When the Yujiro In front of the Ame genin exploded, most of the civilians and the ninjas in the audience were startled.
The only ones that weren't surprised were the sensors and the stronger ninjas.
But at this moment, the Ame genin who was engulfed in the explosion's range, was seen flying out from the explosion's radius, and his condition could be said to be terrible.
The left side of his face and body could be seen with significant burns and damage.
As for the reason, the damage was only on his left side despite Yujiro flickering right in front of him.
It was because the Ame genin managed to jump backwards and turn his body so it wouldn't blast the front side of his body to hell.
As for this moment, the examiner stated the end of the fight.
"Sotshi Teri, has fallen unconscious, Hyuga Yujiro will move forward."
When this statement was heard, many audience members were extremely confused, why the examiner announced such a result.
This could be seen from a black haired girl, asking another black, for why.
"Itachi-san, why was Yujiro announced as the victor, after he self-destructed?"
To this question, Itachi replied very frankly. "It's because what self destructed wasn't the real body, it was one of his clones."
When Itachi gave the answer, seeing the girl's confusion, he elaborated.
"When he made the clones, he switched himself with one of the clones, using minor genjutsu, along with that switch, he handed both mud clones an explosion tag.
So when the Ame genin decided to ignore the two "Mud clones" that ran past him, the mud clone that had been switched with, simply chose to run as close to him as possible, and self-destruct, resulting in an immediate victory for Yujiro-san."
When the girl heard this, she was extremely surprised, but still commented to Itachi.
"But since you could analyze it so accurately, I'm sure you could solve it quite easily, Itachi-san."
When Itachi heard this he simply smiled, but in his head he was seriously analyzing how a fight between them would go.
'Though I could handle tricks like these quite easily, as I am much more skilled and experienced than Yujiro-san in practical combat, but that's where my advantages show.
In terms of physicality he's slightly better than me, but with my recently awakened by sharingan, I should be clash equally with him in taijutsu if not suppress him.
But in terms of chakra quantity, I'm lagging behind. So short term jutsu fighting is advantageous to me due to me using my jutsus more effectively, in turn he can use a lot more jutsus in comparison to me."
After comparing their basics, Itachi made his conclusion.
'I will have the advantage in the beginning, while Yujiro will outlast me due to his higher chakra reserves.
So if we fight, the fight could go either way, while the terrain would lean the scales to the other side.
And if I can't end the fight in few moves, Yujiro can simply heal himself with his medical ninjutsu.'
After making his judgement, Itachi continued to hold Sasuke on his lap, while he chatted with Izumi.
While Itachi was analyzing their combat capabilities, Yujiro himself had already collected the explosion tag from the remaining mud clone, and returned to the contestants booth, while the Ame genin was taken by Konohas medical ninjas.
While Yujiro was analyzing the previous fights, he was looking at the stadium, watching the fight between Kusas Sumida Bunruko, and Konohas Hakite Tamara.
While he was analyzing his fight he was also sparing little attention to analyzing the current fight, but from his perspective, the current fight out on the stadium could be compared to the previous fights, the fight itself was incredibly lackluster.
The reason for this was because both of the genins currently fighting were just average genins and we're fighting equally.
The only redemptive point Yujiro had for the Konoha grin was the fact that, he was a medical ninja, and is not expected to have similar level of strength compared to ordinary combat ninjas.
In the end, the two genins fought for the next 20 minutes, after which the Kusa genin barely won due to the lack of combat experience on the Konoha genins part.
The last fight before the next stages fight start, but it was also the one fight Yujiro was most interested in, other than Uchiha Daichis fight.
This was due to the fact that this fights participants were Wawari Hachisaki from Ame, who possessed the Boil release. And Hatake Takekumi of Konoha.
Of these people Yujiro's main attraction was the boil release, after all this was the first elemental bloodline limit he had seen in this life.
And he wanted to see how strong a chunins boil release is in comparison to a S rank ninja.
Obviously he didn't think that he could match Terumi Mei's feat of melting through a Susanoo.
But he wanted to see the boost a elemental bloodline limit will provide in combat power in comparison to a dojutsu bloodline limit like the Byakugan or sharingan.
Of course Yujiro was nit only interested in the boil release, but he also had interest in the boy from the Hatake, who was praised as a prodigy in school.
More accurately Yujiro was also slightly interested if the Hatake clan had unique ways to use lightning release not shown in the libraries.
The reason for this "slight interest" was because he was extremely confident that from the people his age, he was the most proficient user of both earth and lightning release.
And didn't think that Takekumi had learned any advanced lightning release of the Hatake clan.
Of course he didn't write him off because of his assumptions, he was quite eager for him to have learnt such techniques, after all if he had, he could try to copy them or take inspiration from his usage.
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