Within the depths of the Sharingan, the image of a giant palm crackling with lightning was reflected with absolute clarity.
In a heartbeat, the air surrounding Ren was compressed and locked tight. The sound of atmospheric layers being stacked and crushed erupted in his ears—the signature sonic boom of a top-tier speedster. This Lightning Plow Hot Path, delivered with the raw power of the Eight-Tails, slammed into Ren's spine with the force of a high-speed juggernaut!
PONG!!
Ren, offering zero resistance, was sent hurtling through the air. He traced a perfectly straight line through the sky, plunging head-first toward the cratered earth below.
"Phew..."
"B-senpai, thank you!"
Having successfully blasted away the boy who was seconds from decapitating Yugito, both Killer B and Yugito Nii let out a long, collective sigh of relief.
However, in that very moment, Killer B's expression shifted. He suddenly realized that the tactile sensation of that Lightning Plow Hot Path... was wrong.
He snapped his head around just as a sharp pop echoed through the valley.
POOF!
The Ren Uchiha that had been struck away vanished into a cloud of white smoke.
In the next instant, the massive blue snake coiled around the Two-Tails' body unhinged its bloody maw. Standing upon the snake's tongue was the real Ren Uchiha, leaping out with predatory speed!
"What exactly were you celebrating?" A cold voice, laced with a sneer, cut through the air.
Landing firmly on the Two-Tails' massive back, Ren reached out and caught the Kusanagi Sword as it fell from the sky in a perfect arc. He gripped the hilt with both hands at his right chest. The blade instantly ignited with a concentrated, blinding white radiance!
Fire Style Chakra Mode: Supervibrato Incandescent Flame Blade!
Clutching this blade—which looked as if it had been stolen from a Star Wars film set—Ren didn't hesitate for a fraction of a second. He stayed low, sprinting across the Two-Tails' burning blue fur toward the stunned Yugito Nii.
His snake-like Sharingan bulged. The skin on his face twisted into a mask of savage focus, and veins throbbed across his forehead like crawling worms.
"DIE!!"
"When did he—?!" B's heart sank. He tried to move to her aid, but his momentum from the previous strike was spent, and Ren had already leapt far beyond his immediate reach. He could only watch, eyes wide, as the scene unfolded.
The Eight-Tails' voice rumbled in B's mind with grim realization. "It was the smoke from the summoning. He used the cloud to switch places with a clone. And that look he gave the snake? He likely used Genjutsu to transmit the entire plan to his summon in a single glance."
"Dammit!!" B squeezed his fists, his face darkening with a fury that burned like twin blades in his eyes.
Across from the charging youth, Yugito Nii felt a surge of coldness in her heart, but her gaze remained defiant.
Is that sword a Fire Style technique? Does he really think he can kill me, the host of the Two-Tails, with fire?
Her face became as cold as frost. "I'm afraid you've chosen the wrong opponent!"
Yugito's hands blurred into the Tiger seal.
"Fire Style: Mouse Hair Ball!"
Dozens of spheres of blazing blue chakra erupted from her mouth. Using her fingers like a puppeteer, she guided them toward Ren with homing precision! This was a specialized ninjutsu unique to the Two-Tails Jinchūriki—explosive, relentless, and far more potent than standard Fire Style.
But Ren's "lightsaber" was no ordinary jutsu. It was the concentrated essence of his forty-meter flame sword. It was his final strike, fueled by the dregs of his own chakra, the Zero-Tails' power, and the remaining energy of the Heaven Cursed Seal.
This was a gamble on his life. Facing the world's elite powerhouses, Ren had to go all-out from the start. If this failed, he would be dead before he hit the ground.
B, who had seen seven of his swords melted by Ren in their last encounter, knew exactly how absurd that blade was. Seeing Yugito standing her ground, thinking she could counter-attack, left him feeling a mix of rage and desperate irony.
Furthermore, upon closer inspection, this blade was even stronger than the one Ren had used before. B noticed a familiar element within it: the high-frequency vibrations of his own Supervibrato Lightning Blade.
In just a month and a half, this brat had not only copied his Lightning Style with those eyes but had integrated it into his own system, making that incandescent sword even more horrifying.
B roared, "Yugito, RUN!!"
But Yugito stubbornly shook her head, her eyes locked on the charging Ren. "B-senpai, he's full of openings right now. I can kill him!"
This was her first major mission. She could not fail. To fail would be to betray the expectations, the training, and the "love" the village had poured into her since she became a host at age two. In Kumogakure, where brotherhood and honor were everything, failure was a fate worse than death.
"You—!" B's scalp tingled. He couldn't understand why this girl was making such a fundamental shinobi error.
Of course, Ren had orchestrated this. To kill the Two-Tails host, a Water-Wind or Water-Lightning sword would have been the logical choice. He chose Fire Style specifically to bait Yugito into staying.
Even if she had run, Ren's speed—boosted by Uchiha Style sword-qi propulsion—was superior. Yugito Nii was already dead. But by baiting her, Ren had opened up even more tactical possibilities.
Ren's lips curled into a savage grin. He flickered past three of the chakra spheres, sliding through the gaps in her ninjutsu as he closed the distance.
"Dodging is useless!" Yugito sneered, clapping her hands together.
The dozens of Mouse Hair Balls curved through the air in a chaotic yet coordinated swarm, surrounding Ren from all six directions—above, below, left, right, front, and back. If Ren dodged, it would give B the split-second he needed to intervene. She trusted her comrade implicitly.
With the feline sensory perception granted by the Two-Tails, she believed she had seen through Ren's "facade" of strength. She just had to survive this one strike!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The blue spheres sealed off every possible path. It was a sentence of certain death. And yet, Yugito couldn't find a trace of fear on the boy's face. He was unlike any Kumo youth she had ever met.
In that moment, she could only see—and only hear—one thing.
"Heh... Hahahaha! HAHAHAHAHA!"
A manic, wild laugh tore from Ren's throat. His eyes burned with a terrifying light as he swung the incandescent blade that sliced the boundary between twilight and night.
"Good! Very good! That level of will... I acknowledge you!"
"To die by this technique, Yugito Nii—it will not be an insult to your name!"
The boy swung the light-sword, swallowing the last of the twilight. Then, beneath the moonless sky, he carved a blazing arc as hot as the sun itself!
"Uchiha Style: Instant Void Slash!"
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