Kurenai One-Shotted, Shackling Stakes Technique and Hard Vortex Water Blade

Whoosh—

Just like before, a second before the lightning struck, Team 8 had already vanished together in a Body Flicker Technique.

Four afterimages, one in front and three behind, charged toward Raiga Kurosuki on the mountain path in ninja running stances.

Seeing this, Raiga Kurosuki put away his twin blades and leisurely began forming hand seals.

Recognizing the jutsu represented by that seal, Yuhi Kurenai immediately formed seals with both hands.

Then, like a mirage in the desert, her body twisted and vanished from the sight of Ryusuke and the others, as well as Raiga Kurosuki.

"So you're a genjutsu ninja. What a pitiful woman!"

Not only was Raiga Kurosuki unflustered, tears even streamed down his face as he cried theatrically, "Ah... I can't wait to see you weeping your heart out!"

"She's coming from the two o'clock direction, Raiga."

The boy's voice, audible only to Raiga, sounded once more from within the raincoat on his back.

Raiga Kurosuki did not doubt the boy's words in the slightest. He drew his twin blades again and crossed them toward Team 8, which was rushing up from below.

"Lightning Release: Lightning Ball!"

Lightning-nature chakra transformed into electric light that coated the blades, rapidly traveling to the tips of the twin swords and forming a sphere of lightning.

Just as Team 8 thought Raiga Kurosuki would use the lightning sphere to launch a long-range attack at Ryusuke and the others—

Raiga Kurosuki suddenly grinned and sharply shifted the direction of his blade tips, firing the lightning ball away.

Crackle, crackle, crackle...

The instant the lightning ball flew out, it seemed to strike something and exploded in midair, becoming a sky full of electric light.

"Ahhh..."

A scream rang out. Within the electric light appeared a twitching figure—it was Yuhi Kurenai.

Kurenai clearly had not expected to be discovered.

Nor had she anticipated that Raiga Kurosuki's attack on Ryusuke and the others had merely been bait.

Struck by the lightning ball, Kurenai's entire body convulsed before she fell from the air along the mountainside.

From the look of her, she seemed to have been knocked unconscious by the electricity.

"Teacher Kurenai..."

Seeing this, Hinata cried out in alarm.

Ryusuke frowned deeply, not because Kurenai had been one-shotted, but because... his Three-Tomoe Sharingan had seen red powder again.

Ryusuke was certain that those red particles had caused the earlier illusion.

Hinata's Byakugan had also been countered because of that ability.

But for the moment, he could not remember what Kekkei Genkai it was.

The only thing he could be certain of was that this Kekkei Genkai had definitely never appeared in the main storyline.

During the twelve years since his transmigration, Ryusuke had been organizing the main plot and certain important storylines while his memories were still clear.

But Naruto had far too many flashbacks and filler arcs, and Ryusuke had not watched all of them in his previous life. So he could not remember what this ability was, only that it seemed familiar.

The situation did not allow Ryusuke time to think slowly.

Seeing Kurenai get caught off guard by Raiga Kurosuki, Ryusuke, as the team captain, hurriedly gave an order. "Hinata, go treat Teacher Kurenai."

After saying that, Ryusuke grabbed Hinata's arms with both hands, spun around, and flung her outward.

Flying through the air, Hinata caught Kurenai, whose body was covered in charred marks and gave off wisps of white smoke. She then gathered chakra in her feet and ran down the mountain wall toward the ground.

"Shino, protect Hinata and Teacher Kurenai. Then act according to the situation."

Ryusuke formed seals with both hands and shouted, "Shadow Clone Technique!"

White smoke dispersed, and five Shadow Clones appeared around Ryusuke.

Immediately afterward, Ryusuke and his five Shadow Clones turned into afterimages and scattered with Body Flicker Techniques.

The six Ryusukes raced along the mountain wall toward Raiga Kurosuki on the mountain path.

"Raiga, be careful. This person is very strong."

The boy's voice reached Raiga Kurosuki's ears again. "His chakra is many times greater than yours. He was also the one who created that Water Dragon Tornado earlier."

