"Leon… you really do have something," Uchiha Shisui said, eyes sharpening as he studied him. "I'm curious—what's your ninja way?"
"My ninja way?" Leon replied evenly. "To become the strongest in the shinobi world."
Shisui let out a slow breath.
To him, that answer felt small. Narrow. Lonely.
People who truly carry the Will of Fire are always misunderstood…
And Leon—standing here like a wall of steel—clearly wasn't going to share Shisui's "bigger dream."
Then I'll force him to face it.
Shisui's gaze turned cold.
He stopped talking.
Hands flew through seals.
"Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique!"
Chakra surged.
A massive fire-dragon erupted from Shisui's mouth and lunged forward—fast, violent, devouring the air as it tore straight toward Leon.
Leon didn't step back.
"Break it."
He clenched his right fist, blurred forward—
and punched.
CRACK—CRACK—
The air detonated around his knuckles.
BOOM!!
His fist met the fire-dragon head-on—
and the technique burst apart, shredded by raw impact. Flames scattered outward like shattered glass.
Shisui's pupils shrank.
"What…?"
No chakra flare.
No jutsu collision.
Just a body—
and a punch—
that ripped a high-level Fire Release apart like paper.
What kind of monster…?
Leon's voice came from behind him, flat and cold.
"Surprised?"
Shisui's spine went rigid.
"Finger Pistol."
Leon appeared at his back and drove a single finger toward Shisui's spine.
PFFT—
Smoke.
Shisui's body burst into white mist.
A shadow clone.
Shisui had already predicted the strike.
Then a voice snapped from behind Leon.
"Uchiha Style: Leaping Flame Slash!"
Leon didn't bother dodging.
A calm thought—
and black Armament Haki wrapped around his fist like armor.
He turned and punched.
CLANG!
Metal screamed.
Shisui's flame-coated blade slammed into Leon's Haki-covered knuckles—
and the collision kicked a shockwave outward.
The stone beneath them shuddered.
The First Hokage's stone face cracked—thin fractures spreading like spiderwebs.
Shisui's expression tightened.
This isn't "taijutsu." This is a human-shaped disaster.
Worse—
standing in front of Leon felt uncomfortably similar to facing the Fourth Raikage.
Shisui had encountered the Raikage and Killer B during the war.
He knew what monstrous nintaijutsu looked like—Lightning Release turning flesh into a weapon.
But Leon?
No lightning chakra.
No chakra surge at all.
Just raw physique.
Just terrifying, unreasonable strength.
Shisui didn't stop.
He flickered away—appearing behind Leon again.
"Uchiha Style: Gale Sword!"
His blade carved down, producing a massive flaming slash—an enormous fire-edged arc that tore through the air.
Leon's eyes narrowed.
"Tempest Kick."
He sprang upward and snapped a leg out in a clean arc.
BOOM!!
A razor-sharp vacuum blade—an invisible slash—shot forward and crashed into Shisui's flaming arc.
Energy detonated.
Shockwaves roared out in every direction.
One of them—unstable, uncontrolled—
slammed directly into the already-cracked stone face of Senju Hashirama.
RUMBLE—!!!
A deep groove tore across the First Hokage's carved head.
Stone splintered.
Cracks multiplied.
A whole section began to give way.
"Bad!" Shisui's eyes widened.
"We're leaving," Leon said immediately.
They exchanged one look—
then vanished at the same time.
BOOOOM—!!
The damaged section finally collapsed, chunks of rock ripping free and crashing down the mountain.
The impact rolled through the village like an earthquake.
Hidden in the shadows, the watchers went numb.
Two Uchiha shinobi. Three Root agents. Three ANBU.
All staring like statues.
"This… is insane."
"Leon's taijutsu… no—his body… how is it this strong?"
"One punch to blow apart a jutsu—what kind of power is inside that small frame?"
Shisui had shown strength worthy of a Jōnin, with room to spare.
But Leon?
He hadn't used visible chakra at all.
No flashy ninjutsu.
No tricks.
Just simple, direct violence—
like nothing existed in this world that couldn't be solved by hitting it hard enough.
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