Chapter 128: Uehara Naraka is a Good Person, Ah!
The water dragon roared as it came!
Uehara Naraka was still forming seals, muttering curses, "Damn! How come the hand seal sequence that guy Kisame Hoshigaki invented is so long? What the hell kind of seals are these? So troublesome! Skipping a few shouldn't be a problem, right?"
After speaking, Uehara decisively gave up on continuing the seals, slapping his palms together with a smack, "Water Release: Tidal Wave Roar!"
A huge ocean wave shot up into the sky, instantly crushing the attacking water dragon!
A trace of horror flashed in Kosuke Maruboshi's eyes. Although this kid Uehara Naraka seemed to have flaws in his ninjutsu hand seals, the power of his techniques was immense.
Looking at the tsunami diving towards him, Kosuke Maruboshi once again rapidly formed hand seals, "Water Release: Water Formation Wall!"
Kosuke's Water Formation Wall was clearly different from other ninjas'.
His Water Formation Wall, just like the Second Hokage Tobirama Senju's, quickly transformed into a hollow cylinder, firmly enclosing himself within!
The ocean wave gradually receded...
After Kosuke Maruboshi dispelled the Water Formation Wall technique, he looked coldly at Uehara Naraka not far away and once again formed hand seals. He wanted to engage in a ninjutsu battle, seizing Uehara Naraka's flaw of not being good at hand seals to defeat him.
"Water Release: Water Trumpet!"
This time, it was Kosuke Maruboshi's counterattack!
Utilizing the surrounding ocean waves that hadn't completely receded, Kosuke Maruboshi completed the hand seals for the Water Trumpet technique, and a wave surged towards Uehara Naraka!
Moreover, this time Kosuke took advantage of the Water Formation Wall dissipating to directly start forming seals, avoiding Uehara Naraka's line of sight.
By the time Uehara reacted, the Water Trumpet's wave had already swept over!
Uehara Naraka continued to mutter curses, symbolically forming a few hand seals, "Damn it, sooner or later I'll turn Kisame's Samehada into pickled fish! What the hell are these seals he invented? Why are they so troublesome to use!"
Uehara symbolically rushed through a few hand seals and released his skill just before the wave hit, "Wind Release: Wind Wall!"
A wind wall instantly appeared before Uehara Naraka, directly blocking the Water Trumpet's wave. The seawater was even blown back by the wind wall!
Kosuke became even more confident in his assessment.
However, his expression was still somewhat unpleasant, "Although this guy's hand seal gestures are much worse than others, the power of his techniques is immense... Perhaps this counts as a fair trade-off?"
This should be confirmed without error.
Because Kosuke Maruboshi saw Uehara Naraka always looked somewhat impatient when forming hand seals; it seemed he really disliked doing them.
This was actually normal.
After all, Uehara Naraka's own taijutsu was already sufficiently powerful. If he could defeat enemies using taijutsu alone, why waste chakra?
Thinking more carefully about Uehara Naraka's vile acts of bullying their Konoha kids...
Clearly, this guy Uehara Naraka had always been fighting people weaker than himself. Before encountering someone of equal strength or even stronger, he had already become accustomed to bullying the weak.
Kosuke sighed, looking at Uehara Naraka, "Truly an exceptional genius, merely lost his way due to his own talent..."
Sighing was sighing, regretting was regretting!
Taking this opportunity, Kosuke still continued to form hand seals. His eyes narrowed, looking at Uehara Naraka who was finally rushing over impatiently, and said coldly, "Water Release..."
The next second, Kosuke Maruboshi suddenly saw Uehara Naraka disappear from his field of vision, causing great fear in his heart. He finally gave up on forming seals and reached for his ninja sword!
A hand suddenly grabbed Kosuke's wrist!
This instantly made Kosuke's heart turn cold!
In a close-quarters taijutsu clash, Kosuke Maruboshi believed his chances of winning were appallingly low, not to mention Uehara Naraka had seized the first move.
Uehara Naraka's voice, like a clap of thunder, appeared by Kosuke's ear, his tone incomparably grim, "Senpai, you're not done releasing ninjutsu, are you?"
