Just as both girls left the room, they ran into Shino and Kiba, with the former confirming what Hinata saw.
As usual, Shino ordered his insects to form a perimeter around them, and it was in this way that the young man's insects detected several presences surrounding the establishment, with one stronger presence among them.
It was an overwhelming presence.
Shino remembered that his insects had once detected the Third Hokage's chakra signature. But this presence was even greater than that of his village leader, and Shino was terrified that someone so powerful was coming toward them.
Normally Shino was like other members of the Aburame clan, who remained silent and few things surprised them.
But this time the gravity of the situation could be felt by perceiving the nervousness of the young Aburame.
"Let's get out of here"
"Shino, guide us to a route with fewer enemies."
Kurenai quickly gave several orders to the team and together they ran towards the direction indicated by Shino.
"High…"
The group quickly encountered a man, whose eyes widened in surprise and who tried to stop them.
But Kurenai was faster and trapped him with a Genjutsu for a few seconds, which was enough for Kiba to hit him with a powerful Garouga.
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Shoji was a ninja from the Cloud Village, who, despite being 30 years old, was still a genin.
The man was not skilled enough for promotion, and at 25 years old, knowing that his potential had been exhausted, he decided to take on a long-term mission.
He wasn't strong enough to expect to rise through normal methods by taking on dangerous missions.
If he wanted to advance, he had no choice but to accept the mission to venture into the territory of the land of fire and serve as a spy for his village.
Just by being here I already gained some merit points, needing only 10 years to accumulate enough to get promoted to chunin.
But if he obtained important information or achieved something remarkable, his merit points would skyrocket and the years he would need to be here would be drastically reduced.
Unfortunately, he had already been in the land of fire for 5 years and realized how difficult that was.
Valuable information didn't fall from a tree, and he didn't have the strength to dare to do remarkable things within the land of fire.
Shoji was already prepared to spend the next 5 years inside the land of fire.
What he didn't expect was that suddenly a very important mission had fallen into his lap.
All he had to do was capture a young Hyuga girl and he would gain enough merit for his promotion.
Shoji didn't care about the young woman's fate after she was captured by her village. All he cared about was his advancement and not staying in the Land of Fire any longer.
Unaware that his companions also had the same opportunity, Shoji was already hoping to capture the girl and gain the approval of the Raikage, who was personally leading the operation.
But again his spirits were dampened when, during the meeting before the mission, he received the order to wait outside the inn along with other companions, at the back of the building where the target was staying.
How could he gain more merit if he stayed out?
The Hyuga girl would be captured by her companions and he would get nothing.
But Shoji didn't dare contradict an order in normal times, much less now that the Raikage himself was going to lead the operation.
He could only obediently take his place and watch as the others moved into the building.
That's why, although he was surprised when he saw his targets running in his direction, happiness flooded him and he quickly gripped the kunai in his hand and charged forward.
"Stop!" Shoji shouted and stood in front of the 4 people and a large dog.
And just as he was preparing to give a speech…
Shoji suddenly found himself trapped between the roots of a tree.
"¡Garouga!"
The last thing Shoji saw was a silver flash spinning rapidly before he felt himself running out of air.
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"¡Garouga!"
Kiba's figure spun around at full speed and crashed hard into the enemy ninja, whose body seemed to have been petrified for a second, sending him flying with a huge bloody hole in his chest.
The man definitely would not survive.
"Let's go!"
Ignoring that he had just ended years of hope, Kiba shouted for his team to follow him.
Team 8 followed behind Kiba, and the four people and a dog ran at full speed across the rooftops, hoping the enemies weren't coming after them.
They didn't know exactly who their pursuers were or what they wanted, but it was better not to stay to find out.
Besides the fact that the enemy outnumbered them, the existence of someone far superior to them did not make them think about staying and fighting.
According to Shino, they had no chance, and Kurenai decided to believe him.
Guided by Shino's insects, Team 8 had exited through the back of the inn, avoiding most enemies and only encountering one enemy during their retreat, who was caught by Kurenai using Genjutsu and easily dispatched by Kiba.
He didn't even need Akamaru's help.
"There they are!"
Unfortunately for them, a group of more ninjas appeared behind them and began to follow them at full speed.
¡Bzzzz!
The first to act in Team 8 was Shino, who ordered his insects to attack their pursuers.
The small insects were almost indistinguishable in the darkness of the night, with the noise of their wings capable of instilling fear in anyone.
And to attack efficiently, the insects spread throughout the area, forming a large network to attack the approaching ninjas.
Meanwhile, neither Shino nor the rest of Team 8 dared to linger and continued running, disappearing among the rooftops of the tallest buildings.
The enemy outnumbered them, and confronting them head-on was not a good idea.
Especially in a civilian area, where many people could be harmed.
"Lightning Release - Lightning Network!"
But unlike Team 8, their pursuers didn't care about the well-being of the civilians in the area and unleashed a Lightning jutsu.
The insects of the Aburame clan were known throughout the Shinobi world.
Leaving aside the possibility of being poisoned and having their chakra drained, being devoured by them was not a fate they wanted to receive.
Therefore, they acted quickly.
The combined jutsu froze almost all the insects in a second, but it didn't stop there.
The enormous network of lightning continued its course.
The few houses along the way had no more floors, so they were spared and avoided the power of the lightning network.
But the building in its path, which had more floors in height, was not so lucky and was hit by the powerful combined jutsu.
¡Crack!
The network of lightning easily passed through that building and the next one, which had a similar number of floors, and then traveled another 20 meters before disappearing into the air.
If the following buildings had been taller, they would have suffered a similar fate.
¡BOOOOOM!
And the next sound that was heard was of the two large structures collapsing on themselves and affecting the adjacent houses.
"¡Aaaaaaaaaah!"
Screams of fear and pain were heard in the darkness of the night, but that didn't matter to the cloud ninjas and they continued the chase.
What's more, more ninjas appeared and joined the chase.
Team 8 also heard the commotion and was able to guess what had happened.
But they couldn't do anything.
They couldn't just surrender like that. They were going to defend themselves.
And when they do, the destruction of the surrounding area will be worse.
The only thing they could do was run away from the place and attract the enemy ninjas.
As they ran and passed dozens of buildings along their way, Kurenai took a quick look back.
The sight of the approaching pursuers froze his heart.
The pursuers were slowly closing in; at this rate, they would catch up in a minute.
Clenching her teeth, the woman made a decision.
"Shino," the woman said as they ran, and she knew she had the young man's attention because of the movement of his head.
"I'm appointing you as team leader..."
As they ran, Hinata and Kiba also paid attention to their sensei's words and clearly heard them.
Kurenai didn't need to finish speaking for them to guess what she was going to say.
"Take your companions back to the village, that's an order."
"Sensei, NO!" shouted the two young men, not happy with their sensei's words.
And although Shino didn't shout like his classmates, the young man was also against it.