Qingshui VS Pakura

One side wanted to kill, the other wanted to protect.

Since neither side was willing to back down and abandon their mission, a battle was naturally unavoidable.

Qingshui and Teacher Pakura would engage in a one-on-one fight.

Signaling Konan and the other two to retreat, Qingshui drew his Ninja Sword and pointed it at Teacher Pakura.

Teacher Pakura also signaled her subordinates to fall back.

Although in her opinion, dealing with Qingshui wouldn't be too troublesome.

But since he dared to lead a team alone, Qingshui was at least a Jonin, and his strength wouldn't be too weak.

"This guy is truly crazy, daring to draw his sword against Teacher Pakura."

While escorting the captured Okubo Nozomi away from the battlefield, Teacher Pakura's subordinates shook their heads as they watched Qingshui.

They simply didn't believe that Qingshui, an unknown Konoha Ninja, would be Teacher Pakura's opponent.

Teacher Pakura naturally had the same thought.

"Considering your identity as Konoha Ninja, I won't kill you."

Actually, if she could, Teacher Pakura really wanted to keep Qingshui and his group here.

Eliminating a Konoha genius would definitely be a great contribution to Sunagakure.

But the Second Shinobi World War had just ended not long ago, and Sunagakure was still in a period of recovery. It was naturally impossible to provoke Konoha proactively.

If Konoha were to declare war on Sunagakure because of this, then she, Teacher Pakura, would become a sinner of Sunagakure.

Such a thing was naturally impossible to do.

If Qingshui knew Teacher Pakura's thoughts, he would have burst out laughing.

However, at this moment, he was looking at Teacher Pakura with a curious expression. She held a Kunai tightly in both hands, and four scorching fireballs appeared around her, flying in the air.

Those four fireballs were Teacher Pakura's Scorching Style.

Scorching Style was a new Ninjutsu formed by fusing wind and fire Chakra nature transformations. It could evaporate moisture upon contact with the opponent, turning them into mummified corpses.

This was an extremely powerful close-combat ability, and enemies needed to constantly guard against Teacher Pakura's fireballs.

Of course, the application of Scorching Style was not limited to close combat.

Before her words even fell, Teacher Pakura charged towards Qingshui. The scorching heat from the four fireballs rushing towards him made Qingshui instinctively lick his lips.

Ding!

While blocking Pakura's kunai with one hand, Aosui also formed a hand seal with his other hand and unleashed a water jutsu.

Immediately, a thick pillar of water erupted, extinguishing all four fireballs that were charging towards him and forcing Pakura to retreat.

Releasing a ninjutsu with a single hand seal!

In the past, Aosui wouldn't have been able to do this.

But now, with the boost from his top-tier water style talent, performing a single-handed hand seal while using water style was as easy as flicking his wrist.

This scene, when seen by Pakura, astonished her and brought a look of surprise to her face.

It was common knowledge in the ninja world that ninjas needed to use both hands to form hand seals when releasing ninjutsu.

However, some powerful individuals could achieve hand seals by using their opponent's hands, single-handed hand seals, or even by using their feet.

Furthermore, Pakura had once heard some older generation ninjas speak of the legendary Ninja God, Senju Hashirama, who didn't even need to form hand seals for his Wood Style.

He would simply clap his hands together, and whatever he called would appear.

She didn't know if this was true or not, but ninjas who could perform single-handed hand seals definitely existed, and without exception, they were never ordinary people.

With this simple display, Pakura put away her initial contempt for Aosui.

Pakura finally realized how naive her previous thoughts were. How could someone capable of leading three genius captains be simple?

The reason he had no reputation in the ninja world before was likely because he had been solely focused on teaching the trio and rarely appeared in public.

In other words, Aosui was also a genius hidden by Konoha.

Upon understanding this, Pakura's fighting spirit intensified. Wasn't she also a genius?

Before a true battle could decide the victor, she didn't believe she would lose to anyone of her generation.

From now on, she would fight Aosui seriously.

"Konoha Ninja, state your name. You are worthy of me remembering it."

After judging that Aosui was not simple, Pakura changed her initial arrogant attitude and proactively asked for Aosui's name.

Aosui had no intention of hiding it and told her frankly.

"Hirakawa Aosui."

"I've remembered you, Hirakawa Aosui. I hope you don't disappoint me next."

Although she acknowledged Aosui, Pakura remained proud and extremely confident.

Hearing her words, her three subordinates were greatly shocked.

They knew very well how proud Teacher Pakura would be when facing ninjas from other villages.

This was the first time they had seen Teacher Pakura actively ask for the name of an outsider ninja.

Could it be that this guy wasn't actually an arrogant person?

With their eyesight, they naturally couldn't see that Qingshui had just displayed the technique of single-handed Hand Seal.

As soon as the words fell, four more fireballs materialized out of thin air around Teacher Pakura.

This time, Qingshui keenly noticed that these four fireballs were more powerful than the previous ones.

It seemed Teacher Pakura was truly getting serious.

Then, under Teacher Pakura's control, the four newly formed fireballs immediately shot towards Qingshui at high speed.

At the same time, she herself instantly moved forward and launched a fierce attack on Qingshui.

Teacher Pakura's taijutsu was strong. If it were any other ninja, even a Jonin, they would not be her match.

At most, they would be defeated in a few rounds and then hit by Scorching Style, becoming a dried corpse.

Her idea was that since Qingshui could perform Hand Seal with one hand, she would launch the fastest and most ferocious attack, giving him no chance to perform Hand Seal.

Moreover, judging from Qingshui's performance just now, he was definitely a ninja type who was very skilled in Water Style ninjutsu.

Since he was skilled in ninjutsu, his taijutsu level would inevitably be weak.

Here, "weak" referred to comparison with ninjas of the same level.

As long as she could suppress him in close combat, victory would belong to her.

However, this idea couldn't be said to be wrong, it could only be said that she still underestimated Qingshui.

Facing Teacher Pakura's fierce attack, he still held his ground, and even dodged all four fireballs.

However, Qingshui indeed had no opportunity to perform Hand Seal and use ninjutsu.

But this outcome did not satisfy Teacher Pakura, and she even found it difficult to accept.

What she wanted was not a stalemate, but victory.

"How is this possible? This guy can actually block Teacher Pakura's fierce attack!"

Teacher Pakura's subordinates were shocked by the scene before them.

In their understanding, no matter who the opponent was, as long as Teacher Pakura got serious, she could instantly defeat the enemy.

"I know, it must be that Teacher Pakura didn't want to provoke conflict between the village and Konoha, so she held back."

"That's right, it must be exactly like that."

They couldn't believe that Teacher Pakura, whom they viewed as invincible, wouldn't be able to handle a ninja of the same generation.

Their words reached Konan's ears, and she immediately retorted with a mocking tone.

"I told you already, Qingshui Big Brother is very strong. Your teacher is no match for him at all!"

"Don't worry, Qingshui Big Brother is a good person; he won't kill your teacher."

Yahiko also spoke with a smug expression on his face.

The words and expressions of the two made the Trio of Teacher Pakura's subordinates extremely angry. They desperately wanted to refute them, but they couldn't find the words.

They could only watch the two fighting with bated breath, hoping that Teacher Pakura would emerge victorious and slap the others in the face.