Chapter 120: Water Severing Wave
The couple, Arashi and Ruriyu, came out in person, with a team of veteran ninjas aboard the Desert Hawks, and crossed the misty forest to pursue them. Although it was difficult to find Sasuke, who was hiding, it was quite easy to find his troops.
"Indeed, they caught up to us," Sasuke thought, but instead of worrying, he felt happy. As long as he could annihilate Sunagakure's air force, escaping the pursuit of their ground army wouldn't be difficult.
But airborne ninjas have always been extremely difficult to control. Arashi, a Kazekage candidate, was arrogant. Confident in his aerial superiority, he flew ahead of their main group to harass Sasuke's troops.
"Screech!" the hawks spat out two hurricanes.
"Wind Style: Thousand Sword Storm!" Sasuke ordered.
His Wind chunin and their clones launched a combined jutsu, using the attack as a defense. The two hurricanes were dispersed. Although the shockwave slightly injured some genin and killed two, the main attack was repelled.
Seeing that their attacks had little effect, the two highly intelligent hawks opened their enormous mouths, preparing a more powerful ninjutsu. At that moment, Sasuke, who had been hiding below, quickly completed the seven hand seals.
"Water Style: Water Severing Wave!"
In an instant, a thin, almost invisible line of high-pressure water shot out from his mouth. It wasn't a torrent, but a needle of water pressurized to an unimaginable level, a scalpel capable of cutting mountains. It pierced through a giant tree, rose into the sky, and struck the left hawk's chest.
Without losing momentum, the line continued towards Arashi. He reacted with Kage-level speed and narrowly dodged it. Sasuke, below, turned his head, and the water jet followed, slicing through the sky to the right.
"Screech!" cried the second giant hawk as half of its body was instantly severed. Arashi, who was on it, used a puppet to absorb part of the impact and pushed Ruriyu out of the way, interposing his own body. The water line passed through the puppet as if it were paper and tore his arm from his shoulder in a burst of blood. At the cost of his arm, he had saved his wife and himself.
The water line continued and struck the first hawk again, severing its right wing. Both hawks, one dead and one mutilated, fell from the sky. The jonin who were on board fell with them. One landed with Earth Style, another with chakra threads, and a third in a tree. The last one wasn't so lucky. He fell directly into the middle of Sasuke's troops, and before he could even scream, dozens of kunai turned him into a human pincushion.
Arashi and Ruriyu used a puppet mechanism to descend like a helicopter. As soon as they landed, Arashi, despite his terrible injury, immediately ordered a retreat.
"Pursue!" Sasuke ordered, although using the S-rank jutsu had left him weak.
Shirotaka, seeing its fallen rivals, let out a sharp cry and chased after the smaller flying beasts.
After escaping less than two kilometers, the Sunagakure survivors were intercepted by Sasuke's shadow clones.
"Water Style: Starch Syrup Capture Field!"
A large amount of maltose syrup gushed from the dead corners of the forest, falling onto the heads of Arashi and the other four.
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