With a depressed mood, Shisui wearing his Cat Anbu mask led the Shadow Clone that changed into the appearance of Hyuga Kuroto's Eagle Anbu guise and quietly returned to the Mansion where the Kumo delegation was officially staying at.
Currently, only two Kumo ninjas were left here while the rest followed Kumo's Jonin searching for Watanabe.
"Sigh, I was a step late!" – Cat frowned noticing that both Dog and Monkey were no longer in their position, implying that they too went in search for Watanabe.
Since it was a team task, and considering that the mansion Kumo envoys were staying in is pretty large, so Team-11 was divided into two teams, with Eagle and Cat in one team and Dog and Monkey in the other.
And since both Dog and Monkey are now gone, it could only mean that they went to search for Watanabe, shaking his head helplessly, Cat sighed, "I hope Kuroto-San wouldn't be blocked by the Captain Kakashi and Guy-San…"
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In the forest beyond the outer wall of Konohagakure.
Suijin, who was stopped by Dog and Monkey Anbu folded his hands over his chest and chuckled, "You two, are you really confident that just the two of you can stop me!?"
Being provoked by Suijin's words, Monkey couldn't stomach his desire to fight.
"Calm down!" – But before he could move, Dog blocked him halfway while his eyes remained on Suijin.
The dog didn't rush to start the battle but first asked tentatively, "Who are you and why to kill Kumo's head ninja?"
"Heh, doesn't Konohagakure claims to be the strongest of the five great shinobi villages, so figure it out and find the details about me yourself!" – Dog wanted to speak something but was interrupted midway by Suijin who spoke after a pause with a soft chuckle, "You know it is useless to stall time and wait for the reinforcements to arrive because the result isn't going to change any better!"
When Suijin said that, Dog didn't wait anymore and immediately started printing hand seals and shouted, "Earth Release: Multiple Collapsing Earth Style Walls!"
Boom…
Instantly, Suijin was surrounded by walls from the four sides, the walls kept coming closer as if they intended to trap and kill, Suijin within it.
With the enemy's sight blocked, Dog again printed hand seals in coordination with the previous ones, Snake – Ram – Monkey – Boar – Horse – Tiger: "Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
The fierce great fireball technique spurted by Dog shot towards the sky above the four earth walls.
With the speed at which Dog printed the hand seal, there was almost no break between the two ninjutsu, the intention of releasing the great fireball technique were naturally so that the moment the enemy tries to escape out of the siege of the collapsing four earth style walls, he would be burned to a crisp by the blazing hot fireball.
But unfortunately for Dog, Suijin has the Byakugan, so at the moment, Suijin was able to understand Dog's plan based on the hand seals and Chakra flow.
Therefore, he didn't make any attempt to jump upwards do to escape out of the siege of the collapsing walls.
Instead, he made the hand seals at the same time as Dog and shouted in low voice,
"Water Release: Water Severing Wave!"
Splash…
A thin high-speed jet of water was sprayed out of Suijin's mouth and like a sharp knife, it easily cut through all the collapsing walls in small boulders.
At this moment, the sound of flicker echoed, and instantly Suijin ducked sideways to avoid the incoming kick from Monkey.
Boom…
The heavy kick, Monkey made was avoided by Suijin and since the kick was avoided, so Monkey rapidly kicked the rock boulders towards Suijin.
Between the incoming flying rock boulders towards him, Suijin's figure flickered and flashed across multiple points, dodging the rock pieces, the speed was so fast that it almost left multiple after images behind as he rushed out of the thrashed walls.
Suijin didn't choose to entangle with Monkey in close combat, the reason for this is simple, his Water Clone body is not as proficient in taijutsu that it could compare with Might Guy whose keenness in close-quarter taijutsu is so high that it's almost inexplicable, sometimes it makes him wonders whether Might Guy has some special ability that gives him insight comparable to that of a fully matured Sharingan, which is almost unreasonable.
With the embedded Sharingan in his left eye, Dog saw that Suijin rushed towards him, and he made no pause as, after just a few hand signs, dazzling lightning flickered with a piercing sound.
Chiiiiiiiiiirp…
The sharp sound of thousands of birds singing echoed throughout the forest as Dog also rushed towards Suijin.
Almost at the same time, the two figures rushed towards each other, their speed so fast that it seemed that they were teleporting.
