"When did this guy get here?!"
Watanabe Tomoya, the Jōnin responsible for the Thunder God Shield's core, was stunned by Madara Uchiha's sudden appearance. Hadn't the kid been casting ninjutsu in the distance just a moment ago? How had he appeared right in front of him before the technique had even ended?
Madara Uchiha naturally had no intention of answering him. Futsu-no-Mitama stabbed straight into the Thunder God Shield, and crackling lightning traveled along the blade toward Madara Uchiha. But to Watanabe Tomoya's astonishment, the brat before him remained completely unharmed by the powerful current!
"Captain, this guy seems to have a dark blue Barrier around him!"
The sight of Madara Uchiha single-handedly resisting the Thunder God Shield was so bizarre, and unfolding so close before their eyes, that the Kumogakure ninja maintaining the shield could not help looking at him.
"Didn't your elders ever tell you not to look into the eyes of someone from the Uchiha Clan when you fight them?"
The three-tomoe Sharingan gleamed an eerie red in the night. The instant Watanabe Tomoya heard Madara Uchiha's words, he tried to close his eyes. Unfortunately, he was already too late.
They had fallen under Madara's genjutsu the moment they first looked at him.
"What are you doing?! Are you a spy?! Captain, Rika's gone mad!"
"Lord Qinghai! Why are you attacking me?!"
A sudden pain shot through Watanabe Tomoya's chest. He looked back to find that his own student, Suzuki Yusuke, had plunged a kunai into him. Meanwhile, the previously orderly Kumogakure ninja squad behind him had descended into a chaotic melee.
Damn it! Before we left on this mission, Lord Shōta specifically warned us never to look into the eyes of anyone from the Uchiha Clan.
Madara was simply too elusive. When a figure suddenly appeared