All he could do was ask, "When are we making our move?"
"I don't know." Hatake Sakumo stared coldly at Hanzo of the Salamander, his gaze seeming to pierce through the earth.
"Do you remember what the Hyuga Ninja said at the beginning? That the ones who appeared here were the Salamander and his guards?"
"But look now—do you see any guards?"
"Or perhaps they were never his guards at all, but Water Clones. We can't even be sure whether his Water Clones are moving around. Apart from the poison glands you mentioned, some of the opponents fighting us right now might be Body Flicker illusions created by clones."
"He's too fast to react! His Taijutsu is powerful, too. He's a ninja with no weaknesses."
The Akimichi Clan jonin shrank back down—
He'd been struck by a vicious slash. Not only was he gravely injured, he'd also been poisoned. That forced him to return to his original size and inject himself with an antidote.
When it came to Taijutsu, Hanzo was simply too strong.
As for ninjutsu, Hanzo was a Water Release master, and the battlefield was now the kind of environment where he excelled most. Rainwater covered the ground. Only Lightning Release could be particularly effective, but Lightning Release users were among the rarest in the entire Shinobi World, and those who knew Lightning Style Ninjutsu were rarer still—
They couldn't compete with him in ninjutsu or Taijutsu.
Unless—
Genjutsu.
"Go to hell!"
Orochimaru was the first to use Genjutsu!
But Hanzo broke free almost instantly.
It still didn't work!
"Don't underestimate a samurai's will, you bastard!" He sneered and vanished again.
The ninjas went on alert once more.
This time, with no Hyuga Ninja and no Yamanaka Clan ninja, they had almost no way to counter Hanzo of