Chapter 185: Chapter 78: The Storm Rises Again
Konohagakure Year 27, Spring.
Uchiha Clan Compound, the back mountain of Naka Shrine.
The wind was urgent, and the killing intent permeated the air. Two figures faced each other in the dueling arena.
"Shh! Shh!"
Two streaks of sword light flashed in the air and clashed together in an instant. The splashing sparks slightly illuminated two pairs of scarlet eyes.
The two strained against each other for a moment and discovered that their strength was evenly matched, so they both chose to use the force to retreat.
They simultaneously flicked their hands, and countless sharp sounds of breaking through the air merged into one. In the "clanging" sounds, shuriken collided with each other, scattering and bursting, and broken iron filings splashed in all directions.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
The two completed the hand seals almost simultaneously and shouted in unison. Two huge fireballs collided in mid-air with a bang, the flames burning fiercely, creating a wall of scorching heat several meters high.
Under the high temperature of nearly a thousand degrees, the surrounding flowers and plants dried up piece by piece, turning into ashes and scattered with the wind.
Strangely, instead of taking advantage of their obscured vision to continue attacking each other, the two tacitly stopped and stared at each other in the distorted air.
"Subaru, I really didn't expect that you, who has followed me for so long, would actually harbor such ambitions?"
Uchiha Naka spoke slowly, his eyes containing a strange light. His expression was surprisingly calm, without any of the anger of being betrayed.
Uchiha Subaru snorted coldly and raised his long sword. "Naka, what do you think you relied on to get the position of Clan Leader?"
"Listening to you, you seem to have quite a few complaints against me?" Naka's eyes shifted slightly.
Subaru said in a deep voice: "What you rely on is nothing more than us, your loyal supporters. Without our support, what are you?"
"Hahaha, that's really laughable. Have you decided to betray me?" Naka remained unmoved, a contemptuous smile hanging on his face.
"Betrayal? You betrayed everyone! Since taking office, where have you done anything beneficial to the clan? Your methods are too bloody. How many people did you kill to climb to this position? This kind of iron-blooded policy has already made the clan members groan. Uchiha Naka, a person like you... is not worthy of being Clan Leader!"
"That's enough, is this really your reason for issuing a Clan Leader Death Duel to me?" Naka picked his ear. "Heh, it's really hypocritical. Or should I help you say it? You dared to challenge me simply because you learned 'Izanagi' and are just Blinded by Greed, and have become inflated..."
Subaru's face immediately turned ugly, but he seemed to think of something and calmed down a little. "Naka, your information is all within my grasp. Taijutsu, ninjutsu, genjutsu, dōjutsu, and even fighting habits, I know them like the back of my hand. Today, you can't possibly walk out of here alive!"
"Blustering, do you really think you can understand all of me?" Naka's fingertips lightly stroked the blade of the sword, feeling that chill. "Let me tell you, the real confidence and reliance I have to become the head of the clan is..."
As he spoke, the patterns in his eyes changed, and his whole person's aura suddenly soared several times. The air that had been overheated due to the Fire Release rapidly cooled down and gradually became icy and bone-chilling.
"I am the only one in the clan with a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan!"
Subaru's eyes instantly became solemn. The opponent's Mangekyō Sharingan was indeed very troublesome, but it didn't have very strong offensive capabilities. As long as he dealt with it properly, he still had a certain chance of killing the opponent.
"Today, I will use you as an example to let everyone see what the fate of those who betray me is!"
Naka's eyes widened, and his body moved, instantly窜到in front of Subaru.
"So fast!"
Subaru decisively lowered his head, and a beam of sword light flashed past his scalp, and a strand of hair fell slowly.
He did not hesitate, the three tomoe in his pupils turned extremely fast, and he suddenly leaned to the left, narrowly avoiding a vertically slashed knife.
Cross Slash, derived from the Uchiha Style Sword Technique, coupled with the Sharingan's precise motion capture ability, is a fairly swift starting technique. Anyone who reacted even half a beat slower would immediately die with regret.
