- From where? Time? - Hoshi reacted instantly, pulling out two kibakufuda (explosive seal) and winding it onto her kunai.
- Ten seconds!
As soon as her partner showed the direction, she immediately threw the prepared weapon under a small bush, safely out of sight. At the same time, Surizawa pulled out a sheet of seal from her pouch and threw it in front of the team.
- Get the hell out of here," she said to the tense genin, "we won't be able to protect you either.
- Thank you!
The boys took the wounded comrade under their arms and hurried away in the opposite direction from the approaching enemy, in a wide arc around the innocent-looking bushes.
Just in time, figures flickered among the foliage of the upper paths and a team from Cloud, two boys and a girl in similar uniforms, jumped to the edge of the clearing, sending several shurikens and kunai into the three kunoichi in flight, some of them covered in lightning chakra, partly by a long-haired platinum blond man with pale skin, unlike his partners.
Prudently not using the weapons in their hands to deflect, Team Seventeen responded with their own volley of throwing iron, knocking the projectiles that flew directly at the target and ignoring the rest.
- Look at you, a Leaf team that knows how to do something! - The tall dark-skinned guy with yellow hair, who was clearly the leader of the team and the most physically developed, stepped forward a bit in surprise. - But it was not worth making a lot of noise, otherwise you could attract unwanted attention, such as ours.
The entire enemy team literally radiated superiority and confidence in victory, not even allowing the idea that the three weirdos in cloaks could offer worthy resistance, and they had some reason to do so. Hoshi remembered well the characteristics of all three of the Kumogakure teams that had made it to the second stage and she was glad in passing that this one was the second most dangerous, composed entirely of clan fighters.
With impressive chakra reserves even for chunin, let alone genin, and excellent physical development, elemental and weapon proficiency, the list of capabilities was long enough for three-fifths of Konoha's teams, but they'd run into an equally well-rounded team with too many unpleasant surprises in store.
- Give us the bracelets and you can run," the pale boy said, ostentatiously passing several small lightning bolts between his raised palms and demonstrating excellent control for his age.
It became clear to Kunoichi that approaching him within striking distance was fraught with danger - none of the trio possessed a futon, and they were far less skilled at launching elemental chakra at weapons than their opponent.
- A counter proposal - you go by and look for a weaker victim, - Hoshi mockingly snorted, - otherwise you won't like the result.
- Enough talk, let's deal with these robed men and look for the tower," the dark-haired girl with white hair frowned, pulling a short sword from her back sheath.
- Whatever you say, Isu-chan," the big man shrugged, pulling out a large cleaver and folding a pair of seals with one hand.
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