"Naruto: My Ninja Skills"Chapter 158: The Uchiha Will
Compared to Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, Tobirama Senju and Izuna Uchiha were indeed just mortals.
But even among mortals, there are differences.
The Flying Thunder God was being used on the battlefield for the first time, and no one could stop it. Tobirama Senju's clean, decisive strike completely shattered the balance between the Senju and Uchiha.
And there was no possibility of recovery.
At this moment, countless thoughts swirled through Uchiha Izuna's mind. Everything around him lost its sound, and one second was being infinitely stretched to an eternal degree... Yes, this instant was longer than his entire life.
Immediately after, all thoughts were rapidly stripped away, because Uchiha Izuna knew that thinking so much was completely meaningless.
After casting aside all arrogance, pain, grief, and even shame, Izuna ultimately didn't forget himself... He knew that until death truly arrived, he was still a ninja.
In his field of vision, several Uchiha ninja were rapidly charging toward Tobirama Senju. What he needed to do now was very simple—restrain the enemy as much as possible for his comrades... just as he had done in countless previous wars.
Almost purely by instinct, before Uchiha Izuna's upper body hit the ground, the seals in his hands were already complete:
"Fire Release: Flame Dragon's Song Technique"
Orange-red flames completely engulfed Tobirama Senju. This Fire Release ninjutsu, together with the Uchiha ninja attacking from behind, formed a pincer attack on Tobirama. However...
Tobirama's figure instantly disappeared, and as he vanished, he appeared outside the range of the Fire Release.
Tobirama's gaze first locked onto Izuna, who had already collapsed to the ground. Blood stained the clothing behind Izuna, drowning the Uchiha clan emblem in it.
Just judging by Izuna's final performance, he barely lived up to the "Fan of Fire" behind him... just barely, since all the consequences here were caused by Izuna's lack of caution.
After just one glance at Izuna, confirming the opponent could no longer launch attacks—couldn't even write seven "tragic" characters on the ground—Tobirama's eyes once again focused on the newly arriving enemies.
"Your Sharingan has been overused for a long time, hasn't it? Can you still see what's in front of you now?"
The enemy appearing before Tobirama was Sasuke Uchiha.
Sasuke and his Taka organization had been frequently active on the Uchiha and Senju battlefield, so his appearance before Tobirama again wasn't coincidental...
In fact, he had just tried to save Izuna. After all, when he looked at Izuna, it was no different from looking at any ordinary Uchiha. Unfortunately, compared to the Flying Thunder God, his speed was too slow, and he could only watch helplessly as Izuna was killed.
"Lord Nameless, Tobirama Senju is difficult to deal with. If we're not mistaken, what he just used was some kind of space-time ninjutsu. We can't figure out the specific principles and patterns in a short time, but we can at least confirm he doesn't need hand seals when casting... This guy is really too troublesome."
The ninja named Uchiha Kensuke behind Sasuke spoke rapidly. He felt great regret for Izuna's death, but also knew that at this moment, all attention must be focused on Tobirama.
Ninja seeing the Flying Thunder God for the first time would only feel their scalps tingling.
Sasuke nodded. At this moment, facing Tobirama Senju, his face still showed no expression... As Tobirama said, his Mangekyō was almost at its limit.
He didn't even intend to hide this fact.
"My last bit of ocular power will be used right here... Tobirama Senju, you're worth me doing this."
These words made Tobirama's heart sink. He wasn't afraid of Sasuke's Mangekyō, but the determination shown in Sasuke's words forced him to take it extremely seriously... Uchiha all valued their Sharingan like their lives, yet this young man in front of him could so calmly give up his Mangekyō?
Damn, this kid really had mixed with Yūshin and had that familiar ruthless energy.
"Mangekyō Sharingan is quite rare."
"The Mangekyō isn't important. I've already understood what true strength is."
If Yūshin were present, he would definitely seriously suspect that the person speaking wasn't Sasuke Uchiha at all.
At this time, Sasuke's subordinates wanted to retrieve Izuna's Mangekyō Sharingan, but the problem was they didn't dare easily approach Izuna's body... Although everyone couldn't understand what Tobirama's space-time ninjutsu was about, experience told them not to easily step into places where this person had performed spatial transfers.
Susanoo's chakra skeleton enveloped Sasuke's body, and simultaneously, it drew its bow and nocked an arrow, aiming the arrowhead at Tobirama's position.
