sunagakure ninjas were directly surrounded by the fire of the explosive tag's explosion, and he didn't know if they were alive or not at that moment. However, even if they somehow managed to survive that, their fighting strength would be greatly reduced if not incapacitated.
It was a perfect plan of sneak attack. It really showed that these Sunagakure ninjas had never thought that Asahi would have set up an ambush here. The phrase "Do not chase after a cornered enemy" was very reasonable.
Under the cover of the explosion, Asahi hid again.
The state of the sand ninjas injured by Asahi using the explosive tag bombs, was not yet possible to be determined, but as of right now there were only three sand ninjas left on the field unscathed.
'Very good, we hold an advantage now.' Asahi murmured in his heart.
Ueno's response was very fast. The moment he saw Asahi launching a sneak attack, he turned around and got entangled with two sand ninjas. The strength of these two sand ninjas was not weak, one of them was even Jonin-level, and so Ueno for a while fell on the losing end.
The remaining sand ninja battled with Keita, although his strength was not that strong, but Keita possessed the Byakugan, so as long as he doesn't fall into a disadvantage there should be no problem. As long as the enemy got hit by the Hyuga's Gentle Fist, the battle could be considered to be over.
So Asahi was now more worried about Ueno.
Ninja battles were often decided very fast, in a blink of an eye a battle could take a completely different turn. Sometimes even if only one weak spot was exposed, it might be exploited by the opponent. Ueno had fallen on the losing end, and it was likely that if he's careless even for a little bit, he would lose his life.
The smoke dispersed, and three corpses with sand ninja uniform were lay on the ground with their vitality lost.
But Asahi did not dare to be careless, and had been hiding in the dark to observe. A ninja's battle is full of deceit. If this dead person was just acting dead, then he could be end up in danger.
*Shou*
*Shou*
*Shou*
Just then, Shinohara, who had rushed back, threw a kunai, helping Ueno temporarily relieve pressure on his side.
'If the three sand ninjas are really dead, then it's three against four now, and the situation is now advantageous for us. Should I just attack?' Seeing Shinohara rushing back to help, Asahi thought secretly.
"Hmm?"
While deep in thought, Asahi suddenly found that Keita, disengage in hand to hand combat against the enemy and approached Shinohara without any word.
Asahi couldn't confirm whether the three corpses with sand uniform were actually dead or not, but Keita could see it. Now that he was approaching Shinohara, there were only two possibilities. Either Shinohara needed to be rescued, or he needed Shinohara to rescue him.
With this in mind, Asahi attacked decisively, and six kunai shot quickly towards Keita's opponent. At the same time, he himself came out of the forest, holding a kunai to hold back Keita's opponent.
To deal with these kind of hidden enemies, Keita was better.
"Be careful!" Keita cried out in surprise.
At the same time, Asahi felt a strong sense of dread filling him.
He instantly used [Substitution Jutsu], then immediately without any hesitation, Asahi directly used [Clone Jutsu], and three clones backed off in three different directions.
The cold feeling just now caused the hair on Asahi's whole body to stand up, it was because of a sneak attack. Asahi bowed his head to glance at his clothes, where a part of his clothes was obviously cut by a kunai, but fortunately there was no injury.
During the escape, he rolled around to see that the log used during the [Substitution Jutsu] had been split into two and was falling from in the sky. Fortunately, the person who attacked Asahi had been hit by Keita's Gentle Fist and had his chakra blocked immediately. Now it was estimated that he had no fighting strength.
"So close!"
'Looking at the opponent's skill, he should at least be a chunin.'
He didn't expect that a chunin wouldn't go to sneak attack Ueno, but instead would try to kill Keita.
After this split second, Asahi also analyzed the situation just now. Keita should have noticed someone preparing to sneak attack him, so he approached Shinohara without any words, hoping that he could help him block the sneak attack.
It was just that he didn't expect Asahi to attack at this time, blocking Keita's opponent for him, and the hidden chunnin saw through Keita's precaution in advance, and instead decided to sneak attack Asahi.
'It seems that this person specially targeted him first because he was from the Hyuga clan.'
If he could kill a ninja of Hyuga clan, it would not only distract Ueno, but it could also give a glimpse of the mystery of the Byakugan. This seemed like a really deeply thought action. But even if he really killed Keita, he would only get a pair of Byakugan that's all destroyed.
And that's not even taking into account that the best strategy was to first to kill any sensory-type ninjas among the enemy.
In a situation where it was possible to lose his life at any point, Asahi did his best to calm himself down, reminding himself that any urge would only make him die faster.
Under the pressure of life and death, Asahi was almost trembling nervously, and the pores on his body were constantly shrinking to spit out sweat. But in contrast to that, there was a deep excitement in his heart.
Because the battle situation right now was very good for Asahi.
Asahi's sneak attack killed one enemy, the explosive tags' trap killed two, and now another one was finished off by Keita's Gentle Fist. Now it was two versus four, the battle situation was clearly obvious.
"Withdraw!"
The enemy Jonin saw that the situation was far from good, while being entangled by Ueno, and so he immediately ran out of the battlefield, grabbed the sand ninja that had his chakra blocked by Gentle Fist, and escaped with the other 2 people through the cover of the night.
"Don't chase him!" Seeing Shinohara wanting to chase the Sunagakure ninjas, Ueno immediately stopped him.
"Hoh… Today the situation got really dangerous. If it wasn't for Asahi's sudden sneak attack, I'm afraid I wouldn't be standing here at this time. Thank you very much, Asahi!" Keita wiped the sweat from his forehead, and thankfully told Asahi.
"No need to say thanks, if you and Ueno-sensei were to be both killed, I wouldn't be able to escape their pursuit." Asahi said modestly.
"Eh..." Keita heard this with a twitch in his lips and said weakly, "I wanted to thank you with a big meal after returning to the village, but now I suddenly don't want to anymore."
"Although you did not obey my order withdraw..." Ueno looked-at Asahi, said in a serious voice, "I'm glad you did what you did this time."
"Humph, Asahi is much better than that Kakashi." Shinohara said with a snort.
Keita then added, "Asahi is certainly better than Kakashi. As a matter of fact during the academy period, Asahi defeated Kakashi."
"Wow! Really? Why didn't I know about this?" Shinohara said strangely.
"Because you by that time you had already graduated."
Keita pouted, "Oh… It's really annoying to be surpassed by your own juniors."
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