Genjutsu Mini-Combo

Only a dozen minutes into the battle, the wounded began arriving at the Medical Department one after another.

"Antidotes! Hurry and prepare the antidotes!"

The medical ninja quickly discovered that the wounded had cuts and stab wounds all over their bodies, and that all of them had been poisoned.

The Rain Ninja believed that when one's strength was lacking, poison would make up the difference.

Kawadera Uchiha stood on a tree trunk outside the Medical Department, watching the wounded with bluish-purple faces. He said to Kureya Inuzuka beside him:

"Kureya, try to deal with the enemy from medium to long range this time. Taijutsu is dangerous and makes it easy to get poisoned."

Ken Aburame also said, "I've heard that the Rain Ninja's jutsu carry poison, and their ninja tools are coated with it. The toxicity is second only to Sunagakure's poison."

Kureya Inuzuka said, "I understand. I'll be careful."

The three of them looked toward the depths of the rainforest.

The Medical Department was difficult to conceal on the battlefield. Every wounded person who came here was an obvious clue to the Rain Ninja.

"Careful!" Ken Aburame spotted the enemy first. "My insects were poisoned to death!"

He not only warned the members of the squad, but also took out a whistle and blew a sharp warning.

All the guard squads around the Medical Department received the alert.

Far away, behind a large tree, a conical hat flashed past.

Kawadera Uchiha said, "Ken, Kureya, hold off the enemy here from the front. I'll sneak around and ambush them!"

With frontal restraint and a flank attack, Kawadera Uchiha made full use of his initiative. He had to complete Tobirama Senju's A-rank mission.

A Rain Ninja lay in the mud, slowly moving his limbs. He raised his head, and his eyes fixed on Kureya Inuzuka were filled with killing intent.

Die! These Konoha ninja must die. Only then can Amegakure gain Iwagakure's support and obtain coal and food.

It rained for more than three hundred days a year in the Land of Rain. This place was far too barren.

Just as he nervously crawled forward, he suddenly heard the sound of a blade being drawn.

He hurriedly turned his head and saw a flash of cold light.

In the next instant, he felt as if filthy rainwater had entered his eyes. He saw three arms growing from the man's right shoulder, each gripping a ninja blade.

Kawadera Uchiha summed up his experience.

When some people encountered an enemy, the first thing they did was stare into the enemy's eyes and judge where their attention was focused.

When others encountered an enemy, the first thing they did was watch the enemy's hands and determine whether they had a weapon.

Like this Rain Ninja, who instinctively looked toward Kawadera Uchiha's hands.

Kawadera Uchiha had just learned Senju Style: Willow, so he immediately cast a genjutsu.

Whether it was the Sharingan or a ninja blade, he could use it to cast genjutsu.

From the very first glance the Rain Ninja took, he was already a dead man.

The Rain Ninja found it strange. This Konoha ninja is really good at posing. Why is he standing there striking a pose? Is he sick?

However, in the next second, he suddenly discovered that the Konoha ninja had sheathed his blade.

It was not a slow sheathing motion. His posture had changed in an instant, and the blade that had been angled downward was now back in the sheath on his back.

Pain!

A kunai whose origin he had no idea of pierced into his brow!

The Rain Ninja's vision stuttered, and in the gap between the two frozen frames, Kawadera Uchiha threw a kunai that stabbed the ninja to death.

Kawadera Uchiha nodded repeatedly. Opening with the Sharingan and Senju Style: Willow gave him double insurance, guaranteeing that he could cast a genjutsu on the enemy immediately and suppress them.

After taking down one Rain Ninja, Kawadera Uchiha found another.

This Rain Ninja was climbing behind a large tree, preparing to crawl higher from the blind spot outside Ken Aburame and Kureya Inuzuka's vision.

He turned his head slightly to check whether the two Konoha ninja had seen him.

However, the instant his right eye moved past the tree bark, he saw a Uchiha ninja in the distance.

Those scarlet Sharingan made his hair stand on end in the rainy night.

In an instant, he assumed he had fallen under a genjutsu.

He hurriedly let go and fell from the tree trunk.

Two shuriken spun around the large tree and nailed themselves into the spot where the Rain Ninja had been gripping it.

That was close, that was close. I really was caught in a genjutsu. I didn't even see the Uchiha throw those shuriken.

Kawadera Uchiha was somewhat surprised. This Rain Ninja had decent resistance to genjutsu. The first mini-combo—genjutsu plus shuriken during the gap between frozen frames—had failed.

He immediately leaped down from the tree trunk and charged toward the Rain Ninja.

The Rain Ninja knew that his enemy was a Uchiha from Konoha who specialized in genjutsu, so he hurriedly stared at the Uchiha ninja's hands.

He drew his blade!

His vision blurred. Why is the Uchiha ninja's blade swaying like a willow leaf? Why has it turned into several ninja blades?

This is bad. Could I have fallen under a genjutsu?

The Rain Ninja hurriedly shifted his gaze. Not knowing where to look, he met the Uchiha ninja's eyes for an instant in his panic.

This is bad. Could I have fallen under another genjutsu?

He kept looking at the ninja blade and falling into a genjutsu, thinking he was about to die, then disrupting his chakra flow to dispel the genjutsu.

Not knowing which vital point the Uchiha ninja was watching, he shifted his gaze, looked at the Sharingan, and fell under another genjutsu.

He felt that he was truly going to die, so he looked again to see where the ninja blade was striking him.

After switching back and forth several times, the ninja blade cleaved into his head.

Before dying, the Rain Ninja felt only despair. I feel like I'm surrounded by genjutsu!

Why can I fall under a genjutsu no matter where I look?

This was Kawadera Uchiha's second Genjutsu Mini-Combo: constantly switching between Sharingan genjutsu and Senju Style: Willow.

Even an enemy with strong resistance to genjutsu would find it difficult to withstand such completely different genjutsu switching back and forth.

Double genjutsu plus kunai and shuriken thrown during the gaps between frozen frames, along with constantly switching between the two genjutsu, allowed Kawadera Uchiha to kill more than five enemies in succession.

On the tree trunk, Kureya Inuzuka suddenly realized that she was not nearly as busy. She also noticed Kawadera Uchiha moving through the darkness of the rainy night, silently working hard.

Kureya Inuzuka asked, "Why do I feel like Kawadera has gotten stronger again?"

Ken Aburame had nothing to do for the moment. After observing Kawadera Uchiha's methods of dealing with enemies, he said:

"Kawadera's genjutsu has grown stronger. The enemies are like wooden posts before him.

"His taijutsu has also grown stronger. Against sluggish enemies, his speed stands out even more.

"How enviable. Is this the preferential treatment given to someone chosen as the Senju Clan's confidant?"

"Kawadera is the Senju Clan's confidant? How is that possible?"

Ken Aburame said, "One of Kawadera's genjutsu is the Senju Clan's signature genjutsu, Senju Style: Willow.

"Granting a genjutsu of that level to Kawadera already means that Kawadera has become Princess Tsunade's confidant."

Kureya Inuzuka said nothing more. She was simply too slow on the uptake; she had failed to notice something so important.

Princess Tsunade had gained a Uchiha confidant, which inevitably brought to mind the Second and Kagami Uchiha.

The Second had fought the Uchiha all his life, yet in the final years of his life, he and the Uchiha Clan entered a honeymoon period.

There was also a saying among the elders of the clan: after Madara Uchiha died, the Second believed he could control the Uchiha Clan, and thus his hostility toward the Uchiha Clan was no longer as strong.

The situation was the same now. The Uchiha's ocular techniques had once again become an aid to the Senju Clan.