"Please present your mission scroll. We need to verify whether you completed your mission," the Anbu member said coldly.
"That's against protocol," the lead shinobi said gravely.
"These are Lord Hokage's orders."
The lead shinobi caught glimpses of figures darting about out of the corner of his eye and frowned.
This mission couldn't stand the light of day.
But if the Anbu had actually been dispatched...
"I need to see the Hokage's Handwritten Order and the Hokage's Seal."
"That won't be necessary."
Just then, a figure stood higher above them, looking down at their squad. He raised a hand and waved it at them.
"Eliminate them all."
The Anbu would never have such orders.
"You're Root!!" the lead shinobi shouted angrily, revealing the Sharingan in his eyes. Six members of the ten-person squad revealed their Sharingan, while the remaining four looked in shock and uncertainty at the Anbu ninja steadily surrounding them.
"Good that you know. Don't go after the wrong people later," the shinobi above said coldly. Blue-black flames formed a bow in his hand, and flame arrows rapidly took shape on it.
"Hyuga Akira of Root!!"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!! He fired flame arrow after flame arrow. Arms kept growing from Hyuga Akira's body, leaving afterimages as they rapidly drew bows and fired.
The flame arrows became a curtain of fire sweeping down from the sky.
"Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame!!"
Three Uchiha shinobi spewed out vast quantities of flame. The three streams formed a wall above their heads, but they had underestimated the power of the flame arrows.
The arrows forced their way straight through the wall of fire.
"Everyone!! Scatter!!" At the lead Uchiha's command, everyone scattered, fleeing outward at speed.
But several Root members immediately blocked their paths.
The four ordinary shinobi had only just started