"Heh... heh... cough! Cough, cough, cough!"
With one hand braced against the water behind him and the other resting on the knee of his raised right leg as he maintained Water Walking, Chiba sat with his left leg folded atop the surface, breathing heavily and coughing softly from time to time, spitting out water streaked with blood.
Even if my body is tougher, it can only be so much tougher.
There's already some internal bleeding.
Watching the blood seep into the water and slowly spread out, Chiba revealed a faintly bitter smile.
"Pop... pop-pop... pop, pop, pop..."
As the blood spread, ripples began to expand across the water around where Chiba sat. Open scrolls slowly floated up from the bottom of the lake, bobbing on the surface around him.
Good thing I still had these things I'd been saving...
But this time, I used all of them in one go.
They were, after all, Ninjutsu Scrolls I had stockpiled before. The Water Style Ninjutsu I had obtained outside the village was still rather pathetic. Fortunately, since I had once felt that Water Style Ninjutsu consumed too much Chakra, I had painstakingly sealed away quite a few techniques like the Great Waterfall Technique and Water Dragon Bullet Technique—and there were plenty of them. Otherwise, even with so many Water Style Ninjutsu Scrolls, there would have been no way to produce such a powerful Water Style Ninjutsu.
Nor would I have been able to burst through that S-rank Earth Release Jutsu.
I probably really would have been trapped inside for quite a while. By then, Obito's plan would have succeeded.
Yet as he watched more and more blank scrolls float up, a trace of relief flashed across Chiba's lips.
These blank scrolls had originally been hidden through miniaturization in another concealed Ninja