Chapter 34: Killing a Jōnin
Izumo Kamizuki suddenly dropped low, sliding across the ground like a wildcat as he narrowly avoided the Earth Spike fired by the offensive-type Iwa ninja.
His right hand gripped his kunai in a reverse hold. The blade, already infused with Chakra, shimmered with a faint blue glow as he drove it forward with all his strength, stabbing straight toward the defensive-type ninja's ankle—the weak point in a shinobi's Chakra flow when using Earth Release.
"Oh no—!"
The Iwa ninja who had just finished casting Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall was completely caught off guard.
He tried to switch to another defensive Ninjutsu, but it was already too late. All he could do was stare in horror as the kunai pierced clean through his ankle.
Agonizing pain shot through his body, freezing him in place. In that same instant, the Earth-Style Wall collapsed and crumbled apart.
Izumo seized the opening and activated the Body Flicker Technique. His figure moved like a ghost, flashing behind his enemy.
His left hand clenched into a fist. Chakra compressed into a tangible blast of force, slamming into the man's back right over his heart. The air burst apart with a sharp, tearing sound.
A clear crack rang out.
The Iwa ninja spat out fresh blood as his body crumpled lifelessly to the ground.
After killing one Jōnin, Izumo didn't slow down for even a second. He spun around immediately to face the remaining offensive-type Iwa ninja.
Rage burned in the man's eyes. His hands flew through seals faster and faster as yellow-brown Chakra condensed in front of him, forming a massive boulder.
"Earth Release: Bedrock Coffin!"
The three-meter-wide stone mass surged toward Izumo with a thunderous roar, compressing the air along its path and creating a deep, heavy boom.
Izumo's feet touched down lightly as he activated the Body Flicker Technique again. His form darted around the boulder, overlapping afterimages trailing behind him.
Just as the stone was about to crash into him, his hands snapped through seals.
"Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall—Modified!"
A half-arc-shaped wall of earth rose instantly, cleverly redirecting the force of the impact to both sides. The wall shuddered violently as the boulder slammed into it, producing a deafening crash and sending shards of stone flying in every direction.
Using the rebound, Izumo shot forward like an arrow released from a bow, his kunai aimed straight at the attacker's throat.
"Izumo! Watch your back!" Yamanaka Mei's voice rang out, breathless and strained.
Her face was pale as paper. Overusing her spiritual energy had started to darken the edges of her vision, but she still forced herself to shout, "The other two Jōnin are charging at you!"
Izumo's heart pounded.
From the corner of his eye, he caught sight of two black shadows closing in within ten meters, kunai in their hands radiating cold, killing intent.
He didn't look back.
He drove every last bit of Chakra in his body to its limit. The master-level Body Flicker Technique shattered its own boundaries once more.
His body turned into a streak of pale blue light, barely slipping through the pincer attack from behind. At the same time, his kunai pierced cleanly through the throat of the offensive-type Iwa ninja in front of him.
Warm blood splashed across Izumo's face.
Panting, he turned to face the two remaining Iwa Jōnin who were rapidly closing in.
"You little brat, you're courting death!" a rough roar came from the left.
Before the words even finished, the Jōnin activated his own Body Flicker Technique, leaving behind a blurred, yellow-brown afterimage.
A long sword gleamed coldly, wrapped in dense earth-attribute Chakra. The air around the blade split with a sharp whistle as it swung straight toward Izumo's head.
At the same time, the Jōnin on the right finished his hand seals and slammed both palms into the ground.
"Earth Release: Stone Pillar Spears!"
With a rumbling roar, several stone pillars as thick as an adult's arm burst up from beneath Izumo's feet and along his sides.
Their surfaces were covered in jagged stone spikes, like a nest of snakes flicking out their tongues, instantly sealing off every possible escape route.
Attacked from both front and back, Izumo looked as if he'd been nailed in place—no way to dodge.
His gaze sharpened.
His pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints.
At that moment, the battle instinct forged by his master-level Taijutsu exploded to its peak. The attack paths of both Jōnin unfolded clearly in his mind, as if the world itself had slowed to a crawl.
He didn't hesitate.
Chakra detonated beneath his feet. The soles of his boots screeched violently against the ground as his body tilted to the right at an angle that seemed to defy the laws of physics, his back nearly parallel to the earth.
The long sword sliced past his scalp.
The violent wind carried by the blade cut away several strands of his black hair before the sword slammed hard into the stone pillar behind him.
Sparks burst out like shattered stars. The pillar split open with a deep gash, fragments of rock raining down.
Seeing this, the Iwa ninja on the left tried to pull his sword back for another strike—
But a gray blur suddenly lunged in from the side.
"Beast Mimicry Ninja Art: Two-Headed Wolf!"
Inuzuka Ago's jutsu took the form of two massive wolves with bared fangs, clamping down tightly on the Iwa ninja's arm.
Yamanaka Mei rushed in as well, slapping her palm against the man's back as the Chakra from her secret technique quietly flowed into him.
"Izumo… you damn kid," Inuzuka Ago muttered as he released his jutsu and staggered back to Izumo's side.
His chest heaved violently, and a trace of blood hung at the corner of his mouth.
He had just finished off an Iwa ninja himself. Now, the way he looked at Izumo was filled with pure shock.
This kid was only eleven years old—yet he had cut down two Jōnin with his own hands.
In thirty years as a ninja, Inuzuka Ago had never seen a "monster" this young.
Yamanaka Mei stepped up beside them and gave a firm nod.
"Even though we've taken down three Jōnin, the enemy still has three left. We need to retreat, now."
Izumo was just about to nod in agreement when his heart suddenly clenched.
An overwhelming sense of danger flooded over him like ice-cold water poured from head to toe, crushing his chest.
This wasn't a warning from any sensory technique.
It was pure instinct—honed by a body trained to the master level, sharper and more accurate than even Yamanaka Mei's sensory abilities.
He snapped his head up, his gaze locking onto the entrance of the valley.
Every hair on his body stood on end.
There—
A massive, terrifying wave of Chakra was approaching.
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