Ch 17: Minato VS Tatsumi

Standing on the platform, Minato wore a bright smile.

"...Ahaha." Minato realized he couldn't get a word in.

"Minato, take my advice," Tatsumi stood opposite Minato and spoke again.

"In terms of strength, you are not my match right now. If you want to avoid injury and conserve your strength for the next opponent, it's better to admit defeat early."

"Thanks for the reminder, but I still want to fight you," Minato said without giving up.

Tatsumi knew his friend Minato's personality, so he didn't say anything more.

Minato shook his head, rejecting Tatsumi's suggestion and indicating that he wanted to continue fighting. He then took out two cotton balls from his pocket.

"I've observed your battles with others several times, Tatsumi, and I've noticed that your current fighting style mainly uses sound and sight to cast illusions. Illusions spread through sound and sight as a medium are difficult to prevent, but as long as I do this."

Minato stuffed the cotton into his ears. He also lowered his head, averted his gaze from Tatsumi's hands, and focused on Tatsumi's legs.

"As long as my eyes aren't on your hands and my ears can't hear your words... Tatsumi, let's begin."

Tatsumi, standing opposite Minato, nodded.

There are indeed many ways to break illusions. Tatsumi doesn't have the Sharingan yet, so he can only use sound and sight to make his opponent fall into an illusion.

If Minato possessed the same superb taijutsu as Might Guy, the illusion would not be able to capture him.

However, Minato is not the future Yellow Flash yet. The ninja school also doesn't teach how to break illusions.

Therefore, he can only think of this method to deal with Tatsumi.

Tatsumi raised his hand and shot several shurikens at Minato.

Below the platform, the students surrounding the arena were also attracted by this somewhat deformed battle.

After all, the eyes and ears are among the most important things for a ninja.

The shurikens were thrown out extremely fast, and before Minato could react, they grazed his cheeks, leaving two shallow wounds, and blood slowly oozed from the wounds.

Tatsumi deliberately missed with the shurikens, but Minato didn't show any surprise at the cuts on his face, as if he had known that Tatsumi's shurikens wouldn't really hit him.

"I've put a lot of effort into dealing with your illusions, so don't play these little tricks," Minato said to Tatsumi, raising his hand and knocking down the shurikens that had ricocheted back after colliding.

"Alright," Tatsumi nodded and began to form hand seals.

—Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!

Tatsumi opened his mouth and blew out a huge fireball. This is the Uchiha clan's unique Great Fireball Technique. Under Tatsumi's control of his chakra, the Great Fireball Technique is only slightly larger than a normal Great Fireball.

It's just a test.

Faced with the oncoming heat, Minato used the Body Flicker Technique.

The huge fireball crashed into the log that appeared in place of the Body Flicker Technique, but Minato, who had escaped to the side, was unharmed.

At this moment, Minato quickly threw out several shurikens, which attacked Tatsumi, attempting to block Tatsumi's movements.

"Minato, do you see me as a purely illusion-based ninja?"

Tatsumi said these words, of course, he knew that Minato couldn't hear him now, but he still said it, saying it to the countless students watching below the stage.

Tatsumi also quickly threw out several kunai, and all of Minato's kunai were accurately knocked down.

Tatsumi's kunai are of the fourth rank.

At this moment, Tatsumi just saw Minato complete the hand seals for Wind Release.

"Wind Release: Wind Cutter!"

This technique was taught to Minato by Tatsumi.

Minato is someone who possesses the wind attribute. As a friend, Tatsumi taught Minato several C-rank Wind Release ninjutsu.

Tatsumi dodged with a Body Flicker Technique. Then he moved sideways and got close to Minato.

Tatsumi quickly came to Minato's side, stretched out his hand, and stabbed the kunai tightly held in his hand towards Minato's arm, but it was blocked by Minato's kunai.

The two sides quickly fought together!

Tatsumi landed a spinning kick on Minato, and Minato punched back in pain. Faced with the menacing punch, Tatsumi's expression remained unchanged. He grabbed Minato's fist, dodged to the side, and at the same time raised his right leg and kneed Minato in the stomach!

Tatsumi, with an unchanged expression, didn't stop. He straightened his right leg and delivered another whip kick, sending Minato flying.

This shows the difference in taijutsu between Minato and Tatsumi. As soon as they exchanged blows, Minato immediately fell into a disadvantage.

Tatsumi didn't continue to entangle with taijutsu, he still had to keep his trump cards.

Tatsumi took out several kunai, and the kunai immediately left Tatsumi's hands.

The kunai went straight for Minato's legs.

Did he miss?

The students below were thinking.

Who knew that the kunai collided in mid-air, made a turn, and attacked upwards, towards Minato's slightly lowered face.

''What exquisite kunai throwing,'' Jiraiya widened his eyes, after all, he wasn't the type of ninja who was good at using shurikens.

Minato's eyes were fixed on the kunai that was coming through the air. At this time, he didn't have time to form hand seals to use the Body Flicker Technique to dodge, so he had to subconsciously look up.

In the instant Minato looked up, his widened eyes saw Tatsumi's hand!

"...Sleep."

The school simply doesn't teach courses on how to break illusions. These things are taught by jonin instructors after the students graduate.

No matter how heaven-defying Minato will be in the future, he is now just a second-year student at the ninja school.

Without any resistance, after falling into Tatsumi's illusion, Minato staggered a few steps, then fell headfirst to the ground, and then fell asleep.

"For an illusion expert, even a small movement of a finger is enough to make the opponent fall into an illusion."

Tatsumi shook his windbreaker, lightly left this emotional sigh, then bent down, carried the sleeping Minato on his shoulders, and took him off the field together.

''Wow! How handsome.''

''Tatsumi! Tatsumi! Tatsumi!''

A huge scream suddenly erupted below.

Jiraiya was stunned as he looked at Tatsumi's figure.

''Is this the gap between me and excellence?''

...

"Tatsumi, are you okay?!"

Tatsumi received Mikoto's important attention as soon as he left the field. The little girl looked at her sweetheart's arm with almost unblinking eyes. The thin wound on it, which had been cut by a kunai, was still slowly leaving blood.

"It's a small injury, it's okay," Tatsumi waved his hand, indicating that he was fine.

But Mikoto, who cares about Tatsumi, would not agree with such an answer, and dragged him to the other side of the field, which is where Tsunade was.

Poor Minato was still lying on the ground at this time.

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