After Li landed in the direction Hinata had indicated, Hinata immediately jumped down from the giant bird and began quickly searching through the snow. Before long, she dug a kunai out of a snowdrift. It was not impossible for a kunai to have been left behind in a place like this.
However, Li noticed that a tiny doll, about half a finger tall, was tied to the kunai's pommel. It looked very much like something meant for a girl. Of course, at most, it could only be used as a girl's toy; using something like that during a mission was a serious violation of the rules.
Not only would it severely affect one's accuracy, but worse still, it could easily expose one's identity.
Li looked at Hinata's expression. "Is it Hanabi's?"
Hinata nodded lightly and slipped the kunai into her bag. At that very instant, as Hinata turned her back, Li could not help frowning. Though he had not clearly seen her exact movement, judging from her shoulders, she was about to make a sharp turn.
And Li could roughly guess that with that turn, Hinata would stab the dagger in her hand toward his throat.
Oh? Why would Hinata attack Naruto? From Li's perspective, Hinata should have been deeply infatuated with Naruto. Even if something had happened, she should not have attacked Naruto so directly, should she?
Just as that thought flashed through Li's mind, Hinata struck. Without a moment's hesitation, the kunai in her hand stabbed toward Li's throat. Yet Li did not move. In his eyes, an attack like Hinata's was no different from child's play. A ninja was, in the end, only a ninja.
Perhaps in this world, ninja were incomparably powerful beings, but Li could only scoff at that.
Li wanted to see what Hinata