Chapter 203: Sasuke’s Unexpected Appearance

Chapter 203: Chapter 203: Sasuke’s Unexpected Appearance

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Accompanied by the sound of rushing wind, Hyuga Kagami and Shisui used the Body Flicker Technique and instantly appeared in front of Uchiha Hideki, blocking his path.

"You two are..."

The moment Hideki got a clear look at Kagami and Shisui’s attire, his expression changed drastically.

"Kamigami!? You’re members of Kamigami?"

Like Uchiha Ryota, Uchiha Hideki had not participated in the fierce battle between the Uchiha and Kamigami that night.

However, as a jōnin of the Uchiha Clan and a radical who actively pushed for the Uchiha rebellion, Hideki had already learned about Kamigami during the clan meetings.

Therefore, not only did he know that Kamigami had a Mangekyō Sharingan wielder who harbored deep hostility toward both the Uchiha and Konoha, he was also familiar with the attire and aliases used by Kamigami’s members.

The thought that even Clan Head Fugaku, who possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan, had failed to gain any advantage against Kamigami immediately caused Hideki’s expression to darken.

At the same time, he activated his three-tomoe Sharingan, his mind rapidly working as he searched for a way to escape.

The reason he had disguised himself this time was to travel to the Land of Cats and retrieve the various ninja tools that the Uchiha Clan had specially commissioned for their rebellion.

Because of that, he knew perfectly well that if anything happened to him here, the Uchiha Clan’s plans for rebellion might be exposed.

Seeing Hideki activate his Sharingan, Kagami said coldly,

"A three-tomoe Sharingan, huh..."

Hideki’s heart jolted at Kagami’s words.

"Their target is the Sharingan!?"

Shisui played along with Kagami and said, "Among the Uchiha Clan, only their clan head and Uchiha Shisui possess the Mangekyō Sharingan. They’re not so easy to come across."

Hideki gritted his teeth.

"You bastards... You actually dare set your sights on the Mangekyō Sharingan? Damn you!"

With that, Hideki immediately pulled out a signal flare and fired it into the sky. At this point, he could no longer afford to worry about anything else.

Whoosh...

Boom!

In an instant, a brilliant burst of flame blossomed across the darkening twilight sky.

This was exactly what Kagami and Shisui had been waiting for—Hideki sending out a distress signal.

Thus, neither of them made any attempt to stop him. Instead, they began surveying their surroundings, waiting for the nearest Uchiha clansmen to arrive.

After firing the signal flare, Hideki breathed a slight sigh of relief, then watched Kagami and Shisui as though facing two terrifying enemies.

"The one wearing the flame-patterned mask must be the Kamigami member Clan Head mentioned—the Mangekyō Sharingan wielder, ’Homura’! Then who’s the one beside him? That demon-faced mask... Could... could he be ’Yama,’ the leader of Kamigami mentioned in the intelligence reports?"

No one understood what the Mangekyō Sharingan represented better than the Uchiha Clan.

And yet Homura, despite possessing the Mangekyō Sharingan, was apparently still beneath Yama within Kamigami.

Just how powerful did that make Yama?

Hideki almost didn’t dare imagine it.

"No... I can’t keep standing here like this. If this goes on, I’ll probably lose before we even start fighting!"

After sensing the fear steadily growing in his heart, Hideki, as a jōnin, immediately snapped himself out of it.

Having made up his mind, he rapidly formed hand seals and shouted,

"Fire Style: Fireball Technique!"

In an instant, a massive ball of flame surged straight toward Kagami and Shisui.

Kagami’s expression remained completely calm as he slowly raised his right hand toward the oncoming fireball.

Whoosh—

A tremendous repulsive force suddenly erupted.

It was as though a pair of enormous invisible hands had slammed into Hideki’s Fireball Technique, forcibly scattering the flames apart.

"This...!?"

Hideki froze in place.

The tiny bit of fighting spirit he had only just managed to muster vanished without a trace.

He had never expected his Fireball Technique to actually defeat the two troublesome enemies before him, but he had never imagined that the other party would merely raise a hand and somehow cause his Fire Release ninjutsu to collapse halfway through its flight.

And Hideki wasn’t the only one confused.

Even Shisui, standing beside Kagami, had no idea what had just happened.

Kagami’s Wheel of Will was both colorless and invisible, and it required no hand seals. Because of that, even Shisui’s Mangekyō Sharingan found it difficult to capture any useful information about the technique.

Maintaining the cold, aloof demeanor befitting the leader of Kamigami, Kagami said indifferently,

"Don’t bother struggling. Gouge out your own Sharingan, and I might consider sparing your life."

Hideki roared in a mixture of shock and fury,

"Keep dreaming!"

At that moment, Kagami’s gaze beneath his mask had already shifted toward the training ground behind Hideki.

Within the vision of his Tenseigan, a small figure was currently rushing toward them.

After getting a clear look at the newcomer’s face, Kagami was slightly stunned.

"Sasuke?! It can’t be this much of a coincidence, can it?"

Sasuke, who was not yet four years old, was running toward the source of the signal flare while occasionally looking up at the fiery glow gradually fading from the sky.

He had originally arranged to practice shuriken throwing with his older brother, Uchiha Itachi, at the training ground today.

But their agreed-upon time had long since passed, and Itachi still hadn’t shown up, leaving Sasuke extremely frustrated.

Just as he was considering whether he should simply go home, the signal flare nearby caught his attention.

As the second son of Uchiha Clan Head Fugaku, although Sasuke had not experienced the battlefield at the age of four like his older brother Itachi, he was by no means an ignorant child.

He knew perfectly well what a signal flare meant.

He also knew that with his current strength, he had no business approaching the area where it had been fired.

But Sasuke was at an age when his curiosity was at its strongest, and he simply couldn’t suppress it.

Then another thought crossed his mind.

This was Konoha, the foremost of the Five Great Shinobi Villages, after all. Moreover, this entire area was located close to the Uchiha Clan compound.

Having never experienced the baptism of a brutal war, Sasuke ultimately gave in to his curiosity and rushed over.

Whoosh—

Due to his lack of experience, Sasuke failed to control his momentum properly and shot straight out of the bushes, openly barging right into the battlefield.

Seeing that the first person to arrive was actually just a child, Hideki frowned.

But the instant he got a clear look at the child’s face, his expression changed drastically.

"Sasuke! Run!"

Shisui was equally startled.

Just like Hideki, he had never expected that the first Uchiha clansman to arrive would actually be Uchiha Sasuke, the second son of Clan Head Fugaku.

As long as the witness was a member of the Uchiha Clan, it didn’t really matter whether that person was Sasuke or not.

So Kagami immediately said to Shisui,

"Do it!"

Shisui nodded.

His figure blurred, and in an instant, he appeared directly in front of Hideki. The three tomoe in his Sharingan began spinning rapidly.

Hideki’s gaze immediately went blank.

He had fallen under a genjutsu.

Thud...

With a muffled sound, Hideki collapsed to the ground.

At that moment, Kagami, wearing the demon-faced mask, slowly began walking toward the utterly terrified Sasuke.

Under the oppressive aura radiating from Kagami, Sasuke fell backward onto his butt.

He desperately shuffled away across the ground, trembling as he stammered,

"D-Don’t... Don’t come any closer!"