My clan was exterminated when I was three years old, and you want me to beat Uchiha Itachi? Chapter 112

Sand Coffin!

A large amount of yellow sand quickly gushed out from the gourd behind Gaara, wrapping your group in the wind. Then, Gaara extended his palm and clenched his fist.

Sand Burial!

Gaara started with his ultimate move, showing no mercy.

Although you possessed Lava Release and could even activate Itachi Uchiha’s Susanoo for protection if needed, you weren’t concerned about this level of attack. However, your two tag-alongs were a different story. If they were to suffer any serious harm here, you wouldn’t be able to stay in Konoha!

“It seems I’ll have to show some real power!” You formed hand seals, then unleashed a large stream of water from your mouth, directly hitting the yellow sand released by Gaara.

Water Style: Water Wall!

This wasn’t a particularly powerful ninjutsu, but it could evenly mix into the yellow sand, reducing the sand’s fluidity.

Then, you clasped your hands together, striking a stance for Dust Release.

Wind Style: Wind Barrier!

However, this was not Dust Release, but a protective barrier composed of Wind Style, also a necessary ninjutsu form for synthesizing Dust Release.

You watched as you transformed the Wind Style barrier in your palm into a sphere, then released it towards the ground.

In an instant, the Wind Style wall spread out, enveloping the three of you. No matter how Gaara condensed his chakra to attack, his sand, dampened by you, couldn’t gather enough power to penetrate this Wind Style barrier!

You maintained the Wind Style barrier, continuously competing with Gaara in terms of chakra.

However, the opponent possessed Tailed Beast Chakra. Even if it was just the weakest One-Tails Shukaku, you couldn’t hope to win against him in terms of chakra quantity.

Earth Style: Earth Rising Spears!

You stomped your foot fiercely, and a thick stone spear shot out from beneath Gaara’s feet at extreme speed.

Bang!

This sudden, immense force caused Gaara, who always attacked and never defended, and had only ever fought overwhelming battles, to be completely unaware of what was happening. He was sent flying by the stone spear.

Although his mother’s Susanoo activated in time, Gaara was unharmed, but he was still knocked unconscious by the immense impact and fell onto the grass a hundred meters away.

Kankuro and Temari, who were in the same team, couldn’t bother with you.

Moreover, they were afraid that you, like Gaara, were a bloodthirsty individual, so they ran towards the direction Gaara was sent flying without looking back.

You called out to the two already dumbfounded Waterfall Village shinobi to continue forward.

Not long after, you successfully arrived at the Central Tower.

Naturally, you also qualified for the next stage of the examination.

However, the two Waterfall Village shinobi accompanying you, having gone through these exams which were somewhat brutal even for genin from major ninja villages, were all afraid of losing their lives in the upcoming finals. Thus, they wisely chose to forfeit their qualification for the next exam.

Fortunately, the qualifications for the individual matches did not affect each other.

You still retained your qualification for the finals and could remain in the village, while the other Waterfall Village shinobi had to leave Konoha.

At the same time, due to the immense strength you displayed during your battle with Gaara in the exam, both Konoha’s Anbu and Root began investigating your background.

This wasn’t targeting; it was a detailed investigation conducted on all outstanding shinobi. Not just Konoha, but other ninja villages with capable individuals would also investigate the rising stars emerging from the Chunin Exams.

After all, the Chunin Exams were essentially a controlled-scale display of strength between various ninja villages!

Let them investigate.

You didn’t care about it. With your experience from Root and the support of the Iwagakure Anbu you had trained, plus the preparations made two years in advance,

You knew that Konoha wouldn’t be able to find anything within half a month. At most, they would find records of your sudden rise in Takigakure, possibly due to an unknown kekkei genkai.

They would definitely not find anything deeper.

What bothered you was another matter: within the half-month leading up to the finals, the shinobi from outside villages participating in the exam were strictly confined to specific activity areas.

Aside from the accommodation provided to you, plus three cleared training grounds, and a commercial street that was already open to the public, no other areas were allowed to be entered!

And every night, Anbu would patrol outside your accommodation area to prevent anyone from sneaking out.

You had once used words to provoke several shinobi from Otogakure, letting these hotheads scout the way for you. However, they coincidentally ran into Jiraiya.

After this incident, you also gave up on the idea of leaving normally.

But if a person can’t go out, it doesn’t mean a cat can’t go out, right?

Since most of the genin and their accompanying jonin who came to participate were from villages that had signed alliance agreements with Konoha, and a small portion were villages with no grudges and could be swayed,

Konoha couldn’t seal these people off like an iron barrel. Compared to the layered defenses during a clan annihilation, it was much more lenient now.

You used the opportunity of warming up at the training ground in the morning to summon Chief Black Cat and let it blend in with the stray cats and slip out.

It was evening.

You pulled the covers over you, leaving a Lava Release shadow clone inside, while you were reverse-summoned to the vicinity of the Yamanaka clan.

You had actually been eyeing the Yamanaka and Nara clans’ Yin Release for a while.

Although the Uchiha clan also deeply researched Yin Release, they focused more on genjutsu and the Sharingan. In terms of directly utilizing Yin Release chakra, they actually took a shortcut due to the existence of the Sharingan.

Compared to the Yamanaka clan’s direct use of Yin Release to project and mentally control opponents, and the Nara clan’s materialization of Yin Release, there were actually some shortcomings.

Perhaps the once proud Uchiha clan looked down on these, but all you needed was strength. Only by supplementing these could you gain greater power!

Under the cover of night, and with the senjutsu of the ninja cat clan, you used the footwork remembered from Root to move unhindered through the Yamanaka clan compound.

Soon, you found the library for collecting ninjutsu.

Looking at the two drowsy gatekeepers, you couldn’t help but sigh at Konoha’s demeanor as the greatest ninja village. Even after being ravaged by fire, it still retained this lazy attitude, which was probably why Orochimaru decided to initiate the Konoha Crush Plan.

After putting on the gloves you prepared beforehand, with no effort at all, the scrolls containing the Yamanaka clan’s ninjutsu were copied by you.

Activating the Reverse Summoning Jutsu again, this time, you arrived at the outskirts of the Nara clan compound.

However, unlike ordinary clans, the Nara clan liked to raise deer on the outskirts of their compound. Therefore, the area facing the street was not a wall or shops, but a sizable forest.

Chief Black Cat had previously tried to sneak in but was discovered by the deer in the forest and had to quickly escape before they could raise an alarm.

This meant that these Nara family deer, though not summoned beasts, had extremely keen senses. Whether it was hearing or smell, even the ninja cat clan couldn’t infiltrate them!

You had no choice but to use Earth Style. However, as soon as you burrowed down, you discovered that the soil here was different. Besides being extremely dense, it also contained many hard rocks.

Ordinary Earth Style users couldn’t traverse it at all…