Hidden Leaf Village, on a park bench, Nen, Tong Ren, and Orochimaru were resting after their training.
Suddenly, a figure hurried over from a distance, darting a few times before stopping in front of the bench.
"Tong Ren, what are you still doing here? Your sister is looking for you!"
"My sister is looking for me?" Tong Ren pointed at himself.
The person in front of him was a member of the Police Force, whom Tong Ren had met a few times, but he was a bit puzzled. No matter how busy his sister was, she wouldn't use the Police Force's resources for personal matters, let alone something as trivial as looking for him.
"Yes, it's urgent," the Police Force member said.
"In that case, we'll go with you," Nen said, getting up first.
The Police Force member suddenly raised a hand. "Wait, Captain Zhi Li specifically said she only wants Tong Ren alone."
A hint of suspicion flashed in Orochimaru's vertical pupils, and he also stood up. "Given our relationship with Sister Zhi Li, she wouldn't mind if we went together."
"Well... it seems like it's some kind of secret talk between siblings. Anyway, she mentioned that she only wants Tong Ren to go alone," the Police Force member scratched his head, stammering.
"This..." The three exchanged glances, seeing the hesitation in each other's eyes.
Tong Ren blinked. "In that case, I'll go with you."
Nen and Orochimaru received his signal and silently sat back on the bench.
"Then come with me, don't keep Captain Zhi Li waiting," the Police Force member breathed a sigh of relief and immediately led Tong Ren away, heading towards the Uchiha Clan Territory.
...
The two passed through a tree-lined path, through layers of trees, and as the trees on both sides of the field of vision receded rapidly, they soon stopped in an open flat area.
Tong Ren looked up slightly and, sure enough, found a graceful figure with flowing purple hair beside a boulder.
"Sis, you wanted to see me?" Tong Ren walked over and asked casually.
Zhi Li turned around, smiling gently. "Yes, this matter requires you."
"Sis, why are you being so distant? If you want something, just tell me directly, right?"
Tong Ren chuckled and rushed forward, hugging Zhi Li's arm.
"Honestly..."
Suddenly, a sharp glint flashed in his eyes. He grabbed his sister's sleeve and slashed upwards with a Kunai!
Caught off guard, Zhi Li didn't have time to dodge and could only try to lean back. With a "rip," her sleeve tore, and a foot-long bloody gash appeared on her arm.
"Damn it, you little brat!" Zhi Li clutched her arm, blood dripping down. Her beautiful and gentle face became twisted. "How did you figure me out!"
"I would never call her 'Sis,' and she would never allow me to be too affectionate with her."
Tong Ren said expressionlessly, his eyes shrouded in shadow. "Also... don't you dare use her face to talk to me!"
Black hair fluttered, revealing a pair of angry eyes. He frantically flung his hand, dozens of Shuriken weaving into a sharp iron net, and strangled towards "Zhi Li".
With a "poof," "Zhi Li" turned into a gloomy-faced middle-aged man in scattered white smoke. He waved a Kunai, intercepting the Shuriken amidst a series of clangs, while also retreating more than ten meters.
"Uchiha Taki?"
Tong Ren frowned, but the anger in his eyes didn't diminish at all.
"I was thinking of just taking you out directly, but I didn't expect you little brat to be so cautious, so I can only... loosen up a bit." Uchiha Taki took off his sleeves, shook his wrist, and shook off the blood on his arm.
"This shouldn't concern me anymore, right?" A member of the Police Force suddenly spoke.
Uchiha Taki waved his hand, "Go, heaven knows, earth knows, you know, I know."
"What about him..." The Police Force member hesitated, looking at Tong Ren.
"Don't worry, he'll be dead soon." Taki let out a gloomy sneer.
"My sister, Uchiha Duo, you will let her go, right..." The Police Force member tentatively asked, with a cowardly tone.
"Midnight tomorrow, pick up the person at the back mountain of the shrine." Taki said impatiently.
"Okay!" The Police Force member breathed a sigh of relief as if he had survived a disaster. Facing Tong Ren's gaze, he averted his eyes, without even saying "sorry," and left in a hurry.
Tong Ren's voice was low and cold as he spoke, "If I were you, I would have let him stay here until he killed me, and then released his sister. Anyway, you're already scum, what's wrong with being even more despicable?"
