It's easy to say "retreat", but it's not that easy to implement. And this time, retreat is just a nice word, to put it bluntly, it means running away because you can't win.
Since they are escaping, there must be someone to stay behind. Otherwise, it will just become a simple race, and the result will probably be that the one who runs faster will survive, while the one who runs slower will be unlucky. Counting the six people on his side, Mizuki suddenly realized that he might be the fastest one. Not to mention the two people from the Hyuga family, they are not known for their speed. Yuhi Kurenai's physical skills are average, so her speed must not be that fast either. As for Gaara and Temari, I have never found that these two people have any special speed. Therefore, Mizuki's survival rate may be the highest, even if he is injured...
However, in the end, Hyuga Hiashi did not flee in a scattered manner, so it did not become a race or a competition of luck. If that were the case, Gaara's chance of survival would be infinitely close to zero. Gaara, who was not fast enough and was still the target of the enemy, would be in great danger with his current strength unless he completely released the Shukaku in his body.
The bloated six-man team, in addition to being exhausted, also had seriously injured Mizuki who had almost no fighting power. Under the threat of the Red Sand Scorpion, they could only try their best to avoid the attacks of the puppet team that was getting closer and closer. The task of escort was still mainly carried out by the strongest Hyuga Hiashi, supplemented by Gaara who had sufficient chakra, and Temari and Yuhi Kurenai as support forces. The exhausted Hyuga Ko and the injured Mizuki just followed the fleeing people.
"How long can your gentle fist block Deidara's chakra?" Mizuki asked as he dragged his tired and wounded body away.
Deidara's condition is also very important. As long as he can recover some of his strength, Konoha's escape plan will be ruined.
After hearing Mizuki's question, Hinata Ko answered worriedly, "It's hard to say, but if we can delay it until dawn, that's the limit."
"Dawn? So soon?" Shuimu looked up at the sky in the distance, where a patch of white light had already appeared. "There's not much time left until dawn..."
Hinata Ko shook his head and said, "You can't expect everyone to be a genius like Neji and to be able to practice Kaiten by exploring on their own..."
The training of the branch family of the Hyuga family is different from that of the main family. If Hyuga Hiashi's soft fist hit Deidara, it is very likely that Deidara would have died. Even if it is the same ninjutsu, the power it exerts in the hands of different people is very different. What Hyuga Hiashi can do, Hyuga Koko does not have that ability.
Mizuki could only nod in agreement with Hinata Ko's explanation. Mizuki had no control over the affairs of such a large family, nor was he interested in finding out. However, this dangerous situation made Mizuki very distressed.
"What should we do? Once Deidara recovers to the point where he can control a manned flying puppet, Konoha will be finished."
In that situation, escape was a luxury. Mizuki, who had just beaten Deidara so badly, didn't think that Deidara would let him go.
"Will rescue arrive in time?"
Mizuki looked worriedly at Hyuga Hiashi and Gaara who were blocking the puppet attack and fighting and retreating. Gaara was still okay, but the fatigue on his face could no longer be concealed. With the amount of chakra of the Jinchūriki, he was a little exhausted after fighting for so long. Even if the chakra amount could last for a while, the physical fatigue was becoming increasingly unsustainable. After all, Gaara was only a child of about twelve years old, and it was quite rare for him to be able to achieve this step.
"We have to hold on for at least half a day, otherwise we will all die..."
From the beginning, Mizuki did not expect any rescue by a strong man who passed by unexpectedly or by coincidence. There is no protagonist like the Child of Destiny in this team. If you have to say, Gaara is a character with a very important role, but he is not to the extent that he can turn danger into safety when encountering Deidara and Sasori. Otherwise, he would not be captured, have the tailed beast extracted and almost die three years later.
However, although one cannot count on such intangible things as luck, it does not mean that Shuimu himself cannot request reinforcements. The only difficulty lies in delivering the message.
For Mizuki, who is proficient in sealing techniques and can use psychic techniques flexibly, it is still possible to transmit a little information over a long distance. Although Mizuki's own body and the fake Jinchūriki cannot communicate with each other in real time, it makes him very worried, but it does not mean that information cannot be exchanged. There are many ways for people to communicate with each other, language, body language, books and even passing notes, which are all very effective ways to transmit information.
