At the outskirts of Uzumaki Village, two hundred executioners armed with various weapons stood frozen in shock at the sight of corpses strewn across the ground.
"What's going on? All these bodies—these are Rain ninjas!"
"That's because your plan has already been exposed. Are you ready to die?" Shūya stood atop a rooftop, looking down on them with disdain.
"You've got to be kidding. We're—"
*Shwip!*
Before the ninja could finish speaking, a sleeve dart pierced through his forehead.
Shūya turned to his subordinate behind him, clearly displeased. "Let him finish next time."
"Sorry, clan leader. I was just curious about this weapon's power."
"Well then, how was it?"
"Very impressive!"
Shūya, whose temper was growing steadily worse, realized he wouldn't get any useful information from them. He ordered his clansmen, "Kill them all. No survivors!"
"Yes sir!"
Over a hundred elite members of the Uzumaki clan scattered in all directions. None would allow these executioners who dared to wreak havoc in their homeland to escape unscathed.
Meanwhile, while Dr. Kairi continued conducting experiments and the Uzumaki launched counterattacks, Team One coordinated attacks with a certain long-range monster.
As Shen pulled the trigger for the eleventh time, something felt off—despite his ability to accelerate brain processing speed, not a single shot had hit its mark.
Beside him, Nayou couldn't figure out why their opponent always dodged attacks in advance, even when she activated her Lightning Nature Chakra Mode.
Nawaki, exhausted after ten minutes of brutal combat, panted and snapped, "You said you wouldn't miss! This is it?!"
"This guy's got issues. Even your idiotic punches keep getting dodged." Shen stated flatly.
"He should be calling me Master Nawaki!"
"Right. What's the difference between your fighting style and a toddler's? Just because you're strong means you can hit people? You're a Chunin now—can't you act like one?"
"You don't understand anything. Brute force defeats all techniques!"
"All I've ever heard is this—in all martial arts, there's nothing faster than speed!"
The Takigakure Captain secretly smirked as he saw his enemies bickering among themselves.
Just as he was going to launch a surprise attack, he sensed danger and quickly turned his head, narrowly dodging a pitch-black arrow.
From the shadows, Shen quickly analyzed the situation. "It's happening again—can he predict the future? Then Nawaki's previous attacks… or could it be…"
He loosed an arrow without aiming. Seeing that his opponent didn't even attempt to dodge, a faint smile tugged at his lips.
The Uchiha genius had seemingly already deduced the enemy's ability.
"You idiot, why shoot without aiming? What if you hit me!" Nawaki growled at Shen's so-called "old man shooting style."
Shen remained confident. "Believe me, my next arrow will definitely hit him."
"Hmph. Don't talk nonsense, kid!" The Takigakure Captain scoffed at those words.
"Your ability is indeed amazing, but still, I can crack it."
Shen calmly took out a small scroll from his pocket and opened it without haste.
He loaded a pitch-black arrow from inside the scroll into his crossbow and aimed at his opponent's leg.
"Maybe you can sense chakra-based attacks. But that kick Nawaki threw at you—you took it on purpose, didn't you? Just to mess with our heads!"
Nayou and Nawaki finally pieced together the enemy's ability. They both knew Dora-A Shen had just the right trick up his sleeve to counter it.
Being able to sense chakra-powered attacks was possible thanks to the 130 trillion cells in the human body—meaning even taijutsu, ninjutsu, or genjutsu could be detected.
As for thrown ninja tools, traces of chakra clinging to their materials made full concealment impossible.
Once his ability was figured out, the Takigakure Captain still kept his cool.
In his mind, materials capable of blocking chakra transmission shouldn't exist—at least until an arrow struck his knee.
Shen nodded in satisfaction as he pulled the trigger.
He felt immensely grateful to Mother for packing and preparing everything meticulously, no matter how useful—or useless—it might seem.
"Long live my mother!" His admiration for Aiko swelled to its peak as he decided to fire another arrow.
"Phut!"
Deprived of his all-purpose sensing ability and injured in the knee, the Takigakure Captain had no way to dodge.
"You're way too arrogant. Thinking you can ditch every other way of sensing the world and rely solely on yourself? That'd really disappoint me." Shen seemed to have forgotten how, just moments ago, he'd nearly been sliced in half.
The Takigakure Captain knew his last-ditch resistance was pointless.
Before his final breath, he revealed what he believed to be a cruel truth: "Hmph, do I need a brat like you lecturing me? Even if you kill me, do you think you can kill all two hundred jonin we've brought along?"
But Shen smiled and delivered an even crueller truth: "Two hundred people? Oh wow, I'm so scared I peed a little. But remember, the Uzumaki clan practically has every member equipped with sleeve darts just like mine. You really think all those people share your ability?"
"Boom!!!" The Takigakure Captain's heart thundered like lightning.
The seven-year-old Shen Uchiha smiling before him was no different from a devil.
"Goodbye!"
Battling inner discomfort, Shen pressed the trigger, firing the crossbow straight into the enemy's heart. This wasn't like setting off bombs from a safe distance.
"Nayou, what about that slime?"
"What slime?"
"The one I first sliced in half—"
Shen quickly slipped back into his usual cryptic self, trying to explain to Little Iceberg something that existed somewhere between liquid and solid.
His words, packed with squishy adjectives, instantly gave Nawaki the creeps.
"Ew, gross! Can't you just talk normally?"
"But that's really how it is. Why don't you take a look for yourself?"
"Gross! Just... too gross!"
While Team One was chatting, some slime quietly slithered out of Uzumaki village.
"These three kids are just too strange. One kills a giant with just a glare, one's taijutsu can go head-to-head with that narrow-minded guy, and the last one has such incredible strength," murmured the Mist captain, now in slime form, clearly wary of Team One.
"The plan failed. Where did those Uzumaki clan members even get these weird weapons from?"
"Hisss."
"Get lost! Do you think my current form is something a tiny snake like you can bully?" The increasingly agitated slime instantly swallowed the small snake that had suddenly appeared in front of him.
"If it hadn't been for that Uchiha brat slicing me open with his Lightning Release, I would've already obtained both the Sharingan and Byakugan!"
"So you were after Shen and Nayou?"
"That's right. Since the Uzumaki clan wasn't eradicated, I didn't win either pair of special eyes as a prize. Even with the Mizukage's backing, who exactly are you?"
Before the slime stood a tall, pale man with long hair, wearing a Konoha jonin flak jacket. Though striking in appearance, his gaze was anything but appealing.
"In that case, I definitely can't let you leave."
Indeed, our dear Snake Uncle didn't forget to use the Summoning Technique to track people down while running his experiments.
As for this slime's eventual fate? It might end up no better than that lab rat.
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