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Akira Tsubaki's plan was simple: send Baki and Pakura to the front line to threaten the Sunagakure commander.
At this time, Mitarashi Anko approached.
"Akira, you can give them both to me!"
"Leave it to you?" Akira Tsubaki smiled.
"That's right! My Sensei is Orochimaru, the village's frontline commander!" Mitarashi Anko looked proud.
In this way, the credit goes entirely to their master and apprentice.
Thinking this, Mitarashi Anko was already imagining the praise.
"You're talking nonsense," Akira Tsubaki directly refused.
"Huh? Aren't you going to send these two to the front line? It seems your Team Minato mission is to rebuild Supply Station No. 3?" Anko couldn't understand.
I'm clearly helping Team Minato, so why did Akira Tsubaki refuse?
Akira Tsubaki had his own plans.
Sending them was necessary, but who should receive them?
He was certainly not going to let an outsider take the credit.
"Rin, send the signal!"
Turning his head to look at Rin, Akira Tsubaki was about to call for backup.
Swish!
The signal flare lifted into the air, exploding in a mass of red flames.
Now, Mitarashi Anko was a little anxious.
"That flare will call off the other manhunt missions…" Anko froze at this point.
She understood.
Akira Tsubaki was waiting for Namikaze Minato; he wanted to give the credit to the leader Sensei of Team Minato!
"I'm warning you, you'd better hand these two over to me, or I'll ask my Sensei to transfer you to the front line!" Anko stood, hands on her hips, and began to threaten.
"Your Sensei?"
Akira Tsubaki smiled.
If it were before, he might have feared Orochimaru's power. But now, Orochimaru should be afraid of him. Soon, Orochimaru would be on his knees singing Conquest.
Therefore, Akira Tsubaki didn't care about Mitarashi Anko's threat.
The only issue was that the frontline commander might change soon.
Mitarashi Anko was sulking.
But no one paid her any attention.
What Team Minato didn't understand was why Ibiki Morino (Kiki) ran to Fukui Fumio's body and stabbed it a few times with a Kunai.
Seeing this, the two captured Sunagakure Ninjas frowned.
"If we want to escape, now is the last chance," Pakura whispered.
"That brat is too close to us. Even if we tried, we wouldn't escape," Baki glanced at Akira Tsubaki and replied.
If they didn't escape, at least the two of them were still alive. If they ran, the brat would certainly kill them both.
"Then what should we do? Just wait to be sent to the front line?"
"Wait for an opportunity."
Support arrived.
But what Akira Tsubaki didn't expect was that it wasn't Minato-sensei who came, but three Root Ninjas wearing masks.
"Huh? Sunagakure's Bloodline Limiter, Scorch Style Pakura, and the other is Baki?"
As soon as they appeared, the three Root Ninjas recognized the two captured Sunagakure Ninjas.
The three looked at each other, then at the members of Team Minato.
"We are Root Ninjas. Starting now, these two Sunagakure Ninjas will be taken by us!"
After speaking, the three Root Ninjas stepped forward.
At this moment—
Akira Tsubaki moved.
Whoosh!
His body pulled out an afterimage, and he appeared in front of the Root Ninjas instantly.
Without any hesitation.
Boom!
With one punch, the head of one Root Ninja exploded.
"You're looking for—"
"So big—"
The remaining two Root Ninjas hadn't finished speaking when they received a terrifying impact.
Their heads exploded like smashed watermelons.
Red and white blood and brain matter scattered around, like spilled curdled milk.
Plop, plop.
The headless corpses fell to the ground, lifeless.
"Speak faster next time, or your last words will be incomplete."
Akira Tsubaki lowered his head and muttered to himself, kicking a severed hand.
A Detonating Tag was revealed inside the hand.
Dead silence.
In addition to the dead silence, the field was still dead silent.
This upheaval happened too quickly; there was no time for anyone else to react.
In the eyes of Kakashi and the others, three Root Ninjas had just appeared, said a few words, and then were immediately rushed and killed by Akira Tsubaki.
"Is he crazy? Killing a Root Ninja is treason against the village!" Mitarashi Anko was frightened and backed away.
She was ready to run.
After all, she had threatened him.
"Akira, if you do this, Sensei won't be able to protect you," Obito's tone was heavy.
He was being clever for once, using that sentence to subtly hint to Akira Tsubaki to run away.
"He must have a reason," Rin defended Akira Tsubaki in a small voice.
It was Kakashi and Ibiki Morino (Kiki) who reacted, their eyes falling on the Detonating Tag.
"Akira Tsubaki did the right thing. If he hadn't killed the three Root Ninjas, we would have died," Ibiki Morino said surprisingly.
"Indeed! Those three Root Ninjas wanted to blow us up," Kakashi said in a low tone.
"Huh?"
Mitarashi Anko froze, following their gaze.
Then, she was terrified.
On the ground, among the shattered hand bones, was a Detonating Tag.
What does this mean?
It meant that the three Root Ninjas intended to kill them and take the credit for capturing the Sunagakure Ninjas.
At the same time.
The captured Baki and Pakura were stunned for a moment, and then a look of joy flashed across their faces.
"Infighting!"
"Maybe we can instigate that brat."
Thinking this, the two were less inclined to run away.
Just imagine: the Taijutsu brat had killed Ninja from his own village and would certainly be hunted as a rogue Ninja. In that case, Sunagakure would be the perfect refuge.
On the ground!
Akira Tsubaki squatted down, his expression calm.
After wiping his hands with the corpse's clothes, he stood up.
"Akira, thank you for saving us, but killing a Root Ninja is still a major crime," Ibiki Morino reminded him.
This crime was too severe; no one could afford it.
Not only would the Hokage pursue it, but Danzō would certainly not let Akira Tsubaki go.
"Oh? Killing Root Ninjas?"
Akira Tsubaki looked surprised and seemed completely innocent.
He pointed to the two bound Sunagakure Ninjas and then said: "It was obviously Sunagakure who killed them. What does that have to do with me?"
Both Baki and Pakura were dumbfounded.
The two of them had been tied up the entire time and hadn't moved. Wasn't this an obvious frame job?
Would anyone actually believe this?
"I see! It was indeed Sunagakure who killed them!" Ibiki Morino echoed with a strange expression.
"Three Sunagakure Ninjas fought with Root, and the Root Ninjas were all killed, with one Sunagakure Ninja also dying," Kakashi added, spinning the story.
"And we just happened to pass by and pick up the spoils?" Obito said weakly.
"Is this… acceptable?" Rin was a little unsure.
"How could it possibly work? Do you think these two Sunagakure Ninjas will take the blame?" Mitarashi Anko shook her head, disbelieving.
But the next moment!
To her surprise, the two bound Sunagakure Ninjas fell into deep thought.