"Master, my Sharingan can't see through this thick fog!"
"What should we do?"
As the flood from the Great Waterfall Technique receded, Uzumaki Kuming slowly lowered his arm, and the golden Chakra sank back into his body. Uchiha Itachi, Kakashi, and the others stood back-to-back behind him, warily watching the fog around them as they asked in hushed voices.
Itachi sounded remarkably calm. Though they were still in danger, the boy was already showing impressive qualities as a ninja.
"It's fine. This is just a little trick."
"What we need to worry about isn't this."
Kuming said quietly as he quickly narrowed the range of his Mind's Eye of the Kagura, limiting his sensing to a radius of one kilometer. Within that range, even with the Hidden Mist Technique interfering, he could clearly sense all the Chakra around him.
Within his sensing range, Kuming "saw" the Mist Ninja scattered throughout the woods, concealed among the trees. Even in the thick fog, they had cleverly hidden behind obstacles without making a sound.
Four or five meters ahead of Kuming, a Mist Ninja was slowly approaching them, gathering Chakra as he walked.
"This feeling..."
Kuming thrust out a hand and fired a Lightning Arrow toward the Mist Ninja. The deep purple lightning quickly vanished into the fog.
"Who is that now?"
The Mist Ninja's Chakra felt unfamiliar; he hadn't appeared in Kuming's sensing range before. What's more, the amount of Chakra within him was enormous—so immense it could only be called terrifying.
The newcomer was no ordinary Jonin.
"Water Style: Water Shark Bullet Technique!"
The air suddenly rippled, and the thick fog in front of Kuming and the others briefly parted. The next second, several water bullets shot out of the mist and hurtled toward them.
"What can a technique of this