Chapter 57 : Shika Vs Sasuke 3

Sasuke rushed at Shika with a kunai in hand. He was surprisingly having a hard time against Shika, a classmate he never believed to be that strong.

But again, he believed the same about Naruto, and that guy had given him surprise after surprise since they started training together.

He was kind of restricted because he wasn't able to use any Jutsu or his newly awakened Sharingan.

He would have used them long ago if not for Kakashi explicitly telling him that if he lost control over the curse seal mark, he would stop the match.

What did that mean? If his teacher stopped the match in between, it would be taken as him giving up the match, and he would lose.

He couldn't have that, so he only relied on his Taijutsu.

But…

"It's time to end this fight," Shika suddenly said, confusing Sasuke for a second before he suddenly realized that he couldn't move anymore.

His eyes widened. Right now, the only parts of his body he could move were his eyes and mouth.

He struggled to look down, only to see that Shika's shadow had captured him in the Nara clan's shadow possession jutsu.

"I'll say it—give up. Let's end this here," Shika said as he slowly placed a kunai at Sasuke's neck. Now, Sasuke imitated him, but he wasn't holding a kunai like Shika, who was ready before he applied the shadow possession jutsu.

Knowing that Sasuke wasn't going to give up by himself, tough son of a bitch that he was, Shika just placed a kunai at his neck and then looked at the proctor, as if saying, "Come on, if not now, then when—after I kill him?"

Sasuke was struggling like crazy to break free of the shadow, but unfortunately for him, once shadow possession is complete, there is no way to get out of control unless the target overpowers the user.

No matter what Sasuke did, he wasn't able to break free.

"What happened?" Naruto asked Kakashi about this. As usual, he had no idea about the shadow possession jutsu.

Sakura, on the other hand, knew, and she was looking at the fight in disbelief.

"It can't be over this quick," she muttered to herself.

"Hey, Shikamaru, that's your clan jutsu, right? Tell me, tell me that there is a way for Sasuke to break free," Ino almost jolted poor Shikamaru while asking this.

Shikamaru, on the other hand, was looking at this with narrow eyes. He noticed how good Shika was in Taijutsu, but more than that, he noticed how his cousin was able to use their clan's shadow possession jutsu without even forming hand signs.

That was an advanced technique, and being able to do it in close combat like that…

Shikamaru couldn't help but ponder how strong his cousin had become.

Kurenai with Team 8 saw this and smiled, though many of their smiles were a little strange. Actually, Shika had used this trick against them before.

While fighting close combat, Shika would suddenly catch them in his shadow possession jutsu, creating an almost point-blank attack out of the blue.

Even someone like Kurenai was caught in this, as she wasn't fast enough to dodge the shadow when fighting close combat.

And this was all possible because Shika could now use his shadow without hand signs. He worked really hard to do this, though he believed that he could either because he had Yin Release or it was a byproduct of Ten Shadows.

At least he believed that other Nara couldn't do it like he did. To perform a powerful shadow clone, one needed hand signs, but not Shika.

Others were also surprised to see the fight ending just like that.

"Sigh…" Gekko Hayate sighed after seeing the so-called genius getting beaten this easily.

He was actually anticipating a good fight, but that Uchiha kid was quite a disappointment.

"Hmm, Mr. Proctor," Shika, on the other hand, was getting irritated after seeing the proctor not announcing the result even now when he literally had Sasuke's life in his hands.

Shika's calling finally brought Gekko back to his senses, and he was ready to announce the result.

Seeing this, Sasuke, who was still struggling to get out of the shadow possession jutsu, panicked.

Unknown to him, in the time of stress, his Sharingan came to life, and the curse mark flared up.

Inside his body, he suddenly heard a voice—a voice he had heard before. This voice was none other than Orochimaru's.

"You will lose. I can give you the power you want."

The voice was enticing. Sasuke at first ignored the voice and tried to push back the influence of the curse mark, but he really didn't have any way to get out of the shadow possession.

It was a pickle for him right now. If he didn't get out of the shadow possession, he would lose, and if he used the curse mark's power to break free, even then, Kakashi would stop the match—aka, he would lose.

So seeing the proctor about to announce the result, he hurriedly decided to do whatever he could. He let the curse seal take control and took the power Orochimaru gave him.

After all, there was a possibility that Kakashi was lying, but here, if he didn't break out of the shadow possession jutsu, he would lose for sure.

And then suddenly, markings started to appear on Sasuke's body, making even Shika, who had been easygoing up to now, serious. He knew what this was.

He was worried about this one, so he quickly let go of the kunai he was holding against Sasuke's neck, formed the hand sign to strengthen his shadow possession, and then felt it—the powerful shadow from Sasuke. He barely managed to hold on to the jutsu.

Earlier, Sasuke wasn't using chakra, so the sudden outburst of chakra from Sasuke was like a truck hitting him out of the blue.

The proctor also saw this and stopped from announcing the result. He wasn't sure what he should do right now—Sasuke was resisting, after all.

Others who didn't know about the curse mark were confused, but after seeing that Sasuke hadn't lost yet, they were still looking forward to a good fight.

But for those who knew what those markings were, they had worried faces.

Kakashi narrowed his single lazy eye, ready to take action anytime.

One person who was more eager to take down Sasuke was none other than Anko.

"Man, I knew this was going to be troublesome, but this…" Shika couldn't help but ponder as he felt his grip over the shadow possession slipping.

"Fuck… this ain't good," Shika muttered as he gave it his all to hold back Sasuke from breaking out.

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