Chapter 218: Haruno Sakura VS Uchiha Sasuke
Katsura-U, who had run out midway to get another new recruit, walked in, leading a young-looking new Anbu member.
The three people on the viewing platform jumped down.
"How did it go?" Katsura-U asked the dog-faced Ken'ichi. "Did White Fox pass?"
"Hey, he passed. His performance was not bad," Ken'ichi said, stuffing the document he had just written into a scroll and handing it to Katsura-U. He patted White Fox on the shoulder, signaling for him to follow Katsura-U.
Then he took out another new scroll and looked at the young rookie. "Is this the third one?"
"Yes. Let me remind you, he is very strong. You have to be careful!" Shino said with a smile, his hand unconsciously touching the torn opening on the front of his clothes.
"Well... of course, I can see that!" Ken'ichi nodded. He could feel that this rookie was even stronger than White Fox. "Rookie, don't be too nervous. The assessment will only begin after the proctor announces the start!"
"Then who is my main proctor?" the young rookie asked, without a hint of nervousness. His gaze swept淡淡ly over the group and finally landed on Haruno Sakura.
"You want me to be your main proctor, don't you, rookie?" Sensing his gaze, Haruno Sakura said with a half-smile.
"Although it's not very good to have an acquaintance as an examiner," Shino said with a smile, "we'd all really like to see a battle between you two!"
"A Team 7 civil war. Interesting," Takeuchi Yūichi said, glancing at the youth's eyes, looking quite expectant.
Ken'ichi added one last sentence, "Hey, remember to be serious. If your strength isn't up to standard, I'll send you back to Kakashi!"
"Then I'll have to ask the proctor to take good care of me..."
Under the mask, the rookie's clear and cold voice, with a hint of warmth, came faintly.
This new ninja who had just joined the Anbu was extremely famous. He was precisely Sakura's former teammate, Kakashi's disciple—
Uchiha Sasuke.
As he spoke, his extremely oppressive crimson eyes locked onto Haruno Sakura.
"Tch... please take good care of me too, rookie!" she said, deliberately emphasizing the word "rookie," and smiled sweetly.
With a swish, the five spectators jumped onto the viewing platform, clearing out the space for the battle.
The two members of Team 7 took their respective positions.
Sakura took off her shoes and had an ice clone take them to the edge of the battlefield to be put away. Against White Fox just now, she could still leisurely play with ninjutsu. But Sasuke was more of a taijutsu type. As the proctor, she had no choice but to accompany him to the end with taijutsu... It was just that the pair of shoes she was wearing now couldn't compare in quality to the specially made combat shoes they were issued, so she could only take them off...
After they formed the Seal of Confrontation, the battle officially began.
"Hey, who do you guys think will win?" On the viewing platform, Ken'ichi suddenly asked.
These two people on the field, he had heard of them many times, but this was the first time he had been in close contact with them.
He didn't know much about Sasuke or Sakura, only that one had the Sharingan and the other had Ice Style. Both were ninja with a Kekkei Genkai.
From the perspective of their talent in developing ninjutsu, Haruno Sakura, who had mastered the Ice Style Kekkei Genkai on her own, should be the more genius ninja.
However, the great fame of the Sharingan made Ken'ichi feel that Sasuke should still be the stronger one.
But he hadn't expected that the remaining three people would give the same answer in unison—
"Probably Haruno Sakura." / "If it's an all-out fight, Sakura is definitely stronger." / "Judging from past records, Sakura is definitely at the level of an elite Jonin, while Sasuke is probably still just at the Jonin level, right?"
Katsura-U, Shino, and Yūichi from the personnel department said at the same time.
Indeed, Sasuke was, after all, only a little over thirteen years old. No matter how strong he was, no matter how much he was called a genius youth, he was now only at the Jonin level. Even if he was a little stronger than White Fox, the strength was limited.
He couldn't be compared with Haruno Sakura at all.
In fact, after watching the first match, they had already subconsciously stopped treating Sakura as a ten-something-year-old child, but as a true elite ninja in the Anbu.
