Actually... having a Hyuga Clan ninja as a teammate was an incredibly fortunate thing.
Because the Byakugan could spot enemies hiding in the shadows.
Hinata used the Byakugan to scout the area three full times. It was not that the enemies were particularly well hidden, but rather... there was not a single enemy anywhere nearby.
Who had given Gato the courage to think that gathering a bunch of insignificant wandering samurai would be enough to deal with ninja?
At the level of these wandering samurai, Sasuke three years from now could take on a thousand of them by himself without even getting his clothes dirty.
Hinata and Kakashi could naturally do the same with ease right now.
Hinata helplessly spread her hands, signaling to Kakashi that the enemy consisted of only the people in front of them.
Kakashi visibly breathed a sigh of relief. He had thought they would have to face at least two or more Jonin this time.
In this world, ninja were exceedingly rare.
Even if the Five Great Shinobi Villages combined forces, while still maintaining enough manpower to defend their own villages, and added the samurai of the Land of Iron, they could only muster an army of eighty thousand.
Compared to the enormous population of ordinary people, the number of ninja was practically negligible.
Although ninja were the mainstream force of the world, very few people had truly witnessed the strength of a Jonin.
It was like how, when we first saw the battle between the Third and Orochimaru, we would inevitably underestimate the power of the First Hokage and Madara, thinking that the strongest force in the shinobi world was probably only at that level.
Although Gato had hired Zabuza, he had never seen Zabuza's true strength.
That was why he naively believed that