Konoha's Itachi Reappearance

379 chapter

"The response is pretty quick..."

In the martial arts arena, the young man held a slender katana with the tip of the sword facing the ground, looking at Sai with a smile.

Zuo Kai lowered his gaze and looked at the torn clothes on his chest, and his delicate face gradually became serious.

Before this battle began, Sai had never underestimated this young samurai.

Despite this, despite the fact that the opponent's strength was inferior to his own, he was completely defeated in the first round of the confrontation...

The reason was that Sai hadn't thought about the continuous changes in the opponent's saber movements.

The juvenile's saber technique is obviously fundamentally different from the root saber technique he has learned.

"If you just fight like this, it would be too boring."

Suddenly, the boy stared at Sai, who was tense, and said, "You are a ninja after all, it doesn't seem so fair to you if you only use sword skills to fight me."

He raised the tip of the knife slightly, pointing towards Sai.

"Even if you show your true skills, it doesn't matter if you use ninjutsu," said the boy.

"Next, I will attack with all my strength!"

The young man's eyes suddenly became sharp, and at this moment he was like a sharp knife drawn out of its sheath, quite imposing.

"Of course!"

Saoi responded, he himself had no intention of just fighting the boy with swordsmanship.

Although Sai was good at swordsmanship, after the previous round of fighting, he already understood that it was impossible to defeat this boy without using his full strength.

Although Sai didn't have a strong desire to win, he wouldn't easily admit defeat either.

Swish!

His figure shot towards the boy like a ray of black light, and while rushing out, he held the handle of the knife tightly.

As his hand closed, wisps of fire climbed from the handle to the blade like a thin python.

"So fast!"

The young man was slightly shocked, but his expression was more of excitement.

"It doesn't seem like a teleportation technique, but it's really fast..."

Naruto, who was watching the battle in the martial arts arena, also raised his eyebrows slightly. When he just graduated more than three months ago, Sai's speed was definitely far from the current level.

Although he doesn't understand perception, Sai's speed is not obtained by an instant burst of chakra.

In other words, this is Sai's own speed.

"You two little guys have made progress, and Sai will not fall behind."

Itachi looked at Naruto and Hinata, during this time, Saii had always been his training partner.

Although the direction of Sai's practice is not speed, but he is fighting Itachi who is far stronger than himself.

So after such a long time of accumulation, the speed will of course be significantly improved.

"flame..."

Glancing at the fire surrounding Saai's sword, the young man murmured, and he also grasped the handle of the sword.

The slender samurai sword also immediately had a condensed wind blade that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, but it really existed.

"Sure enough, he can also use Chakra."

Itachi immediately caught the wind blade formed by the katana's wind release chakra.

This is consistent with his conclusion from observing the battle traces left in the arena.

In front of the young man, Saii raised the sword wrapped in flames, and slashed down on his head!

Although the boy's sword skills are superb, his speed is slower than Sai's.

Therefore, Saii only had time to defend and resist the attack that Sai was sending out at an explosive speed.

"Oh!"

The weapons entwined with fire and wind attribute chakra collided, and there was an explosion-like sound.

The five basic attributes of chakra restrain each other, and fire is better than wind.

But the boy's samurai sword is made of a special material that can conduct chakra, and the efficiency of conducting chakra is stronger than that of Sai's sword.

And as far as the control of attaching chakra to weapons is concerned, although the boy is not a ninja, his control is not that bad as Sai.

After all, it only took Saii more than three months to start this kind of practice.

Therefore, when the two chakra-attached weapons collided, neither the boy nor Sai had an advantage in this round.

Of course, neither of them would allow the situation to remain so stalemate.

After the collision, both Sai and the boy changed their moves immediately.

"Bang bang bang!"

As a result, the two weapons collided continuously, and the sound of explosions continued to be heard.

The two sides constantly changed their offense and defense, the wind and fire were intertwined, and the battle scenes were exciting and gorgeous.

"It's amazing, both of them are..."

Naruto's eyes followed the two people moving in the martial arts arena. This was the first time he had seen this form of fighting, although Sai and the boy were not necessarily stronger than him.

But the collision duel of knives is really eye-catching.

Hinata was also watching it very seriously. While she was silently encouraging Sai in her heart, she was also learning from this battle through the alternating movements of both sides.

The ronin and warriors around were even more dazzled, even though some of them had experienced the youth's superb sword skills before.

But when the boy and Sai really fought together, they showed all their strength, their movements were more agile and sharper than before when fighting some of them, and their moves were also changeable.

Itachi was the only one watching the battle calmly.

As he had expected before, there was obviously a big gap between Sai and the boy in terms of swordsmanship.

The reason why this battle is temporarily deadlocked here is because Sai has the advantage in speed.

But Sayi was completely unable to use her advantage in the battle with the boy.

On the contrary, under the change of juvenile swordsmanship, Sai's movements are gradually being suppressed.

"flaw!"

With a brisk smile on the young man's face, his hand movements quickly changed, seizing the gap between Sai's sword skills, and slashed horizontally with the slender katana wrapped around the wind blade.

Sai leaned across the blade to block the blow, but there was not enough time to change his movements.

"Oh!"

Most of the wind attribute chakra was blocked by Sai's weapon, but just like in the first round, the tip of the knife broke through Sai's defense.

The sharp wind blade not only cut through the clothes on Sai's right arm this time, but also brought blood.

The wind chakra pierced the skin of Sai's arm.

"Sai!"

Seeing that Sai was injured, Naruto and Hinata's faces immediately overflowed with concern.

"I am fine."

Sai said that only the skin was scratched, and it did not affect the movement of the arm.

He looked at the young man with a brisk smile in front of him and whispered: "He has seen through all my actions..."

"What a genius in swordsmanship."

Itachi also said in his heart that the basic sword techniques used by Sai were analyzed by the boy in the battle, and he found a way to deal with them and even restrain them.

Just like looking for flaws in ninjutsu, only a young man who has a certain level of understanding of swordsmanship can do this in a battle.

Considering his age, it is no exaggeration to call him a genius.

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