What Are You Here for Without a Mangekyo?

"Aaaaaaahh..."

In the dark cave, Gaara floated in the air, red chakra overflowing from Gaara body, and his heart-wrenching screams sent chills down the spine.

The nine Akatsuki members stood on the fingers of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, unmoved by Gaara's screams.

"An enemy is approaching us, and they are quite powerful..."

Zetsu's light and shadow said calmly, "It's Kakashi Hatake, the Copy Ninja Hinata Hyuga Konoha. Hinata Hyuga is also here."

"..."

Pain paused for a moment, then glanced in Itachi Uchiha's direction. "Use that technique!"

"Then send me!"

Hidan complained, "I'm getting annoyed too because we can't find Jinchuriki!"

Kakuzu gave Hidan a cold look, pondering how he must find an opportunity to kill Hidan.

If you don't act recklessly, you'll regret it; why do you try?

Hidan wasn't really courting death. The "Shapeshifting Technique" allows the sacrificed object to possess all of the original's abilities, including the Kekkei Genkai, but only 30% of the original's chakra.

Since his main body wouldn't die and it was just a matter of stalling for time, Hidan felt he should give it a try.

If we could take this opportunity to obtain Hinata's blood, that would be the best outcome.

Lord of Evil has waited far too long.

"No! I'll go!"

Kisame said coldly, "I have a personal grudge against that guy."

Kisame has never forgotten the grudge of Samehada being stolen and the grudge of losing his arm. He usually doesn't dare to cause trouble for Hinata, but he doesn't care if he uses the 'Shapeshifting Technique'.

Pain said calmly, "Indeed, that technique is only suitable for someone like you, who has one of the highest chakra levels in Akatsuki."

'Sniff!'

Pakkun's nose twitched.

"What's wrong?" Kakashi asked.

Pakkun jumped into the air and turned back to explain, "Someone's coming this way."

"Byakugan!"

Hinata pretended to activate her Byakugan, then shouted, "There are two people behind us!"

Hinata didn't want to easily reveal her Natural Sensing ability, especially to the people of Konoha.

Because once people know that Hinata possesses the ability of 'Natural Sensing,' it would undoubtedly tell everyone in Konoha that the entire Konoha is under Hinata's surveillance.

That would provoke public outrage.

'Boom--'

With a loud bang, Kisame's figure descended from the sky, his hands rapidly Hand Seals.

Water Release: Exploding Water Shock Wave!

Kisame's cheeks and chest swelled up instantly, and then he made a vomiting motion, spitting out a huge amount of saliva onto the ground.

Kisame spat on the ground, and the saliva surged in all directions like ocean waves. The spray propelled Kisame more than fifty meters high, sweeping outwards.

"Gulp!"

Hinata was startled.

I was mainly disgusted by it.

As Taijutsu- type ninja, Hinata has always admired those cool ninjutsu techniques, but since offensive ninjutsu is not very useful, Hinata gave up on training ninjutsu.

After all, if chakra cannot undergo a qualitative change, the power of ninjutsu is actually not that great.

Moreover, it's not true that the more techniques you know, the better. In the Shinobi World, it's common to find someone who only knows one technique and can rely on it for everything.

It's better to specialize than to be a jack-of-all-trades.

However, Hinata forgot that among the many ninjutsu in the Shinobi World, apart from a few such as Rasengan and Chidori which are released by hand, most are released by mouth.

'Bang!'

With a flap of her chakra wings, Hinata instantly soared into the sky.

Even though this water was created using chakra, it was still spat out by Kisame, and Hinata didn't want to touch it at all.

Young ladies are all germaphobes.

As soon as Hinata took to the air, she saw Kisame appear in front of her, wielding Samehada and slashing down at her head.

"How naive!"

Hinata curled her lip in disdain. Samehada was still gathering dust under Hinata's bed. Samehada Kisame be Genjutsu!

Hinata couldn't be bothered with this level of Genjutsu, so Itachi Uchiha must have been holding back, right?

'Bang!'

The giant Shuriken struck Hinata, but was deflected by the chakra energy surrounding Hinata.

"Uh... it's Genjutsu incorporating Shuriken attacks!"

Hinata belatedly realized what was happening, and an "I see" expression appeared on her face.

Itachi Uchiha: "..."

Itachi Uchiha knew that Hinata was very strong, but being strong in Taijutsu and ninjutsu did not necessarily mean that her Genjutsu abilities were strong.

Therefore, Itachi Uchiha decided to go easy on him a little.

However, although Hinata saw through Itachi's Genjutsu, she chose to ignore it, completely underestimating the strength of the Genjutsu genius Itachi Uchiha.

After all, Hinata hadn't fought in a full ten months.

Fortunately, Hinata's core strength is strong enough that it doesn't matter if she is attacked.

After adjusting her chakra, Itachi Uchiha Genjutsu broken. Hinata quickly glanced at Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki, and loudly warned, "Their chakra is off; it shouldn't be their true forms."

"Isn't it the original body?"

Kakashi and Chiyo stood on the water, facing Kisame from afar.

With a sinister smile on his lips, Kisame placed one hand on the water's surface, releasing chakra from his five fingers to condense the water into the shape of a shark, which he then lunged at Naruto as he sank to the bottom.

At the same time, Kakashi made the same move, and ten water sharks tore at each other underwater, allowing Naruto to quickly swim to the surface.

"Puff!"

Naruto spat out a mouthful of water, shook his hair, and then emerged from the water to stand next to Kakashi.

"Eek..."

Hinata flew in the air, facing Itachi Uchiha from afar, but kept an eye on Naruto's situation.

Seeing that Naruto had suffered the same setback as her, Hinata felt much better.

Look, Naruto, who has been training with Jiraiya for more than two years, has about the same combat experience as me!

However, Naruto's act of spitting water disgusted Hinata.

That water all came out of Kisame's mouth...

Hinata turned her gaze to Itachi Uchiha and took out a hair tie to tie up her loose hair.

"Brother Itachi, can you only use Three Tomoe?"

Itachi Uchiha said softly, "Yes! This body cannot use the Mangekyo."

Hinata asked curiously, "Then what are you doing here?"

Itachi Uchiha's eye twitched involuntarily.

Is this sarcasm?

Hinata was actually very curious about the progress of the One-Tail extraction mission. She remembered that in the Original Story, it seemed to take several days.

It has only been two days since Hinata informed Orochimaru.

Hinata can now see the Akatsuki members even at the furthest point of her Byakugan's vision; it's such a short distance, she can get there in just over ten minutes.

The two people who came to stall for time...

Kisame is alright; his ninjutsu can buy him some time.

But Itachi Uchiha...

What are you doing here if you don't have Mangekyo?

Can't the Akatsuki just do their jobs properly?