Naruto: Uchiha Youngjo's Konoha Spring

Chapter 215 Uchiha Touko VS A

Uchiha Touko and Konan rode a paper bird towards the northeast of the Land of Fire. Before long, Deidara, along with Sasuke and the other two, caught up on a clay bird.

"Flying so fast?" Konan looked at Deidara standing directly in front of the clay bird, arms crossed, staring ahead. His expression was also strange. Deidara's flying speed was indeed beyond his expectations. Deidara was able to catch up within twenty minutes after picking up the person, and he seemed to be doing it with ease. With this ability to fly in the air, he would have no problem obtaining the qualification of a special jonin in any of the major ninja villages.

"Teacher." Behind Deidara, Sasuke and the other two greeted Uchiha Touko. Naruto looked the most anxious, as he was the closest to Konohamaru among the three.

"The three of you are here." Uchiha Touko nodded. "Deidara, you take these three with you, but don't follow too closely. If I get into a fight with the Raikage later, I'll have to leave the rescue to you guys."

"Don't worry." Deidara nodded. "Naruto already told me on the way here that the kid who was kidnapped is his little brother, so he's also my little brother, Deidara's little brother. If he dares to kidnap him, I'll make them fly in a minute."

The group traveled smoothly through the air, but it took them half a day to catch up with the Cloud Village group who had been traveling all night in the early hours of the morning.

"It really is them," Uchiha Touko said with a cold smile. The fact that they left in such a hurry clearly meant they had something to hide.

"Lord Hokage, do you need any help when the fight starts?" Konan asked at this moment.

“No need,” Uchiha Touko said. “This is an internal matter of Konoha. Furthermore, in our future cooperation, Konoha and your Akatsuki organization should try to avoid any open involvement before the final battle.”

"I understand." Xiaonan nodded.

Uchiha Touko glanced at the Cloud Village group below, who were traveling at full speed under A's leadership. Compared to when A left Konoha, their group was significantly larger, indicating that the other side had been prepared.

Uchiha Touko sneered, drew his Lightning Bolt, and leaped down.

As Uchiha Touko's figure glided through the air, azure lightning began to gather around him, slicing through the night sky like a sharp arrow and landing heavily on the path that the Cloud Village group had to take.

Uchiha Touko made no attempt to conceal himself or launch a sneak attack; his appearance was a blatant declaration of his arrival.

After hearing the thunder and lightning in the sky, Ai stopped in his tracks, reached out to stop his subordinates behind him, and stared intently at Uchiha Touko who was descending from the sky.

"The Hokage?" After a while, Ai slowly spoke, "The Hokage seems to have a lot of free time. Was it really necessary to send us this far?"

"No, the Hokage's work is still very busy. However, it seems that you, Raikage, are even busier, having to rush back to Kumogakure late at night." Uchiha Touko stroked the blade of the Swift Lightning Blade, and a layer of electricity slowly rose on its surface. "Our Konoha lost a child today. The security team's investigation revealed that it is related to your Kumogakure delegation. Would you please come back with us for questioning?"

"It seems that the Hokage has come with ill intentions." Seeing Uchiha Touko's posture, Ai knew that if they didn't fight today, the situation wouldn't end well.

After saying that, Ai clenched his fists, and electric sparks began to appear on the surface of his body.

"It seems you're not planning to cooperate, Raikage." The kaleidoscope pattern with lightning bolts appeared in Uchiha Touko's eyes, and the silver eyeshadow of Sage Mode also appeared in his eyes. His aura rose steadily, and the Cloud Village members behind him were intimidated by this aura and involuntarily took a few steps back.

"Hmph." At this moment, Ai also released his own aura without reservation, helping his subordinates to block the oppressive force emanating from Uchiha Touko. "Does Konoha intend to start a war with our Kumogakure?"

"We of Konoha have always cherished peace, but we are not afraid of war in the face of provocation," said Uchiha Touko. "Besides, you are the ones who have come!"

As soon as Uchiha Touko finished speaking, he transformed into a bolt of lightning that pierced the darkness, and the lightning bolt in his hand swiftly slashed towards A.

Ai was not afraid of the attack at all. His fist was crackling with lightning as he met the attack head-on. The two retreated after a brief clash.

Two figures entangled in lightning collided repeatedly under the moonlight, each collision unleashing a blinding white light.

