Chapter 283 Friction
Chapter 283 Friction
"What the hell? Have these guys from Konoha moved the Daimyo's capital to the village?"
On the left side of the street, several dark-skinned Cloud Village ninjas wearing white one-shoulder vests were walking briskly.
Leading the way was a Kumogakure genin with short black hair, Sasaki Kumo, who had a lollipop in his mouth but his eyes were scanning the automatically sliding glass doors around him with a wary look.
"Stop looking." Another Kumogakure genin lowered his voice, his gaze sweeping over the bustling crowd of civilians carrying large and small shopping bags. "The Raikage said that he didn't come to Konoha for sightseeing, but to trample their proud new generation underfoot."
The Cloud Village's group was preparing to cross the intersection and head towards a high-end ninja tool showroom ahead.
Meanwhile, on the right side of the street, the curtain of a tea shop was violently ripped open.
Several burly Iwagakure ninjas wearing khaki vests emerged.
The leader, a young man from Iwagakure named Haito, held a cup of still-steaming goji berry drink in his hand, his brows furrowed, clearly not a fan of the sweet beverage.
"What a piece of junk! It's ridiculously expensive, and it's not even as good as the coarse tea from the village." Hui Tu casually crushed the beverage cup that he had only taken a sip from.
The two groups of people met unexpectedly in the middle of the intersection.
The footsteps stopped simultaneously.
The black-haired boy from Yunyin stopped in his tracks, his lollipop crunching loudly as he chewed it. His gaze was fixed on the brown vest worn by Hui Tu.
Hui Tu also stopped in his tracks, casually tossing the broken plastic cup in his hand onto the ground, his eyes instantly turning cold.
At this distance, both sides could even feel the killing intent emanating from each other.
In the previous great war, on the battlefield of the Grass Country, these two forces had briefly become allies.
But at the most crucial moment of the all-out attack, the Iwagakure army suddenly turned its guns around and almost surrounded the Kumogakure forces. The Third Raikage was caught in a fierce battle because of this betrayal and was eventually captured by Konoha.
In the eyes of Kumogakure, Iwagakure was a group of despicable people who had no credibility and stabbed others in the back.
In the eyes of Iwagakure, the group of brutes from Kumogakure who only grew muscles and not brains were nothing more than stepping stones for them to seize profits.
Enemies meeting are bound to be filled with hatred.
"Oh, I thought someone was blocking the way, but it's just a groundhog who likes to throw stones from behind." Sasaki Kumo of Kumogakure spat out the plastic stick in his mouth, his eyes sweeping over the gray-earth with disdain. "What, didn't your Tsuchikage teach you to keep your hands on a leash when walking in the street?"
Hui Tu's eyes twitched violently, and his thick fingers clenched tightly, the knuckles cracking crisply.
"You stray dogs of Kumogakure. When the Third Raikage was captured by Konoha, you were just standing by with your tails between your legs, barking incoherently."
The temperature in the air seemed to drop to freezing point in an instant. The ordinary people and vendors who were strolling around nearby keenly sensed the murderous aura and quickened their pace to retreat more than ten meters away. However, they did not panic and run away. Instead, they stood not far away to watch the show, and some even took out sunflower seeds from their pockets.
In Konoha New City, watching these ninjas from out of town fight has become a regular activity in the past few days.
"court death!"
Nozomi, standing behind Sasaki Yun, suddenly turned cold and placed her right hand on the hilt of the short sword behind her back.
"Let's see who's courting death!" The Iwagakure genin behind Gray Earth were equally defiant, their hands already reaching for the explosive clay in their ninja tool pouches.
Without any warning, the conflict erupted in an instant.
Sasaki Yun's calf muscles suddenly bulged, and a blue arc of lightning crackled across his body. He transformed into a blur, instantly appearing before Haito, his lightning-encased hand blade slashing fiercely towards Haito's neck with a piercing shriek.
