Chapter 87 - 87 (1/2)
Gari, the captain of the explosion squad, was a quasi Kage of the Hidden Rock. He knew all too well about the interaction between lightning Ninjutsu and the explosive clay, as he was a user of lightning release himself.
Looking at the attack that had just happened, he found that it was extremely powerful, and estimated that it should be able to drain even a Kage out of Chakra, let alone inferior Ninjas.
According to the intelligence his camp has gathered, Konoha have only one Kage tier sent to the Earth Country, and that is Orochimaru who was fighting Onoki at the time. So, the one who had used this massive Lightning Attack just now should be inferior to Kage tier.
Someone below that level using such a large-scale attack, should definitely be unable to move right now.
Gari decided to bypass all the fighting and sneak into the backline to directly take care of this threat. This way, the explosion squad won't have their offence interrupted when the next battle comes.
Ryo had already noticed that Gari was trying to infiltrate to Konoha's backline, and he was able to guess his intentions correctly by the way he was sneaking in.
”Maan, someone came to kill me!” Said Ryo with a smile
”Who? How did he sneak in?” Maan wasn't as cheerful about it as Ryo, and hearing that an enemy had snuck got him fully alert.
”Don't be nervous! I'll get rid of him and get back in no time!”
”Ryo, how much of your Chakra have you recovered? Do you want me to assist you?”
”I recovered a little bit of Chakra, but for a quasi Kage that should be enough.” Saying that, Ryo turned and went to Gari.
”A Quasi Kage, and he talks about him like his nothing. This Ryo guy is really abnormal!” Whispered Maan at Ryo's back.
Ryo didn't hear him, and he would care even if he did. Over the years, he got accostumed to him and Ming Hyuga.
He found Gari, and without hesitation, he entered the Ice-Lightning Chakra mode, blinking immediately behind him, and putting an Ice Scalpel on his neck.
Ryo didn't want to kill him. A living Quasi-Kage is definitely more valuable than a dead one. Captured, he can be a valuable card on the negotiation table. But when dead, they should be getting anything more than some intelligence via autopsy.
”You… who are?” Gari was shocked by Ryo's sudden appearance. The cold touch of the Ice Scalpel on his neck irritated him to the extreme, and he was in full disbelief.
”My identity is not the matter now! Who are you? And what are you doing here?” Ryo asked.
Gari didn't answer, and he turned throwing a clay bomb at Ryo.
In the Ice-Lightning Chakra mode, Ryo was wrapped with lightning Chakra. But in order to prevent the bomb from hitting anyone, he split it with Chidori.
”It's useless to struggle. Now answer me! What…” Ryo wasn't through talking, when Gari committed suicide with the Ice scalpel on his neck!
”He went that far?” Ryo never saw such a man. He shook his head helplessly, sealed the corpse in a scroll and left.
He returned to where he was chatting with Maan.
”So fast? Did you take care of him?” Maan asked with surprise.
”He committed suicide. I actually wanted to capture him alive. Didn't expect him to be so resolved!” Ryo had had some regret in his voice.
”How!” Maan was about to ask some more, but he saw Ryo's face changing greatly before he blinked out with thunder.
Just then, Ryo felt Gari's Chakra again! The corpse was still in his scroll. How is he alive?!
Suddenly, Ryo remember one of the 2nd Tsuchikage's techniques, the Fission Jutsu! During the 4th World War, Mu was able to split himself in to identical, yet independent halves right before being defeated, getting one of them sealed while the other was free to move. Even Naruto with his Kyubi mode didn't notice him back then.