On the way to the training ground, Amamiya Maki walked slowly.
He brought up the system panel.
[Spend 400 pressure points to learn Lightning Blade immediately?] [Current pressure points: 478]
"Do it."
[Lightning Blade learned]
Lightning burst in his palm, blue-white currents pouring between his fingers as a shrill chorus of chirping birds rang down the entire street.
He closed his hand, silencing the chirping.
[Current pressure points: 78]
Beyond the training ground's wire fence, Uchiha Mikoto had already arrived.
She wore a dark blue short jacket with snug cuffs, her ninja tool pouch hanging higher than last time.
The moment she saw Maki enter, she drew two kunai without a word. Her pupils contracted, and two tomoe appeared in their black depths.
The Two-Tomoe Sharingan. She activated it right from the start.
"I've heard about your victories, and I've done some research on you."
"Doing your homework is good, but everything you analyzed is outdated."
Maki formed hand seals with his left hand. "Hidden Mist Technique!"
Thick mist erupted from the ground, rolling over the entire training ground and swallowing the wire fence, wooden posts, and sandy earth in gray-white haze.
Facing the Sharingan, Shippuden's biggest cheat, he couldn't afford the slightest overconfidence. First, he would block her vision.
Mikoto didn't wait passively. Her hands rapidly formed seals, her chest swelled, and seven or eight balls of fire burst into the mist in a fan-shaped spread.
Phoenix Flower Jutsu!
The flames weren't meant to disperse the mist. They were meant to illuminate it.
Firelight revealed a figure in the mist, moving quickly ahead to her left.
Mikoto pushed off with her left foot, her kunai tracing an arc and piercing straight through the figure.
Once pierced, the figure dissolved into white mist.
"How