"Where did the explosion happen?" Asahi jumped down from a tree and came to Ueno's side with a frown on his face and asked.
"There!" Ueno pointed in a direction and said solemnly, "Someone should have discovered something, that explosive tag should have been used to warn us. Asahi, I'll rush over to see the situation, you return to meet up with Keita and Shinohara. Remember, no matter what the situation, you three should not act separately."
"Understood!"
After rushing back to the camp, Asahi saw Keita and Shinohara were already standing there seemingly waiting for a long time, he hurried over and said, "Ueno-sensei has already informed me what we should do, and asked me to come back to meet you, he said we three should act together."
"Okay! Let's go!" Keita nodded, then he made a hand seal over his chest, and shouted in a low voice, "[Byakugan]!"
"It's sand ninja, about ten to twelve people." Keita said.
"So many?" Shinohara exclaimed.
So many sand ninjas gathered together to sneak into the Land of Fire territory, but they were not discovered by the village's ninjas. It was really hard to believe.
'Are the village's Anbu all useless?'
"Let's hurry first!" Asahi said and ran out.
The location of the incident was a small valley among the mountains. The forest was vast, the foliage was lush, and the terrain was steep and complicated, but that was exactly what made it very suitable for hiding. But once someone were to be found out here, they would have no way to escape except to kill their way out.
In short, this was a good place for those that don't fear death.
Asahi had seen the map. It's already deep in the Land of Fire territory, and thus was not within their scope of alert. So how were the sand ninjas hidden here found?
But obviously right now was not the time to consider such a problem. After reaching the location, they found a place to hide.
The valley was now hot, there were a total of twelve ninjas on the sand's side. It looked like there should be three to four teams, and three of their ninjas were puppeteers.
'The enemy this time is difficult to deal with!'
Konoha's side was completely on the losing end, and there were already two corpses lying on the ground.
As Asahi had previously guessed, the sand ninjas who could sneak into the land of Land of Fire must be elites. Although Konoha had a large number of people, they were completely suppressed by Sunagakure. And this place was very far from other camps. Unless they could send information in advance, it was impossible to wait for reinforcements.
"Let's go!" Shinohara suggested.
"No! If we go up now, it won't help in anyway," Keita said calmly.
"What?" Shinohara yelled, then he looked towards Asahi, and asked, "What do you think?"
"My opinion is the same as Keita. Our strength is too weak. It is no different than dying if we go out now. Not only that, we may also drag the others down." Asahi said solemnly, "Don't worry, there are several teams of patrolling ninjas around here, we still have hope to win."
"Then we just continue to watch?" Shinohara complained.
"Ah!"
A scream came from within the valley, and another Konoha ninja fell on the ground.
The current situation was that although there were more than twenty people on Konoha's side, they only have two Jonins. On the side of Sunagakure, although there were fewer people, they were all elites, and even the weakest among them were chunin.
Even more, like previously said, there were three Puppeteers in the enemy team.
Even if all the ninjas patrolling nearby came over, Asahi didn't think they could win against this group of sand ninja.
(T.L Note: If anyone is curious why he doesn't have much hope, then it is because the majority of their current army is canon fodder)
Moreover, looking at their attitude, they did not panic at all, and did not seem to be in a hurry to break through.
Asahi was very doubtful if they got any kind of information beforehand, otherwise they wouldn't just show their whereabouts in the enemy's country, and still engage in combat with the enemy with such a calm state, it was a bit out of common sense.
"What should we do?" Shinohara asked anxiously.
"There's a way..." Asahi said solemnly, "Keita, Shinohara, set up traps around the vicinity, I will go out and try to see if I can attract one or two enemies. As for the difference in strength of our groups, as long as it's not a puppeteer or a Jonin we can easily kill them."
"Understood!" Keita hearing this nodded and agreed with Asahi's suggestion.
In this situation, if they just decided not to fight, when they return to the village they will definitely get criticized.
Asahi used earth-style to approach the enemy and came exactly below a sand ninja. Asahi reached out his hand and pulled the unsuspecting sand ninja into the ground.
[Earth Style ∙ Headhunter Jutsu]
With a slight pride in his heart, Asahi was about to use a kunai to cut off the no-name ninja's throat but suddenly a terrible sense of danger arose in his heart.
He instantly used [Substitution Jutsu], a *boom* sounded the same time, and the sand ninja that was pulled into the ground by Asahi exploded instantly. The wooden pile used by [Substitution Jutsu] also exploded into fragments by the formidable explosive power.
'So close!'
The bad feeling just now made Asahi extremely nervous. If it wasn't for his vigilance, he would already be on the path to hell.
'That ninja must had felt something, so he used a clone as a bait, and also stuck an explosive tag on the clone.'
If Asahi was a little careless, he would be lying on the ground now.
"You are very perceptive little brat!" A twenty year old sand ninja smirked and looked at Asahi, as if he had found some interesting prey.
'This is an experiences ninja.'
Fortunately, he had another chunin holding him, so Asahi was not in danger for the moment.
"Humph!"
Without hesitation, Asahi took two kunai from his pouch and threw it at the sand chunin.
Although this sneak attack by Asahi wouldn't play any significant role, it would cause some problems to the other side.
Ninja executes mission as a team. Since Asahi had appeared, there must be other people hiding in the dark waiting for the opportunity.
So the sand chunin's actions became more cautious, and there was already some hesitation in his attacks, apparently he was afraid that the other people would suddenly appear, dealing him a deadly attack.
This situation was much better than the scene where the Konoha chunin alone had to work hard to just match him. As Asahi joined the battle, the situation of the sand chunin began to slowly deteriorate. Under the combined attack of Asahi and the Konoha chunin, he got hurt a few times on combat.
"Be careful!"
The Konoha chunin suddenly shouted.
Not needing to be reminded a second time at all, Asahi directly used [Substitution Jutsu], and avoided another sneak attack of the sand chunin.
*Boom*
While using [Substitution Jutsu], Asahi threw out a smoke bomb directly.
Under the cover of the smoke, Asahi quickly made hand seals, and his body changed to a sand's chunin's appearance with a burst out of smoke.
"Nemo, are you okay?" The sand chunin who had just sneak attacked Asahi, came to his side and whispered.
"I'm okay! Thanks..." Asahi turned to look at the sand chunin with a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth and a kunai quickly pierced his heart.
*Bang*
In a burst of smoke, Asahi lifted the [Transformation Jutsu] and changed back to his original appearance. The unlucky sand chunin's face was full of shock. He opened his mouth wanting to say something, but unfortunately he lost his breath before he could say anything.
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