Uchiha Yuan vs. Hyuga Asana

The next day, Uchiha Yuan came to school as usual.

Perhaps because this batch of students was about to go to the battlefield, the number of practical combat classes had increased quite a bit recently. In the past, there had basically been one every three days; now there was practical combat class every day.

The teachers at the Ninja Academy used the time in practical combat class to teach the students the Basic Ninjutsu and whatever experience they could about dealing with battles between ninjas, fighting for every second.

The students of Class 2-4 basically all had parents who were ninjas, or were children from major clans, so their foundations were already fairly good. After this period of special training, their improvement in strength was still very obvious.

Among them, the one who surprised the teachers the most was Uchiha Yuan. This child's strength had improved far too quickly.

Previously, his grades in class had been middling—not excellent, but not bad either.

But in recent weeks, Uchiha Yuan's strength had advanced by leaps and bounds. In the last practical combat class, he had even defeated one of the top five students in the class.

For this practical combat class, the teachers planned to arrange a match between Uchiha Yuan and Hyuga Asana, who had consistently ranked first in the class.

In the teachers' eyes, after Hyuga Asana awakened her Byakugan, her strength had already reached genin level. Even among all the fourth-year students, her strength could rank in the top five.

Only two or three students from Class One could be mentioned in the same breath as Hyuga Asana, and the only one who could steadily beat Hyuga Asana was probably Hokage-sama's son, Asuma.

The teachers felt that by having Hyuga Asana spar with Uchiha Yuan once, they could basically figure out Uchiha Yuan's strength, which would also make it easier to assign classes later.

Uchiha Yuan did not know the teachers' plans, but he was still very interested in sparring.

At the very least, sparring was far more interesting than sitting in the classroom listening to the teacher talk about things like the Will of Fire.

Around ten in the morning, all the students of Class Two arrived at the Ninja Academy's training field.

The teacher arranged the groups one by one, only reading out Uchiha Yuan and Hyuga Asana's names at the very end.

Hyuga Asana had always been the best student in Class Two, while Uchiha Yuan had suddenly become formidable in recent weeks.

On top of that, the Uchiha and Hyuga clans had never really gotten along.

So when the students heard that the two of them were going to spar, they immediately began discussing it among themselves.

Hearing them, the teacher said in a low voice, "Quiet! Everyone, go prepare. The sparring begins in ten minutes!"

"Asana, teach that guy from the Uchiha Clan a harsh lesson for me later. He used to cause me no end of trouble," said Hyuga Chiwa, the young lady of the Hyūga Main Family.

"Yes, Lady Chiwa. I will do my best." After saying that, Hyuga Asana raised her head and glanced at Uchiha Yuan.

As it happened, Uchiha Yuan was also looking over. Their gazes met in midair, then they both turned their heads away at the same time.

"Uchiha Yuan, you're about to spar with Hyuga Asana. Are you nervous?" a chubby little boy came over and asked.

"I'm fine," Uchiha Yuan said expressionlessly.

"Yamanaka Kizuki, rather than worrying about Uchiha Yuan, you should worry about yourself! You're going up against that young lady of the Hyuga Family's main family in a bit," a girl holding a book reminded him.

Yamanaka Kizuki sighed when he heard this. He really did not want to face someone from the Hyūga Main Family.

Yamanaka Kizuki was from the Yamanaka Clan, but in this year, there were no members of the Nara or Akimichi Clan around his age, so this "pig" had no "deer" or "butterfly" to pair with.

Moreover, Yamanaka Kizuki's build did not look much like someone from the Yamanaka Clan. On the contrary, he looked a little like someone from the Akimichi Clan.

As a pig without partners, Yamanaka Kizuki actually felt quite lonely. It just so happened that Uchiha Yuan was also a loner in class, so Yamanaka Kizuki always intentionally or unintentionally drifted toward Uchiha Yuan's side. Gradually, the two of them could be considered friends.

Yamanaka Kizuki's grades in class were about the same as Uchiha Yuan's had been before, but no matter what, he was still stronger than Hyuga Chiwa.

However, as the young lady of the main family, Hyuga Chiwa was not quite the same as ordinary classmates. The teachers usually protected her quite a bit, and if someone struck too heavily, it might cause trouble.

Because of that, the people in class were not very willing to spar with this young lady of the main family.

The ten minutes of preparation quickly passed, and the sparring officially began.

They went group by group, starting from the back and moving forward.

Yamanaka Kizuki and Hyuga Chiwa appeared in the tenth group.

After sweeping a glance over their fight, Uchiha Yuan lost interest in watching. Yamanaka Kizuki fought with his hands tied, while Hyuga Chiwa was too weak. This spar was nothing more than two rookies pecking at each other.

In the end, this farce-like spar ended in a draw.

After Yamanaka Kizuki's group finished, several more sparring matches passed before it was finally Hyuga Asana and Uchiha Yuan's turn.

The two stood in the center of the training field and formed the Seal of Confrontation.

"Begin!"

The instant the teacher's words fell, the sound of air being cut appeared beside Uchiha Yuan's ear. Uchiha Yuan shifted his body aside, dodging Hyuga Asana's attack, then drew the Kunai at his waist and thrust it out.

The sharp Kunai stabbed toward Hyuga Asana's chest.

But in the next second, veins bulged around Hyuga Asana's eyes. She directly activated the Byakugan, then, in the instant before the Kunai was about to pierce her, used the Substitution Technique.

Uchiha Yuan's Kunai passed through a cloud of white smoke and stabbed into a wooden post.

What a fast substitution, Uchiha Yuan thought.

However, an even faster attack came right after. Before Uchiha Yuan could turn around, a palm strike hit his shoulder.

Hyuga Asana's Byakugan stared at the acupoints inside Uchiha Yuan's body, and the Eight Trigrams Sixteen Palms struck toward Uchiha Yuan's acupoints at an extremely high speed.

Uchiha Yuan knew he could not let himself be hit. Once he was hit, this spar would be over.

He closed his eyes, then suddenly opened them. A pair of scarlet One-Tomoe Sharingan appeared in his pupils.

With the aid of the Sharingan's dynamic vision, Uchiha Yuan saw Hyuga Asana's attacks clearly. After avoiding the first two palm strikes, he swiftly formed seals, used the Substitution Technique to block her line of sight, and his real body quickly shifted to a safe position.

Then he threw the kunai in his hand at Hyuga Asana. Right after that, his hands swiftly pulled several more kunai from his Ninja Tools pouch and hurled them out.

The Uchiha Clan's two signature techniques were Fireball Jutsu and Kunai Throwing Technique. They were practically standard skills for the Uchiha Clan, so naturally, Uchiha Yuan knew them too.

The instant he threw the kunai, he used different force techniques to make the multiple kunai stab toward Hyuga Asana's vital points along different trajectories, while also cutting off every escape route she had.

That should be the end of it! There's absolutely no way Asana can dodge this attack. The teacher will have to step in and save her, Uchiha Yuan thought.

But the next second, Uchiha Yuan realized he was wrong. Hyuga Asana's figure had actually vanished straight from where she stood.

"Ding, ding, ding, ding~" All the kunai stabbed into the ground.

At the same time, Uchiha Yuan felt a chill at his neck. Hyuga Asana had already pressed a kunai against it.

"Body Flicker Technique!" the teacher at the side, who had been about to intervene, could not help exclaiming.

The principle behind the Body Flicker Technique was very simple. It was a technique that used Chakra to activate one's own cells, achieving high-speed movement.

But this technique placed heavy demands on a person's neural reactions, and also required extremely precise control of Chakra. An ordinary genin would never be able to master it.

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