With his one tomoe Sharingan, Itachi had clearly seen every movement of Ruri's Konoha Whirlwind just now, and had taken the opportunity to unleash a new C-rank Fire Release Ninjutsu.
Seeing Uchiha spit three enormous fireballs toward him in a single breath, Ruri swiftly retreated several steps.
Facing the Fire Release Ninjutsu hurtling toward him, Ruri immediately unleashed Eight Trigrams Palms: Heavenly Spin. Chakra poured from every chakra point on his body as he spun rapidly in place, blocking all three fireballs and scattering them.
Yet another unexpected scene unfolded. After scattering all three fireballs, Ruri discovered that transparent threads surrounded his body, all of them strung with Explosive Tags. The slightest movement of his body would detonate every tag.
"These are... threads? When did you..." Ruri said in surprise, pressing against the Steel Wire wrapped around his body.
"If I'm not mistaken, that Eight Trigrams Palms: Heavenly Spin of yours works by releasing chakra from your body and then spinning at high speed. Your rapidly spinning body can deflect physical attacks and integer attacks alike. It's a defensive ninjutsu, isn't it?" Uchiha Itachi said from four or five meters in front of Ruri.
At some unknown point, Itachi had also taken hold of the other end of the Steel Wire. Looking at Ruri, he said, "After losing out last time, I came up with this method. Now you can't keep using that ninjutsu to defend against my attacks!"
"I really did underestimate you a little..."
Ruri thought with a bitter inward smile, So the Fire Release Uchiha Itachi unleashed just now was only a diversion. His real goal was to hide steel and iron wires inside the fireballs.
"To think I only used Rotation once last time, and you've already come up with a counter! You really do deserve