Clink, clink, clink.
"The Yellow Flash doesn't seem like much!"
A man wearing a tight white short-sleeved shirt and a black vest appeared on a hill.
He held a strange long sword. Just moments ago, he had used it to knock away every shuriken Minato Namikaze had thrown, moving with incredible speed.
Hearing the enemy belittle him, Minato wasn't angered. He simply smiled.
"Who are you?"
"Raiga Kurosuki! But you don't need to remember my name. All you need to know is that today, I'll use this blade to give you a beautiful funeral."
Minato raised an eyebrow. "Raiga Kurosuki, one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and wielder of Thunder Blade: Fang?"
Orochimaru stepped in front of Minato and slowly walked forward.
"One Ninja Blade isn't enough to impress me. Unless all the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist are here, tell the others to come out too!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a large group of ninja appeared atop the hills formed from the surrounding sand and earth.
At a glance, there were well over a hundred of them.
Genin and Chunin made up the majority, but more than a dozen of them exuded a powerful presence!
They had gathered in such numbers to surround and kill the twelve Konoha ninja!
Orochimaru smiled ominously and licked his lips.
"With so many of you, you must really think highly of us!"
A weathered voice rang out in the distance, then drew closer.
"Orochimaru, whose bounty on the black market is a whopping ninety million ryo, is certainly worth our attention!"
A masked man walked to the front. His mask covered only half his face, just enough to hide everything below his eyes.
At the sight of him, Gong Yi's heart skipped a beat, though he remained