While the explosives were hiding underground, 'Ueda' saw the Leaf Village ninjas approaching, led by Nara Shikaze.
Alongside the current leader of the Nara clan are the leader of the Akimichi clan and the leader of the Yamanaka clan.
Seeing the number of Leaf ninjas, 'Ueda' tried to calm himself down.
The option of returning to the village and the presence of a team of ninjas to carry out the task and escort him along the way was the reason he accepted this dangerous mission.
With Gari present, I was sure I could accomplish this mission.
'Ueda Koin' could already imagine returning to the village of Roca in glory.
After all, he was the one who poisoned the guards at the medical tent. Otherwise, Gari and the others wouldn't have been able to eliminate them before Nara Shikaze arrived to support them.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The sound of the explosions was produced by the explosion team trying to stop the Leaf ninjas.
They knew it was unlikely they would kill many of these Leaf ninjas, so their main objective was to buy time.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Nara Shikaze led the Leaf ninjas to change the terrain and force the Rock ninjas out of the underground.
With several Ninjutsu techniques, they destroyed the battlefield and the Rock ninjas were forced to leave.
While the other 4 nations mostly had a special affinity for one element and very few of the others, the village of the hour was different because they had many ninjas with different affinities.
That's why it was easy for Nara Shikaze to order the ninjas with an affinity for the earth element to modify the battlefield and try to trap the Rock ninjas.
Of course, it wouldn't be easy, and the explosives easily escaped to the surface.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
As time passed, the explosives unit was forced to slowly retreat, and Gari clicked his teeth.
Although he was prepared to intervene, it was assumed that by this time the doctors on the blade should already be dead and they should withdraw.
"Go tell them to come out"
"We'll leave," Gari told 'Ueda', as his chakra circulated throughout his body, preparing to unleash a huge explosion and give his team time to retreat.
'Ueda' nodded and headed towards the medical tent.
Meanwhile, Nara Shikase had a headache.
Although they quickly realized when a sensor failed to respond to their call, the Rock ninjas took advantage of this lapse to infiltrate the back of their camp and attack the medical ninjas.
At this point, Nara Shikaze had already given up on the medical ninjas and only wanted to kill the Rock ninjas to avenge them.
Otherwise, I wouldn't know how to explain this to the village or Torifu.
When they couldn't find the traitor who detonated those explosive tags and Torifu had to go out and intercept the numerous Rock ninja teams approaching, they knew something was wrong.
That's why all the sensors and explorers at the camp had to report every few minutes.
But even so it wasn't enough and now they suffered a great loss.
While Inoshin used his clan abilities to connect with the minds of the Leaf ninjas to fight better, Choka expanded his body to become a giant ball and attack certain points where the Rock ninjas were hiding.
Facing the explosives corps was a headache, and Nara Shikaze couldn't believe that the Village Hidden in the Rock would dare to risk such a valuable asset to their village.
But seeing Gari, who hadn't acted yet, she could understand why they had so much confidence.
Unlike the other members of the explosives corps, Gari was the strongest and could unleash powerful explosive attacks.
Very different from the others who could only create explosive clay and had fewer means of attack.
With Torifu out of the camp, Gari could retreat by using a large explosive attack.
And sensing the circulating chakra in Gari's body, Nara Shikaze knew what his plan was.
"Watch out!" shouted Nara Shikaze, and since he was connected to Inoshin, he was able to immediately send the message to the other Leaf ninjas to retreat.
Suddenly….
¡Wosh! ¡Wosh! ¡Wosh!
Behind Gari, countless compressed air projectiles pierced the curtain that served as the entrance to the tent and headed at full speed towards 'Ueda'.
Taken by surprise, 'Ueda' had no time to react and was pierced by the compressed air projectiles.
At the same time….
¡BOOOOOOOM!
A huge explosion erupted from Gari's hands and the land in front of him disappeared.
Apart from the molten earth, nothing remained.
Because Inoshin was connected to the minds of all the Leaf ninja, they were able to retreat and avoid being caught in Gari's attack.
Meanwhile, Gari's colleagues in the explosives unit already knew of his move and retreated behind him.
More than 100 meters ahead of Gari was molten earth and would produce fear in all his enemies.
But at that precise moment, everyone's attention was on the medical tent.
Looking towards the tent, everyone saw a figure emerge and realized it was… a young man?
They had all been at the camp for a long time and knew who Uchiha Natsuo was.
And if the Rock ninjas didn't know about him before, they would now know about him through the secret mission scroll that was given to them and read the details about the boy.
One of the priorities in this attack was to kill Uchiha Natsuo, and they didn't initially think this would be very difficult.
After all, the boy was only 13 years old and a medical ninja, so everyone didn't think this mission requirement would be difficult to meet.
Although 'Ueda' died from what appears to be a Wind Jutsu, they thought he was overconfident and caught off guard.
While feeling hundreds of pairs of eyes upon him, Natsuo assessed his enemies.
His 'Observation Haki', formed by his sense of natural energy and people's life energy, told him that Gari was the most dangerous, but he shouldn't underestimate the other ninjas of the Rock.
Natsuo knew he had to be ready to kill; after all, they didn't see him with good intentions.
Although he killed that ninja who was still wearing the Leaf Headband, Natsuo knew that he was a traitor or that he was never a Leaf ninja from the beginning.
In his field of vision, he could already see the silhouettes of Leaf ninjas in the distance, but his attention was on the Rock ninjas.
'I have to be careful,' Natsuo thought.
Although he was strong, he did not have enough experience in battle.
"Move!" Nara Shikaze shouted to the rest of the Leaf ninjas in an attempt to save the medical ninjas.
At first, Nara Shikaze thought the doctors were dead. But when he saw Uchiha Natsu emerge without any visible injuries, he became hopeful that the other doctors were alright.
Now that Gari had launched a powerful Jutsu, they had time before he prepared to launch another one.
Unfortunately for Nara Shikaze, they were a little far away now, having retreated to avoid Gari's explosive attack.
And although ninjas could travel great distances in a short time, Gari was also a ninja and would get to the tent first.
Smiling, Gari moved and gave orders to his subordinates.
"Let's go"
Although it seems they were unable to kill all the medical ninjas, he would take care of completing the mission before escaping over the cliff.
As an explosives unit, they had plenty of explosive clay to leave along the way as a trap for their pursuers.
Although he felt that the child in front of him had a great chakra reserve almost equal to his own, an elite Jonin, Gari did not believe that a child could defend himself against him.
Now, Nara Shikase was trying to reach them along with several Leaf ninjas while Gari was far ahead of them with his own explosives team.
It didn't seem like he could avoid the inevitable.
Although they saw Natsuo forming various hand signs, they didn't believe he could change anything.
But things didn't happen as they thought.
Before the astonished gaze of all the Leaf and Rock ninjas, who stopped abruptly, Natsuo performed only a few hand seals while taking a breath and expelled several dozen fireballs at high speed.
Suddenly, the whole place lit up and the temperature rose.