In terms of the "general world situation," Kirigakure had indeed lost the will to tend with Konoha, because they simply couldn't pete.

  But this didn't mean that Kirigakure wouldn't send ninjas to secretly infiltrate the Land of Fire.

  And this infiltration couldn't be said to be Kirigakure overestimating themselves, or that Kirigakure was aggressive. This was because about a year ago, Kirigakure (not subjectively) did something stupid.

  It was like this. At that time, the war between Kirigakure and Konoha was still in full swing. But the hard power of both sides was clear. Uhe circumstahat they couldn't defeat Konoha on the front lines, Kirigakure came up with a terrible idea... They casually captured a Konoha ninja, then stuffed the Three-Tails into him. , they po trol this jinchuriki to return to Konoha and release the Three-Tails, directly blowing up Konoha.

  The idea was beautiful, but the jinchuriki was killed ierritory of the Land of Fire. Thus, the pn to destroy Konoha failed, and at the same time, the Three-Tails died and was lost.

  In the current ninja world, it was difficult to define whether tailed beasts were positive assets ative assets, but there was no doubt that they were assets that major powers and major ninja vilges must possess.

  So the Three-Tails had to be found. This matter was very important.

  Although a dead tailed beast might revive anywhere in the world, because the Three-Tails died in the Land of Fire, the most likely pce for it to revive was still the Land of Fire. And a dead tailed beast could revive in as little as one or two years, s this period, Kirigakure had beely sendie squads to the Land of Fire, in order to capture the revived Three-Tails at the first opportunity.

  Here was Kirigakure's exceptionally elite squad, and there was Konoha's outing rookie team. See, what a ce?

  Because of their ages, Habara could only reize two of the four oppos. One was Juzo Biwa, because he was carrying a "big cleaver" on his back. The other one was the baby-faced Yagura. But even if he only reized two, Habara made the judgment that he had to escape.

  Even a ninja like Juzo Biwa could be ignored, but Yagura's strength was really extraordinary... The future Mizukage, although he looked only fourteen or fifteen years old, his actual age should be between thirty and fifty. For Habara and the others, his strength was off the charts.

  In this situation, there was o seek the kind of retreat that maintaihe squad formation like when Habara first went to the battlefield, because it was meaningless. At this time, they should scatter like birds as, and see who was lucky enough to escape.

  After Habara called out Yagura's identity, everyone in the Konoha squad was a little stunned. Everyone didn't uand why ninjas like them would enter a Mizukage didate. However, everyone khat Habara couldn't lie about this kind of thing.

  So Captain Hayasegawa, who had just been shouting about eliminating the enemy, immediately issued another order that was pletely opposite to the previous oeams owo, and three, go all out to stop the enemy! Execute the order!"

  After issuing the new order, this guy turned around and ran, without the slightest hesitation!

  It had to be said that this was a correct order, because when everyone uood what kind of person the captain was, no one would obey his orders anymore. Whether they would be punished by Konoha afterwards was a matter for ter. Now they had to sider whether they could survive. So at this time, everyone instead obeyed Habara's words, and they began to scatter and flee.

  And judging only by the facts, Konoha had no reason to punish these ninjas, because the ander fled the battlefield first.

  The four-man Kirigakure team watched the Konoha ninjas scatter and flee with great i. In their view, this struggle was futile. With their strength, there was no way they would allow this group of Konoha ninjas to escape.

  "Why did somenize Lord Yagura?"

  "Isn't it normal for the enize Lord Yagura?"

  The two you people in the Kirigakure squad said oence each.

  "Don't get too distracted. Don't fet our mission... Don't leave any survivors." It was still Yagura who was more stable, knowing that even those kinds of enemies had the possibility of leaking their intelligence.

  Juzo Biwa grinned. "The bat power of Konoha genin often fluctuates uably. We must be extra careful when dealing with them. However... We don't o be careful with these ninjas, do we?"

  Before he finished speaking, Juzo Biwa took off the Kubikiribocho hanging on his bad charged straight towards the fleeing Konoha ninjas. And the person he was chasing was Habara.

  Obviously, this wasn't a random choice. Who told Habara tnize Yagura's identity?

  Juzo Biwa quickly ran across the surface of the water, his tall figure slightly lowered. He dragged the long sword beside him. In an instant, he arrived behind Habara, and then swung the big sword in a sweeping motion towards Habara.

  The sound of rushing wind behind him made Habara turn his head sharply. He extended his left arm and actually met the bde of the big sword directly with his palm.

  Panig? C death?

  However, at this time, Juzo Biwa felt as if the air in front of him had solidified. He hadn't hit the enemy at all, but instead seemed to have hit a piece of high-esticity polymer rubber!

  The momentum of the big sword suddenly stopped, and then it suddenly rebounded with almost twice the force. Juzo Biwa couldn't help but follow the rotation of his body. It wasn't until the big sword rotated half a circle and deeply embedded the back of the bde into a tree on the side.

  At the same time, Habara quickly spun around. The mercury longsword in his right hand had already taken shape. He pressed down on the enemy's kh his left hand, and his right sword tilted upward, the tip of the sword with its chilling aura already pointing at the oppo's neck.

  Habara really wasn't afraid of enemies who simply pyed with swords!

  However, just as he was about to aplish the feat of instantly killing a jonin, anure quickly appeared behind him.

  The other party was incredibly fast, to the point that Habara had to ge from attack to defense.

  He raised his right arm horizontally, trying to block the oppo's attack. The iron c on his right arm held up against arange-looking big sword that was sshing over in a suspended manner.

  However, even though Habara blocked the big sword, he still didn't block the oppo's attack.

  A blue and full chakra aggregate quickly magnified in front of Habara's eyes, and then Habara was smashed away by a fierce hammer blow.

  Hiramekarei Release!

  The enemy who rushed in front of Habara again was the young Hozuki Masu, and at this age he could already wield the twin swords, Hiramekarei. He was truly a genius who could skillfully use seven ninja swords.

  At this time, Juzo Biwa naturally realized that the strength of the enemy just now was very unusual, so he loudly reminded his teammates: "Be careful, this guy's casting speed is incredibly fast!"

  Wasn't it incredibly fast, because Habara didn't use seals at all.

  "I see!"

  After Habara was fiercely knocked away, his back smmed into a tree. Then, it was as if something on his back had been squeezed and burst, and a thick mist instantly burst out, spreading in the forest ahead.

  The mist was white at first, and then instantly turhick white.

  In order to buy time for Daigo to escape, Habara had to use an exceptionally insidious teique, ohat could even injure himself if he wasn't careful.

  "What is this? Smokes?"

  "No!"

  "It's mercury, mercury vapor!"

  "Get back!"

  After realizing what reading in front of them, Juzo Biwa and Hozuki Masu had to retreat back to the surface of the ke again.

  Yagura had to agree with what Juzo Biwa had just said, the strength of Konoha ninjas did indeed fluctuate greatly.

  "You three stay here and deal with this person. I'll go deal with the other Konoha ninjas!"

  Things weren't as easy as imagined. If this tinued, it was really possible that some Konoha ninjas would successfully escape, so Yagura also had to take a.