"You pick someone who can represent you and come negotiate. Choose carefully. If we're not satisfied, we'll kill the hostage."
Seeing them stop as expected, Tamura Hiroshi shouted again, signaling that he was willing to negotiate. His words made the Sand Ninja and Iwagakure Ninja breathe a sigh of relief.
Even the Sand Ninja didn't want the Tsuchikage's Son to die here. If that happened and war broke out, they would be in trouble.
After all, even the Kazekage had gone missing, and people in the village had already begun vying for the position. If Iwagakure attacked now, Sunagakure might actually be wiped out.
"What's your name?"
Huangtu had been casually tossed to the ground. He glared up at Tamura Hiroshi, his face dark.
He had actually lost. It was true that he'd been ambushed, but a loss was still a loss.
"Akimichi Hiten!"
Tamura Hiroshi calmly gave a name. He couldn't hide the Expansion Jutsu, so rather than let them investigate and draw attention to him, he might as well use an alias. He could leave it to Choza and the others to handle afterward.
"Akimichi Hiten!"
Huangtu committed the name to memory. He would remember it for the rest of his life. Next time they met, he would defeat him and avenge this humiliation.
"Can you hold on?"
Tamura Hiroshi looked at Inoichi Yamanaka, whose face had gone pale, and asked with concern.
"I can."
Inoichi nodded, then took a syringe from his ninja pouch and injected its contents into Huangtu's neck.
As the Tsuchikage's Son, Huangtu was bound to know vital intelligence about Iwagakure. They'd finally captured him, so they naturally had to make the most of the opportunity.
The drug in the syringe was designed to support their clan's secret technique. It would suppress Huangtu's consciousness