With the help of combine ninjutsu attack on the barrier by two Iwagakure shinobi the Iwa kunoichi escaped the barrier and went to the mansion, but Yuta and Itachi didn’t pay to that fact any attention, as they have trust in Hikari to be able to deal with her.

Daichi, the tall and muscular Iwa shinobi, jumped in the Itachi’s direction, going into close combat with him with a kunai at hand, while Ryota, the short guy, start performing another series of hand seals, Itachi clashed with Daichi in close combat and their fight starts to move to the side, while Yuta was still sneaking upon the Ryota, going for the kill while he still being invisible with the help of his invisibility seal.

Yuta’s shadow clone, that also inside the barrier while being invisible just stayed away, waiting for the opportunity to make a move, he was thinking to go and help Itachi by sneakily killing his opponent, but decide not to, as Itachi should be able to deal with that situation easily himself.

While Itachi’s and Daichi’s fight moved to the side, Ryota released ninjutsu into the ground and that created a large amount of tiny earth projectiles that flew in all directions and covered a large area around him. While these tiny projectiles were not able to do any damage to Yuta, they revealed Yuta’s position not far away from Ryota, who immediately threw a dozen shurikens at Yuta and started waving hand seals once again.

‘Damned, so much for my invisibility seal… I suppose going invisible in front of an experienced shinobi was not my brightest idea, as there are always ways to detect someone who is hiding, I was too confident about my invisibility seal…’

Yuta blocked shurikens with a kunai and canceled the invisibility seal as it was useless right now and only distracted him from the fight.

Ryota finished hand seals and slammed his hands into the ground, Yuta sensed a big chakra spike from Ryota and was prepared to use the body flicker jutsu to escape.

But the next moment the ground beneath the Yuta’s feet turns into a swamp and Yuta starts to sink into it, unable to move or escape anymore, starting to struggle trying to escape, while Ryota performed another ninjutsu, creating a barrage of stone spikes that flew into Yuta’s direction.

Yuta looked panicked, he desperately tried to block some earth spikes, and managed to divert some of them from hitting his vitals with his kunai, but still was hit by five of them in his torso, the blood spurted from his body and Yuta screamed in pain, the life seems to fade from his eyes.

“Ha, got you good, kid!” Ryota exclaimed with a vicious grin.

But the next moment Ryota felt as he was hit from his back, he felt a searing pain in his chest and saw a tip of a kunai that emerged from his chest, someone hit him with a kunai from the back, and a kunai went right through his heart.

Ryota knew he was done for, with a last-ditch effort he glanced back to see who killed him, and what he saw shocked him greatly.

“How… how is that possible, I killed you…” Ryota whispered as his vision started to turn dark.

“Oh, did you? Look closer…” Yuta said calmly, looking just fine and without any injuries.

As life fades from Ryota, the last thing he saw as he looked at the Yuta he killed in the swamp, that area was empty, there not even any signs that Yuta was inside the swamp at all. Ryota fell to the ground and died without being able to make sense of the situation.

‘Well, maybe genjutsu is not invisibility in any meaning, but in terms of fooling enemies it’s even better…’ Yuta thought.

A little time ago, when Yuta was blocking shurikens with a kunai, he used the sound of metal clashing as his genjutsu medium and make Ryouta believe that he was still standing in that place, while he actually goes back invisible and went for the kill one more time. Yuta, that was cut by the swamp was just a genjutsu. As Ryota believed that his opponent was in front of him, he didn’t use any more means to detect the real Yuta, and Yuta was able to without any problem catch Ryota by surprise attack from the back.

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“Ryota!!! No!!!” Daichi yelled with horrified expression, seeing that his comrade was killed not far away, but that was a grave mistake, as Itachi was not polite enough to let his distracted enemy time to calm down, Itachi instantly use the opening and stabbed Daichi with a kunai right into the heart, just like Yuta did with Ryota.

“You bastard… My little brother… Ryota…” Daichi mumbled snapped back into the reality but that was a moment too late, as he fell to the ground and die as well.