Drip…
After the two figures passed each other, Suijin looked down and found that his arm was lightly rubbed by Dog's Chidori as a result of which, his sleeve was cut and a light trail of blood dripped down to the ground along the cuff.
On the other side, Dog staggered a few footsteps and half-kneeled on the ground as he coughed out blood from his mouth.
Monkey noticed that Dog was injured and instantly rushed towards him and asked with concern, "Are you okay?"
Dog nodded but his left hand was still tightly clutched over his abdomen while the right hand had some blood over his fingers!
At this time Suijin turned around and looked down at Dog and Monkey and said with an impressed voice, "Unexpectedly, you were able to hurt me!"
Gritting his teeth, Dog stood up and once again repeated, "I said previously, you won't be able to escape!"
"Are you sure about that? It looks to me as if you are quite hurt a lot internally, you may try to cover it by putting on a tough guy act, but these water fists are quite damaging!" – Said Suijin as he lifted his hand to show the water present over his hand.
Suijin's attack was a bit similar to how Slug Sannin Senju Tsunade's Chakra Enhanced Power works, however, it's also quite different from her style as instead of pure chakra that causes overall damage, Suijin uses high-pressure water that revolves around his fist directly inflects internal injury when using it with conjunction to the Byakugan's prowess.
"It doesn't matter, my injury is nothing, with the two of us here, you have no way of getting past us!" – said Dog, as he drew out his kunai and took the fighting stance.
"You said it, my friend, this is the way to go, we will not let the likes of you people let the youth of Konoha be wasted, now it's time for us to go full throttle and show them what Konoha Shinobi are capable of!" – Shouted monkey as he drew out the nan-chaks.
Looking at the two figures before him who were ready to fight to the death here, Hyuga Kuroto in his Suijin disguise was in a trance and suddenly remembered his ninja academy days.
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Hyuga Patriarch's Mansion, in the Hyuga Clan grounds.
Hyuga Hiashi was sitting on a Zabuton and leisurely sipping tea while he was busy with some thoughts.
After hearing about what happened, the shocked Hyuga Hizashi hurried to his brother's mansion and noticed that the elder brother was calmly sitting, sipping on tea and busy in some thoughts, seeing this Hizashi was a little relieved and asked hurriedly, "What happened, why did Kumo delegation search through our clan grounds!?"
Upon being broken out of his thoughts, Hiashi sighed lightly and said, "Sit down, and have tea first."
Hizashi curtly sat down and poured himself some tea and took a sip.
But before, Hiashi could begin explaining, a shinobi of the Hyuga Clan appeared outside the room and said, "Patriarch-Sama, I have received the news, that the Kumo delegation and leading Anbu Black Ops found the leader in a forest zone near the eastern outer wall, the news states that the Kumo Head ninja Watanabe was attacked by a mysterious man!"
Hiashi nodded and ordered, "Continue investigating!"
"Yes!" – with that said the ninja disappeared.
However, Hizashi who sat on the side was shocked, since, Hiashi had ordered for any information about the even to not be spoken, nobody dared to explain to Hizashi therefore, the younger sibling was clueless and spoke hurriedly, "What, the leader of Kumo delegation was attacked by someone in the village!?"
Again, before Hiashi could begin explaining, another member of the Hyuga Clan appeared outside the room with the latest report, "Patriarch, the latest news, chasing Anbu failed to capture the mysterious man, and the other party seemed to have escaped past the outer wall!"
"Alright, continue!" – Hiashi nodded
Hearing this news, Hiashi sighed in relief and thought silently, 'Fortunately, Kuroto-Kun took care of the matter, otherwise, things would have become very problematic!'
If the body of Watanabe was to be found within the Hyuga Clan territory, then the consequences would have been unimaginable, and the Hyuga Clan might have got involved in the disaster.
However, Hizashi didn't know the story behind and he stood up hurriedly and stated, "Damn it, I'll go after him!"
Hiashi who had just taken a sip of tea lifted his cup and stopped Hizashi, and at this time another Hyuga ninja appeared outside the room with the report, "Hiashi-sama, Hokage-sama, himself has gone to hunt down the mysterious man responsible for attacking and killing Kumo Head Ninja!"
Puuufffff...
Hearing this news, the mouthful of tea was spat out in a panic…
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