Chapter 38: Their Progress
"I don't want to waste any extra chakra." Haku dodged the fireball in a flash and suddenly arrived behind Sasuke with a speed he couldn't see at all. One hand pressed on his shoulder, and the other began to form a single hand seal.
"What is this? A single-hand seal? No way, this is the first time I've seen it." Kakashi looked at Haku in surprise. Who was this masked ninja?
"Secret Art: Thousand Needles of Death." Haku obviously wanted to end the battle in one go, and the ninjutsu she used was more advanced than in the original work. Thousands of ice needles launched toward Sasuke.
"It's time to show the results of my training." Sasuke began to concentrate his chakra on his feet, and he immediately accelerated, dodging the attack.
"Now it's my turn to attack. You can only defend." He was full of himself again. He completely forgot that he could concentrate his chakra on his feet to increase his speed. Could it be that Haku who was also fast, could not do it?
At this time, Haku had not used the Crystal Ice Mirror yet. She also had not accumulated any chakra in her legs. This was not the case in the original work. This world's Haku was different from the original work.
"Concentrating chakra on your feet? Under normal circumstances, that might be working, but now I can't hold back." Haku's tone did not change. Her figure flashed, and her speed became faster than before. She suddenly appeared in the air and appeared before Sasuke.
"Is this speed that you are proud of? It's nothing much." Haku turned over and kicked Sasuke, who could not react in time. Sasuke fell to the ground and suffered a lot of damage.
"Cough cough." Sasuke coughed while trying to stand. However, Haku would not give him this opportunity because she had already arrived in front of him.
"Secret Art - Thousand Needles of Death!" Haku formed a seal with one hand, and with a swoop, all the ice needles that filled the sky pierced Sasuke's body.
"AAAAH!" Sasuke screamed and fell to the ground. Although he did not die, he was incapacitated by the attack.
"Sasuke!" Kakashi shouted worriedly. He wanted to rush to help but was stopped by Ryoha.
"It's good to let this idiot suffer a little so that he doesn't always so full of himself. What's so special about the Uchiha? Hehe, it's just a family that has been exterminated. There is nothing to be proud of. That arrogant brat didn't have enough strength to support his pride, but he always acted all high and mighty. If he's not an idiot, what is he?"
What Ryoha said made Kakashi stop. He also felt that it was better to let Sasuke learn his lesson to get rid of his arrogance.
"What did you say?" Sasuke heard this and reluctantly turned back to glare at Ryoha.
"I said you are an idiot. No matter how glorious Uchiha's family was in the past, it's all history now. To put it nicely, you are born in a good family. To put it bluntly, you are just trash relying on your ancestors. I know that the Sharingan is good, and it is a very powerful Bloodline Limit."
"But so what? You don't have the support of your family, nor do you have the Sharingan, and you lack strength. I really don't understand why an idiot like you is always so full of yourself, acting all high and mighty. What is it that makes you so proud?"
Ryoha's merciless mockery made Sasuke very angry, but he couldn't refute it because everything Ryoha said was the truth.
However, he, who had always been acting superior to others, was so humiliated that he was unwilling to give up. Moreover, he had lost to Ryoha many times. His jealousy of Ryoha had completely emerged. His strong reluctance, jealousy, and anger began to change his eyes.
"Thank me later, idiot. If not for me, would you be able to awaken the Sharingan? I wonder if you would be as powerful as before after just a bit of training. Would you be able to become better because you opened the Sharingan?" Ryoha laughed, flashed past Sasuke, and arrived in front of Haku.
"I have done it. This is the Sharingan..!" Sasuke was ecstatic when he discovered the change in his eyes. However, thinking of Ryoha's strength, the joy in his heart was immediately extinguished by a basin of cold water. However, he still turned his head and used the Sharingan to watch Ryoha and Haku fight.
He wanted to see how amazing Ryoha was, and at the same time, he also wanted to see if his Sharingan could keep up with their movements. Obviously, after suffering so many losses, he was humbled.
"He seems to have known that the Sharingan will awaken like this. Is he deliberately provoking Sasuke?" Kakashi, who had awakened his Sharingan to the third tomoe, also knew what was needed to awaken or upgrade the Sharingan. He had a feeling that Ryoha understood the Sharingan very well.
Kakashi had only guessed half of it. Ryoha understood the Sharingan more than Sasuke did at this time, but he was definitely not helping Sasuke. He was really very unhappy with this brat's performance.
He was unhappy with Naruto's big mouth, but he disliked this stupid, arrogant, and proud Sasuke more. He even hated him. How could Ryoha help such a person?
"Go all out, Haku. I'm not him. Using this kind of taijutsu is useless to me." Ryoha was right, his Sharingan was already at the second tomoe, and his physical fitness and strength could completely keep up with the eyes' reaction speed, so there would be no situation where his body couldn't keep up with his eyes' reaction.
He had always paid a lot of attention to his physical training, plus he had been studying the Chidori for the past seven days, and of course, he had also used lightning chakra on himself. He also wanted to see how fast he was after seven days of hard work.
In the original work, Kakashi taught Sasuke to go through the torture of lightning to learn Chidori, and as a result, his speed was comparable to Rock Lee after a month later.
His current speed was not much worse than Rock Lee before he had learned Chidori. After the torture of lightning, although he did not have Kakashi, who personally taught Sasuke, the result should not be far, so Ryoha wanted to test the result of his training.
"You were just a jackal a week ago, but I feel you are a fierce tiger now." Haku was silent for a while before saying.
"No way. It's only been a week. Could it be that Ryoha has improved so much?" Sasuke looked at Ryoha in disbelief. No matter how idiotic he was, he knew the difference between a jackal a tiger. Even if Ryoha learned more ninjutsu, it would be impossible for him to change so much in a week.