Have you ever heard of the mist technique. It blind all the opponets.
The only way for the kages to know where th swordsman are at is for garra to make a desert then garra will be able to sense them with his sand
but even if garra does that zabuza,
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simply used that tech before zabuza did meaning zabuza can use it too.)
suikazan fuguki-(which is the one sameheda)
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,and
Hohzuki mangetsu(suigetsu brother)
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all use water techs.
And like kisame hohzuki can make massive amounts of water making garra's sand hard to control.
Also when they put up their mist technique they can all tell where an oponet is just by sound.. While no one on the kage side can know where the swordsman are at.
Dust release uses huge amount of chakra and anooki only used it once before he couldnt use it anymorehttp://www.narutobase.net/manga/Naruto/556/5