Naruto: Reborn in Konoha, Starting with the Drop of Asura's Chakra

Whoosh—

Just like before, in the instant before the lightning struck, Team 8 collectively vanished using Body Flicker Technique.

Four figures, one leading and three trailing, dashed toward Kurosuna Raiga on the mountain path in the iconic ninja sprinting posture.

Seeing this, Kurosuna Raiga sheathed his twin blades and began forming hand seals, unhurried.

Sunset Red, recognizing the hand seal and identifying the technique, immediately formed seals of her own.

Her figure distorted like a mirage in the desert, disappearing from the sight of Yagyu, the other three, and even Raiga himself.

"So, you're a genjutsu ninja—a pitiful woman!"

Instead of panicking, Raiga exaggeratedly cried, tears streaming down his face. "Ah... I can't wait to see you bawling in despair!"

"She's coming—two o'clock, Raiga."

A youthful voice, audible only to Raiga, spoke from beneath his raincoat.

Raiga trusted the voice without hesitation, drawing his twin blades once again and crossing them toward the charging Team 8 below.

"Lightning Style: Thunderball!"

With lightning chakra infusing the blades, the electricity surged to their tips, forming a glowing thunderball.

Just as Team 8 thought Raiga would hurl the thunderball at them, he smirked and abruptly redirected it.

Sizzle...

The thunderball exploded mid-air as if it struck something, scattering sparks everywhere.

"Aah!"

A scream pierced through the air. Within the electric light, a twitching figure appeared—it was Sunset Red.

She hadn't expected her presence to be discovered, nor had she anticipated Raiga's attack on Yagyu and the others to be a diversion.

The thunderball struck Sunset Red directly, causing her body to convulse violently before she fell from mid-air to the mountainside below, seemingly unconscious.

"Red-sensei!"

Hinata cried out in alarm.

Yagyu frowned, not because Sunset Red was defeated, but because... his three-tomoe Sharingan detected faint red particles once again.

Yagyu was sure the earlier illusion was caused by these red particles.

Hinata's Byakugan being nullified was also linked to this ability.

However, he couldn't recall which bloodline limit this was.

He could only confirm it wasn't part of the main storyline.

Having crossed into this world 12 years ago, Yagyu had spent time organizing significant plot points while his memory remained intact.

But with Naruto's numerous flashbacks and filler arcs, Yagyu couldn't recall everything and only found the ability vaguely familiar.

Now wasn't the time for Yagyu to ponder further.

Seeing Sunset Red ambushed by Raiga, Yagyu, as team leader, quickly issued orders:

"Hinata, treat Red-sensei."

He grabbed Hinata's arm and spun her, launching her toward Red mid-air.

Hinata caught the scorched, steaming Sunset Red, gathered chakra to her feet, and sprinted down the cliffside.

"Shino, protect Hinata and Red-sensei, and act accordingly."

Yagyu formed hand seals and commanded, "Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

Five clones appeared in a puff of smoke, each taking a position around Yagyu.

They scattered instantly, scaling the cliffside toward Raiga on the mountain path.

"Raiga, be cautious. This guy is strong," the youth's voice warned from beneath the raincoat. "His chakra is several times yours, and the water vortex earlier was his doing."

Hearing this, Raiga abandoned his playful, cat-and-mouse demeanor and formed hand seals.

"Earth Style: Rock Avalanche!"

Rumble...

The ground trembled as rocks broke free from the cliffside, tumbling toward Yagyu and his clones.

But Raiga's expression changed as Yagyu mirrored his seals below.

"Earth Style: Rock Avalanche!"

The tremors shifted direction as rocks began tumbling from above Raiga.

"What kind of person is he?"

Raiga stared at Yagyu in disbelief before leaping off the path toward the ground below.

Yagyu and his clones followed, leaping through the air.

Mid-flight, four clones executed a combination technique.

Two clones released massive streams of water:

"Water Style: Great Waterfall Technique!"

The other two concentrated blue whirlwinds, merging the water into water vortexes before hurling them at the airborne Raiga.

"Water Style: Spiral Water Vortex!"

Even from a distance, Raiga felt the vortex's immense pull and couldn't allow it near.

He channeled lightning chakra into his twin blades and shouted:

"Lightning Blade Technique: Lightning Strike!"

Two massive lightning arcs roared toward the vortexes, colliding and bursting them like balloons into a downpour that drenched Yagyu.

Raiga landed deftly on a rolling boulder, only for the youthful voice to urgently warn:

"Raiga, dodge now!"

Raiga glanced up to see Yagyu mid-air, poised to throw a spear-like stream of water.

Beside him, a clone finished forming seals, having just created the water spear.

Their eyes met, and Yagyu's Sharingan glinted, causing Raiga's pupils to contract in terror.

Suddenly, Raiga's perception shifted as he found himself in a crimson world.

He couldn't move, his body pierced by massive black stakes, leaving only his eyes mobile.

Looking upward, he saw two moon-sized Sharingan eyes looming in the blood-red sky, spinning slowly.

"Sha... Sharingan!"

Raiga tried to speak but couldn't.

Crack!

The crimson space shattered like glass, returning Raiga to reality.

Pain surged through him as he looked down to see the water spear had pierced his chest—and something bulging beneath his raincoat.

Boom!

The water spear exploded into a massive vortex, tearing through Raiga.

These techniques were none other than...

Phantom: Shackles Technique and Water Style: Hard Vortex Water Blade!

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