Chapter 57 Teacher.

Just watching, Tōshirō couldn't help but have questions.

"By the way, Yan, could it be that Zhe doesn't know how to use ninjutsu? Why is he only attacking with taijutsu, shuriken, and kunai?"

Hearing Tōshirō's question, Uchiha Yan glanced at the field. Her eyelids drooped slightly, she looked ahead, and answered expressionlessly:

"That idiot probably forgot to use ninjutsu!"

"Ugh~"

[It seems that guy isn't just passionate but also easily gets carried away!]

Hearing Yan's answer, Tōshirō was somewhat speechless. However, seeing her look of exasperation, this matter seemed almost certain.

"Damn it! Again!"

As expected of someone specially selected by the family for early graduation, Uchiha Zhe's attacks didn't have much effect. Still, the sound of his moves showed that his strength and speed were far superior to regular ninja school students.

Moreover, his resilience was excellent.

Despite being knocked down by Teacher Jūsei multiple times, he never gave up easily. Instead, he kept getting up, rallying, and launching new rounds of attacks. Although he hadn't used any ninjutsu or genjutsu, it seemed that he wouldn't be bad at them based on estimates.

"Swish!"

The two kunai that had fallen on the ground were kicked hard by Teacher Jūsei's toe, shooting rapidly towards Tōshirō and Uchiha Yan.

"As teammates, you can't just sit by and watch your partner fight alone! You two have observed enough; it's time to join in!"

Slightly tilting his head, Tōshirō dodged the incoming kunai. After confirming that Yan was alright, he turned to look at the field.

Teacher Jūsei effortlessly blocked Zhe's high kick by raising his hand. Then he grabbed Zhe's attacking leg, swung him around twice, and flung him away. At this moment, he turned back, smiling at them.

Without hesitation, taking advantage of Zhe not being in the field, Tōshirō extended one hand into his ninja tool pouch, took out several shurikens, and launched a shuriken attack on Teacher Jūsei. Compared to Uchiha Zhe's shuriken techniques, his speed was faster but otherwise not much different.

Such a simple attack was not even considered child's play to Teacher Jūsei. He lightly kicked the ground and sent a kunai flying towards the shurikens, planning to use the same trick to break Tōshirō's attack.

"Bang!"

"How is this possible? There clearly was no…"

Just as the shurikens and kunai collided in midair, a white smoke suddenly exploded. The smoke explosion was very close to him and soon enveloped his figure.

This unexpected move surprised Jūsei.

Because the shuriken just launched did not contain any smoke bombs.

It turned out that when Tōshirō took the shurikens with one hand from his waist, he had his other hand in his sleeve, secretly performing a series of hand seals, using the Transformation Technique from the Three Basic Techniques.

This was one of Tōshirō's years of research into ninjutsu. Generally, people use Transformation Technique with themselves as the medium, transforming into a target. But at this moment, Tōshirō used a smoke bomb as the medium, transforming it into shurikens to attack Teacher Jūsei, catching him off guard.

Performing hand seals with one hand was another of his achievements.

Thanks to continuous meditation and practice over the years, he had become sensitive to the flow of chakra within his body. After numerous experiments, he finally managed to use one hand to perform simple ninjutsu.

"Rat-Hare-Monkey-Boar-Horse-Tiger, Fire Style: Grand Fireball Jutsu!"

Without any hesitation, taking the opportunity of Teacher Jūsei's vision being blocked by the smoke, Tōshirō quickly performed hand seals and executed the Uchiha clan's traditionally passed-down Fire Style ninjutsu.

In an instant, a huge orange-red fireball blasted from Tōshirō towards the direction where the smoke bomb exploded.

Simultaneously, chakra burst from under his feet, launching him into the bushes behind him. He didn't believe a simple Grand Fireball Jutsu would be enough to deal with Teacher Jūsei. The tradition of hit-and-run, a key survival tactic he had mastered as a player, was to be maintained.

"Boom!"

A loud explosion sounded, originating from the spot where Tōshirō had just stood. A nearly seven-to-eight-meter-diameter orange-red fireball, with scorching heat, plowed a nearly two-meter-wide deep groove in the ground.

The roaring fireball dispersed the smoke formed by the smoke bomb, flying tens of meters away and crashing into a distant rock wall. Only then did it explode with a tremendous roar, forming a huge crater and leaving a layer of black scorched marks along its path and at the point of explosion.

"Tōshirō! You idiot! It was just a test, and you actually used such a large-scale Fire Style! You could have killed the teacher!"

Uchiha Zhe, seeing the empty field center and scorched marks left by the Grand Fireball Jutsu, couldn't believe his eyes. Shocked, he turned and shouted.

"Where are they? How come no one's there?"

"Idiot! If you don't run now, the teacher will kill you!" An exasperated shout came from Yan. Although she was also shocked by the impressive effect of Tōshirō's Fire Style, seeing him hiding in the bushes, she swiftly followed. Now, seeing Uchiha Zhe still fooling around, she was at her wit's end.

"Nani?"

At that moment, a hand reached out from the ground near his feet.

"Earth Style: Inner Decapitation…"

Before the hand's owner could finish his jutsu, a kunai shot out of the bushes, aiming directly at the spot where his arm broke through the ground.

Finally reacting, thinking his teammate had killed their leader, Uchiha Zhe instinctively pushed himself off the ground and moved away but didn't hide in the bushes. Instead, he looked at the hand's location, puzzled.

The interrupted ninjutsu forced Uchiha Jūsei to reveal himself.

Only then did Uchiha Zhe, who had been dumbfounded, realize that the Grand Fireball Jutsu hadn't hit Teacher Jūsei.

(Chapter end)