My ninjutsu is not right

Chapter 45 Nine Types
That night, in a hotel in a town on the border of the Fire Country.

"Whoo~"

The late autumn evening breeze howled, covering up the already extremely slight sound of landing, and four ninjas quietly appeared on the rooftop.

They all wore brown one-piece streamlined uniforms with dark blue half-body armor on their bodies, and wore iconic respirators. The Hidden Rain Village forehead protectors on their foreheads reflected a faint light in the dim moonlight.

After the leading ninja made a gesture, the four of them separated and sneaked into the hotel from different angles.

None of the four noticed that on the rooftop where light and shadow intertwined, there was a short, dark shadow clinging to the ground.

One of the long-haired ninjas stepped on the wall and walked all the way to the window on the top floor of the hotel. He put his hand on the window, gently pushed it open, and entered the room without any unnecessary movements.

As soon as his feet touched the ground, he saw a short Konoha ninja standing in the distance looking at him coldly.

【Konoha's Little Devil】

He subconsciously formed a seal, and then heard a whistling sound coming from behind him.

[Shadow clone, or——] The long-haired ninja raised his hand to parry while holding a kunai. His years of combat awareness allowed him to determine the location of the attack through the sound of the wind, and he easily blocked the attack from behind. Based on the height of the attack, he could basically judge that he was about the same height as the short Konoha ninja opposite him.

Then just attack the main body.

He gathered his chakra, instantly launched himself and rushed towards the short Konoha ninja opposite him with a kunai in hand.

"Chi~"

The short ninja snapped his fingers, and his four fingers turned into a thousand swords, breaking through the air and attacking.

The long-haired ninja swung the kunai in his hand continuously, deflecting the Senbon whose speed and power were average. [Strange secret technique, but the power is a bit insufficient]

Although he was not injured, his speed inevitably slowed down a bit. Seeing the short ninja on the opposite side charging forward, he felt something was wrong, but it was a bit difficult to change direction temporarily as they were running in both directions.

Since a collision is inevitable, it’s better to strike first!
He swung the kunai towards the short ninja's neck. As an adult, he was more powerful in terms of attack distance.

The head fell off!

The opponent's head fell off along with his neck, leaving only the body holding the kunai, which just happened to be intersected by his attack. Although he was shocked, he still instinctively made the most correct decision, tilting his body and using his arms to withstand the attack.

"Pfft!"

After the sound of kunai piercing flesh was heard, the long-haired ninja endured the severe pain and kicked the short ninja's headless body away before he could recover.

"Bang!" The flying headless body turned into white smoke, and the sounds of two kunai breaking through the air below and behind it were rapidly approaching.

【It’s over! 】

"Puff!" X2
As the last thought flashed through his mind, his lower abdomen and the back of his neck were roughly pierced by a kunai. The intense pain was beyond his endurance and his consciousness fell into darkness.

"Boom!"
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"One."

Link loosened his hand, pushed away the bleeding corpse lying behind him, drew out a kunai again, turned around and left the room with an expressionless face.

The shadow had turned back into two dimensions, passed through the wall and the room, and returned to the corridor to investigate.

He followed closely behind and quickly rushed to another battle scene.

"Bang!" The Hidden Rain Village ninja was kicked by Iris and flew against the wall. Kasumi reached out from the shadows and pierced his temple, twisting and pulling. Seeing Link coming, Iris raised two fingers.

[Three of the four have been dealt with, and the other one should have headed straight for the room where the rich businessman is...]

Link nodded, without saying anything else, made a gesture to stay alert, and left.

Not only were there bodies of the Hidden Rain Village ninjas on the floor of the corridor, but there were also bodies of two convoy guards. For them, those ninjas could be easily dealt with, and it would be easy to assassinate a few samurai and ronin.

Arriving at the corridor outside the room where the rich businessman lived, the samurai leader of the convoy was standing against the wall, holding his bleeding abdomen. Three samurai corpses were lying nearby, all stabbed with thousands of thorns. Nara Yui was putting a scroll into its case, and on the floor next to him, the real headless body of the leader of the ninja of the Hidden Rain Village was lying on the ground.

The three of them exchanged glances, and without saying a word, they returned to their positions in the completely silent and solemn environment.

The surviving warriors also began to clean up the battlefield.

This was not the first assassination attempt they had experienced.

Link leaned against the wall, closed his eyes, recovered his strength, adjusted his mental state, and reviewed the battle just now in his mind.

In fact, there is nothing to review. Now he can kill ordinary ninjas who have no hidden tricks in seconds.

Even though his physical skills are the weakest, with the help of the clone technique, a righteous two-on-one fight with his shadow is definitely not something that an ordinary Genin or Chunin can defeat.

As for why he didn't summon a double, use a shadow clone to weaken the opponent, or summon an earth dragon...

That's not necessary.

A ninja's combat is very dependent on intelligence, and for him, the more hidden moves the better.

He had nine ways to kill his opponent. Nine! But when it came time to kill him, the simpler, more direct, and less likely to reveal intelligence, the better.

As the convoy gradually approached the Kingdom of Rivers and arrived at the border, they had already encountered three attacks. Once was by a group of ronin, once was by the rebel ninjas from the Hidden Grass Village, and this was the third time, by the ninjas from the Hidden Rain Village.

The first two times, he and Nara Yuito didn't even need to take any action as they were solved by Iris and Kasumi.

Will there be stronger attacks if we enter the Kawa no Kushiro?
Link didn't know, but there was a high probability that there would be no fixed rest time in the next two days.

He stayed quietly at the position where he was required to guard until dawn, and after taking a ration pill, he was ready to set off.

The corpses and bloodstains in the hotel were cleaned up, and the scene after last night's fighting was almost invisible, but there was still a faint smell of blood. The ninjas and samurai were responsible for fighting, while the ordinary people accompanying the convoy were responsible for cleaning the battlefield and taking care of the rich businessman's daily life.

After meeting up with his two companions and Nara Yushiro, before they set out, they saw a wealthy businessman with a big belly wearing loose clothes, loudly scolding the pale-faced samurai leader:

"You idiot..."

Even though people were protecting him with their lives last night, he was dissatisfied because the noise that happened last night was a little too loud and affected his "sleep".

Two beautiful women in low-cut dresses left the room.

Link watched coldly. Iris clenched her fists with an indignant expression. Finally, she was stopped by Xia. She said nothing, but just looked at the rich businessman with angry eyes.

Nara Saltwater turned a blind eye and nodded to his three subordinates, and then the four of them followed the wealthy businessman and the samurai out of the hotel.

This is how the world is. The ninjas who possess the strongest force consider themselves tools, and under the manipulation of the ninja system, they create killings without any justice.

(End of this chapter)