Within a small oasis.
The Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, suddenly opened his eyes. "They're here!"
The eight Sand Ninja scattered around the area immediately looked in every direction, but they found no trace of the enemy.
Rasa raised his head and looked at the cloud floating overhead.
"That cloud—it's Asuma!"
Shagin, captain of the Kazekage guard, cried out in alarm.
At that moment, the cloud drifting above the oasis transformed into Asuma, accompanied by a piercing, shrieking sound of friction.
Scorch Release Rasenshuriken!
"Scatter!"
Rasa shouted. In a flash, the Sand Ninja scattered, using the Body Flicker Technique to vanish from the oasis.
The Scorch Release Rasenshuriken descended from the sky and erupted less than twenty meters above the oasis. It rapidly expanded into a massive sphere of light, engulfing the entire oasis in the blink of an eye.
Rumble!
The tiny oasis was instantly vaporized, then swept away by the storm and reduced to a barren wasteland.
The scorching storm swept up the yellow sand, turning into a sandstorm that surged in every direction and obscured more than ten li of land.
When the storm subsided.
Rasa and the others regrouped, but only four of the eight-man guard remained.
"I can no longer sense the others at all!"
Shagin's expression was grim.
Clearly, while the storm had swept through, Asuma had already taken out the other four.
"A Shadow Clone? Or Hatake Sakumo and the Yellow Flash, Namikaze Minato?"
Rasa looked at Asuma in the sky, feeling that this Konoha brat was truly troublesome.
His ability to float in the air like the Third Tsuchikage was extremely difficult to deal with.
"No, Hatake Sakumo probably isn't here. Namikaze Minato... is he alone?"
Rasa analyzed the situation at high speed. At the same time, Gold Sand shot into the sky and