Chapter 27 - Yuusuke Fire Swordsman vs. Shisui of Body Flicker.

"Fire Release - Great Fireball" - Shisui closed his hand seals almost instantly and exhaled a huge fireball towards Yuusuke.

"Inferno Release - Fire Reversal!" - now that Yusuke has awakened his sharingan and his mental strength has increased. Ryujin Jakki effect on his chakra and body became much stronger, due to which Yuusuke was now able to freely use Inferno Release, a stronger version of Fire Release.

Yusuke instantly closed his hand seals and as soon as Shisui's great fireball approached him, like a whale sucking water, he swallowed him completely in one breath. Right after that, Yusuke exhaled sharply and a red-gold fireball flew towards Shisui, the size of which was more than twice its original size.

Moreover, the temperature of Yuusuke's fireball was extremely high, the ground beneath it melted and collapsed, threatening to turn into lava. Shisui, seeing this, realized that it would be better to dodge than to try to overcome the fireball with his own ninjutsu.

Shisui hurriedly left the fireball's trajectory, after which he jumped high and folded his hand seals, unleashing the following ninjutsu: "Fire Release - Phoenix Flower Sage Scarlet Claw!" More than a dozen shurikens engulfed in flames flew towards Yuusuke.

Looking at the approaching shuriken, Yusuke thought for a moment, and then immediately began to fold his hand seals to release the ninjutsu, "Inferno Release - Blazing Wind!" A giant crimson tornado formed in front of Yusuke and rushed towards Shisui's shurikens.

Spectators in the stands were amazed by Yusuke's Fire Release achievements after witnessing the ninjutsu he released.

"I had no idea that Yusuke Uchiha was so strong in Fire Release. Just think, he was able to change the nature of the original element and develop it into a stronger one," Asuma was genuinely surprised.

"If I remember correctly, my friend told me that during the Third World War, he was once on a mission with Yusuke and saw him use this element against one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, however, at that time it cost him a lot. efforts. I don't know if it's true or not, but after that, they started calling him the Fire Swordsman." The speaker was Genma.

"Did Yuusuke fight any of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist?" - at this moment, Guy, who was standing aside, turned sharply and asked a question.

Hearing Guy's question, the group realized that they were carried away by the conversation and completely forgot that Guy was standing next to them, whose father died saving his son's group from the hands of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist. Although it's worth giving credit to Guy's father, after that battle, the group of swordsman ninja was reduced from seven to two.

Kakashi closed his eyes for a moment and shook his head helplessly.

At that moment in the arena, Shisui was pulled into a crimson tornado. Immediately, gasps of surprise erupted from the hall. However, it soon became clear that it was not Shisui's real body that had been sucked in by the tornado, but only an afterimage. Shisui himself at this moment, as if a ghost appeared behind Yusuke with a tanto raised to strike.

Yusuke naturally spotted Shisui and immediately reacted to the attack by quickly turning around and blocking Shisui's tanto with his katana. The katana is naturally Ryujin Jakka in its normal form.

The two blades clashed, Shisui and Yuusuke's eyes met, the gaze of the former was full of determination and desire to win, while in Yusuke's eyes there was indifference and calmness.

In the next moment, Shisui jumped back, his hands quickly forming hand seals. Then, a small clot of chakra appeared on the tip of two fingers of his right hand, which Shisui ran along the entire length of the blade of his tanto, at the same moment the blade was enveloped in flames.

With a burning blade in hand, Shisui lashed out at Yuusuke. Yusuke, in turn, was slightly surprised to see the tanto engulfed in flames, but this did not affect his reaction, tightly squeezing the zanpakutō in his hands, Yusuke quietly whispered: "Reduce All That Is to Ashes - Ryujin Jakka!"

With a strong gust of wind, a mighty flame burst out from the katana in Yuusuke's hands and beautifully flowed along the entire length of the katana blade. Yusuke swung his zanpakutō at his opponent, but as Shisui's body suddenly disappeared, Yusuke immediately turned around and saw Shisui sending out a crescent-shaped fiery slash from four different directions, "Uchiha Style - Sun Halo Dance!"

The corners of Yuusuke's mouth curved up, he didn't believe that Shisui's fire slashes would be able to defeat Ryujin Jakka fire even though he was unable to unleash its full power. Yuusuke swung his katana wide, horizontally. Before that, the calmly flowing flames raged sharply and changed in color from soft golden orange to crimson, the next instant, a giant slash formed in front of Yuusuke, which easily destroyed all the slashes fired by Shisui.

"Tsk, the title of Fire Swordsman is well deserved by him, the fire on his blade is like a living thing. On the other hand, Shisui's fire looks like a fake." Asuma laughed as all of Shisui's attacks were instantly destroyed. Kakashi and the others nodded in agreement.

