Uchiha Nagi VS Genin

"The Military Police Force might not be able to handle it, but as Kushina's classmate, I can, and besides..." Uchiha Nagi glanced at Kushina, his gaze lingering on her hair for quite a while.

"I actually think Kushina's hair is quite beautiful, and I don't believe my judgment is wrong, so the only possibility is that your eyes are a bit blind. If they're useless, you might as well donate them."

After saying this, Uchiha Nagi muttered to himself; Kushina was one of the great goddesses of the previous life's Naruto series, so if someone couldn't appreciate her, that was clearly their own problem.

Uzumaki Kushina was stunned, staring at Uchiha Nagi.

Since she had arrived in Konoha, he was the first person to ever tell her that her hair was beautiful.

Strangely, her mood instantly brightened; it turned out that not everyone hated her hair—there were people who... liked it.

Kushina's fingers hooked the ends of her hair, and she toyed with them, her face flushing slightly.

"You brat, don't think that just because you're an Uchiha, I won't dare to beat you!" The genin's face darkened.

"Oh? Really? I don't believe you." Uchiha Nagi looked at the intimidating figure, his eyes filled with mockery.

If they knew Kushina's true identity—Tsunade's younger sister, the future Nine-Tails Jinchuriki...

Suddenly, he paused, realizing that none of that really mattered.

Later on, there was Hyuga Hinata, the daughter of the Hyuga Clan head; her Byakugan was obvious enough, wasn't it?

Wasn't she still bullied?

Therefore, status generally couldn't prevent bullying.

Of course, the Uchiha were the exception; he only remembered the Uchiha being politically ostracized, but he didn't recall a single Uchiha ever being bullied.

The reason was simply that the others had relatively good reputations, while the Uchiha's reputation went without saying.

Bully an Uchiha? You should thank the heavens if the Uchiha didn't bully you instead.

A bad reputation had its own uses.

The genin's face turned completely black. Consumed by rage and having lost all reason, he lunged toward Uchiha Nagi.

Uchiha Nagi did not panic; he told Kushina to step back and met the attack head-on.

He ducked to avoid the punch aimed directly at his face, shifted his footing to close the distance, and swiftly chopped his right hand toward the genin's ribs.

"Bang!"

A dull thud of impact echoed.

Uchiha Nagi's palm had indeed struck the target, but the genin only swayed slightly before sweeping back with a powerful, heavy elbow strike.

Uchiha Nagi crossed his arms to block, but a massive force surged through, numbing his arms.

He was sent sliding backward several steps, unable to control his momentum.

The gap in strength is truly vast, Uchiha Nagi realized instantly.

With the body of a six-year-old, even with training, he simply couldn't contend with a genin several years his senior in terms of raw physical power.

Those few probing exchanges had already allowed him to gauge the disparity.

"Hmph! An Uchiha brat, nothing more!"

Having gained the upper hand, the genin stepped forward again, his fist whistling through the air, clearly intending to finish off this meddlesome brat in one go.

However, Uchiha Nagi had already twisted his body to use the momentum, tapping his toes against the ground to leap backward and land on the thick branch of a large tree behind him.

"Trying to run?"

The genin roared and leaped in pursuit.

His straight-line sprinting speed was indeed faster than Uchiha Nagi's, and he closed the distance in an instant.

Yet, Uchiha Nagi was more agile than he had imagined, moving across the tree trunks as if walking on flat ground.

Even when the genin got close, Uchiha Nagi only needed to shift slightly on the branch to evade his attacks.

This... was the result of chakra control!

His precise control over the instantaneous output and adhesion of chakra allowed him to change direction and leverage force while moving through the trees as if on solid ground.

It also allowed him to navigate the tangled branches of the forest with ease, his movements as nimble as a bird in the woods.

The genin refused to accept it, roaring as he jumped between branches to pursue him.

His speed was not slow, but every movement caused the branches and leaves to rustle violently.

Uchiha Nagi, however, had already turned this forest into his home turf.

The genin's fists missed time and time again, either striking empty air or merely shearing off a few leaves.

He felt as if he were chasing an elusive shadow; the target was right in front of him, and his speed was even slower than his own, yet he couldn't touch even a corner of his clothes!

Sweat began to bead on the genin's forehead, and his breathing became ragged.

His strength and speed appeared clumsy and powerless in front of Uchiha Nagi.

"Damn it! Are you only going to hide like a rat? You Uchiha coward!"

The genin cursed in frustration, trying to provoke him.

Perched atop a tree branch, Uchiha Nagi paused briefly, looking down at the panting genin below.

His breathing remained steady and his gaze calm; compared to the genin, his own expenditure was negligible.

To him, the recent skirmish had been more of a test of his own abilities.

"Indeed, it is time to end this," Uchiha Nagi remarked.

Upon hearing these words, the genin did not panic; instead, he smiled, convinced that as long as his opponent dared to engage him head-on, the one to lose would surely be the other!

"Arrogant brat!"

The genin roared, channeling his remaining chakra into his legs and bursting forward with even greater speed than before, charging fiercely toward Uchiha Nagi.

His fist was clenched tight, aimed directly at Uchiha Nagi's chest.

Facing this fierce assault, Uchiha Nagi released a faint burst of chakra beneath his feet, his body sliding sideways at an impossible angle by half a step.

The genin's punch brushed past Uchiha Nagi's clothes, slamming heavily into empty air.

With nowhere for that immense force to go, the genin's body lost its balance due to momentum; his forward charge was too aggressive, leaving his back completely exposed to Uchiha Nagi.

Now!

A sharp glint flashed in Uchiha Nagi's eyes, and without a moment's hesitation, his body finished gathering its strength.

Leveraging the force of his opponent's charge and his own rotational momentum, his right leg whipped out like a lash, striking with pinpoint precision squarely into the center of the genin's unprotected back!

"Bang!"

A dull thud echoed, accompanied by a pained grunt from the genin.

The genin went hurtling toward the ground, head over heels!

"Boom!"

Dust billowed as the genin's body slammed into the earth, kicking up a cloud of debris.

Uchiha Nagi landed lightly, standing steadily just a few paces away from the genin.

At that very moment, Uzumaki Kushina, who had been watching the battle with bated breath, saw the genin's pathetic figure hit the ground and suddenly recalled the scene where she had been deceived earlier—the Substitution Technique!

Alarm bells rang in her mind, and almost instinctively, she shrieked toward Uchiha Nagi: "Nagi! Watch out behind you!"

Her voice was filled with panic and urgency.

Almost exactly as Kushina cried out, the "genin" transformed into a log—a Substitution!

And the real genin, his face twisted with wild laughter and humiliation, appeared less than two meters behind Uchiha Nagi!

He threw a punch with everything he had, aiming straight for Uchiha Nagi.