19.

There were 30 attackers wearing the headband of Cloud Village. Someone might think, what can 30 people do against the "military" camp with more than 400 ninjas from Genin to Jonin? Nothing. It's no joke. But when you see who they came with, you will change your mind.

30 attackers were sitting on C-ranked chakra beasts and some of them were sitting on B-ranked chakra beasts, and on top of that, they had a lot of D and E-ranked beasts with them. B-ranked beasts have a tiny chance of evolving into A-ranked beasts that can defeat a group of A-ranked Jonin, because B-ranked beasts are at the level of Jonin, but they are powerful and have a lot of chakra, which makes them really dangerous opponents.

Now we come to the people who control our cute, fluffy and not so cute animals.

I think I'm too nervous to say something like that about a 50-foot brown bear. Haha.

 Their clan is called "Kemono no kusari" (Beast Chains), and their clan is kind of like ours. When we focus on humans, they focus on wild beasts. As our intelligence says, they can only control 3 kinds of beasts. Bears, something like mountain goats, and bats. I won't hide the fact that I'm going to find out how they do it. Knowledge is power.

Let me see if I can do this.

Right after they came out of the forest, they used the combined earth and wind AOE. We didn't waste any time, and as our commander ordered, we used fire attack at the beginning and defended with earth wall. Our opponents did the same and right after we heard the first screams of pain, earth walls appeared from the ground.

Because of the wind, the wall couldn't hold for long and broke in several places. Some of our front line died as a result. Through the cracks we could see our enemies. Big beasts had time to defend or dodge our attacks, not all of them, but 2~3 wounded creatures don't count. However, almost 60% of the smaller ones died or couldn't continue the fight. Only 1 ninja died.

"Genjutsu specialist and Naras focus on the big beasts and their riders." - A captain ordered.

 We nodded. I concentrated on the man who looked like a leader, when I attacked him, his shield just blocked my attack. I felt that 2 more people from my clan were trying to break his protection with me. I must say that the leader is strong, he can hold off 3 of us for about 3 minutes and at the same time control the goat with the biggest horns. Of course, as soon as he sensed our attack, he tried to eliminate the biggest danger for him. But our boys and girls aren't weaklings, at least not all of them, they were ordered to hold him at all costs. They could only use lightning and mud to somehow stop him, not a kekkei genkai, just a combo, because this mobile battering ram was REALLY strong.

Thanks to Shinig-, *cold shiver**cough*, to hmmmm. Not important. He couldn't get past our line of defense. At the end of the 3rd minute, I was able to pass into the crack my colleague made. That is why our bodies fell. Against a strong opponent I need more concentration than usual and I need to get interesting information from him, unfortunately I don't want anyone to know what I'm going to get from him, so I think after I beat him I'll just erase all his memories. But let's talk about after I win.

{Hohoho, brat, you think you can beat me? It's just your luck that you were able to enter my mind.} - A deep bass voice rang out in the Japanese-style house, and a man who was probably 30 years old opened the shoji(Japanese door).

{*Sigh* please don't use that cliché phrase.} - Underestimating me is a BIG mistake.

{ENOUGH, FOR YOUR WORDS I'M GOING TO ERASE YOU FROM THIS WORLD, HOW DARE YOU, WHO COULDN'T EVEN ENTER MY MINDSPACE ALONE, THINK ABOUT BEING DISRESPECTFUL OF ME!} - he was angry, even a child could say that, but I knew it was just his fake emotions. Telepaths can't lose control of themselves that easily.

He proved me right, when right after his speech many beasts came from everywhere. They attacked me from all directions, I materialized countless Senbons and shot them in all directions, when my enemy saw that I successfully counterattacked, he jumped and flew out of the house, I didn't waste time and followed him.

When I came out, I saw my opponent preparing a thunder attack, just as I stabilized my position in the air, he launched the powerful attack, I don't know why, but he used almost all of his yin chakra for this attack. It's about 65% of its full capacity.

Did he start overestimating me that much? But why? I didn't do anything shocking. However, if I can't dodge or block this in such a tiny amount of time...'

I didn't have time to think anymore when the attack almost touched me, at the same time I stretched out my hand, caught the thunder with a little thunder of mine, then circled around and returned the attack to his direction with some addition. I used 55% of my chakra for this, and I have to say that's a lot. No, a LOT for an attack.

OOOH yeah baby. Iroh, if I ever come to your world, I'll find the best tea there and give it to you. - Even though in real life the control would never be enough to send the hunter back to the enemy, in the imaginary world it also depends on the willpower and of course the imagination of both the defender and the attacker. And surely, with his experience, the attacker had already seen one or two Jonin capable of doing this.

Meanwhile, thunderstorms approached the defenseless cloud ninja at tremendous speed, and as the thunder almost hit him, a silhouette appeared in the path of the attack and shielded him.

{Really? You can even do that. Hohoho, now I want your techniques even more. It's good that I have insurance.} - I said.

{What?} - He couldn't finish the sentence when a Senbon reached his chest and pierced him without any resistance. Right after that, he started to fall, behind his goat. Yes, his goat was somehow able to enter the mind space to help him. I didn't expect that.

Mm~a, it's expensive to fight another Yin Ninja on their field.

I flew down to my enemy and after approaching him, I raised his head with both hands.

Let's read your dirt... *cough*, it's just secrets.

After subjectively 3 minutes of starting to copy his knowledge, I felt something close to me, so I just separated from the shinobi's head to see how a horn pierced his head. I understood immediately what it was. I read in his mind that the last defense to prevent getting information about their clan are animals with the "program" to kill their master if they can't kill the opponent, fortunately for me, the animal was badly injured by the last attack so he couldn't do anything before. Luckily I've got the information about their technique for 2 animals, I can figure out the rest by myself, in case I need to of course. I returned right after the place was destroyed.

"Hosomi-san, how long have I been fighting? And how is the situation?" - I asked with a weak voice, because right now, everyone could feel that I had chakra exhaustion. Which, of course, I was imitating.

"Ichumaru-kun, you did a great job of defeating their leader, even though it took all of your chakra." - She smiled and continued, "You were unconscious for 2 minutes, Matsudo-sama brought you here, as for the situation, they are still fighting with us, but there are only 6 of them left and they will either give up or try to flee."

"If I were alone, I wouldn't even be able to break through his defenses, it's all thanks to Matsudo-sama and Yorimo-san. I just spent all my chakra to defeat a weakened enemy. But why did they attack us with only 30 ninjas? Even if most of their army is from the main battlefield, that doesn't explain much."

 She pursed her lips but answered:

"It was just sabotage; 3 other groups came from the other direction and destroyed our food warehouse and one of the seal warehouses. They also tried to kill commanders, but Nori Shizu-sama eliminated them all." - After she finished, I saw an admiration in her eyes and sighed.

In this world, people have some strong, hmh, let's say habit(?), if a shinobi is strong and attractive, he can really have something like fun club, Jiraya is an exception.

"Thank you, Hosomi-san" - I thanked her after she had bandaged my leg, which had been scratched by the kunai at the beginning of the fight.

"You're welcome, now you need to rest to recover your chakra, so go to sleep."

"Okay."

I can sleep now, I'm too tired after using more than half of my Yin reserve in one attack.