Justice Execution: Not Even Family Is Spared

When he saw the spy ninja sent to meet him killed, and heard Uchiha Chisen's words, utterly devoid of regard for family ties...

Uchiha Onigawara realized his only way out was to carve a bloody path through them as fast as possible!

He sucked in a deep breath and spat out a massive fireball, sending it surging upward.

The roaring flames scorched the wooden walls of the house until they were charred black.

The firelight painted the lower half of Uchiha Chisen's face orange-red.

Uchiha Chisen formed a hand seal with one hand. Rather than dodge the incoming Great Fireball Technique, he leaped down, plunging straight into it.

The flames swallowed him in an instant, but in the blink of an eye, his figure broke free of their ravenous embrace.

When Uchiha Chisen landed on the ground below.

A few drops of magma slid off his body, melting several shallow pits into the ground. Wisps of white smoke rose from them.

But Uchiha Onigawara was nowhere in sight.

Only the corpse of the spy ninja he had killed remained.

Uchiha Chisen glanced down at the footprints on the ground.

His eyes narrowed, and he gave chase in the opposite direction.

"Why did that brat Chisen get to awaken the Lava Release Kekkei Genkai...? We share the same blood, yet I only have the Sharingan Kekkei Genkai, while he's a genius with double Kekkei Genkai!"

Uchiha Onigawara gritted his teeth in jealousy as he darted along at full speed.

Of course, he didn't think Fire Style could hurt Uchiha Chisen.

He had only used it to hold him back.

Even a single second would be enough for him to escape.

But...

"Uchiha Onigawara's here!!!" He had evaded Uchiha Chisen, only to run into a ninja from the Konoha Military Police Force.

Uchiha Onigawara's expression darkened at the shout.

His Sharingan swiftly tracked the incoming projectiles.

He immediately dodged sideways. Several shuriken skimmed past his cheek, one even cutting his face.

A Konoha Military Police Force Ninja had already closed in, ninja sword in hand.

Uchiha Onigawara nimbly ducked.

After dodging the slash, he punched the ninja's wrist, then clamped his fingers around it and bent it backward. With a crack, the Konoha Military Police Force Ninja screamed.

As Uchiha Onigawara seized the ninja sword, he hooked a foot around the ninja's ankle, throwing him off balance, then stabbed downward.

"Hm?!" Just as the tip was about to pierce the skin of the Konoha Military Police Force Ninja's chest.

The exceptional motion-tracking vision of his Three-Tomoe Sharingan picked up another disturbance to his right.

Uchiha Onigawara saw a flash of molten light streak past him.

He hastily stepped back.

Then, to his horror, Uchiha Onigawara discovered that the blade of the ninja sword he had seized was gone! Scalding, red-hot molten iron still dripped from the broken edge!

"...Lava Release?!"

The person he least wanted to see appeared before him again.

Uchiha Onigawara clenched his teeth. "Chisen! Do you really have to hunt down and kill your own flesh and blood?!"

"Justice Execution."

"Not even family is spared."

Uchiha Chisen's right arm had turned entirely into magma. The churning magma kept swelling his arm, and the smell of sulfur in the air made Uchiha Onigawara's pupils contract slightly.

Uchiha Onigawara's vision blurred for an instant, and Uchiha Chisen vanished. By the time his eyes caught sight of him again, the distance between them had shrunk to less than three meters!

Too fast!!!

"Water Style-" Uchiha Onigawara swore he had never formed hand seals this quickly in his life.

"Great Waterfall Technique!!!"

A terrifying torrent surged toward Uchiha Chisen, who thrust his swollen magma arm forward at the same instant.

As he swung his right arm, it rapidly swelled larger and larger, until it became an enormous magma fist that collided with Uchiha Onigawara's ferocious torrent!

The magma...

Swallowed the Water Style!

The horrifying sight frightened the Konoha Military Police Force Ninja whose sword had been taken, and he scrambled away on his hands and knees.

Even so, the splashing, scalding water and the even deadlier spray of magma still caught him.

The boiling water burned the skin of his face, and the intense pain made him grit his teeth so hard they nearly shattered.

A few drops of magma grazed him, melting his police protective vest with their terrifying heat.

Frightened, the Konoha Military Police Force Ninja hurriedly tore off his vest.

His pupils trembled with lingering fear. "So this is a fight between Jonin... I probably don't even qualify to intervene. How did I dare try to stop Uchiha Onigawara all by myself?"

If Uchiha Chisen hadn't suddenly intervened to save him, he would probably have died at Uchiha Onigawara's hands, wouldn't he?

"The noise came from this direction! Uchiha Onigawara must have fled this way!"

Konoha Military Police Force Ninjas rushed in from every direction.

Pair after pair of Sharingan frantically scanned their surroundings.

They were making sure Uchiha Onigawara couldn't slip past them unnoticed.

Fugaku, the Captain of the Konoha Military Police Force, had come in person as well.

He took the lead, running ahead of everyone else.

Just then, a breeze blew toward him. Uchiha Fugaku's nose twitched as he caught a somewhat pungent yet incredibly familiar smell.

"Smells a little like sulfur..."

"...Chisen?!"

"Hah... hah... the gap..."

Uchiha Onigawara staggered back several steps, staring in horror at his ten fingers, which had abruptly vanished, as waves of searing pain radiated from his overheated palms.

Cold sweat poured down his body as he stammered, "The gap... is it really this huge?"

Uchiha Onigawara let his arms drop and stared at Uchiha Chisen, who was slowly approaching.

The veins on his forehead throbbed as he forced out a roar. "Your strength is already on par with anyone in the village, even the Hokage, isn't it?! So why... are you still risking your life for Konoha?!"

"Does our proud Uchiha Clan really have to be the Hokage's dogs? Are you going to be like Uchiha Itachi, that traitor who sides with outsiders despite belonging to the Uchiha Clan?!"

Whoosh-

By sheer coincidence, Uchiha Fugaku arrived at this final moment.

Sure enough, he spotted Uchiha Chisen, who was facing off against a thoroughly battered Uchiha Onigawara.

Fugaku understood the situation at a glance.

Chisen... this boy really is remarkably dependable!

He truly intends to put duty above family!

His [absolute justice] really isn't just talk.

It's the nindo he intends to follow for the rest of his life!

But the next second, Fugaku heard Uchiha Chisen speak.

"I've never risked my life for Konoha. And Uchiha Itachi and I aren't the same kind of person."

Uchiha Chisen said quietly, "Give me a chance to kill the Hokage one-on-one, and I won't hesitate. Unfortunately, while he trusts me a great deal in certain respects, he also seems extremely wary of me. He always keeps plenty of Anbu around him."

Fugaku: "...???"