Naruto: Road to Death

The battle began quickly, the young ninja grabbed a recovery pill, keeping part of his chakra as he took it and began to use hand seals in search of a feint against his enemy.

Yuta had no time to waste. With Ren's chakra barrier closing around them both, he knew his options were quickly dwindling. The pressure of the technique resonated in his body, making it difficult for him to concentrate. However, his survival instinct urged him to keep moving.

With the recovery pill taking effect, he felt a surge of revitalizing energy running through his body, although he knew it was only temporary. He quickly made a series of hand seals while keeping his eyes fixed on Ren, who watched calmly, as if he were evaluating his every move.

"Water Clone" —Yuta muttered, and instantly, several copies of his body emerged around him, enveloping him like a cloud of illusions. Using this confusion, Yuta performed a backflip, moving away from Ren's direct line of sight.

Yuta's materializations scattered in different directions, running and zigzagging across the battlefield, seeking to surround Ren. The fuinjutsu master, however, did not seem fazed. With pinpoint accuracy, he performed a simple hand seal, and pulsating energy began to emanate from his barrier. A flash of blue light shot across the field, and within a second, three of Yuta's clones vanished into clouds.

"He's fast... too fast to rely on simple clones." Yuta thought, already plotting his next move as the remaining clones kept in action to distract Ren.

"Is that all you have?" Ren said in a calm voice, performing another hand seal with disconcerting speed. "You're talented, but you lack understanding. The knowledge you have cannot be handled with simple tricks."

Suddenly, from the invisible lines of the barrier, thin threads of chakra began to materialize, floating in the air like snakes hunting their prey. Yuta, seeing them, quickly backed away, but two of them were already close to one of his remaining clones, enveloping and disintegrating it on the spot. It was an advanced containment technique, designed to eliminate any source of chakra within reach.

"If those threads touch me, I'm done for." Yuta gritted his teeth and threw a kunai at Ren, infused with a small amount of chakra to its explosive. The projectile streaked through the air towards Ren, who stopped it inches from his face with a simple gesture, catching it in his palm and neutralizing the chakra with terrifying finesse.

"You should give up," Ren said, looking at him with a serene expression. "I'm not here to kill you, just to take back what belongs to my clan."

"Your clan..." That caught Yuta's attention. He now knew that Ren was no mere fuinjutsu master, but someone with a direct connection to the scrolls he had stolen. But that only made him more dangerous. Ren knew every single secret that Yuta was only just beginning to understand.

Taking advantage of the distraction, Yuta focused his chakra on a riskier technique. While his remaining clones kept Ren busy, he launched into a new sequence of hand seals, slower but packed with power.

"I'll have to try this," he muttered, focusing on one of the seals he had learned from the stolen scrolls. "Fūinjutsu: The Emperor's Life."

The ground beneath Yuta began to vibrate, and a circle of ancient symbols appeared around him. It was an extremely dangerous sealing technique, designed to temporarily link the chakra of two individuals, amplifying their power, but also generating an exchange of chakra. Yuta knew it was a huge risk, but he had no other choice.

Ren, sensing the technique, frowned for the first time.

"Are you trying to use a seal you don't even understand? Stop!" he shouted, quickly advancing towards Yuta, but the symbols were already activating.

The energy field around Yuta intensified, and in an instant, a massive pulse of chakra shot towards Ren, enveloping him. Ren tried to resist, but the force of the seal caught him, binding them in an involuntary chakra connection.

Yuta felt the weight of Ren's power entering his system, an energy so dense and ancient that it nearly crushed him. But at the same time, he noticed something else: His chakra nature was going to kill him if he didn't stop the influx.

"You don't understand!" Ren shouted, struggling to break the link. "You're playing with forces that will destroy everything in their path!"

Yuta, sweating and feeling his body on the verge of collapse, could barely stay conscious. But now he understood. These scrolls were not only keys to a forbidden power, but they contained the secrets of the clan rejected for having Kekkei Genkai.

"I can't... leave it to you..." Yuta said with effort

ButThe seal was out of control. The connection between them was intensifying, and the chakra barrier around them began to resonate at a dangerous frequency. Both ninjas were caught in a power that neither seemed able to fully control.

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