"Lightning Release: Lightning Slash!"
Faced with this fierce attack, a cruel sneer curled at the corner of Gray Earth's mouth. He neither dodged nor evaded, and the skin on his right arm instantly turned a deep blackish-brown.
"Earth Release·Earth Spear!"
"when--!!!"
The lightning-fast hand strike landed on the dark brown arm, producing a tremendous roar like metal clashing.
Sparks flew everywhere.
The immense recoil caused both of them to slide back half a step at the same time.
"This level of Lightning Release isn't even worthy of tickling me!" Gray Earth steadied himself, slamming his right foot into the ground. "Earth Release: Earth Split Palm!"
The violent Earth Release chakra surged into the ground from under Gray Earth's feet.
Logically, this C-rank ninjutsu, powerful enough to tear rocks, would instantly rip a crack in the smooth asphalt road, swallowing up the Cloud Village ninja on the other side.
however.
"Buzz—"
The moment the gray earth's chakra touched the road surface, a faint blue light suddenly flickered at the base of the lampposts on both sides of the street.
Immediately afterwards, a visible chakra barrier composed of countless pale blue hexagons rippled across the ground of the entire crossroads like waves.
The earth-style chakra injected into the ground was like a clay ox entering the sea, crashing into an extremely tough, invisible barrier, and instantly dissolved without a trace.
Not only did the ground not crack, but not even a single pebble on the asphalt road moved.
"What?!" Gray Earth's eyes widened as he stared intently at the faint blue hexagonal pattern beneath his feet.
Not only were the dust and dirt affected, but the Cloud Village ninjas on the other side were also stunned.
Sasaki Yun, having missed his attack, threw a kunai with an explosive tag, which accurately struck the floor-to-ceiling glass window of a clothing store next door.
"boom!"
The detonator exploded, and flames and shockwaves instantly engulfed the glass.
But after the smoke and dust cleared, a layer of blue barrier ripples also appeared on that huge, completely transparent glass window.
The glass was intact, without even a crack. The customers who were picking out clothes in the shop just glanced up at it and then continued to haggle with the shopkeeper.
"This...how is this possible?" hope stared at the undamaged glass, her pupils contracting sharply. "This was a point-blank explosion of an explosive tag!"
Unbeknownst to them, from the very beginning of the construction of the new Konoha Center, various types of defensive barriers were inscribed on the foundations of every main road and the glass curtain walls of every commercial building.
If you want to cause trouble here, you'll have to break the barrier first.
After a brief moment of shock, anger reignited in both their eyes.
Since ninjutsu can't destroy the terrain, let's just use taijutsu and close-combat ninjutsu to take down the opponent!
Just as the ninjas from Iwagakure and Kumogakure drew their weapons, preparing for the next round of life-or-death struggle.
"Konoha Whirlwind!"
With a powerful and passionate roar, a green blur leaped down from the GG sign above the street.
The speed was astonishing; the two legs, like steel whips, whipped up a gust of wind in the air and swept precisely towards the wrists of Haito and Sasaki Yun.
"Bang! Bang!"
Two muffled thuds.
Ash and the Cloud Village boy felt an irresistible force coming from their wrists. Their ninja swords and hammers flew out of their hands instantly, and the two were forced to retreat by the force.
The green figure landed steadily in the center of the intersection.
He was a boy wearing a tight green jumpsuit, with a watermelon-shaped haircut and eyebrows as thick as caterpillars.
Matt Kai.
He showed no fear of facing two groups of foreign ninjas alone. Instead, he put one hand on his hip, raised the other thumb, and gave the dumbfounded Cloud Village and Iwa Village ninjas a bright, reflective smile.
"Ding!"
It was as if a star had actually twinkled on Kai's teeth.
"Guests from afar! On the vibrant streets of Konoha, why let hatred blind you? Let's replace pointless arguments with a spirited run!"
Kai's voice was loud and clear, echoing through the streets.
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