“No! How dare you, Konoha scum!” Another loud yell sounded from outside the barrier, and the next moment Yuta felt the new chakra signature approaching them with extremely high speed, the chakra of a new intruder was very strong, the new intruder had much more chakra than Yuta does.

‘Damned, it’s a Join, and not a weak one that’s for sure.’

As Yuta and Itachi didn’t have much time to react, the shinobi in Iwa attire appeared and after making one hand seal his arms were instantly covered with stone, he made a punch on the barrier, and with a sound of broken glass the entire barrier destructed immediately. The powerful gust of wind pushed Itachi and Yuta a little back and the ground trembled.

‘He is strong, and fast, damned, where are our supposed reinforcements? Isn’t there supposed to be an ANBU squad to help us? Are we misjudged the situation?’ Yuta thought worriedly, as both him and Itachi jumped back and regrouped.

Yuta sensed that the Iwa girl that escaped before also die a moment ago and Hikari now on her way to their direction.

Keisuke, the Iwa Jonin, the man that looked in his late thirties, moving at extremely high speed appeared at the Ryota’s body and crouched to check on him, he looked distressed and angry, and his anger becoming stronger with each passing second.

After that Keisuke jumped to Daichi’s body and checked on him as well.

‘Damned, how do we deal with the strong Jonin? Hikari is almost here, just a few more seconds, two of my shadow clones are flanking that guy, waiting for the opening, but I doubt they will be able to do anything to him, even if they are invisible. Itachi…’

Yuta, while still facing Keisuke glanced at Itachi expecting him to come up with a strategy, but what he saw shocked him. Itachi’s breath is ragged, he has a difficult expression on his face and widely open eyes, but what is important was that his eyes were red in color.

‘The Sharingan, Itachi awakened his sharingan. Why? Does he experience intense emotions here? From what? Killing a few Iwa Chunins? facing a strong and angry Jonin? that is unlikely… Either way there is no time to think about that, Hikari is almost here, how a three of us can take down this guy?

My fuinjutsu defenses that I build here would be just a nuisance to him with that amount of raw strength, he would just break all my barriers with one punch.

Ninjutsu? Ridiculous! There is no point even trying to hit him with my fire and water bullets, I didn’t even manage to hit Chunins with those. Going close combat? What a joke, I would die instantly. Throwing shurikens? That even weakier than fire bullets. If I can manage to apply chakra suppression seals on him… No, that won’t work as he has a lot stronger chakra than me and my fuinjutsu is not on that level yet that I can overcome this.

Only genjutsu or a large amount of explosive tags might work here.’

As Yuta desperately trying to figure out a feasible way to deal with Keisuke and Itachi was trying to deal with a sudden shock and emotional turmoil that caused by awakening his sharingan, Hikari jumped out of the mansion’s window and came to the Yuta’s and Itachi’s side with a bloodied sword in her hand and excited expression.

“Hey, that guy seems strong! Finally, a worthy opponent!” Hikari exclaimed with a grin.

‘Damned, she is completely crazy, can’t she see that we have low chances of winning this fight?!’ Yuta thought annoyedly.

Keisuke finally stands up and faces team-two with a regretful and extremely angry expression. Yuta can sense the strong chakra fluctuations from him that seems in complete disarray, betraying Keisuke’s strong emotions.

“Damn you, Konoha bastards! I will kill you all!” Keisuke proclaimed as of matter of fact in a strong low voice, then he glanced at Hikari and said, “Where is Maki?!”

“Who?” Hikari casually replied with a mocking smile, “Oh, you probably meant that weakling girl with brown hair that barged into the mansion not long time ago? What do you think old man, don’t you see her blood on my sword? Of course I cut her head off, that was quite easy to be honest, she didn’t put much resistance at all!”

Keisuke’s face turned ugly, and his anger rose exponentially after hearing that. But by the time Hikari was done with her mocking speech, that time was enough for Itachi to calm down and now the team-two was ready for their most dangerous fight for the whole time...