I have a bunch of relatives who want to become Hokage.

She actually disliked those two lumps, since the weight affected her speed and made fighting inconvenient. She thought about cutting them off, but her retired mother said she would die if she did, adding that it was her dream when she was young.

Shouldn't the Cloud Ninja's dream be to become the Raikage? Why are they just two lumps of flesh?

"So even Cloud Ninja can use words to their advantage?" Uchiha Shingen looked at her in surprise. "I thought you were all ruthless and didn't talk much."

But the blonde woman no longer wanted to talk to him.

"Withdraw!" she waved her hand, deciding to abandon the mission.

Her mission was to hunt down lone Konoha ninjas carrying out missions within the region, not to relentlessly target and eliminate this one Uchiha.

The Sharingan with three tomoe is indeed hard to obtain. The two special Jonin have become sunk costs, and there is no need to increase the losses.

But how could Uchiha Shingen let her go?

Eight Cloud Ninja! Three of them are Jonin!!!

They made a killing this time.

Jonin are the true backbone of each ninja village. They are not few, but they are definitely not common. Based on the registered number of people in the five major villages, including both active and inactive personnel, the average number is only a few hundred.

However, the gap between Jonin can be infinitely large. Nominally, people like Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha are also Jonin.

The chakra of the three Cloud Village Jonin before them was not a deep color.

Although chakra quantity is not an absolute standard for judging the strength of a ninja, after the test just now, Uchiha Shingen was quite certain that these were three "gatekeepers".

At this level, a Jonin isn't called a Jonin; they're called someone who's both bad and valuable.

During the Third Shinobi World War, he killed quite a few people on the Kirigakure side, and the feeling of killing them was not much different from killing Chunin.

The Cloud Ninja were very efficient; they didn't even glance at the corpses of their fallen comrades, and even used Lightning Release to stimulate their muscles in order to escape as quickly as possible.

That's very ninja-like.

Unfortunately, Uchiha Shingen wasn't very good at ninjutsu.

He wasn't lying to the blonde; he really is incredibly strong.

One of the Cloud Ninja rushed towards the bridge, probably thinking that it would be faster to run across it.

The moment his feet touched the ground, he and the bridge flew into the sky.

An ice mound rose abruptly from the ground, followed by more, spreading out from the riverbed, layer upon layer. In the blink of an eye, the ice mound had become an ice cliff, its peaks hanging upside down in the starry sky, like majestic silver giants overlooking the earth, blocking the Cloud Ninja's way home.

The Cloud Ninjas looked grim as they saw their comrades frozen in the ice.

What level of chakra is this?!

We've hit a brick wall!

Chapter Ten: Ninja Etiquette

One second it was a river, the next it turned into a narrow slit in the sky. The Cloud Ninja were furious.

I'm starting to feel a bit overwhelmed.

The Hidden Cloud School detests this type of ninja the most.

A ninja with little chakra isn't necessarily weak, but a ninja with a lot of chakra is definitely not weak. If someone is extremely strong, then they must have an enormous amount of chakra.

Aside from special abilities like the Byakugan or Sharingan, or exceptionally strong chakra sensing abilities, the most direct way to judge the strength of an opponent's chakra is by looking at the power of their ninjutsu.

The ranking of ninjutsu is based entirely on the difficulty of use, which means that only the ninja's ability to control chakra is assessed. For example, the Uchiha clan's "Great Fire Annihilation" is only B-rank, while Kakashi Hatake's "Lightning Release: Shadow Clone Jutsu" is A-rank, which is the same level as Might Guy's "Eight Gates Formation," which can make people cry for a long time after one punch.

The destructive power of ninjutsu depends solely on the amount of chakra; this principle is especially applicable to the Five Elements Ninjutsu.

While both techniques utilize Water Release: Great Waterfall, Tobirama Senju's version transforms into a tsunami.

You are the Water Wall, he is the Water Spout.

Chakrado truly can do whatever he wants.

The unrestrained Uchiha Shingen altered the terrain with a single Ice Release attack. If the Snow Clan ninja he had slept with had that much chakra, he wouldn't have been able to both sleep with and kill her.

But the Cloud Ninja in front of them didn't seem to have given up.

One of the three Jonin, a man with a muscular build and an aura of "I'm a man," swung his fist, crackling with electricity and so bright it could be used as a light bulb, and slammed it into the ice wall, leaving only a few bits of debris.

Another Cloud Ninja simply unleashed a "Fire Release: Great Fireball" at them.

The effect was even worse; it didn't even remove the crumbs. The difference in size between the two sides was too great, and the melting was not as fast as the re-solidification.

The blonde woman seemed lost in thought. She turned her head and looked at Uchiha Shingen, who was walking towards the crowd.

“It seems you’re no ordinary Uchiha.” She gestured for everyone to disperse again. “Did you copy the ‘Snow Clan’? It seems the claim that the ‘Snow Clan’ possesses a bloodline limit is also a lie, but I didn’t expect you to have this kind of talent.”

"How many Uchiha have you met?" Uchiha Shingen held a small katana with the tip pointing downwards, the blood on it still not yet congealed. "If you've met the 'Snow Clan,' you should know that they do indeed possess bloodline limits."