Amaterasu's black flames combined with Kagutsuchi's control ability directly dyed Susanoo's chakra arrows black.
Buzz!
With the bowstring emitting a high-frequency trembling sound, the giant arrow stained with Amaterasu's black flames shot toward Tobirama at an incomparably fierce speed.
The sharp sound of cutting through air made Tobirama understand he must dodge at the fastest speed.
Susanoo was somewhat troublesome, but Tobirama wasn't overly worried about such techniques, because he knew the enemy in front of him couldn't hold out for long.
Tobirama's figure appeared elsewhere, and Sasuke controlled the Susanoo "turret" to rotate direction and shoot another arrow... At this time, the blood flowing from his eye sockets had completely stained Sasuke's face red.
Yet he didn't feel pain, or perhaps because he would find it hard to experience this kind of pain again afterward, even pain was worth cherishing.
After shooting six arrows in succession, the Susanoo behind Sasuke began to dissipate on its own. Darkness enveloped his vision, and he slowly closed his eyes.
The last trace of light still brought him some gain—after Tobirama had continuously changed positions several times, he finally appeared repeatedly in a position where he had appeared before.
"It should be movement using spatial coordinates. Everyone should try to avoid stepping on positions where he has appeared, and pay attention to whether there are any special markings around during battle."
Because Sasuke's observation wasn't sufficient, he could only try to guess Tobirama Senju's Flying Thunder God movement method... One could only say his combat intelligence was there—relying on intelligence gathered in a short time, his guess was quite close to the truth.
Even though some intelligence had been guessed, Tobirama didn't randomly scatter Flying Thunder God kunai at this time... The spatial coordinates scattered on this battlefield were already sufficient.
At this time, he noticed Sasuke's chakra intensity beginning to surge dramatically, and the horns on his head were visibly growing out.
When Sasuke was shooting arrows earlier, he hadn't moved at all. Now he had fully absorbed the surrounding natural energy and entered Sage Mode.
Then he manipulated the ground's undulation, concealing his figure for an instant, then used the Clone Technique.
"Clone Technique? Want me to guess which one is the real body?"
Tobirama instantly saw through Sasuke's intention, but Shadow Clones were identical to the real body. Even with Tobirama's sensing ability, he couldn't distinguish which was the real body and which was the clone.
Moreover, the natural energy on Sasuke also caused some interference to Tobirama's sensing ability—he wasn't very familiar with this stuff.
Sasuke's clone and real body stood more than ten meters apart, apparently to guard against Tobirama's Flying Thunder God.
By coincidence, one of them was standing on a Flying Thunder God coordinate.
"Although you've lost your sight, Sage Mode's unique sensing ability compensates for this deficiency?"
Sasuke seemed very confident. Perhaps he didn't know Tobirama had the ability to simultaneously eliminate both his clone and real body?
Tobirama threw a kunai at each of the two Sasukes, and simultaneously, his figure had already appeared behind one of them... Now it depended on whether his luck was good.
However, just as he landed, he suddenly felt he hadn't stepped on solid ground, but rather something like crocodile skin.
With a certain hissing sound, several white snakes instantly coiled around and bound him.
The Flying Thunder God was indeed fast, but when launching an attack, you still had to appear first, right? Obviously, Sasuke had cunningly set up a "minefield."
"Summoning: Snake Glare Binding"
Tobirama had no choice but to use the "Flying Thunder God Slash" he had prepared for dealing with Sasuke on these binding white snakes, instantly cutting them to pieces.
However, this didn't mean he could regain his freedom.
Because at the same time Tobirama launched his attack, the two Sasukes had already thrown a "White Rage Technique" each... He didn't bother determining Tobirama's target, just wanted to use area attacks to cover him.
Tobirama's luck wasn't good—the Sasuke in front of him was a clone, which disappeared with a puff after being hit by the White Rage Technique.
But at this time, if Tobirama wanted to fly away again, it would be difficult, because his brain was trembling.
Under the White Rage Technique, Sasuke's resistance was much higher than Tobirama's. If he could get about ten more seconds, he might be able to achieve victory in battle.
However...
The two sides had been fighting for a while, so certain people should appear, right?
Boom!
Madara Uchiha's figure crashed into the ground like a cannonball. Whether it was Sasuke or Tobirama, both were instantly blown away by this sudden impact.
