Konoha: Who says that hunters can't play in the ninja world?

Kimimaro's combat IQ quickly took over the high ground. Facing the water clone, he no longer attacked it but avoided it. This water clone had slow movement and no lethality, posed no threat to Kimimaro and it was easy to avoid it.

"There is no such thing as dodging my water clone. Water clone, explode." Xinzi's hand seal changed.

The water clone turns into a human bomb. As long as it gets close to Kimimaro, it will open its arms without hesitation and pounce on him. If it fails to pounce on him, it will detonate, just to splash Kimimaro with water.

Kimimaro was helpless. As a physical ninja, he was powerless facing the water splashing game coming from all directions.

The body flash technique was activated, and the body shot out like lightning, escaping from the encirclement of the water clones.

The water clone was relentless and continued to pester me like a dog-skin plaster.

Now Kimimaro missed his group of useless subordinates very much. At least at times like this, they could lend a hand instead of him having to deal with such a shameless move alone.

The feeling of being alone and helpless is vividly reflected in Kimimaro.

"Are we just going to watch this?" Ya couldn't sit still at this time. Or rather, with his impatient temper, it was not his style to just watch the show.

Ya was about to go forward, but was stopped by Ichiro: "Now is not the time for you to go forward. The ninja opposite is obviously good at physical skills and ninjutsu. He is a jonin-level physical skills ninja. Do you know what level he is? He can kill us genin in a short time in close combat. Can't you see that Nobuko is also trying her best to entangle him? Don't dare to go forward." Ichiro's face was as gloomy as water, and he was actually very worried.

He wanted to help, this was the first time that Nobuko faced a jonin alone, so it was inevitable that he would be careless. But he also remembered what Kazama said, that if there was no danger to her life, he would not affect Nobuko's performance.

This mission is to rescue Sasuke, and it is also a training journey for their team. The three of them have accumulated a lot of experience in the Genin stage, and now they need to fight hard to transform their accumulation into strength.

It was easy to go up and help now, but for Xinzi, the effect of the training would be greatly reduced. The three of them were teammates, and they couldn't become a burden to their teammates.

"You don't have long-range means and are not qualified to interfere in this battle. Just keep quiet." Ichiro gritted his teeth and saw the fighting spirit of others. While he was satisfied with the attitude of this group of junior students, he also reminded them.

"But, if you keep using ninjutsu like this, the chakra consumption will be very high." This was Hinata's weak voice. Her eyes were always on Nobuko. She knew very well the extent of Nobuko's chakra consumption. If this continued, Nobuko's chakra would definitely be consumed first.

"Don't worry, I'm here." Ichiro's voice was honest and powerful.

Nobuko's fight is still going on: more than half of her chakra has been consumed, but the damage caused is minimal. Even if there is water sticking to Kimimaro's body, his body will quickly get rid of most of the water, and it is difficult to cause him the same restrictions as in the previous battle. It takes a certain amount of time for the nature of the water to change.

This period of time is enough for Kimimaro to react and respond.

"Damn it," Nobuko cursed inwardly. Without the means of assassination, her ninjutsu was too ordinary in terms of power. Was this what Kazama meant by finding problems in battle? If you don't fight against the strong, you will really see everyone as a waste.

Nobuko is proud of being able to grow to where she is today through hard work, but at the same time, she is also humble. Today's battle made her realize her own shortcomings.

If you don't find your weaknesses, you will never make progress.

Now that the weakness has been found, it's time to try out my new ninjutsu.

"Water escape technique. Mist hiding technique." Nobuko pointed to the sky with one hand, and a large mist covered Nobuko's figure and Kimimaro, and both of them lost their vision at the same time. Of course, Nobuko had the technique of watching the rain, so as long as she wanted, Kimimaro's whereabouts would be exposed.

The fog only served to block the view. In fact, it was for Nobuko to test her new ninjutsu: "Water escape technique. Water bubble technique."

Xinzi blew out a bubble from her mouth like blowing bubbles, and it gradually grew larger until it was half the height of a person. Then the hand seal changed, and the chakra changed from water attribute to fire attribute, but what came out was not fire, but white mist. No, that's not right, it was water vapor, which was heated by the fire attribute chakra.

I saw the bubbles gradually filled with water vapor, turning into white bubbles that rose into the air and floated.

One after another, because of the cover of fog, Kimimaro did not dare to attack at will, and Nobuko was happy to be alone, but she was having a lot of fun blowing bubbles. After becoming proficient in the initial stage, she blew bubbles even faster and more skillfully. In a blink of an eye, bubbles of all sizes filled the area around Nobuko.

With the cover of the fog, these bubbles blend into the thick fog and are almost difficult to distinguish. Unless you touch them or get close enough to be unaffected by the fog.

In Xinzi's perception, the fog is already filled with large and small water vapor balls. The preparations have been made. Next, enjoy the sauna treatment.

"Water escape technique. Water bubble technique, explode." A wave of air suddenly rose in front of Kimimaro, from cool to warm, from warm to hot, from hot to scalding. The suffocating water vapor covered Kimimaro in almost a breath.

Kimimaro, who was unaware of the situation, was unable to judge the situation and could only retreat temporarily to get away from the heat wave.

The body flash technique was activated, and the body retreated like an arrow, and at the same time, it also shattered the bubbles along the way. The bubbles, which had become extremely unstable due to the heat, exploded one after another like lit firecrackers. The heat inside was released, causing the surrounding heat to reach an unprecedented level in an instant.

No matter how fast Kimimaro was, he could not be faster than the heat conduction of the hot air. Within a few breaths, large areas of burns appeared on the surface of his body.

He didn't even dare to move. As more and more bubbles broke, the temperature of the water vapor became higher and the coverage area became wider, and his situation would become more dangerous. Gritting his teeth and enduring the crisis in front of him became the only choice he had to make.

Unfortunately, this was still a bad move. If the mountain doesn't come to me, I will go to the mountain. Kimimaro could bear it, but Nobuko would not show mercy. These bubbles filled with hot air were created by him, and they were in the thick fog. He was the only one who could target others, and no one could target him.

Control the bubbles to gradually gather, wanting to make a big one.

I saw several bubbles gradually merged into larger bubbles, slowly floating towards Kimimaro. Kimimaro had been fighting for many years, and instinctively felt the danger, but she didn't know how to deal with it. In such a thick fog, she didn't even know what the opponent's ninjutsu looked like. She only knew that it was a heat wave that hurt her.

The evasive action just now caused more and hotter heat waves. If he didn't move, he would be waiting for death. If he moved, it would also be slow suicide. The two-way blocking method put Kimimaro in a dilemma.

"Who said water must be cold? Isn't water vapor also water?" Nobuko murmured to herself. The success of this new ninjutsu gave Nobuko more ideas.

Water, perhaps, is more than just water.