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The speed at which Akira turned his face caught all three parties completely by surprise.
"Just like that, he flipped on us?"
Killer B was still holding a bloody kunai in his hand, his expression vacant.
"This brat is seriously shameless," A cursed silently.
He told them to kill him with the front foot, and now he wants to kill them with the back foot?
How can anyone do that?
"Konoha's ninjas are so cunning," Kitsuchi desperately wanted to yell, but when the words reached his lips, he swallowed them back.
He thought he was on the same side as Akira, but in the end, he had miscalculated.
"This brat turns his face and doesn't recognize anyone."
Baki and Pakura's hearts were pounding; they sensed imminent danger.
"Are you ready?"
As the sound of a death sentence rang out, Akira put his hands together again.
Snap!
"Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence!"
He shouted in a low voice, and the ground began to tremble violently.
"Run!"
A slapped Killer B, and the two took off in a frantic blur.
Lightning Release instantly surged over them, and the two increased their speed to the absolute limit, kicking a hole right out of the ground.
Then.
The two brothers jumped off the cliff.
Baki and Pakura followed closely, heading towards the edge of the mountainside.
"Jump!"
Without the slightest hesitation, the two also leaped down.
Zzzz...
A large number of trees broke through the ground and grew at an extremely fast rate.
"Retreat!"
Kitsuchi's reaction was a step slower, and he was green with regret.
He hadn't expected that brat, Akira, to act the moment he spoke.
By the time he retreated, Cloud Shinobi and Sand Shinobi had already jumped off the cliff.
Fortunately.
The mountainside was not a large area.
Leading his confidant to avoid the oncoming branches, the two also jumped off the cliff.
All three waves of enemy forces ran away.
Akira stopped the casting of Wood Release.
Seeing the figures rushing down the mountain, he did not pursue them.
Down the mountain.
"Brother! That brat Akira is so stupid; he didn't even use Taijutsu."
While running wildly, Killer B didn't forget to insult the brat.
"Do you think he genuinely wanted to kill us?" Ay reminded him.
In A's opinion, if Akira really wanted to kill them, he would definitely use Taijutsu (physical combat) instead of Wood Release.
Because the mountainside area was not large, Wood Release couldn't maximize its damage.
"Ah? Then what was he doing?"
"I'm afraid, it was just to test his Wood Release..."
On the other side.
Baki and Pakura also realized this issue.
"Why did he use Wood Release? If he used Taijutsu, we wouldn't have been able to escape at all," Pakura was full of doubts.
"I don't know," Baki shook his head.
They were well aware of Akira's speed; even if he chased them now, he could still catch up easily.
But clearly, he didn't.
Rock Shinobi side.
"Lord Kitsuchi, did he let us go on purpose?"
"It should be," Kitsuchi felt irritated.
Because he realized a crucial problem.
Konoha now had two Wood Release ninjas.
And.
Akira's strength was definitely more than just that.
"The A-B duo clearly had an encounter with Akira before, but they were equally miserable with his Wood Release."
"This suggests that Akira has mastered far more than Wood Release and has other means."
In the misty white fog, Team Minato looked towards the hidden village.
Vaguely, sporadic explosions could be heard.
There were even occasional flares.
"It seems that Kirigakure really is in trouble."
Akira muttered to himself.
He didn't believe what the Hōzuki elder said, but he had come to the mountaintop to see for himself.
"In this situation, even if we found evidence, it would be meaningless," Minato Namikaze sighed.
"Yes."
Just as they had judged earlier, even if they found evidence that Madara was secretly controlling Kirigakure, the Mist Village could completely shift the blame onto the defeated civil war faction.
In this way, instead of affecting Mist Shinobi, it would only stabilize the winner's position.
"It's not a coincidence; it must have been orchestrated by Uchiha Madara."
Akira secretly guessed.
He never believed in coincidences, only in the principle that "when things go wrong, there must be a ghost."
"Sensei, is this mission a failure?" Obito leaned over and asked.
"That's right! But it happened for a reason, and I will explain it to the Third Hokage," Minato Namikaze wasn't overly concerned.
On the way back.
Akira had been thinking.
He had a feeling.
"For this mission, I must have overlooked some important information."
After thinking for a long time, he couldn't put his finger on it.
"Am I overthinking?"
Touching his chin, Akira simply decided to let it go.
Shore.
"You managed to come back alive?"
When the boatman saw Team Minato return to the shore safe and sound, he was surprised.
In the past, he had smuggled many people to the Land of Water, but no one ever came back.
"Maybe we're lucky," Minato Namikaze smiled and boarded the boat with Team Minato.
The dense forest of the Land of Waves.
While Team Minato was running through the jungle, an unexpected person appeared.
"Orochimaru?"
Seeing Orochimaru standing in front of them, Team Minato immediately became alert.
Akira put his hands in his pockets and glanced at the Sannin.
"Minato, I'm here waiting for you."
Orochimaru's voice was hoarse, and he didn't seem to hold any malice.
"Orochimaru, you are now a traitor to the village, and I have the responsibility to arrest you," Minato Namikaze looked serious, and a handful of kunai appeared in his hand.
"Arrest me? This is merely a Clone of mine," Orochimaru said dismissively.
A Clone?
No wonder.
"You waited for me here deliberately. What is the matter?" Minato Namikaze asked, frowning.
"I'm just here to ask you why you blew up my lab."
"I didn't blow it up," Minato shook his head.
"Not you?" Orochimaru's tone intensified slightly.
Subsequently.
His eyes turned to Akira.
"Akira, since it wasn't your Sensei, then was it you?"
"Huh?"
Akira was taken aback.
How did this get blamed on me?
"Do you have proof?"
"I'm curious, why do you say it was me?" Akira asked back.
"Because you are the only one who has been close to the laboratory," Orochimaru stared at Akira, as if trying to discern something.
"Then have you ever considered that Danzō did it?" Akira casually threw the blame onto Danzō.
"Danzō? It couldn't be him!"
"Why is it impossible?"
Akira continued: "If I had to guess, it must have been Danzō! First, he drove you out of Konoha, and now he's targeting my Sensei."
At this point, Minato Namikaze's assistance arrived.
"Danzō really has been looking for trouble with me."
The field.
Orochimaru was lost in thought.