Chapter 1045

Sakumo used a flick of his wrist to knock away the poisoned kunai.

Accompanied by the sound of a sharp object cutting through the air, the kunai traced a perfect parabola before sticking into the ground.

"Bang!!"

Then, Sakumo took advantage of the opening, using a back kick at a speed almost invisible to the naked eye to hit the traitor behind him, followed by a set of exquisite grappling techniques to turn and subdue him.

"Crack, crack!!!!"

Sakumo applied more force, and the bones in the limbs of this Root squad member were all dislocated and twisted, completely losing the ability to act.

"Hmph!"

A painful muffled groan came from the Root squad member's mouth, and the face under the damaged mask became incredibly hideous.

Sakumo flipped over again, pinning him down, while still vigilantly scanning the surrounding enemies.

The whole process took less than a second; before the surrounding Kirigakure ninja could react, Sakumo had already subdued the traitor.

"How is this possible!!!"

Although the voice of the Kirigakure leader in the distance remained cold, there was a hint of shock in his words.

He never expected that his backstab plan would be seen through by Hatake Sakumo.

Hatake Sakumo ignored the Kirigakure ninja in the distance, instead staring fixedly at the Root squad member beneath him with a sharp gaze.

In the current situation, anyone who wasn't a fool could see that the mission had definitely gone wrong.

Whether it was the enemy's posture of being fully prepared and waiting at ease, or their understanding of Sakumo's sword technique during the battle, it all indicated that there was a massive leak of intelligence on the Konoha side.

And there was only one reason for this—there was a mole in the Konoha team!!

Sakumo had already sensed something wrong when this person came to his side earlier.

With the combat quality of this group of Kirigakure ninja, it was absolutely impossible for them to easily let someone into the encirclement of Hatake Sakumo to provide him with assistance.

Not only that, assuming everything was as he said.

That he realized the situation was wrong and broke into the encirclement to support.

But this raised a problem.

With his own strength, it was absolutely impossible for him to break into the encirclement alone.

This meant that he was not the only one who came to assist; why was he the only one who rushed into the encirclement?

Admittedly, it was possible that others had died in the process of breaking through; this possibility did exist.

But it was a bit too coincidental.

As a ninja with rich mission experience, Hatake Sakumo certainly wouldn't believe in so-called "coincidences."

So there was only one answer.

This guy who "supported" was very likely the traitor who had been leaking information all along.

To test this guy, Hatake Sakumo had risked his life to expose his back.

Sakumo looked directly into his eyes, as if wanting to force out the reason for the other party's betrayal.

But unfortunately, all Sakumo saw in the eyes of this Root squad member was numbness.

The numbness in the eyes of this Root squad member lasted only for an instant; soon, a look of relief appeared in the depths of his eyes. ===== CHAPTER 1047 =====