Pokémon Ninja Scrolls of the Mizukage

Chapter 28 Sneak Attack
The sky was already beginning to turn white.

Seeing that they were about to return to their home lair, most of the pirates on the ship relaxed a little.

There was no other way. The original intention of this voyage was to rob a merchant ship, and the preliminary intelligence had already been obtained.

Who would have thought that less than a day after setting sail, their captain seemed to have received some news and angrily ordered everyone to prepare to return.

In view of the captain's long-accumulated power, all the pirates did their jobs honestly and no one wanted to provoke him at this time.

Only now, when they were about to reach the shore, did the pirates become a little more unbridled.

As the sailboat slowly entered the harbor, a pirate threw down a rope and shouted.

"Old York! The ships are all in the harbor, why aren't they coming out?"

"Haha, this old guy must be slacking off again!"

"I guess Old York didn't expect us to come back so soon."

The many pirates on the ship laughed and put down the planks, preparing to disembark.

However, when a middle-aged man with a big beard and a tricorn hat walked out of the cabin with a gloomy face, everyone fell silent and shrank out of the way like quails.

"Captain, Old York is probably slacking off again. I'll go call him now!"

The pirate, who had been smiling just now, immediately slid down the boat nimbly along the rope and ran towards the cabin at the harbor.

At this time, another younger scarred man walked out of the cabin, ignored the pirates cowering on the side, looked at the big man standing on the side of the ship, and spoke.

"Fish Ghost, is the campsite a little too quiet today?"

The bearded middle-aged man called Fish Ghost did not turn around, but just snorted and said.

"It's probably because of those two people, but you should still go and take a look. Otherwise, they will gossip about you to the master of the house again."

After hearing this, the scarred man didn't say anything else and jumped directly from the boat to the shore.

But just at this moment, the small wooden house at the port slowly opened.

An old man in tattered clothes walked out of the wooden house with an anxious look on his face.

"York, you he"

Before the first pirate to get off the boat could open his mouth to reprimand, a man and a woman, both wearing masks and dressed as ninjas, came out of the wooden house behind Old York.

Just when all the pirates were still a little surprised, the scarred man stepped forward quickly.

"Master Coral, Jiu. Why are you here directly this time?"

The scarred man's voice became weaker as he spoke.

The two masked men did not seem to pay attention to his words, and were still led by Old York in front of them, approaching the pirate ship.

The scarred man lowered his head slightly in embarrassment and made some room, but he had no intention of stopping the other party.

However, the scarred man who lowered his head and retreated did not notice that Old York, who was approaching him and the boat, had a strange smile on his face.

Just then, a loud shout came from the pirate ship.

"Fishfang! Get out of the way!"

A moment ago, the scarred man named Yuya was still looking down and daydreaming. When he heard his captain's shout, he subconsciously stepped back.

However, he was still a little slow, as Old York, who had approached him at some point, suddenly accelerated and rushed forward.

"choke--"

All he saw was a flash of white light passing by. Yuya had no time to pull out his weapon, so he could only quickly stretch out his arm to block the attack.

Blood splattered everywhere in an instant, and Yuya's forearm was actually cut off on the spot.

Yuya endured the pain of his broken arm and kicked Old York away, while using the force to continue dodging backwards.

However, the attack was not over yet.

The two masked ninjas each pulled out several shurikens and threw them at Yuya. Just when Yuya thought he was doomed, a strong wind came and pushed Yuya several meters away, and at the same time blew away all the shurikens that were flying towards him, allowing him to avoid the fatal blow.

Only then did Yuya see that after the kicked 'Old York' fell to the ground, a cloud of white smoke exploded with a 'pong' sound, and then it turned into a bandaged boy without eyebrows.

It was none other than Momochi Zabuza.

It was not until this time that these ordinary pirates realized what was happening and immediately shouted loudly.

"Protect the deputy captain!"

All this just happened in a flash. Many pirates were still wondering who the two people behind Old York were, but in the blink of an eye, their own deputy captain had been ambushed and injured.

All the pirates on the ship jumped down one after another, drew their weapons and protected their captain.

The captain Yugui, who had just used the wind-style ninjutsu to save his companion, also flashed in front of Yuya and stopped his bleeding.

Seeing the pirates on the opposite side looking at the three of them with eager eyes.

Zabuza rubbed his kicked chest and stood up from the ground and said coldly.

"At least he's a Chunin."

Zabuza didn't think that an ordinary Genin could dodge his sneak attack, and judging from the strength of the opponent's subconscious counterattack, it was obvious that his physical skills were not weak either.

'pong~' x2
Two more puffs of smoke burst out, and Mei Terumi and Tachibana Kanagawa also revealed their figures.

"Zabuza, your smile just now was too obvious."

Jianchuan Ju didn't feel sorry for Zabuza who was kicked. If this guy hadn't shown such a creepy smile before the sneak attack, he wouldn't have been discovered by the other opponent and warned.

"If you had just followed my instructions and attacked them before they even reached the shore, there wouldn't be so much trouble."

When Zabuza discovered the pirate ship before, he wanted to use the Water Dragon Bullet Technique to sink it before it reached the shore.

However, Jianchuan Ju took into consideration that if there were kidnapped civilians on the pirate ship, innocent people might be harmed.

That's why the three of them finally decided to transform and launch a sneak attack, which also served as a good opportunity to test the relationship between the two ninjas and the pirates.

But before taking action, the three of them had never thought that there was an opponent with the strength of a Chunin among the pirates.

"And that man is only the deputy captain."

After hearing the shouts of the pirate minions just now, Mei Terumi spoke to her two teammates in a serious tone.

Jianchuan Ju also looked over there, at Yuya who was protected by the pirates and the bearded captain who was bandaging him.

"Fortunately, we managed to cripple one of the enemy's combat capabilities. I hope that captain is not a jonin."

Seeing that Zabuza was no longer seriously injured, Terumi Mei was not going to give him a chance to continue bandaging him and immediately gave the order.

"Tachibana, you deal with the pirate minions. Zabuza goes to deal with the Chunin with a broken arm. I'll hold back the other pirate captain."

As the acting captain, although she is also good at using large-scale ninjutsu to deal with miscellaneous soldiers, Mei Terumi still took on the task of delaying the enemy's strongmen.

She also believed that her two teammates could quickly deal with the opponent and come to help her.

"No need. I will deal with that guy together with you. Leave the small fry to Lanzai and Zabuza."

Jianchuan Ju hurriedly stopped Terumi Mei's impulsive decision. If he was really a Jonin, would Terumi Mei use her head to hold the other person back?

He didn't want the future Fifth Mizukage to fall here.

"Quack~o(｀-′o)" Lanzai immediately patted his chest and accepted the order.

Seeing this, Mei Terumi, who had already started to form hand seals, didn't say anything more, but just nodded slightly in agreement.

Zabuza, who had been unable to hold back any longer, immediately drew a dagger from his back and rushed towards the pirates with Lan Zai on the left and right.

After completing the seal, Mei Terumi tilted her head back and took a deep breath.

"Water Style*Water Rush Wave!"

(End of this chapter)