The Storm Rises Again

Hidden Leaf Village Year 27, Spring.

Uchiha Clan Territory, behind Naka Shrine.

The wind howled, killing intent permeated the air, and two figures faced off in the dueling ground.

"Shuu! Shuu!"

Two streaks of sword light flashed in the air, colliding in an instant, the scattering sparks faintly illuminating two pairs of scarlet eyes.

After a brief struggle of strength, they realized they were evenly matched and chose to retreat, using the force to pull back.

They simultaneously flung their hands, countless sharp sounds of piercing air converged into one, and amidst the "clanging" sounds, shuriken collided and shattered, broken iron filings scattering in all directions.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

The two completed their hand seals almost simultaneously, uttering a low shout in unison, and two huge fireballs collided in mid-air with a deafening roar, the raging flames igniting a scorching wall a dozen meters high.

Under the nearly thousand-degree heat, the surrounding flowers and plants withered one by one, turning into ashes and scattering with the wind.

Surprisingly, instead of taking advantage of the obscured vision to continue their attacks, the two tacitly stopped, watching each other in the distorted air.

"Mao, I really didn't expect that after following me for so long, you would harbor such ambitions?"

Uchiha Naka spoke slowly, his eyes containing a strange light, his expression surprisingly calm, without any of the anger of being betrayed.

Uchiha Mao snorted coldly, raising his long sword, "Naka, what do you think you relied on to get the position of Clan Head?"

"Listening to you, it seems you have quite a few complaints about me?" Naka's eyes shifted slightly.

Mao said in a deep voice, "What you rely on is nothing more than us, your loyal supporters. Without our support, what are you?"

"Hahaha, how ridiculous, have you made up your mind to betray me?" Naka remained unmoved, a contemptuous smile on his face.

"Betrayal? It's you who betrayed everyone! Since taking office, have you ever done anything beneficial to the clan? Your methods are too bloody. How many people have you killed to climb to this position? This iron-blooded policy has already made the clan members groan in misery. Uchiha Naka, a person like you... is not worthy of being the Clan Head!"

"That's enough, is this really your reason for issuing a Clan Head Deathmatch to me?" Naka picked at his ear, "Heh, how hypocritical. Or should I say it for you? You dared to challenge me simply because you learned 'Izanagi', and you've become inflated with greed..."

Mao's face immediately turned ugly, but he seemed to have thought of something, and calmed down a little, "Naka, my information about you is entirely within my grasp. Taijutsu, Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, Eye Technique, even your fighting habits, I know them all like the back of my hand. Today, there's no way you're walking out of here alive!"

"Bluffing, do you really think you can understand everything about me?" Naka's fingertips gently stroked the blade, feeling the chill, "Let me tell you, the real foundation and reliance for me to become the Clan Head is..."

As he spoke, the patterns in his eyes changed, and his aura instantly soared several times. The air, which had been overheated by the Fire Release, quickly cooled down, gradually becoming icy and biting.

"I am the only one in the clan with a pair of Mangekyo Sharingan!"

Mao's eyes instantly became serious. The opponent's Mangekyo Sharingan was indeed very troublesome, but it didn't have too strong of an offensive ability. As long as he responded properly, he was still confident in killing the opponent.

"Today, I will use you as an example to show everyone what happens to those who betray me!"

Naka's eyes widened, his body moved, and in an instant, he darted in front of Mao.

"So fast!"

Mao decisively lowered his head, a beam of sword light flashed horizontally across his scalp, and a strand of hair fluttered down.

Without hesitation, the three tomoe in his pupils spun rapidly, and he abruptly leaned to the left, narrowly avoiding a vertically slashing blade.

Cross Slash, originating from Uchiha Style Swordsmanship, combined with the Sharingan's precise motion capture ability, is a swift opening technique. Anyone with a slightly slower reaction would immediately meet their demise.

This move is Uchiha Naka's signature technique, and Mao has been wary of it all along.

The two simultaneously swung their swords, exchanging several blows in the blink of an eye, their figures darting about, leaving trails of sparks in the air.

After activating the Mangekyo Sharingan, Naka clearly gained the upper hand, his attacks were quite fierce, and Mao's situation became increasingly passive.

Firelight surged, and sword rays burst forth.

After countless exchanges, Mao retreated again and again, finally being forced into a dead end by Naka, the long sword in his hand also knocked away by the opponent.

"Fire Release: Ash Dust Concealing Technique!"

Mao formed hand seals, suddenly puffing out his cheeks, a thick cloud of ash instantly enveloping both of them, their vision immediately plunged into a haze. What was even more deadly was that the ash was filled with unimaginable heat, as if they had been thrown into a boiling oil pot, and it seemed that just taking a breath would ignite their trachea and lungs.

The moment he lost his vision, Naka did not panic, but calmly adopted a defensive stance, a strange light enveloping his entire body. Any ash that touched his body would immediately be restored to a shimmering blue Chakra.

Soon, his body ignited with a dazzling Chakra flame in a surge of air currents, and the ash also shrunk inch by inch at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in a short while, it dissipated along with the high temperature!

"Earth Release: Underground Headhunter Technique!"

At this moment, a hand suddenly emerged from the ground, grabbing Naka's ankle and dragging his entire body underground.

The arena fell into an eerie silence.

With a "boom", the ground was torn apart, and a streak of scarlet light burst out from the crack. In the soaring smoke and dust, Uchiha Naka, clad in a scarlet skeleton, leaped up from the ground.

Two huge bone arms firmly grasped Uchiha Mao's body, the left hand clenched his head, and the right hand grabbed his legs.

A hint of ruthlessness flashed in Naka's eyes. As blood emerged from his eye sockets, both bone hands exerted force at the same time, twisting violently!

With a crisp "crack", Mao's body was directly torn apart, broken into two bloody sections from the waist, his internal organs shattered, and blood splattered like rain.

Naka gasped for breath, immediately deactivated his Susanoo, looked at Mao's broken corpse, and a naked mockery crossed his lips.

At some point, it seemed to be just in the blink of an eye, Mao's corpse disappeared, along with the bloodstains all over the ground.

In its place, a Kunai pierced through Naka's heart from behind, hot blood gurgling, staining Mao's palm red.

Mao appeared behind Naka the moment he disappeared, his face ferocious, one eyeball completely turned pale white.

Obviously, he had used the forbidden technique "Izanagi" at the cost of losing one eye.

"I said, I fully understand your methods, everything is within my expectations!"

Looking at Naka, whose aura was weakening, Mao grinned, not intending to give him any chance to breathe. One hand covered the top of the opponent's head, and the other hand clasped the bottom, exerting force instantly.

"Crack!"

Naka knelt down powerlessly, his face, twisted to his back, stared fixedly at Mao, his neck already turned into a pretzel.

"I won!" Mao's mouth rose, evoking the smile of a victor.

However, at this moment, Naka, who had clearly lost his breath, suddenly revealed a strange smile, a certain Mangekyo blooming with a bewitching light.

"How is that possible!" Mao's heart trembled wildly, his pupils shrinking to pinpoints.

In the next moment, a bloody hole instantly burst open in his heart, his head rotated half a circle out of thin air, twisting his neck on its own. Accompanied by a crisp sound of bone cracking, his aura vanished instantly, and he collapsed to the ground, dead beyond dead.

Naka slowly rose from the ground, the wound in his heart already gone, and his head somehow back in its original position, as if the injuries from just now had been completely transferred to Mao.

"Did you really think... I only had one Eye Technique? Trash!"

He glanced at Mao's corpse, letting out a disdainful sneer.

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