Chapter 123: The Art of Shackles
Uchiha Shun's kunai throwing technique was truly powerful and, one might say, infallible. In just three rounds of attacks, twenty-four Sunagakure hawks were shot down from the sky. The survivors, seeing they couldn't continue like this, changed tactics and grouped into a dense formation for a group charge.
A cold light gleamed between Sasuke's fingers. Seizing the opportunity, he threw a shuriken and formed the hand seals.
"Shadow Shuriken Clone Technique!"
In an instant, almost one hundred shuriken formed a giant net that violently attacked the enemy formation. Wherever they passed, a bloody mist filled the sky, clearing a large area instantly. It was much more brutal than Shun's precise art.
Shirotaka also spat out a hurricane, sweeping away the stragglers, and Shun, his hands moving like blurs, finished off the remaining scattered ones. With the fluid cooperation of the two men and the bird, in just a few minutes, half of Sunagakure's air force had been annihilated.
The Sunagakure ninja controlling them remotely, seeing this, ordered a retreat.
"Chirp--!" Shirotaka cried, euphoric from its first aerial victory, and launched itself in pursuit. But it didn't need to do much; Shun shot down the fleeing hawks one after another.
After tens of kilometers, the remaining hawks dispersed and hid in the dense forest below, where their masters were waiting. Sasuke didn't give up. He let Shirotaka fly low and, using his infrasonic radar to see through the foliage, he and Shun began a silent hunt.
"Wind Breath, First Form: Fish Slice!" Sasuke whispered, and with a swift movement, he cut down a Sunagakure ninja and the tree he was hiding behind.
On the other hand, Shun, not to be outdone, used a ghostly sword technique similar to Konoha-Ryū and silently slit another's throat.
After eliminating over a dozen ninjas, they finally encountered an opponent of considerable strength: the air force commander, an elite jonin with intense Wind chakra. Sasuke did not attack directly. He split off six shadow clones and transformed into a Sunagakure ninja.
"Sasuke-sama, your transformation technique is very special," Shun commented, amazed. "If I hadn't opened my three-tomoe Sharingan, I wouldn't have been able to see the flaws."
Disguised, Sasuke and two of his clones picked up a dead hawk's body and ran in a panic towards the elite jonin's position, with Shun feigning pursuit. The jonin, though cautious, was deceived by the scene. Just then, a Shirotaka clone threw a detonating kunai as a distraction. The jonin was forced to use a defensive ninjutsu.
At that critical moment...
"Shock!" a hidden clone launched an infrasonic discharge, interrupting the jonin's next jutsu.
"Illusion: Hanging Prison Technique!" whispered Shun, who had been waiting for the opportunity.
In an instant, the elite jonin fell into the illusion, his body paralyzed as if wedges had been driven into his limbs. When he finally broke free, he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen.
"Rasengan!"
Sasuke had already struck him, while his two clones bound him with Water Strings. The Rasengan impacted precisely, and the powerful force broke the strings and sent the elite jonin flying backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing into a giant tree.
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