"Uchiha brat, are you still refusing to surrender?"
Outside the Lightning Barrier, the Kumogakure ninja questioned Itachi Uchiha once again.
The Fourth Raikage, A, wanted a living Uchiha so they could better obtain his bloodline. Failing that, they at least had to keep the corpse intact while killing him, so they could later conduct experiments on those Sharingan or the Uchiha body.
If they simply blasted him to ashes with violent lightning now, he would lose all value.
In the eyes of the four Kumogakure ninja, he was still just a child. Faced with the threat of death, he would surely surrender to them.
Unfortunately, Itachi Uchiha answered the Kumogakure ninja's offer with nothing but an icy stare.
"You don't know what's good for you. In that case, turn to ashes along with your foolish companions."
Since surrender was no longer an option, the four Kumogakure ninja would not risk dropping the barrier to try and capture Itachi Uchiha alive.
No matter how great the reward was, they had to stay alive to claim it.
Just as the four Kumogakure ninja prepared to pour in their strength and wipe out Itachi Uchiha's group in one stroke, a series of whistling sounds drew closer.
"Shikotsumyaku: Ten-Finger Drilling Bullets."
At the critical moment, Kimimaro appeared from the side. Bone bullets shot from all ten fingers, flying straight toward the four Kumogakure ninja.
"There's another one? We have no choice but to abandon the barrier now."
Although the Lightning Barrier was extremely difficult to break from within, forcing its casters to stop maintaining it from outside would cause it to collapse on its own.
As the four Kumogakure ninja were forced to leave their positions, the walls of lightning that had been trapping Tayuya's group vanished into thin air.
"La la la la,