Senju Butsuma and Uchiha Tajima faced each other across the scorched earth.
A chilling aura radiated from Butsuma. The massive shuriken in his hand gleamed with icy light, while surging Chakra coursed around his body.
Tajima's gaze was ice-cold, his Sharingan blooming with a crimson glow, his eyes brimming with endless killing intent.
The Uchiha Gunbai and sickle clenched in his hands reflected a dangerous chill beneath the winter sun.
Tajima suddenly stowed away his gunbai and sickle, his hands rapidly forming seals.
"Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation!"
Massive flames surged forth like a raging tide, carrying heat hot enough to melt stone as they swept toward Butsuma.
Wherever the flames passed, the air warped and twisted, while the sand and rocks on the ground were instantly scorched into a glass-like state.
"Senju Butsuma, old grudges and new—today is the day we settle everything once and for all!" Tajima roared, raising his gunbai and ninja sickle again as he charged forward behind the flames.
The sickle blade sliced through the air with a piercing shriek.
Butsuma's expression turned grave. He leaped backward sharply, his hands forming seals no slower than before.
"Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet!"
In an instant, a massive water dragon condensed from Chakra shot from his mouth and collided head-on with the incoming flames.
Steam and scorching air rose in the blink of an eye, rapidly spreading into a vast white fog around them.
Tajima plunged straight into the fog, hurling the ninja sickle in his hand fiercely toward Butsuma's position.
The sharp ninja sickle tore a gap through the fog.
Seeing this, Butsuma instantly flung out a shuriken and used the Body Flicker Technique, appearing abruptly at Tajima's side.
The long blade in his hand flashed with cold light as it slashed directly at Tajima's neck.