When Uchiha Onigawara saw his spy-ninja contact killed, and heard Uchiha Akainu's utterly remorseless words about family... Onigawara knew his only chance was to fight his way out as fast as possible!
He took a deep breath, opened his mouth, and unleashed a massive fireball, surging upwards. The raging flames scorched the wooden house walls to charcoal. The firelight cast an orange glow on the lower half of Uchiha Akainu's face.
Uchiha Akainu formed a hand seal with one hand. Instead of dodging or evading the incoming Great Fireball Jutsu, he leaped downward, right into the heart of the fireball. The flames instantly swallowed him, but in the blink of an eye, his figure burst through the searing inferno.
When Uchiha Akainu landed on the ground below, a few drops of lava slid from his body, melting shallow pits into the earth, which still emitted faint white smoke. But as far as his eyes could see, Uchiha Onigawara was nowhere to be found. Only the corpse of the spy-ninja he had killed remained.
Uchiha Akainu glanced down at the footprints on the ground. He narrowed his eyes and pursued in the opposite direction of the tracks.
"How can that brat Akainu awaken the Lava Release Kekkei Genkai... We're blood relatives, yet I only have the Sharingan, while he's a genius with two Kekkei Genkai!" Uchiha Onigawara muttered, grinding his teeth in envy as he moved swiftly.
He naturally didn't think a Fire Style jutsu could harm Uchiha Akainu. He'd only used it to obstruct him, believing even a second of delay would be enough for him to escape.
But...
"Uchiha Onigawara is here!!!" Just as he managed to evade Uchiha Akainu, he ran right into Konoha Military Police Force ninjas.
Hearing the shout, Uchiha Onigawara's face darkened significantly. His Sharingan swiftly tracked the trajectory of incoming projectiles. He immediately sidestepped, and several shuriken whizzed past his cheek; one even grazed his face.
A Military Police ninja, katana in hand, was already closing in. Uchiha Onigawara agilely ducked, dodging a strike, then punched the opponent's wrist. He then grabbed the wrist, twisted it back, and with a sickening snap, the Military Police ninja screamed. Onigawara snatched the katana, hooked the ninja's ankle to unbalance him, and then thrust the blade downwards.
"Hm?!" Just as the blade was about to pierce the ninja's chest. His Three-Tomoe Sharingan's superior dynamic vision caught something unusual to his right.
Uchiha Onigawara saw a flash of molten light. He hurriedly retreated a step. Then, to his horror, he found that the blade of the katana he had just seized was gone! From the broken hilt, glowing red molten iron dripped down!
"...Lava Release?!"
The person he least wanted to see reappeared in his line of sight.
Uchiha Onigawara gritted his teeth and said, "Akainu! Is it really necessary to ruthlessly kill your own blood relatives!?"
"Justice will be executed."
"No kin spared."
Uchiha Akainu's right arm had completely transformed into lava, the surging molten rock causing it to continuously swell. The smell of sulfur in the air made Uchiha Onigawara's pupils constrict slightly.
Uchiha Onigawara suddenly felt a blur before his eyes; Uchiha Akainu's figure vanished, and by the time his eyes caught him again, they were less than three meters apart!
Too fast!!!
"Water Style—" Uchiha Onigawara swore this was the fastest he had ever performed hand seals in his life.
"Grand Waterfall Jutsu!!!"
A terrifying torrent of water surged towards Uchiha Akainu, while Akainu's swollen lava arm simultaneously thrust forward. With the swing of his arm, the lava arm rapidly swelled further, until it formed an astonishingly large lava giant fist, colliding with Uchiha Onigawara's fearsome water torrent!
The lava...
It devoured the Water Style!
The utterly horrifying scene made the Military Police ninja, whose katana was taken, scramble away in a panicked retreat. Even so, the splashing hot water and the even more lethal splashing lava still reached him. His facial skin was scalded by the boiling water, the intense pain almost making him grit his teeth to dust. A few drops of lava brushed past him, melting the protective vest of the Military Police due to its terrifying heat. This scared the ninja into quickly shedding his vest.
His pupils trembled with lingering fear. "Is this jonin-level combat...? I probably don't even have the right to interfere. How did I even dare to try and stop Uchiha Onigawara on my own just now?" If Uchiha Akainu hadn't suddenly saved him, he probably would have died at Onigawara's hands.
"The commotion came from over here! Uchiha Onigawara must be here!"
A group of Uchiha Military Police Force ninjas quickly arrived from all directions. Pairs of Sharingan furiously scanned their surroundings, making sure Uchiha Onigawara didn't slip past them unnoticed.
Fugaku, the head of the Military Police Force, also arrived in person, leading the charge at the very front. Just then, as a gentle breeze swept towards him, Uchiha Fugaku's nose twitched. He smelled a pungent, yet incredibly familiar scent.
"It smells a bit like sulfur..."
"...Akainu?!"
"Hmph... hmph... The difference..."
Uchiha Onigawara stumbled back a few steps, staring in horror at his suddenly missing ten fingers, feeling intense, searing pain radiating from his hands. He spoke haltingly, cold sweat streaming down his face. "The difference... is it really this vast?"
Uchiha Onigawara let his arms fall, gazing at Uchiha Akainu, who was slowly walking towards him. The veins on his forehead pulsed as he roared, "Your power is no less than anyone in the village, including the Hokage, isn't it?! Why would someone like you... still work so hard for Konoha?!"
"Do we proud Uchiha really have to be the Hokage's dogs? Are you going to be like Uchiha Itachi, who, despite being Uchiha, betrayed us from within?!"
Whoosh—
Uchiha Fugaku arrived at this crucial moment, quite by coincidence. He indeed saw Uchiha Akainu, who was confronting a disheveled Uchiha Onigawara. Fugaku instantly understood the situation. This child, Akainu... he really wasn't just reliable; he was truly dedicated to executing justice without mercy! His "Absolute Justice" wasn't just empty words. It was the ninja way he lived by!
But in the next second, Fugaku heard Uchiha Akainu's voice.
"I have never served Konoha. People like Uchiha Itachi are not like me either."
Uchiha Akainu said with a profound tone, "Give me a chance to solo the Hokage, and I wouldn't hesitate. Unfortunately, while he trusts me in some ways, he also seems very wary of me, always surrounded by many Anbu."
Fugaku: "...???"
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