The two remaining Mist Ninja looked utterly hopeless.
They glanced at Kisame beside them, and hope flickered across their faces.
"Lord Kisame, save us!"
They clung to Kisame as their last hope and cried out desperately.
But Kisame did not move.
He did not know what Juzo Biwa was planning, but he knew he had no reason to oppose him.
After all, Kisame was not one of Juzo Biwa's targets, was he?
Kisame Hoshigaki intended to stay out of anything that did not concern him.
"Kisame Hoshigaki! Juzo Biwa! Are you two betraying Kirigakure?"
Seeing Kisame Hoshigaki stand by, the two remaining Mist Ninja assumed he was working with Juzo Biwa.
Furious, they shouted at the top of their lungs.
"No. I haven't betrayed Kirigakure. Killing you doesn't count as betraying it," Juzo Biwa said with a cruel smile.
"What? You mean..."
The two Mist Ninja stiffened, despair spreading across their faces.
They had jumped to the wrong conclusion: they thought the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura, had ordered their deaths.
Juzo Biwa paid their thoughts no mind. He quickly finished off the two ninja, who fought desperately to the end.
After killing them, Juzo Biwa slung the Kubikiribōchō across his back again.
"Lord Juzo, don't you have anything to say?"
Kisame looked at Juzo Biwa as he spoke.
"Nothing. I'm just curious why that lord took an interest in you," Juzo Biwa said, looking at Kisame.
"That lord?" Understanding dawned on Kisame's face.
He knew he had been swept into some unknown conflict, but there was nothing he could do to resist.
Just then, the space behind Kisame split open like a great hole, and the Uchiha Yin Wood Clone stepped out of it.
"Master." Juzo Biwa promptly knelt before the Wood Clone.
The Wood Clone nodded in satisfaction.
Kisame realized