Chapter 37: Defeat Again (Ch 37)

Choji was eating potato chips: “Ino, you’re not going to cheer for Sasuke?”

Shikamaru was even more surprised: “Not only did he not cheer, he wasn’t even surprised. Ino, do you know something?”

Ino just laughed but didn’t say anything.

She had not been practicing blindly in the past few months, but had been abused by her devilish father so much that she had learned to distinguish between strong and weak. In addition, she would occasionally go to Tiantian to practice together, and had some understanding of the strength of Xia Mu and the other two.

She even dared to assert that, not to mention Natsuki and Shino, even Tenten might be stronger than Sasuke.

These three people have some white teeth!

Sasuke wiped the scars on his face, secretly annoyed at himself for being careless, but he also became more alert towards Natsuki. He felt that Natsuki was very smart and good at applying what he had learned.

Just like a smoke bomb, others throw it out to block the enemy’s sight and then take the opportunity to launch a sneak attack.

But Xia Mu didn’t do that. He used smoke bombs on himself like a fool, but he also concealed the fact that he transformed into a shuriken and successfully launched a sneak attack.

Such opponents are much more interesting than those guys who can only fight with each other.

“Haha, Xia Mu, you are very good, and you are becoming more and more interesting!”

Sasuke became a little excited, he needed a strong opponent to fight against in order to have a chance to become stronger. Although this Natsuki was not very strong, he had many creative ideas, so he learned a lot from him.

However, he will not lose, he will definitely win next time!

However, Natsuki said nothing, but threw out several shuriken again, which were easily dodged by Sasuke.

This time there was no smoke bomb to cover up, but Sasuke became much more cautious, for he was afraid that these shurikens might contain Natsuki’s shadow clones. As for whether Natsuki could create a shadow clone, that was not something Sasuke should consider. He was just alert to various possibilities.

Seeing this, Xia Mu formed seals and used the technique of combining two avatars and rushed forward.

Sasuke was familiar with this move, and he was not panicking at all. Instead, he quickly formed a seal and blew out a big fireball from his mouth: “Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!”

Everyone was shocked. They didn’t expect that Sasuke could already use such ninjutsu. He is only seven years old now. They could only say that he is worthy of being an Uchiha.

Iruka was a little worried, afraid that his students would get hurt in the battle.

However, Xia Mu was still rushing towards the fireball without any intention of dodging, but he was also forming seals while running.

“Oh, Substitution jutsu? That’s okay… wait! Substitution jutsu! What a plan!” Iruka guessed.

“A substitute technique?”

Sasuke couldn’t see clearly, but his expression changed, “Oh no! This guy!”

As he said that, he kicked behind him, and Xia Mu, who was originally rushing towards the fireball, turned into a shuriken with a bang, and Xia Mu’s real body had appeared behind Sasuke, and Xia Mu and the shuriken he had just thrown exchanged positions!

Bang! The two feet collided.

Because Sasuke kicked in haste, he was ultimately at a disadvantage and could not help but stagger backwards.

Just as he was about to fight back, he saw Xia Mu quickly forming hand seals again, staring at Sasuke, and Sasuke felt dizzy in an instant.

“Illusion: Naraku-seeing Technique!”

“Oh no, illusion attack…”

Sasuke immediately gathered his mind, quickly disrupted his chakra, and woke up from the illusion in an instant, but was met with a big foot that kicked him away.

Everyone was already stunned.

I didn’t expect that Natsuki’s wind-like combo attacks suppressed Sasuke the whole time. Sasuke was knocked away twice. The Fireball Technique that seemed powerful at first didn’t work. I always felt that Natsuki had surpassed Sasuke.

But how is this possible?

Sasuke is the Uchiha genius!

Sasuke couldn’t believe it either. He got up with an unwilling look on his face, but he had to be more vigilant. Seeing Xia Mu suddenly raised his hand, he subconsciously jumped back a big step.

But Xia Mu said: “Iruka-sensei, I have no more chakra. I give up.”

“Nani! Xia Mu, you are teasing me!”

Sasuke was furious now, “You knocked me away twice, and my fireball didn’t work, and now you tell me you give up, that doesn’t make sense! Keep fighting me!”

But Natsuki had already made the seal of reconciliation, so Sasuke couldn’t explode even if he wanted to.

The other person said that he had no chakra left and certainly couldn’t launch the attack he just did. It seemed pointless to continue fighting, and I couldn’t force him to fight.

There was no other way, Sasuke could only make the seal of reconciliation with a gloomy face.

Seeing Sasuke’s look, Xia Mu comforted him: “Sasuke, although this illusion is not of high level, it consumes a lot of chakra. And I am not very talented in illusion. I have practiced for a long time. You can break free of the illusion so quickly. I can’t do anything. There is no point in continuing to fight.”

The main thing is that if you continue to fight, you will lose, and won’t I be exposed?

Let’s just forget it!

Sasuke finally felt better after hearing this, and thought that he might be fine since he was able to break free from the illusion in an instant.

However, Xia Mu added: “But Sasuke, your mental state is not good, otherwise you should not be easily affected by such a low-level illusion. It’s not good for you to be like this. There are dark circles under your eyes. If you don’t sleep well, it will be very dangerous in the battle.”

After saying this, he turned around and left the stage, just in time to receive applause from his classmates.

Although Xia Mu admitted defeat, he seemed not to have lost. In short, he won the respect of his classmates.

After all, Natsuki seems to be the first one who can beat Sasuke like this. It’s a pity that Natsuki’s chakra is too little, otherwise Sasuke might have lost badly.

Only Shino and Ino, who knew the situation, looked indifferent: Natsuki might not like playing ninja house.

At this time, Naruto jumped out again: “Teacher Iruka, since Xia Mu admitted defeat, can I challenge Sasuke? I am very strong today, I will definitely win!”

Iruka was troubled by the little yellow-haired boy, and subconsciously looked at Sasuke. Seeing that Sasuke nodded, Iruka agreed: “Okay, since Sasuke-kun has no objection, then you can fight against Naruto in the second match, and the two of you will form the seal of opposition.”

“Hahaha! Sasuke, wake up and fall!”

Naruto appeared excitedly, formed the Seal of Opposition, and immediately pounced on him, but was kicked away by Sasuke the next second.

Sasuke sneered: “I am angry because Xia Mu admitted defeat. Since you came here to ask for a fight, how can I not help you? Your attack is many times worse than Xia Mu’s. Do you think you can defeat me with this?”

Next, of course, Naruto was beaten in various ways.

Although Naruto was really tough, he was still young and malnourished at that time, so he was not as tough as he was later. It didn’t take long for him to be beaten badly.

It wasn’t until Iruka announced the end of the battle that Sasuke’s depressed mood finally improved a lot.

However, Sasuke always felt that something was wrong with Xia Mu. Even though Xia Mu said that he had no mana, he looked relaxed just now. How could he not have no mana at all? So, was this guy deliberately hiding his weakness? And he deliberately beat him up before pretending to admit defeat and hide his weakness. Was he treating him like a fool?