"But Shisui's strength is not in his fire techniques, but in his speed!" Kurenai added. Asuma was momentarily surprised, but on reflection he nodded in agreement.

In the arena, looking at Yuusuke's blazing katana, Shisui frowned. Only from previous encounters, he could tell that he wasn't Yusuke's opponent when it came to fire elemental ninjutsu.

"As I expected, you will be impossible to defeat using Yusuke-sempai normal methods," Shisui said in a condescending tone. At the moment, he still didn't consider Yuusuke a worthy opponent. In his opinion, his Body Flicker Technique alone was enough to deal with him, not to mention that he now has an even greater power that he had just acquired - the Mangekyo Sharingan!

"Fine, then show me what the great Uchiha Shisui of Body Flicker is capable of!" Yuusuke said with a smile.

Just as Yuusuke finished speaking, Shisui's body flickered, then two more afterimages appeared to the right and left of him, they continued to grow until there were exactly sixteen. All these afterimages looked real and fake at the same time.

Afterimage Cloning is Shisui's name for this technique, it is a technique in which Shisui uses the Body Flicker Technique and moves close to create afterimages.

With his incredible speed, Shisui moves fast enough to give the impression of creating clones, each of which is able to strike and has its own mass. When attacked, Shisui disappears, allowing the opponent's attack to pass through one of the afterimages.

Faced with Shisui's incredible attack, Yuusuke didn't lose his head. Holding the zanpakutō in his hands, he swung it in front of him, leaving a long tail of flame. This was the same move that Yuusuke had used against Obito, only in terms of combat experience, Shisui was slightly more experienced than Obito.

Remembering the terrifying temperature of the fireball, Shisui had no trouble understanding that the trail of fire left by Yusuke after swinging the katana was no less dangerous. One spark is enough and his body will be engulfed in flames, and perhaps even instantly burned.

However, danger would never stop a shinobi, so Shisui continued his advance, all sixteen afterimages moving forward in sync. Every time Yusuke's fire should have touched him, Shisui moved to the clone that was safe.

Yuusuke acted very carefully, he was completely focused, each stroke of the zanpakutō was done with precise calculation, there was not a single unnecessary movement. Watching the phantoms that remained unharmed in the fire current made Yusuke feel less stressed as it made it less difficult to locate Shisui's true body.

Each swing of Yusuke's Zanpakutō left behind a magnificent fiery tail that formed a semicircle. The only thing Shisui could do was constantly switch back and forth between several afterimage clones that were not in the path of Yusuke's flame.

Suddenly, by increasing the amount of chakra used, Shisui accelerated the movements of the afterimage clones. This made Yusuke frown slightly, even though he could cover a large range around him, but maintaining a perfect circle all the time without a single gap was impossible for him.

"Inferno Release - Walk Through Flame" - As his chakra became closer to the fire element, Yuusuke didn't see the point in using the weak version, so a few days before the duel, he integrated almost all of his techniques into Inferno Release. This made them a little stronger, leaving the young man quite content.

In front of numerous onlookers, Yusuke's body disappeared with a flash of fire and appeared next to one of Shisui's clones. Finding out that it was a clone, Yuusuke moved again, now to another, his movement was like teleportation. Wherever the flames of Ryujin Jakki were located, Yusuke could instantly move to that place.

The spectators were once again amazed by the spectacular techniques of the duelists. Shisui's dazzling Body Flicker Technique with his numerous afterimage clones and Yusuke's incredible movement technique, who constantly moved around looking for the opponent's true body.

"Shisui Uchiha is only twelve years old and already possesses such extraordinary strength, while Yuusuke's strength is growing at an incredible rate, if he had such strength at that time, Guy's father might not have had to sacrifice himself" - Genma, who is standing on the side, said with a sigh Guy was silent.

Asuma tilted his head towards Kakashi and asked, "Are you also hiding your power like they are?"

Kakashi shook his head, "Now, I'm afraid I'm no match for them. But if I had to meet them on the battlefield, I'm sure I could delay them for a while."

Kakashi shook his head, "Now, I'm afraid I'm no match for them. But if I had to meet them on the battlefield, I'm sure I could delay them for a while."

On the other side of the stadium, the two Hyuga brothers, Hiashi and Hizashi, activated their eye powers and watched the fight closely.

"Even with the power of the eyes, I am unable to see the true body of this Uchiha Shisui" - Hizashi said to Hiashi's older brother next to him.

"I have the same, I wonder how he could develop this technique to such a degree, each doppelganger seems real, but at the same time not, this young man deserves respect for being able to come up with such a complex technique," ​​Hiashi replied calmly. "It's a pity that our clan still hasn't been able to produce someone as talented as these two. By the way, look at Uchiha Yusuke's chakra - isn't that weird!"