While the two were locked in fierce combat, the main force of the Cloud Hidden Army behind Ai also took the opportunity to flee towards the border.

However, they did not notice that a large clay bird was quietly chasing them in the sky behind them.

"Konohamaru is indeed in their hands." Neji observed with his Byakugan activated, sharing his vision with the three of them. In the scene he saw, in the Cloud Village team below, a middle-aged ninja in the middle had a sack on his back with a child of about 8 years old bound hand and foot. Who else could it be but Konohamaru?
“Senior Deidara, I’ll need your help to intercept their forces in the air later,” Sasuke said. “Make as much noise as possible. We’re very close to the border. The troops stationed at the border and the troops stationed in the Land of Hot Water have received the news and are heading this way. We should try to keep them here while we rescue them.”

"Why are you being so polite with me? Don't call me 'senpai,' just call me 'big brother' like Naruto does," Deidara said casually. "You want to make a big scene, huh? Well then, you'd better watch out for my spectacular artistic performance."

"Naruto, Neji, let's go!" Sasuke nodded. At this moment, Deidara controlled the giant bird to lower the flight altitude a little. After the three of them jumped off the giant bird, they followed Sasuke and headed towards the Cloud Village troops that were fleeing to the border.

……

At this moment, the two shadows in the midst of the fierce battle had also finished their warm-up.

Ai charged toward Uchiha Touko, shouting as he rode through the lightning. The lightning chakra wrapped around his right arm ionized the air into a blazing white trail. Uchiha Touko's Mangekyou Sharingan slowly rotated—in his vision, twelve possibilities of the future unfolded simultaneously like a mirror.

In the third image, the Raikage's fist will shatter the rock three meters to his left; the seventh image shows the opponent suddenly changing direction before contact; only in the ninth image will the lightning strike precisely where he is standing.

"Lightning-level brutality!"

Just as Ai was about to touch Uchiha Touko's figure, Touko's figure suddenly became ethereal. Lightning crackled through the rocks, and before the flying debris could even hit the ground, six shuriken wrapped in purple arcs of electricity attacked from different angles.

"A mere trick!" Ai's body erupted with even more dazzling lightning, and he raised his hand to knock away the hidden weapon.

But beside those shuriken, flashes of lightning streaked across the sky. The magnetic field created by the lightning instantly changed the shuriken's trajectory and accelerated them a second time.

Purple lightning erupted from the tip of the shuriken, six lightning spears intertwining to form a cage. Ai's pupils contracted sharply, and the plasma sparks generated by the collision of his right fist, which was surrounded by lightning, and the lightning spears illuminated the entire canyon.

When the light faded, three charred cracks appeared on his right shoulder.

"You can predict my movements?" Ai wiped the blood from her cheek, and suddenly, spiderweb-like cracks appeared in the rock beneath her feet. "Then let's try this!"

Blue chakra enveloped his entire body like tangible flames, and Ai's speed instantly surged. Seven afterimages appeared simultaneously in the canyon, each of them attacking Uchiha Touko with a different trajectory.

A's mastery of Lightning Release ninjutsu has clearly reached its peak; in terms of ultimate speed, he even surpasses Uchiha Touko by a hair's breadth.

"Is this the speed that only the Flying Thunder God Technique can catch up with?" Uchiha Touko's Mangekyou Sharingan spun wildly, countless future images overlapping on his retina. The next second, Uchiha Touko formed the Tiger Seal.

Seven illusions identical to the original appeared out of thin air, each assuming a different defensive stance, colliding with A's illusions one by one. The two's lightning clones exploded one after another, and A's true body appeared to the left of the battle light. His elbow strike, imbued with lightning, pierced through the illusions.

The true fighting light had already appeared behind him, and the lightning bolt in his hand struck down with lightning.

A bolt of lightning, crackling with azure light, struck behind A. The lightning above clashed with the protective electric light around A, creating a piercing shriek. A grabbed the blade with his backhand, and his left hand wielded the lightning-infused blade, aiming straight for Uchiha Touko's throat. But Uchiha Touko, who should have been locked down, suddenly transformed into thousands of bolts of lightning and scattered in all directions.

"Lightning Release: Lightning Thousand Rains!"

The scattered lightning bolts instantly coalesced into countless hair-thin lightning needles, shooting towards Ai Zan.