Madara ignored everything and directly came to his brother's side, then saw this tragic scene.
He was silent, only his chest heaving violently.
Madara had obviously reached the peak of anger. Suddenly, he recklessly charged toward Tobirama.
Tobirama was trying to get up from the ground like someone with hemiplegia—how could he be aware of Madara's attack at this time?
Fortunately, Madara wasn't the only one who came to this side of the battlefield.
A figure charged diagonally, flying up with a kick that sent Madara Uchiha flying.
You lost your brother and are in pain, but you can't make me experience this pain again, can you?
People always die on battlefields. Although Hashirama had previously hoped to ease relations with the Uchiha, he wouldn't be so absurd as to blame his own brother for killing Uchiha Izuna... Someone was outmatched in skill—who could be blamed for that?
Ninja are destined to die.
"Tobirama, take our people and leave here first. I'll stop Madara Uchiha."
Madara Uchiha was a bit crazy now—ordinary ninja couldn't be allowed to face him... This was Hashirama Senju's judgment.
Tobirama still had several plans for this battle that hadn't been implemented, but at this time he could only listen to his big brother and temporarily withdraw... Not because he feared Madara Uchiha, but because his head was buzzing and he couldn't display his combat power at all.
On the other side, the blind Sasuke, after sensing Hashirama's chakra, also became extremely rational. He stopped his own ninja who were trying to approach Izuna's corpse and said:
"Let's withdraw too. There's no opportunity left."
On the battlefield where Hashirama and Madara were fighting intensely, who could Sasuke's group save? No one needed saving.
This judgment was fine—the problem was that Sasuke was rationally a bit too un-Sasuke-like.
...
Madara Uchiha returned to the Uchiha Clan with his defeated remnants and his brother's corpse.
The Uchiha, who had been triumphant all this time, finally received a crushing blow.
Madara dismissed all his subordinates and stayed alone with Izuna.
Saving Uchiha Izuna was impossible—Madara could only piece his brother back together.
Madara Uchiha became silent, emotionally extreme, and irrational. His mind constantly replayed the previous battlefield.
At the location where Izuna died, there was Tobirama Senju and that Uchiha traitor "Taka." Reason told Madara that the real culprit was only Tobirama Senju—according to "Taka's" principles of action, they should have been trying to rescue Izuna at that time.
However, reason couldn't suppress Madara's emotions. His thinking kept drifting toward "Taka was also an accomplice"... Indiscriminate hatred—this was actually somewhat insane.
What if Taka had been a little faster? Why couldn't they have been a little faster?
One could only say that emotionally rampaging Uchiha were, in a certain sense, the truly authentic Uchiha—otherwise, how could they continuously produce the "Four Laughing Maniacs" in just a few decades?
This time Izuna died quite quickly—no chance to struggle for life, no last words left either.
After Madara stayed quietly for three days, he came to the underground secret chamber of the ancestral home and activated his Mangekyō Sharingan to look at that "ancestral stone tablet."
One stage of Sharingan could only understand one stage of content. Madara was now in Mangekyō state, so he could see the evolution method for the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
In the end, he still had to accept his brother's pair of eyes.
With Uchiha Izuna's death and the complete shattering of balance between the Senju and Uchiha as the catalyst, news of the "Senju Alliance's" establishment was officially announced.
Members of this alliance included the Senju, Hyūga, Sarutobi, Uzumaki, and the Fireflies.
The goal of the Senju Alliance was to establish a unified nation with vast territory—the "Land of Fire." For this purpose, ninja clans within this country's range must either migrate elsewhere, choose to join the alliance, or face only the path of annihilation.
Such news immediately caused a huge uproar in the Shinobi World, especially among non-alliance ninja clans still within the "Land of Fire" territory, who were completely bewildered.
What's going on? The ancestral land we've lived on for so many years—why has it become your territory?
Are you being reasonable at all?
The answer was no—at this stage, they had to act with tyranny.
Immediately after, something even more terrifying happened.
Just one week later, the Ancient Well Clan in the desert also announced the establishment of a multi-ninja clan alliance, dedicated to restoring the vast territory of the "Land of Wind."
For a moment, those great ninja clans that had originally been able to dominate the Shinobi World with individual strength were instantly swept into the dustbin of history when facing multi-ninja clan alliances.\
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