"Just two ninjutsu..."
While Kosuke Maruboshi softly stalled for time, he quickly dodged, breaking free from Uehara's grip, and swiftly drew his ninja sword!
But the next second, he once again saw Uehara Naraka disappear before his eyes.
Another hand tightly grabbed his wrist from behind, even directly snatching away his ninja sword!
Kosuke Maruboshi widened his eyes in disbelief, slowly turning his head to look at Uehara Naraka, "Your Excellency's Body Flicker Technique is unbelievably fast!"
"Very normal!"
Uehara Naraka sheathed Kosuke's ninja sword back into its scabbard and continued softly, "Our leader is the Ninja Demigod, Lord Hanzō personally taught me the Body Flicker Technique."
The Ninja Demigod Hanzō of the Salamander's Body Flicker Technique was indeed very fast.
The Body Flicker Technique personally taught by the Ninja Demigod—what more could Kosuke Maruboshi say?
This old man's body gradually relaxed, hunching slightly in an instant, "Impressive. It seems this old man can only give up the chance to be promoted to Chunin..."
"..."
Uehara Naraka's forehead twitched.
This old geezer Kosuke has already admitted defeat, why is he still acting here!
Uehara Naraka didn't hold back and said gravely, "I just feel it's unnecessary for senpai to participate in the Chunin Exams. I estimate senpai will soon be promoted to a Konoha Jonin, right! If no one in Konoha discovers senpai's strength, I will find an opportunity to mention senpai's desire for promotion to Mr. Kakashi, and have him help relay it upwards."
"No, no, no."
Kosuke quickly waved his hands and patted his old back, "I'm old now. Just doing ordinary commissioned missions that a Genin can do is fine..."
"Mm..."
Uehara Naraka didn't continue mocking. After all, he had received a grand prize!
Hidden Quest: Defeat a true Konoha Genin (1/1). Mission Complete. Reward: 3000 Life Energy, 3000 Chakra Energy, 3000 Nature Energy.
This hidden quest wasn't too absurd.
After all, Kosuke Maruboshi and Might Duy pioneered the first legend of Konoha's Genin!
From then on, Konoha's Genin became increasingly unstoppable, until Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha ushered in the great era of "Genin in name, Six Paths in reality."
"Right, there's one more thing."
Uehara Naraka grabbed Kosuke Maruboshi, who was about to leave, and said softly, "After leaving here, please immediately report to your village's higher-ups: the S-rank rogue ninja Orochimaru has appeared in the Forest of Death!"
"Orochimaru?"
Kosuke Maruboshi's expression changed.
This name was not someone he could handle!
"Correct. I've temporarily scared him off using Lord Hanzō's name."
Uehara Naraka spouted nonsense, then continued, "Orochimaru was trying to attack Mr. Kakashi's Team 7! I scared him off!
Previously, I encountered Orochimaru trying to assassinate our proctor. I scared him off in Lord Hanzō's name, but I can't guarantee if he'll appear again!
I must immediately rush to Team 7 and rendezvous with them, and incidentally protect them lest they encounter Orochimaru's attack again. I hope Mr. Kosuke, after leaving, will declare to the higher-ups organizing these Chunin Exams that I did not deliberately violate any rules."
"I understand."
Kosuke Maruboshi nodded with a serious expression. An attack by Orochimaru was such a major event; the Chunin Exams were simply child's play in comparison. They might even be suspended soon!
Kosuke bowed solemnly towards Uehara Naraka, "With my strength, I also cannot deal with Orochimaru. The safety of the many Genin in the Forest of Death will temporarily be entrusted to Your Excellency. I will immediately go report to Lord Third Hokage!"
Originally, based on Kosuke's observation of Uehara Naraka, he believed this was a ninja whose disposition wasn't too bad, but had some mischievous tendencies and bullied the weak.
Now it seemed Uehara Naraka was still a good person.
Just the fact that Uehara dared to protect weak ninjas showed he still had some positive energy in him, and he also seemed to have a good impression of Konoha.
(End of Chapter)
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