Konoha, Death Forest.
Although puzzled as to why Isagi had made this gesture without even seeing the enemy, the core of working together as a shinobi was no hesitation even if it may cost them their death; that's how they had lived and survived till now.
As they waited, the first person to appear in their vision was a person in green tights and a bowl haircut, having thick eyebrows and round eyes, Mei's eyes twitching a bit seeing the boy as whether his outfit or himself, both had zero attraction towards girls her age.
Following him was a girl with black hair tied into two buns, with short-fringe-bangs framing her fair and beautiful face. She had dark brown eyes and wore a pink sleeveless blouse with grey trousers, a shinobi pouch tied to her waist.
The last person following them had a calm and collected presence, his steps light and in the dark gloomy forest those white eyes standing out a lot, no worry on his face despite his teammates making noise and making them an open target.
But suddenly the calm look on the white-eyed boy's face wavered as he made a hand sign, veins appearing around his eyes, but even for him it was too late, should have had checked his surroundings earlier.
SWISH! SWISH!
Kunai attached with paper bombs whizzed out from the surroundings, all aimed at the white-eyed boy who, not wasting any time with a serious look on his face, raised his arms and chakra getting restless in his body.
"128 Divine Strikes!"
He began to spin at the spot as blue chakra began to spin around him at the same moment, completely enveloping him as the kunai soon hit the spinning chakra membrane around him.
BOOM!!!
"NEJI!!!"
At the moment of impact, explosions rang out with fire and smoke in the air, Tenten crying out in shock at what she had witnessed.
Just as Tenten was trying to process what had happened, two shadows at quick speed approached her from front and behind, a blade attached with blue chakra and a massive rock fist made way towards her stomach and back simultaneously.
"Tenten!
"BOOM!!!
Lee, who saw this, cried out, ready to unleash that ability to save her but his danger sense screaming, having no choice but to turn around and kick, an arm with chakra coating it colliding with his legs, air generating from the impact and both propelled back a few steps.
"No, you are not going anywhere," said Isagi with a smile on his face, eyeing the watermelon head before him who now had a blue arrow above his head, his smile intensifying though on Lee's face the anxious look having increased.
POOF!
!KENG!!
On the other hand, with hardly any time, Tenten could only pull out a single scroll from her pouch as unsealing it with a flick of her hand, with a poof numerous kunai shooting out in every direction, repelling the blade about to pierce her stomach but unable to stop the attack from behind.
BOOM!!!
"Aghh!!"
The massive rock fist hit her right on the back, Tenten's eyes bulging and blood spilling out as she groaned in pain, like a comet shooting from the spot and hitting the trunk of a massive tree in her way.
Tenten was almost embedded into the trunk at the moment of impact, with her eyes white and faint breathing slipping down the trunk and lying motionless.
Lee heard the sound of impact and his round black eyes couldn't help but show a look of pain and anger at the state in which Tenten was, his bandaged hands clenching into fists, veins appearing on his forehead, with fire in his eyes looking at Isagi ahead.
"You!! You will pay for this!" he said gnashing his teeth, his hair starting to float and blue chakra rolling around his body.
"Gate of Opening!"
"Gate of Rest!"
"Open!"
BANG!!
"What the…?"
Chakra burst out of him as the ground under him exploded also, Mei and Ryota seeing the state in which Lee was couldn't help but show a look of shock, their eyes widened as they could feel this strange kid clearly had strength to take down any of them.
"We can't let him face this monster alone…" Mei, who was well aware of Isagi's strength, knew there was no way he could take on this guy and they had to deal with him together.
"Yeah…" Ryota agreed, bringing the sword before him, no fear in his eyes and only the intent to help, two years of doing life-and-death missions together having created a very strong bond between them.
But before they could even take a step towards Isagi, they saw him gesturing to stay out with his hands, not a shred of worry on his face despite facing a tough opponent.