Asuma raised his head and while looking at the countless ink birds swarming him, he laughed mockingly, “Have you kids come here to die as well?!”
“Do it now!” At this shout, all the ink birds circling Asuma and the others flew away, and suddenly a swarm of insects attacked the four members of the Akatsuki Organization.
The swarm of insects died the battlefield in a darker tone.
At the same time as Shino swarmed the battlefield with his insects, Tenten unfolded her giant scroll and shot countless Kunai toward the other three members of the Akatsuki Organization.
The sudden appearance of ink birds, insects, and Kunai made the battlefield chaotic.
Although Asuma and the others were psychologically prepared to face such a situation upon Kuroto’s prior warning, however, when they saw it really happening, they were taken aback, they had to admire the guts of these young kids for they dared to raise their weapons against enemies they couldn’t possibly hope to win, and the best part of all of this is their combined effort.
But even if surprised, they are Jonin, Special Jonin, and highly experienced Chunin, after all, so, as soon as they saw insects, ink birds, and kunai coming towards them, each of the waved hand signs and used their respective Jutsus to deal with the kids’ attack.
Asuma used his fire-style Jutsu to bun all the insects, and Anko dealt with the incoming Kunais using wind-style Jutsu, while Genma and Raido used their Kenjutsu skills to cut down all the ink birds attacking him.
At the same time, darkness covered her and the world around her changed, seeing this change of scenery, Kurenai smiled, “Using Genjutsu on me?”
Being a Genjutsu specialist, she immediately realized that someone was using Genjutsu on her, and being aware of the identities of all the children in the vicinity, she easily guessed who the person was, “So, you still have some fight left in you, the little girl of the Kurama Clan?!” said Kurenai as she flared up her chakra and broke out of it.
After breaking out of the Genjutsu, Kurenai dashed towards Yakumo.
Her most Powerful Genjutsu was so easily broken by Kurenai, Yakumo was tired and vulnerable at this moment, and seeing the member of Akatsuki coming towards her, she panicked, “Not good!” and closed her eyes, in fear, afraid that she would die.
But the expected pain did not come, confused, she opened her eyes and saw Kurenai standing still with something pink wrapped around her, restricting her movements, and as she turned around to look at the person responsible for this, she noticed Mika standing behind her with her hair stretching out and tying Kurenai.
Kurenai looked at Mika with a thoughtful expression under her mask and asked, “So I take it that you can stretch your hair?”
Rock Lee nodded, “Got it Neji-san!”
Kiyomi nodded, “I understand, Neji-kun!”
“Tenten, Shino-san, Sai-san... cover us!” Neji shouted towards Tenten as he and Rock Lee jumped out of bushes and attacked Asuma.
Tenten and Shino nodded and once again used their respective methods to cover Neji and Rock Lee.
Rock Lee came from below and made a low kick which was easily dodged by Asuma by jumping up in the sky, but the moment Asuma jumped up, Neji used ‘Eight Trigrams Vaccum Palm!’ while in mid-air and attacked Asuma, keeping him busy, and not giving any opportunity to rush forward, in doing this, Rock Lee assisted Neji to the best of his abilities.
And while Rock Lee and Neji kept Asuma busy, Kiyomi came towards Sasuke and helped him get up, “Sasuke-nii-chan... are you all right!?”
“Kiyomi?!” muttered Sasuke, slightly surprised at the sudden turn of events.
As Sasuke had the chance to get up again, Neji jumped to his side, and asked, “Sasuke, you can still fight?!”
Neji’s thoughts are extremely clear. He knows that although many students are there to help them out, no one is strong enough. Therefore, the only possible method they can use to stall Akatsuki long enough is when he and Sasuke work together, therefore, Neji questions Sasuke if he can still fight or not.
Before Sasuke could reply, someone appeared on his other side, and said with a chuckle, “The prodigy of the Uchiha clan won’t be defeated so easily, right?”
Neji and Sasuke looked at the person, and it turned out to be Mika, the girl from Hinata and Shion’s team.
Surprised, both of them looked in the direction of Kurenai and found that Yakumo, Kiba, and Sakura were keeping a watch over her by pointing their Kunai at her.
Mika flicked her fingers to attract Neji and Sasuke’s attention back to her, and said, “So what do you two say? Shall we work together to defeat them? Both of you know as well as I do, that we stand a better chance of defeating him if the three of us work together, after all, three of us are the strongest here.”
Sasuke and Neji couldn’t see the depth of Mika’s strength, however, they could feel that she was indeed as strong as she said, so both of them nodded, “Yes... let’s defeat them together!”