It was not only Uchiha Shisui's side that was fighting. Back at the sand dune where the group had originally stopped, Yamato and the others were fighting as well.
However, they had not split up again. Instead, the six of them worked together to deal with the Sand ninja coming from two other directions.
Perhaps because they considered that the true target of this mission had yet to show himself, Yamato and the others fought rather conservatively and did not bring out their real strength.
Even so, the Sand ninja who had gathered suffered no small losses.
There was no helping it. Compared with Yamato and the others, who were all elite Anbu, these Sand ninja varied wildly in strength. In the chaos of battle, one careless mistake meant death or serious injury.
The only things that let them keep holding on were the fact that they still had the advantage in numbers, and that their comrades from the other two directions were still on their way. Otherwise, they would have withdrawn long ago.
But they waited and waited, and the reinforcements never came.
At last, they realized something was wrong, and panic began to set in.
It was also at that moment that Qian finished off his last opponent and rushed back to this side.
From far away, a Sunagakure Jonin noticed him.
Immediately, his expression changed drastically, and he murmured under his breath, "How is this possible?"
As a leading Jonin who had carried out this ambush mission together with him, he knew a thing or two about Maeda Sachikawa's strength.
If the two of them went all out against each other, he might not necessarily have been a match.
But now, Maeda Sachikawa was actually dead, and he had been killed in such a short time, even