Therefore, although Mizuki does not know space ninjutsu, he has some experience in the magical summoning technique. Using this to transmit messages is not Mizuki's invention. In the original work, there are more than one or two people who use summoned beasts to transmit messages. If it were not for this method, Pein might have razed Konoha Village to the ground, and Naruto would still be practicing Sage Mode in Myoboku Mountain. Therefore, Mizuki also made some special plans. There are some summoned beasts with special marks around the original body and the copycat Jinchuriki. When they are summoned by the other side, they can know the general information and the message they want to convey.
"I think the village must have sent out reinforcements by now. But considering the time, they are still far from being able to catch up. This place is collapsing too quickly."
The attack happened in the second half of the night, and the battle progressed very quickly. During this time, the village had to give the Jinchuriki time to ask for help, and the village had to have time to react before sending reinforcements. It was estimated that it would not be fast. However, one thing to be thankful for was that Mizuki and his group were not very fast. It was estimated that if the rescue team moved at full speed, they should arrive in half a day.
"But it looks like I may not be able to hold out until then..."
Mizuki was not too worried that Konoha did not pay enough attention. With the head of the Hyuga family and the Jinchūriki of the Sand Village, they had a huge influence both internally and externally. If they really died here, Konoha Village's reputation as the overlord of the ninja world would be stripped off.
"Leisurely days are always so rare. I am always in a hurry, but time is never enough..."
This attack was not so much a sudden attack as it was a result of Mizuki's carelessness. A dangerous creature like a Jinchūriki is the focus of the entire ninja world, and the people around them are always troubled by various troubles, just like this time when the Akatsuki organization targeted the One-Tail Jinchūriki Gaara.
Perhaps it was the ease he felt in front of the Jinchūriki yesterday that blinded Mizuki's eyes and made him ignore the huge risks of this mission, so that he foolishly followed out to complete the mission without any preparation, and was caught by Scorpion and Deidara.
Was there any conscription when Gaara was attacked? Of course there was, there is no doubt about that. Others may not know, but Mizuki knows it clearly. Not long after Orochimaru's plan to collapse Konoha failed, Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigaki Kisame came to Konoha together and tried to take away the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki Uzumaki Naruto. Of course, they didn't succeed in the end, but Uchiha Itachi injured Hatake Kakashi with Tsukuyomi. Later, he was taught a lesson by Jiraiya, and Uchiha Itachi's mission to capture Uzumaki Naruto failed.
This scene is the first appearance of the Akatsuki organization in the original work, and Mizuki knows it very well. However, as a real world, many things are causally related and cannot be understood in such a fragmented way.
Since the Akatsuki organization dared to send Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigaki Kisame to sneak into Konoha and capture the Nine-tailed Jinchuriki Uzumaki Naruto, they must have made all the preparations. Although Konoha suffered a huge trauma and the leaders died in the battle, the strength of the overlord of the ninja world is still there. Since they dared to attack Konoha, why would the Akatsuki organization, which has no shortage of powerful masters, show mercy to the other Jinchuriki and the tailed beasts? Once the plan to capture the nine tailed beasts is launched, there is almost no possibility of stopping halfway. The current Akatsuki organization is not much different from the strength of three years later. In the entire ninja world, there is currently no force that it dares not to take action against.
Especially this time, Gaara, the One-Tail Jinchuriki, who had a weak ability to protect himself and unexpectedly left the village, was a very good target. So it was not surprising that Deidara and Scorpion came to find him.
But in fact, Akatsuki's plan to collect the tailed beasts was indeed terminated due to an accident. Konoha's collapse plan and Akatsuki's exposure of its intentions for the tailed beasts once made Konoha very worried. They even considered restricting Uzumaki Naruto from leaving the village to protect the Nine-Tails Jinchūriki, but later it was abandoned. In addition to Jiraiya and Tsunade's insistence, Jiraiya also found out that Akatsuki had suspended the plan for three years after a period of investigation, which was the reason why Uzumaki Naruto's movement restrictions were lifted.
In the original work, there is no mention of how Jiraiya knew this news, or what this information was. However, in the past three years, combined with some of the information he knew, and the sudden abandonment of the plan by the Akatsuki organization, it seems that Mizuki has thought of something...
