"Little Rin, take the client and fall back. Kakashi and I will hold them off." Seeing Kumogakure ninja charging toward them, Obito hurriedly said.
Nohara Rin was the weakest among them, so Obito instinctively assigned her the safer task.
Nohara Rin looked at Kakashi, who nodded as well. They couldn't focus solely on fighting and ignore the client. Having the weakest, Nohara Rin, protect the client while providing support was the best choice for now.
With everyone in agreement, Nohara Rin led the somewhat frightened client back a distance while gathering Chakra, ready to provide support at any time.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
Obito swiftly formed hand seals, gathering Chakra in his throat and performing Fire Release Chakra Nature Transformation. He spat out a massive amount of flames that formed a three-meter-wide fireball, which hurtled toward the charging Kumogakure ninja.
Although the Great Fireball had many shortcomings, its low consumption and high power made it an excellent opening technique. When they knew nothing about the enemy, using the Great Fireball as a probing attack was ideal.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!!
Kakashi flung out a large number of Shuriken, intending to use ninja tools to disrupt them and make it harder for them to dodge.
The four did not take the attack head-on. Instead, they scattered and each used the Body Flicker Technique to evade the Great Fireball, while drawing their weapons to block Kakashi's Shuriken before continuing forward.
"Those movements... none of them are weak." Kakashi let out a breath, feeling the pressure.
Though he did not have Appraisal Technique and could not directly see through the enemy's Chakra and Ninjutsu, Kakashi could tell from how the four responded to the attacks that they were no ordinary opponents. Not one of them was a genin.
Still, this was within Kakashi's