harleyscars Chapter 155 First Battle Against Rain Ninja
Chapter 155 First Battle Against Rain Ninja
Chapter 157 First Battle Against Rain Ninja
In the village of Heya, four Rain Ninja are on the move.
The attire of these Rain Ninjas is also quite different from that of other ninja villages.
Each of them wore a gas mask over their mouth, but their noses were exposed. The upper half of their faces were bandaged, with only their eyes showing. Their clothing was also unlike that of ninjas from other villages, which prioritized ease of movement. Instead, they wore a one-piece suit that covered them from their necks to their ankles, including their hands.
At the ankles, bandages were tightly bound together, forming a single piece with the shoes, clearly an outfit designed to minimize exposed skin!
The leader of the Rain Ninjas was standing next to a giant salamander over three meters long.
As the salamander breathed, purple poisonous mist continued to spill out. Villagers could be seen lying on the ground, their faces contorted in pain, while the other three were scavenging everywhere.
But just then—
A strong gust of wind swept through, dispersing the poisonous fog in the village.
"Oh no! Who's there?"
"Wind Release? Is it a ninja?"
call-
The four Rain Ninja immediately went on alert. Three of them, Chunin, immediately sank into the ground at the signal of the Jonin leader, leaving only their clones outside.
Then, the four members of the Red Stone Gang approached from the direction of the valley entrance.
"Konoha ninja?" The Rain Ninja then noticed the headbands of the four members of the Akaishi clan.
"Has the Land of Iron already joined forces with Konoha?" asked the leader of the Rain Village Jonin, Jangpu.
"No, we're just a small team transporting trade supplies—you're causing us a lot of trouble by damaging the supply point like this," Akaishi said matter-of-factly.
"Tch—you can go back now! Once our Rain Kingdom becomes the master of this place, we will still trade with you," the miasma wind said in a deep voice.
This statement was obviously not sincere.
He was just making it up casually; it would be even better if he could persuade the people of Konoha to leave.
However, Akaishi remained unmoved and said, "That's a matter for later. Our mission this time is this transaction."
"So you few newly-minted Chunin brats are ready to fight us?" Zhang Feng's eyes turned cold.
The four members of Akaishi all looked like children.
However, they were all wearing Konoha Chunin vests, so Zhangfeng could guess that these four kids were Chunin, and judging from their age, they must have just become Chunin recently. Because the Land of Rain did not participate in the Joint Chunin Exams, he did not recognize Akaishi and the others.
"Chunin?" A smirk appeared on Akaishi's lips.
"Could it be—" Zhang Feng's expression turned serious upon hearing his tone. Could it be that Konoha has such a young Jonin?
That's Konoha, where the promotion to Jonin is said to be very strict!
If someone this young is already a Jonin, they must be an absolute genius.
"Then you're wrong, she's a genin—from now on, no more wearing chunin vests, that's unruly!" Akaishi pointed directly at Yakushi Nonou and reprimanded her fairly.
Yakushi Nonou: ————
Yakushi Nonou remained silent, but Zhangfeng felt that Akaishi was humiliating them.
"Looks like you're really going to make a move?" Zhang Feng said, patting his ninja beast, the Salamander, to prepare it.
"We don't have to fight—" Akaishi said, then, seeing that the other party's attention was focused, he grinned and said, "We're just here to resupply, and now the people at the supply point have all been poisoned by you—so you can serve us and let us rest!"
"You're asking for death!" Zhang Feng was now completely certain that these Konoha ninjas had come to provoke him, and he patted his ninja beast, the Salamander.
Suddenly, the purple salamander raised its head and spewed out a large amount of poisonous mist.
Akashi was prepared. He quickly formed hand seals and then waved his Uchiha fan with his left hand, unleashing Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!
Faced with the toxic fog that had not yet accumulated, a C-level "major breakthrough" continuously dispersed the toxic fog.
Seeing this, Minato and Ranmai immediately rushed over with the wind, while Yakushi Nonou remained on guard.
Seeing these two little brats, one with blond hair and the other with white hair, actually charging towards him, a dignified Jonin—
"You're asking for it! I'm not a Jonin for nothing!" Miasma Wind roared angrily.
Although Zhang Feng knew that the qualifications for Jonin in the Five Great Hidden Villages were generally stricter than those in other ninja villages, especially in Konoha, where the qualifications for Jonin were even stricter than those in other Great Hidden Villages, he did not think that the two little brats were his match!
"If you don't want to leave, then don't. We'll leave the grain you're escorting behind!" the miasma said viciously.
At the same time, the three Rain Ninja Chunin who had been lurking nearby attacked simultaneously.
Suddenly, countless figures attacked Akaishi and Yakushi Nonou.
"A clone? That's really... a sleight of hand." Akaishi said disdainfully, and when he opened his eyes, they were already blood-red Sharingan eyes!
The next moment, Yakushi Nonou's chakra scalpel slashed, and all the clones surrounding her were cut in two.
but----
Unlike the "disappearance with a bang" of a typical "cloning technique," these clones, after being cut in two, also disappear like ink being cut in water. They are clearly just pure optical clones without any physical form.
