"Damn it, you've awakened it?"
Staring at Uchiha Jin's Sharingan, the Sunagakure ninja was completely dumbfounded, and even his voice began to distort.
But it was too late!
He froze on the spot, instinctively disrupting the Chakra within his body.
But in just one or two seconds, by the time he came to his senses again, Uchiha Jin had already sliced open his throat with a Kunai.
"You..."
He instinctively clutched his neck, but blood continued to spurt out. In the end, he could only collapse to the ground.
Uchiha Jin did not continue looking at him. Instead, he used the Body Flicker Technique to reach Nara Shikaichi's side and directly blocked the Sunagakure ninja in front of him. As Nara Shikaichi breathed a sigh of relief, the speed of his Hand Seals also increased slightly, and the Shadow Secret Technique took the opportunity to wrap around his opponent.
Seeing this, Uchiha Jin naturally did not hesitate any longer. With one Kunai, he crushed the man's heart!
Immediately afterward.
The two exchanged a glance without saying a word, then simultaneously went to support Kakashi.
With two companions joining him, Kakashi finally relaxed slightly. Without bothering to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, he charged forward again with his blade.
A minute later, the Sunagakure ninja died!
Only then did the three of them have time to look back, and their hearts sank to the bottom.
The casualties were far too heavy!
Although their squad had killed four men, the other squads could not withstand those elite Sunagakure ninjas. They had not even been able to delay them for long. Looking around now, corpses lay everywhere, and countless supplies had been destroyed.
"What do we do?"
Nara Shikaichi's expression was grim.
Kakashi flicked his short blade, shaking off the blood staining it. "We have to help."
"Yes, we have to help!" Uchiha Jin's eyes flickered. "Otherwise, we'll die too!"
"However, we don't have the ability to kill every Sunagakure ninja, so I suggest that we delay them as much as possible. The Distress Flare has already been launched, after all. The main camp at Kikyo Mountain can arrive in fifteen minutes at most."
The two had no objections.
Immediately afterward.
The three charged out again. This time, they did not fight with all their strength, instead conserving their stamina and delaying the enemy as much as possible.
The Jonin fighting the Sunagakure's powerful ninjas above also sent two men back to join the battle, barely stabilizing the situation.
Eight minutes later.
Two squads of Anbu, all composed of Jonin, arrived. Seeing this, the Sunagakure forces hurriedly began retreating, but they were still completely wiped out by the combined assault of both sides. They even captured the Sunagakure's lead Jonin.
Even Uchiha Jin's squad took advantage of the retreat and killed two Chunin.
"Collect the bodies and clean up the battlefield."
"Jonin Toyama Ryuichi, we'll leave this side to you. We need to bring the prisoner back."
The leading Anbu spoke in an icy tone.
Toyama Ryuichi naturally had no objections. Only after watching the Anbu leave with the prisoner did he issue an order to everyone. "Collect the bodies and clean up the battlefield within ten minutes. We need to head to the frontline camp as soon as possible!"
Everyone immediately began working. Uchiha Jin took the storage scroll he had been assigned and began collecting the bodies of the fallen ninjas.
Ten minutes later.
After finishing everything, Uchiha Jin looked at the battlefield filled with smoke and could not help letting out a sigh.
What a tragedy!
The people who had been alive and well just two hours ago had now lost their lives so easily.
Wait...
He suddenly saw an acquaintance—the same Omura Sawa who had been arguing with him earlier.
That guy was still alive?
However, seeing his bewildered, dazed appearance, as though his soul had left his body, Uchiha Jin shook his head and could not be bothered to pay attention to him. Clearly, he was just another ordinary person who had been frightened senseless by the battlefield.
This guy would either retire and become an ordinary person or die on the battlefield to come.
He had no other choices!
Besides, his luck was pretty good. In such a dangerous situation, he had actually managed to survive.
To be honest...
Uchiha Jin was even a little envious of him, because he still had the qualifications to retire.
"Of the five squads, only two are left."
"The three Civilian Ninja squads were almost completely wiped out. Of the other Ninja Clan squad, formed by the Inuzuka, Kurama, and Aburame, Kurama is dead, Inuzuka is seriously injured, and the only remaining Aburame also suffered quite a few minor injuries."
"Looking at it now, we're the only ones who still have a fully intact formation."
Uchiha Jin's tone was subdued.
Kakashi and Nara Shikaichi also grew heavy-hearted.
This was the battlefield!
One moment, their comrades were still laughing and talking with them. The next, they had become cold corpses.
"Jin, I don't think something's right!"
Just as Uchiha Jin was sighing with emotion, Nara Shikaichi walked over. "The Sunagakure forces arrived far too coincidentally this time. They aren't enemies we should have encountered."
Uchiha Jin froze for a moment. "Why?"
Nara Shikaichi spoke quietly.
"We're only the lowest-level transport team, composed entirely of Genin, and we're transporting nothing but the least valuable Ration Pills, Kunai, and Shuriken. We don't even have any Explosive Tags."
"A Sunagakure force composed entirely of elite Chunin shouldn't have attacked a team like ours."
"The cost-benefit ratio is far too low!"
Uchiha Jin was stunned for a moment. Then his eyes grew obscure, and his heart sank to the bottom.
As a transmigrator, he thought of two words immediately.
Danzo!
Whenever something bad happened and there was no obvious suspect, there was a high probability that Danzo was behind it. Especially since their squad had just swallowed a sum of money from Root.
And he was a member of the Uchiha clan, on top of that!
However, he did not say much. He only spoke quietly. "Be more careful from now on. I'll think of a way to deal with the rest."
"That... all right." Nara Shikaichi sighed somewhat helplessly.
To be honest, he did not believe him!
As a member of the Uchiha clan, enemies surrounded him wherever he looked.
Moreover, on the current battlefield between Konoha and Sunagakure, every Uchiha had been confined to Konoha. There was not a single Uchiha on the entire battlefield. Where could Uchiha Jin possibly find reinforcements?
But there was nothing he could do!
He was only a ninja with limited abilities, an ordinary member of the Nara clan who was not valued by his family. Aside from having a decent brain, he had nothing else. Otherwise, why would he have been assigned to such an ordinary ninja squad?
Those Nara clan members with connections, even if they could not form an Ino-Shika-Cho trio in their generation, would become part of the clan's private army and serve as a reserve force. At the very least, they could enter the Clan Business to help out.
So, sigh!
With a helpless sigh, he felt utterly lost about the future.
Two hours later.
The group finally reached the frontline camp, and Uchiha Jin's squad was assigned a tent of its own.
"First of all, you're not allowed to wander around the camp without permission."
"You don't need to worry too much. The camp is absolutely safe. Since you killed six Chunin this time, the C-Rank Mission reward can at minimum be upgraded to a B-Rank."
Takada Fujiwara wore a smile at the corners of his mouth, clearly in an excellent mood.
His squad's abilities were up to standard. Faced with a large group of elite Chunin, not only had the team not collapsed immediately, they had even killed six Chunin despite being Genin...
More importantly, they were all comrades!
They were teammates who could truly entrust their backs to one another. Even if someone did something out of line, they did not need to worry about betrayal.
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