Chapter 351: Training Match
"Lightning Style: Chidori Short Sword!"
As the two sides took their stances, Sasuke started with his signature Lightning Style: Chidori.
The sizzling sound of electricity flashed and disappeared. The restless lightning quickly condensed into a stable Lightning Style short sword in his hand. The surface remained motionless and silent, faintly emitting a pale blue light.
If one didn't know the power of this move, looking only at the plain and unadorned short sword in his hand, an ordinary person would probably be momentarily confused by this short sword with its restrained divine light, completely unable to imagine the surging power hidden under its calm surface!
To be able to control the violent Lightning Style chakra to this extent, displaying and integrating nature transformation and shape transformation so perfectly, just from this move alone, Haruno Sakura could see that Sasuke's cultivation of Lightning Style had become more profound in the past two years.
Compared to Fire Style, Sasuke seemed to be more talented in Lightning Style. After training with Kakashi and learning the White Fang's sword technique and Lightning Style nin-taijutsu, the black-haired boy's temperament had become more and more like a sword!
However, unlike the White Fang of Konoha's sharp and exposed temperament, Sasuke was influenced by Haruno Sakura. Usually, he was much more peaceful, and his aura was more like a sharp short sword with restrained divine light, waiting to be unsheathed!
Konohamaru and the other two looked at each other. Sasuke's fighting style was completely different from Haruno Sakura's. It was the first time they had fought such an unfamiliar opponent.
Swish, swish, swish!
Clueless, they threw ninja tools to test the waters. Kunai and darts shot densely towards Sasuke.
"Basic skills are not bad!" Sasuke commented faintly.
Accuracy, speed, and strength were all top choices among newcomers, and what was rare was that the attack was very layered!
The main attack was heavy and hard kunai, extremely fast and powerful; the light darts drew arcs, attacking from the side, with strange routes and tricky angles; finally, even the dodge route was perfectly blocked by caltrops and other ninja tools!
However, such a probe obviously couldn't trouble Sasuke.
"It seems Little Sakura has trained you well." While speaking, the black-haired boy effortlessly waved the lightning short sword in his hand. The sharp short sword accurately and quickly knocked away or even cut off a large number of incoming ninja tools, scattering them on the ground.
"Your Sakura-sensei got a perfect score in the ninja tool throwing class at school, but that was because she cheated using ninjutsu." Sasuke chuckled. A few years wasn't too long, and the events at the Ninja Academy were still fresh in his memory. He casually exposed Haruno Sakura's dark history and said, "Let me show you the Uchiha's ninja tool throwing technique!"
Sasuke flipped his left hand, instantly clamping four shuriken between his fingers. With a sudden force of his wrist, the shuriken shot out like cold stars; his hand movements did not stop, continuously shooting shuriken, engaging in a duel of ninja tools with the three!
Clang, clang, clang!
The sound of ninja tools colliding rang out continuously in the air, but Sasuke's ninja tool throwing was obviously several levels higher than Konohamaru and the others. Whether it was strength, speed, angle, or accuracy, he completely crushed them; the three of them were actually suppressed by Sasuke using only his left hand!
"Ninja tool throwing is a basic skill for ninja. You are doing well on this point," Sasuke, who suppressed the three with one hand, instructed. Haruno Sakura's ninja tool throwing was just average. Using only taijutsu, she might not be as good as her three students. "But competing in ninja tool throwing with an Uchiha is definitely an unwise choice! After the probe fails, you should change tactics immediately, instead of continuing to waste energy with me using ninja tools."
Sasuke didn't need to say this.
The three, who were already suppressed by his darts and couldn't lift their heads, immediately changed their thinking.
"Water Style: Water Formation Wall!"
A water wall sprayed from Moegi's mouth, half-surrounding the three, blocking the darts attacking like raindrops.
"Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!"
Konohamaru, who finally found a chance to breathe, didn't have time to rest. He quickly formed seals and sprayed a large fireball several people high, shooting towards Sasuke.
"Ninjutsu execution is good!" Sasuke praised. When Konohamaru used Fire Style, Udon also instantly used genjutsu to interfere with his movements; the timing, power, and coordination of these few ninjutsu had exceeded the level of Chunin!
"As expected of someone taught by Little Sakura. However, using genjutsu against an Uchiha is not a good idea, even if I haven't activated the Sharingan!" He glared, breaking Udon's genjutsu, and his figure instantly disappeared from the training ground.
The Great Fireball missed as expected.
The next moment, Sasuke appeared in front of Moegi, swinging the Lightning Style short sword and slashing down!
"So fast!" Moegi only had time to scream in surprise before being cut in two by the lightning short sword!
Then, she turned into a puddle of clear water and scattered on the ground.
Water Clone.
Sasuke's eyebrow moved. With a flip of his wrist, the short sword swung up. Just as it was about to slash across Udon and Konohamaru's necks, the two had already turned into two puffs of smoke and dissipated. They were also clones!
Only two burning paper tags were left floating in the air.
Explosive tags? The black-haired boy's eyes narrowed!
BOOM—!
