Several Rat Tail Balls gleaming with blue light streaked across the sea, rapidly growing larger in Shiroi's suddenly constricting pupils.
"Yugito Nii, you!"
His roar was swallowed by the explosions. The Rat Tail Balls struck the Kumogakure boat's mast with precision, blasting the wooden structure into splinters.
"Abandon ship!"
The Kumogakure ninja whom Yūto had knocked down repeatedly grabbed Shiroi's arm. The two had barely jumped into the sea when a second Rat Tail Ball tore through the bottom of the boat.
Seawater surged furiously through the hole, twisting the entire boat into a V shape as it sank at a rate of five centimeters per second.
With chakra coating the soles of their feet, the Kumogakure ninja stood on the sea and charged toward Yūto's large ship, only to be driven back by Rat Tail Balls and Yūto's Phoenix Flower Jutsu.
After several minutes of fierce fighting, the Kumogakure ninja began running low on chakra.
The weakest among them could no longer even maintain Water Walking and needed his companions' support to barely keep from falling into the water.
Shiroi gritted his teeth in fury. He had never expected Yugito Nii to turn against them.
He had no idea what had possessed her to follow Yūto. Was it because that Uchiha was handsome?!
The Kumogakure ninja's sorry state delighted Yugito Nii. Clutching her stomach, she laughed at the bedraggled lot not far away.
"Yūto, you bastard, look! They look like a bunch of drowned rats!"
Yūto gave Yugito Nii a startled look.
Girl, those are your comrades!
You came from the same village as them!
He reminded her helplessly, "Yugito Nii, do you still remember that you're from Kumogakure?"
Yugito Nii's smile froze on her face. She stared blankly for a while as Yūto's earlier promise came back to