But the summoner wasn't easy on the eyes, either - a swift blow with his tail swept the nephew off his feet, and then wrapped his body around him, obviously trying to put and erase him with scales. This gave us precious time, which was already short - the second squad was a few dozen seconds away from us.
Dragging the struggling body toward me, I slapped the paper I'd retrieved in advance onto it, and without even waiting for the fuin to transfer to flesh, I kicked it hard at Orochimaru. Unfortunately, Samehada doesn't have the cutting edge to do truly lethal damage, so it was up to the sannin.
His partner understood the intent at a glance and heartily chopped the body flying at him with the fuuton chakra-covered blade. He aimed to chop off Kinkaku's head, but a sudden tail of red chakra burst out of the ground, causing Orochimaru to twist to avoid the attack and the blow came just below the nephew's waist.
- Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! - A piercing shriek, with nothing human left in it, escaped from the victim's throat and made me wince.
Orochimaru hadn't managed to cut the enemy in two, but he had severed his right leg and chopped up something very important to the man, judging by the sound of it. Pulling the trophy limb toward me with chakra threads, I caught the leg and sprinted away, trying to get away from the battlefield as quickly as possible. Sannin kept up with me, and by the feel of it, we had just missed the nephews by a few seconds.
Naturally, we retreated not directly into our territories, but to the side, not trying too hard to hide our tracks. I doubt the jonins would dare to pursue without the support of the S-ranks, and Ginkaku needed to get his brother to the iryonin now, not develop the offensive.
After a couple minutes of stopping to catch my breath, I dug into the specially stocked scroll in my belt pouch and sealed the trophy in it.
- Orochimaru shook his head as he examined the wounds he had received in the fight.
He was pretty badly hurt, judging by the burns on half his face, his clothes torn and bruised, and his armor almost torn apart by claws, but still, not as badly as I was.
- Right now, yes, but I left Kinkaku a very unpleasant surprise, and it should work-" I paused, and there was a huge explosion in the distance, "-now.
- What was that? - Orochimaru raised a whole eyebrow.
- It was Kinkaku's explosion," I grinned, but wiped it off my face so as not to disturb the skin on my face, which was just beginning to recover. "It's a creative reworking of kibakufuda, which pumps chakra into the victim and then explodes, so with a bit of luck, both brothers are dead now.
- That's original," his partner chuckled, "You can kill anyone with a touch of paper.
- Unfortunately, it only works as a killing tool," I waved my free hand, "a healthy target might not be able to drain their chakra.
- That's much worse," the sannin agreed and changed the subject, "Shall we go back?
- We're done fighting for today - we need to heal," I nodded, showing him my charred right arm, "but let's pick up our companion and the rescued first.
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