"Did it work?" The three hiding in the shade of the forest stared tightly at the clearing on the training ground, Konohamaru said nervously.
The smoke brought by the explosive tags gradually dissipated, and a scarred Sasuke appeared on the field.
"You used Water Clone and Shadow Clone the moment the Water Formation Wall blocked the view, and used clones to cooperate with explosive tags to attack?" Despite being covered in injuries, he could still speak nonchalantly. "Good tactic! Very much in Little Sakura's style..."
The spectacular scene of infinite Ice Clone explosions might affect the three students' minds for a lifetime. At least in the future, they would bring a few more explosive tags!
The routine of clones plus explosive tags could be considered a poor man's version of the Shadow Clone or Ice Clone Explosion Technique. Although the timeliness was a bit poor, it consumed less chakra, which was especially suitable for newcomers like them who didn't have much chakra.
However, Sasuke wasn't so easily defeated.
With a crackling sound, the black-haired boy's figure suddenly turned into bolts of lightning and dissipated!
Lightning Clone.
"Failed..." Udon analyzed softly. "He should have also used the Clone Jutsu the moment the fireball blocked our view."
"Our clone explosion tactic needs to be tighter," Moegi also whispered. "Sasuke-kun's Lightning Clone just now seemed to have been blown up on purpose."
"Did he go easy on us..." Konohamaru bit his lip. "Next, we must work harder to force out Sasuke-kun's true strength!"
After a brief pause in the battle.
Sasuke's figure reappeared on the field.
"Explanation time is over. In the next battle, there will be no room for talking... Grit your teeth and be careful of suffocation!"
He said indifferently.
While speaking, his hands were quietly forming seals: "Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!"
Although Sasuke's ambition was not in Fire Style, the Great Fireball he used was still not to be underestimated!
The blazing orange-yellow fireball was magnificent, and its power was worlds apart from Konohamaru's move just now. It blasted straight towards the position where the three were hiding!
"Exposed!" Konohamaru screamed.
The game of hide-and-seek was over!
The amazing power of the fireball made the three's scalps numb. They leaped out of their hiding place in embarrassment, dodging this blow, and landed on the clearing.
Before they could stand firm, Sasuke rushed up with a stride, and the lightning sword in his hand slashed down from the air!
Clang, a crisp sound of metal colliding rang out! In the nick of time, feeling the threat of death, Konohamaru's mind went blank. His body, which had undergone countless training sessions, instinctively raised the kunai to meet the lightning sword, circulating chakra to strengthen hardness and enhance muscles in one go, blocking Sasuke's attack with unprecedented reaction speed!
Not only Konohamaru, but under the threat that Sasuke might really hack them to death, Moegi and Udon also didn't have time to think much, and displayed their ideal combat state!
"Water Style: Water Formation Wall!" "Genjutsu: Temple of Nirvana!"
The surging chakra water didn't even have time to change its shape before rushing towards Sasuke. The huge impact force combined with the interference of genjutsu forced Sasuke to retreat a few steps and land on the side.
"A breakthrough..." Sakura watched the three students panting heavily from the side and nodded secretly.
They could easily perform these actions in training, but always made mistakes in actual combat sparring... Under Sasuke's pressure, they performed them naturally!
Actual combat was indeed the best training method.
She looked on with anticipation; the battle on the field began to heat up.
Sasuke controlled the rhythm very well. From the beginning of explaining while fighting, slowly accelerating the rhythm, mobilizing their state, to the unreasonable raid just now, bringing the spirits of the three to the most focused combat state; then, the storm-like fierce attack, the suffocating offensive forced the students to maintain this extremely focused mental state, tightening the string in their brains to the limit!
This rhythm made Konohamaru and the others completely immersed in the battle, completely forgetting that this was just training!
While Sasuke and the three students were fighting on the field, Haruno Sakura was watching from the sidelines, pondering things in her mind.
Since going to the Land of Snow last year until now, Sasuke hadn't had much deep communication with her for more than half a year. She also needed to observe carefully to what extent this guy had grown.
However, Sasuke without activating the Sharingan obviously didn't display his true strength.
The three little guys on the field had been attacked by him to the point of suffocation. A Chidori short sword beat the three into a pathetic state. Sasuke said he would be strict with the three, and it was not false at all!
Of course, Sakura could also see that he was actually going easy on them when fighting. If he got serious, Sasuke would directly urge the power of the Lightning Style short sword with all his might. A Body Flicker down would mean one slash per person. Kunai and Water Style absolutely couldn't block it, let alone have time to dodge; it would be amazing if the three could last three seconds!
"The effect looks good." Sakura looked at the three on the field. Forced into their best state, the three used genjutsu, taijutsu, and ninjutsu in turn, using all their skills. After getting over the initial embarrassment, they began to fight back and forth with Sasuke!
"Who should be the next sparring partner? Haku, or Hinata? Or someone else?"
While she was pondering this question, the battle on the field was gradually coming to an end.
The trio, having gradually adapted to Sasuke's rhythm, began to brew the steps for a counterattack!
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