"Enemy attack!"
Blood sprayed from the neck of the shinobi Killer B had killed, spattering the faces of the Konoha shinobi around him.
"Yeah! My blade's still sharp. Time to cry, you fools!"
Killer B pulled out his blade and spun. It swept through the other shinobi in a blur, leaving only one member of the six-person squad alive in the blink of an eye.
By then, Ishikawa had reached the Konoha battlefield inside a bubble. It burst, and he stepped out. "Give the two Uchiha Mangekyo wielders a message. If they don't show themselves, we'll keep killing."
The surviving Konoha shinobi glared at them with hatred. "No Konoha shinobi fears death. If you think I'll carry your message, dream on!"
A bubble suddenly appeared around him and carried him into the sky, where it drifted on the wind.
Black acid filled the bubble. In an instant, it turned opaque, then burst. Only a trickle of black liquid fell from it.
More bubbles appeared, enclosing the shinobi Killer B had killed and carrying their bodies into the sky.
"We can follow these bubbles," Ishikawa said. "When the Konoha shinobi see their dead comrades, they'll come to help. Then drawing out Uchiha Jin and Uchiha Hitoshi won't be difficult."
By afternoon, Killer B and Ishikawa had killed quite a few Konoha shinobi. Meanwhile, at Konoha's Command Headquarters...
Fugaku was staring at a map of the Land of the Moon when an intelligence officer hurried in. "Sir, two formidable fighters from the Cloud-Mist Allied Forces have appeared. They've killed many of our shinobi."
"Describe them."
"One uses a long, narrow blade. The other releases a great many bubbles with every attack."
Fugaku thought for a moment and knew who they were.
"Where are Jin and Hitoshi?"
"They're intercepting Allied Forces squads in