"Don't joke around. Even the Sharingan can't steal the power of a bloodline limit."

"Enough with your curiosity. If you surrender now, I'll still let you live."

"My name is Pantaya, remember it well!" After announcing his name, the Cloud Village ninja named Pantaya drew a short sword. "The outcome is still uncertain."

These words boosted everyone's confidence, and the fighting spirit of the Cloud Ninja present clearly rebounded.

The essence of the Hidden Cloud School is to launch a desperate attack, and it's all about unwavering momentum. The beautiful captain's words really resonate with everyone.

"Sorry, I'm too weak to remember." Uchiha Shingen wiped the blood off his shovel and sheathed it. "But since you're all so serious about fighting, to show that I'm a polite person, I'll use my most proficient and favorite technique to finish you off."

Finally, he added a reminder: "Remember to die peacefully, otherwise it won't look good when your head is chopped off."

After saying this, he put his hands together in prayer.

Water Escape·Water Rushing Waves.

Moisture in the air was drawn out, and water jets spewed from the ground. In an instant, a massive waterspout, resembling a waterspout, appeared centered on Uchiha Shingen.

Having been a ninja in both his lives, his most proficient elemental ninjutsu was always water ninjutsu. When he was a Senju, he was the one who chased after Tobirama Senju, that rich scoundrel, to seduce him.

After becoming an Uchiha, I fought a Kirigakure ninja and gambled away a bunch of other people's money.

If there are others who can match him in Body Flicker Technique, then his Water Release technique is unparalleled in Konoha.

"It's actually a water-style technique?"

"Watch out for impact."

"That's incredibly disrespectful!"

The Cloud Ninja felt insulted by their opponents. While their side was filled with lightning and sparks, their opponents were using Water Release.

I'm angry. I must teach him a lesson about the power of the Hidden Cloud Village.

The next moment, the waterspout reached its highest point, its massive mass unable to support it, and it exploded in the air, cascading down towards everyone like a waterfall.

Before it even hit my head, I could already feel the exaggerated pressure, and the thick water vapor sprayed all over me.

To be fair, this Uchiha's water jutsu is quite impressive. If it weren't for the Sharingan, they would have thought they had encountered a water jutsu master from Kirigakure.

As the thought crossed their minds, the first wave of water crashed onto the ground, churning with the force of a tsunami, and swept past their location.

The Cloud Ninjas were filled with the roar of the giant waves, as if the whole world was being submerged.

Upon hearing that voice, Panthea knew that the remaining special Jonin were all doomed.

This level of water-style impact is something that only a Jonin could withstand.

The Cloud Ninja are not particularly good at defense; the defensive abilities of those few special Jonin are only at the level of regular Cloud Ninja Chunin.

Even so, the moment the impact hit her, she couldn't stand up at all and was swept away by the wave, and then she was hit from behind.

That was because the giant wave crashed into the ice wall behind her and then came back to harass her again.

There's no issue of power loss; all aspects of this technique's offense and defense, including the amount of water and the duration, are controlled by Uchiha Shingen. It just requires a bit more chakra.

After taking several more hard hits, Pantya finally found an opportunity and broke out of the water.

Despite the pain, she looked around. The water from the impact hadn't receded; instead, new ice walls rose up around her, forming a perfect square with the ice wall behind her, depositing all the water within and creating a lake on the ground.

Standing on the lake, looking beyond its edge, one sees distant mountains.

How could she have run into such a monster?

She turned around abruptly, and a companion broke through the water's surface—it was another Jonin.

"Tai'an, are you alright?" Despite looking like something was wrong, Pan Taiya still asked.

If it weren't for the fact that it looked so real, she would definitely have thought it was fake.

I'm the one who's in trouble, but you're perfectly fine?

"He's alright," said Tai'an, his face pale. "Where's Kaf? Hasn't he come out?"

After a moment of silence, the two stopped discussing the person.

"What about that Uchiha?"

"do not know."

“Maybe he’s gone,” Tai’an said in a low voice. “Even if he’s very strong, he should have taken the opportunity to retreat after using a technique of this scale…”

He stopped speaking, a look of fear on his face.

Because a hand reached out from the water and grabbed his leg.

Before he could even utter a cry of "Help me!", he vanished from Pantaya's sight with a "plop," leaving only the ripples on the water's surface as proof that he had once existed.

Chapter Eleven: A Happy Ending

"Tai'an!" Pantaiya called out the name as he looked at the spot where his companion had disappeared, but he also leaped backward without hesitation, turned around and rushed towards the boundary, wanting to leave this body of water.

If this teammate is gone, we can just find another one.

If you lose yourself, then you lose everything.

"You're really heartless, girl." As the water splashed, Uchiha Shingen emerged from the water and blocked her way. "At least check if she's alive or dead before you leave."

Without saying a word, Pantaiya threw several shuriken, but Uchiha Shingen easily blocked them with his kodachi.

She didn't care at all, and charged towards Uchiha Shingen at full speed, swinging her sword to strike.

Electricity crackled along the blade.