A wave of sonic shock was released from Zaku's modified palm, launching an indiscriminate attack toward Aoba and Dosu.
The sharp sound waves formed visible ripples in the air, rapidly shooting toward Aoba.
This power was said to easily destroy rocks. If Uchiha Obito had known it, he wouldn't have been crushed by stones.
Aoba simply leapt once and dodged it, but the collapsed Dosu on the ground could only stare helplessly as the attack landed on his body.
Under the sonic assault, his entire body was torn apart, with blood streaming from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. He could no longer stand.
Aoba was speechless for a moment. He hadn't even planned to kill this enemy yet.
But this teammate couldn't wait to make a move.
Do you guys have some sort of grudge?
"DOSU!", Zaku saw the sonic wave miss and accidentally hit Dosu, and he grew anxious. But behind him, Yakumo's figure appeared out of nowhere, and he himself was completely unaware.
"ZAKU, CAREFUL BEHIND YOU!"
"Huh?", Zaku was still confused, but the nearby Sound kunoichi Kin had already rushed up, throwing the senbon in her hand toward Yakumo.
However, all the senbon passed through Yakumo's body with soft thuds and deeply pierced into the unreactive Zaku instead.
"..."
"This…"
Seeing Zaku's body fall powerlessly to the ground, Kin was also a little dazed now.
They were just here to probe the enemy's strength…
And now, as soon as it started, their teammates were all taken out by their own side?
At that moment, a black-haired, white-eyed girl appeared in front of her.
"Hyuga clan…", Kin instinctively gripped the senbon in her hand tightly.
"Hinata, leave one alive. They must be on some kind of mission," Aoba quickly reminded Hinata.
They needed at least one alive for intelligence gathering.
"?", However, this line sounded different to Hinata's ears.
Why didn't he stop the two male ninjas from dying earlier, but now he wants this female ninja left alive?
She also noticed the other's long black hair that almost reached her heels, classic straight black hair, with a big purple bow tied at the end.
She remembered Aoba saying he liked girls with long straight black hair.
'Could it be…'
Hinata's gaze suddenly turned cold.
But just as she spaced out, the opponent Kin suddenly took out a bell.
"Genjutsu: Bell Sound Senbon!"
Hinata immediately felt the vision before her blur, and soon multiple afterimages of Kin appeared around her.
The real one and the illusions raised their hands in unison, hurling senbon at her.
Hinata quickly snapped out of it.
Facing the rain-like senbon, her expression didn't change at all.
Byakugan!
Hinata instantly saw through the illusion, swept her palms out, and the tingling senbon dispersed, leaving only a few flung away.
Before Kin could even react, Hinata had already flash-stepped in front of her and struck with a palm.
Out cold.
Hinata stood stunned.
'This level of strength, and you dare come at us?'
But she only stayed dazed for a second. Her eyes glanced at Aoba nearby, then looked again at Kin's still delicate face.
She stepped forward and delivered several more palm strikes, beating her into a pig head.
"This…", Aoba had clearly seen all of Hinata's actions.
Even after passing out, Kin was still beaten up, he couldn't help but sweat a little.
'Soft and sweet Hinata is actually this fierce?"
'Am I really that untrustworthy?' [T/N: The gull, the gumption, the audacity to even ask this question.]
How could he possibly be interested in some forgettable side character?
Still, speaking of Kin, he did vaguely remember something.
He had once seen a few "interrogation infiltrator kunoichi" works on some pink app.
There was even a red-haired teammate involved.
"Aoba, how should we deal with her?", After secretly giving Hinata a thumbs-up, Yakumo asked Aoba's opinion.
Aoba stroked his chin, "How about… we interrogate her about her objective?"
Hinata's eyes remained pure and innocent, but Yakumo started to look suspicious.
'Why does that sound like it has hidden meaning?'
"Aoba, you're not thinking of using some lewd methods to interrogate her, are you?", In her mind, a scene automatically played out: the infiltrating kunoichi getting caught and then becoming a shinobi plaything during interrogation.
"What are you even talking about?", Aoba knocked Yakumo on the head and said seriously, "I'm talking about proper interrogation!"
"So how should we do it then?"
"..."
"Hmm?"
While the three were discussing how to interrogate this infiltrating kunoichi, a large influx of information suddenly poured into Aoba's mind.
His eyes widened slightly in surprise.
"What's wrong?"
Both girls noticed Aoba's unusual reaction.
Aoba shook his head, "It's nothing. One of the wood clones got taken out."
"What?"
Yakumo and Hinata both looked shocked.
"Which side? Is it dangerous?"
"Don't worry, it's Naruto's side, no problem," Aoba reassured the two girls.
There really wasn't any problem.
When Orochimaru went all-out thinking he had won, only to discover it was just a wood clone, that doubtful look on his face even made Aoba want to laugh.
Running into a god-tier cheat user in the Forest of Death and being unable to win no matter how hard you try.
But wood clones are still clones. Under strong attacks, they vanish quickly.
That's why he created over a dozen wood clones.
One gets destroyed, and two more take its place.
"As long as it's okay. Then let's hurry and interrogate this girl and go regroup with Sakura and Ino," Yakumo let out a sigh of relief.
But she wasn't in the mood to keep sightseeing either. What if something had happened to Sakura and the others?
"Alright, let's use your Genjutsu directly for interrogation."
Yakumo's genjutsu, which manipulates the five senses, was indeed very effective for interrogation.
Yakumo immediately formed hand seals upon hearing that.
Within moments—
The captured infiltrating kunoichi began rolling her eyes.
Her whole body collapsed limply on the ground, tears, saliva, and snot flowing everywhere, and a steaming puddle spread out beneath her.
She even made a peace sign.
Then, the infiltrating kunoichi showed a completely broken appearance and began to mutter out every detail of their mission intermittently.
After speaking, she lay motionless on the grass, eyes hollow and dazed.
But when her gaze occasionally landed on Aoba, that expression contained anger with hatred, hatred with venom, venom with killing intent, killing intent with sorrow.
'And even… longing?'
"?"
'Is this reasonable?'
Aoba was utterly shocked and stared at Yakumo in fear.
"…What exactly did you do to her?"
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