Battle Between Geniuses

"What did you say? Katsuki for a fight with Minato?"

"Yes, that's right. Lord Tianzai came downstairs early this morning, shouting the Lord Commander's name. After that, the Lord Commander went out, and the two talked for a while. Then, the Lord Commander used the Flying Thunder God Technique to leave with Lord Tianzai."

Trembling like a rabbit being watched by a ferocious beast, the young female ninja, barely fifteen or sixteen years old, was on the verge of tears as she answered Kushina's questions with trepidation.

She is the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and also the Lord Commander's fiancée, and the elder sister of the Calamity Lord...

To the female ninja, the red-haired beauty before her was nothing short of a ferocious beast.

"What is Katsuki doing? And Minato is really something, joining Katsuki in his nonsense..." Kushina stomped her foot, her slender eyebrows twitching, her heart filled with mixed feelings, a chaotic feeling that left her at a loss.

After talking with Katsuki yesterday, I had a feeling that something was off about Katsuki, so I came to the Root Building this morning to discuss it with Minato.

"Have you eaten yet?... By the way, do you know where those two went?" Kushina's eyes lit up as she asked eagerly.

"I... I don't know. Minato used the Flying Thunder God Technique. We don't know where we'll end up." The female ninja shook her head frantically, her voice trembling.

"Don't you know? Well... it's true... it's very difficult for anyone to find where Minato wants to go."

Kushina released the female ninja she had captured and questioned, and dragged her heavy steps outside.

He prayed silently in his heart.

I hope Minato and Katsuki can get along peacefully...

As the sun climbed higher in the sky, the air and people's hearts grew increasingly hot.

The southernmost point of the Land of Fire, on the coast.

"Earth Release: Earth Splitting Palm"

He slammed his right palm down on the beach, and the ground beneath his feet began to shake violently. Quicksand poured down from the cracks in the ground, falling like raindrops into the dark abyss below.

The earth cracked open, and black fissures stretched like long snakes into the depths of the coast.

The tall, straight coconut trees were pulled into the abyss by the fissure in the ground, and the tridents and Kunai scattered on the beach were swept away by the quicksand and disappeared into the darkness.

"Minato, the coordinates are gone!"

Katsuki grinned and kicked the Kunai, half-buried in the quicksand, into the huge crevice beside her.

"Ugh! This is such a headache! Fighting with someone you know is such a hassle!"

A coconut tree stretched across the crack, and Minato stepped onto its smooth trunk and sighed.

Destroying the coordinate imprint is an effective way to counter the Flying Thunder God Technique, and it directly targets and destroys the material carrying the mark, rather than trying to destroy the mark itself... This is information that only someone like Katsuki, a close acquaintance, could possess.

If it were any other unfamiliar enemy, they would have been stabbed seventeen or eighteen times by Minato before they could even figure out the secrets.

"... And they even used lightning to protect their bodies... they're really well protected!"

Lightning crackled all over Katsuki body, causing his hair to stand on end like a hedgehog. His body was protected by lightning armor, Minato no chance to touch him or leave a mark.

Once Minato marks a person's body, unless they self-harm, they will face Minato's relentless attacks and ultimately die.

"Earth Release, Earth Spear"

With a clap of his hands, the earth trembled once more, and huge, sharp rock spears rose from the ground, standing like jagged teeth on the land in front of him. Coconut trees were torn into pieces by the interlocking rock spears and fell into the cracks in the ground.

Just as the rock spear suddenly shot up, a golden light flashed, and Minato's figure disappeared from the coconut tree.

"It's not over yet! Earth Release: Yellow Spring Swamp."

After the continuous forest of rock spears, Katsuki created a large swamp, covering an area of six or seven hundred square meters, which easily swallowed up a large coconut grove.

"Earth Release, Ant Hell."

The attacks came in waves, relentlessly crashing against the rocks on the shore.

Katsuki attacked recklessly, manipulating the surrounding terrain to Minato no chance to leave a mark.

Ordinary methods won't work if you want to capture someone who uses the Flying Thunder God Technique. He does have mastery of Barrier Ninjutsu, but just as he understands the strengths and weaknesses of the Flying Thunder God Technique, Minato also knows him quite well, especially since Kushina is also a master of Barrier Ninjutsu.

Minato was quite familiar with the Uzumaki Clan's Barrier Ninjutsu; in fact, he had selectively learned some of Barrier Ninjutsu.

The idea of using Barrier Ninjutsu to restrain Minato was extinguished by Katsuki from the very beginning. With Minato's off-the-charts reaction speed, combined with the Flying Thunder God Technique, he had already escaped before the barrier could even take shape.

After all, the Flying Thunder God Technique is Space-Time Ninjutsu, so distance doesn't matter much. Whether it's tens of meters or several kilometers, the time taken is the same. Even if Katsuki spares no Chakra to create a large barrier, it would be a waste of effort.

Compared to playing mind games with Barrier Ninjutsu, confronting Minato- on step by step is also a viable approach.

By constantly altering the surrounding terrain, Minato was forced to use the Flying Thunder God Technique to run around outside the circle, unable to get close to Katsuki.

The Flying Thunder God Technique has a very distinct characteristic: it is merely a means of high-speed movement, not a technique for powerful attacks. A person who uses the Flying Thunder God Technique is like an assassin.

A fatal assassination.

This is the essence of the Flying Thunder God Technique.

Katsuki's current method is to limit the true power of the Flying Thunder God Technique, forcing Minato to rely solely on it to dodge and thus engaging in a war of attrition.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Kunai to break through the air and fly in.

"Lightning Fork."

Katsuki raised her hand and unleashed a bolt of lightning, shattering all the flying Kunai.

"Tsk! Slowed down? Minato, you've gotten faster again!"

Before the Kunai were shattered and melted by the lightning, a golden light flashed by, and several more Kunai scattered in all directions, shooting aimlessly.

"Thunder······"

"Katsuki, be careful."

Golden flashes darted around, Kunai were constantly being thrown out. These Kunai, marked with the Flying Thunder God incantation, served as landing points for Minato. They appeared and disappeared like ghosts, constantly changing their location, making it impossible for Katsuki to track their movements.

The Flying Thunder God Technique is Space-Time Ninjutsu. It is not about high-speed movement, but about using a special space-time technique to jump. In the instant of this jump, it leaves the main space and cannot be detected by Sensory Ninjutsu. After all, strictly speaking, it is in another world at that moment.

"Using this method... Not bad at all, as expected of you, Minato."

Katsuki withdrew her outstretched hand.

No matter how much Chakra have, it's pointless to waste it if you can't hit the enemy. (To be continued)