Night Owl thought his luck had been really good this time!
Not only had he run into Sasuke Uchiha right off the bat, but on the way out, he'd also unexpectedly encountered the real target of this mission, Shinji Uchiha.
As long as he captured Shinji Uchiha too, his mission would be complete.
Even the Akatsuki Organization wouldn't be able to find fault with him.
Shinji was even more surprised than Night Owl.
With his sensory abilities, he'd long since detected Night Owl and the others nearby, and had even activated his ocular technique to observe them in advance.
As it happened.
He was using 'Susanoo Lamp' to control a pair of Byakugan, so he'd switched to Byakugan mode to observe them.
What he saw was astonishing. The four ninjas wearing the uniforms of the interception team weren't just escorting a badly injured Sasuke; two of them also had Red Eyes, which Shinji had been secretly searching for all this time.
Red Eye wasn't a Konoha Kekkei Genkai, so that alone was enough to tell him that these four members of the interception team were impostors.
So he deactivated his ocular technique and sauntered over without a care.
Sasuke, slung over someone's shoulder, was extremely agitated.
He struggled with all his might and shouted, "Shinji, these people aren't really with the interception team! Hurry and fire the signal flare! There's no time!"
But with a strip of cloth tied over his mouth, all he could manage was a muffled "Mmmph, mmmph." No one could make out what he was saying.
There was no doubt about it.
After the fight just now, Sasuke knew that at least one of the four men disguised as members of the interception team was a Jonin. The other three were all above Chunin level and