Without hesitation, he swung his weapon straight at Hidan's face.
Hidan seemed to react a little sluggishly due to the speed, but driven by battle instinct, he still subconsciously raised his weapon to block.
Only after Asuma's finger blades, imbued with Wind-nature Chakra, clashed against Hidan's Bloody Reaper Scythe did Kakuzu and Hidan truly react.
Although Hidan had blocked the strike, the sharp Wind-nature Chakra coating the finger blades still sliced a wound open across his face.
With the ambush clearly having failed, Asuma immediately stopped pressing the stalemate and turned to retreat.
How could the recovered Hidan possibly let him go? He immediately burst into mad laughter.
Gripping his scythe with both hands, he charged straight after Asuma.
The two exchanged blows, the clanging of metal ringing out without end. Yet at this moment, Asuma clearly held the upper hand.
Over that stretch of fighting, Hidan had not suffered any serious injuries.
However, several wounds had still been carved across his body by Asuma's sharp Wind-nature Chakra.
This made Asuma underestimate Hidan somewhat. Though Hidan was indeed quite strong in his eyes, worthy of being an S-rank Rogue Ninja,
he was still lacking by a little.
That let him breathe a slight sigh of relief. This situation was already quite good.
Now, he just did not know how strong the other one was, though he was probably a little harder to deal with than this one.
That was Asuma's true thought.
Sure enough, as though he had noticed Hidan struggling, Kakuzu immediately stepped in.
With a movement from him, his body was like a sack being torn open. Five strange, pitch-black creatures wearing bizarre masks emerged directly from within him and appeared in the sky.
The moment they revealed themselves, they let out soundless roars.
Kakuzu no longer hesitated