"Oh?" Taki became slightly interested, "I didn't expect you to be so different from your goody-two-shoes sister. Could it be... your whole family is scheming?"
"Shut up, you're not allowed to insult my sister!" Tong Ren roared, the veins on the back of his hand holding the Kunai exposed, and the Body Flicker Technique was suddenly activated.
With a "clang," sparks flew everywhere.
Taki raised his sword and steadily blocked his attack, his eyes showing frivolity, "The reason I don't do that is entirely because... you're too weak."
He kicked towards Tong Ren's abdomen, and Tong Ren immediately raised his arm to block. Although he managed to defend against the kick in time, he was still kicked away.
"Acting smart, no wonder you lost to Naka." Tong Ren rolled several times in a row to dissipate the force, rubbed his aching arm, and slowly got up.
Taki trembled all over and activated his Sharingan as if in response, "What did you say!"
"I said, you're just an arrogant pig." Tong Ren chuckled. Just then, two figures fell from the sky like divine soldiers, landing beside Tong Ren.
Orochimaru's voice was slightly hoarse, "We've already called for people, and they'll be here soon."
"Until then, we won't let you succeed." Nen moved his wrist.
Tong Ren drew out his short sword, "Brothers, you know how to fight against the Sharingan, right?"
"Understood, don't look into his eyes, right?" Orochimaru licked his lips.
"Let's go together!"
"Oh!"
The three of them activated their figures at the same time, carrying fierce offensives, and surrounded him from three directions.
"You little brats! Don't look down on people!"
Taki shouted angrily and quickly formed hand seals, "Fire Release: Flame Meteor!"
He spat out more than a dozen fireballs trailing long tails as if they were machine-gun fire. The three of them flashed their figures to avoid the attacks. The burning fireballs carried extremely strong impact, breaking and igniting trees one by one.
Although the three of them avoided the flames, their pincer attack was also broken midway, giving Taki time to counterattack.
"Wind Release: Gale Palm!"
Orochimaru pressed his hands together, and countless tiny currents of wind gathered into a powerful gust as he thrust his palm out, scattering the fireball that had been shot towards Tong Ren.
At the same moment, Tong Ren completed his hand seals and flung a shuriken, "Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Flower Claw Crimson!"
The dancing shuriken were mixed with scorching heat, falling towards Uchiha Taki like scattered phoenix sage flowers covering the sky.
"Such a paltry level!"
Taki clapped his hands together, and crimson flames spiraled out, transforming into a massive tornado that melted all the shuriken into molten iron.
"Die!"
The flame tornado raged forth, and Orochimaru's eyes widened as he stepped in front of Tong Ren, throwing three exploding tag kunai.
"Fire Release: Exploding Tag Kunai · Shadow Clone Technique!"
White flames scattered as the three kunai split and transformed in the blink of an eye, one into three, three into nine, shooting out in a barrage and disappearing into the flame tornado, setting off a violent explosion.
A gale erupted, tearing the flame tornado apart from the inside, and countless streams of flame shot out in all directions. Tong Ren pulled Orochimaru's body over, trying to shield him with his own body.
"Idiot!" Orochimaru gritted his teeth and formed hand seals, using the Earth Release technique that he was not yet proficient in, raising a wall of earth from the ground.
"Earth Release: Earth Flow Wall!"
Streams of flame shot out, illuminating the world outside the wall in a crimson glow. Under the high temperature and impact, the earth wall quickly cracked and fell apart.
This move was too powerful, exceeding their ability to cope.
At the critical moment, Uchiha Nen, who had been hiding his presence and waiting for an opportunity to assassinate, sighed. He flashed in front of the two, crossed his hands and then quickly pulled them apart, forming a "Tiger" seal after several changes.
"Wooden Style: Wooden Dome Wall!"
The earth and stones shifted, and red wooden pillars emerged one after another, forming a solid arched wall that stood firmly in front of the three of them before the flames arrived.
Streams of flame scattered like raindrops, but the three behind the wooden shield were not only unharmed, but even the flames on the wooden wall slowly extinguished, as if they were being absorbed by the wood.
"What!"
Taki's eyes bulged. What was he seeing?
Wooden Style!!?
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