Can't Beat the Old Ones, So You Go After the Young?

Qian Ye watched, completely absorbed.

More than twenty Trident Kunai carpeted the canyon, and every time Minato appeared, he positioned himself exactly where his enemies were most uncomfortable.

He clearly lacked overwhelming chakra and had no large-scale ninjutsu that covered the battlefield, yet Chiyo, Dodai, and Yugito Nii together were still being led around by him.

That was what made the Flying Thunder God terrifying.

It was not because it made one fast.

Rather, once its formulas were set, the entire battlefield became Minato's chessboard.

Just as Qian Ye thought this, he heard Chiyo order everyone to focus their fire on him.

"Kill him!"

The remaining Hidden Cloud elites turned at once.

Lightning intertwined across the sand, poisoned Senbon rained down from above, and more than a dozen Kunai sealed off both sides.

Yugito Nii opened her mouth, rapidly gathering blue flames within.

Qian Ye's eyelids twitched wildly.

Holy shit.

That old woman really had no sense of honor!

She could not beat Minato, so she went after the wounded?

He was only twelve, and he was still a Genin!

Qian Ye wanted badly to stand up and curse at them, but the moment he exerted his legs, waves of sharp pain shot through his muscles.

Releasing all his kinetic energy earlier had nearly drained him dry.

Pakura pressed a hand onto his shoulder.

"Don't push yourself."

Qian Ye looked up at the attacks filling the sky.

"Easy for you to say."

"If that barrage comes down, there won't be enough intact bones between us to piece together."

Pakura raised her hands, bound in Chakra Suppression Shackles.

Most of her chakra had been sealed, and she could not even form a single Scorch Release fireball.

The two Hidden Leaf ANBU had also lost their ability to fight head-on.

One had