Ai grunted, dozens of blood blossoms erupting from his body, but instead, he revealed a ferocious grin: "That's more like it! Compared to Minato Namikaze, who can only flash around, fighting you is much more interesting!"

“Is that so?” Uchiha Touko narrowed his eyes. “I must say, you are the strongest ninja I have faced since I became a ninja. But, it’s time to end the warm-up.”

"Hmph, arrogant fool." A spat out a mouthful of blood, and the deep blue chakra surrounding his body suddenly turned dark red. A's muscles swelled to an unbelievable degree, and the lightning chakra surging in his meridians once again broke through its limits. This time, even A's steel-like body was seeping blood mist. It was clear that the price of this move was extremely high, but in exchange, A's speed as he charged towards Uchiha Touko directly broke through the limits of Uchiha Touko's eyesight.

In the vision of Touko, the twelve clear futures were torn into hundreds and thousands of blurry fragments. As Ai's speed increased, the changes in the futures he brought multiplied, which also caused Uchiha Touko to be caught off guard and suddenly feel a surge of pressure, and blood and tears began to seep from the corners of his eyes.

Ai's figure completely disappeared, and only the shrill sound of air being torn apart came from all directions. Uchiha Touko subconsciously activated Susanoo.

"boom!"

When the first punch struck Susanoo's ribs, Touko realized that his opponent had already made a move.

The translucent black skeleton had barely emerged when cracks appeared. Then came the second and third punches, attacks wrapped in lightning more than a hundred times per second, which forced the initial form of Susanoo to retreat steadily.

"It's not over yet!" Ai roared, his voice echoing the thunder, as he clenched his fists into a hammer shape. "Lightning Release: Heavy Flow Burst!"

The lightning hammer, powerful enough to split mountains, crashed down, causing the ground beneath Dou Guang's feet to tremble violently, and the explosion raised a massive amount of smoke and dust.

But amidst the smoke and dust, the fully formed Susanoo spread its wings that blotted out the sky. The giant, covered in samurai armor, was over a hundred meters tall, its surface adorned with divine patterns. In its hands, the two long swords, Futsu-no-Mitama and Ame-no-Habakiri, gleamed with a chilling light.

"The legendary complete Susanoo?" A gasped for breath, looking up at the hundred-meter-tall behemoth with an extremely solemn expression. The Land of Lightning, as the ancestral home of the Uchiha clan before they migrated to Konoha, naturally had stories about the Uchiha clan. But it wasn't until he faced this hundred-meter-tall giant that A understood why Susanoo was called the Third Power in legends. It was a power that only gods could possess.

"I admit that you are ahead of me in the ninjutsu of Lightning Release." Uchiha Touko, inside the Susanoo, looked down at A and said coldly, "However, your resistance ends here in front of Susanoo."

"Heh, the power of a god? That's infuriating." Ai said, raising his head to look at Susanoo, pursing his lips, and then tearing off his tattered clothes to reveal his steel-like black muscles.

A roared deafeningly, compressing his Lightning Release chakra to its limit—his final, forbidden technique, a complete fusion of his body and lightning.

"Lightning Release: Tiger Slayer!"

Thunderclouds began to gather in the sky, and a thick bolt of lightning struck Ai's body. The terrifying lightning struck Ai's body, and a layer of bright silver runes immediately appeared on his steel-like black muscles. Against the backdrop of these patterns, Ai at this moment resembled a black tiger poised to pounce.

But the moment he made his move, Uchiha Tokō's Mangekyou Sharingan suddenly stopped spinning. In countless intersecting futures, he saw the decisive flaw: when A channeled chakra into his legs, his left knee would experience a 0.3-second delay due to an old injury.

The purple lightning spear struck first, precisely piercing Ai's left knee chakra node.

The rampaging Lightning Release chakra backfired on its master, while Susanoo had already raised the divine sword in its hands.

"Lightning Release: Lightning Dragon Fang."

……

After the pillar of lightning that pierced the sky and the earth dissipated, the Fourth Raikage knelt on one knee in the charred pit. His body was covered with charred wounds, but he still stared intently at Uchiha Touko who was slowly walking towards him.

"The Mangekyou Sharingan truly lives up to its reputation." Ai struggled to his feet, hissing as he tried to gather the last bit of chakra.

"Now, can you tell me the answer? Do you want war or peace?" Uchiha Touko said coldly.

(End of this chapter)