In terms of strength, of course, the current Haruno Sakura was much stronger than Sasuke. With the support of her many powerful ninjutsu, she had even been able to fight brilliantly in a life-or-death battle with the veteran Kage, Kakuzu. This was enough to prove her strength.
If she were to go all out, what Sasuke could do would not be much more than what White Fox had done just now.
However, the battle on the field at this moment was a dead heat.
Or it should be said that the Lightning Style and the Ice Style were fighting to a standstill.
"Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!"
Sasuke used Fire Style as an opening move to greet Sakura, announcing the start of the battle.
"Nin-taijutsu: Star Cannon Hammer!"
In response, Haruno Sakura directly smashed this ninjutsu with a single punch!
"So violent...!" The men present, watching this girl produce an explosive output with her small fist, couldn't help but mutter to themselves...
Sasuke's Fire Style, although not as powerful as the unstoppable Great Fireball that the non-Uchiha White Fox had used just now, could still be considered quite powerful... to be shattered by a single punch!
This greeting to start the battle... was very loud!
On the viewing platform, the face under the new Anbu, White Fox's, mask twitched uncontrollably. A sense of lingering fear rose from the bottom of his heart. If the proctor hadn't held back just now, if this punch had landed on him, he would have absolutely lost half his life.
"Ice Armor?" On the field, Sasuke's Sharingan had captured more intelligence. "Does this mean you want to fight in close combat? As expected of the proctor. Suits me just fine!"
The scorching orange flames were completely blocked by a transparent ice armor covering Sakura's body. The waves of fire rolled and spun against the girl's body, circling around her figure before finally dissipating. Just a few millimeters away was a world of ice and high heat. This layer of ice armor, which was emitting a chilling cold, was Haruno Sakura's confidence to dare to face the Fire Style head-on, allowing her to smash the fireball without being burned by the ninjutsu's high temperature!
However, Fire Style was just a secondary jutsu for Sasuke. His true strength was still in Lightning Style—
BIRI BIRI! A sound of thunder suddenly rang out from the black-haired youth's hand. A dazzling lightning light restlessly jumped a few times, and then it was suppressed by Sasuke with his superb control of Lightning Style.
"Lightning Style: Chidori Short-Sword!"
The move that Sasuke used was also different from the Chidori Sharp Spear of the original story. The lightning that condensed in his hand was not a five-meter-long lightning spear, but a more condensed, cyan-colored short sword only half a meter long.
Compared to when he had just been discharged from the hospital, the shape transformation of this lightning jutsu had become much more stable. The restless lightning had been tamed by him to be abnormally obedient. The short sword condensed after the shape transformation was already almost no different from an ordinary short sword.
If Haruno Sakura's punch just now had made the few spectators on the viewing platform feel astonished, then this Chidori Short-Sword of Sasuke's had made them feel stunned!
"Is that Kakashi's famous technique, the Chidori?" Ken'ichi asked. Through the mask, everyone could hear his surprise.
This technique of highly condensing lightning in the hand was indeed a patent of the Chidori. However, the calm short sword that extended from the lightning had completely surpassed the shackles of the Chidori...
"It's a shape-transformation-upgraded version of the Chidori, right?" the civilian ninja said, a little uncertain. He had seen all sorts of secret techniques and ninjutsu. Although his own strength was lacking, as a commentator, he was very competent.
Shino laughed. "Hehe, I finally know why Kakashi has suddenly become so diligent recently. So that's how it is!"
That's right. If he doesn't work hard again, he's going to become the first elite Jonin to be surpassed by his disciple, a disgrace...
On the field below.
"Chidori Short-Sword..." Haruno Sakura murmured. "Can this move already be used in actual combat?"
In her hands, Ice Style chakra was highly concentrated.
The coldness condensed, formed into hard ice, and turned into two crystal-clear butterfly short swords.
Sharp and hard.
The two pairs of eyes, one crimson and one jade-green, met in mid-air.
I'm coming. It was as if she could hear Sasuke's voice.
The next moment, the two of them simultaneously turned into afterimages.
In the courtyard, the butterfly ice blades and the Chidori short-sword began their first clash!
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