This move was Uchiha Naka's signature skill, and Subaru had been on guard against it.
The two swung their swords at the same time, and clashed several times in the blink of an eye, the figures moving quickly, leaving behind bursts of sparks in the air.
After opening the Mangekyō Sharingan, Naka clearly gained the upper hand, and his attack was quite fierce. Subaru's situation became more and more passive.
Firelight surged, and sword light bloomed.
It was unknown how many rounds they had exchanged, and Subaru retreated again and again, finally being forced into a dead end by Naka, and the long sword in his hand was also knocked away by the opponent.
"Fire Release: Ash Concealment!"
Subaru made hand seals and puffed out his cheeks. A thick cloud of dust instantly enveloped the two of them. His vision immediately fell into a haze. What was even worse was that the dust was filled with unimaginable temperatures, as if he had been thrown into a boiling oil pot. It seemed that as long as he took a breath, it would ignite his trachea and lungs.
The moment he lost sight, Naka did not panic, but calmly assumed a defensive posture. A strange light enveloped his whole body, and any dust that touched his body would immediately be reduced to a clear blue Chakra.
Soon, his body burst into brilliant Chakra flames in a surge of air. The dust was also shrinking inch by inch at a speed visible to the naked eye. In less than a moment, it dissipated along with the high temperature!
"Earth Release: Headhunter Jutsu!"
Just at this moment, a hand suddenly emerged from the ground, grabbing Naka's ankle and dragging his whole person into the ground.
The field fell into an eerie silence.
Only a "boom" was heard, the ground was torn apart, and a streak of red light burst out from the crack. In the towering smoke and dust, Uchiha Naka, clad in a red skeleton, leaped up from the ground.
Two huge bone arms firmly grabbed Uchiha Subaru's body, the left hand clenched his head, and the right hand grabbed his legs.
A trace of ruthlessness flashed in Naka's eyes. As blood emerged from his eye sockets, both bone hands exerted force at the same time and twisted violently!
With a "crack," Subaru's body was directly torn apart, broken in half from the waist, his internal organs shattered, and blood splashed like rain.
Naka panted heavily and immediately closed the Susanoo. Looking at Subaru's broken corpse, a naked sarcasm flashed across the corner of his mouth.
At some moment, it seemed that in just the blink of an eye, Subaru's body disappeared, along with the blood stains all over the ground.
What replaced it was a kunai that pierced Naka's heart from behind, hot blood gurgling, dyeing Subaru's palm red.
Subaru appeared behind Naka the moment he disappeared. His face was ferocious, and one eyeball had completely turned pale white.
It was obvious that he had used the forbidden technique "Izanagi" at the cost of losing sight in one eye.
"I said, I completely understand your methods. Everything is within my expectations!"
Looking at the weakened Naka, Subaru grinned, not intending to give him any chance to breathe. One hand covered the top of the opponent's head, and the other hand snapped down, exerting force in an instant.
"Crack!"
Naka knelt down weakly, his face twisted to the back staring at Subaru, his neck already a pretzel.
"I won!" Subaru's mouth turned up, drawing a victor's smile.
However, just at this moment, Naka, who had clearly lost his breath, suddenly revealed a strange smile, and a certain Mangekyō bloomed with an eerie light.
"How is that possible!" Subaru's heart shook violently, his pupils shrinking to pinpoints.
In the next moment, a blood hole instantly burst open in his heart, his head rotated half a circle out of thin air, twisting his neck on its own. With a crisp crack of bone, he instantly lost all breath and collapsed to the ground, as dead as dead could be.
Naka slowly rose from the ground, the wound in his heart had long since disappeared, and his head was back in its original position, as if the injury had been completely transferred to Subaru.
"You really thought... I only had one dōjutsu? Trash!"
He glanced at Subaru's body and let out a disdainful sneer.
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