BOOM
BOOM
BOOM
Taro tried to catch his opponent off guard with the explosive tags hidden among his ground projectiles, but it was useless as his enemy seemed to know his plans and avoided all the explosions.
And suddenly, Taro stopped when he realized that the sound of the battles around him had stopped.
Looking to the side, sweat appearing on his forehead from blood loss as he balanced on his left leg, Taro was confronted with the horrifying truth.
He was the only one on his team who remained standing while the other members of his team were on the ground in pools of their own blood.
Forcing a wry smile, Taro gripped the kunai in his hand as he felt his chakra reserves depleted and dizzy from blood loss.
Not knowing what to do and immobile in his position, Taro could only watch his enemies approaching.
Minutes later the place was empty, with only the destruction of the place as proof that there had been a battle there recently.
Meanwhile, the group of 4 Konoha ANBU, who were not actually Konoha ANBU, traveled a few hundred meters before stopping and burying the enemy bodies.
After obtaining weapons and some war supplies from the bodies, they found nothing important and returned to their temporary base in a cave a little ways away.
Closing the curve and leaving only a small opening for the light to enter, the group of 4 sat cross-legged and began to absorb the natural energy around them and gradually connect it to their chakra pathways.
Within 12 hours, his chakra reserves had returned to their previous states.
Coming out of the curve, the four figures sank into the earth and traveled underground in search of their next prey.
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Elsewhere, a group of Leaf ninjas were fleeing from a group of Rock ninjas.
Having infiltrated the area belonging to the Rock Village in the land of grass to attack supply shipments, they knew the level of danger they faced and were now fleeing from it.
"Captain, you go."
"I will stay to stop their advance," said a Leaf ninja, referring to the Rock ninjas who were pursuing them.
With a wound in his abdomen, the ninja had put all his effort into escaping until now, but he felt that he could not run any further.
Knowing that he would be a hindrance to his team, he wanted to stay and greet his pursuers with the explosive tags he had kept.
"No, I'll stay too," said the captain, not wanting to leave his companion.
The other member of the Inuzuka clan and the other member of the Aburame clan nodded, ready to fight to their last breath.
They were inside the area protected by the Rock village, so they knew it was difficult to escape when they were surrounded.
CRAAAAAK
BOOOOOM
Suddenly, everyone turned around to look behind them when they heard several explosions and saw trees flying in the distance.
Besides seeing several clean cuts in the tree trunks, some of them were completely destroyed.
"What happened?"
The group didn't know what was happening with their pursuers, who seemed to be fighting with another unknown group.
"It doesn't matter, let's take advantage of this and go," said the team captain, and the others didn't argue before following him.
Although they were curious and grateful to whoever helped them, they knew about their current conditions and the danger they faced if they stayed any longer and were surrounded by the rock's ninja squads.
CRAAAAAK
CRAAAAAK
BOOM
As the Leaf ninja squad retreated, their pursuers were not having a good time.
Flying backwards, a Jonin from the Village of the Rock spat out a mouthful of blood from the blow he received in his stomach.
Even with his earth armor, this attacker's blow was enough to sink his earth armor and make him spit blood.
Quickly recovering, the Jonin launched his own attacks, sending an earth dragon towards his opponent.
And when his opponent dodged him by leaping to the side and heading towards him, the Jonin smiled as the rock dragon exploded, sending earth projectiles in all directions.
BOOOOOOOOOOM
BANG BANG BOOM
The surrounding land was destroyed by the explosion of the earth dragon, and rock projectiles destroyed many trees.
The last attack does not distinguish between enemies and allies, so the Jonin only launched this attack because he was far from his companions.
And of course, he also built a large earthen wall to protect himself from these rock projectiles.
Seconds later, the Jonin emerged from his refuge to check on his enemy's condition.
And sadly, he was still standing.
Cursing mentally, the Jonin wondered where these guys came from.
While chasing some cockroaches from the Leaf Village, they were about to catch them when they were suddenly attacked and taken by surprise.
A large gust of wind killed 2 of them and the rest narrowly escaped.
The large number of trees cleanly cut down in the area demonstrated the power of that wind blast.
If the Jonin had been on the left side, he would not have been able to escape and would be next to his 2 fallen comrades.
Not even his earth armor gave him the assurance that he wouldn't be cut in two by that attack.
After being taken by surprise, a group of 10 unknown ninjas appeared in front of them and each one took an opponent to fight and slowly they were moving away from the others.
The fact that exactly 10 of them were still alive in his group made him wonder if it was really a coincidence.
But now the Jonin could think of nothing but defeating his enemy and staying alive.
Of course, that didn't seem so easy when he saw his opponent completely enveloped in earth armor.
And seeing his opponent seemingly wearing very dark armor protecting his body, the Jonin knew that his opponent was better than him at earth release.
Which was no surprise, since his opponent was a close-quarters fighter and it was his fists wrapped in earth chakra that had been hitting him until now.
BOOOOOOM
In the distance, he heard an explosion and saw that a large part of the forest was engulfed in flames.
The Jonin cursed and again wondered where these guys came from.
The opponent in front of him was very skilled in the earth chakra nature, a skill that few can achieve even in the Village Hidden in the Rocks.
At first, they were attacked by a great gust of wind, and now someone skilled in fire-breathing has also appeared.
With those 3 guys, the Jonin couldn't be sure which village these guys belonged to.
Knowing they were at a disadvantage, the Jonin knew he had to flee.
Even if he beat the guy in front of him, he had no chance against the rest of the enemy team.
Of course, escaping wouldn't be so easy.
As if he knew he wanted to escape, the enemy ninja formed several hand seals and launched a Jutsu into the ground beneath him.
'Damn it!' shouted the Jonin as he ran away from the muddy ground.
All the surrounding land turned to mud, and he was almost trapped.
The only option he had was to retreat, and he could not continue with his escape plan.
With his enemy behind him in the muddy ground and a large number of enemies fighting behind them alongside his teammates, the Jonin knew he had to think of something quickly.
And again, he didn't have time to think about anything.
Jumping, his enemy leaped onto the muddy ground to head towards him and for a moment thought he would fall to the ground.
But he was filled with surprise when the enemy's feet seemed to kick the air and a force was pushing him so that he did not fall to the ground.
The Jonin could not contain his surprise because he had to act quickly.
Forming several hand seals, several ground projectiles were directed towards their enemy.
As a land-based attack, its projectiles were very heavy and a person would be destroyed if hit.
Even if his enemy had a great defensive technique like earth armor, he would not escape with just bruises if he was hit.
The force behind these ground projectiles is enough to cause internal damage and could even kill directly if the heart received sufficient damage.
Unfortunately for him, his hopes were not fulfilled when his enemy pulled out a Kunai and used it to cut through all the rock projectiles that would fall on his body.
The wind chakra surrounding the kunai showed the great skill of his opponent in wind release.