"Roar!"The front-line Knife Units shouted, hurling their kunai into the sky. The friction tore through the air with a metallic screech. Then, like a torrential downpour, the kunai rained down, the cold gleam slicing the light above and sending a suffocating chill through the battlefield.
"What—!"As the kunai fell in a relentless storm, the Hyuga coalition ninjas cried out, the sight of their comrades shredded and bleeding igniting panic and rage. Faces slick with blood, some froze mid-step, hearing only the ghost of their clan's cries.
"Skyfall Kunai!"The Hyuga allied forces screamed, but instinctively formed hand seals. A massive chakra sphere erupted, catching the plunging blades midair and sending them clattering harmlessly aside. The Hyuga coalition had deflected the Uchiha's initial strike with terrifying precision.
"Eight Trigrams Palm!"The Hyuga commander bellowed. Two Hyuga ninja stepped forward, palms joined. With a roar, a colossal wave of chakra surged outward. Rocks shattered under its force, launching debris toward the Uchiha lines.
"Earth Style: Wall Formation!"The Uchiha commander barked orders, and the second unit's earth-style specialists pressed palms to the ground. Chakra surged through their bodies, and massive stone walls erupted, one after another, blocking the Hyuga storm. The ground shook like thunder under their assault.
"Boom!"Even as the stone walls fell in the wake of Hyuga's force, Uchiha chakra flared violently, breaking through debris after debris. The battlefield became a chaotic dance of mud, stone, and chakra—a brutal contest of raw power.
"Assault troops, move out!"The Uchiha commander's voice cut through the chaos. Thousands of ninjas surged forward, wind and clouds twisting as their chakra flared, like arrows released from a bow. They leapt onto the stone walls, charging the Hyuga coalition.
"Hyuga Allied Forces! Counterattack!"The Hyuga forces responded instantly. Three-person teams struck in sharp, stabbing formations, and the clash of bodies and chakra rang out across the valley. Blood, dust, and chakra storms mingled, turning the sky a violent crimson.
"This is war… real war!"Raizen—at the heart of the Uchiha assault—navigated the chaos, dodging flying bodies and chakra-charged attacks. A massive clay bird carried him above the fray, weaving through a storm of debris and blades.
"Birds!"High above the carnage, Raizen focused, every thought singular: survive, strike, grow stronger. Explosives in hand, he launched his detonating clay toward the ground below, taking out small clusters of Hyuga ninjas as he maneuvered the clay birds.
"Boom!"Explosions ripped through the battlefield, scattering Hyuga units before they could react.
"Eight Trigrams Palm!"A massive chakra strike came at Raizen from below, forcing him to redirect his clay birds mid-flight. The turbulence almost threw him off, but instinct and a quick calculation kept him alive.
"Rainy!"Kunai from the Hyuga lines streaked from above—a concentrated salvo from a massive scroll technique. Raizen yelled, maneuvering the giant bird to avoid the strike, tossing detonating clay beneath him to counter.
"Artillery: Explosive!"With a low incantation, his clay shook violently, detonating mid-air. The blast swallowed the Hyuga ninja in a violent eruption of smoke, debris, and chakra.
Above the chaos, Raizen's grin was sharp, cold, and calculating. Every explosion, every dodge, every strike was one step toward survival… and one step toward a strength no one could yet stop.