Sparring: Crow vs Cicada

Fifth Training Ground

In the end, Fangs came along after all, except he stopped on the way to buy a few chicken legs and sat beside the training ground, watching while gnawing on them.

"Crow, let's have a match," Cicada volunteered.

"Sure." Jin nodded. Gennosuke, meanwhile, took up the role of referee. "Start when you're ready."

The two of them put on their masks at the same time. Jin cautiously activated his Sharingan. Cicada quickly retreated, keeping her distance from Jin and avoiding eye contact with him.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!" In the end, Jin attacked first.

A huge fireball came rushing over. Cicada calmly dodged to the side and threw down a smoke bomb.

Jin stood where he was without moving. As the smoke bomb dispersed, shuriken shot out one after another. Jin drew the sword from his back, gripping it in a reverse grip with his right hand, while his left hand pulled a Flying Thunder God kunai from his waist and sent it flying toward the smoke.

Cicada also drew her sword, intending to knock the kunai away, but Jin's figure suddenly appeared beside the flying kunai, and he swung his sword straight at Cicada.

Cicada had no choice but to block. One attacked, the other defended. Their two swords collided, sending sparks flying. After another clash, Jin retreated several steps in a row. "Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique!"

"Water Release: Water Formation Wall!"

Cicada pressed both hands to the ground, and the Water Formation Wall perfectly blocked the phoenix sage fire, but the shuriken passed through the Water Formation Wall and stabbed straight into Cicada's chest.

"Bang~"

Cicada's position turned into a puddle of water. Jin frowned slightly and muttered, "Water Clone? Could it have been when she used Water Formation Wall?"

On a tree not far away, Cicada grumbled that this brat was a thug who only aimed for people's hearts, while bringing her hands forward, thumbs touching as she aimed at Jin. "Secret Technique: Mind Body Switch Technique."

Jin, who stood in place, suddenly felt someone invade his consciousness, and his control over his body slowly slipped out of his grasp.

His left hand drew a kunai and slowly pressed it against his own neck...

"So this is the Mind Body Switch Technique."

Jin's cold voice appeared behind Cicada, and his sword was already pressed against her neck.

"When?" Cicada's brows knitted tightly. In her own senses, she had clearly been about to seize control of Jin's body, only to be bounced back in an instant.

"Cicada, it's over." Jin did not answer her question, only said it flatly.

"If it ended like this, then I might as well quit the Anbu." Cicada's voice came again from the spot where the Water Formation Wall had been, while the Cicada Jin's sword was pressed against had already turned into a puddle of water.

"Another Water Clone?" Jin could not figure it out. How could she use Water Clone so many times under his Sharingan without him noticing at all?

The two of them stood there, one on the ground, one in the tree, and neither moved first. Jin could clearly feel that the Flying Thunder God mark he had placed earlier had vanished the instant the Water Clone disappeared.

Could it be that she already split off two new clones back when she used the smoke bomb? Jin secretly pondered.

At the same time, through the feedback from her Shadow Clone, Cicada also understood the other party's unreasonable Body Flicker Technique. So it wasn't Body Flicker. It was space-time ninjutsu... this brat.

"In that case." Jin silently formed seals. "Ninjutsu. Hidden Mist Technique."

In an instant, the entire training ground was filled with thick smoke, visibility reduced to less than half a meter.

"Kakashi, why is there fog over there?" Rin pointed toward the forest on the left.

Kakashi, who was practicing shuriken, looked over in that direction and came to a conclusion. "That's the Fifth Training Ground. Someone must be sparring over there."

"Sparring? Then I've got to go observe!" As soon as Obito heard that, he immediately dropped the shuriken in his hand and rushed toward the Fifth Training Ground.

"So this is youth! I'm going to watch too!" Guy, in his green skintight suit, also followed behind Obito.

Asuma also wanted to take a look. Ideally, he could even take someone as a master and learn a few secret moves to beat down a certain annoying Uchiha!

"Hey, don't!" Kakashi hurriedly called out, trying to stop them, but the three of them had already run far away. "A bunch of idiots! Fog at that level definitely wasn't released by an ordinary ninja!"

"Then what do we do?" Rin asked worriedly after hearing that. "Kakashi, Kurenai, let's follow them and take a look too."

"Yeah, it's too dangerous for them to go like this," Kurenai also suggested.

"Hmph." Kakashi snorted coldly, but he still put away his shuriken and led Rin and Kurenai after the others.

By the time they finally caught up with the three, they realized the fog was so thick they could not see the road at all, and they could not even tell their direction.

"Rin and Kurenai walk in the middle. I'll go in front," Kakashi said in a low voice. Obito sighed. "With fog this thick, I'm afraid even the Sharingan wouldn't be able to see through it..."

"It must be a pair of incredibly strong rivals sparring! Just like me and Kakashi!" Guy chimed in.

"Stop talking nonsense! Follow me!" Kakashi barked coldly, cutting the two of them off, and led the group as they carefully felt their way through the fog.

Seeing such dense fog, Cicada did not panic. She slowly crouched down, her fingers lightly touching the ground as she sensed Jin's distance from her.

"I almost forgot the Yamanaka Clan is good at sensory abilities," Jin sighed. After locking onto Cicada's position through the Sharingan, he lightly leaped into the air. "Water Release: Rainfall."

Countless drops of rain fell toward Cicada. Cicada rapidly retreated, then stood on the lake. "Wind Release: Wild Wind Dance."

A tornado rose from the surface of the water, blowing the surrounding fog elsewhere. Cicada stood there calmly, her hands changing into another seal.

The tornado slowly rolled lake water into itself, forming a huge water tornado, then swiftly flew toward Jin.

"Who said the Yamanaka Clan wasn't good at fighting..." Jin, who had already landed, silently cursed the teacher from the Ninja Academy who had said that the Yamanaka Clan was not good at combat, and that their abilities were more intelligence-focused.

Jin slid the sword in his hand back into its sheath and formed three unusual seals with both hands. "Water Release: Water Formation Wall."

A huge Water Formation Wall instantly surged up from the ground, blocking the sweeping water tornado. Immediately after, Jin pressed his hands together. "Water Release: Water Wave."

Circles of water rose around Jin, slowly gathering together to form a wave like the water tornado, resisting it head-on.

The two ninjutsu collided. "Bang!" The water tornado instantly exploded, and Jin and Cicada both hurriedly retreated several meters at the same time.

The wind blew the thick fog away, and the whole sky was filled with the water from the water release just now...

"Huh? The fog's gone?" Obito lifted his head in confusion. Right after that, droplets of water fell from the sky, completely soaking the group.

"This is..." Jin looked curiously at the ground, where the mud was already completely wet. "The battle location is up ahead! Let's go!" Obito started egging them on again.

A battle on this scale was something they could not learn about in the Ninja Academy. With Obito stirring things up, Guy and Asuma were both affected.

Even Kakashi's steps wavered, and he could not help walking faster and faster. He did not even need to think to know that this kind of battle was on a level he could not currently reach...

"Crow really is a freak, making this much water out of thin air... did he sign a contract with the ocean or something?" Sparrow, who was watching from the side, sighed.

Fangs very much agreed. "Exactly. He can actually use water release to clash head-on with Cicada's move... it's just a pity my chicken legs have turned into drowned chickens."