At the same time, three Rain Ninja figures suddenly sprang out from underground around Akaishi!
"Die!"
"Let's deal with this brat who knows Wind Release first!"
"You were too careless—"
Most of the ninjas in Amegakure are skilled in Earth Release techniques.
The three Rain Ninjas had been slowly approaching using the "Earth Fish Reflection Technique" ever since Captain Miasma had started stalling for conversation.
After making their move, they first used "Oboro Clone" to confuse the enemy, and then launched a sneak attack on Akaishi!
"Echoing Fish in the Earth" and "Submerged Navigation in the Earth" are both ninjutsu techniques that allow one to move underground.
However, the difference is significant. "Fish in the soil" refers to lurking like a fish in hiding, moving only slowly and being extremely well concealed, with almost no disturbance felt on the ground. "Submerged in the soil" mainly involves softening the soil and moving rapidly underground.
The former is better suited for ambushes, but moves too slowly; the latter is fast, but is easily detected unless it remains stationary.
Three Rain Ninja launched a sneak attack, and three kunai pierced Akaishi's body almost simultaneously.
Click—
Akashi's figure also disappeared after being attacked.
"What?"
"not good----"
"It's a shadow clone!"
The sound was actually quite different from when a "shadow clone" disappeared, but the Rain Ninjas didn't have time to distinguish it because the two Akashi appeared around them and surrounded the three of them.
As soon as they appeared, the two Red Stones formed hand seals, and after only two seals, they stretched out their hands and made a heart shape with their hands towards the three of them.
The three Rain Ninja Chunin immediately showed expressions of fear, but before they could react—
Wind Release: Wind Blade!
Using the two red stones as the outer diameter ends, a ring-shaped wind blade instantly appeared and immediately retracted inward, covering the three Rain Ninja Chunin within its "retraction" range.
Swish, swish, swish—
Three crisp, clean sounds rang out, accompanied by a large amount of blood splattering, and the three Rain Ninjas were turned into six and a half Rain Ninjas.
Jiraiya and Orochimaru had already devised a plan that there was no need to leave these Chunin alive.
Akaishi had no intention of holding back.
The screams from the other side terrified Zhang Feng as well. Clearly, he had been frightened by Minato and Ranmai during their initial exchange, and so—
Earth Escape: Submerged in the Earth!
The miasma was fleeing on its own, and it was also about to dispel the spirit of the giant salamander, but—
Whether the miasma escaped or not is another matter. Just as the salamander was about to dispel its summoning and be sent back to the black pool near Amegakure, a purple, semi-transparent barrier suddenly rose up around it, sealing it off from top to bottom, like a cage that encircled the salamander.
Sealing Technique: Four Black Mist Formation!
Thud—
A voice signaling the end of the psychic summoning rang out, but little smoke appeared, and the giant salamander did not disappear at all.
Just then, Orochimaru, whose right hand was still forming a hand seal, stepped out from the side.
"I can't just let you leave like this," Orochimaru said, a smile of interest on his face, before stepping into his own seal.
The salamander seemed to sense the danger and began to stir within the seal, but it was unable to budge the seal at all.
The others showed no intention of chasing the miasma at this point.
This was a tactic that had been decided beforehand!
Orochimaru and Jiraiya remained hidden in the shadows, while the four members of the Akaishi gang made their move.
The Chunin from Rain Village can be killed directly; the main goal is to scare the Jonin away. Afterward, Jiraiya goes to track the retreating Jonin, while Orochimaru tries to see if he can keep the Salamander.
Salamanders are currently in high demand – Konoha, Sunagakure, and Iwagakure all need them – because the three great ninja villages are all trying to find a cure for Hanzo's poison!
Perhaps Hanzo hasn't noticed yet, or perhaps he has, but is still in his final frenzy—
Once the poison of the salamander is neutralized, the Land of Rain will immediately become a defenseless little girl surrounded by three strong men!
However, to detoxify the salamander, a large number of samples are needed, so the three parties have a "the more the better" demand for Black Pool salamander.
Normally, the moment the summoning is released, the ninja beast will return to its original position before being summoned. To forcibly restrain it requires extremely high skill in sealing techniques.
Theoretically, the raccoon dog could also do it, but it would require using the power of the four masks—Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise—simultaneously. For Chishi, the pressure would be too great; he could only hold on for a short while and it wouldn't make much sense.
Orochimaru, who was skilled in "sealing techniques," successfully intercepted the giant salamander and trapped it in place!
Meanwhile, Ranmai and Yakushi Nonou also began saving people once again.
The attack by these Rain Ninja should have been launched relatively recently, as most of the villagers are still alive. The toxin of the Black Pond Salamander is powerful because of its wide range and the inability of chakra to effectively suppress it, but its potency is slightly less, and it does not kill instantly upon contact.
Otherwise, the villagers would not have had a chance to escape outside.
Akaishi and Minato weren't idle either; both their main bodies and clones went to the surrounding area to move the poisoned villagers over, arranging them according to the severity of the poisoning, so that Ranmai and Yakushi Nonou could concentrate on saving people.