With turbulent air waves, the four-hole buzzing finger guns shot towards Ye Cang at an extremely fast speed.
"What an unlovable little brat. It seems I can only take your head back," Ye Cang said, quickly forming hand seals. "Remember your big sister's name. Sunagakure's Scorch Style user, Ye Cang!"
"Scorch Style: Extreme Steaming Murder!"
Five basketball-sized orange-red fireballs appeared beside her, constantly rotating around her body.
The buzzing finger guns arrived instantly. The fireballs surrounding Ye Cang quickly moved to block them. She managed to dodge several others, but one slipped past her defenses. The surrounding superheated fireballs rapidly overlapped and collided with the four-hole buzzing finger gun.
The collision of Water Style and Scorch Style caused a massive burst of steam to erupt. A figure was knocked backward from within the vapor.
"Sister, you should also remember my name. Konoha ninja, Dosuke!"
A long trench was carved into the ground where she skidded to a halt. At the end of it, Ye Cang leaned on her single sword for support, a trace of blood at the corner of her mouth. The intensely hot fireballs around her quickly evaporated the blood.
"That was careless. I didn't expect that strange ninjutsu to have such strong penetrating power. Even with my five-layer Scorch Shield, I was injured just from blocking it."
Ye Cang sheathed her single saber and formed hand seals with both hands. "Scorch Style: Lava Flow River!"
The ground near the two combatants began to crack, and a powerful chakra surged through the area. The land around Dosuke and Ye Cang directly transformed into billowing magma, and Dosuke found himself completely surrounded.
Originally, Ye Cang hadn't intended to use this ninjutsu; it consumed a vast amount of chakra. But the Water Style ninjutsu of the boy in white in front of her was too effective at countering her Scorch Style. If she could kill this kid, Konoha would definitely lose a seeded genius. No, this kid could already be called a genius. At such a young age, he could use the Great Waterfall Technique and that strange, loud ninjutsu. She could even get hurt if she wasn't careful around him.
"Scorch Style: Giant Lava Fist!"
Ye Cang clenched one hand into a fist, and a massive fist of magma suddenly erupted from the molten river. It punched towards Dosuke at lightning speed.
"Water Style: Water Formation Wall!" A large amount of water spewed from Dosuke's mouth, the flow quickly forming a dome around him and wrapping him in a protective sphere.
Boom!
The giant lava fist collided with the water dome, releasing a huge cloud of steam.
"Wind Style: Vacuum Wave!"
Shoo! Shoo! Shoo!
Large Wind Style vacuum spheres shot rapidly towards Dosuke, blowing away the steam as they slammed directly into his water barrier.
The giant lava fist had only weakened one layer of his water wall, leaving Dosuke inside unharmed.
"What a difficult brat. And what the hell is that ninjutsu?" Ye Cang's face was flushed. Her hands flew through another set of seals.
"Scorch Style: Rock Flow Collapse!"
She pressed her slender hands tightly to the ground. The magma surged and then erupted skyward, forming a containing wall. Unlike Dosuke's water wall, which protected him, this magma wall was meant to trap him and prevent his escape.
Dosuke, trapped in the middle of the magma river, watched as the land around him slowly sank with the continuous surging of the molten rock.
Ye Cang, standing beside the magma river, watched Dosuke slowly sinking, a smile touching the corner of her mouth. Kid, you can be buried here.
Inside his water sphere, Dosuke released the hand seal for his technique.
Whoosh!
The water sprayed onto the ground, meeting the surrounding magma and instantly evaporating into a thick blanket of water vapor that covered him completely.
From the bank, Ye Cang caught a glimpse of Dosuke through the steam, smiling at her and pointing his index finger. The inexplicable smile startled her. The sixth sense honed from years of dangerous missions screamed at her to interrupt her own ninjutsu.
Boom!
The semicircular lava walls, without the support of her chakra, scattered and collapsed.
The spot where Ye Cang had been squatting was pierced by a white column of air.
"He's really decisive. The sixth sense of these experienced ninjas is amazing," Dosuke remarked, now standing beside the magma pool. His right index finger was still pointed like a pistol at the spot Ye Cang had just occupied. His left hand, now out of his pocket, held a strangely shaped kunai.
Hummm!
It was only then that the sound of the buzzing finger gun finally arrived.
Ye Cang clutched her injured left arm, looking at Dosuke standing by the magma pool with a shocked expression. A bead of cold sweat dripped from her rounded chin, evaporating into a wisp of smoke before it could even hit the ground.
This... this kid... he just suddenly appeared there from the middle of the surrounded magma! That air column... if she hadn't dodged ahead of time, it would have been more than just her left arm that was grazed.
Just as the two confronted each other, the sound of footsteps echoed. A large number of ninjas wearing Konoha forehead protectors arrived and gradually surrounded the area.
Looking at the many Konoha ninjas, Ye Cang spat out a mouthful of phlegm tinged with blood. "I have to go." Damn it, if it weren't for this kid, my surprise attack plan would have succeeded. She shot a vicious glare from her beautiful eyes at Dosuke in his white medical uniform.
"Stinking brat, next time you will die." She left the threat hanging in the air.
Shoo! Shoo! Shoo!
Earth spears, water jets, lightning bolts, and wind blades all shot towards Ye Cang where she stood. Unable to dodge in time, she was hit by the barrage of ninjutsu. But when the attacks landed, what flowed from her wounds wasn't blood, but an orange-red liquid.
"Don't go near her!" a Hyuga clansman with bulging veins around his eyes shouted loudly.
Hearing the shout, the several ninjas who had already reached Ye Cang froze for a moment. They could only watch as the Ye Cang in front of them began to slowly melt and expand.
BANG!
With a loud explosion, Ye Cang transformed into a fireball that swallowed the ninjas who had approached.
In the woods some distance away, a slender figure was clutching her injured arm, leaping from one tall tree to another. She heard the commotion behind her and turned her head to see the huge explosion rising into the air.
"Hope it works!"
"Scorch Style: Magma Clone!" Ye Cang formed a hand seal, and an orange-red human form slowly differentiated from her body. When it landed, it took on Ye Cang's appearance and ran off in a different direction.
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Back at the Konoha camp, the other ninjas chased in the direction the clone had fled.
Dosuke, who was standing by the magma pool, felt his legs go weak, and he fell backward.
"Dosuke!" Asami Ayase instantly moved to his side and caught him.
"Dosuke, are you injured?" Yamamatsu Taihe and the others also rushed over to him.
"I'm okay," Dosuke said, gradually standing steady with Ayase Asami's support. "I just used too much chakra."