Soon, the medical teams from the various villages entered the Forest of Death.
Beneath a large tree in the Forest of Death.
Suigetsu tilted his head and panted. "This is ridiculous! Chojuro, did you see what happened just now? How'd I get sent flying?"
"I was flying too. I didn't see!" Chojuro replied, hanging from a tree and just as unable to move.
"Tch!"
Suigetsu spat in disgust.
Chojuro looked dejected. "Sigh, we lost so badly. Mei Terumi is sure to be disappointed in me!"
Suigetsu thought bitterly, My dream is to collect all seven Ninja Blades. How can I lose here? Damn Shinji Uchiha!
He was furious.
In his earlier clash with Shinji, he hadn't been nearly as pathetic as he'd seemed. He'd simply let his guard down, having seen Shinji fight several battles in a row and then watched Yakumo drive him into a desperate situation.
Whoosh, whoosh.
Just then, two Kirigakure Medical Ninjas arrived beside them and began treating them.
At the same time, Iwagakure's Medical Ninjas were digging through the sea of trees.
That's right—they were digging!
Although the sea of trees on the battlefield had long since gone dormant and turned back into ordinary trees after Yakumo stopped sustaining it with her Wood Release Chakra, Kurotsuchi had sunk so deep—nearly dragged down to the very depths of the forest by the vines—that it took several Iwagakure Medical Ninjas a great deal of effort to finally pull her out, unconscious.
The Iwagakure Jonin leading the team asked anxiously, "Is she all right?"
An Iwagakure Medical Ninja examined her and sighed with relief. "She's fine. She just lost too much Chakra and has temporarily passed out."
Only then did the Iwagakure Jonin remember that Wood Release could absorb Chakra, too.
Yakumo hadn't deliberately used that ability of