Natsu Hyuga really was taken by these Kumogakure ninja...
Looking at Black Pine, Xue Ge found his suspicions confirmed. When he saw Natsu Hyuga waving at him, he greeted her in return.
He was calm enough, but Afui was about to lose his mind.
What was going on... He had only just left, and the mission target had already been intercepted?
How had someone caught up so quickly? Had their movements been exposed long ago? But if so, why had only one person come...?
And the speed of that attack just now-was that slash faster than sound a Wind Release technique?
"You're not getting away!"
Afui turned back, preparing to shoot Black Pine down with ninjutsu. At the same time, he saw a translucent blue-green slash hurtling through the air straight at his head.
After leaping clear of the slash, Afui saw that it had carved a fissure a meter wide and an unknown number of meters deep into the ground.
If someone took one of those slashes head-on... probably only Lord Raikage could come out unscathed.
With that thought, Afui looked toward the source of the attack, where the enemy who had just shot down one Ninja Hawk and summoned another stood.
A very young-looking, one-armed boy stood lightly on tiptoe atop the tree canopy, looking down at him.
"No chasing."
...A boy?
Looking at the marks on the ground, Xue Ge roughly estimated the power of his Imitation Water Release: Righteous Piercing.
As expected, it was far inferior to the genuine Water Release: Righteous Piercing. The original could probably have blasted out a huge crater. His current imitation could split a human body in two like a Vacuum Blade, but against the ground, it fell far short.
Its power was much lower than the Rasengan's. Its advantage, however,