Mikoto Was Scared Half to Death

Blood trickled from Inuzuka Gaku's mouth, and his eyes had turned into spirals. He had clearly passed out.

Uchiha Mikoto was so frightened she almost wet herself.

The force of that blow had truly been terrifying.

Fortunately, it had struck Inuzuka Gaku while he was covered in a chakra cloak. If it had hit an ordinary ninja, it would have punched straight through their body.

Mikoto felt that if she had faced that fist herself, she really would have been scared into wetting herself.

A cold sweat instantly broke out over her entire body, soaking all her clothes.

But it was not over yet. Only one had been taken down; there was still the other one.

Mikoto immediately turned to look at Uchiha Kurohane. Inuzuka Gaku's coordinated attack should have arrived any moment now.

But after waiting for a while, she did not see the attack she had expected.

Just as she was feeling puzzled, the smoke from the fiery explosion gradually dispersed.

She then saw the other Inuzuka Gaku. It had reverted to the form of a large yellow dog and lay listlessly on the ground, its eyes also turned into spirals.

A large patch of fur on its back had been scorched black, and more than a dozen large craters surrounded it.

Mikoto immediately understood what had just happened.

Knowing he could not evade Kurohane's enormous Fire Release attack, Inuzuka Gaku had used his ninja hound as a shield, sacrificing it to evade Kurohane's attack.

Then, he had used Fang Over Fang to launch a sneak attack on Kurohane.

But his final attack had been too reckless. Perhaps after his ninja hound fell, he had panicked and forgotten about Kurohane's Crow Substitution Technique.

But even if he had not forgotten, he had no other options.

That was a