The Man Who Made Shuriken Dance

Considering the title of strongest Uchiha that Shisui bore, Kaze had no intention of holding back.

The instant his words fell, Kaze drew a kunai and evenly coated every inch of it with lightning released through his fruit ability.

He viciously drove it into Shisui's back.

Whether in timing, speed, or angle, Kaze's strike had been flawless.

Bang!

Yet just as Kaze's kunai successfully pierced Shisui's back, Shisui's body suddenly turned into a cloud of white smoke.

"What...?"

"The Shadow Clone Jutsu?"

Kaze suddenly recalled.

Besides top-tier Genjutsu, Shisui had also developed the Shadow Clone Jutsu to its utmost limit.

He could create several tangible clones in an instant, making them difficult to distinguish.

Combined with the Genjutsu of his Sharingan,

he often eliminated enemies on the battlefield without taking a single injury.

However...

Kaze was not discouraged by Shisui's Shadow Clone.

On the contrary, if Shisui had been instantly defeated from the start, Kaze would have been thoroughly disappointed.

"In this Jonin Exam, I'll give it everything I have."

Shisui's voice came from behind Kaze.

It carried the meaning of a mantis stalking a cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it.

Kaze hurriedly turned around, only to see that Shisui had already prepared another attack.

Before a single breath had passed, more than a dozen shuriken shot from his hands at once.

What fast hands...

Kaze could not help but inwardly marvel.

Because Shisui had clearly not used the Shadow Clone Shuriken Jutsu. Rather, in less than the span of a breath, he had thrown more than a dozen genuine shuriken.

His hand speed was astonishing!

Clang...

Clang...

Yet what was even more surprising came next. The dozen or so shuriken did not fly straight toward Kaze.

Instead, they continuously collided with one another in midair, changing their respective flight paths.

One before and one behind, one to the left and one to the right.

As Shisui threw the final shuriken, he swiftly formed hand seals.

"Shadow Clone Shuriken Jutsu!"

In an instant, the dozen or so shuriken flying toward Kaze multiplied into dozens.

With their differing flight paths, they resembled a giant fishing net that blanketed the sky as it closed in on Kaze.

It cut off every last route of escape!

"Just as expected of a genius of the Uchiha Clan."

Witnessing Shisui's shuriken display, Kaze could not help but sigh inwardly.

Even without activating the Sharingan, Shisui's dynamic vision was exceptionally sharp.

He could clearly track even a fly's flight path.

Yet before this barrage of shuriken, Kaze could not find a single flaw!

For a moment, Kaze decisively retreated and smoothly drew every kunai he had.

Whoosh!

Kaze struck with crisp efficiency. The kunai he threw tore through the air and stirred up a terrifying gust, not only knocking away the shuriken aimed directly at him.

The gust also affected the flight of the other shuriken, pushing them aside.

He forcibly tore open a gap in the impenetrable net Shisui had created.

The next instant, dazzling lightning erupted from beneath Kaze's feet. He sprang up from the ground, leaped out of the shuriken encirclement, and charged straight at Shisui.

"He's coming."

In the blink of an eye, when Shisui saw Kaze effortlessly break through his shuriken formation, his black pupils transformed directly into deep crimson. Three black tomoe appeared around the edges of his pupils.

It was the Sharingan!

Once Shisui activated his Sharingan, his vision became even clearer.

With a light flick of his wrist,

the shuriken Kaze had knocked away and sent falling to the ground suddenly rose into the air, once again pursuing Kaze's back.

This drew astonished cries from the Root ninjas observing in secret among the trees.

"Those shuriken are moving again?!"

To this Root ninja, such a thing simply defied the laws of physics.

"No... Look carefully. There's a barely visible steel wire around Shisui's wrist."

"Those wires are pulling the shuriken that fell to the ground, making them attack their target a second time."

Another Root ninja explained grimly why the shuriken on the ground could rise again.

The steel wire Shisui used had undergone special treatment and was as thin as a strand of hair.

If he had not carefully followed the light and noticed the faint reflections, he likely would have been fooled as well.

But then again...

A real battle changed in an instant.

Who would have so many opportunities to observe so carefully?

If this had been a true fight to the death...

the trick Shisui used to manipulate shuriken with steel wire would have been enough to send his opponent to Yomi!

"Hiss..."

At that thought, several Root ninjas inhaled sharply.

They were deeply shaken by Shisui's strength.

No wonder Shisui had been hailed as the strongest Uchiha and earned the title of Shunshin during the Third Shinobi World War.

He was simply too outstanding!

In truth...

Even Kaze had not immediately noticed the steel wire.

By the time he realized it, the shuriken were less than three inches from him.

There was no time to block or dodge.

Got him. Shisui, who stood where he was, narrowed his eyes slightly, convinced that Kaze could not evade his shuriken.

However...

Just as Shisui was certain of this, the shuriken that should have embedded themselves in Kaze's back were suddenly flung away with a bang, as though they had struck something!

The speed was so great and the force so powerful that Shisui's special steel wires snapped instantly!

Every one of the dozen or so shuriken suffered the same fate!

Even the ever-brilliant Shisui had a look of horror emerge on his face.

He had not seen what method Kaze had used to knock away his shuriken.

Moreover, his Sharingan had been closely observing Kaze the entire time.

He had not sensed the slightest Chakra fluctuation from him.

"What exactly is going on...?"

In fact, this was not only Shisui's confusion.

The Root ninjas hiding in the forest and observing in secret also could not understand what Kaze had done!

Why had every shuriken that struck toward him been knocked away?

Seeing the horrified expression on Shisui's face, Kaze curled his lips into a smile again.

The truth was actually quite plain and simple.

At the instant the shuriken were about to hit him, Kaze used lightning generated by the Rumble-Rumble Fruit to create a small electromagnetic field around himself.

Using electromagnetic force, he unleashed enough repulsive power on the shuriken to knock them away.

The next moment.

Kaze gripped his kunai in his left hand and slashed at Shisui.

Of course...

Though Stormy Waves churned in Shisui's heart, his movements remained clean and decisive.

Seeing Kaze's kunai slash down, he immediately drew the wakizashi from his back to block it.

Clang!

The sound of metal striking metal was clear and sharp.

Shisui's wakizashi collided forcefully with Kaze's kunai, throwing off dazzling sparks.

Immediately afterward, a terrifying blast of air swept in all directions.

It uprooted every blade of lush green grass from the ground.

The two stared into each other's eyes.

Shisui gritted his teeth and directly unleashed his strongest Genjutsu on Kaze.

But what he never could have imagined, even in his dreams, was...

Kaze's pupils, which had been black just a moment ago, turned blood-red in the blink of an eye.

Three black tomoe spun rapidly within his eyes.

They resisted the Genjutsu Shisui had unleashed.

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