The group started to move around when they figured that the enemy might know their location after the initial attack.
If they just sat around they would have been sitting ducks who would die one by one as they would have no way to fight back.
"Neji. Hinata can you sense the enemy." Kurunei asked.
"I am sorry. Kurunei sensei." Hinata replied.
Neji just shakes his head.
Both of them are users of Byakugan which was a dojutsu that was literally built for tracking down the enemy.
But even they could not find Kakoto as he was out of their range.
Opening gates would only tire me out since we don't know where the enemy is coming from. Guy thought in his mind.
Kaiba also looked around and saw something moving in a bush nearby.
"Let's go, Akamaru," Kiba said as the small white dog that was resting on his shoulder.
"Tsuga." He said as he moved at a target at high speeds towards the place where he saw something while spinning.
"Kiba. What happened?" The other who were around him were shocked when he started acting out.
Shino and Hinata who were closest to him started to follow him.
"Wait," Kurunei said to the three as she prepared to follow them.
However, before they can numerous threes start to grow from the ground in the direction where Hinata, Shino and Kiba went.
The trees were densely packed as they formed a wall that prevented the others from going after the kids.
"Lady Hinata," Neji said in worry.
"This is not good," Guy said as he also looked worried alongside Tenten and Lee.
"Fire Style. Fireball jutsu." Both Kakashi and Jiraiya used fire style to burn down the trees but the fireball was overwhelmed.
Even though the two fireballs initially made a hole that they could have used to follow the three kids the hole was immediately filled up with wood.
Jiraiya landed on the ground.
Then suddenly he started to gather chakra in his hands as they formed a blue orb that was spinning constantly.
"Get back," Kakashi said to the others.
Did he just use fireball jutsu with only one hand? Tenten was a little shocked by what Kakashi had done a few seconds ago.
"take this Rasengan" Jiraiya said as he used the Rasengan on the threes.
Just like the fireball it worked for a while as it made a hole that could be used to get through the obstacle.
But just like before it immediately filled up within a few seconds.
"This is going to be troublesome," Jiraiya said.
The problem is not that the wall cannot be destroyed. But it regenerates immediately.
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"Ouch," Kiba said as he landed on the ground.
"Aroof." Akamaru came down from his shoulder and walked towards somewhere.
"What do you think you are doing?" Shino who went after Kiba asked him after arriving near his friend.
"I thought I saw something around here," Kiba said.
"Just because of that? Stop acting so recklessly. Now we have to regroup because of your hasty actions." Shino scolded Kiba.
"Kiba kun. Are you okay?" Hinata who also arrived near Kiba asked.
"Yeah," Kiba replied.
"Wroff. Wroff" Akramura started to bark when he found something written on the ground.
Akamaru was able to find a flying Raijin mark that was left behind.
The three looked at the mark and realized what it was.
Shino destroyed it immediately without wasting a second as soon as he found out what it was.
Then suddenly a man carrying a sword and a spear appeared near Shino and tried to attack him by stabbing him with the spear.
"!" a group of small bugs started to gather around Shino and stopped the spear before Shino was stabbed.
The bugs immediately ate up the spear leaving nothing behind.
The man who tried to stab Shino let go of it before the bug got to him. Which allowed him to avoid the attack from the bugs.
"8 trigrams vacuum palm." Hinata said as she launched an attack towards the person who tried to stab Shino.
The person started to do hand signs and put his hands on the ground at a very fast speed.
A wall appeared on the ground that shielded him from Hinata's attack.
"Who is he?" Shino asked Kiba.
"I don't know but he does not look like an ally," Kiba replied.
Hinata activated her Byakugan and realized that there was something strange about the man they were fighting.
"Shino kun. The person that we are supposed to be after was as strong as Lady Tsuande, right?" She asked.
"Is there something wrong?" Shino asked her.
"I don't think the man who is standing in front of us is the one that we are supposed to be following." She said.
The man looked at her and attacked her.
Shino's bugs blocked her by stopping the man's attack before it hit her.
The man followed it up with a few more hits but all of them were stopped by Shino's bugs.
"Fang over Fang," Kiba said as he and Akamaru used a technique similar to the Tsuga on the body of the man that they were fighting.
However, he was grabbed and thrown away into a nearby tree. Snapping the tree in half.
"8 trigrams. Thirty-two plans." Hinata said as she closed in towards the man and launched a total of thirty-two hits to his body.
First, two consecutive strikes to make two.
Second, another two consecutive strikes to make four.
Third, four consecutive strikes to make eight.
Fourth, eight consecutive strikes to make sixteen.
Fifth, another sixteen consecutive strikes in succession to make a total of thirty-two.
All of these are launched in a short moment while the man is distracted by Kiba and Amamaru.
Her technique is used to close off the flow of chakra through thirty-two chakra points of an opponent's chakra pathway system.
Which causes their ability to use chakra to stop for quite a few minutes. Not only that it also makes it difficult for them to move.
The man falls to his knees after getting hit by Hinata's technique.
Hinata was also tired out after using it. Kiba and Shino are also very fatigued.
It doesn't seem like a long fight but the three of them are still Genins and are not as strong as Kakashi even if they combined their strength.
Meaning that if they were fighting the real Kakoto they would have died.
But luckily for them, they were fighting something else instead.
A smoke screen was created as the man they were fighting transformed into a small white snake.
"A summon?" Kiba was shocked.
"Now it makes sense why it didn't even make a noise during our fight," Shino commented.
The white snake disappeared after it was defeated.
Leaving the three Genins exhausted as the real Kakaoto walks towards them.