Chapter 31: Easy Pass, the Nemesis of Illusions
"It's a strong combination tactic. All three of them are hiding their power, it appears."
Peeking out from his tree hideout, Shino Aburame watched the dust in the clearing and forest that had been stirred up and grumbled to himself.
At the same time, he also moved quickly to release large numbers of insects, making use of the cover of the dust to sneakily fly beside Kurenai Yuhi, trying to steal her bells at her waist when she wasn't paying attention.
Unfortunately, Hinata had already warned her beforehand.
As Kurenai Yuhi was the Jonin teacher for the perception class, her ability to perceive was also extremely good.
Astounded by Hinata's combination technique, she had already canceled her perception after having been covered by the dust.
Where Izayoi and the other two were, and how the insects were coming, were all disclosed by Kurenai Yuhi.
With a bang, the sound of a balloon bursting was heard inside the dust.
Once the dust disappeared, there only left a piece of wood covered by insects on the ground.
Substitution Technique!
Observing this scene, Team Eight was not surprised.
Hinata, whose veins throbbed on her temples, looked around. In the black and white line of sight, Shino Aburame who was concealed in a particular tree, white smoke employed by Kurenai Yuhi to hide her tracks and teleport into the forest, and Izayoi, who had already turned into an afterimage and was dashing toward Kurenai Yuhi, were all shown to her clairvoyance and farsightedness.
Looking at Izayoi, who had already emerged before Kurenai Yuhi and was battling her, Hinata's Byakugan appeared to sense something, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but slightly curve.
Then, she pulled out a strip of cloth, gestured toward Shino Aburame, and her figure vanished.
The insect buzzing sound followed closely.
There was clashing metal ringing in another forest.
The action closed in, and two people of almost the same height stood with a difference of a single centimeter and held kunai in their back hands, exchanging hand-to-hand.
Aiming at Kurenai Yuhi's crucial spots, the kunai in the palm of Izayoi plunged with stabs, chopped, and slashed.
The speed of the attack and the swift movement compelled even Kurenai Yuhi to defend inactively.
Initially, Kurenai Yuhi, who had abundant battle experience, did not panic.
But shortly, she appeared to have discovered something incredible, her eyes were narrowed at once, and her face completely changed.
"How is it possible?!?"
She even shouted.
Izayoi, who knew what he was astonished at, curled the edges of his mouth a little.
The next moment, he turned into a cloud of white smoke with a "bang".
While that was going on, three shouts resounded from the nearby forest.
"Fire Style: Great Dragon Fire Technique!"
The orange-red flames, similar to the glow of sunset, engulfed Kurenai Yuhi.
Three dragonfires of about four meters in length charged at her in the form of a triangle.
Kurenai Yuhi also didn't have any time to teleport herself away from it, and illusions weren't useful, and so she could only hastily form hand seals and shouted, "Water Style: Water Wall!"
A stream of water came out of her mouth and struck the flying fire dragons as Kurenai Yuhi's body spun around.
With explosions and crackling sounds, an enormous white mist filled the air.
"Cough cough."
The area of the mist was really large, covering even the clearing.
Kurenai Yuhi's figure emerged from the mist, coughing as she choked.
At that time, Kurenai Yuhi appeared to have realized something and stood rigid.
The next instant, a familiar sound reached her ears.
Jingle bells.
The melodious ringing of the bells came from far and near.
A gust of wind swept the mist aside, and the silvery forms of Team Eight appeared from the woods.
At the center, Izayoi awakened the elves in his hand while smiling at Kurenai Yuhi, and proclaimed, "Teacher Kurenai, we're qualified, right?"
"Great, I had to watch out for you, but still you rang the bells."
Looking at the spotless Team Eight and then at herself, who was a bit blushing, Kurenai Yuhi felt somewhat embarrassed but more so in her heart.
She smiled and praised extravagantly, "Great strong power, good tactics, teacher defeated."
"No... ninja fights are battles of wits."
Izayoi nodded his head and grinned, "The reason we could get the bells so easily is that Teacher Kurenai showed her specialty and had not learned enough about our information. If it were a matter of life and death, we wouldn't have been so easy. We utilized Teacher Kurenai intentionally making us win."
When Izayoi said this, Hinata and Shino Aburame, who were standing behind Izayoi on purpose, looked at Izayoi in surprise, with all sorts of thoughts in their hearts.
"I... Izayoi-kun, speaks so eloquently."
"So you're able to speak like that? By the way, is that flattering?"
Kurenai Yuhi was shocked too, and then the smile on her face became brighter, and her eyes were filled with love when she looked at Izayoi.
"You speak so well!"
Kurenai Yuhi, having calmed the embarrassment, immediately returned to her heroic stance, went over and patted Izayoi on the shoulder, and threw her arm around Hinata's perfumed shoulder and smiled, "Let's go, in celebration of the establishment of Team Eight, teacher will take you out for a big meal."
Walking along the forest path that went to the central street, Kurenai Yuhi looked at Izayoi curiously and asked, "Izayoi, how did your shadow clone break my illusion during the fight?"
Ninja school teaches illusion breaking.
It is simple to say, but very difficult to do.
Because in the fight, it is not possible to disrupt the chakra.
After all, if you need to interfere with the chakra in your body, you must seriously activate the chakra in your body, which requires hand seals.
The reason why Kurenai Yuhi was taken aback just now was not that the opponent in front of her was merely Izayoi's shadow clone, nor was it that Izayoi's main body and shadow clone were attacking somewhere else.
But, Izayoi's shadow clone actually forgot about her illusion.
"It's a secret, Teacher Kurenai."
Izayoi held up his index finger, put it before his mouth, and smiled, "Ninja battles are wars of information, secrets make men more charming."
Saying this, Izayoi winked at Hinata, and the girl put her head down in embarrassment.
"You're not a man yet, just a little kid."
Kurenai Yuhi scowled and told him, "Wait until you're twenty, you can say this again when you can drink with the teacher."
She did not continue to ask him anything, however.
But in her heart's evaluation of Izayou went much further than that of the two ninja clan children, Hinata and Shino Aburame.
The vast chakra capacity, powerful Fire Style ninjutsu, mature personality, and this literacy of the ninja.
At this point, Kurenai Yuhi realized at last why Izayoi could dominate the children of the powerful ninja clans and be named top student for so many years.
Izayoi smiled silently at Kurenai Yuhi's jest.
Of course not, he won't tell Kurenai Yuhi that his reason for passing her illusion by is not only due to the strong Yin Style chakra, but also because he can do ninjutsu without hand seals.
Others do need hand seals in order to activate chakra, but Izayoi doesn't need any of those at all.
He is the Nemesis of illusions.
(End of this chapter)
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