Uchiha Taijutsu Style: Rushing Knee

The Uchiha clan leader's house, early the next morning.

The family of four was quietly eating breakfast.

"I still don't want to go to school. Should I find a chance to blow up the school? No, that might make them suspect me..."

"Then how about pretending to be struck by lightning? That's an act of God, so they can't blame me..." Shin thought to himself while eating breakfast, already plotting something.

Aoko looked at the rather quiet Shin and knew he was up to something.

Putting down her chopsticks, she smiled at her youngest son, "Shin, you're never this quiet when you eat breakfast. What mischief are you planning this time?"

"!!!" Shin inwardly exclaimed how amazing she was, that she could even tell he had something on his mind.

As expected, his mother was still his mother.

But he didn't think that she could see through his plan to cause a man-made natural disaster to strike the school.

After thinking quickly, he chose to put the blame on his good friend, "Ah? I wasn't planning anything bad. I was just wondering if I'd get kidnapped if I went to the Hyuga compound to go to school with Nao."

"You little rascal, it'd be a miracle if you didn't kidnap someone else..." Chiken clearly didn't believe the explanation. "Don't change the subject. Tell me what you're planning."

The old man had been taking their father-son matches a little more seriously lately.

Shin regretted it in his heart. He should have known not to use so many schemes and tricks in their father-son matches.

Now, even the usually "honest and reliable" old man could see through his abnormality.

"Shin, just be honest. Even I can tell you're deliberately hiding something," Fugaku added, putting on more pressure.

"Fugaku, you've changed. You weren't this sharp before! Tell me, who are you? How dare you impersonate my most respected brother!"

"..." X3

The three of them were speechless at Shin's acting.

"Ahem... alright, I'll confess."

"We're all ears."

Shin displayed his years of acting skills, "Look at this Ninja Academy, it's so long and wide, just like this bomb, it's so big and round, yoyoyoyoyo..."

"So, you want to blow up the Ninja Academy?" The three of them suddenly understood.

"No, no, no, I've moved beyond such low-level interests."

Chiken's face darkened, "Then why are you singing that, you little rascal!"

"It's funny~"

To avoid a father-son match early in the morning, Shin immediately put down his bowl and made a run for it. "I'm going to school~"

This was the Uchiha family's daily morning routine.

Senju clan grounds, Nawaki's house.

"Sis, I'm off to school!"

"Go, go..."

Nawaki was already used to his sister Tsunade's lazy replies.

He didn't care and left on his own.

"Is that... Nao?" Nawaki arrived at the entrance of the clan grounds and saw a white figure in the distance.

But the next second, he felt boundless anger when a boy in a black trench coat came to her side.

Even from afar, he could recognize who the boy was at a glance.

That crimson fan was as conspicuous as a firefly in the night.

"Have you been waiting long?"

"No, I just got here."

Shin, who had arrived at the Hyuga clan grounds early in the morning, didn't expect Nao to be here so early.

He originally thought he would have to wait a long time.

"Then let's go..." Shin's "then" was interrupted by a shrill shout.

"Uchiha Shin, let go of that girl! Come at me if you have a problem!"

Shin and Nao were both stunned by this.

They both looked in the direction of the voice.

"I told you, he's just a simpleton, what's he going to do to you?"

"Nao, do you know what I'm going to do to you?" Shin quickly recovered and complained to Nao beside him.

"Hmm? Does simpleton mean idiot? If so, he really does seem like one."

"Nao is so smart, as expected of my friend, you can even keep up with my train of thought."

Looking at Nawaki rushing over in a fit of anger, the two of them didn't care at all, and even continued chatting and joking.

Facing Nawaki, whose anger level had exploded, Shin had no possibility of backing down: "Hello there, little idiot of the Senju Clan."

"Uchiha Shin, today I will definitely defeat you, I will end this battle in an instant!"

Nao, watching Nawaki get into a fighting stance, immediately stepped forward, blocking Shin behind her.

She frowned slightly, her tone indifferent as she said, "No, we have to go to school now."

"Nao, get out of the way..."

Veins popped on Nawaki's forehead: "Is this guy forcing you to be his friend? Don't worry, once I defeat him, you will be free!"

"..." X2

Faced with the self-righteous Nawaki, both of them were silent, looking at him with the eyes one might reserve for an idiot.

Nawaki felt uncomfortable under the gaze of those two pairs of eyes, one black and one white.

He always felt that those eyes carried some inexplicable malice.

"Uchiha Shin, if you're a man, don't hide behind a girl, it will make me look down on you!"

It seemed that the other party's provocation had worked, as Shin raised a hand to grab Nao's shoulder, stepping in front of her.

"Don't worry, Nao, it won't take much time."

"But..." Nao was defeated by Shin's confident eyes.

She had no choice but to retreat silently, leaving the arena to the two who were about to duel.

"I, Uchiha Shin, accept your challenge." After saying these words, Shin's aura became sharp.

"Come on." Nawaki decisively launched the first attack.

Unfortunately, his right fist, which had gathered Chakra for several months, only grazed the air in front of the opponent.

Shin had long known that Nawaki's Chakra nature was Water and Earth, and decisively used the Wind Elemental Chakra Mode.

The right palm, gathered into a blade, made the surrounding air seem to vibrate, emitting a buzzing sound.

"My turn."

Shin dodged Nawaki's attack, his right palm slashing towards the opponent, the buzzing sound of violent friction with the air becoming even louder.

"Pa!"

At the critical moment, Nawaki quickly retracted his right hand, blocking the blow.

"Oh?"

Shin, of course, noticed the unusual nature of Nawaki's right hand.

Even the high-frequency oscillating wind blade, which could cut through steel like butter, had been caught by the opponent.

He quickly concluded that it was due to Tsunade's signature monstrous strength.

"I've gotten stronger, Uchiha Shin!"

Nawaki raised his defending right hand forcefully, flinging Shin's palm blade aside.

Without pausing, he leaned in, using his shoulder to get close to the opponent.

"Interesting, I'll play with you..."

Shin instantly switched to the Earth element, raising his left hand to hold Nawaki's shoulder, stopping it from getting close to his chest.

Then, he retracted his right hand, holding the other shoulder.

A thin layer of Earth-element shell adhered to the surface of Shin's right knee.

Although the knee is the second hardest part of the human body after the teeth, it can still hurt.

The knee struck Nawaki's abdomen.

He was immediately sent flying backwards like a bullet.

In Nao's Byakugan, it could be seen that before Shin even touched Nawaki, he had compressed a small amount of Wind Chakra, which had not yet been converted into Earth Chakra, in his knee.

Only when it hit the abdomen did he release the compression.

The Wind Chakra, compressed into a single point, instantly turned into a huge thrust, pushing the opponent far back.

"The power is a bit strong, this should be the end of it, right? Huh? Interesting..."

Suddenly sensing something was wrong, Shin exerted force under his feet and quickly jumped up, dodging an attack from underground.