Fugaku was shocked in his heart. He didn't expect Sasuke's Fire Release to be even more powerful than he had imagined. Even though he could still output a larger and more powerful fireball, it was very difficult to gain the upper hand.
Now within the Uchiha clan, there really were hidden dragons and crouching tigers. Based solely on the quality of this Great Fireball, Sasuke had already reached an extremely high level.
Thus, Fugaku gave up on counterattacking and let Sasuke's Great Fireball completely overwhelm him. At the critical moment, as he watched the huge fireball roaring toward him, he dodged to the side.
Fortunately, the speed of the Great Fireball wasn't very fast. In actual combat, it usually served the purpose of forcing the opponent to move rather than directly burning someone to death.
After successfully dodging, Fugaku looked at the large ravine behind him that was burned out by the Great Fireball. As he felt lingering fear, he also, for some reason, felt deeply gratified.
He was just about to open his mouth to praise, when suddenly, Sasuke leaped and was already rushing toward him.
He only had time to exclaim, "So fast!"
Sasuke had already rushed in front of him, gathering a Chidori in his hand, the lightning flashing as it came at him.
He could only barely step back to narrowly dodge this Chidori. Closely following was a punch Sasuke threw while seizing the momentum.
Fugaku raised one arm, crossing it in front of his chest to block Sasuke's punch. The other arm lifted and counterattacked with a punch toward Sasuke.
However, Sasuke's whole body crouched down, dodging Fugaku's punch, then half-turned his body. With one hand supporting the ground and one leg lifted, he kicked toward Fugaku.
Fugaku hadn't expected Sasuke's close-combat level to be so fierce. Every move was slightly faster than his. Although it was just a little, in actual combat, that little bit was enough to lead him by the nose, placing him in an absolutely disadvantaged position.
His Sharingan could capture all of Sasuke's attack trajectories, but his body couldn't keep up. The more Fugaku fought, the more shocked he became. Strangely, he suddenly felt that Sasuke's fierce close combat was specifically trained to counter the Sharingan.
That thought stopped at this very moment, because Fugaku had already been kicked into the air by Sasuke. In pain, he barely stabilized his posture midair. Seeing that Sasuke still had the intention to continue attacking, and in order to avoid falling into a state of being eternally on the defensive, he immediately pulled out some shuriken and used another of the Uchiha clan's signature skills, Shuriken Throwing Technique.
He threw the four shuriken in his hand with swish sounds. The four shuriken traced a strange arc in midair and, just as they were about to approach Sasuke, suddenly collided with each other, changing their attack trajectory and coming at Sasuke from another angle.
This move was unpredictable and hard to guard against.
Even with the Sharingan, after the shuriken collided and altered their attack paths, while it could capture the new directions, it might not necessarily be able to react in time.
A confident smile appeared on Fugaku's face. Let's see how Sasuke responds to this move?
However, Sasuke's expression didn't show any panic. Just as the shuriken approached, he merely tilted his body slightly, and all four shuriken very coincidentally missed, grazing past Sasuke's body.
Fugaku couldn't help but widen his eyes.
Sasuke, in that brief instant, had seen through all the shuriken trajectories, and his body even reacted accordingly.
Besides having astonishing reaction ability, he likely also had an exceptional mastery of shuriken throwing techniques to be able to make such predictions in advance, achieving this level.
Sure enough, in the next moment, Sasuke pulled out a sealing scroll from his chest. With a whoosh, he unfurled it. With a "bang," a giant shuriken had already appeared in his hand.
He threw the shuriken toward Fugaku. The huge shuriken tore through the air with a ripping sound, howling toward Fugaku.
Seeing this, Fugaku hurriedly jumped to dodge. However, in midair, the giant shuriken suddenly split in two, cutting off his path midair.
With no other choice, Fugaku twisted his body in midair, precisely aiming for the gap between the two shuriken and narrowly passing through the crevice.
However, just when he thought he had escaped disaster, he suddenly noticed the thread connecting the two shuriken.
He silently cursed in his heart, 'Not good!'
In the next moment, Sasuke suddenly twisted the threads. With a whoosh, the shuriken under his control suddenly shattered, turning into countless sharp fragments, flying toward Fugaku once again.
A bitter smile appeared on Fugaku's face. These shuriken fragments were too close and too numerous. Even though his Sharingan had already observed them, his body simply couldn't react in time at this moment.
He could only barely avoid the vital points and most of the fragments' attacks. However, two fragments still pierced into the side and rear of his thigh.
BANG!
Fugaku crashed to the ground. At this point, Sasuke had also stopped attacking, calmly looking at the fallen Fugaku.
Seeing this, Fugaku stood up. Although his thigh was injured and bleeding profusely, he instead wore a smile and said with satisfaction, "Sasuke, you're not bad. This name, originally I had prepared it for my second son, but now that you've taken it, it's not an insult to it."
"If in the future, my second son is born and can reach your level at your age, I would be completely content."
Sasuke was stunned, blankly looking at Fugaku, murmuring, "Really?"
Fugaku nodded and said, "Really. You're even stronger than I expected. I acknowledge your capabilities."
Sasuke continued, "In that case, can this crude genjutsu be stopped now?"
Fugaku was stunned, then exclaimed in shock, "You actually… saw through it!"
That's right, after exchanging a Great Fireball with Sasuke and falling behind, Fugaku had immediately activated a Sharingan genjutsu, pulling Sasuke into an illusionary world.
This illusionary world could reflect both sides' reflex levels and avoid real injuries in battle. It was an excellent experimental platform.
Therefore, Fugaku didn't distort the entire illusion to favor himself. Instead, he strictly followed real-world logic.
That is to say, ninety-nine percent of the situations in this illusion would also happen in reality.
If Fugaku were to actually fight Uchiha Sasuke in taijutsu and shuriken techniques, he would truly be bested by Sasuke in both, and possibly even get injured.
So far, Fugaku had fallen behind Sasuke in ninjutsu, taijutsu, and shuriken throwing techniques.
It must be noted, he was the head of the Uchiha clan, one of its elites. His level in these three fields, excluding a few particularly powerful elders from the past, was already basically the top in the clan. Yet even so, he was still surpassed by Sasuke.
This showed just how formidable Sasuke truly was. That's why he said, if his second son could reach Sasuke's level in the future, he would be completely satisfied.
However, aside from ninjutsu, taijutsu, and shuriken throwing, the Uchiha clan was also extremely skilled in genjutsu. On this point, Fugaku was especially confident.
Because he was a genjutsu specialist.
The ability he would awaken with his Mangekyō Sharingan would also be in this field. Although he hadn't actually activated those eyes, there was no doubt that the genjutsu he cast already carried a portion of that projected power. This was not something that ordinary three-tomoe Sharingan could break.
His genjutsu had once been broken by Obito, so he suspected Obito had awakened those next-level eyes, and upon asking, it was indeed the case.
And now? Uchiha Sasuke had also seen through his genjutsu. Could it be… Sasuke had also awakened those eyes?
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