Hearing this, Raiga Kurosuki, who had originally planned to toy with Team 8 like a cat playing with mice, exhaust them completely, and then hold a funeral for them, immediately put away his twin blades and formed hand seals. "Ninja Art: Rock Avalanche!"

Rumble, rumble, rumble...

The ground beneath his feet shook. The mountain wall below the path immediately bulged and crumbled away, and countless boulders crashed down toward Ryusuke and his Shadow Clones below.

Yet in the next second, Raiga Kurosuki's expression changed.

Ryusuke below was also forming seals with both hands. "Ninja Art: Rock Avalanche!"

The tremors came from above. Raiga Kurosuki looked up and saw rocks rolling down from overhead as well.

"Who the hell is this guy?"

Raiga Kurosuki stared at Ryusuke below in disbelief.

At the same time, he did not hesitate to use a Body Flicker Technique and leave the mountain path, preparing to jump down to the ground below.

Ryusuke and his Shadow Clones also pushed off from the mountain wall, their figures streaking through the air.

The moment they left the mountain wall, four Shadow Clones began using a combination technique.

Two Shadow Clones formed hand seals and spat out a tremendous torrent at the other two Shadow Clones. "Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique!"

The other two Shadow Clones raised their hands and condensed blue tornadoes, gathering the water into Water Dragon Tornadoes before hurling them at Raiga Kurosuki, who had jumped into the air and had nowhere to evade.

"Water Release: Spiral Water Dragon Roll!"

Watching the Water Dragon Tornadoes sweep toward him, Raiga Kurosuki could feel their astonishing suction force even from far away. He did not dare let them come anywhere near him.

So Raiga Kurosuki drew his twin blades, poured a massive amount of Lightning Release chakra into them, and shouted, "Lightning Blade Technique: Lightning Strike!"

With a sweep of both hands, two enormous blue-white slashes roared toward the two Water Dragon Tornadoes at the speed of lightning.

The Water Dragon Tornadoes had clearly not fully formed. The instant they collided with the two lightning slashes, they burst like punctured balloons and turned into a torrential downpour, soaking Ryusuke to the bone.

Stepping on a rolling boulder, Raiga Kurosuki used a Body Flicker Technique to appear on the ground.

The moment he landed, the boy's panicked warning sounded beside his ear. "Raiga, get out of the way!"

Raiga Kurosuki looked up at Ryusuke in the air and saw that the other man had already taken a throwing stance.

But in his hand was not a Water Dragon Tornado, but a spear formed from flowing water.

Beside him stood a Shadow Clone that still held its hand seals, having just finished spitting out water.

Ryusuke's gaze had remained fixed on Raiga Kurosuki. Almost the instant Raiga looked up, Ryusuke's eyes widened slightly and his pupils contracted.

In the next second, Raiga Kurosuki's eyes flew wide open, his face filled with terror as though he had seen something horrifying.

From Raiga Kurosuki's perspective, the world suddenly underwent a heaven-and-earth reversal.

Or rather... his body had passed through another dimension.

From the rain-drenched mountains, he appeared in a blood-red space.

His body could not move because several massive black iron stakes had been driven through it.

Only his eyeballs could move.

When Raiga Kurosuki rolled his eyes upward, his pupils immediately shrank.

In the blood-red sky hung two eyeballs like moons.

Their red pupils were dotted with three black tomoe, rotating slowly.

Sha... Sharingan!

Raiga Kurosuki instinctively wanted to say the name of those eyes, but he could not even open his mouth.

Crack!

At that moment, countless cracks suddenly appeared in the blood-red space before Raiga Kurosuki's eyes. Then, like a mirror falling to the ground, it shattered into pieces.

The scene returned to reality. The instant Raiga Kurosuki regained control of his body, he felt intense pain and a heavy sensation rushing toward his brain.

Looking down, he saw a blue Water Spear had already pierced through his chest.

It had also pierced through a bulging mass beneath the raincoat on his back.

Boom—

The Water Spear exploded like a cannonball, forming a massive Water Dragon Tornado.

Those two techniques were precisely...

Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique and Water Release... Hard Vortex Water Blade!