"Elder—"
Ignoring the varied looks from her clansmen, Uchiha Mikoto rushed straight to the front-line battlefield after leaving the tent.
But the moment she reached the shoreline, she heard several cries of alarm.
Looking up, she saw several Hyuga ninja roaring angrily as they charged forward, only to be blocked by a Mist Village ninja whose body was covered in protruding bone spikes.
At the center of their attention, an aged figure knelt halfway in the seawater.
It was the Hyuga Clan's Great Elder, Hyuga Naoya, who had been punished by being stationed at the border.
He clutched his right eye as blood continuously poured out, staining his entire right hand red.
"Then I'll take your left eye too."
The Mist Village ninja with a tag hanging from his ear sneered and reached for Hyuga Naoya's other eye.
He had already taken the Byakugan from his right eye...
"Don't... even... think..."
Hyuga Naoya had long since lost the ability to fight, but his left hand suddenly rose.
"Pfft!"
He stabbed a kunai into his own Byakugan!
"Great Elder!"
Several Hyuga ninja cried out in grief and fury.
Ao frowned and withdrew his hand.
"Then die."
With a flick of his wrist, he threw a kunai straight at Hyuga Naoya's throat.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh... Clang!"
At that moment, several kunai suddenly flew over and knocked his kunai away.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
A massive fireball crashed toward him. Ao instantly withdrew, forming hand seals at the same time. "Water Release: Water Shock Wave Technique!"
Water and fire canceled each other out, sending clouds of white mist rising.
When the wind dispersed the mist, Uchiha Mikoto's nimble figure stood before the weakened Hyuga Naoya, her two-tomoe Sharingan slowly spinning.
"The Uchiha Clan?"
Ao, who had originally planned to leave while the