"Let me be your opponent."
Aoba Yamashiro immediately began forming hand seals with both hands. Since Anko had said Gua was strong at taijutsu, and he had seen it for himself, there was no reason to compete with him in that. It wasn't his specialty.
While Aoba Yamashiro formed his seals, Gua didn't move at all. He seemed to be waiting calmly.
That stirred a trace of suspicion in Aoba Yamashiro's mind.
That confident?
Could he be an expert at ninjutsu too?
At that thought, a sheen of cold sweat appeared on Aoba Yamashiro's forehead. Genjutsu, taijutsu, ninjutsu-if the six-year-old before him was an expert in all three, just how terrifying was he?
Aoba Yamashiro didn't dare dwell on it.
His hands had finished forming the seals.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
A fireball shot toward Gua.
Gua merely tilted his head slightly, and the Great Fireball brushed past his face. Its red glow flashed across his pupils like a shooting star.
Boom!
The Great Fireball struck the ground, scorching a patch of earth black.
Gua stood there without a scratch.
A contest of ninjutsu?
That wasn't Gua's forte.
The only ninjutsu he knew was the basic Three Body Technique, which had little offensive capability. He hadn't been idle-training the ordinary Great Fireball for very long...
So he was essentially a pure brawler.
The reason Gua hadn't moved while Aoba Yamashiro formed his seals was that, from the very first seal, he had already predicted every seal that would follow and deduced that it was a Great Fireball Technique.
With such a long windup,
how could he fail to dodge it?
And if he could dodge it, why dodge early?
Yama Aoba, however, was stunned. He had dodged it so easily. Even an ordinary chunin probably couldn't anticipate attacks that