What do you mean, I'm not just anyone?
Mito frowned in confusion, feeling that something was a little off.
She was young and didn't understand Kyosuke's suggestive remarks, but that didn't mean the other clan members failed to grasp what he meant.
"How dare you speak so rudely to the Princess!"
"You won't leave here alive today!"
"Princess, let's take him down together."
After stopping the enraged clan members, Mito decided she would take him down on her own.
That would send the clan's morale soaring and benefit their upcoming battle against the Uchiha.
"Uchiha's Evil Rakshasa. I've wanted to meet you for a long time."
With a simple launch, the ground beneath her feet instantly shattered.
The terrifying Chakra fluctuations made Kyosuke frown slightly. Yin Seal really is a good jutsu.
Too bad it's useless if you can't hit your opponent.
"Your control is nowhere near as good as your Chakra." Kyosuke dodged nimbly, not forgetting to use his words to throw her off.
The girl with the hair buns was certainly strong. The problem was that she focused too much on increasing her power and neglected the importance of control.
Actually, it wasn't that she didn't want to control it. She simply couldn't control power of this level.
Trying to beat him with sheer strength was, frankly, far too naive.
Her opponent dodged all her attacks with ease, and Mito realized she might not be able to touch him at all.
She instinctively began forming Hand Seals, preparing to unleash a powerful jutsu and force him to fight head-on.
But before she could act, she stopped, her face turning grim.
There was no way Mito could take out the clan members around them along with him.
While she was distracted for just a moment, Kyosuke turned into a blur. His blade came to rest directly against the girl's neck.
"You lose."
Kyosuke glanced at Mito, who looked ready to explode with anger, and fell silent, wondering whether he should take her away while he had the chance.
If he played his cards right, he might be able to force the Uzumaki to stop fighting. Even if not, he could at least give that old man something to worry about.
If both sides really fought to the death, he knew the Uchiha probably wouldn't be a match for them.
That was a fact their commander, Hiroki, had admitted himself. He had already lost several battles against Uzumaki Ashina.
If Ashina hadn't held back, unwilling to make an enemy of the Uchiha beyond reconciliation, the entire front might have collapsed long ago.
Now that Kyosuke had arrived, he certainly wasn't going to hand the initiative over to the other side.
Whether they fought, and how they fought, would be up to him.
With that, he reached out and gently tapped the back of Mito's neck. "Sleep, my beautiful princess."
Before she passed out, Mito was still filled with confusion. She hadn't expected him to actually dare lay a hand on her.
Does he think he can escape just by taking a hostage?
How naive. In front of Father, all such tricks will come to nothing.
Catching the girl with the hair buns as she collapsed, Kyosuke ignored the shouting Uzumaki beside him and looked toward the largest tent in the camp.
A terrifying presence had already locked onto him from within. Kyosuke knew that Uzumaki Ashina himself was inside.
"Still refusing to show your face? You certainly think highly of yourself."
Even across the vast distance between them, Kyosuke could almost sense the Uzumaki Clan Head's disdain.
It was the self-assurance unique to the older generation. The elders, including Uchiha Tajima, all seemed to look down on the younger generation that had recently come into its own.
Kyosuke didn't think much of it. Tajima was one thing, but Uzumaki Ashina would pay for his arrogance.
The Land of Whirlpools' destruction in the original story seemed to prove his point.
He'd chosen to ally with the Senju, yet kept getting distracted during battles. Did he really think Senju Butsuma hadn't noticed?
With the current state of affairs in chaos, anything could happen. But when the future became certain, it would be time to settle old scores with the Land of Whirlpools.
Uzumaki Ashina probably never would have imagined that the Uchiha and Senju would one day form an alliance.
He would end up an outsider himself.
With every faction watching like a hawk, and Black Zetsu waiting to stab them in the back, it would be stranger if the Uzumaki didn't lose their country.
"What a foolish clan." Kyosuke sneered and began forming Hand Seals.
Suddenly, a figure rushed out at full speed, apparently sensing the Space-Time fluctuations.
To Kyosuke, it felt as if the whole world were pressing down on him.
It was none other than Uzumaki Ashina, a terrifying presence at the peak of Clan Leader Level.
"What terrifying strength," Kyosuke murmured, not forgetting to wave at him.
The next moment, both he and Mito vanished from the spot.
Uzumaki Ashina had come up empty. The smile that had always rested on his face finally disappeared.
He admitted it: he had been too careless.
An enemy who ventured alone into the Uzumaki stronghold must have been confident he could leave unharmed.
He had foolishly underestimated the man. By the time he sensed the Space-Time fluctuations, it was already too late to save his daughter.
And that left him with a question.
If the Uchiha held Mito hostage and forced the Uzumaki Clan to surrender, what should he choose?
His daughter's life or victory in the war—both weighed on his mind.
Uchiha Camp.
When Mito woke up, she discovered that Sealing Jutsu had already been inscribed on her body.
She could move, but she couldn't gather even a trace of Chakra.
Gunbai symbols were everywhere around her, making one thing clear: she was in the Uchiha camp.
"I've been captured." The girl stood up in disbelief, unable to understand how her opponent had taken her from the camp.
After thinking it over, she could only assume that the bastard had taken her hostage, leaving the clan members—including her father—unable to act for fear of what might happen to her.
It just didn't make sense.
She struggled for quite a while. When she realized she couldn't undo the seal on her body, she finally gave up.
"If I'd known this would happen, I would've tried harder to learn Sealing Jutsu from Father." Mito regretted it a little.
As she pondered, the sound of footsteps outside caught her attention.
The girl with the hair buns shut her eyes, planning to pretend to be asleep for now and see if she could use Taijutsu to subdue whoever came in.
As soon as she closed her eyes, she sensed two people entering from outside.
Then a familiar voice spoke beside her.
"Maya, I'll leave her in your care for now."
"No one is to take her away except me—not even our dear Elder Hiroki."
The obnoxious voice immediately brought back the humiliating memory of her capture.
Does this bastard think I belong to him? He won't even let anyone take me away?!
Beside him, a cool female voice replied, "Yes. But I have one question."
"Go ahead."
"Does Lord Kyosuke intend to keep her as a mistress? Should I give her a little training?"
"That's enough. Don't say another word."
Kyosuke stopped her with a headache. He greatly missed the quiet Maya she used to be.
After waving his subordinate away, he turned toward the girl with the hair buns, who was pretending to be asleep, and slowly reached out with his wicked hands.
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