Healing

"Brat! You're too arrogant! Die!"

Four Explosive Tags appeared in the ground around Uchiha Yuu. Shuiyun leaped into the air, his furious roar venting the anger in his heart:

"Never experienced a real ninja battle? Let me show you how the Uchiha Clan truly fights!"

"Explode!"

"Boom!"

The four Explosive Tags detonated at once. The massive shockwave from the blast obliterated everything nearby. Uchiha Shuiyun landed on a nearby tree and quietly waited for the smoke to clear.

"Confident little brat..."

Seeing no trace of anyone within the smoke, Shuiyun laughed. No human body could withstand such a violent explosion.

"Ha ha ha!"

"Is it really that funny?"

Uchiha Yuu's voice came from behind him. He admitted that he had been overconfident just now. The instant he blocked the Fireball Jutsu, he caught sight of the Explosive Tags flying in from outside during that brief opening and immediately understood Uchiha Shuiyun's plan.

At the critical moment, he used the Bird Clone Technique.

Besides his one Radiation Crow, he still had several expendable ones circling overhead.

That last-second substitution allowed Uchiha Yuu to escape disaster.

Shuiyun's laughter came to an abrupt stop. He could not believe the other man had survived the explosion.

In an instant, Uchiha Yuu appeared behind him. At that moment, their positions had completely reversed.

A palm landed on Shuiyun's body, and the searing heat made him scream.

Then he began vomiting blood. He wanted to sacrifice an arm to save himself, but the radiation of uranium gave him no chance to react.

"Senior Shuiyun, I won in the end."

Looking down at the corpse on the ground, Yuu had to admit that anyone chosen to escort supplies had some skills.

"I nearly capsized in a ditch."

Their battle did not affect the overall situation. The ninja on both sides remained locked in a stalemate, and it would be difficult to determine a victor anytime soon.

However, from a distance, Uchiha Yuu could see that Konoha's ninja held a slight advantage in their battles.

Using secret techniques passed down by the major clans, Aburame Hanfeng unleashed his Kikaichū, which could devour the enemy's chakra and left Salamander Pufferfish wary of acting rashly.

Blocked from attacking, Salamander Pufferfish widened the distance between them, sliced open his palm, and lines of text appeared around him.

"Summoning Jutsu!"

As a special summoned beast of the salamander clan, he also had a salamander!

Among summoned beasts, salamanders were a particularly formidable species. Their bodies were covered in deadly poison, and they could release lethal toxic gas.

Thick purple poison gas spread across the battlefield. Some insects that had rushed forward moments ago fell into the gas, and Aburame Hanfeng lost contact with them.

"Everyone, be careful! Don't touch the salamander's poison!"

The other Amegakure ninja also summoned salamanders. Under the influence of the purple poison gas, the fighting ninja quickly began retreating.

"This is troublesome."

Sunagakure's Elite Jonin clenched both fists. It was impossible to know how much of this batch of supplies would be damaged.

"Wind Release: Vacuum Great Sphere!"

The poison mist was even more effective than the Hidden Mist Technique. Even with Wind Release, it would be difficult to disperse it in a short time. Left with no choice, he led Sunagakure's ninja to join up with Konoha's ninja.

Moreover, salamander poison did not distinguish between friend and foe. Amegakure's ninja possessed a certain resistance to poison, allowing them to reduce its effects in the salamander's toxic mist. Yet after watching the enemy ninja retreat, they did not choose to engage them.

"Change strategies! Forget killing the enemy ninja! Destroy the supplies around us!"

Obviously, under this strategy, the Sunagakure ninja had no choice but to fight their opponents to the bitter end. Otherwise, every bit of the supplies being transported this time would be ruined!

After paying a certain price, Amegakure's ninja looked at the remaining supplies and inwardly lamented their misfortune. They had not managed to destroy all the supplies, so they used the spreading poison mist to leave the battlefield.

"Damn Rain Ninja! Sunagakure will not let you off!"

His roar echoed through the forest. With the damaged supplies and the casualties, he had failed as the leader of the team.

"Take inventory of the supplies! I will report this to Lord Kazekage. Amegakure will definitely pay the price!"

Konoha did not feel much about it. This battle had primarily been between Sunagakure and Amegakure. Other than Aburame Hanfeng being targeted by Salamander Pufferfish, the remaining ninja had only tangled with the enemy at the outskirts.

When he noticed that Yuu had reappeared and bore signs of battle, Aburame Hanfeng inspected him. Only after confirming that he was uninjured did he finally relax.

"This was a planned attack. We still don't know whether more Amegakure ninja will appear, but your reactions in battle were sharp."

Aburame Hanfeng rarely spoke so much. More than anything, he was afraid that if Uchiha Yuu died during the mission, the Aburame Clan would likely have to bear pressure from both the Uchiha Clan and the Hokage faction. Even a Jonin was powerless before such colossal forces.

"I know my limits when it comes to fighting a Jonin."

Yuu returned to the group, but that did not mean he had nothing to do.

After the battle, nearly everyone was injured. Uchiha Yuu needed to treat their wounds.

Among them was a severely injured Sunagakure ninja with a kunai lodged in his chest. Pulling it out recklessly would likely kill him on the spot.

"Don't move. Leave the rest to me."

Yuu pressed a hand against the man's chest. On a battlefield, being stabbed in the chest by a kunai almost certainly meant death. It was better to make one last desperate burst before dying and take an enemy down with you.

Uchiha Yuu was fortunate that the injury was not in the man's heart, but in the middle of his lung. The kunai had entered at an angle and lodged in the bone. Combined with the timely end of the battle, that was why it had not claimed his life.

At that moment, a group of ninja watched Uchiha Yuu's procedure. In particular, Sunagakure's Jonin needed to record the entire process and assess the value of a medical ninja.

He carefully sealed the area around the wound to prevent massive bleeding, then slowly pulled out the kunai.

The instant blood seeped out, pale green chakra energy radiated from his hand. When it fell upon the wound, the injury visibly vanished at a rapid pace.

If not for the bloodstains left on the ground, who would have believed this had been a severely injured ninja?

The Sunagakure Jonin's pupils contracted as he stared at the scene in shock. Although the other villages knew Konoha was developing Medical Ninjutsu, training medical ninja was simply too difficult, and their own efforts had ultimately come to nothing.

"No wonder Konoha sent a Jonin from a great clan to personally protect you. At certain times, you are even more useful than a Jonin."

Once he returned to Sunagakure, he had to report what happened today to the Kazekage. Fortunately, Sunagakure had some foundation. With Lady Chiyo's help, they might be able to develop Medical Ninjutsu as well.

"The wound has healed. All that remains is rest."

"Oh, and don't use any ninjutsu for a while. It could cause internal bleeding."