"Tch, this village's traitorous shinobi really is a nuisance! There's not a single secret he doesn't know!"
Seeing that Uchiha Yasuo's intent was clear and that exaggerated fireball came crashing straight toward him, even Nara Shikaku couldn't help but find it somewhat troublesome.
His Shadow Secret Technique was completely countered by this Fireball Technique!
"Scatter!"
At his command, Nara Shikaku and the shinobi behind him immediately leapt aside, letting the enormous fireball smash into the ground.
[Boom!]
When the fireball struck the ground, it exploded, and the flames instantly scattered, spreading outward from the point of impact in all directions, forcing the Konoha shinobi to retreat even farther.
With just one attack, Uchiha Yasuo had scattered the shinobi squad, cutting the battlefield apart with roaring flames.
Unfortunately, he was alone, with no comrades at his side. Otherwise, he could have taken the chance to surround and crush them, laying the foundation for victory.
"Still not enough chakra…" Uchiha Yasuo sighed inwardly.
Although Inaba no Hakuto supported him, giving him chakra far beyond that of ordinary people, it was still not as inexhaustible as that of a true Tailed Beast. Using too much still placed immense strain on his eyes.
Otherwise, like Naruto or Madara, he could have released dozens of shadow clones—no number of jōnin would have been enough to fight him.
Raindrops and flames clashed, producing sharp hissing sounds and vast amounts of white steam, causing visibility to plummet. In such a combat environment, it made little difference to Uchiha Yasuo, who possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan—but for the ordinary Konoha shinobi, it was extremely dangerous.
Suddenly, that towering energy giant vanished, and Uchiha Yasuo's figure disappeared from where he stood.
"Be careful! He's charging in!"
Nara Shikaku's heart jolted, and he hastily shouted a warning. But before the words had fully left his mouth, a shadow flickered before him—a pair of blood-red eyes appeared right in front of him. The pattern of the Sharingan rapidly expanded in his vision, as if to drag his consciousness into an abyss.
Damn it!
He's coming for me!
Nara Shikaku didn't hesitate for even a moment. He immediately activated his shadow and bent his own little finger backward, breaking it.
With a crisp crack, searing pain shot through his entire body like an electric current, instantly pulling him back from the illusion.
Then he saw his body flipping backward, bending at an incredible angle just in time to evade a short blade that had been slashing toward his throat.
On the ground, the shadow had condensed into a shadow whip, coiling toward the approaching enemy.
It was Yamanaka Inoichi controlling his body with the Mind Disorder Body Technique, allowing him to escape the enemy's strike!
Such coordination had been forged through innumerable life-and-death battles—it was almost an instinctive reaction. Even if he lost consciousness, his body would not resist Yamanaka Inoichi's control.
Of course, he also often used the Shadow Imitation Technique to control Yamanaka Inoichi in return.
That was close!
After regaining awareness, Nara Shikaku broke out in a cold sweat, further raising his assessment of "Uchiha Itachi's" danger level.
He had been focused solely on defending against the Susanoo, never expecting "Uchiha Itachi" to dismiss it and charge at him alone under the cover of reduced visibility, using genjutsu on him.
The genjutsu of the Sharingan was even more terrifying than the rumors claimed!
And this kind of sudden switch in combat style was truly impossible to guard against!
If not for the many years of cooperation and perfect coordination among the Ino–Shika–Chō trio, they might already have fallen to him.
He simply closed his eyes, relaxed his body, and let Yamanaka Inoichi control his movements.
The Uchiha's genjutsu was indeed frightening, but Yamanaka Inoichi did not rely on sight to sense his enemy—he used mental perception for precise targeting, which in turn nullified the Uchiha clan's powerful illusion techniques.
Invisible chakra threads connected the two men's minds, perfectly synchronizing their movements. They acted as one, performing identical motions, narrowly and flawlessly avoiding the enemy's relentless attacks.
Elsewhere, Akimichi Chōza—having realized that Nara Shikaku's side was in danger—no longer cared about his body's limits and immediately revealed his trump card.
"Super Multi-Size Technique!"
As the secret technique activated, Akimichi Chōza's already enormous body swelled outward several more times, transforming into a super giant even taller than the Susanoo.
The colossal figure rose up from the ground, casting a shadow that shrouded nearly half the battlefield. Raindrops struck his mountain-like body, producing a crackling percussion of impact.
The burden brought by the Super Multi-Size Technique was not light. He could clearly feel the sound of his muscle fibers tearing under unbearable strain, yet the determination in his eyes did not waver in the slightest.