In Mizuki's opinion, the only reason that could prevent the Akatsuki organization, which has the power to go to war with the entire ninja world, from suspending its plan is that something happened to the tailed beasts themselves, making the task of gathering the nine tailed beasts impossible to complete no matter what.
The tailed beasts are born with the will of mankind. Although they will not completely perish, it does not mean that they will not "die" temporarily. Why did the Nine-Tails lend chakra to Uzumaki Naruto again and again in the early stage? Sealing techniques are not that simple. Their binding force is much greater than imagined. Even the tailed beasts cannot escape. When the Jinchūriki died, the tailed beasts sealed in his body were also implicated by the power of the sealing technique and had to die in frustration. However, as long as humans do not perish, the tailed beasts, a combination of human will, will be reborn after a period of time. From the current information, it takes three years for the tailed beasts to revive and fully recover after death. So, why was Uzumaki Naruto given a three-year growth period? The death of the Jinchūriki is the biggest reason.
During this period, a Jinchūriki did die. That was the Fourth Mizukage Yagura, a genius ninja who ascended to the position of Mizukage as the Three-Tails Jinchūriki, but was secretly controlled by Uchiha Obito with the Sharingan. He was a key figure in creating the Blood Mist Village. The original novel did not give a detailed account of Yagura's death. We only know that Yagura did die during this period, and then the Fifth Mizukage Terumi Mei took over the position of Mizukage.
According to Mizuki's inference, the above changes occurred in the Land of Water in all likelihood not long after Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigaki Kisame failed to capture the Nine-Tails. The Three-Tails could not be captured in the short term, and in order to prevent alerting the enemy, the operation was interfered with too much, and the operation had to be postponed for three years. That's why Jiraiya had the investigation mission and the three-year buffer of intelligence.
Among them, Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigaki Kisame should be the first to act. The other group missions were probably cancelled before they could be carried out because of Yagura's accident. However, all this has changed a lot because of the butterfly effect caused by Mizuki's actions.
Originally, Gaara should have been rescued by Temari after a battle with Uzumaki Naruto. Under that circumstance, the two would have quickly left the enemy camp and returned to the Sand Village. In the Sand Village, there are masters like Chiyo and countless unknown strong men. It must not be an easy task to capture Gaara under such circumstances. But this time there is not so much trouble. Except for Hyuga Hiashi who can barely be considered a master, it is really unlikely that the others will attract the attention of strong men like Deidara and Scorpion. With such a godsend opportunity, it is not surprising that the artistic duo rushed over directly.
"It's no use being a wise man after the event. Understanding the cause and effect won't solve the current dilemma. In the end, how can we hold on until help arrives, or give it a try?"
Seeing that Hyuga Hiashi was surrounded by more than a dozen puppets, he bravely killed several of them and broke out of the siege. However, he was indeed left with several bloody wounds. Mizuki knew that Hyuga Hiashi would not be able to hold on for much longer, and it would not be surprising if he fell down in the next second. As for Gaara, if he didn't rest and fainted from exhaustion, it was estimated that Shukaku would come out to take a breath again.
Even in such a dangerous situation, Mizuki did not plan to release Shukaku. Not to mention whether Shukaku could defeat Scorpion, Mizuki did not have the courage to pin his hope of survival on a tailed beast that was more likely to kill him. He had just torn off a large piece of chakra from Shukaku yesterday and made a little Shukaku. It was estimated that the first person he wanted to kill when he appeared was himself, a "robber" and "thief".
"There's nothing else to do. Let's fry the fish first. As for what comes out, I'll just have to hope for the best."
Seeing that it was almost dawn, Mizuki didn't wait any longer and took out two sealing scrolls, one of which was a clone of Uchiha Sasuke without any chakra adjustment, and the other was the chakra collected when Sasuke's curse seal erupted.
"Although it's not fair to you who are destined to have a short life, like a flash in the pan, I still have to say sorry to you who haven't been born yet. Finally, take a good look at this world, the sunrise is beautiful..."
Creating a life with my own hands, and then watching him die, this feeling, last time because of a reckless mistake, I killed a clone for self-protection, I suppressed it for a long time. This time it has to happen again, it really makes me feel uneasy.