Receiving the Convoy

A black shadow flashed past, and Fugaku killed the Cloud shinobi lying on the ground in the blink of an eye.

"Since you came to the Land of Fire, you should have been ready to die here," Fugaku said softly, looking at the corpse.

He turned and hurled a kunai. In an instant, it flew toward the face of a Cloud shinobi who had just leaped up to retreat.

The Cloud shinobi hastily raised his weapon and knocked the kunai aside. When he looked up again, Fugaku was already beside him.

A kunai pierced his throat.

The four Uchiha members attacked with all their strength.

The twenty Cloud shinobi were soon wiped out. Many had lost their nerve from the start.

In a fight between ninja, once someone lost the will to press forward, they could not bring even seventy percent of their strength to bear.

Several Cloud shinobi were killed by the four while trying to retreat.

Fujimoto shook out his arm. "These Cloud shinobi had some skill. If Fugaku hadn't killed their captain first,

we'd probably have been fighting for a while longer. Wiping them all out wouldn't have been easy, either."

"Of course Fugaku is strong. If he hadn't joined this assassination, we might have been exposed when we faced the Konoha Supply Team.

We certainly wouldn't have been able to wipe out this Cloud shinobi raiding party," Uchiha Jin said.

Once they had dealt with the bodies, a Fire Release ninjutsu burned the battlefield beyond recognition.

Even a ninja skilled in reconnaissance would find no clues if they came to search it.

Body Flicker Technique.

Four figures vanished into the forest. Only four dark shapes could be vaguely seen weaving between the trees, each with a slowly spinning pair of Sharingan.

In the darkness, their scarlet