"Leaf Strong Whirlwind!"
With a blood-pumping roar, a green afterimage slammed into the encirclement of Nine-Tails split bodies like a cannonball.
Might Guy's signature bowl cut gleamed in the firelight. His spinning kick carried a wind pressure that tore through the air, instantly sending three split bodies that had tried to ambush Itachi flying.
"This is youth! Itachi!"
Guy landed and struck a thumbs-up pose, his teeth flashing with dazzling light.
"Though I don't know what happened, as long as it's to protect the village, I, Might Guy, will not shirk my duty!"
"And us."
Asuma Sarutobi had an unlit cigarette clenched between his lips as his hands formed seals.
"Fire Release: Ash Pile Burning!"
A large mass of scorching ash sprayed from his mouth, instantly enveloping several split bodies on the right. Then he bit down, and a spark ignited the ash.
Boom!
The violent explosion blasted those split bodies to pieces.
Kurenai Yuhi, Genma Shiranui, Namiashi Raidō... the elites of Konoha's younger generation poured into the battlefield from every direction as if they had planned it.
Itachi, who had been fighting alone, instantly felt the pressure on him drop sharply.
"Kakashi-senpai." Itachi looked at the silver-haired youth beside him and gave a slight nod.
The Lightning Cutter in Kakashi's hand was still crackling. His exposed dead-fish eye swept across the battlefield, his expression grave.
"Don't get careless. These things aren't strong individually, but there are too many of them, and their chakra is corrosive."
Just as Kakashi said, although reinforcements had arrived, the battlefield was still chaotic.
Ninja from different clans fought on their own, ninjutsu flying everywhere, and there were even near cases of friendly fire.
"Hey! You using Fire Release! Watch it! You almost burned my insects!" a ninja from the Aburame Clan complained.
"Don't block