Following the shadow on the ground, he could see the shadow of a bulging bundle.
Kisame immediately realized something and looked upward!
A piece of cloth had been stretched into a small bulge in the sky, with kunai tied to it.
The shadow beneath Shikamaru's feet connected from behind him to the shadow cast by the sunlit spectator stands. Using the shadows of the stands and the bulging bundle in the sky as mediums, he had restrained Kisame from behind.
Only then did Kisame truly understand what it meant to be intellectually crushed.
This little brat, who looked no older than twelve or thirteen in his eyes, had actually been able to make such ingenious use of everything around him during battle. To achieve this, he had even deliberately guessed at Kisame's thoughts and words.
And all those risky moves had been solely to draw Kisame's attention away, preventing him from noticing the kunai Shikamaru had thrown from behind.
To be honest, if this had been a team battle, Kisame would probably have already lost. But unfortunately, this was a one-on-one duel.
With Shikamaru's meager amount of Chakra, there was no way he could restrain him for long.
The next moment, Chakra began surging rapidly through the pathways in Kisame's body, and his muscles immediately swelled by a full size!
Shikamaru's hands, held in their seal, began to tremble. Sweat soaked his clothes, and his back felt chilly.
"Damn it, I knew I couldn't win. This monstrous strength is simply not something a human should possess..."
"And he even tore the cloth off the back of my clothes. Mom's going to chew me out when I get home..."
Sure enough, after barely three seconds, Shikamaru was forced to release the hand seal maintaining the Shadow Imitation Technique.
Kisame's face darkened.