With a single step forward, Akimichi Chōza returned to the battlefield from the opposite side of the forest.
Because Uchiha Yasuo had dispelled the Susanoo, and now with flames and steam spreading all over the battlefield, he could not locate the enemy's figure for the moment.
However, the reason Akimichi Chōza had transformed into a super giant was not entirely to clash directly with the enemy.
He raised both hands and slammed them heavily onto the ground beneath him.
The pair of giant palms struck the earth like falling meteors, instantly smashing two enormous handprints into the ground.
With a thunderous boom, the shockwave generated by the impact spread outward from where his palms met the earth, even blasting open crater-like rings.
Wherever the shockwave passed, fierce winds erupted, the ground rolled up, sand and stones flew wildly, and trees were uprooted.
The blazing flames burning across the battlefield swayed twice under the gust and were completely extinguished.
The steam permeating the surroundings was also swept away without a trace.
The entire battlefield immediately became clear, and everyone's position was fully exposed.
"Heh, quick reaction, huh!"
Uchiha Yasuo's eyes turned cold. Shifting his stance, he flashed behind Akimichi Chōza, the Mangekyō in his eyes slowly rotating. The Susanoo appeared once again, raising its staff high, and with a shriek that tore through the air, it came crashing down toward the back of Akimichi Chōza's head.
"Ha!"
Akimichi Chōza let out a loud roar, tilting his body slightly as the muscles on his arm bulged, veins popping, and he fiercely drove his elbow backward with unstoppable force to meet the descending staff head-on.
[Boom!]
Energy and flesh collided for the second time, erupting once more into an earth-shaking explosion. The resulting shockwaves blasted outward in all directions, their destructive power rivaling or even surpassing that of a jōnin's Wind Release technique—ordinary shinobi could hardly approach the battlefield at all.
Nara Shikaku's shadow surged wildly within the massive shadow cast by Akimichi Chōza, twisting and deforming like a living creature.
Using the vast shadow area created by the Super Multi-Size Technique, the scale of the shadow whip reached an unprecedented level—so thick it was almost absurd, resembling a pitch-black venomous dragon racing along the ground against the shockwaves, coiling straight toward the legs of the Susanoo.
"Such a nuisance!"
Uchiha Yasuo furrowed his brow, forming hand seals rapidly with one hand. Susanoo spewed another burst of fire, burning that poisonous dragon to ashes—but new shadows kept emerging without end.
While he was handling Nara Shikaku, Akimichi Chōza had already lunged forward. His enormous palms clamped onto Susanoo's arm like iron pincers, muscles bulging to the extreme as a thunderous roar burst out.
"Let's see how you form seals this time!"
In an instant, new shadow-whip poisonous dragons reformed once again, springing up from the ground out of thin air. They twisted through the air like living serpents, pouncing toward him again—this time even larger in scale than before.
"Heh… who said Susanoo only has two arms?"
Uchiha Yasuo let out a cold laugh. At a mere thought, a third arm suddenly stretched out from beneath Susanoo's right rib. Dark-red chakra swiftly condensed into form, its fingers moving deftly in tandem with his rapid hand seals.
In an instant, blazing dragon-shaped flames roared from Susanoo's mouth, tracing a graceful arc through the air as they surged toward their target with the momentum to annihilate everything.
This time, his ninjutsu did not attack only the shadow-whip dragon. After burning it away, he turned his head, and the torrent of flames swept toward Akimichi Chōza, who was grappling with Susanoo.
Before the fire even reached him, the scorching heat distorted the air, and the falling rain evaporated at once.
Akimichi Chōza hastily released Susanoo's arm, trying to retreat, but Susanoo's backhand grab was even faster.
The giant energy hand clamped tightly around his wrist, preventing him from escaping.
This time, the one caught—was him!
He was only half a beat too slow when the torrent of flames sprayed directly onto Akimichi Chōza's body at point-blank range.
The fire coiled around his massive frame like a living thing, engulfing him in an instant and turning him into a blazing human torch.
In his Multi-Size Technique state, his body became the perfect fuel. The flames spread rapidly over his entire body, crackling and popping as they burned. A nauseating stench of scorched protein filled the air, enough to make anyone retch.
"Damn it!"
Nara Shikaku's heart jolted in alarm. New shadow-whips instantly shot out beneath his feet, connecting to the ground under Akimichi Chōza.
Akimichi Chōza instinctively tucked in his head and limbs, his body turning into a massive ball of flesh. Pulled by the shadow whip, he was swung up and flung toward Uchiha Yasuo.
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